Unhinge your chins, you whispering Vincent's.

Welcome to the Blind Boy podcast.

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I'm sure you can tell there's something up but my vice.

I'm in the throes of seasonal, cold or flu, whatever the fuck it is. The whole shebang. Sore throat, chills,

pains in my bones. So I need to be horizontal. I need to be horizontal today. I don't have a

full podcast in me. I'd be grand in a couple of days. But I do have an absolutely magnificent chat fee with a journalist and writer by the name of Patrick Frayne.

This one is from the vaults.

I recorded this, I think, 2023 at the Dawkey Book Festival, maybe earlier, maybe even 2022.

Today I was like, I'm really sick. I'm not going to be able to do a monologue podcast, so I went listening through just live podcasts I'd done

over the years. And this one from 2022 jumped out. I was like, fuck it, this was great crack. This

was wonderful crack. Why did I not put this out yet I think

the reason is so I'd recorded this I'd say two months after the after lockdown ended

and I think this was my first like normal gig like no restrictions although wasn't. It was outdoors. So I think this was still

recorded under the parameters of COVID lockdown. So I'd, I'd kind of forgotten how to

interact with human beings. I'd forgotten how to chat with people. So one thing I want to

apologize for with this chat that you're about to hear, I'm quite interrupty.

I interrupt quite a bit. Something I need to say around that is, so I'm, I'm nora divergent.

And people who are autistic in ADHD, we have serious trouble when it comes to not interrupting people

when we're having conversation because it's perceived as incredibly rude. It's a rude thing to do.

It's perceived as arrogant. It's like what I have to say is more important than what you have to say.

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