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Hello, and welcome to the European podcast. My name's Richard Porre and I'm joined by Steve Anglesey.

Hello Snowflakes. Hello Richard. How is the gloved wang?

I'm good. Have you been fishing on a night?

Well, I've had some days off this week.

In fact, this is, I was off Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and went to the beach and took advantage of Rishi Thunak's eat out to help out scheme and took my youngest for a very healthy KFC, which was super, super cheap.

Other fried chicken outlets are available, although we are happy to endorse KFC if they'll give us some money.

And that was,

that was lovely.

Fit in with Boris Johnson's obesity agenda, by the way.

Well, my youngest is a very healthy young man who didn't probably need to worry too much for the time being I however perhaps probably do a little bit more

so yeah I'm not sure I'm hoping that I won't be a fatty in my 50s but they are approaching at a rate of

not so I probably need to see the best people are Richard I would say yes yes what podcast we had last

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