Tony Law - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #221
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 221 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Some good old fashioned comedy gold for you this episode, as Pip is joined by Anglo-Canadian sensation Tony Law!
Well - it would be a lie to say the entire episode is 100% comedy… While Tony is heavily schooled in the trade of standup and panel, his life hasn’t been one long standing ovation by any means. Prepare for some hard hitting reflections from a man who has fought the real fight with alcoholism and addiction, bridge burning, and all that entails, while dealing with almost becoming homeless and losing a LOT. I mean, don’t be put off by that - you’ll be listening to the story of a man who has come through that with a confident outlook and a tale that can surely inspire and instil that same positivity in any one of us. And who can resist that accent too, come on now. So join Pip and Tony as they get down to business on such topics as how Tony tracked Pip down, rebuilding his life after sobriety and the steps involved in doing so, being wilfully obtuse as a comedian as a strategy, the underground vs the mainstream (ah that old chestnut), chasing the England punk ideal, his background in history tours and how that sharpened his improv tools, also how becoming sober sharpened his comedy tools, and overall becoming better through bad experiences. A lot going on but certainly a truly interesting story and one that will inspire and uplift. Listen in.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome welcome welcome. This is the distraction piece podcast episode 211. How are you guys? |
| 0:06.8 | This is the first intro the first time I'm speaking to you as a 37 year old. I think you'll agree I |
| 0:15.5 | Sound a lot wiser and that's about it |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for all the love of the last week or so. I got a lot of lovely birthday messages |
| 0:25.7 | Last week's podcast with Chilling Gonzalez a lot of you agreed is the best |
| 0:31.7 | Distraction piece podcast episode I've ever done. I absolutely adored it |
| 0:35.0 | It's just a great dude and then there was the bonus birthday party episode which if you missed a snuck out on Friday |
| 0:42.0 | I had a little birthday party with my celebrity friends and |
| 0:45.9 | Recall to the podcast but but I also released as you will hear on that and you may have seen online |
| 0:52.0 | My birthday I do a birthday release every year and this year it was another collaboration with |
| 0:56.6 | With the artist Riker and we made a |
| 0:59.8 | Scruviest pip-hee man toy essentially we changed it from Masters of the universe to Master of the Spokenverse and |
| 1:06.0 | It's quite special, but they sold out within an hour or so. So thank you all for |
| 1:10.8 | For supporting there. What I am here to do now though is have a wonderful conversation with Mr. Tony Law |
| 1:17.1 | Who was kind enough to come to my house and |
| 1:19.9 | And genuinely such a beautiful and engaging and insightful conversation really |
| 1:25.6 | Heart-breaking at points. I'll reflect on one point at the end because it really was striking to me |
| 1:32.4 | But I won't don't want to give these spoilers before we get there. I'll do two things |
| 1:37.1 | I'm gonna give you all some end of a fringe of recommendations |
| 1:41.3 | including Tony and |
| 1:43.3 | I'm gonna |
| 1:44.3 | Tell you that this is built-in by speech fellow my records calm where you can go and buy it |
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