Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 168. My name is Scrubius Pit. Thank you for tuning in.

This week's guest is the wonderful Eddie Isard and it's one of my favourite conversations I've had.

Yeah, it's really good fun. We had a really good chat. We only had an hour but by God did we pack plenty into that hour.

Thanks for all the love that the last few weeks podcast have got. I had a wheel-patter on last week talking about his latest film Detroit as well as Revenant and numerous other films of his own.

I had Ashley Bae. I always say Bae when it's B. Ashley Bae on the week before. That was a fantastic one because we talked about stand up, about comedy, about her drama.

Acting in the fall and many other things. But also about strangely about mental health.

There was a direction we went in hugely and that seemed to have got a massive reaction. Thank you for tuning into that.

I'll get into this podcast. I should mention that we're sponsored by Speech Development of Records. That's my record label.

If you head to SpeechDevelopmentOfRequels.com, Speech Development of Records are ironically slowed that.

You will be able to get music on CD and vinyl. We still do a thing called CD. A lot of you youngsters wrote know what that is.

CD stands for Card Disc. It's a disc that you listen to exclusively in cars. You can buy loads of records on Card Disc.

You can also buy T-shirts and all sorts of stuff. You can buy Distraction Peasers Podcast merch.

Over there. I need to mention the Distraction Peasers Podcast is coming very soon to Dublin, Ireland.

For the Dublin Podcast Festival, I'm going to be a terribly theatre on Thursday, the 21st of September, for a big Distraction Peasers Live.

I need you guys to work on Discussion Points and Questions as you'll hear from this interview. This is your first time listening.

As you'll hear from this interview, what we try and do with Distraction Peasers Podcast is get these personal and intimate discussions.

I think that that work. Therefore, the live ones, I don't generally have guests because it wouldn't translate live. It'd become a performance.

I normally have a surprise guest or two, but that's to be discussed and revealed.

But what I do do is get you guys up to pick topics and come out of a discussion and be part of the podcast.

Rather than pass a mic through the crowd, I get a cue at the side of the stage and you can come and simply ask

my favourite colour or you can pick a topic that you want to tell me about or talk about or get my opinion on

or tell people about. They're great fans, so come along to that.

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