Bilal Zafar: can't knock the hustle, or the day job (Got A Problem Mate podcast / Cakes special / Twitch) #647
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by show pal, comic and podcaster BILAL ZAFAR!
A return mission for Bilal who is always welcome aboard, and a lovely chance for anyone less acquainted to become fast friends. Bilal's carving out a really special and unique path in comedy, mixing the daily grind with a ton of different disciplines as well as getting involved with the day job life. It's the path of someone who is listening to themselves and making it happen on their own terms, while being fluid and weaving in and out of the waves. But all that aside, Bilal is also plain funny and a great guest as there's a delicious balance of banter and good time charm mixed with the heavier stuff. Ground covered includes town explorations while on the road, comedian vlogs (one in particular), edgelords and comedians, the humble day job, the Fringe, endometriosis, supporting the arts, streaming skills aiding podcasting, and the good old Twitch world. A lot to enjoy right here fam.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is The Distraction Pieces podcast episode 647 and I'm joined today by |
| 0:07.6 | Belau Zafar, known on social media as Zaffa Cakes. I've had Below on before. I'm a big fan. I think he's |
| 0:15.5 | hilarious. There was a really specific, quite serious subject I wanted to talk to Below about. |
| 0:21.2 | But the problem I also have is, but Below is like one of my favorite people for just talking nonsense with. |
| 0:28.4 | So you'll have to see if we get to the more serious subject or if we just talk nonsense for an hour. |
| 0:35.1 | Below's an award-winning comedian, a great podcaster with The Got a Problem Mate podcast, Gapham, a Twitch streamer, all sorts of good stuff. |
| 0:45.0 | So you're going to love this. |
| 0:46.8 | If you haven't heard the episode he was on before, I recommend that too, because there's a lot of his kind of origin story. |
| 0:53.2 | And we talk a lot about the show that won him, or had him nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe, all that kind of thing, which we reference in this one, but don't go over old territory, you know, very professional of us, of anything. We bought you as ever by speech development records.com. That's where you can get merch. Christmas is coming. Winter is here. There's loads of good stuff over there. Go and have a good old look. Patreon.com forward slash scrupious pip is where you can support the podcast for any amount, really, any amount. And you get the occasional, like, behind the scene peak. I'm sure we'll be doing some, some little conversations |
| 1:28.6 | over Christmas. And speaking of such, Twitch.tv.4 slash Scroobius Pipio, after a couple of weeks |
| 1:34.1 | off, I'm back on Twitch, having a lovely time interacting with everyone. In fact, if you're hearing |
| 1:40.8 | this on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday, I'm doing a big charity stream |
| 1:45.6 | on December 7th, Sunday December 7th at 8.30pm. It's to raise money for mind. I'm working |
| 1:53.8 | with an amazing artist called The Nice Lady over there who's going to be painting me. She's |
| 1:58.8 | painting me topless and in a thong. |
| 2:01.4 | So, I mean, I don't think that needs any further explanation. |
| 2:04.9 | But yeah, we're going to be raising money for mind. |
| 2:08.3 | Come along and join us. |
| 2:09.3 | Twitch.tv. |
| 2:10.0 | forward slash scrupious pipio |
| 2:11.6 | and Twitch.tv. |
| 2:13.2 | forward slash the nice lady over there. |
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