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Get started today at Vantor.com. Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, the second

episode of the week. Thank you very much for tuning in. This is the episode where we can delve

even more deeply, sometimes pegged to

a brilliant question from the rock and roll politics cooperative, sometimes reflecting

whatever dramas have been played out during the week so far. And as ever, dramas are being

played out. Before we get going, and we really are going to be delving deep,

as promised actually at the end of the episode earlier in the week, just a few notices.

Yeah, I've been told to say, and so I should. If you listen on Spotify,

if you could press the follow button, and then these podcasts arrive,

like newspapers used to arrive on the doorstep, and we all got really excited.

Well, I did.

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