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Hello and welcome back to the study of podcast and ringer I see I'm Lisa Kwanga. I'm Ryan, how are you doing?

Well, I'm okay because we are in Berlin and safe. How are you? I second that. I second that.

Yeah, these are difficult times. These are well, they've been difficult times in lots of places for a while and they're particularly grim times.

Yes, yeah, we just wanted to say at the top we hope anyone. If we have any listeners in Ukraine, we hope you're all safe.

Yeah, and if we have any listeners in Russia, who got in Russia, who are going, what the hell?

Exactly. Yeah, absolutely. Because a lot of you will have relatives over the border and vice versa and friends and just, you know, sympathies.

So do you mind if I distract myself by just talking about some admin? Listen, let's go for it.

Listen, I was thinking about it the other day and I was just like, this is a happy place.

You know, in a world where people are questioning freedom and democratic norms, are we truly even free in the West?

I felt, do you know what? Sometimes when I feel most free, when I'm doing the admin.

Exactly. I don't feel free. I don't feel constrained. I want to break free, but there's too much form.

So let's do the admin. Yeah. First of all, we hope everyone is staying safe and well as we mentioned before.

So specifically in parts of the world that are really going through at the moment.

And we hope also that you're getting vaccinated if you can and getting that booster if you can.

Absolutely. Righty's house went up on Wednesday. I stood in for Junet last minute super sub.

Super questionable last minute sub.

That is one of those that like someone was injured in the warm up and that they've actually brought

Ryan in everyone's just like groans in the crowd.

Oh, what the child, the one of the child that won a competition to sit on the bench now.

It's actually brought back. Yeah, I would have been like, did you see the, in that scenario,

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