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The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim Nash and this is Nick Thorley.

Hello.

How are you, mate? Bearing in mind that this isn't Nomad Revisited so we can't really talk about our middle-aged men's lifestyle adjustments.

Oh yeah. I'm okay actually. I'm pretty good. I've had a very positive experience of an electrical item being made new again,

like fixed. Because these days, when something electronic breaks, you just think that's it,

don't you? Throwaway culture, all of that kind of stuff. And especially if you've bought it from a

global corporation that does next day delivery for free if you pay a certain amount a month. Like you've had it, haven't you?

Yeah. So my Bluetooth speakers in my bedroom start connecting to my Alexa after they connected

very crackily on Wednesday and then on Thursday, just nothing. So the Alexa would stop pumping out six music, but silence would come out of the speakers.

And then I switched the speakers off and Alexa wouldn't work.

So I'd have to turn Alex back on and play the music, then switch my speakers back on.

It would go as if to connect, but then nothing would come out of the speakers.

How disappointing is that?

That's very disappointing.

When you've got a new garage converted bedroom that is long, it's quite nice to have beaming speakers at one end and

lying bed at the other. And that was gone. However, get ready for this. I went on to the app of the

aforementioned company and I found my order, clicked on technical support,

clicked on call me now and my phone started to ring. And within moments, I was chatting to

Jason, who sounded like he was maybe from Brazil or somewhere else in South America. And he told

me, right, get this. He said, are you by the speakers now? Yes.

And what we need to do is switch them off, pull the plug out of the wall, and then can you

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