DAVID DASTMALCHIAN • the LA vampire with an attitude of gratitude (Late Night With The Devil / One Piece / Oppenheimer) #666
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by the excellent and truly unique actor DAVID DASTMALCHIAN!
The perfect guest for this episode 🤘 as the Iron Maiden classic spins in the background... David is a fantastic presence who has awesome stories but it's not just that, it's the whole vibe. Some might say "essence", if they're feeling snooty. But whatever the weather - always a good hang. There is a HUGE amount of covered ground here as you'd hope, including a hot off the press movie recommendation, some Cyndi Lauper business up top, music recommendations, loving LA as a vampire (complete with black umbrella), early Chicago days artistry, craft, process, gratitude and reckoning with past addictions having been in recovery for almost 2 decades. And, as Pip hints, tales for days. Really great stuff, proper Distraction Pieces goodness or - if you will - Dastmalchian Pieces, as it shall be known for this episode. Thank you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the Distraction Pieces podcast, episode number 666. And you know I had to get a special guest for such an important number. Number 666, I could speak to no one other than David Das Mautian. Oh, this podcast, it took a little bit of work to line up. |
| 0:22.7 | We had a few full starts. |
| 0:24.1 | We came close. |
| 0:25.0 | We stopped. |
| 0:25.4 | You know I never announced these in advance because there's always that risk of them |
| 0:28.3 | falling through. |
| 0:29.3 | But let me tell you now, it was worth the weight. |
| 0:33.2 | This is just instantly one of my favourite podcast chats. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah, it's amazing. David was so good |
| 0:39.9 | and so generous with his time and so open and honest. His last two, maybe three stories he tells |
| 0:46.1 | are all timers, a distraction piece is all timers. They're so good. And I know that's teasing |
| 0:52.3 | at the ending, but look, it's only an hour long episode. |
| 0:55.8 | You can get there and it'll be a joy all along the way. |
| 0:59.6 | You will know, David, from, I mean, where to begin, from Dark Night, from Oppenheimer, |
| 1:07.2 | from Late Night with the Devil devil from One Piece. |
| 1:12.3 | He's playing M. Bison in the upcoming Street Fighter movie. |
| 1:16.0 | You'll know him from a million things. |
| 1:18.0 | And he's got a new film, The Cure, that comes out on April 13th. |
| 1:22.2 | So you need to watch that because it's amazing. |
| 1:25.4 | We talk a bit about that. |
| 1:26.4 | We talk about everything, man. We get |
| 1:27.9 | really into it straight off the bat. I say he was really generous with his time and openness. |
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