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Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostigue. I love eating as much as

anything else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other

things that are rubbish. It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, hoovering.

Hello, hello, hello. This episode was recorded live up at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last week on the 14th of August and we're turning them around at a lightning pace so that you can feel part of the festival and also so that you have a chance please to perhaps if you're at the festival go and see the guests who are in this week's podcast do their shows this will go out on Friday and so you still have the weekend to go and see their shows.

A few of them are sold out, but they have extra shows. I know that Fern has an enormous extra show

at the ground. So go, go to that. My show, Hensh, is also all sold out, but I've just put on another

extra show which is tonight at 10.30 and Monkey Burrell 4, there might still be some tickets

for that when this goes out. If so, snap them up. If not, there's always room for 10 people

as walk-ups. Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. Like ever, please just keep telling

other people about it if you enjoy it. And come and see us on tour. Go to livenation.com.ukh.

And look up hoovering because from the autumn we're going to be doing live shows, special

fancy tour level, big venue, smashing mega guest live shows, hopefully in a city near you.

There's only four on sale at the moment, but we're going to be adding them quite thick and fast

come at the end of this fringe when we've got our heads together, but we've got more dates pencilled in in other places.

So please keep an eye on that.

It's going to be brilliant.

If you want discount tickets to those and you've got spare money and you like helping support funding and growing podcasts, go to patreon.com forward slash the hoovering pod and you'll see where you can swap your cash for podcast-related

prizes like extra content and indeed discount tickets. So this episode was recorded in front of a

belting live audience in the wonderful Monkey Burrell Comedy Club where I'm doing my stand-up show as well.

It's just the best venue in Edinburgh. And we recorded it just last week. We had so much fun as you're going to hear.

I'm going to let my brilliant guests introduce themselves.

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