It's endlessly fascinating to me.

So what would have happened if I hadn't asked you?

I mean, maybe we both would have drifted on without doing it. Hi, welcome to episode 86 of Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher.

And me Alice Sheridan.

And this week's episode is a celebration because on Tuesday evening, so the

evening of last week's release we reached 500,000 downloads of this podcast.

500,000 downloads.

That just makes my brain start melting.

It's a big number.

It's a huge number. And thing is it's growing each week. So when we

went into lockdown we'd been growing and then we saw it plummet for a little while, which I'm sure everybody did

People were distracted. We saw it I mean plummet it didn't go down to nothing but we saw it drop significantly.

Do you mean drop or do you mean the growth slowed?

No, we actually dropped.

If you look at that graph, yeah, we actually dropped and I bet every podcast and did, you know, for the first few weeks there was kind of, ew, people couldn't think straight and all that fear.

And then we've just steadily climbed ever since and way exceeded where we were before the lockdown.

And it's lovely because until now we haven't done any advertising.

So this is just us telling people, other people telling people.

It's all down to you, lovely listeners,

lovely listeners from all across the world.

It's incredible, isn't it?

And here we are, what makes me laugh is, I still see people who want to start

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