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Hello, Bugles, and welcome to issue 4197 of The Bugle.

I am Andy Zoltzman. I'm in the shed.

It is the 9th of June. And I'm joined from later on today

in different places in the world, firstly,

by very nearly the end of the day,

as we record in Australia. Alice Fraser.

Hello Andy, how are you?

Bugles. I think you meant to just say hello, Bugles.

Yeah, no, you can say how are you.

And I can respond on, I have power of attorney

to respond on their behalf.

And they all say they are very well indeed, Alice.

Well, I'm glad that you've responded for them,

because otherwise that thing happens

that I find incredibly confronting and confusing,

which is where somebody listens to one of any one

of my many hundreds of podcasts in the past,

and then replies to me on Twitter or email,

as though I were having the conversation with them now.

It's like the worst form of time travel.

And there are so many bad forms of time travel.

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