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It was the first RHLSTPs of the series where I wasn’t beaten down by illness and exhaustion (and also where I haven't had the book deadline hovering over me) and I was in a giddy and silly mood and so were my guests and my audience and I had an absolutely thoroughly enjoyable night chatting with Amy Gledhill and Dara O Briain. It was pretty much wall to wall hilarity. In an attempt to get as much research done as possible I’ve been listening to audio books and podcasts slightly speeded up, usually at 1 and a quarter for podcasts and 1.3x on Audible. You don’t really notice the difference until you’re listening to someone like Dara, who speaks so fast anyway that any speeding up makes you go a bit insane. Tonight though he was going at 2x Dara speed and it was like being in a whirlwind of jokes. I am looking forward to listening to this one at half speed so that I can hear everything he says. The man is a phenomenon and his brain is even faster than his mouth. I suspect he’s been so wound up at being relatively quiet during lock down that it’s going to take a year or two for him to get back to his regular fast speed.
I’d spent the day getting angry with Cadbury for disappointing my daughter who won a Cadbury Creme Egg Easter egg on the Easter trail but then had been heartbroken to discover that the big shell was hollow and not a massive Creme Egg like she’d assumed. I saw a couple of adults equally pissed off about this and so I challenged Ian Cadbury to stop being such a coward and give the people what they want. Some people directed me to videos of people making home made fondant or scooping out creme eggs and putting them in hollow eggs to make their own. But I don’t want that. I want to be able to buy a proper one, of the right consistency with the yellow in the middle, with the right thickness of chocolate in a shop. I don’t care how many calories it will be, or how heavy it might be, or if it would be unhealthy or how disgusting it would be to consume (the small ones are horrible enough). We voted for it, so however detrimental it might be, let’s get it done.
Though I think the rest of the series has been very good, especially the interviewees, I hit good form tonight and was the right level of naughty and silly and loose-lipped and it was one of those shows that really came alive thanks to the audience reaction. There’s still one more show at the Leicester Square Theatre this month, with Ardal O Hanlon and Alan Davies, a pretty unbeatable line-up that insanely still has some ticket left.
Come along if you can. If it's like tonight then you really won't regret it.
