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Hello, good evening. Welcome to Navar Life. My name Aaron Bustani. Tonight, I'm very happy to be

joined by the one and only Kieran, Andrea Kieran. How are we? Well, the days are short, the nights are

long, but I'm all right, Aaron, I'm, you know, eat lots of fruit and veg, making sure I take my vitamins.

I hope our viewers are doing, listeners are doing the same.

We need a healthy army for the left.

I hope you're doing the same, Aaron.

Well, I have to say, I'm still a little bit unwell.

Tonight I am, of course, drinking a barocca,

staying fortified, the hour ahead.

I do like as well that backdrop you've got there, Kieran, very Kiaroscuro, very Caravaggio.

Coming up on tonight's show, Rachel Reeves, is again under pressure to raise taxes in the upcoming autumn budget.

This time because of the UK's lower than expected productivity.

Agency workers hired to cover the Birmingham Bin Strikes may now themselves go on strike.

Amazing story.

And Elon Musk could leave Tesla over a trillion dollar pay dispute.

Stay tuned for all of that.

Before we get started, a reminder that tickets are still

available for our next downstream IRL event. I'll be speaking to Cory Doxaro, author of the new

book in Chittification, why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it. He's talking,

I think, primarily about the online world. Why is your Instagram

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