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Hi and welcome to Walking the Dog. This week I went out with comedian writer and

all-round Renaissance man David Badeel. David's been a bit of a hardcore cat man all his life but he was really

keen to have a blind date with a dog so we took out the lovely Jimmy who's a

greyhound from Dogs Trust and I think it went pretty well. One of the things I love about David

is his absolute inability to keep anything back at all. So we talked about

everything, Fame, Frank Skinner, family, he takes a call from his brother at one point.

There's a bit where he stops the podcast and deliberates whether to go to the Lou in a bush.

And best of all, he even let me stroke his guinea pig I'm just going to leave that there

you must go and see David's show by the way my family not the sitcom that's not a

plug it's a genuine piece of advice from me because it's life changing and it's your last chance I think

this tour so go to David bedeal.com for dates also his latest kids book birthday boy is

out right now so that's all your bedeal-based info for 2018. Also I should say if you want to

contact dogs trust about rehoming a dog do get in touch with them there at

dogs trust dot org dot UK. My last piece of advice is rate, review and subscribe because there's no easy way of

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