I'm Michael Che and I'm Colin Jose, and we've got a little
secret. Actually, it's a pretty big
secret. Well, now you got to give the
people something. I'm not saying a word.
Oh, then people will know to tune in.
Come on, tell them a little. Like how we're hosting of comedy
events streaming only on Peacock, exactly how it's called
New York After Dark and it's a comedy show that only features
drop in comic. Boom, you nail.
Into Michael Chase phone numbers.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey.
New York After Dark. It's some kind of comedy thing,
and it's streaming now only on Peacock.
You love it. Zippers, welcome to this episode
of the Tea With Me podcast. I'm Shane Todd.
It's the solo Friday episode. And I'm gonna be honest, like
some sort of mad rebel. I've got my feet up.
I put my feet up just at the start of this podcast.
And I'm a little bit pissed off for myself because the chair
that I'm resting my feet on is slightly too far away for it to
be comfortable. But I've committed to doing it.
So we're just going to keep it there.
We're just going to dig in, put a smile on our faces and pretend
we're comfortable when we're not.
Yeah, it's better guys. It's the solo episode.
It's what we do on a Friday. We have a guest on the Wednesday
episode. Last week we had Jamie Lee
O'Donnell from Derry Girls, which went down very well.
People seem to really enjoy that.
And and next week who is our guest?
I don't know yet, but I will sort it out.
I will sort it out. I was going to say what's
everybody been at? But I feel like I know what
you've been at and it's the same as me and it's absolutely a
bugger all. I mean, not much is not much is
happening. Conversation is drying up, you
know, because you got to check in on people and make phone
calls, but you you're we're all running out of stuff to say, you
know, I mean, I've started making stuff up like whenever
iPhone, my parents, you know how you getting on then they go
good, how are you? That's what I've now started to
lie. I'm like, Oh, yes, wait, I am if
I'm not attacked there by by a walrus, you know, and then
they're like what how you know, you live on land.
And that's when I just go in. They're like, you know, half our
story. Just it's something to talk
about, you know, And I miss, I miss lying back in the day, you
know, like school days whenever people just told really silly
lies for no reason. Like I was chief culprit in
primary school of like tall tales to get out of a situation.
You know, you didn't need the, you know, loads of situation
teacher will go have you got your homework and you would go
Nah, I forgot to do it. That that's that's all you need
to say. Not this guy right here.
Shane, have you got your homework?
No, see, here's the thing. I was going to do it like I sat
down to do it because I love doing homework.
And then you're not going to believe this, but actually what
happened was Steven Seagal. And they stop me and go, look,
if this is a lie, you, you should just stop.
And I go, no, I swear Steven Seagal called in my house
because my dad used to play 5A side with it.
And they're like the Hollywood actor, the action star Steven
Seagal. I go, yes, he played 5A side
with my dad. And they had been up at the
driving range nicking golf balls up the back of it.
And Steven Seagal realised he'd taking too many so he was
returning a couple of balls to my dad and then he and then he
took me out in his banana boat. You know that That's the level I
was. You didn't need to do it like
everyone knew you were bullshitting.
But I like that back in the day when people just did this.
Hey, my best mate Stevie, right? I have a cup.
I have, I have 3 best mates, Dave, Elliot, Stevie and John.
So some I just some people there.
If I said best mate will probably send this clip to Dave.
And I thought you were his best mate.
Dave is one of my best mates right.
But my best mate Stevie, who's my I would call my oldest best
friend because he, he actually age wise is older than the other
two. But that's besides the point.
We were talking about this years ago about like people that used
to just lie back in the day. And he told me about this guy
that we know in Hollywood and Stevie went to primary school
with this guy. And this guy, like used to look
bullshit all the time. And Stevie said this kid had in
like a school shirt. This is like P5P6 when they were
what, I don't know, 9 or 10. Stevie's like this guy, you
know, I went, yeah, he goes. He put, he had like a pen in the
top pocket of his shirt. And you know, the way like the
bit of the pen that hangs over the shirt is like the clip, you
know, like the pen clip. And it's just like a wee silver
or gold bar. Well, this guy had like a
novelty pen and it was a wee toothbrush.
And apparently the teacher was like, here, can you take that
out of your pocket? Because it's not like school
uni, you know, take it off And he goes, ah, my dad got 2000 of
these and the teacher went what pens with eclipse?
And he's like, yeah, he goes, they're actually we toothpastes.
No, there weren't we toothpastes or there was nothing in them.
But just to emphasise his point. And I don't know why this is
stuck with me for so many years, but Stevie goes to emphasise his
point. But everyone also knew he was
lying. The guy held in like B6.
The guy held the pen up to his nose and went, ah, menti fresh.
No, the pen didn't smell of anything.
But he thought that if he pretended it smelt like
toothpaste, people would think it was toothpaste.
But nobody thought it was toothpaste.
And I'm really tempted to ask Stevie, right?
I'm going to ask Stevie if I can really quickly phone him on the
podcast. He might not be up for it
because like, you know, he's not like a comedian.
He's just like a real He's just like a real man.
But there was another story about that guy from primary
school that I really, really, really enjoyed.
Can iPhone you on the podcast just to show I haven't set this
up to ask you to tell us to ask you to tell a story.
OK, he'll be really like me. What is it?
No, he'll he'll have loads of
questions, which to be fair, you would if someone's like come on
my podcast, but I really hope he does because there was some
other stories about that particular guy that just always
made me laugh like wee details like that like meant the fresh
that really really, really stays with me and just bullshitting in
general like Jay. The reason I think Jay from The
Inbetweeners, it's such a brilliant comedy character, is
because we all either were that person or knew somebody who was
like, like everyone used to lie about girls as well.
I have a girl up in Bangor. What, Because back in the day
you thought other places that weren't where you live were so
far away that nobody would ever check it?
I ain't going. It was 6 girls up in fucking
Mollusk. You know, Mollusk is just car
garages. There's no houses there.
But nobody knew that back then. Just just bullshitting.
Here's one I really got myself into.
Whenever I was about 15 or 16, too old to be like just fucking
just bullshitting. I was in Majorca and I was away
on holiday with a couple of mates who had a house out there
and I must have been 16. So it was like the first time I
went away like by myself and then and I went away and I saw
that these guys were playing football in a wee like indoor
tennis court slash football pitch near where our apartment
was. And I went over to the guys that
were running and it was like these like middle-aged Scottish
guys. And I said here would I, would I
be able to play? And they went, yeah, no problem.
And for absolutely no, this is the first time I ever just came
out with one of these absurd for no reason tall tales for no
reason. When they said, yeah, you can
play, I went, oh, I actually used to play for Man City.
Now, why I thought that was watertight is because I support
Man United and I thought it was it was too obvious to say Man
United. And I was like, just say Man
City. And I said, oh, you spread for
Man City. I think part of it is I was an
only child and I did this in my stand up show a couple of years
ago. I told the honestly true story
that I didn't know the phrase was only child and thought it
was lonely child up until I was about 24.
What I'd been going, I'd been think about how tragic that is.
I'd spent my whole life going around when people said do you
have any brothers or sisters? I would go, no, I'm a lonely
child. You know, there's just something
really sad about that you and then I, I know I have a brother
and sister. You know, like whenever I was
about 15, my, my mum had a brother and sister for me.
And I remember even then going to people.
I used to be a lonely child and then my mummy and my stepdad had
a had a wee boy and girl. So I have a brother and sister
now, but that made it sound like I was lonely until they came
along. And now I just hang about with
them, you know, and there's nothing weirder than back in the
day that like guy in his late teens who was hanging out with
1112 year olds, like there was nothing usually pervy about it.
But Even so, you're like, man, what are you doing?
You know, a guy just with his R plates down hanging out with
full on P sevens. It's just always very, very
weird. And he always seemed to have
like slightly hair, hair that was slightly too long, like over
either hair that was over his ears or the the other weird
extreme, which is he, his sideburns were way too high, you
know, which is the sign of a fucking weirdo.
But that's Jet. That's a great cup of tea.
That is a great cup of tea. And also there's a there's a
table down beside me. If you were watching last week's
episode, I went to put my tea down beside me, realised the
table wasn't there and I ended up like the L boy falling
through the bar. So I texted Evie and asked him
to come on the podcast, tell a story.
Now, he may well not do it because he has just had a little
baby, so he might be doing real things, but I really hope he can
come on and tell this what will be an underwhelming story.
Although he is typing, I guarantee he has questions.
Hold on. I mean, I've said, OK, he's got
he's got the baby sleeping. OK Made another time.
Yeah, that'll be fun. I used to actually do this
podcast with my mate Stevie, who has never done stand up before,
just, you know, works like a very normal job.
And then we, we used to do the podcast together and that was
about five years ago, maybe more.
And then I started doing the she and talker.
It was just always different versions of the podcast.
But whenever I did it with with him, I think people really liked
it although, but it wasn't a big time for podcasts in general
back then. So I think I put like 2 episodes
out and they got 34 lessons and I went fuck this shit.
I'm retiring from podcasts, but I'll maybe see if Stevie wants
to do one in general because some people do still say to me,
why not just do them when you mate Stevie?
So maybe I'll do that. What I'm going to do in the
episode today is waffle, ramble, whatever you want to call it.
I'm going to talk about some TV stuff I've been watching in a
second. Then then I'm going to do
listeners questions. I'm going to spend about half an
hour doing listeners questions. Before we move on though, let me
just plug the Patreon, which is patreon.com/tea With Me podcast.
I'm going to be doing way more on Patreon.
Like every comedian I know is, you know, like Colin Geddis just
put his, his SSE Arena film on his Patreon.
Dave has been putting stand up clips out in his for I think
maybe a couple of months now putting some videos up.
So I'm going to put some more stuff on there.
We do the the bonus podcast every week, me and producer Dan,
who just texts me there to say how's it going?
You know, so I think, how's it, how's it going?
All good. Yeah.
So yeah, he said, how's the podcast going?
I'll just go all good doing it now.
So, so maybe Dan's like, hey man, how about you send me that
audio so I can go to sleep, you know, which is entirely
reasonable. But but yeah, I'll put more
stuff out in the Patreon, maybe some videos that I haven't put
up anywhere. Like I've got some stand up
videos edited that I need to put out on them.
I put out a video today that I which is yesterday for you to
listen. And now I put out a video that I
wasn't planning to do a try. I'm trying to plan my videos as
best I can at the minute. But I put up a video where I'm
saying, what do you have mate? And you know, it's just a guy
who gradually just gets more literal about what he's doing.
Like he's just like, oh, I just existed mate.
On planet earth. The RE.
If you've seen that video, the reason or the inspiration for
that video is real. I walked past two groups of
guys. There was a guy and his mate and
then they walked past another fella and his dad and they
obviously knew each other and me and my wife were walking past.
This all happened at exactly the same time.
And this guy went why? What are you?
And his mate shouted back. Just walking, you know, and as
the guy could see that he was walking, you know, his mate who
asked what he was at could see he was walking.
But the guy was like just walking.
And he goes, you getting that tape and his mate goes, ah, and
it was just clear they had absolutely nothing to talk
about. They had absolutely nothing to
talk about. And that got me thinking, let me
do this sketch where one guy really wants his mate to tell
him something, but his mate has nothing to tell him.
So that's that's where that sketch came from.
And then I did a sketch with Aaron Butler today.
We filmed it. I think it'll go out today, the
day you listen to it. And hey, who am I?
The dog from Back to the Future? Why am I getting my present,
past and future mixed up? I don't know.
It took me way too long to think of of the third thing there,
which is future. But let me take a sip of tea.
Oh man, that's good. So yeah, me and I oh shit, let
me, I know I need to plug my charger into my laptop, but do I
even have the laptop charger? Oh my God, this is such terrible
podcast content. But I mean, it's just real life
in it. It's just real life lads.
Let me plug this in. Oh my God, this is a podcast
first. No one's ever done this on a
podcast before. Also really cool if anyone's
just tuning in at this exact moment and they're like, So what
does he do in the podcast? He just like he plugs things in
and all. There we go, crisis averted.
I think producer Dan has just texted me there to say that he's
just started watching Line of Duty.
Just started watching Line of Duty.
So if it's as good as everyone says it is, I may not be able to
edit the podcast next week. I mean, I like a man who's just
honest, you know, Mother of God, that's a quote for Line of Duty.
But also great that I'm out of breath putting my charger in.
I mean, I exercise every single day and I'm getting way more
unfit. Yeah, Line of Duty is absolutely
fantastic. I think you'll get addicted to
it. First series, Line of Duty, I
think probably the best. But I'm a I'm a not like I'm a
fan of every episode, every series, but I really like the
first one. I said I was going to talk a
little bit about what I'm watching at the minute and the
number one show I'm watching at the minute.
So smacked out. Money Heist.
I want to say smacked out. I mean, I don't mean like
there's smacks in it or it's made by smacks Action bra, you
know, cut the fuck's sake. I love that.
I would absolutely. Wouldn't it be great if you
found out some people were smacks, but you just didn't know
it like Steven Spielberg? So Stephen, whenever you made ET
and that must have been a really big deal for you because that's
it's a real cult film. Oh, he's a fucking I see.
When I first saw him and all I was like, that's fucking weird.
He's a wee alien. All a big finger money heights.
The reasons that smacked out as smack seemed to absolutely love
it. Cormac Cormac McDermott, AK the
Barrack boy put up a status last week about them.
Why? Why do y'all, why do y'all
Smicks tell you to watch Money Heist?
And it was then I clicked on, even though I'm halfway through
Money Heist, I was like, yeah, Smicks would absolutely love
this show. Like for sure they would love
this show. People are stealing, first of
all, and they're stealing money out of a bank.
And it's like, fuck the system as well.
And it's also like Spanish and also Debbie's mate, you know, so
that's kind of like that's kind of like the Smick dream is a
programme about nicking things and teddies money.
How's good. It's like a Spanish series.
It's on Netflix, but it's dubbed.
And I never like I never would have thought I'd be into that
sort of thing, you know, because I don't really like stuff that's
dubbed, you know, just reminds me of like Jackie Chan films
back in the days before my man Jackie learned English, you
know, when like he'd be on a real delay and it was voiced
over by a guy. I feel like it was voiced over
by an American actor who was putting on a Chinese accent,
which was very sly and, and vaguely racist.
But Jackie Chan would be like EBEB already have been talking
for 7 minutes. And then it was always something
like way too short, you know, like Jackie Chan would be like
shouting at some guy and he'd be going for hours.
He'd be like, and then all all the translation would be is
move, you know, but it. But Jackie had been talking for
17 minutes. Oh, man, I like Jackie Chan.
Rumble in the Bronx. What a great film.
I had that in VHS. Wore the thing out.
Rumble in the Bronx. Great stuff.
Yeah. Money Heist is really good.
It's dubbed and I wouldn't have thought I'd like that, but
after, after like an episode or two, you stop realising that
it's dubbed. You know what I mean?
Like you don't really think about it.
And I like that there's Spanish people in it and I like that
they can't really say their VS. And I like that we can say that
because it is a bit racist, but they're also white, you know?
So it's like, so no one's kicking off about that.
No one's like, Oh my God, you're so fucking anti European.
You can do any accent in the world as long as the people are
the same colour as you and everyone's fine about it.
Everyone's fine about it. In this, one of the characters
is called Salva, right? He's called Salva, but everyone
in it calls him Salva. Salva, right?
Not Sal. It should be Salva.
They call him Salva. And I think that's really,
really funny. And I enjoy it in the episode,
if anything else has AV in it. And some of the actors say, B,
you know, I really enjoy that whenever, like, no one says
this, but when someone's like, I just got these flowers who has a
bass. Not funny.
Oh my God, you're so attractive. Let me see your vagina.
I mean, it's lockdown banter, isn't it?
Like it's not it's not funny outside of lockdown.
That's when I see they extend it another three weeks.
I'm like, yes, that's responsible.
And also some of this stuff will appear a bit funnier because as
soon as lockdown's over, if I said vagina, you, you wouldn't
enjoy it as much because you're fucking enjoying it.
Now let me tell you, maybe I maybe I get to.
Maybe I get to see your vagina funny trying to think of other
things that begin with V and I've got nothing.
I've got an often I think we picked a vagina and I think
maybe maybe we call this episode see your vagina.
I don't know. We'll see might put some people
off some, you know, because the association with tea drinkers is
a very Presbyterian and I'm aware we might have some
Presbyterian listeners. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised
if Arlene herself was a big fan. By the way, that was me going
for the tea, not the thought of Arlene Foster listen or watching
the podcast. I mean for later.
If she does, no problem. I mean, we're, we're all welcome
here regardless of, regardless of political position or, or
beliefs. You know, there's, I mean,
what's enjoyable for me is the thought that, you know, of
course there's going to be like a lot of pro gay marriage people
listening. You know, I love that there's
going to be there's going to be quite a few gay guys and girls
listening, which is great. There's going to be, there's
going to be a lot of bisexual guys, like fucking really
enjoying this podcast. There's going to be some
bisexual girls getting involved as well, you know, but as well
as that, there's going to be one or two real nasty homophobic
pieces of shit watching and listening to this podcast.
And even me saying that won't put them off because they know
themselves. You know, they're just like,
yeah, Oh, yeah, fucking. I hate it.
I enjoy it. I enjoy the fact that maybe
after this we all get together. We do a live episode of tea with
me. We get the bisexual guys with
all the gay guys, the homophobic guys, and we just drink a load
of tea. And at the end of it, you know,
there's a lot of kissing. I don't know who's kissing who,
but it's just one of those things where probably the lights
go off for a couple of minutes and we just we just freeze time.
I don't know. And then we all do the men in
black thing after, you know, the we do for they have that makes
you forget what's just happened. I wonder, are guys still like
dogging? You know, I wonder what the
policy on that is, because it's cheeky enough as it is.
Like, are they really going to let lockdown and and that
pastime, you know, like the guys who take their dogs out for a
walk, you know, wink wink, but don't have dogs but have the
leads. I don't know.
Also, I've got a really, I don't know if it's controversial, but
I have a bit of stand up that is, is yeah, it's kind of it's
kind of about homophobia and stuff.
And I'm 5050 about putting it online because I think some
people don't have the IQ for it. You know, there'll be some
people being like, mate, you because my bit is basically
about the fact that up until I think it was 1982, it was
technically, technically classed as a legal to be gay to commit
homosexual acts, gay acts in Northern Ireland.
And I have this bit about it. But I think too many people are
just going to make up their minds before they see the clips.
They're going to be like, fuck me, you can't say that.
But but like the joke, the joke is that in itself is so absurd.
I know we'll fire it up. Oh, no, pun intended.
Fired up. I'm watching.
I'm watching Money Heist. Vagina.
I'm watching Money Heist on Netflix.
Then here's my plan. I'm going Money Heist.
I'm going Afterlife with Ricky Trabias because I love it, but I
want to wait until I've got Money Heist out of the way.
I want to watch The Last Dance, the Michael Jordan thing, and I
want to watch Too Hot to Handle because I'm missing like a bit
of trash in there. You know, everything else I'm
watching from pretty good Too Hot.
The handle sounds like a lot of fun.
I think it's like they take like a load of sexy people, do some
sort of remote island and then they're like, hey, you can't
kiss or do anything or like Jack off or anything.
And if you do, we're going to take money off you.
And if you don't do these things, you walk away with a big
pot of money. I mean, that's enjoyable.
That's enjoyable. Also, Speaking of TV shows and
islands, was there ATV show or have I made this up where Jeremy
beetle as in beetles about Jeremy be as in small hand
Jeremy Beetle? That wasn't a show he had.
Jeremy Beetle just had quite literally a small hand, yet
another regular sized hand. But as well as that he had a wee
hand too. But because that was always a
joke, wasn't it Like back in the day in the playground, Jeremy
Beetle has a big Dick. But on the other hand, you know,
and it and it, that joke has worked throughout time, like
throughout the ages. But I think there was a show
called like Beatles Island or something, or this is what, or
was this a dream of mine? Jeremy Beatle was the guy that
hosted You've Been Framed and he did Beatles about, which was a
hidden camera show and it was fucking savage.
Like, you know, punk, punk being a hidden camera show.
Ashton Kutcher that like pretend to a celebrity that like their
makeup artist is, is really rude or I don't know.
Beatles about was absolutely savage and Beatles about they
would pretend that aliens had landed in people's gardens.
This was in like, I want to say the early 90's, the mid 90s in
England and or, or they would pretend to some guy that his van
had fallen into a river and the guy would crack up and Beetle
would just be stirring the pot. I mean, with his with his good
hand. And I'm RIP my man Jeremy
Beetle. I'm sorry about that.
But you know, I just had to do it because no refused other hand
would just take way longer. But yes, Jeremy Beetle I think
was in this TV show called like Beatles Island and they just
kept them on this island by himself and he just went nuts.
What I'm going to do is do the charity read right now for one
minute. And then whenever I come back
from that, I'm going to see if Beatles Island was a real show.
And if not, I'm going to see if Beatle has any kids and if they
would be willing to pick up the mantle and do Beatles Island.
I don't know, maybe I've just lost the plot, but that's that's
a show I'd like to see if they're repeating it.
Also, give me some recommendations in the comments
for this. If you're like, man, there's
this show not many people know about.
Tell me about it. You know, like Tiger King could
have fallen through the net, but there would be some people who
would see it. So is there something good on
Netflix that no, that no one's talking about, but everyone
should be? Tell me about it.
Or do we just want to see bank robberies and vaginas?
Or is it also known Money Heist? I don't know.
We're going to do a really quick read and then we'll be back with
listeners. Questions.
Sep. Sep.
Zippers, as you may know, we do a charity shout out every week
on the podcast. We want to hear from anyone
who's got a charity that they're working for at the minute or
they're just doing some sort of fundraising, even if it's a bit
crazy and outside the box. Get in touch with this
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bit of a platform for that because there's not many
sponsors around at the minute. So in light of that, we'll just
get a load of charities in and try and do something good this
week. I want to give a quick shout out
to Chest Heart and Stroke who are a local charity.
They've been working with people in Northern Ireland for over 70
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Their mission is to prevent chest, heart and stroke
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Is Northern Ireland free from chest, heart and stroke
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uki know people who can attest to the great work they have
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them, head over to the website and and have a have a read up on
on the work that they do. Cheers guys, back to the pod.
Zippers, welcome back to the second-half of the Tea With Me
podcast. This is the listeners question.
Half where you're not going to believe this, hope you're
sitting down, but I answer listeners questions.
There we go. Who'd have thought it?
People are getting in touch with this week.
The zippers have spoken and this is what they're saying, Anthony
McLaughlin says. Have you heard of the velvet hat
trick? Now to me, without doing any
research on that, the velvet hat trick sounds like either an
indie band, like a kind of Paul Weller type band, or the indie
hat trick could well be a sort of sex thing, like a weird sex
thing. The velvet hat trick where like
who wears velvet like magic or magicians, Like where 3
magicians tie their decks together and rub it on someone's
shoulder. I don't know what it is, but I'm
going to find out. Velvet hat trick.
Yeah, they sound like guys that
would support the jam. Velvet hat trick.
Oh yeah. I think it is a sex thing.
Yep, it literally is. So I don't know how close I am
in the magician thing. Wow.
Thanks.
Thanks for that, my man. Basically the the definition of
that is of a velvet hat trick is apparently using all three
female orifices at the same time.
There you go. Anthony McLaughlin there
gentlemen poet zipper when is Erez Tommy says, by the way, he
said, have you heard of the velvet hat trick and then tagged
Gareth Maher. So I don't know if that was
supposed to be just a private conversation between Anthony and
Gareth and the next message in thread was going to be want to
check it out. And then the next message was
going to be yes when. And then the next message was
going to be post lockdown. And then the next message was
going to be, OK, meet me a giant's ring.
I don't know. But either way, hope you're
having a good lockdown, my man. When is there, as Tommy says,
what about a Tea with me episode with Keith Cruz and Mike
McGoldrick? Yeah, some people have asked
this before. Would I do any of my hilarious
comedy characters on on the podcast and, like, interview
them? I don't think so because I've
seen stuff like that before. And it's weird, you know, I
think it's a bit weird. Like it's a good idea, but it
just kinda, I don't know, it's maybe a wee bit indulgent as
well. You know, like you're going
like, look at this plethora of greatness that I've I've made
these phenomenal characters who are basically all the same, but
just different ages and have slightly different voices.
I don't think so. I don't think so.
It's a bit like doing them live as well, like some people say,
you know, would you do a live show with your characters?
And I think it would be a lot of fun, but it would, it would
dilute my own stand up too much to think, you know, it would.
I wouldn't want people to be confused about what they were
coming to see, You know, if they're like I'm coming to see
alive, it's just going to be me doing stand up.
You know, that's my main thing. That's what I'm best at, just
doing sort of straight stand up. I've done Mike McGoldrick live
before maybe 5 or 6 times about five years ago and, and further
back. And it was, it was always good,
but it would, it would be weird to me to do more than one
character on the same night. I don't know.
I just, I sort of like being able to pick up the characters
and do them whenever I fancy it as opposed to like committing to
doing them. Like I would say if I did, if I
did the characters like live on like some sort of tour, I would
just be sick of them by the end of it.
And it's also like really difficult to write material in
character because it's not your natural thought, if that makes
sense. So I know what I would think
about lockdown or whatever. But by the way, post lockdown,
I'm not doing any material but lockdown.
And the first time I said lockdown there, I don't think I
said lockdown, right? But the main point is I'm not
doing any coronavirus, any lockdown material.
I don't think people are going to want to hear it.
I'm just talking about weird stuff and other things.
But yeah, I think the idea of so Mike McGoldrick is obviously
very different to me. The main difference being a
blazer. That's the only difference
between us. No, you know, it takes a while
to be like, what would he say about this?
What would he think about this? Where it's easier to write for
myself because I go, oh, I know what I think of this because all
I have to do is think about it. I don't know whether that was a
great or terrible answer, but thanks for your question.
Tommy live in the Ding good Twitter name says would you
rather have £1,000,000 in cash or have the ability to be your
own Wi-Fi beacon? As in, would you rather be the
router and never have to worry about signal no matter where you
were on earth? I think it would be handy to be
a human Wi-Fi router. But then again, a lot of guys
are like kicking off about 5G. And I think a lot of guys are
like cutting down 5G pylons and stuff.
I don't know if they're pylons or like tars, but yeah, people
are like cutting them down. So I would worry if I became my
own Wi-Fi router. I don't even know if that's what
you're saying, but I worry that like a lot of guys would spray
paint me with like 5G kills. So probably take the £1,000,000
in cash and then I would just buy like a wee dongle.
Dongle was a dongles. I don't know what they were.
I think they were maybe like flash drive, like pen drives.
Dongles weren't said for very long.
Like there was only about two years where people were saying
dongle regularly. But I think that's a word we
should have preserved and we should bring back like, let's
start calling something else a dongle like lamps.
Like I've got a lamp in this room.
Let like lamp. Well, like we've been saying,
lamp for far too long. Lamp for, you know, no one gets
it. No one gets a root whenever
someone says lamp because it's such like an old word.
It's been around for so long. Lamp.
You know, it's not even that satisfying the saying, let's
let's call lamps dongles. You know, that'll make the game
a bit more exciting. Switch that dongle on there.
Cheeky bastard, you know. So I just think we should, we
should switch words up a wee bit.
And I know that wasn't your question, but thank you very
much, Sean. Sean has AT based question.
He says Tetley or Panjana. For me, I think I was raised on
Tetley, but now I can I I'm more of like a support local guy more
so I think I would go Panjana. I want to say Panjana or a local
company. Panjana or probably better.
Yeah. I'll go look.
Let's go. Let's go.
Punjana. Pajanas.
Punjana is fun to say. Punjana, you know, it sounds
vaguely sexual. Let me see your vagina.
And Punjana, you know, enjoyable.
But I like the way Tetley guys, you know, the way cartoons, I
like them. They were a lot of fun.
Jamie Johnson says thoughts on Trump.
My thoughts on Trump are kind of, I think nowadays, right?
You have to just fucking enjoy things a wee bit.
Like if you look at the bleak reality of things, it's a
depressing world out there. But if you just go, you know
what? I'm just going to like, I'm
going to put the feet up here and have a laugh with this.
Some of the stuff Trump says is funny.
He doesn't mean it to be right, and it shouldn't be.
And you shouldn't be saying that stuff if you're the president.
But there's something about it where I just go, you know what?
I could get bogged down and being like, that's a president
shouldn't be saying, not knowing how this guy get elected because
fucking loads of people voted for him.
So there we go. Let's accept that and then let's
just enjoy some of the funny things.
And the other night we were having dinner and we watched
Trump quotes, like different quotes he said for a bite an
hour and a half. And then we watched George Bush
once and it was hilarious. The number one George Bush one
is whenever and it's mad, there will be some people watching
going, who's that? George Bush was president 2
presidents ago. And there was this day where
George Bush, like we all know that phrase.
I think fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice.
No, I I went to take the piss out of George Bush for being a
stupid bastard by getting that phrase wrong.
And I have said it wrong. I think he said fool me once,
shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
No, I don't know if that's a phrase.
And I've really fucking mugged myself off and I've gone a bit
red because I'm so mad at myself.
But George Bush when he was president, bear in mind I'm not
president so I can get phrases wrong, all right?
I'm just a full time Northern Irish comedian, so nothing's
going to happen. I'm not on the world stage, you
know, Although this is fucking one of those popular podcasts
around at the minute. But that's not important.
It is important and it's class and thank you.
But George Bush, when he was genuinely the president, was
given a press conference and he said, there's an old phrase
where I'm from, I don't know if you have it here, but bear in
mind he was like 50 miles down the road.
Of course they have it. He goes there, fool me once,
shit, shame on you. Now, you could tell at that
point he'd fucked it and he was struggling.
And then he said, fool me, fool me once, can't you fool again?
Now, what was funny about that is he just fucking real admitted
defeat and just speed it along. And I love that so much.
Film me, film me once, shame on you.
Film me twice. You can't get fooled again.
I love it. He just flipped it and tried to
move on. Always enjoyable to me.
Rory Woods, one of my good comedy chums, Rory Woods says.
And by the way, Rory has a podcast called the Woodstock
Podcast, which you should really check out.
He says most underappreciated Man United Players ever.
And Stevie Nice has has jumped in as though he were this
podcast host with the answer. He said Dennis Irwin, I'll not
talk about football for too long because some people don't like
it. You know, some of the zippers
are like, no, I don't like football.
I like fucking cricket and dancing.
But just one really sassy cricket guy.
But yeah, Dennis Irwin is a great shout.
But Dennis Irwin wasn't under appreciated like people were
like, Nah, solid as a rock. Wander the left foot.
I have Irwin 3 on the back of an old Man United shirt thanks to
my mate Gary. But most underrated United
players. I'll just answer this as quickly
as I can. I'm going to say shit, I'm going
to say Andy Cole and Dwight York because as much as people love
the Cole and York thing, it's kind of forgotten about a wee
bit now. But I have never loved the
Strike partnership more than Andy Cole and Dwight York.
Always playing with a smile on their faces.
Best mates Dwight York was going out with Jordan.
Love that Andy Cole was just Cole, the goal.
And I like the joke that that Andy Cole sort of birthed in the
playground, which was someone would come up to you and go, did
you hear Man United or, or selling coal?
And as a big Man United fan, you'd be like, what?
And the person would go, yeah, two £2.50 a bag, you know,
because the joke was that they were selling actual coal.
Now that is, with hindsight, very funny.
But at the time it messed with your emotions a bit.
And then if if the person was an absolute banter merchant, who
would follow it up with this? Yeah.
And also Blackburn are selling flowers.
And by the way, you wouldn't click on.
You wouldn't click on because you're a fucking idiot child.
And you go, what are the flip? He's really good.
Are they selling him? Yeah.
And the person will go, yeah, they're selling flowers.
Blackburn are. Yeah, 150 a bunch.
You know, and no one really, that's the sort of joke whenever
you're in P4, you pretended you got it, but you didn't get it.
You'd be like, ah, yeah, mad. And then you would just go about
your day being like, that's a ridiculously low price to sell a
top goalkeeper for. And then somebody would explain
to you, go, no, he means they're selling like flowers.
They're like flowers you Peck out of the ground.
And then you would laugh and go, oh, right, Yeah.
But then your thought for the rest of that day would be why is
a football club selling bunches of flowers and why are Man
United selling bags so cool? But that's just the way it was
back then. You get smarter though.
That's a great thing about growing up.
Your brain develops. We got more questions.
One more football question, one more football question, one more
football question. The rap, the the waffle.
Sorry, I said the the raffle. That's such an old guy thing to
call something that's supposed to be the waffle to call it the
raffle. Favourite Irish League memory?
My favourite. See here's the thing, I haven't
been to too many Irish League games so I can't really say.
I've been to a few cup finals whenever I was younger just
because a couple of my mates were big Glen Torn fans and
still are big Glen Torn fans. I was at the I was at the the
Glen Torn Coleraine game, the cup final in about, I don't
know, 2000 and two or three and I just remember Jimmy Nez but
being on the pitch going absolutely bucked out and
Coleraine won. So probably that I really
enjoyed that because it couldn't work out why, why he was there.
And now that I'm older again, when you get older you realise
things. I was like already some
Coleraine. He's a big fan, but at the time
I was like, does he been and cold faked and then does he also
play for Coleraine? But yeah, that was that was
probably my best moment. But I don't know, like I love
watching. I always obviously watch a lot
of Irish League when it's on. I don't miss an episode of Final
score on BBCI did like when that young goalkeeper bounced over
the the fence in the War on point Ballymena game this season
or last season and just started scrapping with a load of fans.
I just jumped in like a wrestler and entering a Royal Rumble at
#30 because he's like 17 or something.
Is he the keeper? And then somebody after was
like, because I'm obviously a member of Irish League fans on
Facebook, which is a forum where people just get at each other
and it's phenomenal. And somebody were like, I
because they were slabbering on this Diana fucking class.
See if somebody was slabbering at my die, just go here, knock
that in the head. What I wouldn't do is jump over
a fence and fight 60 guys. But I enjoyed it.
You know, people are like, you should get into trouble.
Nah, that's great crack that should be allowed at Irish
League games. There should be like a wild card
where keepers don't get in trouble with a bunch over a
fence and just start scrapping people as long as the people
want to be scrapped with. So probably that.
Angela Galloway nearly called her.
Angela says. Angela says, have you watched
the programme Normal people? I think I'm an I'm an what's the
opposite of normal, abnormal. And by the way, there's a lot of
people who who were like, what? How do you not know that?
And they didn't know it was abnormal until I said have I
watched it? Not yet.
I think I'm one of the only people who hasn't.
But it's on my list. I didn't say it earlier, but it
actually is on my list. Oh, fuck.
When did when you check out that Jeremy Beetle programme was the
thing. Yeah.
And I've heard Normal People is class if you meet, if you're my
mates and different like WhatsApp groups and stuff are
like definitely check this out. It's really, really good.
Although I've heard it's a bit blue.
You've heard it's a little bit dirty.
So when we'll we'll have to check it out.
I hear that there is a guy from Northern Ireland in it who's
apparently class. So maybe we'll maybe maybe we'll
chat to him and see if we can get him on.
Normal People star Paul Meskel is stunned as James Corden
revealed the BBC drama Changed my life.
Yeah, well, people are absolutely loving it.
It's, I watched the trailer, thought it looked great.
So I, I will, I will check it out.
I will check it out. Normal People.
I'll, I'll watch it. Then I'll watch an episode or
two before the next podcast and report back and let you know
what I think. But more importantly, I just
want to see if Jeremy Beetle was on his own show.
Jeremy Beetle with the wee hand. I want to see if he had a TV
programme where he was like stranded on an island.
Jeremy Beadle Oh no, there's just loads of stories about I'm
dying, which is sad. Jeremy Beadle TV appearances If
this programme didn't exist, that's mental.
There's a programme called Celebrity Sleepover, couldn't
have that. Annoying because there's too
many dirty bastards and all working on TV and all.
Yeah, I don't. I don't think that this this
show ever existed. Nah.
People do the funniest things. You've been framed.
Honestly, I thought there was a TV show where Jeremy Beetle was
just on an island. There was a show called Win
Beatles Money. That's just a game show where
you could get some money from Beetle.
Oh, listen to this. Why have I never heard of this?
Any cash scored by the players would be deducted from Beetles
bank, which started at a ground. I love that the Beatle was just
banking his own mean. It definitely wouldn't have been
his own money. But Beatles Bank sounds like a
place you wouldn't, you wouldn't deposit your money.
Beatles Bank, because it just sounds a wee bit dodgy.
And there we have a lovely person being like the episode.
The last episode of the podcast was really good.
Thanks. Yeah.
Marty Carlton says what's your thoughts on you?
You love you. You love couple.
You couple you love. I don't know what that is.
Let me Google it.
Is it University of Ulster? You, you love anonymous
confessions? Oh, like, is it like one of
those overheard pages? Overheard of Queens?
What do you think of this? I think of that.
I mean, one out of fifty of those is true.
It's like Cosmopolitan magazine or when any, when any, any
fellow comedian has a hilarious conversation with someone in
their family and there's a punch line at the end of it said by a
child, hey, didn't happen, didn't happen.
It was just, it was just a nice thought, but it didn't happen.
So I, I, I don't know Mark Kelly, who is an Irish League
footballer himself. Mark plays for Newry City.
He says. Favourite guest you've had on so
far on TV Podcast and who's your dream guest?
My favourite guest so far? I'm going to be a Dick.
I mean, there's no, I'm not lapping this, you know, I
genuinely mean this when I say it.
Everybody has been class. There's no guest where I've
gone. Oh fuck, that was tough.
Honestly, like anyone you've seen on the episodes, if I look
like I'm enjoying myself, I'm enjoying myself.
I would say the episode that obviously like blew up more than
the rest was the Jamie Dornan episode that sort of propelled
us into like the Apple charts, like into the the whole UK Top
40, which is which is nuts. So I think that one probably
stands out to me the most for the reason that like all the
rest of them, I think it was funny.
I fucking had loads of fun doing it.
But I had been like, me and Jamie had been chatting about
doing something for about 6 or 7 years.
Should we do like a sketch or an interview for something?
And it just just never, it never really like happened for for one
reason or another. Like obviously being like a top
actor, he doesn't know what he's going to be working on from one
year to the next. And he might get a call to like
go to Australia for three. It just didn't happen basically.
But we always sort of kept in touch here and there and they'd
actually be able to do the episode with him and him to like
everybody I've had on be just so generous.
Was was was great. So so they all stand out.
I mean that if there's one that I don't enjoy, I'll be honest.
I'll say you have you have my word.
My dream guest, I don't know if I'm just shooting for the stars,
Mick Jagger. I would love to get Mick Jagger
or Harry Styles or Mick Jagger and Harry Styles on the same
episode because I'm a big Rolling Stones fan and a big
Harry fan and One Direction fan. In fact, Niall Horan would be
great as well. I've actually, I've asked him
through the podcast. So we'll see if anything can be
done there. So probably one of those boys,
Matthew Murnin says, could you talk about this?
PSNI are probing the sale of UDA flags for the health service.
I could talk about that, Matthew, but I won't because,
you know, don't be starting anything with the
paramilitaries. Basically, you know, they're,
they're probably doing a lot of admin at the minute.
Those paramilitary guys, you know, I'd say they don't have
many jobs on at the minute. So they're probably just making
a list of bad boys. They've got a, they've got a,
you know, fucking sort out. So I don't want to be on that
list. So yeah, big up the NHS.
That's we'll just we'll just leave it there.
We've got the what's this here? What's this here?
Oh yeah, just people just sharing like that video.
That's cool. I like that.
Zach says, Oh, hold on, it's we TikTok Mike McGoldrick.
He runs the boy time podcast with fellow comedian Dave Elliot
and he has a YouTube channel that's home to many viral
videos, his character sketches, podcasts and even 2 frees.
Thanks a lot, Zach. Zach has done a tech talk of me.
I don't know if that's a phrase I'm going to write.
Thanks a lot, mate. I don't know if he's really
mugged me off and under what, but it just seems like he's just
like explaining to people who who I am.
So cheer for that moment. I still don't know what tech
talk is yet even though I have it.
I put a couple of fucking dancing videos on it obviously,
but I don't know what the crack is.
Craig Yates says when Mr Boris eases this lockdown.
By the way, Craig, I mean, I think you're from Northern
Ireland maybe. But like the way you've said
that makes it seem like you might be like a middle-aged
African taxi driver when Mr Boris eases this lockdown and I
enjoy that a lot and things return to normal.
What are you looking forward to most?
I think I have so many grand plans of like, I'm going to go
swimming in the sea and I'm going to, you know, I'm going to
go and do this and do that. I'll probably just do exactly
the same stuff as I as I always did.
I'm looking forward to going out to restaurants with friends.
I'm looking forward to hugging family.
I'm looking forward to just literally being able to do what
I want because I do what I want, mate.
All right, Conor McGregor, I I just kinda like like the idea of
not being restricted by government rules, but at the
same time, I like the rules and whenever the the government
stuff came out just there, I haven't actually looked properly
into it yet, but I think they're extending the lockdown by three
weeks. I'm like, yes, that's what we're
all about, boys. That's what we're all about.
But it's just, it's nice to like you take it for granted that you
can just go anywhere at any time.
And but it is weird because I think I talked about this in the
last podcast, I'm less and less tempted to, to like go out and
do things that I would have done or like, I have less of a want
to. At the start of lockdown, I was
like, I can't wait to just go to Nando's with all my mates.
But right now, and by the way, we could all go, all my mates
and me could go to the table of four.
But now I'm sort of like, yes, as much as I would love that,
let's just leave it a while longer.
I think if the lockdown got lifted tomorrow and they were
like, Nandos is open for the boys, I don't think I'd be
rushing down. So I don't know.
There's loads of stuff I do want to do, Craig, but I don't feel
the need to just go straight back into it, if that makes
sense. Thanks for your question.
Sorry, I probably answered it really.
By the way, the Belfast guy in China, big, big favourite of the
podcast says, will the virus lockdown actually change your
outlook and perspective on life and how you spend your time in
reality? Maybe like I think it has.
I think it has made me more productive, you know, spending
time putting out videos and writing and, you know, using
this, using this camera, this camera that I'm filming the
video version of the podcast on. I have had this camera for
years, but I haven't really ever used it.
I've relied on other people and I will always work with other
people like Michael and Aaron who are brilliant video makers
and we I love doing sketches with them.
But I can still do the the more basic sketches by myself as long
as there's just one person in them.
There's no excuse for me not to do that.
I would always be like, oh, I need someone to help me shoot
this. I can kind of do things myself.
I'm actually OK at editing as well.
Like I'm basic at it, but I just, I think I'll back myself
wee bit more to be able to do stuff on my own and don't know,
it's been really nice to like spend more time at home.
Like it's not like I'm away 6 nights a week or whatever.
You know, I, I do go football training and I go and do gigs
and podcasts and stuff like that.
So I've spent loads of time at home and that's been great.
And there's a lot of people here like fuck sake, Get Me Out of
here. I'm actually loving that part of
it and I'm loving being able to do more podcasts and all that.
But I am looking forward to being back in our studio because
we just got that before lockdown and changing my perspective.
Not really. I think I've always had like a
decent, I look like I'm, I'm happy with my outlook on life,
but it's just reaffirmed to me, I guess that I, I, I love
socialising, I love seeing people and I'm bit sad to be
missing out on that, of course, but nothing too big.
James Brown says James Brown, baby, not that James Brown.
You mentioned before you went to Campbell.
Do you have fond memories of school and do any funny stories
jump to mind? Would you ever consider going
back and giving a talk about your career?
Yeah, I did. I did go to Campbell until fifth
year to have fond memories of school and any funny stories
jump out. Yes, I do have fond memories of
going to school of of my time at Campbell.
I wouldn't say I fitted in massively.
Like I would say I did feel like the things I was really into
that didn't, they just didn't cater for like it's, it's a big
rugby school and you can tell by my complexion.
Like I'm not a rugby. Yeah.
Like I'm honestly far too cute to play rugby.
And I was also so small at school.
So I just didn't like rugby. Like I was obsessed with
football and it seemed mad to me that we weren't allowed to play
football. But again, now that like
obviously the school wants to win the school's cup and has a
big tradition of that. But it was tough to not play
football when you hear that your mates that were going to other
schools were just flat out playing a football teams and all
that. That was tough.
I do have fond memories. I feel like my outside of school
friends remained my friends and I definitely did have a good
amount of friends in school. But then it was OK.
It was it was it was tough not going to a school that had
girls. You know, it was like it was an
all boys school and that was difficult because you know, when
you whenever you're like in your teen, like your early teens, you
just want to be well, personally, I just wanted to be
around girls. Like, I like being silly around
girls. I like trying to impress girls
and I actually like like being friends with girls at that age
as well. And of course, you know, you're
you're, you know, you're wanting to impress.
You wanted to make sure the hair looked good and all that kind of
stuff. But whenever you went to an old
boys school, I was happy to just rock in with bed head every
every day because like you weren't trying to, you know, you
weren't trying to get the the sideways glance from any of the
boys. So it was, it was a, it was a
really good school. Like, don't get me wrong, good
school. I think I struggled a wee bit
academically because I did, I did have the power to be to do
better academically, But because I, I would have been in like the
bottom class and whenever, whenever, like they, they put
you, they ranked you in order of like how smart you were and they
would have put me in the bottom class.
They were the most disruptive classes.
Don't get me wrong. I was like, I was kind of part
of that disruptiveness at times, I'm sure, but them but it just,
I don't know. I think I would like to have
gone to like Priory or, you know, a school like that where
maybe like I would have, I think because there was such smart
people that went to Campbell as well as idiots like me.
If, if you weren't one of the smart people, I think you just
sort of switched off. And I had this thing where I was
like, oh, I'm not smart enough to be like, I may as well just
mess about, you know. So yeah, I do have, I do have
real fun times as well. And still fond of a lot of
people that I went to school with.
Do any funny stories jump to mind?
My first ever fight, I had like a proper arranged fight with
David Carville. Shout out to David Carville, who
I was like mates with. And honestly one there was this
weird thing where like 1 summer in between the thing was first
and second year I came. Yeah.
It was like the first day back of second year.
And a few guys that I've been mates with like were suddenly
really weird with me and like giving me the cold shoulder a
bit. And I just kind of thought that
was weird and didn't think anything of it, Thought it was a
bit weird. And then I think David, now
David Carville may well give a different version of events
here, but I think on MSN Messenger one day, because of
course, everything started back then on Messenger.
I think he started like slobbering at me on MSN
Messenger in like the first week back his second year.
And I think I may be like said something back that he didn't
like. In fact, I know, I know I did.
I think it was like a like your ma type thing.
In fact, it was that. And because I didn't know what
else to say and he was like, you know, fuck, we're going to
fight. And I said, alright, let's
fight. And it was like properly
arranged. There was a crowd of about 150
And I, it's a foam memory now because it was the worst fight
of all time. Like I remember he had the
advantage. He, he'll dispute this, right?
But and by the way, we, we like became friends again, like
shortly after this. And like, if I saw him like now
and stuff, I'd love to chat to him.
Like he's real nice guy. But for this day, we fucking
hated each other. And he came down like a hill to
fight me. I was already there.
I was just, you know, working with my pad guy, you know, and
just throwing a few punches. He came down the hill.
So he had the advantage because he like the momentum was
physically behind him. So he started throwing punches
on his way down the hill. Took me a while to get back in
the game. And then at one point we were
just we were just throwing punches back and forth, but we
had like Jeremy Beetle, like small hands.
So like no one's punch was doing damage.
And then at one point I just like.
Because I just thought it'd be funny.
I just open hand slapped him across the face.
And a lot of people were like, that was so sly.
And I was like, I know, but we were having a full fight.
So yeah. And I just remember a chant of
dildo sausage broke out during the fights.
People were bored. I think that was led by my
Michael Ralph, who was just like, let's just let's just get
a bit of entertainment going here.
So that was a fond memory. But school was school was good.
I enjoyed it more towards the end, like fifth year, whenever I
was like, I don't think I'm coming back here.
But then. But Campbell, like there was a
lot of good at Campbell, like a lot of really good teachers
there as well. Good people.
Would I consider going back and giving a talk about my career?
Absolutely. Absolutely.
I would. Yeah.
If they, if they want to do that, if they, if they want to
be like don't follow this guy's career.
Yeah, of course. Do we have more questions?
Oh, shit, yeah, we did. But I deleted that one.
I didn't mean to. Sorry to hear what that was, but
I have no way of knowing who you were.
So there we go, folks. Go through some questions there
again. These solo episodes, right?
I hope. I know they're different to the
guest episodes because the guest, like, I'm trying to just
be on it and be funny all the time and like, you know,
constantly, like ask questions. These solo ones are just like me
opening my brain and just pouring it out.
And yeah, I just, I don't know if it's laugh a minute, but
hopefully you find it in some way interesting because because
I really enjoy doing these, these solo episodes.
But we're coming back with a guest on Wednesday.
Friday will be me doing the solo episode again.
And every Monday, let me plug it one more time.
Me and producer Dan do a Patreon episode where we pack like a
different theme or topic and we do like a full, full episode on
that. And also on the Patreon.
There's a lot of cool stuff. If you want to sign up,
patreon.com Tea with Me podcast, what else do you have to plug
tonight? If you're listening to some that
comes out Friday. It's our last show on BBC Radio
Ulster, the rave lock down 6 until half seven.
Really bittersweet. That seemed like I was going to
burst into tears, but it was just kind of like half a burp,
even though I can't actually burp out loud, which is a good
thing to not be able to do because, you know, rude.
But it's bittersweet being the last one because I'm really
looking forward to people here in the last show because I think
we're going out with a big one. But it's tough because we, we
have like a 10 week deal on Radio Ulster and it's this is
the last week of it. And then there is a show already
pre programmed to come in after us for, for a 10 week run.
And we just, we've had like the best time on Radio Ulster.
Like we, we normally do the She and Todd show where we do like
features and games and play a bit of music.
But a couple of weeks ago were just like, fuck it, let's just
play old school dance and Radio Ulster went that's fine, go for
it. And it is blown up.
It has become this. I was going to say a movement.
I'll be realistic. It's become this well supported
thing where so many people who maybe weren't listening to Radio
Ulster are suddenly saying like, I've just discovered this or
they, they see the tweets about it and they've, they've come
over because we've said we're doing the show and it's
something different. And I think people have started
doing what what I do, which is sort of like, make it like the
start of your weekend. People are like Friday night,
they have a, they have a drink, they have a bit of a dance in
the house. People send in videos and we
share them back out and it's it's been one of the most
satisfying projects I've ever done because it is a tremendous
feeling whenever everybody is in this weird, frustrating, sad
time of lockdown and you're able to play these songs that I love
because I love old school dance and we're getting to play.
Some of them are good, some of them are cheesy, some of them
are a bit debatable, but me and me and Dave, me and my best
friend are able to play these songs, have a bit of banter back
and forth and people are like, it's the highlight of some
people's weeks and I'm and it's the highlight of my week too.
And same with Dave. And, and we've just, we just
really, really, really loved it. I think comes across in the
programme just how much we love it.
And but that happiness is contrasted with the sadness of
this being the last one. We've looked at every possible
way. Like I've asked a question, is
there any way we can continue it?
And I just, I've just been told it's, you know, it's not
possible. So it's the last one.
And it, it like, it genuinely makes us sad.
Like it properly makes us sad. And I know it'll be emotional
being the last show because it fit.
Not that it feels like we're letting people down, but I just,
I hate the feeling that we're like abandoning people in a way.
And that maybe sounds like over the top or exaggerated, but
every feeling is exaggerated during this lockdown.
So us feeling like, fuck, we can, you know, we're not able to
do the show anymore because there's nothing else going on.
That feeling just for me gets magnified.
And yeah, it's tough. It's tough to take that this is
the the last one. And look, the show could come
back, but you know, we're just in this time.
It feels like we're doing something important.
It feels like important radio, like someone gave me advice when
I was starting radio, which was make make it feel like this is
important for people. And I didn't know what that
meant until we started doing this ray of lockdown.
So I'm really looking forward in a way to the last one because
because it's there's fun associated with that.
It's like we're trying to make it like the last day of term, if
that makes sense. We want to make it the best 1
yet. We want to play cheesy music
where you go. Normally I wouldn't listen to
this, but look, I'm at home in the house by myself.
I'm wee bit sad talking about it and I don't want to end the
podcast on that note. But just know that like if you
listen to the rave lockdown or or or you're going to listen on
Friday for your first one. It's been a complete riot doing
it. Like me and Dave have had and
producer Mark have had the best time.
If there was any way for us to continue it, we would have done
it like we exhausted every possible Ave like spoke to
different people about it. It's not possible.
But if you get a chance to listen tonight's BBC Radio
Ulster 6 until half seven, it would mean a lot to us.
If you're listen, if you if you listen and you're on board and
hopefully if you're in lockdown, if you're maybe having a bit of
a shitty time, it's not going to make everything better.
Obviously, you know, I'm not saying that before for an hour
and a half. It might put a smile on your
face. Thank you very much for
listening to the podcast or watching.
If you watch the video version on YouTube, we're putting out
two of these a week. It's it's, it's been great for
me to do these as well. You know, just doing the podcast
and sort of feeling the feeling a connection with everyone on
the merch front. We may have that sorted, been
chanting the material goods and we may well have that sorted.
We are talking about get ready for this cup and saucer, a tea
with me cup and saucer. But we'll see what happens when
we get that sorted. When I know more about it, we'll
put that out. See you next time.
Enjoy your tea, sip, sip. All the best.