Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 209.

Thank you for tuning in. Huge reaction last week to episode 208 with Martin Freeman.

Thank you for all the love. I had about over a hundred, at least a couple of hundred I'd say, responses.

Already positive. I had two people who would disappoint it. It was as short as it was.

But man, that's that's decent odds. I like how that works. Yeah, so thank you for all the love.

I'm glad you all enjoyed it. Let's get straight to the elephant in the room.

At the end of last week's podcast and on social media, I said that this week it would be a drunk cast.

And it's not. This week is a fantastic episode. It was recorded two Sundays ago at the world's comedy festival.

It's one of the best love ones I've done. There's some magic. There's a great chat with a social worker, a chat with a teacher at the end.

All really good stuff. But we recorded a drunk cast last Wednesday. And we added Justin, who's a friend of shoes has been on hardcore list in a couple of times.

And Justin on his first time, nerves, got a little bit too drunk too quick.

And what we recorded over three episodes, we all discussed the next day we felt was un-un-un-un-un-releasable.

It was good fun. But there was, we all got a bit carried away. And there it was essentially incredibly offensive in places.

Now people go on and on all the time about censorship and freedom of speech and stuff like that.

Self-sensorship is perfectly acceptable if it's your choice. And that was the case here. We all kind of had a chat.

And we're like, yeah, no, we were a bit far in places. You know when you have a laugh with your mates, have a drink.

And people can get offensive. We're all fans of offensive comedy. And what I think happened here was there was points where we had the offensive bit, but not necessarily the comedy bit.

And we just felt it wasn't a proud moment for any of us. And it wasn't something that was going to actually benefit the tens of thousands of distraction pieces listeners.

So we iced that one and decided not to release it. I'm sorry about that. It's, I mean, it's an interesting debate at the moment on censorship anyway.

A lot of people get angry. We spoke about this a bit on the drunk aspect. And a lot of people get angry about Rose M. Barr having her show cancelled because of some racist tweets and people saying that that's against freedom of speech. And they're wrong.

It's not against freedom speech. There's a big mistake that freedom speech is the same as freedom from consequence. That isn't the case.

I'm a big believer in people can say what they want, but there can be consequences. I'm going to go into this a little bit more, more right now.

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