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Morning everybody.

Welcome along to your free podcast for today, Monday, October the 24th.

I'm very lucky to be here.

Very, very lucky to be here.

Did you see the rain over the last two days?

Oh my God.

You remember I told you I had a thing from the VAT people.

There's two different departments.

They don't know what the hell they're doing.

And so they keep sending me out demands,

the latest one for £20,000.

So, anyway, I had to take it down to my brother.

So I went down on Sunday morning

because I was going off for lunch

and the V&A exhibition. And so I thought, I'll drive down the motorway.

I get literally a mile into the motorway and the heavens opened.

The like of which, it was like a monsoon.

Lightning, crashing all over the place, thunder, it really was quite awful, quite awful.

In fact, the after-effects you'll see everywhere today because the council, bone idle and waste of money,

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