Can you think of one standout memory from your time as a journalist? Or maybe what is something that we have lost with print media tailing off?

That's a brilliant question.

I was a game journalist between 1992 and 1994.

I joined a magazine called The One, which was about Commodore Amiga games.

It was my first job in the industry.

I moved up to London from Bournemouth, and yeah, as you imagine, it was kids writing about computer games as they were then.

We were on 12 issues a year, which used to be the norm, but I think people do 13 now.

Are you able to share what Yogscast are working on at the moment?

And, uh, and, and Simon, you know, you, you, you correctly pointed out that it's, it's not a flood as so many people think about and I, I think with, you know, the current weather around the world and these, uh, you know, acts of God, people hear the term flood and think, "Oh, my word, the poor animals." And, but that's really not what we're talking about here and the, the pulse, pulsating nature of this, like how does the water move through the delta and, and what sort of influence does it reach each season?

So there's, there's, there's a couple of factors involved though.

I think the first, the first thing is if we, if we take that palm, your, your analogy with the, the hand and a palm, from the top of the, the, the, the alluvial fan to the bottom, it's about 250 kilometers and the distance or the, the gradient drop over that 250 kilometers is only 60 meters.

So that gives you an idea there's, there's very little energy and that's why the word pulse is probably a more apt term, um, and the water slowly seeps into all of those, um, those distributaries, um, in, in the Okavango system, and it's a very slow movement.

Um, the, the, the, the, the concept there, as you say, of people thinking it's gonna be terrible for the wildlife, um, is actually the, the, the complete opposite.

Because this flood system coincides with our dry season when most of Southern Africa, um, starts losing the, the feeding value out of, out of all the vegetation in the system because it's drying out, the Okavango pulse or flood, um, comes in, inundates huge areas.

So your, your riverine, um, woodlands and, and, uh, and all the, all the plant species associated with that boom into life so there's ample browse for, for all your browsing species and then your grasses, um, start growing through, um, on the edges of the islands, um, and also within the floodplain.

That's three times the average rainfall.