Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is episode 301 of the distraction pieces podcast with my amazing guest, Neil Gaiman.

A lot of you have been asking about this for a long time and in fact me and Neil discussed that we've been lining this up for a long time.

So yeah, it's great to finally have it here. If this is your first time tuning in, oh good lord, have we got a back catalogue for you to enjoy.

Off the top of my head if you're a comic book guy, you know, one of my first guest was Alan Moore. I've also had Garf Ennis, Warren Ellis, Mark Miller,

Kiran Gillen and Jamie McKelvie. So loads of good comic book people in and around there. Just in this podcast we mentioned Jade Adams. I've had Jade Adams on.

Who else do we mention? I mean, obviously Amanda Palmer. Yeah, I've had Amanda on. So yeah, that's great. So there's loads to go and look at. And this week or last week's sorry in the same week we hit a 300th episode and our 16 million of download, which is I'm now realizes even more impressive considering.

I've got a start like that that pops up every now and then so the fact that any of you are still listening is quite astounding. So thank you for that.

But yeah, it's mad. I really do appreciate all of you listening and spreading the word and tuning in because that's a mad amount for it's just me with my recording gear as Neil or I mean as Amanda.

Well contestors are accidentally woke her up. It's just me rocking up at these places with my recording gear recording it and then going on my merry way and eventually uploading it for you guys to hear. So yeah, it's wicked to hit that.

Hit that milestone. I'll get on with the podcast. Obviously we've got Winter gear in my web store speech available.

Reckles dot com slogan over there on the label is we may not be for you and that's fine, which again I feel may resonate with some fans of Neil and Amanda in fact.

And yeah, we've got that on our new new and new beanies. We got it on hoodies gloves all sorts of other stuff and some cool designs and weird.

So go and check that out speech development records dot com and obviously I went patron dot com slash screw be a spipp.

I joined patron because of Amanda after my chat with Amanda I always felt uncomfortable with kind of asking people for stuff.

In fact, I remember I remember seeing a tweet where someone was angry at Amanda because she was crowdfunding a music video.

So let's say the music video was 10 grand. I don't know. I can't remember any details at all.

But let's say it was 10 grand and someone got angry saying, well you and your husband have got loads of money or made loads of money over the years.

Why are you asking us to pay for it? And I think it was Neil that responded saying no, the tweets are why are you asking us for 10 grand.

And I think the tweet Neil responded saying we're not asking anyone for 10 grand. We're asking 10,000 people for a pound.

And it's a massive difference. It was a real breakthrough for me. You're like thinking as a thought experiment.

If you've got an artist who's got a hundred grand in the bank, spending 10 grand on that on a music video or even just a hundred grand budget,

let's say not even in the bank, a budget for a record, spending 10 grand on that on a music video.

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