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Hello, welcome to another Rahalostabur book club. I've nearly said my own podcast wrong there, like that people do, RHLSTP.

This week I've been reading over the last month, actually, Namaste Motherfuckers. I'm going to say the fuckers. Thank you. I love you saying the fuckers. I'm assuming that's what the asterisk words. It is. I think that is what we're supposed to extrapolate from that very subtle conceit. Yes. Hello, Callie. Hello. Nice to see you. Nice to see you again. You did a Edinburgh podcast with me a few years ago.

I did. We had a very jolly time, didn't we?

And here we are in my hometown.

So thank you.

Thank you for coming to London just for me. That's my pleasure. I appreciate it. That's my pleasure. So I've gone back to John Robbins. I'll go to you. I'll talk on behalf of John Robbins. Let's talk about John Robbins' first book again for another 90 minutes.

So look, well, this is your first book. I'm surprised to hear. What, because I'm so old? I think just because you're quite prolific. Well, I always knew I had a book. Everyone's got a book in them, haven't they? And I actually said I was going to write a book, as did many,

during lockdown. That's when I said I was going to write a book. And I took a long time. I'm an epic procrastinator. But actually, I was really glad that I waited to write the book when I wrote the book, because it wouldn't have been this book if I'd written it six years earlier. And it's sort of all, as I think many authors say, and it's still really weird to think I might call myself an author.

But when the bits that, when I read it back and when I read the audio book, the bits I loved, I almost, I almost couldn't remember writing.

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