Hey dudes, thanks for downloading my podcast. You know all the usual stuff, badges, go fast and stripe.com slash badges, gigs, richardherring.com slash rahulus toper. We've got new guest news on the 1st of July at the Leicester Square Theatre. I'll be talking to Harry Shearer, Spinal Tap the Simpsons and Tom Leopold, who wrote for Cheers and Seinfeld, amongst other things.

They're built together. There'll be another guest as well. There's another gig on the 8th of July at the Square Theatre that I'm in Edinburgh from the 5th of August to the 16th of August.

We're doing 14 podcasts to try and catch me there.

And there are some more gigs at the Leicester Square Theatre in October, November and, sorry,

September. So anyway, sit back, relax. Enjoy this fabulous Rahalasdapa.

Hello, my fine friends. Welcome to another Rahalasdapa. Hello, my fine friends.

Welcome to another Rahalasdaba book club this week.

And next week, I am reading,

Thirst, by John Robbins, who joins me now.

Hello, John.

How are you doing?

Hey, Richard, I'm good, thank you.

Good, lovely to have you here.

I think today you should retain your record for most appearances on this and the Edinburgh podcast.

Here we go.

So I think you're back at the top of the leaderboard, especially if we end up doing three podcasts today.

I think there's no doubt.

Buxton did a couple of book ones a couple of years ago, put him in the lead. So, you know,

it's very exciting to have you. It feels like a long time since we've spoken, actually. I think it was

maybe the Wells Festival in 23. Yes, it was. And I was talking about booze then.

Yeah, yeah. In fact, that was one of the first times I had talked about not drinking.

And I remember sharing that with a couple of people because I was sort of pleased

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