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You love it, zippers. Welcome to this outdoor episode
of the Tea With Me podcast with me, Shane Todd.
When I say outdoor episode, it does not mean that Bear Grylls
or Ray Mears will be on to talk about, you know, drinking pests
and eating sheep deck. If anyone's eaten sheep deck in
this podcast, it's going to be me.
I say we're outdoors because, and you can see this in the
video version on YouTube, we're literally outdoors.
I'm doing the podcast in my garden.
And there was a moment there where I tried to push myself up
from the seat and the legs went up in the air and I felt very,
very vulnerable. Very vulnerable.
But it's all good. You might hear a wee bit of wind
during this podcast, not from me, but just from the Lord Jesus
Christ and Mother Nature. You might hear dogs in the
background, you might hear lawn mowers, you might hear
strimmers, you might hear the sound of birds.
Guys, we're just going to deal with it because I need to be
outside. Let me just say I have such a
great time at the minute. It is so good.
And I hate that I'm not out and about socialising people because
I love when people say, oh, have you been away?
And I go, yeah, to the garden. You know, I'm not really able to
do that. But trust me, my town is looking
really, really nice at the minute.
I mean, I'm working on that and there's genuinely people amongst
us that are working on preventing Corona coronavirus
and I'm working on getting a bit more olive.
But look, we're all just, we're all just doing our things.
I hope all the, all the listeners and viewers are well,
I really do hope everybody's doing good.
This podcast has been one of the main things that's kept your boy
in the straight and narrow during this.
Stop me climbing the walls, you know, doing 2 episodes of the,
well, three episodes because we do the Patreon one, but we plug
for that their patreon.com/TV ME podcast to get the bonus episode
on the Monday that me and producer Dan do.
But. Just.
I think having loads of stuff to do, I feel like I'm flat out
during this lockdown. I feel like I've I've more to do
now than I did before all this. So one thing that I'm definitely
going to be doing after all this is time management.
I'm going to make my time management way better because I
need the management time better because my time is valuable.
You, you knew that we were the only I don't like the globe here
by the way, but you know that we're the only TBS podcast
around. Then I got word that this guy
called Gary Vee, who is a motivational speaker, multi
millionaire billionaire type guy, this American guy, Gary
Vee, he's decided a couple of weeks after we we'd been going
to start his pot, his own podcast called Tea with Gary
Vee. No, that was a slap in the face,
but that was also a call, a call to action to the tea with me
community to the sipper Army, because what did what did we do?
We saw the Gary Vee podcast and we said, Gary, you might be
worth 7000 million pound, but we have something a lot more
valuable and that is loyal zippers.
And I said Gary, get the fuck out of the podcast game.
And this week Gary Vee put up a tweet saying he was cancelling
his Tea with Gary Vee podcast because he said there's more
important things going on. I just want to make a pledge to
the listeners right now. Even though we're about to have
a baby, there is nothing more important to me than the Tea
with Me podcast. I'm never going to desert you
guys, so let's all say after me. Fuck Gary.
VV stands for Virgin. Good to be back to be in the
number one TBS podcast. Oh.
In the world. I'm stepping on a big mug of tea
here, big mug about door tea. I'm not one of these fucking
fancy dams that when the good weather comes in ditches tea.
You know, there's people that are, there's, they're sucking
tea's deck all winter and then as soon as the sunshine comes
out. Oh, I'm on a glass of diluting,
Get the fuck out of my face. So I'm on the tea in the
sunshine. I.
Talked a bit about that this last week, but things are things
are kind of good here and I know.
That that is perhaps a little bit crass to say.
And we don't know what's going to happen but when the sun's out
and then we just had a midwife appointment there, but I'm not
allowed in. Very sly.
But I totally understand why because it wasn't wearing
treasures and, and everything's everything's good.
And it's mad because I feel, I don't know about you guys, but I
feel like whenever you're in lockdown like this, you, I, I'm,
I don't really watch or read the news anymore because it's, it is
terrifying. Like it's proper terrifying.
So I'm. A wee bit burying my head in the
sand with all this kind of thing.
And I know that's maybe that's not very commendable, but but
it's I think the best thing for me.
For me, it's, it's a bit selfish and I know you probably should
watch the news in a way, but I'm just kind of like my nose.
I'm taking care of what's in front of me.
I don't know if that's a phrase or people.
Oh yeah, people go. It's like your nose.
It's always in front of you. I don't know what that means.
But what I'll say is this. I've been making videos, the
radio show. We're still able to do, which is
great to be able to do that. The more things the better and.
I don't know when the song. Comes out, you just feel happier
because I've definitely had moments during all this where
I'm like, Oh no, we're going to have a baby at the worst time.
Of all time to have a baby. But but that's when one of the
things that I think has kept my my mood really positive.
I had a wobble once, I'll be honest.
With you, because that's what we're doing.
We're drinking tea. We're we're being honest.
We're just having a chat. I'm trying to remember when it
was I think. I think we were in the, we were
maybe going to the midwife appointment last time and I just
got really, really worried about, I know you're allowed out
for exercise, right? And this was the time when they
hadn't, you were allowed out to exercise pretty much as much as
you want. This wasn't before the big
proper lockdown and we were going to go.
For like a walk after the appointment or something and I
just freaked out and basically said something to the effect of
we're never leaving this house again.
Now that's dramatic. And I really like got really
like physically tense, you know, I mean I was like and, and that
was it. That was my, that was my big
wobble. And then I was.
Able to laugh at it, but that. But I think, I think it's weird
that people. Are we're all kind of trying to
figure out a new normal during this and?
One of the things that people are doing flat out that I would
have dismissed and being like, Oh my God, that's Liam or not
Liam. But I was like, Oh no.
Forced fun was quizzes on Zoom. Everybody is doing like a family
quiz or a quiz with their mates on Zoom.
It's now the number one thing in my week we do.
We do a Zoom quiz with with. Some of our friends once a week.
The the winners put the quiz on and it lasts for like an hour
and we sit and have a glass of wine doing it once a week.
It's it's the number one thing. I think we should always keep
doing this. And then, like with a few
friends, we do a football Zoom quiz.
Also I liked in this. Podcast because it's a way of
still interacting with everyone, because I'm used to doing stand
up and being able to go out and interact with people that way.
And I like it. I like chatting with people if
there's if there's. Things you think that I can be
doing? That are that are more.
Interactive, like I know like Facebook live and all that, but
for example, like the quiz, like is there a way we could just do
a big quiz for all the tea with me listeners?
Like just a big general knowledge quiz or something once
a week? I don't know, I'm open to what
you think, but it's like I was talking to.
Butler today, and it's his birthday, by the way.
Today showed it to that guy. And I was talking to Aaron and
he was asking about the radio show.
He's like, is your Radio Ulster rave still on?
And I said, yeah, we're on for another.
Want to say 2 weeks and then our sort of contract runs out.
And he was like, you know, you could just, you could just do
it, you know, you could just do it over Facebook or whatever.
You could just host like a big rave.
So stuff like that I'm interested in doing.
I have the time to do it. I've got the equipment for it.
So it'd be interesting to know what you guys think.
I should I should do this tea is getting cold, but there's still
half of it left. And I hate cold tea, but we'll
soldier on regardless. Today I've got them a load of
listeners questions I'm going to work through in the second-half
of the podcast. This is it's going to be rambly.
This is just me kind of because I don't really get to talk to
anybody else apart from the postman like once every three
days and my wife. I don't really get to speak to
too many people. So I'm just shooting the breeze.
I hope that's OK with everyone. But yeah, we've got loads of
questions. I guess we should talk about
having Jimmy Dornan on the podcast last week because, look,
I'm not still dying and out on that.
I had a really good time and obviously our numbers for the
podcast went up in the space and then sort of like came down to
to relatively normal, which is to be expected.
But the amount of you what? I don't know if this is a
podcast first, but I'm taking my shoes and socks off because I
want to. And I read once that the singer
Joss Stone like performs all the time in her bare feet.
And I remember thinking that that is the most confident thing
I've ever heard of because everyone in the world is
paranoid about their feet and toes, and especially me, because
I'm not sure yet. I was going to show you that the
camera. There's one pervert for sure
with the food fetish going. Please do mate, please do mate
and I knock. I knock out my 10th of the day.
I won't because my nails are my fingernails and my toenails are
just slightly too long for me to be showing people.
But. I I have weird fate because I've
got this bruise on one of my toes from football from about
two months ago that just won't go away.
And then here's the main thing. My baby toe sort of curls in
towards the rest. Like my toes look like my toes
look like they're all standing, have a conversation and my baby
toe, my baby toe looks like it's sort of like hiding in behind
them, you know, like it maybe doesn't know them.
It looks like a different, it looks like it's from a different
foot and it's like leaning into them going what are you all
talking about? So I'm not going to show you my
feet. But I'm barefoot.
And that's all good. Oh yeah, the Jimmy Dornan
episode. Firstly, I think I'm going to
ask him to do another episode of the podcast because weirdly he
seemed to enjoy it as well. So we'll see in the next.
Couple of weeks if he'd be up for if he'd be up for Part 2.
Yeah, we talked in that about the Imagine video when all the
celebrities, including Jamie, sang a cover of Imagine by John
Lennon at the start of the whole coronavirus thing.
They just sort of I guess give, give.
People a smile and it got like horrendously roasted by the
entire world and he was talking about if you saw the episode, he
was just talking about the fact that, you know, he didn't really
know the scale of it at the time.
He was happy to help out a friend and do it, and I think he
spoke really well about it. You could see why people were
pissed off. But then he was sort of arguing
that, look, it was just to like give some people a smile.
And obviously it did that for a lot of people.
But that story or that article was picked up on.
I'm just making sure we're still wrong.
On the video, yeah, we are the the the story was picked up on
by so many press outlets, you know, by the Sun, the Daily
Mirror, Metro Vulture, which is like one of the biggest in
America and, and. So just so just so many news
outlets, the really cool thing about and people kept sending me
those. Cheers to everyone who kept
sending me those and saying like here, man, they're talking about
you. They weren't really like.
But the good thing about that is they all credited the podcast.
And I'll put a link in to here's where you can listen to the
podcast where he talked about it.
And that was really cool because.
When I first heard about. This happening, I was a wee bit,
a wee bit annoyed that they weren't going to say what the
story was from. They were just going to say
Jimmy Dornan said this. But to be fair, every single
news company that covered it linked it in, mentioned the
podcast. So that was all good.
And also, there'll be loads of people will be like, Oh yeah, he
gets like doorman all on every week.
And then they listen to this one.
They go, no, he's just really sitting in his garden kind of
talking shit. But look, the TV podcast changes
every week. Let me just.
Strip a little bit. Do you want, I want to just put
my T-shirt on because I'm wearing a bit of a hoodie but
there's a wee breeze. About, you know, it's catching
me off guard. Fucking.
We'll go T-shirt. We'll go T-shirt.
But yeah, all those like showbiz websites.
Has a man ever struggled more to take a jumper off?
I don't know. All those gossip websites kind
of ran the story and The Sun were the only ones because, you
know, everybody's like. Wow, the sun.
You know, The Sun were the only ones I thought that hadn't put
in a link to the podcast. So I emailed the showbiz section
of The Sun and I've done that loads of times.
Anyway, I'm like, I've got a juicy story and Peter Andre.
No, I got in touch with them, sent them an e-mail, like a bit
of an angry e-mail. And I was like, you guys did a
story on Jamie Dornan and it was from my podcast.
And it's like that you wouldn't, you know, link to the podcast,
you know, that's, that's that's really bad etiquette and stuff.
And then just a really nice woman emailed me back And when I
wrote the story and I did link the podcast.
If you, if you actually read the article, you can see it.
And then she highlighted it for me and I just had to go.
OK, thank you. Thank you.
You're very kind. So yeah, that was pretty sweet.
And the numbers did jump up massively for that episode of
the podcast and it was cool. I mean, a lot of people were
going can you like, can you do it again and ask him about this?
Like loads of like Jamie Dorno fan accounts.
People were like, why didn't you ask him about 50 Shades?
Hey, I don't know if you. Can tell this by the podcast
right now. But what it isn't is hard
hitting. What it isn't is good
journalism. What it is, is a young man.
What it is is a tanned young man with a very low percentage body
fat body talking to people over a cup of tea about a lot of
different things, mainly nonsense.
And that's always the way. It's going to be.
Cheers to that. This is probably the last set
I'm going to have on the tea. Still like it at a drinkable
temperature. So there we go.
I was going to fire it over the grass the rest of the tea.
But then I think during this lockdown, I've grown a lot
closer to my grass. And I think there's a lot of
there's a lot of guys around the world who listen to and watch
this podcast going, I know exactly what you mean because
honestly, me and me and this stuff right here are really
connected. I painted the fence.
You can't see it.
It's out of shot.
But just know it's painted. I went to medium oak.
A lot of people were saying.
Go go hard, oak, go soft. Oak and I said, look, I'm going
medium oak and that's the end of it and I have to do another coat
on this wall. Oh my God, this potentially the
worst podcast content of all time.
I'm aware of that. So that makes it OK, but I've
got to do another coat here and then I've got to start this wall
and I realised I've got too much fence.
So too much fence. Still going to paint it going to
be a long term project and it's all good guys.
I have a lot of questions from the listeners and I'm going to
get through all of those next. There's a fucking dog and hey,
don't do a podcast. And he stopped genuinely, Dr
Doctor Doolittle. So yeah, we're going to we're
going to get through everybody's questions and it as I say, it's
good to like be connecting again, because whenever I get a
guest on, I don't really do listeners questions because I
find it hard to manage my time when I'm chatting to someone.
But but I'm happy to be back doing questions again.
I think going forward we are going to do a guest episode of
week and then me do my own one and we'll just stagger out those
guest episodes. So before before we get into
that, we have a quick charity read.
We do this on every podcast now during lockdown because oh hold
on, I put a cheeky request in to get a guest on.
Yes, yes, I got a really good guest on for next week.
That'll be an interesting episode.
Not a celebrity guest, but I think you'll really enjoy it.
So we do like a charity read now, and the idea of that is we
just. Give a bit of airtime to a
different 'cause every week instead of having a sponsor on
and this week we are highlighting Friends of Africa.
Dervla got in touch and said if you could highlight the charity
Friends of Africa on your Tea with Me podcast, it'll be great.
Three groups of volunteers were. Supposed to go out in June to
teach build and power and combat the spread of AIDS in squatter
camps. With this virus, these people
will very much be at risk, especially due to their living
conditions. And so there is a just given
page on the Friends of Africa Facebook page to try and gather
essential plot supplies. Thanks very much, Dervla.
Dervla, there you go, the Friends of Africa Facebook page
if you just want to check that out.
Sounds like they're. Done some great work, but
they're being prevented due to the current situation from going
out and do the work that they would be doing.
So you can help on their page, which I presume on Facebook.
You're just going to search Friends of Africa and hey, we're
Friends of Africa on this podcast.
I'm all right guys. I know everyone said yes, bar
one guys a bit racist and when no, no friend of mine.
And that guy needs to fuck off. I was going to say that guy's
Gary Vee, but I can't accuse him of being racist because he has
so much money and he'll sue me and I don't want that.
But what I do want you to do is check out Facebook Friends of
Africa page. Back to the pod zippers.
We're back. We're back with your questions
as well. I put up the show for questions
this morning. A lot of people have got back to
me. These are their questions.
I also want to thank everybody. By the way, just before we get
into these who have signed up for the Patreon, there's a
little gust of wind. I want to thank everybody who
signed up to the patreonpatreon.com/tea With Me
podcast. What's great about that is that
just keeps supporting the podcast through at this time
where there is no financial support for the podcast.
So it it really means a lot. You get the bonus episode of
main producer Dan every Monday morning.
Although we are Kieran Bartlett on doing this week's, which was
hilarious. We recorded that a couple of
months ago. It's really, really funny.
So on the Patreon you get way more as well.
There's like merch giveaways, take a giveaway, all that kind
of thing. So you can check.
That out thanks to everyone who signed up so far all the
patreons yeah here we go we have questions Tara says rape my.
My mug. Thankfully she means like a cup
and not her face because I'll be so sly to just RIP people's
faces, she says. It's.
Peach and Raspberry green. Oh, she's having Peach and
Raspberry green tea in my Princess mug.
Yeah, Tara, I like. It I'm going to give, I'm going
to give that 7 out of 10. What I like is official merch
mugs. That's what I'm all about.
I don't like unofficial merch because that's a lots like a
Disney Princess one. I wouldn't like it if it was
like a knock off 1 because there's loads of those sort of
things where like, you know, it's supposed to be Cinderella
and she looks a bit more like Mangerella.
You know what I mean? Like like there's there's
there's knock off merch and the drone's never as good.
And I hate that, you know, it be like if someone got in touch and
went man love to send you some Man United mugs because I know
you're a Man United fan for the podcast.
And then it, you know, it was like Manchester was spelt with 2
ends. I would hate that.
I would really, really hate that so.
No, I like that mug. It looks like you can get a good
amount into it and it's like it looks fairly wide and sturdy.
So good mug topic, Tara says. Topic of discussion, Derry
girls. Get one of them on the podcast,
please. Funnily enough.
Well, Speaking of Derry girls, I think people that do what I do
like. Stand up and comedy acting, that
kind of thing. We, we owe a big deal of
gratitude to Derry Girls because that programme has really,
really opened the door for comedy from here to, to be on
like network television, which is like, you know, all over the
UK, whatever. As opposed to just Northern
Irish TV, Derry Girls really just seem to come out of the
blue. I hadn't heard much of it
beforehand. I did.
Audition for it. Should I tell that story?
I'll tell that story. I've maybe auditioned for for
like 8 things in my life and I think I've got.
Two of them that's a decent hit rate.
You've heard me. If you used to listen to the
Shane podcast, the previous version of this podcast, you've
heard me talk about line of Judy when I thought.
I got the role for that, but I didn't and it was a real
embarrassing story. But I went in for Derry Girls
before the first series. It was for the first series.
I didn't go in to be one of the Derry girls, by the way, I went
in to play a role of. It's a guy.
I don't know if they used the role in the end, but it was a
guy who. Was like being smuggled across
the border or he was trying to smuggle himself across the
border. I think they, I think they did.
They did. They did do the episode.
Anyway, it was one of my first auditions ever.
And there's some actors who audition for stuff all the time,
and they know the crack. I didn't really know that for an
addition you're supposed to learn your lines.
I thought that's why that's only if you get the part you learn
your lines like I have. No, I have no acting background
and a lot of people who have seen any of my stuff are going
we totally, we totally get that. So anyway, through through my
agent, I get this e-mail and it says would you be interested in
going in for this Derry girl thing?
It's going to be in Channel 4. I'm banging up for it.
I like the role, think the script's funny.
I bring the script with me. Because I think you just read
off the script, you know, I get down to the casting agents.
And by the way, this is this is in a, I'm sure I can say this,
this is in a place called Carla Strong casting, right?
And I don't think I've been in before with them, but I've since
been in with them loads of times and they are like the best guys,
the best group. Of.
Casting agents and directors that you can meet.
So this could have been way worse if they weren't so sound.
So I go down. I've got my script with me.
I think I've got the voice kind of where I want it.
I've got like a dairy voice going on.
I'm like I'll rate mate and that no, I've I'm kneeling the voice.
I go down. They're like, you ready?
I say yes. I've got the script in hand and
I just start reading now. They're filming it and also
they've got a member of staff behind the camera, so you're.
Reading your lines with them. So I'm just like my head the
whole time is in my script and then they stop and they're like
can you be off book? Because it said in the e-mail
like off book. And I genuinely turn around and
said I am off the book. I'm reading off the book and
then everyone realised I am not a natural actor.
And they went, that doesn't mean that made, that means you're off
book, like you're not reading from the book.
And I went, oh, that's totally different.
I don't know any of these lines and they very very soundly gave
me some time to go away. Get a cup of coffee.
And learn as much of the lines as I could.
And I knew it just wasn't going to I really short attention
span. I knew the lines weren't going
to go in my head in such a short space of time.
And, and anyway, I went in and did it then it was a disaster.
I, I had to keep looking at the thing and I could tell that they
wanted me to do it. Well, I was, it could have been
way worse if they were Dicks about it, but they were.
They were very, very cool with me.
And since then I've been in with him a lot of times and, and
they're great, but fair play to them forever asking me to come
back for another audition after this.
So I didn't think anything of it.
I was like, I knew I haven't got that.
And then I found out. A year or two later must have
been like 2 years later that that they were like, oh they
definitely would have considered you for like strongly considered
you for if you had learnt your lines.
So since then I have made damn sure that any time I audition, I
know my lines and I've got a new like technique of learning them.
So that was a big experience for me.
But Derry girls being so successful and so, so well made.
So well acted. It means that the likes of like
me and BBC, like the BBC team in London who were who would mainly
make stuff based in London and England, It means that they're
finally going, let's see what else is going on in Northern
Ireland. You know, let's see.
They call it the nations and regions.
So sorry if there's a bit of background freeze there and it
means they would go, let's see what's happening here.
What else have you got to offer? And then they'll stumble across
maybe somebody like me or or anybody else who's like writing
and performing. So it definitely, it definitely
opened the door and it's a cultural phenomenon.
And I've seen, I've seen quite a bit of it.
I haven't. I haven't seen every every.
Episode of it because I'm just not a.
Not ATV guy, but sometimes I've like, my wife loved it.
She watched every episode, so it would have caught a fair bit
sitting down with her and Kevin Mcaleer being in it is such a
bonus. Every.
The casting of it was great. I say that even though I went
for Rome, didn't get it. The cast not it's perfect.
And I worked with Jamie Lee O'Donnell, I want to say last
Christmas, yeah, like like a year and a half ago on a panel
show thing for BBC Northern Ireland, which people hated,
called NI Trending, which was trending for the wrong reasons,
I think. And I was just on that as a
guest for a while. And so she and she was, she was
brilliant, real easy to get on with, naturally funny and stuff.
And I funnily enough, I said funny a lot of times there.
I sent her a message about an hour and a half ago to see if
she would come on the podcast as a guest, and hopefully she will
because that'll be really cool to talk about.
We just talk about the effect. Of of Derry Girls and because
when you make something, I think from listening to a lot of
actors talk, I wouldn't know this kind of thing, but I feel
like. They never know how something's
going to go until it, like, gets broadcast.
You can think you've made the best TV show of all time and it
gets no reaction or the opposite.
So I don't know if they would have thought while they were
shooting it like, God, this is going to be, I think important
television, you know, funny, but also important for loads and
loads of different reasons. It's obviously like female led
as well. So.
So it'd be really cool to talk about that.
But yeah, I would. I would definitely like that.
Jamie Lee on the podcast Johnny. Says have you ever tried red
Bush tea? Nice to have a tea related
question. I don't know what red Bush tea
is but I'm going to look it up here on the phone.
Red Bush tea? Is it a brand?
I don't know. I mean no would answer your
question. Oh it's spelt ROOIBOS redbush
tea. It's an it's naturally caffeine
free, unlike traditional and black.
Teas. Oh, it's a loose leaf.
I don't know about that. That's a bit like, you know.
It's a naturally caffeine free tea.
It's part of the pea and bean family.
Eh, no caffeine, I mean. I like a wee bit of.
Caffeine I feel like I never really noticed.
Notice a buzz after a cup of tea?
But. Here's the thing.
Johnny could dismiss that and say I've never tasted it, but if
I am ever offered it in the name of this podcast and in the name
of you and in the name of the Father, the Daniel Day Lewis
film, I will. I will sip on it and I'll let
you know what it's like. Jamie says, How many times have
you said? Fuck this, do yourself or your
wife over the last couple of weeks.
I'm not a big Sayer. I'm definitely a swear right?
I swear quite a lot. Because I'm fucking cool and
hard but. I don't know if I say fuck this
a lot. Fuck.
This here? Nah, fuck.
This isn't really in my locker. I'd probably say fuck it more.
Fuck that, but. Not, not a lot.
Honestly, not a lot. I'm actually in a real good.
Zone, you know, I'm trying to get my workouts in, I'm working
exercise, trying to eat well. I'm eating like clean meals and
not out for like as many like restaurant.
Type takeaway food. Stuff I don't normally have that
much, but but it's it's honestly been OK.
It's it's definitely like the number one thing is not seeing
family and friends. That's definitely tough.
But but no, we're we're all right.
I think it helps in a. Way and with our situation with
the baby being on the way, because we know we have to do
this for a reason, like do the isolation and all that.
So I'm not saying fuck. I'll definitely see if this
podcast doesn't record properly. I will say fuck it.
Fuck it. I'll definitely say that, but.
I'm worried at the minute. There we go.
OK, we've got some questions on Instagram.
Yeah, Natasha says why? Why is Tea with me called Tea
with me? Why the name change from from
Todcast? Yeah, so I used to, if you're
new to the Tea with Me podcast, I used to do a podcast before
this called The Shame Todcast, which was pretty much exactly
the same, but not called this and not I didn't have gas or
anything. I think part of it, Natasha, was
more accountability if I like rebranded it because I was doing
those like very lazily, you know, it missed two weeks and
then I do like a 20 minute episode and I was just recording
them in my kitchen and I wasn't putting much effort into it.
So I thought if I like announce this new podcast and get like a
producer on board, like getting down on board was was a game
changer because because his speciality is his podcast, you
know, and that's someone to in the world.
So I have a WhatsApp group with him.
Big Mike, who does normally does all the video on but obviously
count at the minute for me. But it's great with that set up
because it means that when I was just doing this as myself, which
is what the Shane Todcast was, I was like, you know, coasting.
I was freewheeling. But with this, yeah, all good
with this, you know, I have to, you know, Dan's messaging me
going and he's obviously like, he's not like my dad or
anything. You know, he's not like, you
know, a parent being like, did you do your homework?
You know what he is, is like here, do you have a chance to do
this, get that done. And when you want to do this,
it's just way better for me because then I have someone to
be accountable to in a way. And if I don't do it, I'll be
honest, guys, he smacks my bottom.
He smacks my bottom. And then and, you know, some
weeks I will purposely not do stuff so that he does, you know,
just to like get back at him. But but he enjoys it.
Yeah, the name change is just just a just a freshen it up a
bit. And I think it was in hindsight.
A good, a good call, Nathan Burke says.
Do you support an Irish League team?
Nathan mate, that I mean that is.
Big that's a big thing with me like people wanting to know that
people always want to know what school I went to and what mate
what Irish league team do you support?
No girls who ever asked me that question.
But the the the true answer is nobody.
And people that know people that know me know I'm a great guy.
People that know me will know I Gen.
I genuinely don't support an Irish League team but I do have
a wee. I do have a wee bit of love for
Dungannon Swift because we played a comedians football
match like 10 years ago, NV South and Umm N Down versus
South Down, no Northern RV Republic and we played at
Dungannon Swift Stadium. I think I I organised it class.
It was brilliant. Nobody showed up but it was good
and it was at Dungannon Swift's ground and they showed us like
real nice hospitality that really took care of us.
They put on referees. It was for children in need.
And since then I've always like just looked out for the results,
you know what I mean? But I wouldn't like, I wouldn't
say they got beat and go fuck it, you know, fuck that.
And actually about two weeks ago I, as a joke, put out a tweet
saying I want all Irish League clubs to keep me out with
training gear so I can practise to and keep you UPS in the
garden. And then Newry City and
Dungannon Swift got in touch and went on its way brother.
So that just puts him up my estimation and that Dungannon
Swift sent me. A polo shirt A.
Home top with toilet on the back.
Great. And a pair of shorts.
So I absolutely love that. So at the minute they're my #1
Irish League team. But I just, I just like Irish
League in general. I'm just kind of.
Obsessed with the Irish League. We've got more loads more
questions, Giles Struts says. Good morning.
If you're sunbathing, what is your preferred thing to do?
Sit and listen to the birds or get the tunes going.
And what's your favourite cold, refreshing drink?
I'm OK with either, although I definitely like getting the
tunes on. But I'm mindful of neighbours.
So we know our neighbours beside us.
They like the tunes, we like the tunes, but behind and.
They might be in their gardens. Listen to this.
But a couple of days ago when the sun was really good, I
brought a wee Bluetooth speaker out.
And here's the thing as well, when I DJ, if you can call it up
on Ready Wilson on Friday nights, there's thousands of
people listening. There is so much more pressure
on bringing the Bluetooth speaker outside and having the
neighbours judging it. That is more pressure for me.
So I go with eclectic. Fuck.
WASP people that saw that in the video version of the podcast
will know that I'm very fluent in in all martial arts because
what I delivered there was a chop to a wasp and I haven't
seen it since last week on the podcast I did talk about being
allergic to Wasps. So there you go.
He may be heard and he come to sort me out.
I put the, I put the Bluetooth. Speaker on last week and I put
the tunes on because it was painting the fence.
I feel like that's a justifiable reason.
You're doing a bit of work. You need a bit of music and I
said to the neighbours of the fence.
Who are a bit older? I said, you know, a good bit
older. I said sorry, is is that music?
Too loud by any chance? And they said turn it up.
And when they said turn it up, I said Oh yes.
And I turned it up just by like one or two and I.
Knew that we're in the party zone, everybody's in the party
zone. And I really feel like I stepped
up in terms of song selection. You know, we were firing out
some more time where we're getting Stevie Wonder on Bob
Marley, Martha and the Vandellas.
You know, there was a lot of Gladys and you know, everybody
would have been enjoying it from child to pensioner.
And I have been known, you know, they're calling me.
They're calling me the class DJ and that's a shit nickname, but
that's what they're calling me. I don't feel like now there's a
lot of pressure on me DJ at the back or anybody else, but I feel
like a show good etiquette asking look, is it OK to play
this? And they didn't just say yes,
they said, Hey, turn that shit up.
They didn't use the word shit but they said turn it up and and
at that moment I went. Yes, kindred spirits, that was a
great time. If I have to have a.
Cold beverage. You guys know I'm a tea drinker
but if I have to have a cold beverage.
I've had a few diet. Cokes since lockdown kicked off.
Like one or two a week. But you know what I'm craving?
Dr. Pepper. Oh.
Doctor Pepper is. Definitely my favourite fizzy
drink. I have about one a month, one a
month and I really enjoy it. Next time I do a bake shop, I'm
definitely getting the Doctor Pepper, Giles also says.
Will you be sticking it out when it comes to a haircut or will
you brave the shave? Had to do a DIY sweet head on
myself the other night. Giles, I hope you don't mind me
saying this, but you're. A sexy guy anyway, so it should.
Be fine and you have a nice head, but I'm growing my hair
long. I'm probably going to people
that really know me will know this is true.
I'm going to buy an Alice band off Amazon or ASOS or whatever
and I'm going to just swan about with an Alice band on doing
football tricks in my back garden.
So I'm probably going to grow it out and then genuinely I'm
thinking of just growing my hair long.
So I hope that sits well with everyone.
Sarah Jane Dorman says if Dave Elliott were to purchase a not
so mainstream pet tomorrow, what would it be and what would you
call it? Yeah.
I mean, I feel like that is like a Joe Exotic type, I feel like.
That's what we're hinting at. If Dave Elliott was to buy, I
mean. I feel like if Dave were to buy
a bear and and they were like I could see that because he he is
a bear himself and I could see him in the.
Bear, you know, playing in the garden, I could see him, him in
a Big Bear in bed together fucking, you know, I think he'd.
Like that I could think of the instant pictures of Dave Elliott
and a Big Bear in the bath together like a big bubble bath.
People would enjoy that big Davey exotic.
Carlos Amigos, Oh yes, great name says.
Oh, he's just called Carl Cunningham, but good nickname
says. Love to hear a mention of
Brentford on the recent podcast. Just finished working for them
in February. Should be able to get you a
couple of tickets if you decide to see any more Games in London.
Hey, Carl, I really, really appreciate that that go.
Let me just sip on that. Yeah, it tastes very sweet.
Carl, I love football, OK? I love football.
I would love to do that next time in London.
I'd love to go to a Brentford game.
I've managed a football manager before, maybe JC Stewart who
last week in the pod was talking about or this week was talking
about going to Brentford matches.
Maybe he comes with me. Maybe we said directors box.
I mean, I know you didn't. Eat my grass seed, go away.
You shit yourself there, you bird Dick head.
But yeah, maybe you mean, I know you didn't say directors box.
Maybe we're sitting in the directors box with some caviar.
I like it. Also some training gear.
What I was saying, big guy, what do I say about sorting away man
out some training gear? Just like a training T-shirt,
matching shorts, maybe socks. Appreciate the haircut, man.
No seriously, that'll be sweet. I'm keen to know what you did
for them as well. Laura Finnegan says Would you be
offended or impressed if someone told you that Northern Ireland
accent is great for blocking out the sound of 11 mice eating
another in your bedroom walls? Follow up question, which local
comedian has the noisiest podcast?
I don't understand the first bit of that.
I really really don't. But which comedian has the
noisiest podcast? I don't know, I feel like.
All the all the boys have good. Sound levels, I think all my
mates that do podcasts actually have really good sound compared
to podcasts in general. So I don't know.
I don't know, no idea. Good question.
Matthew Merlin says who's Northern Ireland's Joe Exotic
and Carol Baskin, Northern Ireland.
Joe Exotic is 1000. Percent Aaron Butler, 1000% in
every way. Those guys are similar in every
way, if you know what I'm saying.
I mean Aaron will definitely end up married to a guy and be like
oh I'm OK 1000%. And yeah, I could see that guy
owning a tiger for sure. Aaron's either going to Aaron
turn 31 today. He's either looking at the next
couple of years with two options.
He's either going to go should I move out of my parents house or
should I get a tiger and guy. Spoiler alert he gets the.
Tiger, him and the tiger dancing in the garden.
I love that guy who's no learns. Carol Baskin.
Someone that like might have murdered her husband.
I don't know. I mean, when I grow my hair
right next year, I think I'll be the closest to it hair wise.
Anyway, we're going to blast through these.
We've got a question from Matt Thompson who says question not
to get too political. He says at the start, which
guys? I think he's going to get
political. There's a wasp begin, he says.
Can we take a moment to address the age-old bitching battle
between waged? Oh, the aged old bitching battle
between Lions and Barry's tea drinkers in the South?
Personally, I'm a Lions Gold Blend man and Barry's drinkers
are twerps. Might you did get political
there and I don't want to start any tensions but Lions Gold
Blend sounds fucking nice and I think I have had Barry's tea
before but it didn't stand out for me so.
I feel like we could do a taste test, maybe on the pod or maybe
you could send us If you are a man who lives on the our side of
the border, maybe you could send us some tea to our e-mail
address at teawithmepodcast@gmail.com.
I don't know. Ma'am, but definitely like you
definitely need to find your bag, you know, and just roll
without your favourite tea bag. Yeah, let me go to my We
Requests folder. Yeah, we've got some.
We've got some people hiding in there.
Connor Diver. Who's the hardest football team
you ever played against? The hardest football team I ever
played against. Yeah, our Drangers.
Whenever I played for Hollywood, we played them about four.
Seasons ago when they won the amateur league and we did a
guard of honour for them at the start of the game, so they
already had us beat because we had applauded them under the
pitch. We tunnel and they looked at us
like. What?
The fuck are you doing? So they they were, they were
definitely the best team I played against.
Favourite. Sport Football.
Fenton Wolf. Who was your biggest inspiration
in comedy? Probably Richard Pryor.
Probably my mom. Richard Pryor watched a lot of
his stand up growing up. I mean I presume most people
will know Richard Pryor his stand up.
He's dead now. Sly but the RIP bro.
But on YouTube you'll get loads. Of a stand up.
Go check that out in the 70s. Probably any 80s.
He was, he was just out on a bit like Dave Chappelle is now.
He was just out on his own, just blazing a trail.
And yeah, the man LED an insane personal life, too.
So well worth reading up on him. Richard Pryor.
Definitely Belfast guy in China I mean.
Tells you all you need to know. The username.
All footballers dream of winning World Cup are player of the
year. What are your career goals
within comedy that you would be especially proud of?
Is there a special? Is there a specific thing that
you would really love to achieve, like selling out a
particular venue anywhere in the world, creating your own show,
or acting in a certain type of role outside comedy?
Good question, man. And it sort of changes for me a
wee bit. I've said on the pod before,
Radio City Musical in New York would be my would be my dream.
I would definitely, definitely love to do that.
Before I did the Ulster Hall, the Ulster Hall was like an
ultimate goal and I think I did the Ulster all five times.
Weird flex but them. But that, that still makes me go
flip. Do you remember that?
And then this year, hopefully I'm doing the Waterfront again
and that's cool. And then next year, who knows?
So I don't know. You can't really predict it, so
it's hard to set goals. You'd be like, I'd like to do
this and I'd like to do that. But in terms of like a big
ultimate goal Radio City Music Hall in New York would be.
Great, the typewriter Dynasty typewriter in LA would be cool.
I don't think it's that big, but I mean, I definitely couldn't
fill it. No, but but that, that would be
awesome. Awesome.
Cool. I do the whole set, obviously
with an American accent. In terms of acting here, here's
a bittersweet thing. I have an idea for a film.
I still do, and I've written like.
Quite a few. Pages of it, but it's it's not
that it's not finished yet, nowhere near it.
And it was good. I was just going to do it
myself. I was going to get some
cameramen together, some people that work in media.
We were going to do it for no budget.
We were just going to do it, see if cinemas wanted it, like
really, really make a film and it's comedy.
It was comedy, but it's set in Belfast in the summertime in the
in the like mid 90s and like 1996.
And this weather would be per, we'd be filming it right now.
And that's a kicker. You know, there's hey, there's
way worse things happening. Obviously at the minute people
don't get to see family and all that.
But part of me is looking at this where they're going.
I could have made that thing, but if it's like my nose, it'll
always be in front of me. Matthew Gibson What about people
who who put milk in their cup before hot water?
They deserve to get stuck in every lift they get in.
See it in tea drinkers. I can only agree.
Don't know how.
I don't know how they can judge the overall cup, the cup, the
finish of the cup. I don't know.
Carl Donaldson says he's got a few questions.
Say you're right. I'll just, I'll just pick one,
he says. If you could do a gig at any
event, oh, we've had that. If you were a singer, what would
be your dream collaboration? BTS.
For sure if you're look. I'm being serious here.
If you're having a bit of a wobble, as I would call it, or a
blip during the whole lockdown and you like watching things
online for a bit of fun, for a bit of escapism, go on YouTube,
Go to James Corden's Carpet or karaoke and type in BTS, 3
letters BTS if you don't know, they're a Korean boy band and
you will have fun for 15 minutes.
I would love to get involved with those guys.
I think me and JC talked a bit about that, so so probably that,
Alana says. What's the best primary school
rumour you ever heard? A rumour went around our primary
school that this weird quiet boy in the year above us used to
sneak out at night with his dad's screwdriver and steely
eyes off steal the cat's eyes off the centre of the main road
near his house and keep them in his bedroom.
That boy was me. I have thousands of them.
I don't know by the way, what. We'll leave the questions there.
Let me just check the camera. Guys, the camera stopped rolling
there, and that's really sad because I don't know how long it
had stopped rolling for and that's upsetting.
But look, the sun's shining and it's all good.
Things could be a lot worse than they are right here in this
garden. So I'm looking up at the blue
sky, I'm looking up at the sun, and I'm thinking that's painting
weather and getting stuck back into this fence and maybe,
maybe. I'll put up a picture on
Instagram in a couple of days and show you my fence.
If you've ever been curious, this will be the time and coming
up in the next couple of weeks. We've got great guests as always
on the pod. Really excited to sit.
Down and chat to some of these people.
The the radio show goes out BBC Radio Ulster every Friday night.
The ray of lockdown. Join me for that 6 until half
seven. We're having a ball doing those.
We're having a ball, darling. So keep your eye on those.
I'm finally going to plug the patreonpatreon.com/TV podcast
where you get the bonus podcast and that means you get 3 a week.
That's insane. That's that's insane.
There's see this one wasp, right, that hovers in the same
place. There's another one in our
garden every week and then they fight each other.
That's so weird. Look, there's a Gale blowing
here. I'm going to wrap it up there.
Thank you very much for listening and watching.
I apologise that this podcast was really.
Rambly, you know, it was just kind of just chat with no real
purpose, but if that's what you're into, I hope you find all
you were looking for. Zippers, See you.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
I didn't know whether to give a thumbs up or a peace sign there.
And I sort of did both. I'll just.
We have. Thank you.
Bye, Bye. Bye.