Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is episode 289 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast and

man it's a big one. I'm joined today by Louis Theroux. Me and Louis have been talking about

lining this up for a year or so now. So the timing became perfect when his new book was scheduled

for release. Got to get Theroux this, which is the best name for a book ever. I was lucky enough to get

an advanced copy of PDF of it. So it's before it even go on to print. So I read a good chunk of it

and then we sat down and had this chat. I'll tell you a load more stuff in the outro as everyone

trying to keep things brief for these days in the intro. But if you enjoy this one, this is your

first time tuning in. Maybe go and have a listen to the Adam Bucks in episode or the Joe Cornish episode.

Me and Louis in this talk briefly about John Ronson. I did a two part with John. There's some

good ones there. Give it a look. And speaking of Louis's book, I thought I started last week. I'm

going to give away a few copies, a few signed personalized copies of my book, the Times Best

Cell Indistraction Pieces Podcast book. So really, I mean you should enter that for free and then

go and purchase Louis book and send that flying up the charts. It's genuinely fantastic, but we

talk about all that. A few people, I launched this book, Competition on Last Weeks episode with

Kano, which the reaction has been amazing to you by the way. And a few people felt that it was

kind of a scam because the way that you enter, as you leave a five-star review on iTunes and you

write about your favorite podcast of this year, your favorite distraction pieces episode of

this year and why you liked it. And then I'll pick one. I'll pick a couple and send out the books.

And a few people are saying that it's kind of a scam just to get people to leave five-star reviews.

And you know, a scam implies some kind of shadowy skull, skull, dugory. That's exactly what it is.

I mean, no way am I pretending this is anything other than to get five-star reviews of you guys,

which then helps us in the charts and all that kind of thing. So yeah, that's completely the

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