Hello and welcome to The White Minded Friends with me, Susie Ruffel.

And me, Tom Allen.

Now today's episode is a bit different.

We're doing a Pride crossover episode with our fellow LGBTQ+, podcast, Homo Sapiens hosted by Chris Sweeney.

Yes, it's a double-part episode and you can listen to part one here and then head over to the Homo Sapiens feed,

link in our bio, the part two of this brilliant chat.

So can I just say before we start, as in this can go in the podcast, but there's been a clerical error

and I've got some noodles arriving and I'm going to have to go to the door and get it, okay?

Because Katie, our wonderful producer who I adore, who never gets anything wrong,

texted me two seconds before this podcast started saying, are you ready to join the podcast?

And I was like, it's in half an hour, right?

And I opened up my calendar because I was like, oh my god, I fucked it up.

And I watched the calendar entry, which said Tom and Susie and it bounced from half past up to the time I was on.

And what I did is I ordered my broad beach dumplings.

So you said that you're in South Australia, maybe?

I'm in Australia, yes.

I should probably help everybody understand that.

I'm in Australia, guys.

Is it a half hour, the time difference?

Is there, because sometimes it's nine and a half hours, I think, in some time zones in Australia.

Well, where I am, Tom, funny, you should ask.

Happy Pride Month, by the way, is, uh,

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