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Had my all important Covid-19 test this morning which will determine if I am OK to do the TV show on Saturday. It's almost not worth the discomfort that you have to go through. Halfway through I almost rang them up and told them to stick their stupid job. I don't like to be made to retch by sticking things down my throat and anyone who says I do is lying.
Also there's the chance that I have the virus and won't be able to do the job. So why was I agreeing to this test?
I don't think anyone has been through a more unpleasant experience than me as a result of this virus.
Sticking it in your nose is at least a pleasure compared to having to scrape the back of your throat.
Even if the test comes back negative there are still lots of checks to pass once I am at the studios. It adds an exciting level of jeopardy. They should just film this bit and make this the show.
Another nice long dog walk whilst listening to podcasts this morning. I suddenly remembered that a week or two ago as I went through the farm I saw a mobile blacksmith. It was one of the coolest things I've witnessed. He had a little can and in the back was a portable furnace, in which he was shaping a horse shoe. It was such a bizarre mixture of old-fashioned art and modern technology. A smithy is still the best man to make horseshoes and it's still done in the same basic way, but if you went back 200 years and showed this to a blacksmith - not only the horseless chariot, but one in which you could contain a fire at a temperature high enough to melt metal…. Well it blows my mind, so what would it do to them?
I had to research tonight's guest and this afternoon was interviewed on Radio 5 Live, but I still managed to make more progress with the book edit. I very nearly got to the end and am certain to finish it tomorrow. Still a couple of niggly bits to work through, but basically there.
It's a big relief. Then I get a fun week of work and a holiday. It's all worked out perfectly.
I had an interesting and funny chat with Bilal Zafar tonight on RHLSTP. He's a phenomenal talent I think and Twitch is let him produce work on his own terms and not have to fit into the pigeonhole that TV would like to put him in.
I like the fact that a little community of comedians is developing on this platform and hope we can all work together a little bit, at least with cross promotion, but maybe more. I have some developing ideas. Your subs and badge money can help with this. It'd be great to create a Twitch show with a bit of a budget, but where contributors can produce anything they want without interference. I am not sure we're quite at that point yet, but it's exciting to me that Twitch might be the way to create video comedy in the old school way where writers and comedians weren't shoe-horned into other people's ideas.
Anyway we don't really talk about that too much, but there's some other stuff in there that I think you'll like. The time flew by ad Bilal was not as much of a dick as he was in the dream I had the other night when he got arsey cos I'd mispronounced his name. Which is probably why you shouldn't rely on dreams as character studies,.
Or wait a few weeks for the podcast.
RHLSTP with the always entertaining+ informative Greg Jenner is now up
