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Acton, acton, welcome to we have ways of making you talk USA with me, Al Murray, James Holland,

and of course John McManus. Happy new year, John. Happy new year, Al, how are you?

I'm much the same really.

I'm used to five, this is five. Fatter and marginally more fatter in terms of alcohol intake,

but otherwise essentially the same. Yeah. You big on mince pies and all that kind of stuff.

Yeah, I like a mince pie. Are you aware of what a mince pie is, John?

I mean, I've heard of it, but I've never had it actually. So I should probably have the explanation.

So what is a mince pie? What do you have? You're not an ignoge person,

but we have like Christmas cookies and ginger stuff.

Ginger, ginger, ginger, and the maps, which are really good. We don't have mince pie. So what's

in mince pie? Well, it's not mince-based. It's sort of raisin and cinnamon and spice.

It's done with orange peel. It's an orange peel, little sort of in a little pastry pie really,

and you can have brownie butter. But they're sort of English sweet treat, really. That sounds good.

They're nice. I like them. I'm very partial. But we're not here to do a hand-approach before

to casually change about Christmas sweet meat. We're picking up, where we left off. And last time,

you were talking about the American mobilisation, which is still at this distance, and of course,

with the current state of the US military, the size of the US military. It's just the most,

you look back at it. It's the most remarkable, incredible achievement.

A astonishing. From a standing start, really. And done in a new deal style, really. If you've

got to characterize it as anything, it's a sort of new deal army, if it's anything. But where

did we go to? Where did we go to, Jim? I think we got into the beginning of 1941,

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