Jon Ronson • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #515
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by national treasure and rabbit hole journalist, author and podcaster JON RONSON!
Rabbit-hole journalist is of course used in loving jest, as he kind of says the same himself in the course of the podcast. Jon loves a rabbit hole. And it's evident in his work which is pure story-upon-story heaven for the curious minded among us, which will of course appeal to those with a liking for Louis Theroux, Adam Curtis and Nick Broomfield for instance - but Jon has carved his own niche in the world of journalism and in depth investigation, making unique findings and bringing huge amounts of wild and interesting material to the forefront of culture. So make some time to hear what Jon's been up to, the process, the work, the revelations and the reality behind the whole Ronson machine. And definitely check out his new series on Audible, 'The Debutante'. You'll love it, for certain.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 515. |
| 0:06.3 | Or can you hear that noise in the background? It's my it's my computer processing the podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | I've just recorded because I'm so excited to send it over to Buddypiece, the best producer in the |
| 0:17.3 | world, because it was so good. This week's guest is John Ronson and that's what's processing now. |
| 0:22.8 | And my computer is going all out because we had a big, deep, heavy, wandering conversation. |
| 0:29.6 | I last had John on the podcast seven years ago. So you can imagine there's a lot for us to catch up on. |
| 0:36.4 | And boy, do we catch up? John's new podcast documentary, the debut time is on, |
| 0:43.3 | audible. And it's so good. I was going to listen to it a week or so ago and spread it out over |
| 0:50.4 | the week. Honestly, I binged it mainly in one car journey and then the rest of the next day. |
| 0:54.8 | It's absolutely fascinating. You know what John Ronson does. He's always good. So yeah, |
| 1:01.3 | I was excited to talk to him and it delivered. Obviously, we don't only talk about the debut on |
| 1:06.4 | because he's had numerous things out since we last spoke. And the world is a strange place, |
| 1:12.7 | a listener. And there's a few people I'd like to talk about that more than John Ronson. So yeah, |
| 1:19.6 | you're in for a hell of an episode. As ever, we are bought to you by speech development records.com. |
| 1:25.4 | We're stocking up very soon on the, on the we may not be for you. And that's fine. |
| 1:30.4 | Sunglasses that always seem to sell out in moments to keep an eye on the web store. And patron.com |
| 1:36.0 | forward slash, scrubious pip is where you can support the podcast for like a dollar a month. But, |
| 1:40.4 | you know, if you're not already subscribed to, at a audible, saved that, that dollar a month and |
| 1:46.2 | going, getting involved over there because John's podcast is well worth listening to. I've just started |
| 1:52.4 | listening to Garf Maringa's book, audio book over there. John's got numerous things over there. |
| 1:59.2 | There's two partridge podcasts. I think there's a third on the way, you know. So yeah, |
| 2:05.4 | this isn't a paid advert or anything. I'm just using audible a lot at the moment. I mean, |
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