What most people?

Hello, you are doing live, from the sixth floor, from the sixth floor of the Traveloge in the Portsmouth City Centre, £31 a night. It's outrageous. Again, I slept well, I don't know what it is. I think I'm broken inside. It's like a man that sleeps well in prison. There's something wrong with me. But look, this is a week of big announcements.

Some of you, probably a lot of you will have already heard that are two big announcements this week. Times Radio, it has been announced now that I'm going to be doing the Friday evening slot, 7pm till 10pm. That's going to start on the 7th of February. And also my stand-up special basic bloke is now on ITVX. So please, look, I'm 48 years old.

This is the first time I've ever had a special going to a streaming service. So you've got watch it. I know some of you might have already watched it. You might have been to the tour. You know what I mean? If you're a patron, you might see, just watch it. Stick it on the, you know what, stick it on the laptop, hit me,

just let it play away in the background

and you'll have done me a massive favour.

Because I want to get this going and it was... watch it. Stick it on the, you know what, stick it on the laptop, hit mute, just let it play away in the background

and you'll have done me a massive favour

because I want to get this going

and it was,

you know,

I'm going to sound a bit

kind of BAFTA acceptance speech here, but it was my best work. It was my best work. So I really hope. And also, you know, if you really want Stevenage to get the attention it deserves for being shit, then watch it.

What was it I said in the show?

Stevenage, it's got everything you need and nothing you want. There you go. There's one for the tourist board. Going back to the Times Radio thing, yeah, that's going to be an interesting thing for me because Friday nights for years, that's my gig in night, you know. So the gig will then be now in the studio. So it's good.

We're going to be doing a bit of news. But here's a crucial thing from the point of view of the podcast. It's business as usual here. This will still be the place to hear me at my most candid. But of course, there will be certain tonal overlaps. We'll talk a bit about politics in the show on Friday. but it'll be a lot of culture stuff.

There'll be TV previews, movie reviews.

There'll be, I'm looking at an item which is about male wellness, sort of, I guess, like Women's Hour, but with jokes, they do jokes too, but, you know. So it'll be like a accompaniment. It will be a complementary piece to the podcast. And if anything, it might open it up more for me to do more breaking news episode, episode. I don't know why I certainly went like Sean Connery there. So yeah, all big stuff happening. But listen, as I say, business is usual with the podcast. And I'm doing the breaking news today because it's just, there's just a lot happening. I don't know if it's the pinch point of trump getting inaugurated

but it feels like people are getting their shit in order i mean of course you know i'm not a global

affairs expert but there's been the hamass ceasefire thing and a lot of people Trump was claiming

credit for it and and it's easy to scoff at that but equally you know it's kind of like if you

look at biden or trump who would if they were your, who would you rather put your request for annual leave in with?

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