And boom, we're on. And today's guest we've got Sham Batra. Sham, how are we?

Nice to meet you, James. Good to see you, brother. And you. Long due. Yeah. Oh, no, we do. Yeah. You're on in today's guest we've got sham battera sham how are we nice to meet you james good to see you

brother and you long do yeah you're on busy boy yeah i'm busy you were on my good friend

leon toss podcast very interesting you ran for mayor 2024 london speaking about 15 minute cities

which for me is all part of the control.

You're also a believer in UFOs, aliens.

He's told you.

Listen, this is what it's all about.

I'm open to it all.

I don't judge.

I'm just here to listen to how people see the world, how they view it, what they've understood of it, and what they've not understood of it.

How are you?

I'm good.

Thanks. Good. of it and what they've not understood over it. How are you? I'm good, thanks good. Tired running around everywhere, you know, show after show. I've got three more next week. Yeah, that's what it's all

about. But you ran for London there, 2024 London's a that of a, it's probably the most dangerous

place in the UK, if not Europe, knife crime through the roof, taxes through the roof, the UK's council tax is the highest in Europe.

Like there's so much in the UK, Sadiq Khan, who's been running for nearly 10 years.

But before we get into all that stuff, all the political side of things, I always like to go back to the start of my guests.

Get more of a bit of understanding about you, where you grew and how it all

began. I've got a very interesting story, good and bad, I suppose, as it is, you probably like the rough and the smooth.

But, I mean, I was born in the UK in Hillingdon, so British as I can be. I mean, one guy did say to me,

this is England, go back to your country.

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