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Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

Michael Smiley - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #37

Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip

Scroobius Pip

656826, News, Comedy, Interviews, Music, Scroobius Pip, Interview

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2015

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Welcome welcome welcome to Episode 37 with, award winning Actor and Comedian, Michael Smiley.Michael tells Pip of his upbringing in Northern Ireland, how he travelled to London to end up being a cycle-courier in both real life and as 'Tyres' in cult-classic Spaced and how he made it from the comedy circuit to become an award-winning actor.

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 37 with this week's guest the amazing Mr Michael Smiley.

0:10.9

Thank you for tuning in guys. It means a lot. It always means a lot.

0:16.4

I need to ask you to check out speech development records.com. It's my website. It's my a record label. You can buy my Edinburgh Fringe show, which we talk about in this episode, which was

0:28.8

five star reviews sold out for the fall 19 show run. It's just a five or two digitally download or a two discs special for 15 quid with interviews with Kate Tempest, Moose Rock, Wonga, Tim Key, Polar Bear.

0:45.0

It's really good to check it out. Also, you can pre-order the B Dolem record, which I know you're all getting hyped about because it's going to be the album of the year. Check that out. There's really good deals on the

0:56.2

bundles for his t-shirts, all sorts of stuff like that. Check over, check over, check, go to speechfilamentrequels.com and buy my shit.

1:06.3

This is what it's gets Michael Smiley. I hardly want to give any intro because he's done many, many amazing things from and we talk about them from space to kill list to 15 stories higher to to

1:17.9

to Luther, GZ's in Luther and he's amazing in it. It's a load of amazing stuff we talk about it all, but we also talk about his upbringing in in in Northern Ireland in the in the 60s and 70s. There's a lot of great stuff to talk about and he's just as it kind of comes from his story as his success has come from being a great and engaging talker and interesting person and that's exactly what we want on this podcast.

1:44.6

So I'll be back at the end with some extra information. Until then, his instruction pieces broadcast episode 37 with Michael Smiley.

1:53.8

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2:06.9

same

2:13.5

I'm joined by Mr Michael Smiley. How you doing sir?

2:16.4

Very well Mr Pep very well. It's lovely to have you here. Have you had a good good good journey in on this sunny day?

2:22.4

Yes, been alright, you know, I just I was gone a good way to early Iran and I decided to stay in

2:27.4

Yeah, because then the messes went down you see so then I had to host them myself

2:30.8

And then you just revert to being a child, wouldn't you? Yeah, it's that excitement of just stripped down the pan to do some conflict straight out of the box

2:38.5

I don't care. Oh why wouldn't you this the um I've

2:42.4

I've I've lived on my own now for about six or seven years and I forget

2:49.8

What life was like living with other people I forget that yeah, you know

2:54.5

Generally put clothes on as you leave the bedroom often yeah, but other than that, you know

2:59.1

There's that that's alien to me and to my postman as he's very aware as I he's actually gets greeted by

3:05.3

As you get in the tussy meals from the post office

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