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Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast product designed entirely to let me spend time with people, more time with people I find fascinating than I would ever get to do on the radio.

I don't know if that applies to you, Adrian Charles.

Well, that you find me fascinating.

No, I find you fascinating, but I think we probably could have carved an hour out between us over the years on the radio front.

We also, and we don't know each other well,

but we did grow up miles, I mean, mere miles away from each other.

And we also live less than a mile from each other now.

I do see you about.

Cleshesies.

Listen, I'm a bit of a fan boy.

I don't want to blow wind up your watch's the name, but I just think, if there's some

broadcast I listened to, I thought, I couldn't do that.

I'm just not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not quite clever enough.

I'm a dilettante, is that you pronounce it even?

I can just, I've got to make a little go a long way, you know. We're jumping ahead, oddly, because I used to watch you on working lunch.

Right.

And have similar, I used to think this guy's got a natural ability in front of the camera that you can't fail.

But we've jumped ahead because you were four when you moved up the road from Kidaminster.

Yes.

Well, I was born in Quinton.

I'm born in Quinton. I was born in Quinton and my mom's from what was then Yugoslavia and my dad's from

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