What most people think.

Hello and 100. 100. He raises his hat. He he raises his hat he raises his back to the barmy

army over there what a wonderful century that's been there started off quite slow with the

run rate then COVID happened and the podcast went to one a week and what a wonderful

decision that was.

I've done my Richie Benno for a long time.

I hope that that still sounds all right.

Thank you so much to everybody that's downloaded the podcast and got it up to this point.

We're on well over a million downloads at this point, which doesn't put it up there with, you know, the top ones you see at the top of the charts all the time, but it's not bad, it's not bad at all.

And for people who like radical, political and social commentary and comedy from someone pretty much bang smack in the middle, let's be honest.

I hope that you have enjoyed the journey till this point.

And I knew we had to have a special guest for today.

And boy boy have we

got him we've got Al Murray the pub landlord Al Murray the not pub landlord Al Murray the two men

for the price of one no I mean he's very much not in character for this podcast although

it would be great to get him on Al if you're listening right I would really love to do

another one with the character that would be that would meta, as the more wanky people in comedy might say.

But we had a chat and we spoke.

And I'm going to keep everything as brief as I can today because I try to bring in around an hour, maybe no more than an hour and 10.

But we spoke about so much interesting stuff.

I want to lose as little of it

as possible. But we talk about the culture of comedy, where it's come from, you know, where

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