Hello and welcome to episode 161 of what most people think. I am back from Edinburgh, I'm

back in my house and I got out of there on the Sunday, Sunday the 28th, did my show

finished just before half six, I was in a cab, I was at the airport, it was like that film

I'll go, you know, when everything was just fucking, go in a shit behind me, I just

about managed to get on a plane, I was like fucking Ben Affleck getting out of there.

And look, I enjoyed the run, but the bins, you'll have all seen about the bins strike up

there, it's pretty rank. And one thing I noticed about being at home is that it's

smell better being at home and I don't know given, you know, the tourist appeal of Edinburgh,

whether that's a great thing for the city going forward is that you've got loads of American

tourists coming home going, you know, the shows were nice, it was the castle was nice,

everything was nice, but it just smelled so fucking bad. I just, I saw a rat eating a

rat. I did, I did, I don't know if it was a street performance, but a lot of people

were videoing it. I don't know who that impression was based on, we've got, we've got a guest

episode this week, so we've had the last two guest episodes of being Constantine and

Francis, we had a trigonometry double header, so let's go back to, you know, the other side,

I don't know if this is even relevant, as labels go, the political cultural debate, we've

got a good old fashioned lefty himself, Mr Mark Steele, obviously, you know, you recognize

him from Radio 4, then have a good news for you. And Mark, you know, I mean, political, political

differences are one thing, but we both come from South London and we're both comics, so I feel

like that always balances it out between me and Mark, and we have a very interesting chat whereby

I had a lack of list of things that I wanted to talk about, and mainly it was politics, but,

and I hope you'll indulge us in having one more deep comedy chat, because it does feel like

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