The fact that it's Gav's birthday and he and Helen were off to see Toad the Wet Sprocket in Detroit (an hour and a half away) on Friday night probably wasn't in and of itself enough to stop us recording a full podcast this week, only delay it. The fact that we were then going to travel on to Burlington, ON (just another three hours or so) on Saturday for square sausage and haggis poutine probably wasn't enough either. The fact that Gav sold his novel and needed to redraft his manuscript one last time by the weekend sadly was more than enough, although for a brief moment, the idea of taking our Blue Yeti mic and a laptop and recording the show in a Canadian hotel room sounded quite indie and cool. So just a very brief recap of Monday and Wednesday's episodes this week which, to be honest, stank to high heaven, and if the Drinking Game Word of the Week had been "ridiculous" I think our livers would have been in serious danger. Here's hoping for better next week. Feel free to drop us a line, we're [email protected], we're @corriepodcast on The Twitter and The Facebook and our blog can be found at thetalkofthestreetpodcast.wordpress.com. Gav still hasn't got round to writing an article. He knows.