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Welcome to The Shia Lacks Team Podcast with me, Charlotte Collins.

This week I'm joined by Maya Lucky, Heather Steele, and a very special new edition to the Shia Likes podcast, Vanessa Menrad.

Hi, Vanessa.

Hello.

Vanessa is our junior art director, viewers of BTS.

Might have seen her face over the last year or so,

but she's joining the team pod. Welcome. How exciting, thank you. So nice to have you.

Very excited. Vanessa, for anyone trying to place your accent, I mean you speak better English than I do, but for anyone trying to place your accent, where are you from?

I am from Germany, born and raised. I just seem to have a thing of copying accents wherever I go. So English is my second language, I guess. And I landed in school and I was like, I don't really want to do this later on. I just wasn't really that committed. And then somehow I ended up studying in England and I was like, you know what? This is actually really handy to have. It always blows my mind. We've got Ali on our team as well, he's from Spain, and quite what a feat it is to be able to do a job in another language. Oh yeah. I would struggle. Do you forget though? You really forget. You speak in the other languages, so that's probably the starting point.

We've got some quite jaded figures in the office today.

I mean, Maya, your last week has been pretty insane.

Yeah, pretty insane.

Flew to Dubai on Tuesday for a whistle stop store for about 36 hours.

Got the 2am flight back to London to fly back out to Marbeia for four days for a hen party

and landed yesterday so I'm leaving really fresh. Super, super fresh. Yeah, how was Dubai, first of all? Yeah, really great. My first time being there, I think it is a super cool place. I mean, I landed and a Texcalam was like, we're moving to tomorrow. What's happening? I loved it. I think it's really cool.

Cool. And the hen?

Very fun, yeah, four days in Marbea. and was like, we're moving to tomorrow. What's happening? Yeah, I loved it. I think it's really cool. Cool.

And the hen?

Very fun, yeah. Four days in Marbea. I mean, I think if you cut me open, I'd bleed rosé at this point. So, yeah, it was really fun. You've been a good place. I was listening this morning to, I've always thought her name was Sophia Monty Coots. but she was...

Sophia.

Yeah.

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