Welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. Today I have a special guest with me. James

Kridland, he's the editor of POD News, a daily podcast newsletter, and you've written

and spoken a lot on radio and podcasting. You've done copywriting and all that. And so

James Kridland, thanks for joining me today.

Oh, it's a great pleasure. Thank you so much for asking.

And you also have a great accent for podcasting. Let me just say I think you're the first.

Well, you're originally from the UK. You're now living in Australia. So which is your accent?

Is the UK or is it Australian?

It's most definitely a UK accent. I've had 50 years of doing a UK accent. I can't possibly

change that. That's right. And because you're currently in Australia, we are podcasting across

time. You are living in the future. It's 7 a.m. for me. And what time is it for you?

Yeah. And it's 9 p.m. for me. So yes. So it's been a long day. Right. That you still have

to experience. Did anything earth shattering happen today that I need to look forward to?

Oh, not really. No, not really. We're currently in lockdown again. So yeah, I know. So

therefore, frankly, there's been very little going on, which is probably a good thing.

I thought Australia was doing like really well with the whole pandemic a number of months

ago. And we're kind of showing how everything was opening back up again.

Well, we've been doing pretty well in terms of not allowing anybody else in. It's

almost as if it's some kind of a prison colony. I don't know. But anyway, so we've been

doing pretty well in terms of that just over the last week or so. There's been a spate

of cases. So there's two cases in the entire in the entire state of Queensland, I think.

Maybe there are three now. The whole three of those cases means that much of the state

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