Balmer (autism, parenting, Twitch) • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #514
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by Twitch legend BALMER to talk all things parenting and indeed, Twitch!
The term 'Twitch legend' is doing all sorts of work there, and for those uninitiated, you may need some assistance. Twitch is the livestreaming platform for people to either observe or take part in art, sports, gaming, music, every conceivable activity that can be filmed essentially. Within appropriate broadcast law, obvs. Gaming happens to be Balmer's chosen discipline (with some improv and role play in there too), and as one of Pip's favourite streamers there must be a reason for him to guest on DPP right? Correct. Balmer is not only a truly unique gamer with a wild and memorable presence, he is also a parent of an autistic son. He and Pip catch up on everything involved with that part of the story, which is fascinating and inspiring, shedding light on the 'system' as we know it, and how it works with and against this area of neurodivergence. While the episode does deal with parenting and Twitch, those who are not parents nor Twitch afficionados may be confident in knowing it's a lovely episode with warmth and awesomeness throughout. Maybe you don't know the name (yet) - but trust that it's a lovely ep.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 514. How are you all? |
| 0:07.3 | I'm joined today by Barmer and this is someone that I'm a huge fan of. His his no-territy is mainly |
| 0:15.0 | on Twitch so a lot of you won't be familiar but you're about to fall in love with a wonderful |
| 0:20.1 | human here. And if you're not a gamer or Twitch streamer don't worry that's not what we're here to |
| 0:25.2 | talk about in large. One of the main reasons I wanted to get Barmer on is the journey he's gone on |
| 0:31.6 | as a parent of an autistic child and trying to navigate the additional needs that their child |
| 0:42.8 | may have for socialising, for education, for all of these things. And it just this conversation |
| 0:48.8 | exceeded all expectation. As I said I'm already madly in love with Barmer and that |
| 0:55.0 | only strengthened through this conversation so I think you're going to enjoy it. We do also talk |
| 1:00.0 | about Twitch but I promise you it's in an inclusive manner so you won't suddenly go what you will |
| 1:05.5 | briefly at points but anytime you think you're going what give it like five to ten minutes and I'll |
| 1:11.8 | kind of bring you back in. I was aware every time I started to go off down a rabbit hole on this |
| 1:16.7 | one. I know I'm not always aware but on this one I was aware so I think you're in for a treat and |
| 1:20.9 | I'd really like it if you share this far and wide. We've had some great episodes recently. They |
| 1:28.6 | really sum up what distraction pieces is about like last week with Florence and Reed. |
| 1:35.0 | A few weeks before we're without a good scare. Just podcast where you might not already be aware of |
| 1:41.4 | this person but man the conversation is going to make you very much aware of them and very much |
| 1:46.5 | intrigued by them and they're the really important ones. Also we also have big names like James |
| 1:51.4 | Acaster on the week before last. That's always going to be a great episode and John Kerns who |
| 1:57.2 | is on Taskmaster loads of amazing people but yeah I'm so focused now on the importance of making sure. |
| 2:06.0 | You know I'm over 500 episodes in at any point I could stop this and go good work. You've |
| 2:13.6 | put in a shift but I need to make sure that I'm continuing to focus on having conversations I'm |
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