Oh yes, hello my friends with functioning ankles in podcast land. Welcome back. By way of an update on my situation, I've got a surgery date booked in which is Wednesday coming.

So this Wednesday I will be going under the knife and then out of action for a little while. Hopefully me and video guide, I'm going to be able to compensate the publishing schedule so that normal service is not interrupted all that much.

I know that it might seem a little bit like I've got my priorities the wrong way around to be talking about publishing a podcast whilst I'm getting my ankle knitted back together.

But it's important for me to keep putting out something that I care about. It's going to help to hold me accountable and also it's going to give me a reason to get up in the morning.

So we will see what sort of desk adjustments I can make if I'm going to be able to podcast whilst being horizontal is a logistical problem me and video guide in working on at the moment.

But yes, hopefully this show will not be too affected, but obviously I will keep you updated on to today's guest David Bertwistle is the star of Netflix's summer dating show to hot to handle.

So the number one rated show across the planet for a little while and I thought it would be a good opportunity to sit down with a kindred spirit is also been through the mill, been through the ringer to deal with the reality TV dating world and discuss how fame and notoriety have kind of been weaponized in the modern world.

You know, people look at someone who's gone on love Island or reality TV show and think, oh my god, look at that. They got a blue tick life must be amazing. They have unlimited amounts of charcoal toothpaste. They must be so good. They're with late Wayne Linica again again at ocean beach.

This is amazing, but it's famed something that anyone should be searching for. What is the difference between being someone and doing something? It's an oddly esoteric and quite sort of existential philosophical conversation that we have today.

I was pleasantly surprised to speak to someone who I think is a cut from the same cloth as me when it comes to viewing the way that fame and reality TV is kind of affecting modern culture.

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Blue tick wank club in the building. What the fuck's happening? Reality TV wank club here we are.

We joined a lucid club of people that have known for probably the wrong reasons.

I think you are very correct. So today, one of the things I wanted to speak about a lot of people will know you from a recent Netflix series which was called

Too hot to handle.

Talk me through that then. Talk me through the experience of being on that because yours, unlike love Island, which was my experience on reality TV, yours was a pre record right? You were on that a while ago and now it's just come out.

Yeah, we recorded it in 2019 in April. So it was a long time ago and then it came out a year later. So yeah, the experience of actually filming it was awesome. Like the show itself.

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