Blanc your ankles, you post-filled printer breasts. Welcome to the Blind Bipadcast.

I am recording this one in a hotel room. So a parage is if the sound is a little bit

off. We just do a quick sound check here. Postman, postman, postman, postman,

God bless, God bless, postman, postman. As you can see it's a little bit echoey.

So, yeah, here's the crack. I'm recording this in a hotel. I've got a special podcast for you this week.

My book of short stories, Bull of Art Rain, has been in shops since November 1st.

That's two or three days ago. I am very happy to say that it is now number one in the Irish book charts.

And thank you so much to everyone who went out and got it.

And thank you to everyone who has given me lovely messages over the weekend saying that they're enjoying it so far.

It's still in the shops if you want to get it.

I was on the late show there on Friday night, which is...

I mainly promote in the book through this podcast and through social media.

And I'm only doing the traditional media stuff. I'm only doing the ones that I kind of want to do.

So I did a piece with the Irish Times with Patrick Frayne, who's a class journalist,

and that was Greg Greck, and then the other main one I'm doing that I did is the late late show.

The late late show is, if you don't know, if you're not from Ireland, it's like this Irish institution.

It's the longest running TV show, live television chat show in the world.

It's been on TV since the early 60s, hasn't stopped being on Friday nights.

It's this...

20 years ago, it was almost as important as Sunday fucking mass, not 20, more 30 or 40, Sunday mass in Ireland.

The big issues of Ireland were spoken about on the late show on Friday nights.

The Magdalene laundry scandal broke out on the late late.

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