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on the Tea With Me Podcast. With me.
Let me check. Oh, yeah, that's right.
She and Todd. What are we doing?
I just sound like commercial DJ there.
Guys. How you doing?
Let me know.
Get in touch. It's a great day in Belfast.
What are you getting up to? One on the blinds.
Let me know. I hit myself.
It's a good time. It's a good time.
I'm wearing a pair of shorts. I'm feeling good.
A lot of people are like NBC money toad.
Are you getting that resting because you're complaining that
you're only really getting to sleep because you're selfish,
baby, You're only really getting to sleep, you know, 3 hours,
four hours a night. Any any progress on that?
Yeah, I'm getting 10 minutes more than I was.
So it's all good and I feel better.
I look good, even though I kind of have one curtain, you know,
But that's just why I wanted it. It's it's a fun time.
I take my shoes off here, If I'm totally honest, from my house,
my podcast, that's that's the way it's going to be.
It's a shoes off. In fact, everyone, everyone
listening, watching take two shoes off.
Thank you, appreciate that. It was always weird when you
went into someone's house and they were like my mom and dad
say you have to take your shoes off.
I mean, that's going to be someone who has just had too
much dog shit trample through the house.
I get it. And the Japanese love that as
well. Not dog shit, could make a joke
there will not. I was going to say not the
Japanese, but here's the thing. Here's the thing.
I think in a lot of Asian cultures, and I don't know what
I'm basing this on, you're not supposed to wear your shoes
indoors. And I be, I'll be honest, I
don't think there were socks indoors either.
And that's just something that you have to respect if you ever
find yourself, you know, in Asia, which I've never been to
Asia, but I, I think I would like it.
I think I'd like to go to Tokyo because it seems a bit, a little
bit mad. You know, I don't know what I'm
talking about, but all I know is this.
It's been a crazy week online. I feel like we're going to talk
about it unless there's questions someone will have
asked it. I I I don't know.
It seems. Do you know, I got into this
weird thing of like someone who doesn't watch the news or really
read the news. Sorry.
Hold on. Speaking The news, Mickey
Bartlett speaking. I mean, that's where this is
where I get my news from. Mickey.
They're bringing in chlorinated meat soon, boys.
I don't know what that is. Is it meat with chlorine in it?
I don't know. Listen, here's the thing.
I swam and stuff for every Wednesday for about 10 years
when I was young swimming and hasn't done me any harm.
I mean, I have no feeling in the skull.
But apart from that, it's all good.
Chlorinated chicken. It's one of those things.
And that we'll just, we'll just cross that bridge when we come
to, you know, it's not a topic for this podcast.
What we talk about in this podcast is life.
What we talk about is facts. We talk finance, we talk
entertainment, we talk Goss and I, I don't know, I was saying
like for someone who doesn't watch the news, this week has
been a mad week and this is how you desensitised you to it all.
I, I didn't even watch the, all the footage of the giant bomb
that went off in Beirut. I didn't even watch it because
it was being sent round on WhatsApp and people and people
posting up on the Facebook, people who, you know, given
their take on it and it's horrible.
I think, I think I can't even watch or read about that kind of
thing. And maybe that's ignorant, but,
but I don't know. The money, the money tools
operate in very little sleep. He's got the claws out.
He's been very, very bitchy to a lot of people.
You know, for example, I put up a picture of me and Dave Elliott
this morning because tonight we're back on BBC Radio Ulster 5
past 6, The lads, the She and Todd show, BBC Radio Ulster
TuneIn. I want to see all the sippers
over there just drinking tea and enjoying the beats.
But I've got a picture of me and Dave.
Well it was actually Simon and Garfunkel.
This guy Craig writes under. Probably a great guy, probably
not Craig writes under it. I said here's me and Dave Ellie
getting ready for the show on Friday.
He said, is that not Simon and Garfunkel?
Now, I like banter like that, where you point out something
very obvious and pretend that you didn't know if the person
meant it or not. So I liked it from Craig, but he
spelled Garfunkel wrong. And I saw an opportunity and I
point to my closet and I said no minute Simon and Garfunkel, but
I spelled it the right way. And then I said, Craig, delete
your social media immediately. All accounts.
And that's kind of the vibe we're in right now.
I'm just telling people, hey, you know, delete this.
I want people to apologise for things I don't know.
Social media has become, maybe it's always been this like Wild
West type thing and your boy likes to just put up cute
pictures of himself and plug, plug the podcast and shows and
that's all it's going to be. I don't know, there's, there's
just so much going on and then the money toad just wants to sit
in his lolly pad and enjoy himself.
And I think the sippers are the same before we get into the pod
because we do have loads of listeners questions and there's
something I want to watch, but I don't know what the type to get
it. So we're just going to see if
that works. But let me put on
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You also get a merchandise giveaway once a month.
Unbelievable, unbelievable. Somebody won a mug last month.
Sings scenes. Also, the merch is out there.
All the all the TV podcast merch, which is selling really
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We've got the zipper T-shirt. We've got the money to T-shirt
And hey, we make sure that the stuff looks very sexy as well,
because we don't just want it to be functional.
We want it to be. And I quote again, very sexy and
that's what it is. The money to T-shirt.
The zipper T-shirt actually are both on their way to me, I
think, so I can just beat about them in the house, right?
This thing I want to watch. I don't know, see if I just type
in what it is. I don't know if it'll come up.
Northern Ireland boy band. Nah, what do you know what I
should what I should do is just put it out right now on on
Instagram and someone will get back to me by the time the
show's over because I feel like we need we need to watch this
together because I purposely was going to watch it on a podcast
but didn't. Guys, I'm doing the team with me
podcast live recording at the minute.
I need to know something. There was this video that came
out and it's a it was like a Northern Irish boy band filmed
down like Harlan and Wolf Docks. If anyone knows what that is,
please send me the name of it or the link to it.
Thank you. This is some Inception podcast
shit right now. Yeah.
So we'll, we'll find that because I really want to see it.
I think it was like from about 10 years ago and it was just a
load of guys from Northern Ireland doing like, full dance
routine. But they were like my age, you
know what I mean? Like slightly too old to be
doing it. Like, I mean, I could still
probably be in a boy band, but I think they would lie about my
age in it. They'd be one of those ones.
I don't know, like that. That's the beginning.
The the the main time you realise that you're old is
whenever you realise you would be in the over 20 fives on X
Factor, because whenever you're a kid, you're like over 20
fives. That's ancient.
And then you get to 32 and you're like, Oh my God, I would
be in the over 20 fives Sep for seven years.
Just one of those people that keeps going back on X Factor.
What about those guys? You know, Louis, like, and we've
seen you before. Is that right?
So bad? We've seen, I'm lowly Walsh,
we've seen you before, is that right?
And Simon called like a man. You've been back loads of times.
And yeah, there's guys who are always, always on X Factor and
they're like, you know, just feel like I've gone away and
worked on what I needed to. And with hindsight I realised I
wasn't ready when I thought it was.
And then they get through. But a judge's houses, they get
told no. What about when people get told
whatever? You get told no judge's houses
and X Factor and like claps under the ground crime.
It's a it's a singing competition.
Don't worry about it. Speaking of singing, I'm not
doing those Jingle ads anymore. I've retired.
Just want to throw that out there.
You know, like Connolly's and Moy, you've seen me do Martin
Phillips floors, all that kind of thing.
I'm done. I want to focus on comedy now.
We've been there, we've done it, we've worn AT shirt.
That's not the phrase, is it? Been there, done there, bought,
been there, done that, bought the T-shirt and speaking the
T-shirt, I thought I'd let you know this.
That's just cropped into my mind.
Whenever I was in New York or whenever I was a kid, there was
what looked like a German man or definitely like a European man.
Well, he was pretty fat and he was walking about in a red
T-shirt with white writing. And it said you the man, but you
and da were very close together. And I remember turning to my
mother and saying, mother, it looks like his T-shirt says UDA
man. And it didn't get enough of a
reaction. But I thought at the time that
that was very funny that I noticed that and I thought it
was quite fun. I mean, the alternative is funny
as well that he's actually just from the Shankill or anywhere
else. Apologies to anyone from the
Shankle, but there definitely is guys in paramilitaries in the
Shankle. Like let's not we, let's not lie
about it. Let's definitely not lie about
it. I'd say every town and village
in Northern Ireland there is one person at least in a
paramilitary. Fair enough.
And I'm just saying in the Shankle there's at least 2.
I don't know, maybe I should I might start a paramilitary but
just be like like dead on, like listen rubbish and all, but but
then balaclavas. I mean definitely weird chat,
definitely weird chat. All right, I've loads of
listeners questions. I'm going to wait on that video
being sent in to me and we're just going to go through the
listeners questions. It's going to be a laid back
part and open sent us for a while.
We're back in the studio next week.
We're 100% back in the studio next week, Anthony McWilliams
says. Have you ever contributed the
loud flag shoot Snitches Get stitches And is it really that
bad in the BBC comedy writing room?
I love to digest here. I'm not going to spend too long
on it, but have I ever contributed the loud, loud flag?
Was I'm Loud Flag was a social media account set up during the
flag protest that basically parody all the stuff that was
going on. And you never know who you never
knew who it was behind it. Then it came out who it was.
Then this Sunday in the newspapers, that person outed
somebody else that was in it. People free to look that up
themselves. And, and a lot of people were
talking about it. So it's not like I'm breaking
the news to you. And I think anything that's set
up to party something. And if you're taking the piss
out of something in a fairway, that's fine.
I'm a comedian. So I'm, I don't, I don't police
comedy, you know, I don't, whether I think something's
funny or not or offensive or not.
I'm not saying it is offensive. I, I remember seeing the lab
flag stuff in the first day, six months that was around and then
never seen it again. But yeah, and a lot of people
are like, it turned into this thing, you know, it turned in,
it turns to carry and it turned this, it turned out I, I don't
know and I genuinely don't have an opinion.
If you listen to the podcast, you know, I don't fence it.
I'll tell you like my opinion on something, my honest opinion on
something because I'll ramble about it.
So it's never like prehearsed. But I, I don't police comedy.
I don't tell anybody else how to whether something is sort of
funny or not. I'm trying not to be rambling
here. What I mean is whether it turned
into what people say it did. I, I don't know because I, I, I
actually didn't know it was still going in all honesty.
But I do remember that that account used to very heavily
troll Mickey Bartlett a wee bit myself mean time to time.
It mainly had to go with a show called Monumental, which was a
panel show from here that was on BBC Northern Ireland for two
series. Mickey was a regular team
captain on it. I did 1 episode and I just
remember getting a lot of tweets from the LAD flag account which
bear in mind was set up to party the flag protest and it was all
like this show isn't funny and why is this on TV?
Maybe not said in that way, but very much like not being cute
about like very much being direct.
And then the account would just comment on like videos I've done
or and I I wasn't getting as bad as I definitely remember Mickey
getting it a lot and always having a back and forward with
him, which I mean, it's fine, but the idea that there's no
face or name to put to it, it just makes me feel awkward about
it or, or like uneasy. I'm like, well, let's have a
comment. Who are you?
You know, who are you? And so I hated that.
I hated that it was trying to be a comedy account, but it was it
was slagging off local comedians and it was anonymous.
So I never liked that about it and I could tell there was
always what I felt there was always like a thing of whoever
was behind it, whether individually or collectively was
like we should be on TV. In fact, I'm pretty sure they
said in the tweet that Adam and Mickey wants something along the
lines of sure, BBC wanted us, but but we said no or whatever.
It's irrelevant. To answer your question, yes, I
was there. To answer your question, yes.
I was the moderator for three years and and a lot of people
would say as soon as I joined, the sectarianism went through
the roof. No, but if it or not, I was not
involved because if I was, then I used it to slag myself off,
which might have been actually pretty smart to make it seem
that it wasn't in it. No, all the controversy around
it this week and all the comments about it, it seems like
let me take a sip of cold tea. Let me take a sip of cold tea
It. It was an uncomfortable time to
like read about it, to see about it.
There was people involved. I didn't want to get involved in
a conversation. The whole time the conversation
was going on, I was like, thank God this is nothing to do with
me. Because I think if you, if you
in this day and age, like if you I'm probably of all time, if you
do something anonymously, if you do something, you know, under an
alias or whatever, it will always come back to you.
It will always come back to you. And there will be people as soon
as it does come back to you, they use it to constantly attack
you. And so when it when it I never
had any like long term, like they slagged me off whoever that
was, you know, because because it was a faceless person, there
wasn't really much to think about.
But yeah, the I was like, I'm not involved in this
conversation. I was obviously reading about
it, watching about it, all that kind of thing online.
And then I was brought into the conversation in one very
insignificant tweet where one of the original guys from lad Flag,
his wife said, just to let you know, my husband was never
motivated but by trying to like be a BBC writer or get on TV or
yeah, or be she's like, he didn't want to be in the BBC
writers room with the likes of Give My Hairpiece and Shane
Todd. Now what?
What I didn't like about it was that I wasn't tagged in it
right? Because like, because if you
want to, if, if you wanna throw shots at mummy, definitely let
Mummy know that it's happening. The mummy saw it, don't get me
wrong, 'cause immediately seppers were like, hey, why is
he getting brought into this? And it reminded me of whenever I
was like a teenager outside nightclubs.
It reminded me of any time a fight would kick off.
For some reason, girls I'd never met before will always feel the
need to like protect me. If guys were fighting and I was
near girls be like, don't be smacking him.
No, here, leave him out of it. He's only small.
I'd be like in the middle of a ring of girls, like chained
around me going leave him. Leave him.
He's he's weak. You know I need yous here.
But it did. But yeah, it especially doing
the episode with sorry if there's rambling right and
sorry, this is not interesting some people, but doing the
episode of tea with me with Tim earlier in the week to be like
thrown in with like they give my headpiece guys is nothing but a
compliment. It's nothing but a compliment
because they have been on our screens and making people laugh
for literally decades. So I actually took it as a
little bit of a compliment. And look, did I have a tweet
written out that my wife taught me how to post in?
Yes, yes, that is the case. She's like, you're a 32 year old
father. You need to not be involved in
this. Don't put yourself in this.
And that's where I was like, yes, yes, that is why I
shouldn't be allowed a phone because what I was going to do
is and the reason I didn't do this is because I was like, this
is a horrible ride that's going on.
I don't want to be a part of it. But I was going to write back
and say sorry. It took me a while to respond to
this tweet. But me in the hole in the wall
gang have as per been done at the bank cashing cheques.
And I was going to mock up a photo of me and the whole cast
to get my headpiece. With wheelbarrows and money.
But I didn't do that. But I want to let you know that
I thought about doing that and my wife said no, and I do what I
want. But I said OK and I got my
friend to mock up a little picture of me and Uncle Andy.
And I said, excuse me and everybody wins because I'm not
attacking anyone, but I'm having a laugh with everyone at my own
expense. So I thought that that was nice
to be involved in that way. But yeah, to summarise, no, I
have never been a member of the LAD flag account.
So there we go. But there will always be that
question mark. Considering how much I was like
no, because they slagged me. So, you know, you make up your
own mind, but, but no. And Anthony McWilliams is it?
Is it that bad being in the BBC comedy writers room?
No, it's great, but genuinely an ambition of mine that I've had
for her. How lame is this?
Right? Just it's an ambition of mine
that I've had for genuinely since I started, since before I
started comedy, in fact since I was in primary school.
In P7 I was chatting to my friend Chris McBride and we came
up with an idea for ATV show called The Kings of Comedy.
Now it was probably a little bit, what would you say,
premature for us to label ourselves the Kings of Comedy,
considering we were P7 in downtown primary school and had
not yet published any material. But we were going to do this
live sketch show on BBC One day. So it's pretty great actually to
be doing stuff in BBC with BBC. And I finished my schedule this
week. Or not?
Not my schedule, my archive show.
Previously machine thought, I think it's on in August, but I'm
not too sure. But it was a lot of fun.
There was an era where they deleted a little bit of footage
and I had to go back in and film some stuff.
I just want to say my attitude was phenomenal throughout that
and I want everyone to know that.
And it's a shame that we filmed it under social distance and
measures because it was just a crew of three and I wish there
was a lot more people. So everybody knew, hey, he
approached this with a good attitude, even though he had to
come back in and he's getting an hour and a half sleep and I and
he still and to quote everyone there, know that to quote me, he
still look great. There you go.
My hair's a little bit different.
A couple of scenes. Don't worry about that.
Don't ever ever comment that. I mean this don't ever write
whenever the show comes out. Hey, man, why from one episode
to the other is your hair a different length?
Because if you do, you'll end up in the Gabri and that's all I'm
saying. Anthony, thanks for your
question. Sorry about the seven R answer
to it. Lisa Harker, do you laugh at
your own jokes? I do.
To summarise, sorry, I don't think stand up should ever tell
stand ups how to do stand up or be like that's good or that's
bad. There you go.
Just write jokes. That's what you ought to do.
That's all. You should be worried about.
Lisa Harker, who if you know the Maggie Moth character, nearly
giggle when I said moth from loads of stage shows around
Northern Ireland, very popular character.
I think Lisa wrote or was involved with.
It was 50 Shades of red, white and blue, which was like a 50
Shades of Grey party, which was very, very popular.
Lisa says, do you laugh at your own jokes?
And then she says, I do. Do I laugh at my own jokes?
My podcast is usually an hour long episode twice a week of of
me laughing at my own jokes. There's nobody else here because
we're not in the studio so it is essentially just me laughing at
my own jokes. I've probably done it a couple
times up until now and I'll do it more.
I love to laugh at my own jokes. No one finds me funnier than me
and if audiences find me half as funny I'll be selling more
tickets if that's possible. They say I think you have to
laugh at your own jokes. I love when people comment and
stuff and be like, this guy just cracks himself up.
Yes he does. 1000 percent, 1000%.
I will say this happens a lot. That should have got more.
I think you have to laugh at
your own jokes. Rebus says how best you strain a
tea bag. Rebus.
That's disgusting. Getting it out of the cup of the
spoon is a given, but do you risk squeezing the last of the
tea goodness out of it with a finger, potentially burning up
your precious digit? Do you take the time to find
something else to drain it or does it get binned?
Revis, what are you? That got very, very dirty and
it's taking a risk in a digit. That's the name of this podcast.
There we go. Risk in a digit.
So oh, no, burning your precious digit.
Yeah. OK, let's go up.
Burning your precious digit? No, I'm a spoon guy.
So I'll spoon. I'll spoon the table at 1520
times, press against the side, press against the side again,
give a quick drain, throw in the bin.
Simple as that. Anyone who does anything
different, you're going to Magaberry, Noah Ballard says.
Let me see, Noah says. Thoughts on this ingenious
innovation or blasphemy? Tea in a microwave?
New research says it could be the perfect couple.
My thoughts on that immediately are anger or confusion and just
sheer dismissal. Let me see.
The scientists think they may have hit the head on the perfect
cup of tea. They make it in the microwave.
The Chinese are behind this shocker.
Have they not done enough damage?
Coronavirus gets out of the of the lab and Wuhan and like this.
Let me see. So I don't like the way this
article is written, but all I'll say is I would be tempted to try
it because you've got to try it to slag it.
So I'll try tea in a microwave, Noah and I will update you guys
and let you know how I got on now, Dalton, if you could be
sponsored by one sports brand, what would it be?
Nike, my man, just do it 100%. I'll just say this guy's first
name in case he wasn't allowed to do what he did.
But my man Stevie may or may not work for a sports brand that has
may or may not already been mentioned.
And and one day he was like, listen, I've loaded gear for you
here, Not gears in gear. I mean gears in like sweet
threads. He's like almost, almost far,
far down to you or come pick them up.
And for some reason I thought it was like I was like, that's
pretty kind. I thought it was like maybe like
AT shirt and pair of socks And I was like, nice one man.
We were like ships in the night. We always missed each other and
you know, I was like going away for a while he was away working.
Then eventually at one day I was like here I could call up on
grab bug, go to his house. He's like oh mate, there you go,
there you go. Just some stuff we had like
lying about. So I thought you'd enjoy this.
It was what can only be described as 7 tonnes of
phenomenal night gear and it's stuff that I wear pretty much
every day I lay up here. I did such a 14 year old girl
thing. I laid all the clothes out that
he gave me. I took pictures of them and I
sent them to my friends. And there was some football tops
in there and hoodies and tracksuit bottoms and T-shirts.
And it made me like extremely happy because when he gave me
this stuff, he gave me the big black Nike rucksack and I just
left out of my passenger seat and just drove home.
But like what's in there? And then I got home and I was so
happy. That's such a young boy thing to
say. And I was happy.
It was good. But it was.
And Stevie, we should, we should we should make that a monthly
thing. That's very me.
Hey, man, I really appreciate that.
Let's let's, let's, let's send over gear as it gets released.
So yeah, now I definitely go Nike.
Karen Fleming, what's the monster on your bed called?
Yeah, I did say earlier that I I put up a tweet saying that.
I put up a tweet saying that I'm a 32 year old with a three-week
old son, but I still run and jump into the bed in case a
monster grabs my foot there. There is some truth in that.
I hear thing. The reality somewhere in
between. I don't run and jump into bed.
I do walk and get into bed, but I don't hang about at the bottom
of the bed, Put it that way. I don't mess about and stand in
gossip with my feet directly beside the bottom of the bed.
I do get him pretty sharpish and the monster under my bed is
called rail mode, but he was called that before the rail
mode. It's just coincidence.
I think that's it on Twitter and then Instagram.
Let's see who we've got. Oh, Johnny, Johnny Bo coming in
with a very good joke there. I put that video out saying just
there now that Instagram post being like, what was that boy
band called that did a video of them did an entertainment around
Harlem Wolf and Johnny Bo said, I think it was these Belfast
Protestant boys. Johnny, 7 out of 10.
I enjoyed that. Yeah, that's I'm doing a gig and
then the guy run. That's like here, can you do a
track and trace? I don't know what a track and
trace is. I'm going to say I'm just going
to say sorry guys, I don't know what a track and trace is.
I mean, presume it's to do with COVID.
And I'll say this about COVID. I started wearing a mask in the
shop. As I said last week in the
podcast, an update, I went into a garage to do some shopping
today and I was wearing a mask and I would 60 people in there.
Nobody else was. So I took it off because I
thought it was weird and that is why COVID still knocking about
because people like me, Johnny Dempster, would you just get
straight into it? Would you rather have teeth for
pubes or pubes for teeth and definitely teeth for pubes.
I would enjoy that because pubes teeth would would not be a good
look. I wouldn't get any more TV
programmes. Luke Atkinson asked the same
question. I don't know whether those guys
are married or friends or that's just a coincidence, but there
you go. Stephen has sent me a link.
I hope it's the link I'm looking for.
And I'm not like a link to like discount poppers or something,
but I hope it is a link. Wilkinson half line.
We we might. We might have the video.
OK, Wait, wait. No, no.
That's not what I'm looking for. Featuring Tom King.
No put say thanks, but no, that's not what I'm looking for.
Steven reckons he's got what I'm looking for here.
Let me see. Please be it.
Someone sent me this a while ago on the podcast, but we were
doing something else so we didn't get wrong to talking
about it. OK, OK, Stephen, you sent me a
link to Rick Astley. Never going to give you you've
Rickrolled me. You've rickrolled me and I'm
blocking you from Instagram. So there you go, Stephen.
Stephen, delete your account now and and turn yourself into your
nearest police station because that's just fucking rude to do
that. But I appreciate it.
And I went through the length of copying because you can't just
click on the Instagram link. So I copied it into my browser
and then I paste and that's upsetting.
Patrick Quinn, the artist formerly known as the Belfast
guy in China. But he says he doesn't know how
his name on Instagram changed and not be the Belfast guy in
China. But I think we're going to, you
know, we could spend a long time, you know, figuring out
what, what the crack with that is or what happened.
But I can only presume that it was an inside job by the Chinese
government to change your name. Let me see.
Patrick says. Have you got a full set of new
material ready for when you're back on stage?
Will you break into some smooth Craig David's vocals mid stand
up? It may have had its day, but
fans deserve even one for their money.
First of all, to answer your question, yes I reckon I've
written about 45 minutes worth of stand up in lockdown but I'm
not 100% sure. But there's no guarantee with
that. So while I've written the
material, who knows if it's going to work.
I'm looking at it going. That's funny.
But I might get up on stage, try it 10 times and it might never
work. So I think I've been pretty
prolific with my joke writing and that is always my advice to
stand ups or anyone who's trying to get into stand up is just
right material. Just you can't go wrong if you
just write jokes, just write material.
That's what you do if you're a stand up.
So I've been writing a lot of stuff and I had written loads of
thoughts and ideas before lockdown.
So this was a good chance to do it and I'm just chipping away.
I'm actually doing my first gig this Saturday night.
So tomorrow night, if you're watching this on Friday and I'm
breaking it, I'm very nervous. I feel like I'm rusty like any
anybody would even. And well, that's weird because
I'm very, very talented at stand up.
But but then I'm buzzing for it. I'm really looking forward to
it. But The thing is, do I try all
this new material I have or do I go back and just get back into
the rhythm on? But by doing tried and testing
material, I think I'll do a condemnation of both.
But for the first time, I'm typing my material up, I'm
printing it out just so I can walk around the house trying to
learn it. But it's good.
I mean, not except the game out of your comfort zone.
Like that's good. I know that I'm a good stand up.
I know people come to my shows, which is brilliant.
So I am good at it. But four or five months without
doing it is huge. It's like if you didn't drive
for that long the first time you got in a car, you'd be nervous
and you'd probably make a couple of mistakes.
Or any job you just take or you like, you don't go to the gym
for that time, you're not going to be as strong.
But hopefully I just fall back into the routine of it.
I'm buzzing to do it. I've got new material I like and
I just need to get better with. I have a thought for stand up by
the idea and I just try and get a gig that night just to do that
material. But I probably need the finesse
it a wee bit more before I do it because I'll try it and it'll be
like too long the material, but I'll just stick with it.
So I need to just be a wee bit more ruthless with my own
writing. That's something Tim said on
Wednesday that I definitely took out of my chat with him.
The fact that he writes in a team.
You can, someone else can go. I know you like that joke.
I don't think it works. And then you go, fair enough.
When you just write everything by yourself, it's more difficult
to just like let jokes go because you're like, no, I wrote
that. So I'm pausing to get back at
it. We never found out what the name
of that boy band song was. But when we're back in studio,
we will do that. I'm going to wrap up the pod
because I'm back. I'm playing football tonight,
which I'm excited for doing some socially distance training and
then and I've just been a bit flat out.
So I feel like I've rambled and I don't want to ramble on too
much more. I'll save it for being back in
the studio next week, which I'm really excited about.
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I'll see you on Wednesday, Sips.