On the morning of my 54th birthday, I woke up at dawn and instantly realized that my partner,

Rea, was in the bedroom with me. All the way to the river, a true story of love and loss,

addiction and recovery, grief and liberation from the best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love.

This was an extremely impressive accomplishment on her part, because at that that point she had been dead for more than five years.

This book will set you free. Read or listen now to All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Now, Jake Lambert, I need to find the bin for Ray's poo. Oh, okay.

So... I'll show how I feel about my full name being in that sentence.

This week on Walking the Dog,

Ray and I went for a stroll in London's Battersea Park

to chat to hugely talented stand-up comedian Jake Lambert.

I first came across Jake through his absolutely hilarious videos on Instagram,

and I'm not the only one. I think his videos have wrapped up over 500 million views. He just so

perfectly nails things like the cliched phrases people come out with at work or captions

they put on their holiday posts, along with my personal fave, things dogs would say if they could talk.

Well, I know what my dog would say if he could talk. Please can we go out with Jake again?

Because this man was not only enormously entertaining company. He's also just such a thoroughly, lovely, genuine person to spend time with.

Jake has appeared on shows like Live at the Apollo and Comedy Central's Live from the Comedy Store. He's also been the support act of choice for huge comedy names like Michael McIntyre and Rummish Ranga Nathan,

but he's currently in the middle of his very own international tour, The Sunshine Kid.

Tickets are selling out pretty fast because Jake's a popular boy.

So do grab yours now while you can at jacetlambutcom.

I absolutely loved my walk with Jake, and I know you're going to love him too.

So I'll stop talking now and hand over to the brilliant man himself.

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