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This is Top Flight Time Machine.

I'm Andy Dawson, pow, pow, pow.

I'm Sam Nifty Delaney.

So what?

Is this, we're doing the Kagan episode now, right?

This is a Kagan episode. I was just about to say that.

Are you prepared mentally for that, Sam?

I'm sorry, it's just that I have prepared mentally, but as you know, I've had a strange

morning with lots of things, surprises getting in the way of us recording this so far.

Surprises are nice, sometimes.

I had to have a sanity audit from the shrink who called me.

A sanity audit?

I think it was a sanity audit.

Basically, the shrink called up and I'd forgotten that he was supposed to be calling.

I think it was in my diary but you know i'm not an

organized man so suddenly you're having what is effectively down the blow or a sanity audit

have you been feeling what hey uh yeah all right i suppose you know same as always really

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