Ben Pester

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327 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Jul

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Yeah.

I don't submit anything.

No, if somebody invites me... No, I don't, because I do either.

Yeah, but the specific reason is I just don't like the pain of it.

I don't like being told, oh, nearly.

I just... It's all right with a novel because that goes through your agent, so, you know, and they've kind of said, oh, we'll send it out.

So that gets past the person and it's like, well, we've agreed that this is worth doing.

But I don't like the sort of...

Emails.

I don't like them at all.

And so I never do it.

And sometimes somebody can ask for something and you give them it and they're like, we actually had another story that we went with, I'm sorry.

And that can feel horrendous, but at least...

You know, there's a sort of dance at that point where they offered to pay you anyway because they sort of commissioned it.

Oh, yeah.

But, yeah, but that happened to me recently, actually.

That, what I just described.

I sent something to somebody.

I rushed it a bit.

But it was still, you know, honest work.

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