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The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. I'm Tim Nash, and this is my beloved co-host, Joy Brooks.

Hello.

Joy, as I asked Anna Robinson in a recent episode, how are you compared to how you were when I asked you the same question yesterday when we recorded this for the first time?

I would say I'm actually a smidge better because it's even warmer and there's washing on the

line and the sun's out and I've had a cup of coffee which kind of makes me quite lively

and I was probably hitting the kind of mid-afternoon slump yesterday. I feel similar. I feel much better today, actually.

But before we talk more about that, do you want to talk about why we're recording this for the second time?

No, I don't want to tell anyone why we're recording this the second time.

Is this like my confessional, the penance I have to pay?

It might be helpful to talk about it, Joy, you know, get it off your chest.

Yeah, he's making me do this, listeners.

Yeah, it turned out that Tim's obsession with checking the batteries on the recording device is actually quite sensible.

So my recording device, unbeknown to me, because I didn't look at the little

picture that shows you how much battery you've got, was already on low battery when we started

and decided to conk out midway through without me knowing. So we didn't record half of it,

and what we did record sounded really rubbish. I think it's kind of a

necessary podcasting baptism, I think, screwing up the recording. It's going to happen at some point.

And, you know, we've learned a lot from that experience, haven't we?

We have learned a lot. And this is probably why I resisted having my own equipment for a long time.

You didn't get far into it, did you really? I mean, is this the second or the third time we've done it?

It may only be the second.

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