Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the traction pieces podcast episode 424 and I'm joined this week by Mark Gaitis who I was hugely excited to talk about. I'm a big fan of Mark.

He's just done so much good stuff, isn't he? Obviously you guys will be well aware of his body of work. So yeah, hugely excited to talk to Mark.

And we're going to get almost straight into it. Before we do, I should give a strong language warning because we discuss the current political state and stuff gets heated.

And in fact, I'm going to give you that strong language warning now for the immediate future because I'm also going to tell you that on Friday, I've got a bonus episode with a comedian and singer called Kant and the gang.

That's with a K and he's got he got to number five last year in the UK charts at Christmas with his song Boris Johnson is a fucking Kant. I said there was a strong language warning.

And he's back this year with with Boris Johnson is still a fuck you get the idea. I'm not going to there's obviously there's going to be a lot of language in that episode.

So I'm not going to overdo it here, but I thought I'd let you know in case you were into that kind of thing and give you the warning.

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We've got a lot to talk about. This is episode 424 of the distraction pieces podcast with Mark Gaitis.

I'm here today with Mark Gaitis. How are you sir? It's Gaitis. You must start again. Gaitis, I apologise Mark Gaitis. How are you?

Other than my mispronunciation of your name. I'm all right. I'm running on petrol fumes and fury at the moment at the state of Boris Johnson.

Yeah, I saw your I read an interview with you a little while back about struggling to be proud to be English of late.

I thought with all that's going on this morning, I should reveal that we're recording this in the midst of much uproar over a Christmas party that shouldn't have been.

How do you how do you find a lot of these things? It's difficult to know what to say is that because it's so cloaked in parliamentary language.

Everyone knows he is a serial liar. He lies as easily as he breathes. The idea that he didn't know that there was a party going on in his own house.

And now what is just done is throw his entire staff under the bus and you can't do that forever because you run out of staff.

And also people he's just if I may use the word advisedly a massive cunt. He truly is.

And I think you're right on the throw in the staff under the bus. The thing that worries me is that we as the British public call for people to be sacked when the reality is we need to get rid of this government.

We need to vote them out. And my worry is that if people are sacked and replaced the anger that the public are feeling at the moment will be in some way plicated come future elections.

Oh, we got rid of the bad ones. They're all the same. It's there. I totally agree. I mean, that's what Johnson has done brilliantly.

That he managed to make it look as if the Tories hadn't been in power for 12 years.

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