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. 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
Nervous. 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.
Oh, oh, yes, yes, Let me just hold on.
Let me just put that under the microscope.
Yep, it's the she and tog cast. Hello, welcome to episode,
whatever episode it is totally irrelevant.
Doesn't matter what episode it is.
In the words of Metallica, nothing else matters bar this
podcast on this, on this moment that we're all we're all
sharing. And it's beautiful.
It's absolutely beautiful. Hope everybody is doing well.
I'll just fill you in on what's been going on with me.
We're going to talk about some silly stuff.
My kitchen top just ram by itself there like some sort of
poltergeist and now it's fine. And Yep, and that's a thing.
And, you know, normally I do this podcast with Aaron Butler.
He produces it, but he's in Florida because he is a Judas.
And I hope he gets arrested. I hope he has a visa issue and
he gets arrested. And they phone me, which is
weird, instead of his parents that they would phone me.
And they say, they say, Sir, we've got your friend Aaron
Butler here. You can bail him out for $5.
Is that OK? How would you like to make
payment? And I say, how would I like to
make payment? Not, you know, and I'll leave
them there for a while. Shout out, Darren, don't go on
any holidays without me. Yeah, we're going to talk about
some silly stuff. Then we've got listeners
questions at the end. If you ever want to get in touch
with the podcast. It's just Achy and Todd on
Twitter. And, you know, you can, you can
do that. I get a lot of weird messages
this week. All right mate, I'm running the
first line of messages I get on Facebook from people are always
made to know this is a long shot dot, dot, dot.
Whenever I open it I'm like, yeah, it is made to know this is
a long shot. But we are running a we're
running a battle of the bands on planet Saturn in the year 3009.
Is there any way you could do 7 hours of stand about it?
But it's all good? I've never said that wasn't my
voice there but it's all good, you know?
Weird. I've been on tour, I've been
enjoying it. Last week I was in Arma and
Derry and best thing about Derry going up to Derry is there is an
Ando's in Derry and I insist on getting one before any show I do
up there. And this time didn't pay for it.
Love that, absolutely love that. Shout out to the guys at the
Richmond Centre Nandos. I put my wallet out, they said
told father your money's no good here.
And then they all kissed my ring, which is weird because it
wasn't wearing jewellery. But yeah, I appreciate that.
You know what, I've been, I've been really enjoying the shows.
If I had to pick a highlight, actually there's there's a few
you can't choose between. But all I'll say is I'm having
a, I'm having a good time this week.
I'm in Newcastle on Friday, the one in County Down and I am in
Antrim on Sunday. Now Antrim's sold out and the
reason Antrim isn't even on the Shine website, we're on my tour
dates or shine.net. But the reason it's not is
because we just put it up and then it just sold out.
It just sold out. I mean, the capacity of the
venue's three, you know, and I'm one of them.
And then I've got a support act and a tech guy.
So technically that no, I think it holds like 120 or 150 or
something, but it's sold out before we could list it on the
site. And I love that.
I absolutely love that. When they told me about that, I
said, guys, that is great. Great stuff, great stuff.
More of that Newcastle, you can see on their website, on the
Anchor Bar website that there is a very small amount of tickets
left for that. It tells you how many there's
left and I think it's like 10. So if you want to come to the
Anchor show in Newcastle this Friday, you can get tickets,
tickets for the shine.net or on the Anchor website.
I did the Empire last night. I actually headlined the Empire
for the first time ever last night.
I maybe done the Empire 15 times and maybe even more, not as much
recently, but I went down, I did a headline slot and then the
only thing that worries me is my insurance.
I just need to double check that my fuck, I've got a really big
bill today. I woke up with a big bill from
doing the Empire last night, which I'm not going to let
affect me doing the podcast. We're still going to have a bit
of a laugh, but this is hanging over me and apparently they're
apparently they're going to try and make me pay out of my own
pocket to repair the roof of the empire.
Ah, I mean, I knew I knew it was a good show.
I felt like I had a good set. But then the promoter called me
and said, Todd, father, listen, and you, you took the roof off
last night. It's it's blown away and the
roof is in Lurgan. It's washed up in a field in
Lurgan, the roof. And apparently it's just an
inconvenience for them, for the Empire because the the venues an
outdoor venue now. And it wasn't before I did my
set, but because I felt during my set, I felt like I could hear
fixtures and fittings on the roof start to loosen a bit.
And the the roof was wobbling. But apparently as soon as I
walked off stage, I cut straight into my Passat and drove home.
The roof just came off. So I, I, Paul, I apologise to
anybody who was at the show last night because after I left, I
heard it got really cold because the show was over and then it
was just raining in on people. So apologies.
I just want to, this is tempting fate so bad for future shows,
but just get, I just want to give a shout at all future
venues, anyone who has me booked, if we can just really
make sure the roof is secured, It's it's going to save me a lot
of money because, look, I'm making it because I'm doing the
shows, you know, but I would prefer to spend my money on, you
know, sweets and almond milk as opposed to a Nando's, as opposed
to roofs. OK.
So, yeah, I got to apologise for, for last night.
But so I just drank some delicious tea there and
apologies if you heard me drinking and you went, eh, it's
gross. I'm, I'm aware we're going to
record them for 7 minutes and I haven't really said anything
yet. So let's just get straight into,
I do have stuff to plug, but let's just do that at the end.
That's not why we're here. And we'll kick off what we do
sometimes on telecast, which is this Day in History.
It's let me sneeze. Hold on.
I'm going to mute this though. Oh, what a good guy.
I could have sneezed, although maybe there is people who want
to hear me sneeze and I will never have that opportunity.
But I sneezed very loud. So I decided to meet the
podcast. So it's September the 11th, the
day I record this. We're going to see what happened
this Day in History. I mean, I know there's a pretty
big one, but let's just kick off with in the year 9, right?
The year 9 the battle of chudiburg forest ends the battle
of chudiburg forest Chudiburg forest definitely sounds like a
third division German football team that you will go on loan
to. Chudiborg forest battle.
OK, so let's find out what this was about.
It was described as a Varian disaster by Roman historians.
One of the one of the armies was led by Publius.
That's what that's probably why the battle started, because
people were just laughing at his name.
He is the Fade Emperor Publius. The alliance was led by
Arminius. Definitely feels like a
fragrance. What's it?
What was it about? You know what, at the end of the
day, who gives a fuck? Apologies to anybody that's
involved in 1185. Isaac the second Anglius Isaac
the second Anglius kills Stefanus, and this is his real
name, Stefanus Haggio Christopher Reitz.
What? That's all one word, Stefanus,
right? Stefanus Haggio Christopher
writes on. Definitely Googling this guy.
What a name. Stefanus, right?
He was the most powerful member of the Byzantine emperor.
Oh, the most Stefan had, Christopher writes, was was of
humble origin. Of course he was.
His name is so hard to pronounce.
He wasn't getting anywhere in life.
OK, I don't care. Let me give me some juicy 1297,
the Battle of Sterling Bridge. Scottish rebel William Wallace
defeats the English. And the picture of him here that
they've used is really funny because he looks a wee bit camp
and a wee bit sassy. Like he's going, I just won the
battle right in 1649, the massacre of Dragada Dragada.
I didn't know. I did a show there in 1649.
Oh, killing it. Oliver Cromwell kills 3000
royalists, Sly. Well, I don't really know the
context. Maybe it was and maybe it wasn't
the massacre of Draheda. I don't think I've ever been in
Draheda, but I've definitely driven through it, Benjamin
Franklin 1773 wrote. There was, there was.
There never was a good war or bad peace fuck up.
In 1847, there was the first singing of Stephen Foster's
Susanna in Pittsburgh, right? I'm not slagging Stephen Foster
off, but I bet the song was shit because it was from the 1800s.
But I bet at the time he was popping off Stephen Foster
Susanna. Let's listen to a bit of it.
By the way, I guarantee it was shit.
Right, this is it. The original song lyrics might
be offensive to listeners. Oh no, feel like it's old
American song that's going to be racist.
Right? Here we go.
By the way, terrible beats so far, right?
It starts off, I came from Alabama with a banjo and manee.
Definitely at some point in this, something sly is happening
to black people for sure, because it doesn't say at the
start that's going to be offensive.
And then he doesn't start off by going came to Alabama with a
banjo and manee and then it doesn't get racist.
It rained all night the day I left.
Usually must have called a new venue after I'd done a set.
He hasn't got racist yet, Stephen Foster, but I think at
some point he will. It's actually not that bad so
far, right? Oh, oh, right.
Yeah. The way it said it, this song,
the original lyrics in the song may be offensive to some
listeners. Hey, yeah, yeah.
Is Stephen Foster 2 Passions writing tunes and just being
very racist? And we stopped at a point there.
I mean, his if you glanced at his lyrics, if like Travis Scott
had had and that was the song from Now You Go, fair enough.
But like, this old white guy, Stephen Foster shouldn't have
been doing this. Oh no.
One of the first comments on YouTube.
Nice. It's hard to find recordings of
this song that include the original lyric.
It's history. No need to censor it well. 395
likes. I'm just looking for great
comments. Someone says I don't necessarily
agree with all the lyrics but it was how people talk back then.
Hey black people didn't. Just to let you know.
You should never censor history though.
Don't like it, don't listen. Don't like it, don't listen.
Someone just writes under it. I think it's a great song really
on brackets on black. I just like.
I just like adults and brackets. I think it's a good song.
By the way. I'm black.
Some guy writes under it. You're beautiful too.
Oh, yeah, She's going to marry you, mate.
Someone says they're just here for the comments section.
Some guy says big thanks from Russia.
Great music night, Dad on pancake head.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like songs back then, we're probably saying
the N word as much as songs are now, you know, and there was a
big time in between when people were like, should we, should we
not? And then there was just a point
like a couple of years ago were like Migos got in the scene.
They were like, yeah, let's let's, let's go for it, let's
get it going. So yeah, that that's not going
to be a regular podcast feature where I start playing racist
songs. That's the first and last time
that we're going to do that. Hey, as I was setting this
podcast up, I saw a thing about the origin of names and I
thought, hey, that might be interesting to look back at that
and find out what I know about my name because all I know about
my name, I talked about this in the stand up show years ago.
The only thing about I know about my name is I was named
after a cowboy film called Shane and it was from the 40s.
And I don't know anything about the history of my name, so I've
typed it in the A Name origin website and I'm discovering this
information for the first time with you guys.
An unusual name? Well first of all, fuck off
right? But an unusual name but still
often heard is the name Sheen. It's not that unusual.
Me and the guy from Westlife were called it.
It is primarily masculine, which is definitely my Twitter bio.
Primarily masculine and derives from the Irish and Hebrew
origin. Oh shit.
It is the anglicised version of the name Sean, which of course
is a cognate of John. I didn't even know that.
Rarely Shane is used as a feminine given name derived from
the Yiddish name Shana which means beautiful.
Some of this was not a shark guys.
Shane is usually used as a first name.
The meaning of Shane is God is gracious gift from God or God's
gracious gift. You know what?
My head is big enough and I don't need to know that my name
means gift from God. I might just start that.
Putting that down on forms now. Gift from God, Todd.
Oh my God. Gift from God.
What's your name it? That's just gift from God, Todd.
Why's up? No, seriously, that's what it
means. The same meanings hold true for
Sean and John as well. I know a fuck out, don't worry
about that. The name's popularity.
The popularity of Sheen has decreased over the years.
That's not even part of the article, by the way, that's just
me thinking about loud in my head.
The height of popularity being during the 1970s.
In 2015 it was ranked at 449th in popularity in England and
Wales. Oh no.
The name is used in mainly English speaking countries, but
not as popular as it once was. Famous people with the name.
OK, I'll be on this. Shane Williams, the Welsh rugby
player. Shane Ritchie, the London actor.
Shane Filin, Westlife, Shane West, actor and musician.
Hey, get me on it. Get me on that list.
Also, Urban Dictionary has some I don't really understand.
Urban Dictionary does just anybody post this?
Says Shane. Sexy, funny, sweet and a bit of
an asshole. Hey, boom.
Sexy, funny, sweet, a bit of an asshole.
Nailed it. He has a naughty mouth and a
rapeier wit. He has gorgeous blue eyes and a
devilish smile that makes you wonder what he's thinking.
Though he will never tell you, he has the most random thoughts
and can make you laugh until you cry.
Shane is amazing. I mean, I didn't write that, but
I would have written that and I'm giving that a like in Urban
Dictionary there. So there you go.
I'm a gift from God. And it's true because it says it
on the Internet. So that's great.
I have, I was going to do TripAdvisor and I know I've said
for the last couple of weeks, I'm going to do that because
people liked it when I just used to go through the reviews of
Apple Greens, random Apple greens.
But then I don't know if I've got time to do that because.
And I'll tell you about this really quick and I really hope
it happens because I don't want to say it and then it doesn't
happen because I hate that. But I, I wrote a sitcom pilot
with my friend Jack, who's based in LA, He's from there.
And we wrote the sitcom called Rabbits.
And we, we think it's really thought, think that it's really
good and got like good feedback from it, from people that would
be in that sort of world. Submitted it in the BBC, got
like a production company kind of go quite far down the road
with it, well further than I've had for something like this
before. And then sort of at the last
hurdle, a guy in BBC turned it down, which to be fair, they're
probably getting like hundreds of scripts a day.
So seething, but fine. And I was going to work on
something else, but then I had this chat with Dave Elliott
about a month ago, maybe less around the time I was doing the
the previously TV show, which is still BBC iPlayer, previously
Shane Tall, whatever. And Dave was like, see next.
Why don't you just do something that you're really passionate
about and you can just do on your own terms?
You know, just focus on that for a while while you're while
you're doing the tour, because I've a lot of free time when I'm
doing tour and me and Michael Foster, my good friend, long
term collaborator, Michael kind of shoots most of my video
stuff. We just decided that fuck it,
let's just let's just shoot this.
Let's just make this a compilot, put it online, see what people
think of it. And if it goes down well, we'll
make more. Maybe we can get some, you know,
back and forth and it'll allow us to make more.
So next week we're just shooting a whole set compilot over 2
days. It's going to be two really
intense days and then I've got to like, we've got to meet today
basically to work out how we're going to cast it, what locations
we're going to use and all that and try and just make it as good
as possible. So I've already kind of cast a
couple of roles. I mean, I'm playing one of the
leads, but I think that's totally fine because I wrote it,
so I will be in it. And yes, the rule is a 65 year
old woman, but like Eddie Murphy in an early professor, I'm
playing all the roles. No, yeah, I will be in it for
sure because I'm a gift from God.
But yeah, I'll try. I'll try and sort of document
that as we go and I'll keep you updated.
But it's kind of the biggest, the most ambitious thing that
I've taken on the the thing I've done by myself on the biggest
scale, I would say. So I'm really looking forward to
doing that. We're shooting that over 2 days
next week and it's scary Becky's but hope it'll hope it'll turn
out well. Anyway, I don't know why I
started talking about that, but I've got some questions and one
comes from Alt DUP. Great.
Who says? Why does everybody who says I
won't tell you again go on and go on to tell you again?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That's a big thing mums used to
do back in the day. I'll not tell yous again.
Stop running out of this house. Yeah, because there's no time in
between the statement that they won't tell you again and then
them proceeding. They just tell you again.
Don't have me tell you again. And then they'll say the thing.
Talal Jumar, which is a fantastic, fantastic name.
Talal Jumar. Talal Jumar sounds like
somewhere I would really like the holiday.
Oh, darling, I'm just off to Talal Jumar.
Oh, can I come? No, it's invite only.
It's an island, Talal says. Will you ever do a sequel to the
American actors with Irish accents?
I want to know, did you catch him running through Castle Curt
Shopping Centre mall? Hashtag podcast.
Thanks for question man. Will I ever do a sequel?
Yes, absolutely. Because that, that was another
thing I was thinking about doing as like a bigger project kind of
or a more focused thing was doing like a short film of that
instead of like a 3-4 minute sketch or whatever it was 2
minute sketch. We're just going to do like 1/2
hour film of American actors with Irish accents.
I still might do that. I might do that after this.
I feel like I always want to have like a passion project on
the go. So I think once we get this out
of the way, then we'll do that again.
And it just gives us an excuse to do the bad accents.
So yeah, I'll do I put I put the old one on Instagram again there
because I think the first time we uploaded it, it just went out
on the BBC account. And so a lot of people who
follow my stuff or like my stuff probably didn't see it the first
time around or some people didn't.
So let me just check that got like 20,000 new views, which is
a lot for Instagram or it's a lot for me for Instagram and
like 2 1/2 thousand likes there, which is class.
It's cool whenever people like your stuff.
Well, it's good when people like yourself full stop.
But it's cool when people haven't seen something, you
know, they've seen a lot of your stuff and then they're like,
fuck, I'd actually never seen this.
So I think that that was cool to put that up again.
Jared Donnelly says crisp sandwich or sausage roll bop.
Oh, fuck. Sausage roll bops, for anybody
who don't know, are gastronomic delicacy of a Belfast bop, which
is the sausage roll fired in the middle of it and red sauce.
And I used to, whenever I went to Belfast, met back in the day
whenever I went there. We used to get those amazing
bakeries there probably still is on Castle Street in Belfast.
And we used to get sausage roll bops like twice a week from this
bakery and they were incredible. So bad for you, but incredible.
So I'll go sausage roll bop. I do like a crisp sandwich, but
there needs to be something else in there with it.
You know, I know a lot of people will just go like pickled on
your Monster Munch in between two bits of bread.
But what I like to do is like have some chicken and salad in
there and then fire the crisps in.
Like, I don't know if this is legal APSNI, but sometimes if I
get a sandwich and there's crisps on the side, like the the
chef is obviously going, hey, eat these separately.
I say fuck you and I'm this bullshit and I take the crisps
and I put them inside the sandwich.
Guzzi says. What colour is a myrrh?
A myrrh is no colour.
It's a reflection. Fuck, do you know what?
You've actually melted my head there.
You've melted my head, Amy says. Would you smell Yokum Low's
fingers? Absolutely not.
For anybody who does know, Yokum Low is a Germany football
manager who has like, a wee quirky thing about him where he
picks his bum and smells it and eats it and picks his nose and
smells it and eats it and does all this really weird stuff
while he's on the sideline of football matches being watched
by millions and millions of people.
And I think he did it in the EUR and it was really weird.
And then everyone was on camera. It was on camera and everybody's
talking about it. And then instead of him being
like, oh fuck, that's weird. Why am I doing that?
I should stop doing that instead of that.
No, he just, he still does. And I just don't think you
should do it. I think someone should have a
word and go, look, I'm not being a Dick here.
You're going to know. But is there any way you could
stop picking your whole Because it's not great.
It's not a great look, But yeah, he does it.
He doesn't and he loves it. John Rogan says.
How do you describe a Curry sausage supper to someone not
from Ireland? A Curry sausage supper.
I've never had a Curry sausage supper because I don't like
Curry. And there was a time whenever my
wife, who was then my girlfriend, whenever I was
having a family meal at her house and it was Curry and I
felt like I didn't have the confidence or the authority yet
to go. I didn't want to upset the apple
cart and go I actually don't like Curry because if you know
me you know the weirdest diet of all time and I can only eat 6
things, two of which are bananas right?
But what happened was I should have just said hey I don't
really like Curry but I ate it and it wasn't that bad.
But I haven't eaten Curry since. A Curry sausage supper is
usually 2 sausages ideally battered right with chips and
you've got in brackets in peas, which the last thing I saw in
brackets was I'm black Curry sausage Uber is 2 sausages,
chips and then Curry sauce. But I think what most people
would prefer is the Curry sauce in a wheat tub on the side so
you can put it on there on your terms because some people like
to dip into the tub and some people like to just pour the tub
over. Now, I personally, I, if I, if
the food was right for me, if it didn't have gluten and dairy,
I'm a little boy. I would have, I would have chips
and gravy no problem. But when you introduce a meat
and there's chips, I don't want a sauce with it like a gravy or
a Curry. Maybe on the side.
Yeah, fuck, I would love a gravy chip right now.
Gravy chips are so good. But for me, the gravy has to be
chip shop gravy, like a certain type of gravy, like everyone's
mom has made them a gravy chip and it's just like bestow.
And you're like, oh, fuck, well, this is ruined my week.
So it's it's got it. It's got to be precise is what
I'm saying. Maisie says what's your dream
Glastonbury lineup? Don't think I would go to
Glastonbury because it's mucky. It's mucky.
So I don't think I would like it because I don't like muck.
But my dream Glastonbury lineup would be The Rolling Stones
would headline. No, I would headline.
And that's good because Glastonbury is outdoor anyway,
so I wouldn't have to pay any roof repair bills.
So me and The Rolling Stones, me, The Rolling Stones Blazing
Squad, the guy Stephen Henderson, or he's called the
guy that sang the racist song from the 1800s.
And then we would just put him up on one after and be like, yo,
what the fuck you doing? You know, I'd probably have him
on and then Stormzy would come on after him and mug him off and
then just do a great set. Who else would be on?
Probably have like probably have some bands from here.
Snow Patrol 2 Door I would have. I like people.
I would have some Divas on as well like Shirley Bassey.
I'd have Shirley Bassey on Tom Jones.
I would have those guys that did the West Belfast rap remember
like what? I'll botley made who you're
looking at? No, like what?
Oh yeah, remember that Fuck, do you remember that?
Do you remember that W Belfast rap?
And I think it went like wah and here bees me mate who you're
looking at I'll botley like what?
Here bees me. Is there anything worse than
people who can't do a Belfast accent going things like here
bees me and that's us now When you can't do the voice don't do
it W Belfast. As always a drunk girl.
OK here it is West Belfast rap your uncle Tommy.
So this has 357,000 views on YouTube.
Jesus Christ and from 2006 I have no idea who did this beside
it. I see MC Beazer woke up in Lima
body half the views. Shame that's a shame.
Fuck remember this? Like the thing about this is it
was just in a time where like YouTube wasn't a thing.
So, so like the guys that did this, they're not even in the
video. Two people just did this and
were like, yeah, fuck, why not? They weren't looking anything
out of it. I'd really love to know who
actually did this. The comments are so great.
The West Belfast rap this. It was so good back in the day.
Tell me who did this. Honestly, here's the chorus.
Deangelis on RTE heading up the Rock in a black tack.
Unbelievable. Yeah, I enjoy that a lot.
What I enjoy probably more is John Zoo.
I was born in Belfast. Yeah, the shotgun shell blast
for anyone who hasn't seen that John Zhu, just just.
I've been born in Belfast. Oh, wait, that's not it.
That is, that is a monster tune. I don't know who John Zhu is.
I don't know if he lives in Northern Ireland or whatever,
but I tried to get him to like, let us use that song for the
Belfast, the American acts, the American actors doing Belfast
character sketch or whatever it's called.
I really wanted that song for the sort of it.
I was born in Belfast and maybe if we do a longer version of it,
I could speak to him. But doing that, I think I
messaged him on every social media channel and asked if we
could if we could use the song. But he did not get back to me.
Naughty boy, Jandro naughty. But I get that as well because
you know, he, he's like he's not doing comedy rap.
Like the man is spitting fire. Like I think he's done one extra
fire in the booth and stuff. And I can understand why you
wouldn't want your song used in comedy videos because you might
think it's stupid. Also ask those guys kneecap to
do a song like a video and they said no so.
But again, I get it because they're they're actual rappers,
you know what I mean? And they might think I was
dissing them, you know, because I'm a rapper as well.
MC Beezer. But they do Irish language rap
and it's brilliant. It's very, very good.
And their videos are good. And I wanted to do this thing
with them that I still might do, but just with somebody else.
And I think it'd be really funny.
But you know, I said guys respected.
I said Yep, because when someone says no to me, I go, OK,
alright, I speak English and I go Yep, I respect your decision.
But we'd be really funny and people enjoy it and Yep, but
there it is. I love Belfast rap type stuff.
I had some questions from, I forgot to do an Instagram shout
out, but I did have some Instagram questions from last
week that I don't think I I got around to answering.
So hang on. Yeah, I know.
I did answer that one. There's a message I sent to Van
Morrison asking him to do something.
Has not got back to me. That's my that's my life, by the
way. That's that's my life.
He has not got back to me. It's not really like, yeah,
that's not a question. That's just some admin from
someone Fuck, I can't find I'm so bad at juggling things like
doing this podcast and in the admin of you know.
Oh, Brian Craig, I don't know if this was podcast question man,
but Brian last week said what's happening with the brand
influencer these days. That was a great that was great
banter. Yeah, that was a character dead
that I I will, I will do. Oh yeah, it was a podcast
question. I will do that again.
I just have been busy, like whenever I'm getting ready to go
do a tour, that's the focus. And I don't do as much video
stuff. But now that I'm happy with the
show, kind of 99%, I'm still working on one bit.
Then I'll tend to do loads of other stuff.
So yeah, I will do something with that.
Joseph McVeigh says talk about Boris Johnson's mad, her and
all. Yeah, yeah, obviously he does.
I've mad here. I did a panel up in Derry a
couple of days ago for about humour in Brexit and I got to be
honest with you guys, I don't have a fucking clue about
Brexit. I really don't.
And I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that in a way of
like, man, I don't really know anything about it.
But then you do know loads of stuff about it.
I really, really, really, really don't.
So I was really bad on that bottle, but it was nice to get a
trip up there. Oh, there's a nice message about
about the show I did in Portaferry.
Somebody, somebody sent me a message.
I'll not read out the name because in my podcast question
they haven't asked for it to be broadcast.
But somebody very nicely got in touch.
Great night in Portaferry last night.
So this from last week? Well, definitely back to see
you. It's pity more people didn't go.
Portaferry locals don't support anything in the town anymore.
What's your support? I called Kinnear's name, so
yeah. Oh, right.
OK. So I did Portaferry on the tour
last year, the Portico Theatre, and sold like maybe 1/3 of
tickets, in fact, maybe even less.
I think the venue holds 3:50. It's an old church.
And I didn't sell that many. And last year I just didn't.
I think I started well on the show, but I just overall
probably didn't have a great show and then this year I was
like, let's go back. It's a good venue.
It's really well run like on the technical set, like the guy
Craig, I think in the tech in the tech desk knows what he's
doing. We'll we'll go back and add a
ball doing it this year is one of the best ones.
Definitely. It's right up there and I think
we sold there was maybe I met up this room maybe like 150.
So it was good bit up from last year, but it felt packed me.
I mean, there was nobody in the balcony, which is the only thing
that's tough about shows that have a balcony.
If you don't have people in the balcony, it can feel a wee bit
disjointed or something. But but I, I loved, I love you.
You actually don't need to apologise for more people not
coming out because I enjoyed it, you know, and the people who
wanted to be there were there and we had a lovely time and
I'll be back next year. That's what I just said in that
message. I said, hey man, thanks a lot.
He asked him my support was because he said he couldn't hear
the person's name. I said, hey, man, Paddy Migaki.
And also I'll be back next year. And that's what it is.
And next year, I'm going to incorporate a trip to explore us
in, you know, go and pet some starfish or Stingrays.
RIP Steve Irwin. Guys, book us a wee bit shorter
this week. I hope you forgive me for that.
But we're cooking. We're trying to make things
happen. We're trying to serve up some
dishes. You know what, I'm going to make
a series of entrees in the hope that they'll be turning the new
me in. So there you go.
I did a podcast every Wednesday. I know it's out a bit later in
the day today and there's no video version this week, but
there will be next time. And if you want to see any of
the old videos of the podcast, she and told my YouTube channel
it'll be there. Tickets are in shine.net for my
last tour tickets. Quite a few have sold out.
Newcastle's pretty much there for this Friday, Antrim sold out
and Sunday and then next, next week.
Let me tell you where I'm going to be.
Where am I going to be next week?
I will be in the parade next Friday on the parade in
Ballymena. I think it's sold out.
Let me check their website. I think it's sold out because we
topped it for a better layout and I think the Brave might be
sold out, but you could check if there's last tickets and you
know, you know, I don't lie about this because I want
everyone to come see the shows. There's no point in me going.
It's sold out. And then there's actually 400
tickets left. And then the next night after
that, the 21st, I'm in Lisburn Island Arts Centre again.
It's a big room this time. I did the small one last year,
possibly the best show of the tour last year, moved into the
big room and I can't wait for that.
It's one of those beautiful, beautiful venues.
The night after Sunday 22nd, I'm in the Spirit store in Dundalk
still, I need tickets for that. OK, going to be an intimate one
alright, but we're still doing it and we're pushing ahead.
And is my fan base growing in Dundalk?
Absolutely not, but I'm still doing it.
Tuesday the 24th I will be in Whelan's in Dublin, my 1 Dublin
show, I'm bringing on Dave Elliott and Aaron Butler.
There will be Nandos but like the villain there will be blood
but more chicken in it. Thursday the 26th, Theatre at
the Mill, Newton Abbey as well as Lisburn, my favourite show of
the tour last year, Theatre at the Mill, Newton Abbey, you
couldn't have a better venue, I can't wait for that one.
Friday the 27th and in the Bank in Newry, there's still a good
amount of tickets left for that. And then the Daddy, the 28th of
this month, the Waterfront Hall, again, I think that sold out
yesterday, but you can double check.
The Waterfront Hall, my biggest ever show to date.
I've got shows in October. But look, I'm not going to bore
you with those if you're still listening, fair play to you
because I would have turned off before I started plugging all
these dates. And next week I'll hopefully be
able to announce a tour of the West Coast of, Nope, that's a
lie, the East Coast of America. I did 2 shows in New York, which
humblingly, very humblingly, sold out in March this year and
they were a blast. They were a real blast and I
felt great doing those. But I'm going to do other shows
on the East Coast. I'm thinking Philadelphia,
Boston and Chicago. So if you live in any of those
places, listen out or you know someone who does.
Next week, I'll have dates and venues.
Thank you very much for listening to the podcast.
Bye.