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And so it begins, your weekly opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction not available on any other radio program in the world. We speak of intellectual satisfaction. We speak of your curiosity being met, polished, and then preserved forever, I hope.

Because this is your chance to seriously ring up. And what do they call it? It's the hive mind, isn't it?

This is it. We invented the hive mind. They're always banging on about it in internet circles.

This is the original hive mind. You've got a problem, a question.

You know there's an answer out there,

but you want it to be provided by a human being,

not by a search engine or a computer screen,

not by an app or a technological gizmo.

You want a fellow human being.

You want to celebrate education.

Well, you can.

And in fact, you have to.

Get involved in the usual way. O345-6060-90973 is the number to call.

The way it works is this. You've got something bubbling away in your brain. A who or why, a when, a where, a what, or indeed a wherefore. And you haven't been able to find an answer.

You might be able to Google it, but life's too short sometimes for that sort of thing,

or indeed, actually, life's not short enough, because you want to enjoy a bit of human interaction.

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