It's time now for the chipping forecast, issued by Softiers Media on behalf of Andrew Cotter, Eddie Pepperel and special guest Ian Carter.

Hi. Hi. Hi, I'm Laurie Canter, six foot three, and you're listening to The Chipping Forecast.

Hello there, welcome to the chipping forecast.

Welcome to all our listeners.

News, first of all, actually, for our listeners in the United States.

And we do have a few over there that because of what we might have said in the past, and by us,

obviously, me and Eddie, a 95% tariff is being added to our product. No, we did. Well, we laughed about it initially, and you laugh now. We said, well, look, our product is free, so do what you will at that tariff. We don't care. But they went away, had a little think, the high hedons. And they said, well, you're right. But instead, we're only allowed now to offer 5% of the audio product to our American listeners. So you get the very first bit of the podcast

and then we have to cut it off. And I've spent most of the first bit talking about this news. So

it's a shame. But anyway, the mild chuckling you heard was obviously Eddie Pepperl in Qatar. Eddie,

hello. Hello there, fellas. How are you doing? I've had a nice few days. We flew out to Doha on Thursday, so I've been here for a few days. Spent some time sunbathing yesterday, sunbathing, and burnt my head quite spectacularly. So strangely, just in the corner, actually, might see, we might not tell you the sun cream didn't quite quite get rubbed in properly and so I look a bit silly.

But there we go. It was nice to get out of the cold, miserable, gloomy weather of the UK.

On that, I would say Ian Carter, a regular special guest, I think we should apologize. Not maybe you, actually.

Eddie and I should probably offer an

apology because, and perhaps me in particular, because I think last week's podcast, the January

blues had got to us all. I'm not sure it was January blues. I think it's just the world at

large at the moment blues. But we have to be an escape from everything and be positive and

upbeat three Labradors presenting this podcast.

So we've gone from Wildebeest to Labradors?

Yeah.

There's always, we're going to be a different animal every week, a spirit animal.

But I think last week I listened back to it and I thought, if I were listening to this pod, I would just, yeah, give up on things.

Well, I think... You were like one of those characters well i you know i think you've seen the film soul on uh disney i think it's a disney plus dceton yeah you should well you should watch it

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