Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 401 and my guest today is the amazing

Tim Renkow. This is one of my favorite conversations. I seem to be saying that a lot lately. I will concede it

But yeah, I really enjoyed chatting to Tim. I've been a fan of Tim. I stumbled upon his show

jerk on on the BBC

One night and ended up binging all of it on I place series two has recently dropped on I player

It's fantastic. Tim is a comedian and he's great. He's a writer as well and an actor and all sorts of stuff and his story is amazing. I really enjoyed

this chat because it's inspirational and I don't mean that in a condescending way. Tim happens to have say a

Proposy you'll probably notice in the same way that you'll notice I have a star. It comes up because I think it's heavily affected his

Amazing attitude in life and you'll hear why yeah, so we'll get into podcasts before we do thanks to everyone for all the the birthday love and the

400 episode love obviously we had episode 400 last week. It was the big birthday bash return to the within

myself Chris and Stu returned to the iconic with in and had a few drinker drinks and we also launched the 10 year anniversary of the distraction pieces album vinyl. It's a

Double disc white vinyl with an exclusive spoken word version of the album recorded in the woods

Stanley Park in Vancouver. I went up there all on my own and recorded in the woods. So yeah, that's all available at speech

Vellum at records.com always is I will also mention in this podcast I mentioned a mate of mine who is on Twitch who also happens to have

Serial Proposy and his name is Andrew Portis. You can find him Portessa is his Twitch. So Portis P O R T E S S and then a Portessa. Let's go on with the chat with Tim, right? You're gonna love this and then you're gonna if you haven't already watched

at least

series one of jerk you're gonna jump in and and binge both of them I think as soon as we finish rambling on. Yeah, enjoy this this episode

401 of the distraction pieces podcast with the legend Tim Renkow. I love that scary voice show and at me. Right, I'm here today with Tim Renkow

how are you sir? I'm good how are you? I'm good. I'm good. You were just telling me the reason I wanted to rush into recording there is you were just telling me about another podcast. Oh yeah, you just done where you got to tell a ghost story. That sounds fucking amazing. Super fun. So much fun. And it's spoke town. Did you say it was called? Yeah, it sounds great. Yeah, so how's your lockdown and pandemic been

pretty great. I've always said I was anti social and this really put that to the test. Yeah, and I think I was right. Yeah, yes, that's what's okay. And have you grown? Are you a beard because of lockdown? Because I was

sporting a beard beforehand, but your beard is as impressive as mine already. Thank you. Yeah, no, no, no, I always like the beard. Yeah, it's looking good man. So, so how's it been being an American in the UK in this last year or two

because America's been been doing some stuff's been going on. How's that been as a representative as such? I have really good question. It's not as intense as it would have been because you're not singing anyone say you don't need to defend yourself to anyone.

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