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

Hello, Snowflakes. How are you, Steve? I'm well. I'm well. I'm slightly trepidacious because just before the recording

of this podcast, our boss, the boss of bosses, Simon, came in and said, he's just come back

from Japan, hasn't he? He said, you tell us about his holiday in Japan, which sounded lovely. It did. And then he said, just so you know, I'm subscribed to your podcast now,

and we went, oh. So the content this week is going to be very different from normal, less

wanging on about nonsense and more serious stuff. Yes. Hello, Simon.

We will, of course, get to the news very shortly because we know that a lot of our listeners,

Steve, come here for the news. They do come for the news.

We've actually got a listener to our podcast in the studio with us, haven't we?

Which is actually, I say the studio, it's my office.

Yes.

My son is here right in one of his universe pieces of work through university.

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