Hello you shower of absolute piss witches. What's the crack this week? This is podcast number

three. I am incredibly grateful for Ali Ikhan's coming back on week three to listen. I'm

incredibly grateful that this podcast and I'm shocked that this podcast has been number

one in the iTunes charts for the past two weeks and a little birdie told me that it's been fairly

high up and in the top 20s of the UK charts as well. So thank you to all of the crack and tans

who have been tugging out and listening and subscribing and reviewing and please keep subscribing

and reviewing because that's why keeps the momentum going with the podcast and I want this thing

to grow. I want this thing to be fairly big this time next year. I want to be doing love podcast

gigs because why not? Also a very very gracious thank you to all the people who went out and

purchased my book of short stories the gospel according to Blaine by I just heard back that it is

now number two in the Irish book charts which I again was not expecting. Thank you so much for

everyone who went out and bought it. It's number two. Number one is Dan Brown who wrote that

film with Tom Hanks where he bothers but bothers a photograph of the Mona Lisa that's painted by

one of the Tartals. I don't know I haven't seen it but thank you. You gorgeous kinds

and I've got to be reading another short story today after some some rant because I want to do

something with the podcast. I want to do something. No, one let it change. Let it evolve.

Let's have a bit of crack with it. Let's try and do something. No. Speaking of doing something

if you will direct your ears you will notice that there is some very gentle

piano tinkling piano playing in the background of this week's podcast.

And the reason for that is is that you'll know that I'm all about trying to create that nice warm

podcast hug. And what I mean by that is I believe the podcasts exist as little artifacts in this

current moment in time. This this over psychological purpose I believe because sometimes I can't

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