Ep 7: Can Comedy and Sport Save the Planet? feat. Stuart Goldsmith and Peter Smith

I am delighted to welcome to the pod, who should we kick off with? Stuart Smith.

Stuart, Stuart Smith.

Stuart Smith.

We're just combining the two of you.

Really wasn't expected.

Peter Smith and Stuart Goldsmith.

Yes, the far superior Smith on the record.

Sorry about your tired, low-quality Smith there, Peter.

It's fantastic.

And coming in, we have Lawrence Bronsmith.

Stuart, let's kick off with your intro.

Now, I found two intros for you, one from Wikipedia and one is your own one.

One from Wikipedia that you didn't write

yourself and that has been crowdsourced over 30 years.

Sure, let's have that one.

So, here's a Wikipedia one.

Welcome to Stuart Goldsmith, British stand-up comedian and former street performer.

That's it, full stop.

Welcome Stuart Goldsmith from his own website, climate comedian, podcaster and business speaker.

Yeah, 100%.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I don't tend to talk about the 10 years at Covent Garden in a professional context.

But it's all that comes up in comedy interviews.

I was a street performer for a long time.

I went, in fact, so Bristolian link here.

I went to Circa Media, which is the circus school here in Bristol.

I went there in 96, 97.

We're

actually trying to move away from the Bristol hippie feel of this pod.

Are

you? Oh, well, I've got, I can't help with that, I'm afraid.

Sorry.

But no, so I mentioned before that it's funny to hear myself referred to as a Bristolian.

I am.

I was born round here.

I think I was born in Chipping Sodbury.

And my family lived in Bristol till I was six.

And then I grew up in Leamington Spa.

And I sort of regard myself as being from Leamington Spa.

But I've been living back in Bristol for 10 years.

And so I feel like finally that's enough time now that I can accept the title of Bristolian.

I do quite like it.

I feel like it's got slightly more of a cultural resonance than Leamington Spa.

I think so.

I mean, what does make a Bristolian? Pete is definitely a Bristolian, aren't you, Pete? There we

go.

Very good.

Very good.

He's just returned from Asdal.

There we go.

I know enough of the code words.

So welcome, Peter Smith.