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Today's podcast is brought to you by Cool Whip by Kraft Foods. A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt -- learn more! Our hosts today are Joel Spolsky, David Fullerton, and Jay Hanlon... as usual.\n\nSo what's new? David went to London. (We have an office there. It's awesome and it has \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fbalpha\u002Fstatus\u002F569776309901131776\">graffiti on the walls\u003C\u002Fa>.) David flew out to meet the London marketing team, spend time with some of our European developers, and get knighted. Probably.\n\nThis story didn't really go anywhere, so we'll take \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fchat.stackexchange.com\u002Ftranscript\u002F512?m=20410986#20410986\">an audience question\u003C\u002Fa> and then move on to talking about \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.com\u002Freview\">review queues\u003C\u002Fa>. 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User \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.com\u002Fusers\u002F656243\u002Flynn-crumbling\">Lynn Crumbling\u003C\u002Fa> has a \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fchat.stackexchange.com\u002Ftranscript\u002F512?m=20411567#20411567\">new badge idea\u003C\u002Fa>: Almost Famous -- had a question closed by Joel.\n\nAfter many tangents, here are the takeaways from our experience so far with the helpers queue: we need to think about how to better control what's going into the queue, and we need to give the reviewers \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmeta.stackoverflow.com\u002Fquestions\u002F288385\u002Fhiq-very-low-quality-link\">more ways to deal with questions that shouldn't be in there\u003C\u002Fa>.\n\nRight! Let's talk about closing. But first we get sidetracked and talk about \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fblog.serverfault.com\u002F2015\u002F03\u002F05\u002Fhow-we-upgrade-a-live-data-center\u002F\">moving datacenters and blogging about it\u003C\u002Fa>. 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