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Hello, good, whatever time of day it is whenever you're listening to this.

I'm Andy's ultimate coming to not live and in zero dimensions from the shared of unfathomable factiveness in South London for

this, issue 4,301 of the Bugle recently voted one of the top billion audio cultural

highlights of the third millennium so far and

judging by the press over the last couple of weeks somewhere in the region of

993 million of them have been Taylor Swift's song so we've done quite well to get into the rest of that list and today I'm

joined not only by producer Chris but joining us from the currently democracy

slathered nation of India it's Anu-Vab Pal and from the about to dip its toe reluctantly into the

puddle of local democracy city of London Ian Smith.

Welcome both of you back back to the bue well how's election fever treating you both well and you know

you'd appreciate this and I'm doing this as a stunt just for you and

okay about an hour ago I voted in the Indian elections the voting booth in Mumbai is at the

Royal Opera House a British institution. I don't know what that says about the democracy because they have

picked one of the last Victorian relics in Mumbai to have voting and I have requested a room with Wi-Fi to stay back to do the bugle.

So this recording is courtesy of the Election Commission of India. Well, can everyone do that?

If all 1 billion voters demanded a room with Wi-Fi to record a podcast presumably they'd have to do that now.

They'd have to give everyone on.

And you know I thought you'd appreciate this at this because you like work you think there is only

one room that has Wi-Fi in an entire

voting thing which is equally concerning for the world's largest democracy.

Ian have you voted in the Indian election?

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