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This is a podcast from comedians comedian.com. This is the Comedians comedian podcast. pod from his weird and wonderful Edinburgh shows or from his work with Robinins's book club but in the last year he's also been hammering the circuit in Britain with very

visible consequences he's better than ever and here is Ashtr 11. Let's talk about what's just happened in the last two minutes or the last day.

Yes.

Tell me what, so what's going on with Edinburgh? So I've decided this year not to go to Edinburgh and this will be the first time I haven't been in seven years. This would have been my eighth year on the trot because I've got some

TV stuff here that I'm working on but most importantly I can't answer the

question go to the Edinburgh fringe because I just can't, I don't have an answer

for it. I don't know, I don't know why that I want to go and so it's been really strange and really

difficult like super hard because there's so much fear compacting in on top of fear.

There's the fear of failing at the fringe, the fear of financially failing, which is also bad,

the fear of not being able to come back the fear of losing your place in the queue

the fear of stopping this idea of exponential building and your fan base

and all of that bullshit which might be true, might not be true.

No one has any idea except for people pulling serious strings as to whether you're growing or you know you can look at your

numbers but you don't know if you're going to go back next year and have a big

year so it's been a it's been a really difficult decision to make and

and you're coming to this from having had successful

edibles in the past, enjoyable edibles in the past, and also ones that you didn't

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