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Do you think people think you're strange

because you sort of compare everything that cyclists is,

why was she announcing?

There's a cyclist going past,

we're just getting way, way out the way you're like.

You've got some weird disease like you think you're a sports commentator.

You're putting your hand in there, your handbag?

You're itching your nose now.

This week on Walking the Dog, I took my dog Raymond for a stroll with a very wonderful Connie Huck,

who full disclosure is a very good power of mine. That's why I'm a bit unprofessional and keep calling

her con throughout. I wouldn't do that with everyone. I wouldn't call Barack Obama Barry.

Actually let's face it, I totally would. Anyway, Connie is as you're here just a total delight.

Her birth name is Conoc which means gold in Sanskrit

and that's very appropriate because I think she emanates a sort of warm glow.

We talked about her childhood and Ealing with her three sisters, her degree from Cambridge,

getting a gig at Blue Peter, and also the time when she met her husband,

Charlie Brooker, a Black Mirror Fame, and just knowing he was the man she was going to have a family

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