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Gahey, humans. Welcome to the safe space, the dangerous ideas and a special Primo episode.

Look, this is going to be interesting one. I went out to the sub-stackers and the social media followers,

and I asked, here's an ask me anything. We're doing it to ask me anything. I says to him,

and you, in all of your kindness and generosity, sent back some fantastic questions.

So I thought, let's just cover a whole bunch of these questions, but here's the thing. Here's

the thing. Some of these questions were so exceptional that I looked at it and I thought, well, I'm just going to end up talking for 30 to 40 minutes just about that one question. So what do I do about that? Huh? Got yourself in a little pickle now, don't your zeps? I says to myself. And then I says to myself, well, hang on, we don't need to do just one, ask me anything. We could do a number of them,

and several of them could just address one particular question, and I could just share my

thoughts about that. And then I looks at the questions, and I looks at them, and I says to myself,

I says, Zeps, stop talking to yourself like an old-timey man, and I says, okay. And I says,

one of them is particularly hot button. I shouldn't touch thaty man. And I says, okay. And I says one of them is particularly

hot button. I shouldn't touch that one. And then I think, well, you know what happens whenever I think

I shouldn't touch something. My little hand just can't stop going out there. And I kind of want to

touch it, even if it's not in my interest to touch it. Can you guess what this

question might relate to? There's only like a handful of things that you're not allowed to talk

about. Someone asked me about JK. Am I allowed to say the name or is her name Voldemort now? Is she the,

is she the person who can't be named? J.K., you know who I'm talking

about, right? Okay, the one who can't be named. She, I had said on a podcast, I think it was

with Courtney Act, the fabulous drag queen, who said in passing that J.K. Rowling, oh, sorry,

she who can't be named, is transphobe. And I sort of said, well, is she? I mean, I don't know.

We say that she is. I'm not sure. And then this week on the project, which is a nightly chat show in Australia, they did a whole piece about J.K. Rowling being an anti-trans bigot.

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