Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction piece podcast episode 291 and today I'm joined by Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs.

As the light it has sit down with Ricky. We sat down. It was a good month or two ago now. It was just before the new Kaiser

Achilles album came out in fact. I knew I couldn't release it for a bit because I had so many others lined up, but

the opportunity to sit down with Ricky was one I didn't want to miss. And one of the reasons is a party that we both attended, which we will talk about.

So I'll leave that there. Thank you for all the love in the last week or so. As you can hear, I'm still not quite over my illness, but hopefully I

sound a lot better than the last week. Thanks for all the love for last week's two-parter with Jack Secksmith. I mean, I'm still getting love for the Louis

through episode the K-no episode, the Frank Turner episode, the search from Cassabian episode, the Joe Gilgan episode, the Sarah Pasco

episode, so many good episodes, episode, episode. So thank you for all the love. If this is the first time you've tuned in, have a scroll through the

back catalog. We've had loads of good people from I'm thinking of musicians, what musicians who had Billy Bragg, where's Balland from Limp Biscuit, Amanda Palmer, Kate Nash, loads of really good people.

Go and have a scroll. Oh, Charlotte Hathalie from Ash. That made the Kate Nash one rhyme. And the pools seemed intentional as if it was part of a anyway.

I'll do a longer chat at the end because there's some exciting stuff. The new pod Bible has just come out. For example, that's very exciting. You can read it at podbubblemeg.com.

And the pod Bible podcast is on iTunes and Spotify and Acast and everywhere. I won't ramblon to too much though.

Obviously patreon.com slash scrubius pip for all your previews and bonus recorded content. We will have just had

poem of the month. It's a dollar a month and speech fellow records.com is where you can buy stuff in general.

Loads of wonderful merch and some new things on their way next week's guest is Bill Bailey. Yeah, I've kept that one quiet.

I have an eye. You're going to love it. Anyway, let's get on with episode 291 of the distraction pieces podcast with Ricky Wilson.

We're doing it. We're following one of as we go. Well, I'm refreshed. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm the same. But yeah, I was just saying it's one of the reasons I

for years I turned down all PR type requests. Yes, but these days I only accept them if they will give me

45 minutes or more. Yeah, because of exactly that. Like we do. Yeah, I just say now it's so much more

fun when they stop talking about the thing they're there to promote or they're to sell when you just have

a conversation with people. Well, the thing that I mean, I did a TV show called The Boys. Yes. And

why don't you know, they all want advice and I've got very little advice, right? Yeah, because I don't know how I've

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