You're listening to Unfiltered with James O'Brien, brought to you by Joe. Hello and

welcome to episode 20 of Unfiltered with me James O'Brien and I am due to be joined this week by Scrubius Pipp, a sort of Renaissance man of our age really,

has covered everything, as you know, from music

right through to an astonishingly successful

podcast, which may have been some sort of inspiration

for this one. So hopefully I won't make a complete

tit of myself.

You started your podcast three years ago. Your story starts long before that and

obviously it starts with a different given name as well. So I'm going to begin by saying I'm here to learn as much from you about this kind of

content production as the kids call it but also to learn as much about you as I can.

Yeah that's great.

But look at what it's all developed into, like we were saying just before we start,

it's great that podcasting and this

independently produced media, and again, unfilted is exactly the term for it is it's what drew me to

podcasting was I was I had done some work on radio and all I was listening to was

podcast and the fact that podcasts had no like I went on Joe Rogan's

Podcast in America when I had my radio show in the UK and I just I just won an award and stuff like that and

Off air he kind of said to me so why have you got so why are you doing it for someone else?

And I was like well it's this commercial radio is this platform is like but why? So I literally I went back and said look I'm gonna start a podcast if that's okay

it's been it's been lovely like let's end as friends and that was the whole appeal of doing a

podcast was that you've got no boss you've got no one to tell you what you can and

can't say. This is not going well at all I saw seeing here feeling

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