Hello and welcome to episode 7 of the James Smith Podcast. Today we are going to be talking

about the James Smith cookie diet. Sorry this podcast has taken so long. I've been on

holiday in Bali for the last 10 days. So a lot of people semi angrily message me going,

oh, when's the next podcast then? For that I'm incredibly flattered to think that I almost

never launched a podcast at all. I just wasn't sure if it was really going to, if it was

going to bang, as Darren would say. I've always joked around with people and said, oh,

two hunts and several podcasts. I've got a face for TV, not radio, so to speak. Which brings

me into kind of what this podcast is about. And I'm going to be talking over about something

that happened with a TV appearance I had. It was really good. A lot of people said I came

across well, which again, I was like, oh, was I not supposed to? And I think that for some

people that had only seen me in certain lights on social media, they might have thought I

was a bit of a dick or they still might do. I think that the podcast has helped open

people's ears and eyes to potentially different side of James, which I think there was definitely

seen on TV. And rather than me sending you towards the documentary on ITV where there were

some things kind of handpicked and some things not, I wanted to talk about it a bit today. So

over maybe the last year or so, TV offers for TV shows and all kind of certain different

things have come out of the woodwork, even La Violin approached me this year. I'm not

going to allow it was tempted. It would be quite good to fast track myself to a blue-tick

and a million followers. But a lot of this was dumb shit. And if we rewind about a year,

I would have only had about 70,000 followers on Instagram. I'm now about 270,000. So

when you look at kind of how quickly that's progressing, even a year ago, I wasn't even

that much of a big fish. I wasn't even being taken that seriously. At Body Power, which

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