Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode looking at my phone to see what episode is 194.

Thank you all for tuning in guys. I'm joined today by Steve McNeil. It's a fantastic chat. We get really into it. Nerd in our over comedy and over games.

So I'm going to keep the intro brief, but I'm going to mention that the reaction to last week's mother's day special was overwhelming. Easily the biggest reaction I've had of the year, if not of all time.

If you missed it, I did a mother's day special, which was my my mom talking about her mom, me talking to my mom about her mom.

And I said at the time it might be my favorite one I've recorded. I didn't know how it'd be. I lined it up and I said to my mom, look, if it's a 10 minute one, it's a 10 minute one.

Ending that being over 90 minutes, I think, and just absolute gold story after story. It was a great time. So I hope you all enjoyed that.

We are brought to you as ever by speech of element ruckles.com. We've got tons of good stuff there. The the new black denim jackets with the logos on the back and all that.

We sold half of what we made in the first week, which is insane. I was expecting it last a few months. But of all of those sold three.

I had emails that the patches were coming off the back. And that's a tiny percentage. It's only three. But because of that, we've taken them off sale briefly.

Because I'm getting them all checked and making sure they're all okay or the rest are okay. Because yeah, we like to put out high quality stuff.

We're not in a few people. A few people like, they're not available anymore. They sold out. They've not sold out. But I need to make sure that they're there to be quite frank.

They're the most I've spent on an item. And then the most I've charged for an item because they're the most I've spent on item.

So I need to make sure that they're good quality man. So we're just tweaking them to get them to the absolute peak. Everyone else has been delighted. I'll wear mine all the time. The quality is insane.

But I said there was a small percentage added issue. So I'd rather take them all off and make sure we've got that issue nailed. Then so you guys poor quality stuff.

But speech around on records.com is the place to go for all you merch. If you're a fan of the podcast and you listen for free in this podcast, we talk a lot about the change of ways of earning. And Patreon is one of them twitch.

All sorts of other stuff. I've chosen not to go to Patreon and Twitch through and stuff like that. But I hope obviously I've got sponsors.

Select that covers some bills. But I hope that if you're into the podcast, you'll go every now and then and spend some money in the web store to support the free podcast that you get every week.

Yeah, anyway, let's jump into this. It's a wonderful chat. Yeah, we get to know it out. And we had a lovely time and I can't I can't recommend go a bit enough. And I'm looking forward to catching a Wi-Fi was. But we talk about all of that. So let's get into episode 194 of the distraction pieces podcast with Steve McNeil.

Right. I'm joined today. But Steve McNeil, how are you? I am very, very good. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. This is an exciting episode and conversation. I've been looking forward to. And it's one where I need to rein myself in and make the episode actually about you and what you do rather than enjoy.

Let's talk about games. I'm a big fan of gaming and gaming and I don't get to do as much of it as I used to. But yeah, it's also a subject that I don't get to talk and discuss much. And you obviously I heard of you initially from from go eight bit.

Yeah, Daro Brian's guy, Britt. He gets there. And I loved it. I think I've kind of I feel at times that this podcast is sponsored by Dave.

Because I think Dave are really good. Dave and comedy central as well recently. Kind of I think had a sit down and realized, right?

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