In this episode I call my friend, Lizzie, and I tell her a joke.

Lizzie is someone I've worked with on a bunch of different jobs over a bunch of different time periods, and she is the most unflappable person I've ever met. In the middle of absolute panic and chaos, when I'm sure everything is ruined, Lizzie will call me darl and tell me everything will be fine, and then somehow it is fine. Also, don't get any ideas, "Josiah" is a Lizzie-only nickname.

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In this episode I call my kid friend, Arty, and I tell him a joke.

Arty telling me not to feel bad about my terrible jokes, when every adult I know would have roasted me, is just further proof that he is the kindest person alive. Miss you, kid.

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In this episode I call my friend, Dr Chris, and I tell him a joke.

Chris is a lovely man and friend and work colleague and also vet. We all know 666 is the number of the beast, so I've given Chris episode 333 because he loves working with little beasts (pets). And also big ones. Please don't look into this reasoning any further.

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In this episode I call my listener friend, Luke, and I tell him a joke.

Luke wrote me a lovely message to say that he's been enjoying the podcast, and he also sent me a bunch of jokes that I hadn't heard before, so he's obviously a winner. Big props to Luke's wife Shanti for providing background lols, and for letting Luke tell her favourite joke. I honestly have the very best listeners in the world.

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In this episode I call my friend, Liz, and I tell her a joke.

I really have known Liz for so long, which is such a good and nice thing. She even knew me during my vaguely pop punk phase, of which we no longer speak. And for the record, I actually love public transport, even (especially) the bus. Wear a mask!

P.s. The scone joke is brought to you by my friend Ian. Thanks Ian!

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In this episode I call my boyfriend, Josh, and I tell him a joke.

I talk to Josh on the phone a lot lately, so it's very telling that he can pick a joke call immediately. I love him even when he's being highly suspicious of me.

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In this episode I call my kid friend, Felix, and I tell him a joke.

Felix is the excellent child of Erica and Kirsty, and is also a part of our marvellous choir. Pretty much nothing brings me more joy than Felix singing along to the meow meow vocal warm-up. If you know you know.

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In this episode I call my friend, Erica, and I tell her a joke.

Erica runs a choir that I have been genuinely blessed to be a part for about 7 years. We gather in her lounge room and do breathing exercises and make each other laugh, and she arranges and teaches us the harmonies to songs by David Bowie, Sarah Harmer, PJ Harvey, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, and loads more, and she somehow makes us sound incredible. If you do not know the joy of singing with other people, you should give it a go. There's no drug like it.

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In this episode I call my kid friend, Arty, and I tell him a joke.

I've done a little bit of my own research, and it looks like there's some disagreement about exactly which language the name Arthur originally comes from, but Arty is right that there's a lot of bear talk in here. Arty has always been "Arty-bear" to me, so I'm well on board. Send me all of your best (and worst) bear jokes please.

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In this episode I call my work friend, Dave, and I tell him a joke.

Dave is a TV technical wizard, and any time he's on a show that I'm working on is a good time. He's also a delightful person, because some people are just born good (and also work hard, am I right, Dave?).

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