We have just a short show for you today because we are still sort of in and out of the

office, kind of our summer hiatus.

When you're done listening to this short show, we want to suggest another show you can listen to and that's

microphone check hosted by Ali Shaeed Muhammad of a tribe called Quest and

Franny Kelly of a tribe called NPR. It's a show about hip-hop they talk to the biggest names and best-kept secrets.

From behind-the-scenes players to the next generation of rappers, producers, and artists.

You can find microphone check atIR.org

or slash podcasts and also the NPR 1 app. We got a note from Mike.

a note from Mike.

Mike says he wants to know how not to be startled

when walking down the hall at work. He says that when he's walking

down the hall and someone comes around the corner, he jumps. On the line with this now is

Bill Mott, Bill just retired as the Garrison Sergeant Major in the British Army.

Now one of the things he did was he was one of the guards out front Buckingham Palace

with the big hat.

People are always trying to make him jump and

smile so he has some experience. Bill do you have any advice for Mike? Is Mike a

little chap? Is he a big man? It sounds to me who is that he might be a little fellow.

Yeah, you know, we don't know.

All we know is that he is occasionally startled.

It works, so maybe you're right.

Maybe he is a little guy. I feel sorry for him if he has got this as a dilemma

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