Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 314.

I'm joined this week by May Martin. It's a great chat. I really enjoyed this. Thank you

for tuning in by the way and thank you for all the love for recent episodes. I had a bonus episode

on Friday with comedian Rich Wilson and that went down an absolute treat but a couple of weeks ago

I had Michael Cashman on and the reaction to that podcast is just continuing to be insane.

Michael Cashman was on I wanted to get that podcast out in February because it's it's LGBT

plus history month and Michael Cashman is a key figure in the UK for LGBT

law changes perception everything so if you missed that one

just seriously go back and give it a look you might not be aware of who Michael Cashman is but

it will blow your mind. I mean it's also good that May Martin is sneaking in as the last guest

of February which has said is LGBT history awareness month because she's got a great new show

called Feel Good that covers some LGBT topics. I mean you'll hear about it as we discuss it because

they're really in fact you're also here I've done this once or twice in the past but and people

have mone so I want to explain in the intro this podcast is 100% a safe place for discussion

on all topics without question of without a tack for asking questions or being curious

when I've someone on I don't know yet and May is that person I'm a big fan of it was

lovely to hear that she was a fan of the podcast and it was kind of a mutual excitement about

coming on but because of that if if we discussing stuff like LGBT rights and depression and addiction

and these heavy subjects I'll often pose a question and then before the guest can answer I'll give my

view on it kind of thing and that may sound weird and arrogant but the reason for that is it's a

genuine approach I use that seems to work and I think it worked wonderfully in this episode

it's to make the guest feel comfortable talking about their views on it if you're just

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