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I've just had 10,000 steps come up on my feet.

That's how long the podcast.

Everyone says how long to the podcast.

10,000 steps.

Hi, my name is Emily Dean, and this is Walking the Dog. It's a brand new series, and I wanted to kick off with someone who felt properly worth the weight,

so I won't lie, I pulled a few strings

close to home and I'm delighted to say my guest is comic and let's face it, National Treasure,

the very wonderful Frank Skinner.

Some of you may know already, I'm Frank's co-host on his absolute radio show,

so I wasn't sure how he'd feel about guessing on this podcast.

Would it be a cute little spin-off or would it be like

those friends episodes in London and let's never speak of this again, but it genuinely

was one of the most enjoyable ones that I've ever done And yes okay Frank the funniest too. We walked for

hours partly because he's brilliant company but mainly because he has no sense of

direction. Frank doesn't actually have a dog himself, so we took out peanut, a Terry

across who was rehombed by the Dogs Trust a few years ago, which is a brilliant charity.

So if you want to find out more about adopting please do go to

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