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Racing through, aren't we?

I mean, we really are racing through.

I thought to herself the other day, I was sort of, I was watching little bits on YouTube,

and I thought, why do we do what we do?

You ask anybody in radio who's ever achieved any modicum of success and said to them,

what do you do? And they go, I'm on the radio. And you go, what does that mean? You go,

I don't really know, actually. I think it means you sit in a room and you talk to yourself.

I mean, I'm lucky

I've got sort of, you know, people to look at who sort of are the feedback, not saying

it's necessarily the best thing to look at, but I mean, you know, you sort of, you do your best,

and they are your gauge. If you're saying something funny or you're saying something that's

interesting or something that makes them go, you know, then that's your get. Some people don't have that luxury

in the business. They're sitting there in a little room. I remember some friends of mine years ago

worked for a radio station which was stuck in the middle of a public park and at night time

people could go past and peer in the windows at the studio watching the person working. I can't

think of anything worse. I mean, used to be shopping centres,

didn't it? I worked for a very brief time in London when I was looking for work a long, long time

ago, at Marbles Market. And Marbles Market was up at Marble Arch. And it was a big shop that had been

opened up to lots of little units and a lot of DJs

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