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Hello, welcome to the new European podcast. My name is Richard Porrecht and I'm joined by Steve Anglesey.

Hello, snowflakes. Hello, Richard. Hello, how are you doing, Steve? You've not been so well, have you?

I've had, I've been played by lockdown illnesses, I would say.

It's been, it's, it's been, I've discovered something even more boring the lockdown,

which is being ill during lockdown.

And, yes, and being unable to concentrate on things,

which I suppose is, you know, in a week like this,

it's actually been a blessing in disguise not to be able to concentrate on

the manifold ways that the government has demonstrated its stupidity, I suppose.

But I'm feeling shipper now.

Good.

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