My Therapist Ghosted Me - MTGM EXTRA! "We Go Back A Long Way!" - With Deirdre O'Kane

Episode Date: June 2, 2022

Maybe this EXTRA episode is a tiny bit late.... But it's so worth it! Vogue & Joanne jumped into the emails, before they were joined by the lovely Deirdre O'Kane! MTGM doesn't have guests often, but when they do, they're class! If you'd like to get in touch, you can send an email to [e-mail] more information about Joanne's gigs, just visit www.joannemcnally.comThank you!

Welcome to the extra episode of My Therapist Ghosted Me with me and her. Joanne, emails. You ready? Hit me. I just wanted to share a quick blow-by-blow rundown of last Saturday of me going to watch Joanne at the Palladium the other night. Best day ever. Taxi to Soho at 10am. Brunch, Prosecco, Prosecco, Prosecco. Champagne. Champagne cocktail. Sick. Pret a manger at 3.

Check bank balance. Scream. Pub. Prosecco, Prosecco. Stop friend crying about ex. Water. Oh, so much water. Wait outside Palladium. Pint of Prosecco. Spill Prosecco. More Prosecco. Trap finger in the bathroom door. Blood. Garode. Prosecco. Joanne. Laughter. Club. Meet guy Garode. Prosecco. Joanne. Laughter. Club.

Meet guy called Gavin. Cider. Bad idea. Chips. Taxi. Ride Gavin. Leave Gavin's house at 5am. Hangover.

Deep regret. Flapjack. And Fanta breakfast. Redemption. I love her. Sorry, so I got the same amount of time there as a flapjack. I got one reference. Gavin got three no you got i'm gonna give the prosecco's that's also a reference that is not i am not a bottle of prosecco i am a woman

i'm a human being well well you're also pre-demand jay yes that does sound like a great day out in fairness i hope your finger is okay that sounds like I can't believe that she went from 10 in the morning till five the next, what is that, 19 hours. That is. Listen, it sounds like we haven't done our song yet. I know, I know, but that was back in the day, sure.

I wouldn't be able to do all that Prosecco, Prosecco, sick, sick, sick, Prosecco. Well, I'm, basically, I'm sorry I interrupted your day of drinking Prosecco. I'm sure the hour the hour and twenty hours on stage

was only slowing up the day apologies my deepest apologies a flapjack and Fanta breakfast that to me is kind of a healthy

breakfast oats oats yeah oats is one of my favourite words hello MTGM thought I'd share

this one with you I was doing a bit of travelling a few years ago. Loved it. I'd saved a load of money during the summer season in a hotel and just went, no plan, no schedule, just meeting people, finding out where they were going and tagging along. That actually is my worst nightmare.

I was in Istanbul and I'd spent the night with a fellow who was a commercial pilot. Uh-oh, I know someone who doesn't like them. Right. I told him I was up for leaving the next morning and he could sort me out with a flight somewhere he said he'd be heading for morocco and i should come because he could get me a cheap ticket we got to the airport he told me to wait the arrivals off of it and he'd be back that was the last i saw of him i waited for an hour and a half and figured he'd fucked off why did he even take me to the airport? Why not just leave?

It felt like a weird power move. Hold on a second now. Couple of thoughts. One, asking a one night stand for a free flight. It's a big ask. He was a pilot. It's fair enough. You're not asking for a lift.

Do you know what I mean? It's not like, oh, I'm going that way anyway. Like it's a commercial flight. Joanne, that's exactly what you're asking for. You're just asking for a lift there's one of those there's one of those seats that they put you in

the deadhead seat the jump seat obviously he was in a position to do that I think asking someone for a free flight is a big ask and wouldn't stand

secondly you got a lift to the airport that's more than what I got I got a lift remember your man remember the photographer who wouldn't bring me anywhere because he said

it was an unprecedented actual shivery also I was thinking maybe he brought her to the airport because he said it was an unprecedented actual chivalry also I was thinking maybe he brought her to the airport because he was like I can't maybe though

maybe it was like that movie with Leonardo DiCaprio maybe he's not even a pilot and he just the lie had gone so far that he's like I have to go to the fucking airport with her

that's actually a great shout I'd say that's what it is and being ghosted like that is like, it's kind of, it's kind of okay

because it's like, he got a story out of it. He's actually selling macaroons out of the duty-free inside, but he doesn't, he can't let you know that. Yeah, yeah. A pilot seems much more cool.

He's stacking Toblerones behind the scenes. Yeah, that's what happens. Women are very attracted to pilots. Not anymore. I'm about to change that when I get my own pilot license. Yeah, exactly. I wouldn't be attracted to pilots. Not anymore. I'm about to change that when I get my own pilot license.

Yeah, exactly. I wouldn't be attracted to pilots. And do you know what? Oh no, I'd fancy it. I saw a fella the other day wearing those trousers, the Snickers trousers. And I thought,

I'm actually going to purchase a pair for Spencer because it is the level of fancying someone in a pair of those trousers that the electricians wear. I don't know what it is. Do you know what that's so funny? Because we were gigging in

Newcastle the other night. Oh God, there was a girl in the audience. Jesus. My God. Why was she locked? She was off her rocker. I'll tell you what, I've never, it's the most drunk I've ever got was a night out in Newcastle. Yeah, it's a pretty banal. It's actually

such a, I have a real soft spot for Newcastle yeah it's real moody or something I love all the brick and the darkness to it I don't know it's kind of I just think it's and that weird statue the flying statue when you you go in she was all for tits but it's the first time ever that someone's actually kicked themselves out so she was she just she just wasn't in the mood for it you know what I mean she was obviously coming up so I don't know what she was doing but anyway and uh then at one stage she was it was really disruptive because it was a small room and um so anyway then eventually she goes Joanne and I was obviously in the middle of something yeah yeah yeah and I went to yes and she goes I'd like to go now

and I she'd already kicked over a load of bottles and smashed I'd like to go now and I was like absolutely no problem hon like you make your way out there don't worry about it at all um yeah so it was all it all ended well no one had to ask her to leave it was perfect oh I'd love to have that level of just a sense of self to know when to send myself home well apparently she was trying to get back in then and then they were like no you can't get back in she obviously went out and was like what am I doing out here if you're listening email us in we'd actually love to know what happened to you we'd love to know what happened but um yeah it all came for a good place she was just trying to have a good enjoy herself whatever but

um and then someone else she but em and then someone else she just left and then someone else was like Joanne can I say something and I was like oh god what she was like this does not represent Newcastle okay yes it does come on I've been out there absolutely does come here we've all been that soldier I remember doing

20 Mitsubishis and going to see John Bishop I was trying come here we've all been that soldier I remember doing 20 Mitsubishis and going to see John Bishop I was trying to talk to him the whole time I'm kidding obviously

the reason I was talking about Newcastle because Garode has a joke about Snickers pants and he said it

and they didn't really react and we realised they don't use the term Snickers they don't use the term Snickers pants

what do they use I think they're just trade pants they've never heard of Snickers so Snickers are the work pants that the kind of hot

hot electricians wear with all the pockets down the side for their kids I'd actually wear them out myself if they weren't navy I don't have much use

for navy in my wardrobe oh come here we definitely have a pair of high-vis Snickers in us now for a bit of Glastonbury or something like that 100% sure

I'll just whip out my old steel capped boots from the days of the building site. I will. Yeah, from the building site. Fantastic. I love the way you always whip out a random job.

Like this week's is weather spans, next week's be like, do you remember I was a vet? Yeah. What? Well, I was going to say with the Miss 60 jeans, my first ever job came from asking for a pair of Miss 60 jeans. My friend, her dad had bought her a pair and I was just like, I was like job came from asking for a pair of Miss 60 jeans. My friend,

her dad had bought her a pair and I was just like, I was like, I'm asking for a pair of them but they were like 60 euro at the time and I said to my mum, can I have a pair of them?

She goes, yeah, of course you can. She came home the next day and she'd gotten me a job in the summer shop. Do you remember your mum used to go and get you

random jobs? So I had to start working when I was 16. Next thing she'd be like, did I ever tell you about the time I was an arms dealer in college? Was it? Did I ever tell you about the time I was an arms dealer in college was I

did I ever tell you about that no yeah dealing arms bit of cash good cash Sandra got me the job and helped me do that

so on this week's bonus episode, we have a special guest. We've never had a guest before, Vogue. No, we haven't. A very, very close dear friend of mine. So me and Vogue are scrapping over who knows Deirdre better. It's Deirdre O'Kane is our guest. She's on tour at the moment. We're going to talk to her about comedy and New York and her tour

and the fact that she doesn't really know who Vogue is. Okay, line it up there, Yvonne. and her tour and the fact that she doesn't really know who Vogue is. Okay, line it up there, Yvonne. We don't usually have guests on the podcast, but we made a,

we made a special dispensation this week. You can't just take that word. You don't even know what that word means. For my very good friend, Deirdre. And also my friend.

Who doesn't really know Vogue. To be fair, if anyone can use the word dispensation now, other than the Pope, it's you. That's fair. Yeah.

Exactly. You're gigging as much as him. I'm blessing babies left, right and centre. Blessing babies, giving it all that. We're all over it. My bulletproof Popemobile that I can't drive myself because I'm now licensed. Buzzing it through Croke Park.

No, but obviously, Deirdre, me and you are friends. We're both comics. Obviously, Vogue is kind of a blow-in in the industry. Doesn but obviously Deirdre me and you are friends we're both comics obviously Vogue is a kind of a blow in in the industry doesn't know Deirdre that well but I'm actually

Deirdre I don't know I don't know if you've heard but I actually am moving into comedy and Deirdre and I actually do go back a very long way Vogue I actually remember

I remember the very first time I met you and I remember the very first time I met Joanne now I fangirled you the first time I met you if you do recall correctly

in the mansion house you were house. You were DJing. Yes. You were DJing. Well now Deirdre DJing's a stretch. She was pushing buttons on show. Let's be fair. Since you said that the last. She's not exactly mixing up her tracks. She said it on Family Fortunes. Haven't got a DJ gig since. Bitch. No

Deirdre you wouldn't remember when we met because I was a true fangirl. It was at this um event in I don't even remember in the Shelburne and you were gigging at it and I was like I'd had a few drinks and I went up to you and I was like hi Deirdre yeah that's oh no I don't remember that and yeah and now we're firm friends well I had gone to see Deirdre in um like as in watched her gig a couple of times before he'd actually before I was even in comedy you were the one because there was no women

so it was like oh yeah no listen I am as old as tea I have been around so long that's why I can't remember anything it was you

and Maeve Higgins that was it there was no other women in comedies so we were all I was on the road 10 years before Maeve appeared

yeah yeah yeah there was maybe the Nualas and Angel D that was it it was sparse territory for women very sparse

they were the days I thoroughly enjoyed it had it all to myself clit fest left right and centre yeah they're everywhere bags of clits

yeah what was I going to say clit tickets going 90 yeah obviously we want to talk about your tour but the you know the way i always um talk about paths to freedom which is i still i know i know i go on about it i still think it's the best thing that ortiz ever made and i include anything that i've ever been in in i still think that's freedom what was the line just say the line joanne that you always used to ask me to say.

People listen to this and they won't know what you're talking about. It was a TV show, a mockumentary called Pass to Freedom. I played a really posh Southside woman called Helen. Doesn't sound unlike you, actually. Actually, yeah. Actually, you know?

Please wear your, what are the shoes? The Molly got, what are they called? The galoshes, is it? Oh, galoshes, yeah. Yeah, please don't wear your galosh are the shoes? The Molly got, what are they called? The galoshes, is it? Oh, galoshes, yeah. Please don't wear your galoshes in the house. But the funniest was, she played,

it was these two men coming out of prison and it followed them in their lives. And one was kind of, one was very like high, you know, what was he like? Upper class. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Posh, let's just say posh. He was a gynecologist.

By the way, Brendan Coyle, who went on to play Mr. Bates in Downton Abbey. Yes! Yeah. And then it was kind of working class guy over the other side.

Was he done for drug deal and Rats was his name? Anyway, so Deirdre played the wife of the posh guy and it is honestly, it's just so funny. I watched it again

during lockdown. It's all on YouTube. Did you really? Yes! I'm going to watch that. He had a breakdown. He moves into a tent in the garden thinks he's Michael Flatley you're in the house

you will love it you will love it I loved Moonboy I never saw Moonboy oh my god oh my god Joanne it's really good I never got into it

you've been around the block I swear to god there's nothing I haven't done literally it's just a joke and people introduce me now they list the things and I go I need to give this one up it's just ridiculous it's not ridiculous

it's because you're incredibly talented you can do loads of things tell us about your tour you've got a tour coming up I'm loving me tour isn't it great being back on the road joanne i know you're exhausted but isn't it nice to be doing it again no it's brilliant it is it's absolutely not very lonely when you're doing it i'm very mentally robust now i was at the start but now i'm kind of just i've got it i've gotten used to it now i don't mind in fact i've gone the other way now i find it very hard to be around other people now.

I've gone so into myself because I'm on my own all the time. Do you find that? Yeah. I mean, I used to afterwards maybe see people after the show and maybe go for a drink and stuff. And I've long stopped that now.

Yeah, I've stopped that as well. Yeah. But I do need somebody. I've started to rope in quite a mates to come on, a few mates to come on the road with me as road trip buddies because I don't like coming off the stage and having no one to talk to because I feel like a freak.

There's no one to do that post-mortem with. I've done that. I came off stage in Vicar Street once to nobody. No one. No support act. Nobody was around. I remember being in the dressing room going, all right, well, maybe that's how I'm going to do it.

It's such a weird anti-climax oh i never again i said i can't i'm not doing that again so now i've roped people in who said i'll go on the road with you i'll do the drive i'll come and just keep you company and that's cool i love that um because i don't have a support act everywhere i do some venues on my own and the odd one then the bigger rooms uh shitter rooms i have an opening act throw someone else out first get out there and take the edge off that room off you go i did it for loads of people go on tell us where have you got left to go touring well yeah all of my dates are on my website deardrocan.net but let's flog the Hawkswell and Sligo let's go

that's on the 10th of June and straight after it is the Nerve Centre in Derry on the 11th and then I'm in Belfast the night this goes out of a few seats left in Blanchardstown

then I'll be in Cat Laughs in Kilkenny and I'm doing a week in Edinburgh Joanne I know you are are you no I'm not doing I'm not doing

no I'm not this year now damn I was hoping for you well do you know what though I'm going to go up I'm trying to make it not doing No I'm not this year Now Well do you know what though I'm going to go up I'm trying to make it work Because I want to see you I want to see Garode I want to see Eleanor Tiernan

Yeah have a little Busman's holiday for yourself Exactly I'm in Edinburgh We should go up I'm in Edinburgh in August For the races Are you?

Yeah Well we need to figure it out Because we have I didn't even know There was races in Edinburgh That is hilarious She plans to go to Edinburgh For the races

Probably the comedy There's races? are they comedy races? I was going to say she's probably going to the comedy show she doesn't have a clue when are the races? I think they're in August I'm actually DJing up there Joanne touche before you go

tell me about Gigging in America because you were Gigging in America because you were gigging in America recently and I'm very curious as to how that went I thoroughly enjoyed it and also all the jokes worked

which was great because you know the way in your head you think oh my god they're not going to what are they not going to get

here now no problem absolutely no problem whatsoever two of them one in Brooklyn and one in what's the name

of the center Manhattan Madison Square Garden thanks for the help Manhattan oh lads in a one in um what's the name of the what's the name of the center manhattan you see manhattan thanks for the help manhattan um oh lads jesus christ it's all ahead of you it's all ahead of you i have a menopause brain now this is what's happened so first of all you have brain fog because you've got babies and then you get into perimenopause menopause and you have more brain fog so it just doesn't end you just never have a brain that works really are you not on the hrt of course i'm on the hrt i'm on heroin i'm on anything anything that will work i'm taking believe me isn't it mad like the menopause kind of fascinates me because i'm kind

of i figure i'm staring down the barrel of it now myself you come and talk to me i'm the oracle anything you need to know i will tell you i've done it all i've taken yeah bioidentical hormones the whole lot total waste of money don't do that just take the regular or hrt now it's plant-based and it's all east you know it's all organic and as and you're probably wondering where do they get organic estrogen from well i tell you they distill it from billy eilish and the under 17s come over the team that That's where you get organic oestrogen from. When I went to see the female Dr. Joanne, she was the first time I ever went to see a doctor that was younger than me.

And she was blonde and very South County Dublin and a little bit like you. And she said, okay, let's talk about you. What's going on with you? And that's where the title of the show came from. Because I said to her, I'm just demented. I'm actually just demented. I was going to say to you, because you always have these really clever kind of pun show titles

like you did a line of O'Kane before that was the only one I had that's the only good one I had one D you always kind of

like to ride whatever's going on at the time and now you've demented so I was like that's a nice play on your name as well so they're always

very kind of like they're very kind love because it's actually not a play it's just the word demented do you know why nobody calls me Dee they don't

I wish I'd I wish I'd given myself the name Dee when I set out because I could have done loads of things with it but instead it's Deirdre which people only associate

with Carnation Street and they don't you know they just don't get the name I prefer Deirdre O'Kane as a show name I'm the same I wish I'd taken a show name

like you're one here but I wish I'd changed my name to something jazzier, but I didn't. What's wrong with your name? Your name's, you've got a great name. It's not Deirdre.

Joanne! I mean, come on. Joanne! It really suits you. Joanne! Joanne, a lovely Joanne. There's loads of Joannes.

Anyway, Deirdre, go on. Tickets on your website. DeirdreO'Kane.net. Do it, do it, do it. And we might see you then. And it's just a week in Edinburgh, but I wouldn't mind selling that. It's in the underbelly.

Yeah. And we'll be up there at some point. That'd be great crack. I think the crack will be 90 because we will all be very happy to see each other after this long hiatus. So I think get up there. You go and have a nice busman's holiday

and go to see other people tell jokes and that's the plan and we go out and have gin and tonic yeah 100 because we're friends i'll see you out friends whatever go out in your own bitches hanks demented we love you love you more so nice to see you and hopefully thank you for having me on your fabulous podcast bye bye well thank you for listening I feel closer to Deirdre than ever and yeah

she Joanne left early and she said Joanne's in bits so that's how we roll I love that like I had to leave early and I leave in vogue

and Deirdre had one of those do you remember that was half a heart that the best friends would wear do you remember them I'd a fucking that the best friends would wear? Do you remember them? I had a fucking bag of them. I was cheating on everyone.