Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 308 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A very long awaited episode this week, as Pip has a proper chat with the wonderful Rob Auton, taking us inside the intriguing and thoroughly engaging mind of this spoken word and comedy great! Kicking off with a full episode of Rob’s own podcast (which is easy as it’s only a couple of minutes long) to get you in the mix nicely, Pip and Rob get full on deep into a wide ranging conversation which will serve as a perfect introduction to him if you haven’t experienced Rob’s work already. Beginning with the recording of his Speech Development Records album ‘At Home With Rob’, the two get into everything including the difference between live and home performance, the weird alchemy of performance and presence, same setlist / different crowd, the ‘Takeshi’s Castle’ of getting it right, “to EX-press and not to IM-press”, the process of creating his themed shows, the absurdity but wonder of life and retaining a childlike fascination of it all, not lying, purity of thought, doing good in society and the world, self improvement and the knock-on effects thereof, science and religion and of course his own podcast! Enjoy this one! EPISODE LINKS: • ROB on TWITTER! • https://twitter.com/RobertAuton • ROB on THE INTERNET! • https://www.robauton.co.uk/ • THE ROB AUTON DAILY PODCAST! • ROB TOUR! REFERENCES: •TAKESHI'S CASTLE • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btxItyU1V1M • FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH w/Fergus Craig • https://play.acast.com/s/filmstobeburiedwith/9c3f2dbb-ab05-4a5b-b377-54e1a3841b98 LINKS FOR SCROOBIUS PIP & SPEECH DEVELOPMENT: • SCROOBIUS PIP on TWITTER! • https://twitter.com/Scroobiuspipyo • SCROOBIUS PIP on INSTAGRAM! • https://www.instagram.com/scroobiuspipyo• SCROOBIUS PIP PATREON PAGE! • SCROOBIUS PIP PATREON PAGE! • https://www.patreon.com/scroobiuspip • PODBIBLE! • http://podbiblemag.com/ • SPEECH DEVELOPMENT RECORDS • https://scroobiuspip.backstreetmerch.com • DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on FACEBOOK • https://www.facebook.com/distractionpiecespodcast • DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on INSTAGRAM • https://www.instagram.com/distractionpiecesnetwork • NEW LISTENERS TAKE NOTE • You can find the full DISTRACTION PIECES episode list HERE • https://www.acast.com/distractionpieces For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy