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Radio website. Good morning guys. Morning. Morning all. Good fine. Would you care to reveal?

We were doing a sound check before we started and we could hear noise. I don't think that's

too. Oh yeah. Could you care to reveal what you were doing? Well the sound check was

I felt meandering a little. For me a sound check is what did you have for breakfast, ping,

ping, ping and you're through. But it was a bit of this and a bit of that. So I thought

I just noticed that my fingernails were looking a little bit extended. So I caught my fingernails.

Which point the producer started saying, hold on, I'm sorry, I'm going to bit of a click

in on the line. There's some sort of, but it wasn't a technical thing. It was a human thing.

Yeah. So that was, I'm not ashamed of that. I don't like, you know, just dead time.

Okay. So during the, during the sound check I was putting those toe dividers in and just

vanishing my toe. Well, I'm glad I'm glad we're not together in the studio because that is

one of my worst things. I was in a dressing room once and my support act's wife started doing

a fingernails and I said, I'm going to have to ask you to get out because the smell is just,

a woman did it on a plane once when I was on and I complained and she was a bit shirty and

the stew of this back me up. I really, I'd be more comfortable with the smell of the vanished

than the sound of the clippers that you displayed to us all. Okay. Well, you got, I had

my nose on an airplane. I had my waxing strips out for my tash. The reason I wouldn't,

moving on, the reason I wouldn't cut my fingernails on a plane is I might need them for gripping

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