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Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith and my guest today is Adam Bloom. Many of you I think comedians will be familiar with Adam.

He's like, for those who don't know him, he's like, you know the guy in a

heist movie who's the specialist at cracking safes and

outwitting security systems? Adam Bloom is like that, but for jokes.

I found this conversation absolutely electrifying,

so I hope you enjoy it.

Without further ado, please welcome Mr Adam Bloom. I think the thing we should start with is,

because I imagine you've done, you've been going for how long?

18 years.

18 years.

You'll have done a lot of interviews and you'll have retread, retrove the same ground over

and over about how you started and all the rest of it.

So rather than that, I'm just think from the point of view of the listener that material is probably available elsewhere.

Okay. So shall we start and we can we can you can dip into it briefly if you like but

should we just start by saying do you have to be a

comedian? Me? Yes. Do you have to be and maybe that might you might talk about your

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