Welcome back to the Second Amendment podcast everybody. This is your special

Girotatalia preview episode coming to you just before the race kicks off.

By the time you get this it'll be probably within the next 36 hours, something like that.

And we're going to talk through, you know, key stages,

the contenders, the sprinters, the climbers,

and then in detail the stages that lie between now and our next episode,

which will be early next week.

So we'll talk about these stages in Hungary

and all the rest.

With us today, we've got Johnny Long in Hungary. You're at the start of the Jiro.

How was it, Johnny? You've been wandering around today. Just checked out the team

presentation. What's the vibe like? I realize when you said that if I'd been clever I would have learned how to say hello and Hungarian.

But I haven't done that yet or learn any of it.

It's pretty chilled out here.

I mean it's the Gira as well, so kind of goes it's not like it's not the tool where everything's

sort of compartmentalised into every five minutes.

The weather's good.

The buildings are either impressive or falling down in Budapest.

It's generally a good vibe.

Quite a lot of Gucci, which is one thing I've picked up today.

And I think there's like a lot of real Gucci and then a lot of fake Gucci which kind of

have you picked up some of that for yourself you mean when you say picked up that you bought

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