Hello and welcome to Broeconomics. Now this one I am doing live and there is a reason for that.

The reason is is that I spent two weeks in Asia and I thought that I had more recorded episodes than I actually did

and I came in this morning and found out that I didn't. So that's fine. I get to spend time with you lovely people. And because it's alive, the chat is open.

Should anyone wish to post a comment? Although because I didn't tell anyone that I was doing a live

episode, I don't think there is anyone in the chat. I'm looking at the chat now and there's only

one message and it says, hello fans from me to complete silence. So anyway,

if you do happen to watch these, the moment they come out, then you can respond to it.

Now, the fact that I was in Asia for those two weeks gives me a sort of interesting anecdote

to sort of start this one off. You see, because the flight that I was on,

as it turned out, and I did check this later, was almost exactly over Tehran at the moment that the

strikes began. I flew out sort of, you know, obviously several hours earlier on that. And I know

that I was over

Tehran because we can see it on the in-flight map and also I could look out the window.

And yeah, it later transpired when I did the maths that if I wasn't directly over Tehran at the time

the missiles were flying, I would have missed it by no more

than about 20 to 30 minutes. And I mean, that just gives us a bit of pause for thought, doesn't it?

Because how differently we would have viewed the war if in the first few minutes we'd lost one of our best and brightest.

The impact that they would have on us all, I mean, especially me,

I'm just envisaging the plane getting clipped by some sort of incoming hypersonic missile and breaking apart,

and I then would have been sort of flapping and flailing as it took

about two and a half three minutes to tumble to the ground to land on the outskirts of Tehran,

wondering in that time what I was going to do with the rest of my life, which would not be very long at all.

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