Cry4th the bare-knuckle Lallipop you distant Vincent's. Welcome to the Blind Bile podcast.

If you're a brand new listener, go back to an earlier podcast. Don't listen to this

episode. We have a record amount of brand new listeners this week because this podcast

was featured in the New York Times at the weekend, so if you're a brand new listener

from the New York Times, don't listen to this episode. Go back to an earlier episode.

You might be tempted to pick out an episode where I interview a celebrity. That's not

really what this podcast is about. I do that occasionally, but this podcast for me,

it's auto-fiction. I like to explore the podcast medium as a literary farm through monologues

that I write. So pick one of those episodes because this episode is an interview with

the brilliant Sharon Lambert about Irish drug policy, which might interest you as a first

time listener, but really this one is for regular listeners. So I'm so glad that the

podcast was featured in the New York Times. I know I speak a lot about trying not to

pay too much attention to external praise, but I'm going to allow myself to feel proud

of that. Not an ego thing. To feel proud of it for moments in my career where I would

have really beaten myself up. I've been professionally creative since I was fucking

17. I'm doing this a long time. I've had lots and lots of failures. TV pilots that never

got off the ground, stuff that never got commissioned, scripts to cut, rejected. And

indoors times I always thought, fuck it, will I give up? Maybe I'm not good enough

what I just give up. And these rejections would have always come from TV channels, we'll

say, already, or stations or whatever the fuck will, we'll set the industry. And when

you try your best and you work real hard at something, and you think that the thing

that you've made is really good, and it still gets rejected by TV commissioners or radio

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