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couple of things. Stuart Goldsmith is the guest

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on this week's podcast. He is going to be

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at the Soho Theatre in London from the

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29th of November to the 2nd of December. Do

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go and see his show. Spoilers. Like

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McCain Oven Chips, it's most

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excellent. Also, do come and

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see Ruhala Stupor. If you live in Edinburgh

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or near enough to travel, I'm

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there on the 2nd of December for the last

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Ruhala Stupor record of 2023 at the Queen's Hall.

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My guests are Ian Rankin and Marjolein

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Robertson from the Shetland Islands. I'm very

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excited about meeting her. I've heard brilliant

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things. Ian Rankin though, come on. It's

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a big old theatre. We've sold quite

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a lot of tickets, but there are

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loads more to go. Head to richardherring.com/Ruhala

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Stupor to get the links. And coming

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up next year, gigs in London. Brighton

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with Rufus Jones and Maisie Adam. Armando

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Unutu's 5th of February. Still some tickets there

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at Leicester Square Theatre. Mary Beard on the

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9th of February. And maybe someone very exciting

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on that one as well as Mary Beard's

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pretty exciting. And then we'll be

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booking in guests for the upcoming

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shows. Simon Munnery's going to be in Leicester.

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Jim Moyer, the artist formerly known

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as Vic Reeves, is in

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Canterbury. And there's Adam Buxton

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and Lem Sissay is going to be the

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guest on the final London one on the

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11th of March. So that is sold out.

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Also very soon we'll be announcing the dates for the

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Can I Have My Ball Back Tour, which starts in

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May. So we're on the

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2023 Rob

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Reiner this week very exciting Stuart Goldsmith this

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week on the podcast and

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Beck Hill I think doing the book club also

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very good one and

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the 2nd of December thanks

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prime subscribers so it shows me how that ladies

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and gentlemen welcome to the bath

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comedia please welcome a man who's

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run around cheddar reservoir this morning

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it's Richard Herring hello

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rat fans I'd

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love to be back in bath comedia which

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I am a shareholder in so I'm gonna

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get an extra portion of the

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money tonight I guess that means

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uh welcome I don't know welcome

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to Richard Herring's locally sourced thermi

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podcast yeah oh yeah

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little bath bath spa joke there

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for you people and the people in bath loved

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it uh but I was

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hanging out with Jane Austen at the Jane

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Austen centre and she said I

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don't get why bath are trying to make a big

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deal about me I wasn't really happy here and only

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wrote my about of the Watson's

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in this city. Hasn't

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Bath got enough stuff without trying to claim

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things that have an absolute fuck all to

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do with it? And

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I said, what do you call the podcast? And she said, well, let's

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stop. I said, I don't know. She's

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very cross about it anyway. She was very cross. It

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is lovely back in Bath. And I believe

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I watched the great rock and roll swindle in

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this venue when it was a cinema. I might

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be wrong. I don't have many

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memories of Bath because we would go to Western

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Superman most weekends to

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Bristol if we were being really fancy. And Bath was just

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like a once a year treat for my mum and dad

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to come out of a cream tea. And I can't remember

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anything about it apart from being posh. I

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came to the Roman Bath with a

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group of students from the summer school

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at Oxford. And they'd

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all paid in advance. And I was going to pay for all

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of them. And when I got to the cash desk, they said,

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are they students? I said, yes. And there was

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a pound off for each of them. And I kept the loss. So

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the best day of my life. It happened at HMS

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Victory as well. The two best days of my life.

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I have been running around Cheddar Reservoir this

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morning. I did six kilometres from my parents'

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house around everywhere of Cheddar Reservoir. It's looking

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a bit low. I hope the people of

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Cheddar have enough to drink. It's

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been raining a lot. So

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hopefully they are. But I ran around 41

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minutes at six kilometres. It's

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not bad. But I used

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to run around Cheddar Reservoir in like 12 minutes

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when I was a... Seriously, I was a good runner when

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I was a teenager. And I've run around there a lot. And

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every time I run around Cheddar Reservoir, and

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I was a 56-year-old man, I think, how

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many more times? Do

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you think I'm going to run around Cheddar Reservoir?

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All I know is less times than I've run

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around already. That is my prediction. Which

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is true, I think, of nearly

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everything in my life now. Everything

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I've done. I've done more

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than I will do. Maybe

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not shitting myself. That's the end. But,

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you know, I did a good job of

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shitting myself. In