Stu here. Episode 500 is somehow fast approaching. It's already in the cat. I can't wait for you to hear it.

I need your feedback. I want to gather some data on your favourite episodes, your best moments, see if there's any fun anecdotes I can uncover along the way.

Something must have happened in your life in nearly 500 episodes of podcasting.

And as a thanks for taking part, myself and producer Callum will be gifting an Insider's Insider 12-month membership on Patreon to one lucky respondent. You can pay this forward if you're already one. The survey's super short, all the questions are skippable, and this would mean a lot if you could just take five minutes out of your day to go and fill the thing in. Head to Stuartgoldsmith.com slash survey, or the link is in the show notes.

There's going to be a very short break in September before we approach that milestone,

but lots of exciting stuff in the works. Hello and welcome to the show, Stuart Goldsmith here.

This is the Comedians, comedian podcast, and today I'm very proud and pleased to welcome back to the show after an absence of

over 10 years we think it's Josie Long and Josie is back with her incredible show on tour

which as you will hear me enthuse in in no uncertain terms in this episode and throughout this

episode her show is called Now is the Time of Monsters and I saw it at the Edinburgh Festival. I thought it was absolutely brilliant,

so inspiring. And also, also for me I had that really fun little wrinkle which is that I saw

it and thought, oh my God, this is what I want to do. How can I possibly do anything like this?

And really, that's what this podcast is all about, isn't it? It's me going,

I love that. How do I do that? And hopefully I will help you all learn how to thread together,

this incredible tapestry that she has, which is about discovery, wonder, extinction, parenting,

the end of a relationship, and so much more, all just woven together in this phenomenal piece of constantly funny and beautiful stuff.

All right, so good. In the first half, we are going to talk about preaching to the choir and why that

can be a good thing. We're going to talk about undermining sincerity without losing emotional punch.

And we will explore the themes of climate dread, mass extinction and parenthood,

all prevalent within Josie's new show. So remember, she is on tour right now.

So go to, where's the bit where you go to? It's there. Go to josie long.com, absolutely guessable.

And you can keep up to date on Instagram at Josie Long to find out more about the tour.

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