Hi everyone, happy new year. Welcome to 2025. It's a square number, so it's going to be a great year, I am sure. Why am I here speaking to you today? Well, it is because we have a slightly different show today. It's a normal show. It was one that we filmed live in Wellington. But unfortunately,

on the day of this show, Andrew Hunter Murray was unexpectedly called back to the UK. He had to leave.

And so to save the day in his place came Leon Button's Kirkbeck. Now, some of you will have

heard that name and got very excited.

A lot of you might not know it, but he is one of the three members of another podcast called

The Crypted Factor with himself, Reese Darby, and some little known guy called Daniel Schreiber.

Those of you who have heard that will know that he's absolutely brilliant

as he was on our show. And those of you who haven't heard it, well, why not? Once you've listened

to this show, why not go to your podcast provider of choice and search for the cryptid factor

and listen to their show? Anyway, not much more to say. Apart from hope, all is going well for you

in January. I'm recording this in December,

so goodness knows what's happened since then.

On with the podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode.

My Southring is a best, a weekly podcast this week, this week, coming to you live for a loving time. My name is Dan Schreiber.

I am sitting here with Anna Toshinsky, James Harkin, and Leon Buttonskirkback.

And once again, we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days.

And in no particular order, here we go.

Starting with fact number one, and that is buttons. My fact this week is the fact that the world's longest conductor's baton

is actually more than three times longer than Frederick Chopin.

Stacked up.

Stats.

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