Welcome back to placeholders everybody. I am Kayle Fritz this week on the pod. Johnny's Adventures in Asia.

Garrett Thomas getting on the beers. Stephen Kuhn can't see where he's going and some doping news out of Spain

plus a whole bunch of other generally depressing news joining me today kite wakapu

greetings me today kite waktepu.

Greetings.

You didn't say it right, but.

How do you say it?

How do you say it?

Well, my parents say it waketipu, I believe that's how you say.

Apparently where I took my first steps in New Zealand.

Yeah all right just so anybody may be confused out there.

Kit's character on this podcast. It was BBC but I've just been informed that BBC doesn't have the best

general connotations or connections for folks in the other side of the pond.

So we've gone with NPR instead because I think NPR is universally beloved here in the United States and of course if you're going to be NPR then you have to have an NPR name

Which the rules of which are you take your first name you take a the first letter of your

middle name you put it in your first name and then your last name is the smallest

place you've ever been that's more or less what you don't this but not quite

something close to that. Anyway good to have you on Kite also

joining us today Joffney Vatican welcome back. Good to be back.

Oh they the podcast seems to have taken quite a turn since the last time I was on.

I'm enjoying learning that Kit took her first steps in New Zealand as if she was born in the

shire and maybe to our American listeners that explains her accent a bit

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