Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 541.

That was a big stammer at the start there.

Welcome in, if you knew I've got a stutter but it's fine it's not a big deal.

It probably won't come up a lot.

I'm joined this week by Josh Weller now this episode was meant to come out two weeks ago, but we shuffled some things around,

which means I've been excited for you to hear and laugh at this for ages,

because this conversation just put a big smile on my face

for the rest of that week.

Josh Weller has been on before

but in different guises.

So I first met Josh as a musician in like 2007 maybe and when Josh came on the

podcast last I think he was just wrapping up his punk band the Kenneth's and he just started

he did that his first ever stand-up gig now all these years on post-pandemic he's a wonderfully successful stand-up and I went to see his Edinburgh Fringe show this year and it was so fucking good. We talk about all of that though so we'll get into that. We also talk about the struggles of making money in the creative arts and

this is where I'll mention speech development records.com which is my record label and web store where you can go

and support by buying merch, decking yourself out in some cool shit, and then

yeah you also support the podcast so that's kind of cool.

You can also donate a patron.com forward slash scruvious pip.

So if you've been listening for a while and you're like I get this every week for free and I enjoy it.

There's been at least one episode every week for over nine years.

For over nine years. an episode a week completely free. You know what? I'd like to give that

PIP a dollar or two, to go to PIP, to go to the buddy peace, to go to to Gerd, you know, all the people who work tirelessly behind

the scenes.

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