Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction. He's a podcast episode 172. Thank you for tuning in guys.

I'm going to keep the intro brief this week. I've got a lot to tell you about my recent trip to New York.

The podcast I recorded there, the stuff that went down, New York, and LA. But I'm going to put the all at the end because we've got a big guest this week and it's Michael Fassbender.

And I think that's going to bring one or two listeners who aren't regular listeners. I might not not want to be bored with my stories of my trips.

I know you regular listeners, the millions of you who are already tuning. Always want to hear my boring stories.

But a few of the new guys might not. So I'm going to be respectful of that and do a long out trying to show intro. If this is your first time though, you might want to check out some previous episodes.

Or first of all, welcome, welcome, welcome. And thank you for tuning in. But you might want to check some previous episodes. We've had a James McAvoy or obviously stars alongside Michael Fassbender in the X-Men movies.

I've had Paddy Concadine who starred alongside Michael in Macbeth. Bad people like Simon Pegg, Stephen Graham.

Loads of really good actors and actresses. Yeah, a Kathy Burke, some really good people. So I have a scroll through the back catalogue and see if any appeal.

I had it. It is out a couple of weeks ago and it's a really good episode. So check them out. This was a great one. I didn't want to announce it until it actually been recorded because I was approached to have Michael on.

And I'm a big fan. I think he's great. So I was very excited about that. But you know, I don't like to hype things until they're in the bag. So I kept quiet on it.

I'm going to just stop talking and let us get into it. If you are new, you should also. There will be the first time you hear me say. Everyone else has heard this every episode.

This week's podcast is brought to you by speech development records, which is my record label where you can buy a distraction pieces podcast merch. You can buy CDs, DVDs and all sorts of stuff.

This is a big episode in the beginning. I just like kind of hit kind of hiccups as I was speaking. It's always this ram shackle. You might just want to listen to this one and then never tuning again. But yeah, it was great to talk to Michael.

And it was a true honor because he was doing a press run. And I believe he only had four hours and they gave me 45 minutes of it, which is massive.

You know, the people who were in after me was like a round table of 20 journalists or something all all getting to talk at once.

So it meant the world that they they trust me enough to give me this time. And we really hit it off. And I think we had a really good chat. So I'm going to let you be the judge of that.

But but what I what I will mention is that the snowman comes out this Friday, October 13th in cinemas all over the UK. I believe it's the week after in the US. So check that out.

So yeah, I'll be back at the end. But for now, this is the distraction pieces of podcasts episode 172 with Michael Fassbender.

It's basically.

It's hopefully a relief from the short quick ones you have into doing. We can have a bit more of a in-depth conversation.

I'm joined by Michael Fassbender. How are you sir? I'm great. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. You're you've got to be one of the busiest men in in this industry at the moment. So are you keeping where were you looking after yourself?

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