THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST - EP.264 - DAVID O'DOHERTY (LIVE)
Episode Date: November 9, 2025Adam talks with Irish comedian David O'Doherty in front of a live audience at the 2018 Dublin podcast festival, in an episode rescued from Adam's shamefully disorganised, dusty pod vault. As well as d...elicious vintage waffle about email scams, cycling, music, comedy inspirations and puking on stage, David sings a couple of songs and is generally terrific company. Plus Adam shares some cultural recommendations.Conversation recorded live at Vicar Street, Dublin on 3 October 2018WATCH OUT! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS VERY STRONG LANGUAGEThanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production supportPodcast illustration by Helen GreenListen to Adam's album 'Buckle Up' Order Adam's book 'I Love You Byeee' Sign up for the newsletter on Adam's website (scroll down on homepage)RELATED LINKSDAVID O'DOHERTY WEBSITEDAVID ON CONAN SINGING ‘LIFE’ - 2015 (YOUTUBE)THE MODEST ADVENTURES OF DAVID O’DOHERTY EP.1 - 2006 (YOUTUBE)TIME TRUMPET - DRAGON'S DEN SKETCH - 2006 (YOUTUBE)SOUPY NORMAN EP. 1 by Barry Murphy and Mark Doherty - 2007 (YOUTUBE)KEVIN McALEER ON FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE - 1987 (YOUTUBE)LADY GAGA VOMITS ON STAGE - 2012 (YOUTUBE)ADAM ON TALK 90s TO ME PODCAST WITH MIRANDA SAWYER - 2025 (YOUTUBE)THE RUNNING MAN (OFFICIAL TRAILER) - 2025 (YOUTUBE) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin
Now you have plucked that podcast out and started listening
I took my microphone and found some human folk
Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke
My name is Adam Buxton
I'm a man
I want you to enjoy this that's the plan
Hey, how you doing podcats?
It's Adam Buxton here.
I'm reporting to you from the gloaming out here in a cold Norfolk field, early November 2025.
I'm out here with my dog friend Rosie.
How are you doing, though, podcats?
I hope you're very well.
Thank you so much for coming back and joining us for another.
ludicrous conversational ramble. My ramble partner today is David O'Docchety. Here's some assorted
O'Docoty facts for you. David was born on the 18th of December, 1975. He is an Irish comedian,
author, musician, actor and playwright, and the son of renowned jazz pianist Jim Doherty. He earned a
place at Trinity College Dublin to study philosophy. And there he was a member of the Jazz Society and
apparently a fake breakdancing society.
It was while he was studying at Trinity
that he began his comedy career.
Early pre-comedy jobs included telemarketing
and working in a bicycle shop, David,
is a keen cyclist to this day.
He made his first appearance at Dublin's comedy cellar in 1998.
By 2007, David had his own TV show on Ireland's RTE2,
a six-part series called The Modest Adventures
of David O'Doherty. There's a link to an episode in the description. In 2008, David won the
prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award for his show Let's Comedy. He's had a show at the Edinburgh
fringe every year since then, except, uh, pandemic year, and maybe the year after. And his extensive
international touring also includes a couple of years when he supported Flight of the Concords.
David is also a successful children's author, with the Danger is Everywhere,
series of books, and The Summer I Robbed a Bank, which won the Irish Children's Book of
the Year award and was adapted for the stage. Music, of course, is a central part of David's
life, and he describes his own comedic musical style as very low-energy musical whimsy.
Since 2024, David has also co-hosted, along with Max Rushden, the podcast, What Did You Do
Yesterday, wherein guests, including Adam Buxton, are asked to describe what the
they did the day before recording, what did you do yesterday? The conversation with David that
you're about to hear on this podcast was recorded in front of a live audience as part of the
Dublin podcast festival in 2018. Now, I don't know if you realised, but that's quite a long time
ago. So earlier today, I sent David a voice message to ask how he felt about me
unearthing this episode after all this time. Hey, Siri,
you're not going to say hello
I can do that
hello
thanks just keeps it a bit more friendly
okay
I'd like to send a voice message please
to who
David O Doherty
To David O Doherty in messages
Go ahead
Actually I think it's more like
Doherty I think guttural
Send it
No that's not the message
I'm just correcting you on your pronunciation
of Doherty
I think I'm pronouncing it right
Send it
No
I won't say
Send it.
Please don't send that one.
No.
Send voice message to David O'Dockety, please.
Go ahead.
David O'Docotty, DoD, Doddells, the Doddman out, Snoop Dogg, Dodd, Dodd Future.
Oh, this is lame.
I won't send it.
No, don't send that one, please.
Record new voice message.
Sorry, sorry, I can't help with that.
You can learn more about logging your health data with Siri at Apple.com.
Oh, it's okay. Don't worry. I'll sort this out myself, Siri. Thank you. Bye.
Okay.
And that's the AI revolution, is it?
Hey, David. Adam Buxton here.
Hope you're very well. It was good fun being on what did you do yesterday earlier this year.
And it reminded me, of course, that I am sitting on a great live episode of my podcast that we recorded in Dublin in 2018.
I don't know if you can remember back that far.
I certainly have trouble.
Now, why did I never get it together
to put that episode out before now,
you may well ask?
Well, a combination of boring, technical and organizational reasons,
but I listened to it again the other day,
and it's really great.
I loved it.
So I wanted to ask if you would be okay with me putting it out now.
And if it did go out,
it would have the distinction
of being the longest gap
between recording and transmission
of an episode in the history of this podcast.
Maybe in the history of any podcast.
Eight years.
A lot has happened in eight years.
Some things haven't changed
the day we recorded our episode in Vicar Street.
There had been protests in Dublin
over the housing crisis in Ireland.
That is sadly ongoing.
Less sadly, though,
we talked about the joys of cycling
and music, that hasn't gone away. You played a couple of your own timeless songs, although one of them
was about going back in time to talk to your younger self. But mainly, we just laughed and enjoyed
each other's company and had what I believe the Flintstones would have called a gay old time.
So anyway, let me know how you feel about the world finally getting to enjoy that night with us.
And if you want to let me know how you feel in a voice note, then I can include the voice
note in this introduction, unless, of course, you're pissed off and you just leave a very
bitter rant about what a disrespectful, disorganized, live podcast, twat I am.
Either way, thanks for a great night all those years ago. Lots of love. Speak soon. Bye.
There we are. That's the message I sent to David. And just a few minutes ago, I got this reply.
Hey Adam Buxton
Greetings from
CD of
Row 4 on flight
E.I.167
from Heathrow
to Dublin hasn't taken off yet.
Thank you.
E.I.167.
Yes. I do remember
our gig. I was
42 then.
I'm 49 now.
I don't think. I remember having been really
fun at the time and thinking
oh yeah I can't wait for
people to listen to this
but
Adam not only went on for
five years I would say
I don't know what I thought happened to
our episode because it was a live one
I know they can be a bit weird sometimes
and I thought maybe I'd been
a bit too sassy
or something on it
but I say yes
you may put out
our chat from October
2018. Thank you very much, David. Very nice of him to get back to me. And I apologize to him and to
you, podcasts, for the delay to your service. If you like, you can pick up a delay repay form,
fill it out, and absolutely nothing will happen. I don't think I need to explain too much in our
conversation. Some of the more visual sections have been edited out that I hope you enjoy
these selected chunks, including a little bit in the middle during the interval
when myself and David carried on chatting in my dressing room before going back on stage.
I'll be back at the end with a tiny bit more waffle, but right now, with 2018 David O'Docchety.
Here we go.
Rumble chat, that's of our ramble chat.
We'll focus first on this, then concentrate on that.
Let's chew the vat and have a ramble chat.
Put on your conversation coat and find your talking hat.
Yes, yes, yeah.
Whatever you want.
Do you want to...
Yeah, let's sit down.
Let's sit down.
Hello.
Huge number of bicycles.
I cycle to the gig here this evening.
Yes.
And I'll say this about...
What do we call the people
who come to your live podcast?
Podcasts.
The French for that is Rambled Chat.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
The Rond...
The Rond.
A whole lot of cyclists here.
I mean, I don't want to say that they're not a really successful group of people that come to your gigs.
But it wasn't a whole lot of five-series BMWs out there.
There was a big rally about housing today here.
I'd say a lot of the audience were at us, and they were like, the last thing we expected was to have these pricks.
Oh, I didn't know. This was The Patriarchy Live.
I think I saw that demonstration actually
It was outside my hotel
And I was standing in my bathrobe
Looking out of them
And I thought, good on you
Bloody good job
Actually I did go
I walked past them
And as I walked past there was a photographer there
And he was I swear to you saying to
One of the protesters, a young woman
short hair, kind of a moheican
and radical look going on, shall we say.
And this photographer, who was
kind of a middle-aged, cheesy photographer guy,
no disrespect, he's apparently a genius,
was saying, okay, let's get one more,
this time chin up a tiny bit,
and look sort of defiant,
but with a bit of a smile.
Sure, you've nowhere to live,
but on the upside it's quite a nice day today
so not a bad time to be honest.
You don't want to put people off.
If you look angry the whole time, people won't listen.
It's here. I got your present from London.
I don't know if you've been to London.
But this is a real...
Wow.
London bear from London Airport.
Thank you so much.
There are the bears that protect your queen.
Exactly.
And this bear, I mean, he's dressed as,
this is a strange bear, really,
if you think about it,
because he's dressed as a beef heater
and they protect the queen.
And he's wearing on his head
a bearskin
hat.
So he's a sick bear.
He's a grotesque kind of
Hannibal Lecter-style bear
that they've got protecting the queen.
He's a grizzly with a black bear
hat on his own head.
Right.
So there's, yeah, even within the bears, then,
there's sort of hierarchy, I guess.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like, fuck the Grizzlies.
This is what I think of the Grizzlies.
I'm going to wear your whole body as a hat.
And that still happens.
I googled, do the beefeet to still wear bear skin hats?
Because you would think, like, surely, 2018,
someone must have sent a memo to the MOD.
This is what the MOD says about the bear skin.
Hats.
The M-O-D...
No, what was that?
Ministry of Defence.
Yeah.
That's right.
Paul Weller runs.
He protects the queen
with his
beady, angry eyes.
Have you ever met Paul Weller?
And no, but I'm friends
with Connor O'Brien,
who would be villagers.
He's my neighbor,
and he has worked on a song
on the new Paul Weller album.
Oh, really?
Which he says is really good then.
He's one of those people who...
He has been around
for so long and continues
to put out records
that people like. I think that's the blandest statement
I was looking at
the blandest rock writing of all
so I'm obsessed with
the most mild form of literature
of all is
in-flight magazine journalism
okay? No, there's two mild sorts of
literature for me. The one I'd love to write
is in glossy magazines for ladies
mid-30s plus
there'll be a letter from the editor
at the start where she's like this
swooshing her hair around like that
and it'll be like hey gang
boy do we have a great issue for you
this week she's always happy about it
that is a mild form of literature
but it's not as mild as
rock reviews in Irish
in flight in the Aer Lingus
magazine it'll be like
Ed Sheeran's back and he's
done it again
you're never
You're never going to get one of those legendary
NME reviews, which is just like,
what the fuck is this?
Sharon, what are you doing?
You absolute cunt.
One star.
I, but I like that.
I will be sad the day that
those in-flight mags get edgy.
You know, because there'll be some toss pot who wants to, like,
let's really shake things up.
I think that it's to create
a comforting atmosphere on board.
a big death machine.
Yeah, there is that, but then there's
the sort of awful mix of capitalism.
You know, the golden rule in visiting any
city is never do anything
that's recommended in an in-flight magazine
or especially that's taken out
an ad in-flight magazine.
Have you ever, Irish people, have you ever
looked at the ads
in the Aer Lingus magazine?
There are four of these places none of us
have ever been.
It'll be like, darklyo-boxdies,
you know.
and it'll be something like Ireland's oldest pub since like 637
or something you're like what how is it possibly that old
at midnight an English man will be ceremonially killed
just as has happened since the 8th century
all of that sounds good by the way
is Dadlio Buxtis real
you got me a present I got you a present
so I have a bicycle obsession
particularly bicycles of the 19
and I enjoy everything that accompanies it.
The real height of the blatant drugs era.
I mean, everyone's still on drugs,
but at least now the drugs they're taking are a little more complicated.
I buy these ex-pro bikes.
You buy them on eBay for four or five hundred quid,
where you can, like, it has ridden the Tour de France,
running your nose along the saddle.
You get a stench of EPO office or whatever.
and then a big part of cycling,
particularly in the 80s, was your bum
that was to stop it getting,
particularly in the mountain stages
with the cooling of shooting down the mountains
where your sweat could potentially freeze
on a cold day
because you're going so fast
and then sweating as you go back up again.
So it was all about taking care of your butt.
Of the Netherlands?
Yeah.
And so with that in mind,
a key product was
le creme lubricante
par excellence for le chamois.
It's chamois buter.
Oh, mate.
So it's B-U-T-T
comma R.
And even if you're just going to the shops
because I know you like to cycle, I need you to smear
half a tube of that down there
now to prevent saddle sores.
The ultimate skin lubricant.
Now, do you say chamois or chamois?
Yeah, I think we say chamois.
but...
Shammie cream.
Yeah.
I filled it with jazz.
This is soap.
Especially if this does go up.
Oh my God.
He's lubing up to the listeners.
Buxton is lubing.
I mean, now we can go as long as you want.
Is it supposed to go right in?
Yeah, it goes...
I mean, that's where the infection starts.
I mean, in a way you can send it down.
from the other end just by swallowing it and then
letting it all go straight through.
So we'll do more meet and greet in a bit
and it'd be great to say hello.
Thanks, man. I appreciate that.
Well, I mean, this ties in with what you've just put on your butt.
To the listeners, I'm wearing a T-shirt that appears to say
I heart K-Y, as in K-Y jelly.
Yes.
But in fact, the heart, if you look carefully as a bicycle,
and the K-Y is K-Y because
I went to Kerry for Kerry Bicycle Week.
Oh.
I was in Kerry a couple of weeks ago.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
Because my producer, Seamus, his family has a place there.
And so I went to try and do some writing.
So I was wandering around the coast of Kerry, and it was, God, it's beautiful.
Did you get any inspiration from it?
Because, I mean, I've tried to do this myself.
Yeah.
But sometimes it's too, I mean, you're too worried about human survival sometimes in remote areas.
It's the reason the Neanderthals aren't remembered for their great plays.
No, I did.
I had a bit of that.
The weather was quite severe, and I didn't want to be housebound the whole time
I wanted to get some exercise, so I went out for a walk in this lashing wind and rain,
wandering along.
Then I came up against some cows.
Oh, yeah.
I didn't know what the situation was with the cows.
You just got a lube-up, and hope for the best.
Yeah.
Cow deaths are quite, I don't know about in Ireland,
but in the UK there's a lot of...
No.
No?
I mean, in as much as bulls are...
You know, like the Matador, I see a danger there.
No, not just bulls.
The cows get all trampoli.
I mean, what, were you trying to mount them?
Was this your first rodeo, as to say it goes?
No, because, so Granny O'Darady spent a lot of the years,
living on Ackle, which I mean
Kerry's great, but
it's Manhattan compared to Ackle
which is
it's an
sort of island shaped like a
handgun
off the
west coast
off Mayo where there's like
six trees on the island.
You know a place that's too
severe for fucking shrubbery.
If you leave your bike
outside overnight in the morning
just a pile of dust and written in the dust
to fuck you
go back to their city
you prick
I know what the deal is
out here I don't want to get into trouble with the farmers
or the cows anyway so I went back
but it's very difficult
to stick to
any kind of routine like when you're
alone in a house and you're trying to write
and especially
with the internet obviously it's a total disaster area
oh hang on well that's carry
You do not get that in Ackle.
No way.
It may be the most
Celtic
Prog Rock moment of my life.
You get a bit more 3G
now in Ackle
just with the way
that the aerials have gotten better
or whatever.
But it's very much
like weather dependent
and stuff like that.
And one time
was waiting for emails to come in.
I really need to check it
and I walked
about a quarter of the way
up Slevemore,
the large mountain there,
like all the time
holding my phone
skywards like
He-Man at summoning the power
of Grayskill
and I couldn't get it
and I was getting a bit more
and then I clambered up on some rocks
and I got it
and then I realized I was standing
on a megalithic tomb
like something that the
pre-Celtz had put there
4,000 years ago
that now I was just using to
I think you'll find
that's why the Celts put it there
I'm like, what has come in?
Like, this is obviously going to be a message from like,
David, I love you.
It's like, what is it?
Oh, booking.com.
I've got some new offers.
Great.
I've started getting cannabis infused gummy bear emails.
Do you get those at all?
No.
I mean, you've obviously ordered something.
No.
Is this the dark web?
No.
I swear to you, I've never done anything like that.
I swear to you.
But I've just out of the,
the blues start, it's like I've thought about them and I've thought, yeah, if someone offers me one,
I'll give it a go.
But getting them posted.
But then they've been reading my thoughts and now I'm getting emails all the time and it's one of these,
if you look down at the bottom and you click on unsubscribe, it's sort of burnt into the whole
email and if you click on it, then you get launched off to the spam site that they want you to go to
and then they start harvesting your data.
I got a really good one from, I say really good.
It was bad, but it was, it totally fooled me.
It looked as if it was from Apple, and it was saying,
here's the receipt for your recent purchase of something or other,
and they'd clearly, some algorithm had gone through the kind of things I buy
and that my family buys.
Like what, can you think of a thing?
Yeah, well, it was, you know, my daughter's on the same account as me.
She's only 10, so basically I pay for her purchases.
She's supposed to clear them with me, but I'm always getting,
like, oh, she's bought another 10 Percy Jackson books on her iPad, you know.
And so it was that kind of thing.
And I thought, oh, damn it.
This time, you know, I didn't order that.
What's going on here?
And so it said, if you did not make this purchase, fill in your detail.
So I clicked on the thing.
Wow.
And I got halfway through before I was like, do it.
Yeah.
I was literally just about to give them all my passwords and type in my, you know,
because I was signing into iCloud.
They're like, if you need to sort this out,
you're going to need to sign into iCloud.
So I do all that.
And, oh, man, it was such a bad feeling.
Have you ever had your identity stolen?
I mean, I had once I was involved,
I won't put a time on this,
but I was once involved in a very intimate act
with a lady.
Well done, by the way.
Can I just say, that's great.
Oh, thanks.
Oh, that high five was too hard.
And Siri piped up.
I don't know why you'd call me that.
Or something, you know the way you can activate?
I think you can activate.
Yeah.
In fact, possibly by me saying Siri now, I speak quite clearly.
I mean, I would say I have a very clear speaking voice.
Yeah, but I think the podcasts.
Hey, Siri.
I'm listening.
Yeah.
Wow.
It's that simple.
People know how Siri works.
Yeah, but I'm thinking, because you can be,
Siri can arrive sometimes.
You've got man, Siri.
That's interesting.
You can, you can, you can have whatever you like.
Irish Siri is a lady.
I don't know there's any man Irish Siri.
Is there?
You can choose whatever Siri you want.
No, I think that's English Siri.
Is it?
Yeah.
We're in the EU, mate.
We've, uh.
We're in favour of female series.
Surely the big scandal in 10 years time
is going to be all those absolute fools
who've given spit samples to...
If ever there's a Cambridge Analytica waiting to happen,
it's everyone who's gone for those ancestry tests
and has basically now given all of their personal details,
which is what you do, and your DNA as well.
I mean, that is a murder waiting to happen.
happen. A murder where
at the crime scene is left, some of your
DNA. And what's that? Oh, all
of your personal information as well.
Let's get back to bikes for
a second.
That's a good segue.
How do you find
bike shop guys these days, or bike shop
staff?
Yeah.
Someone shouted out, it's bastards.
It's the closest you'll get to
black books.
Right.
But I was thinking that it had changed
because they certainly used to be pricks.
Ah, well, now,
so in Dublin and Ireland
at the moment, there's a bike to work
scheme that involves the government
will pay half of the price
of a new bike.
So consequently, people buy quite fancy bikes
like are buying 600, 700
Euro bikes and they really
love if they see a bike to work
jump come in.
It's an opportunity to set. Whereas
I arrive,
in and I'm like
a point of information
would you
have a washer for
2003 Campic Nolo
super record rear derailer
and they think
one of us
one of us
so I think of it a lot
if you're a very good chef but you
work in a chipper
you know I get that with
bike shops as in these are people
who would really enjoy trying to do
high-end repairs, but yet everyone comes in with a puncture.
Yes.
Or my chain has fallen off.
Yeah.
No, I know what you mean.
And they can't bear it.
They're in it for the bike stuff, obviously.
But you would think if you're going to work in the service industry, which is essentially
what they're doing, then you would take some pleasure from interacting with other humans.
But they haven't thought through that bit at all.
Or at least they didn't used to.
I think it's different now that you've got your chamois butter.
Yes.
Just go in there with.
that fully lubed from head to toe slide in across the floor on my bottom see for me you know i get
very metaphysical when i start talking about bicycles i still get on my bike in the drizzle at half
nine in the morning and i'm just like this shouldn't be happening yeah and then you mix that in
with 80s uh my sporting heroes were cyclists who have pretty much without exception of
being proven.
Absolutely
disgraced, yeah.
But they were my first heroes
and I love everything about
like it's just burned into my brain.
You know, in 1987,
Ireland by fluke and drugs
had the number one
and number two professional cyclists
in the world and it's when I would have been 11
and so I decided
to dedicate my life
to becoming the next world champion
like these guys
and I did
I dedicated
myself to it
for certainly
a month
I remember
once reading
that Sean Kelly
used to eat
eight slices of toast
in the morning
and so I started
I thought yeah
I can do that
year old slightly
pudgy David
like my mother
going like what are you doing
and then that's what you have to do
these are the commitments.
Before I cycle the mile and a half to school, mum,
I need to massively carb load.
And then go into school,
struggle through till small break,
and then take a 15-minute shit
as my body just tried to repel
all of these sports nutrients
that it didn't want.
What's your favorite kind of bike pump?
Well, I enjoy.
a track pump with a pressed a valve on it.
Okay.
Bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping, bicycle pumping.
The pump that I like for my bike is a big one, because it gets the job done quick.
Plus you've got the valve adapter to fit the fat boy and the skinny prick.
And on the big pump, you got the pressure gauge if you're into numbers and shit,
but if the needle drops while the tubes connected.
then you got a hole in it
That is the exact pump that I was talking about
And for Presta Valve
Read Skinny Prick then
Yeah
I didn't know it's called the Presta Val
Yeah there's a few different sorts of Valve
I don't want to get into it in front of a muggle
That's a different podcast
That's Valve chat
I took a trip down the river of time.
I took a trip, took a trip down the river of time.
I packed some things for my trip down the river of time.
I packed some things for my trip down the river of time.
I took a camping chair and a fancy camera so I could sit and take pictures from my chair
off the river of time, of the river of time.
of time, time, time, time, time.
I also made sure I had my laptop there so I could use my photo manipulation software and
tweak the river of time, time, time, time, oh, oh, oh, oh, the river of time, do-be-doo, the
river of time.
Ooh la la la, it's long and covered in slime.
Okay, here we are.
We're in the dressing room at Vicar Street.
And we're on our break now.
And we were just talking about the fact that it is weird,
like the change of gears that's required for the live podcast thing,
especially when you're used to just sitting alone in a room.
Yeah, and it is that thing.
Because people are listening to it on headphones.
It's like the most intimate thing.
Yeah.
So they want just you and someone else in their brain,
but then they have a thousand other people.
Yeah, and it's all like, but I hope we're doing a good job of not shouting too much.
I think so.
No, I don't think, because also they're very warm the audience.
They're very nice, yeah.
Do you think they might be the least tough audience?
Like I've seen Mastodon and people like that here.
You know what I mean?
Audiences that would really.
give, like, you know, I'd say
there's a thousand of your
of podcasts here.
Yeah. I'd say 30 of
Queens of the Stone Age's audience.
You know what I mean?
Would take out
if it was sort of
a medieval war
situation.
My fear is that
in a live situation
that the audience isn't
miced. Yeah. Because
I recorded a gig
recently that I
were trying out new material, but
and gave a little machine to the person operating the desk.
So they just recorded to the mic.
And this was like a unidirectional Senheuser mic.
So all it's getting is you.
So it's just a man appears to be just shouting on his own, leaving pauses.
And then the worst part was, if I'd try a new piece of material and it went well,
I would make this sound like, I'd be like,
and then maybe that's what it will be like
in the future
and there'd be a pause
and I'd go like
mm-mm-mm-mm-mm
it was some sort of...
And you've never heard that before
you've probably never heard of
making those noises.
The audience are laughing a lot
and it's basically me saying
good band duttles
or something
that can go on the show, mate.
The whimpers of pleasure.
So this is the two-half podcast as well.
Yeah.
I mean, that's a mammoth undertaking.
What's the thinking there?
We're going to go out in the second half.
That was just something dictated by the venue.
They just wanted to have it nice and long
with a booze break in the middle
so that you sell some drinks.
And I'm just like, yeah, okay, whatever.
I don't mind
because I don't do
very many live podcasts
and they invited me here
and it's a lovely venue
we did the Bowie
bug special
I was at it
that's what you were
that was amazing
it's fun
and this
I mean they're very
very warm audience
it's a famous venue
acoustically
because it's quite new
so it was designed
by some famous
acoustic
architect
and if you'll notice
the whole walls
are coated in something
that feels like
hard shaving
foam or something so it's zero bounce it's a real studio sound in it so you get all i saw
neil young here did you yeah when he was doing a gig in an arena he'd heard about this place and then
did a yeah he's a he's a real kind of acoustics queen yeah absolutely so that's probably why
you chose this as well indeed you're all about i've heard some of your sonics some of your
podcast is where the main recording device breaks and it ends up being recorded by it ends up being
this one this little guy that i've got here i know it's ludicrous
thank you so much thank you so much yeah cheers that's caroline she works here at the venue
and she's just supplied us with pints of booze i mean so now have you ever done the podcast
under the influence of booze no i'm i'm i find it hard enough just to
form sentences when I'm absolutely
straight.
And I'm absolutely off.
I don't know what I'm doing, having a pint now.
I'm just thinking, whatever.
But I'm no good.
What about you? Are you funny when you're
under the influence? No.
And I start to slur words
a little bit.
Right.
And I've never done a gig
super duper hammered.
But I've certainly
thinking I'll get away with this.
and then just be slightly disappointed afterwards.
Because I tour with, like, Concords and people like that.
Yeah.
It's not a rock and roll vibe.
You know, the vibe with Concords is get the road manager in here.
I'm like, what tours can we do tomorrow morning?
Yeah.
You know, is the Mary Rose going to be open?
Oh, they want to, right.
They're getting as much as they can out of the experience.
Oh, yeah. It's, uh, we sit around at the end.
Might eat a little bit of cheese back at the hotel.
Then bed.
Let's try and get a solid to eight hours.
and we'll go to Bletchley Park the next day.
That sounds like Richard Iowaddy.
Yeah, I can imagine.
I did Travel Man and he was very much like that.
Like in between, and Crystal Mays as well when I do that show,
he's in between takes, he's reading Dostoevsky
and nibbling on a carrot.
I mean, literally.
Yeah, people always ask you, where is the party tonight?
As if, like, we've booked the top of some skyscraper in New York
and we will be dance.
until 6 a.m.
Did you, as a younger man, ever go on a tour that was the opposite of that?
That was a good old school blowout?
I was friends with people in bands and used to tag along with them sometimes.
So it was the start of the collapse of the music industry era,
where it was banned with four people, two double beds in a travel lodge.
Everyone hating, everyone.
And just going on the booze as much as to get to sleep.
You know what I mean?
you're staying in these
incredibly grim places.
Yeah.
I mean, the beauty of comedy
is that, because it's just you
and a sports bag with a miniature keyboard
in it, you can generally
find someone to stay with.
So that would have been my first
few years. You know, I never,
I think once or twice I did the, I stayed,
went out partying with the audience
to get the Ryan Air Flight at 545
or whatever. Oh.
But, yeah, it's,
in a band, you,
If you're the bass player and you're hanging the next day,
you can start to get away with it.
You just can't in comedy at all.
There's nowhere to hide whatsoever.
And the audience also hate if you come out and go like,
hope we get away with this at a big one last night.
They're like, you piece of shit.
We have paid 15 quid for this.
Yeah, exactly.
We want you at your absolute best.
But what about in Melbourne?
You must have done all those kinds of festivals where you go out to Australia.
That sounds like a sort of non-stop party.
I mean, there's a point at which a 42-year-old man has to...
Yeah.
I can base...
If I go out, I ask Dr. Showbiz to let me away with the next gig.
And Dr. Showbiz is like, okay, fine.
This once, you don't do this very often.
You stayed out till, whatever, daylight.
But I'll help you with this gig.
Yeah.
But then, if you happen to...
it again. You're like, Dr. Shobis, I'm so sorry. Can I just get one more? And he's like, no.
No, you can't. And you sweat, cold sweats, dying on stage and just general disappointment.
Can you imagine how horrific it would be to actually have a real health crisis on stage?
You'd feel like you were going mad. I mean, you'd be traumatized if you survived it.
I always think of Bowie having a heart attack. During a gig? Yeah. Did he?
He did. Yeah, he collapsed in 2004, and he was playing really long shows around that time.
That was the reason he retired.
Wow. I've never had a heart attack, but I have puked myself during a gig in Aberdeen.
The venue was a part-time cinema, the lemon tree in Aberdeen, and the pick and mix was to the side of the stage.
It was sitting there in the sweets area, and the mic extended over to it.
So I was, you know, I'm a bad boy.
So mid-gig, I'm taking, in the first half, taking handfuls of sweets and eating them.
And, like, this is such fun.
This is incredible.
And then either it was food poisoning from that, or maybe it was just some sort of toxic shock from 6,000 cola bottles.
Yeah.
Which, either way, it's not a great rock and roll story.
But I said, I think I might be about to puke to the audience.
And the tech got a bucket at the side of the stage.
and I got it across the audience
that this isn't a bit
I am actually the chance I'll puke
and then I was like
oh shit here it comes
and I put the mic down
and everyone cheered
and there was silence
and the bucket was at the side of the stage
it was beside the off stage mic
where you announce yourself on
so they would have got
this like
Lucas sound special effect
of like
you know the set
imagine the sound of the puke
hitting the bottom of the
So the audience cheered me off.
This is a sort of silence, hum, hum.
And then actual, visceral, like, oh.
They probably thought you were playing a sound effect.
We took a five-minute break, and I came back on and did a song at the end with puke down.
No.
T-shirt.
Got a standing ovation, man.
It's one of my only standing ovations ever.
And it was, in Aberdeen, they appreciate someone who was performing with pukes.
How long ago was that?
that it's about four years ago
that one yeah it's my go-to
memory for Aberdeen still
it's quite a thing to see people puking on stage
you ever see that footage of Lady Gaga
puking no it's pretty good
she's in the middle of a routine
on stage like very physical
and she just leans over
and whoa
it's just a column of vomit comes out
then she carries on high kicking and grooving around
and then she pukes again I think
Have the audience definitely seen us?
I would say, it's very clear what's happening.
It's not like a little trickle or, oh, she's spat.
No, she is absolutely puking her guts out.
It's really impressive.
Right, now we should probably head back down again, I think.
We're halfway through the podcast.
I think it's going really great.
The conversation's flowing like it would between Agiza and his mate.
Hello Giza, I'm pleased to see you
There's so much chemistry
It's like a science lab of talking
I'm interested in what you said
Thank you
There's fun chat and there's deep chat
It's like Chris Evans is meeting Stephen Hawking
So my father was the musical director
On the Late Late Show
Which is this show that's still running today
So whoever was in Ireland would go on it
It was one channel Ireland.
Everyone watched it.
And I think in 1970 or 71,
this is all since been taped over by RTE.
Dad played in the same month.
He played piano for Fred Astaire,
and he played Hammond with Bob Marley.
No way.
Yeah.
So it was that era where you were just a music man.
And Bob Marley, what?
He was just visiting on his own without the way list.
No, I think he was there.
In the same way that in Letterman,
the house band would just yeah go on let's give us some more sound whatever you've got there
so yeah would just add in some bits then oh my god it's a it's a ridiculous career you know
it's why i realize i'm so lucky doing this like playing a fucking children's keyboard from 1936
like my father has this lifetime of study and expertise with the greatest musicians of all
and he does gigs upstairs in Arthur's pub on Thomas Street
between 26 and 35 people.
Those are the best gigs, though.
They are the best gigs, they are actually the...
I mean, aren't they the ones that you really fall away
and you think that was a very purely happy moment?
I think about gigs like that
way more immediately than I think about
going to see some band in a stadium or something like that.
Yes, but they're not as financially...
No.
You don't sell quite so many t-shirts.
When I'd be like, Dad, can I get Nike basketball boots?
He'd be like, shut the fuck up.
I'm working on an atonal piece for seven trumpets.
Was he doing all sort of avant-garde stuff?
Yeah, well, he would have kind of gone through that whole era.
I tweeted it recently.
My father's first band was called The Memphis Five,
but only three of them turned up for the photo.
So it's this glorious picture where the drummers got Memphis 5.
Like Memphis, none of them had ever been to Memphis.
And when they were 15, so Dad was born in 39.
So this is, we're talking mid-50s, like jazz.
This is an era when in this country,
the government and the church were trying to ban jazz.
What?
Because it was going to make people pregnant.
Yeah, there's an amazing article you'll find on the Googlies called
the war on jazz.
And when Sean McEntee,
he was a minister who said that jazz
might be okay, after he
died, and this is one of the coolest
lines ever, I think McQuaid, the Archbishop
of Dublin, said he was a
man with the stain of jazz on his
soul.
That is all I want.
When I die, if someone will
please say that.
Are you sure he said jazz?
It's one of the things to remember about
Ireland, which has changed so much in the last 15 years, certainly, but very obviously
has. But in fact, there was always weird shit going on. It was always just underground. There was
the incredible music scene in the 80s going on at a time when no one had a penny and you couldn't
buy fucking rubber johnnies. You know what I mean? I mean, that's the thing is you wouldn't necessarily
choose to live in particularly repressive times, but there is always very interesting stuff going on in
those times, people pushing against that stuff and their subcultures forming, that end up being
very influential. Yeah. Irish politics always reminds me of, don't ever take a shit in a
port-in-loo at a festival that's blocked, but you go anyway. And as you leave, someone's coming in,
and you say it was pretty much like that when I went in. Like, that has been Irish politics
for my whole life. And then what's been...
fascinating in the last
few years
brought to a head
with the two referendums
what was that
it wasn't political groups
that got this through
certainly some politicians
helped but it was mostly
these tiny grassroots little
movements and it was people going
this is bullshit we have to change this
and talking to their friends
and their friends talking to the other friends
so there's a massive housing crisis
here at the moment
and Parliament's not doing much
to sort it out so it's really interesting
to see like 15,000 people fucking turn up on a Wednesday
and disturb you in your dressing gown.
David, it didn't ruin it at all.
It was a wonderful moment for them and for me.
So music-wise
So music-wise, what's your wheelhouse?
When you, if you, okay, I've thought of a new idea for a show.
Like, if you were, say, on like a desert island and you were there for...
Hang on, a dessert island, like full of, like, Profederal...
Yeah.
Ice creams, Hagen-Dars.
Desert Island is.
Desert Island dis, exactly.
It's just ice cream and caramel rocks.
Yeah.
I'm not going to carry in with this.
give us three albums that you would need
that would sustain you out there
I mean so we've got a serious issue here
which is you don't want to go too deep into
jazz nerd O'Dardy here
but we'll go a little bit deep
Give us accessible jazz nerd
Oh my god
Kind of blue, Miles Davis
I mean that is a good album
That's a beautiful album I mean I might go
What album do you pick to get people who...
Yeah, to convert jazz doubters.
I'm going to say...
There's a Miles Davis record called Someday My Prince Will Come,
which is the one before, kind of blue.
What's the Cannonball Aderly album called?
We Love for Sale and Autumn Leaves on it.
Something else by Cannonball Atherly.
Yeah, it's the tune that...
So...
You might have heard that.
that's the
I can't believe I've just played an excerpt from
one of the greatest jazz albums of all time
on a shit keyboard
but that'd be a big one
so I'm a massive steely Dan
every waking moment
the director of theirs called Katie Lide
that is one of my favorite things
one of my favorite lyrics ever is
bad sneakers
which is the second song on that record.
For me, the definitive steed-down lyric
is at the start of that,
which is five names that I can hardly stand to hear,
including yours and mine
and one more chimp who isn't here.
And it's just, like, what,
that's a short story there.
And then a Brad Meldow record,
any of the Art of the Trio series,
they're incredible.
I mean, they're my top three,
but Kirstie is going to fade those down
very early on.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Did you ever try and write serious songs, or were you always...
How dare you?
How very dare you?
No, because with my Mickey Mouse psychology hat on,
I would think that the son of a serious jazz musician
writing avant-garde pieces for 20 clarinets
would be thinking,
hmm, either I'm going to have to be as good or better than dad.
Yes.
Or I'm going to be silly.
Yeah.
I mean, Dad had another side to him, which was a comedy obsession.
So Granny spent a lot of the air in Ackle.
So we would drive, it used to be a five, six-hour drive.
And it would always be with tapes of old goon shows or weird stand-up.
There was people like Lord Buckley.
There were all these American comedians who used to perform in jazz club.
The Majesty, the policeman.
Yes, Buckley, isn't it?
really, really odd
stuff like that.
And then that would have
manifested itself from a stand-up point of view
with Kevin McAleer
was probably of the
new generation of Irish comedians
just absolutely fucking mind-blowing
who did a routine on
the British Saturday Night Live
or Friday Night Live show
where he did a slideshow
with pictures of owls
that just seared itself
into. I remember that.
my consciousness as...
Because it was hit and miss that show
and he was one of the ones who's like,
who's this guy?
Yeah, and it was what the fuck
is this sort of comedy.
And he's Irish as well?
Like, whoa! Yeah, we'd always had
like Randy Newman and
listened to a lot of that.
A guy called Dave Frischberg.
A few kind of forgotten
really smart, jazzy
piano players with really funny,
sometimes quite satirical
songs. So my brother
started taking me around the time
when I was trying to get into pubs when I was 17 or 18,
we worked out that you could get into comedy gigs in the city
and they wouldn't try and ID you in this city.
And this is a period when the comedy cellar in Dublin
might be Dylan Moran, Ardlo Hanlon,
Barry Murphy, Tommy Tiernan.
There's a line of Dylan Morin.
The first time he went to a comedy gig in Dublin,
he was expecting it to be shit,
but it was like a Berlin cabaret in the 1930s.
Someone would come on and kill a swan.
someone else would play a chocolate piano
and so that was the scene
that's from about the age of 17 onwards
I was the absolute nerd guy
sitting in the front of these gigs in front of 40 people
and whoever the performer would be would be like
you again I don't have any new material
and I don't mind
I'm trying to learn it off by heart
so my brother
was a really out there
comedian. My brother, the actor, guy.
Who did stuff with Barry Murphy?
Yeah, it would have crossed paths with you
on Armandoi Annucci's stuff.
Doing time trumpet.
Doing time trumpet.
Yeah, yeah.
They did that amazing series of sketches
about Dragonsden.
They did Dragonsden and then here
they would be known for a series
called Supi Norman.
Oh my God.
Soupy Norman is one of the first examples
that I can think of
of people taking, it's like found footage,
so they took a Polish soap.
Yeah, it was like the Polish Emmerdale.
They got permission to use, I think, one episode.
And it was quite ambiguous to permission,
which was, we're going to dub it,
maybe with an emphasis on comedy.
I don't have the Polish Emmerdale didn't realize
they were going to rewrite it six different ways.
So they created a totally new narrative,
and they dubbed it so that it fitted pretty well
with what the mouths of the actors was doing.
Well, you won't like me to bring this up,
but some of my favorite YouTube clips
is say I'm trying to woo a lady.
I might bring up some of your work,
your re-subtitling of the songs of praise.
Oh, yeah.
Or your...
Which was thanks to Amanda Ianucci,
who he was, when we were doing Time Tumpet,
or we were doing an earlier version of it,
what turned into Time Tumpet.
I think it was called
2004 the stupid version
we did originally
it was this thing for BBC 3
that's like the
you know the Spanish name
of Night Rider
that's right exactly yes
Carwich speaks and is exciting
the A team
in Portugal is called
the wonderful gentleman
brackets one of which does not like to fly
yeah that's right
The holiday horn
It goes to do-do
Holiday time
Have a carrot
Have two carrots
Go to the toilet
Take your time
Holiday time
Both of us love music
And I think
I wonder if this is fair to say
That both of us deep down
Would love to be able to write a serious song
About
Fucking life
But make it
beautiful and move people to tears with it.
But I certainly, I'm not going to speak
for you, I certainly don't seem to have
it in me. So instead it comes out
as these kind of wonky
salvos. Yeah.
We just listen to jazz music
a lot and then kind of show
tunes. Those like insane
internal rhymes of Cole Porter
like when love congeals, it
soon reveals the faint aroma of
performing seals. Like these
impossibly incredible
and just immediately realized I
never be able to do that.
So I will go in a different direction.
What's your favorite thing to sing now?
I'll do a new song.
Oh yeah, great.
This is sort of about Dublin.
Yeah, I don't know what this is about.
Let's see how it goes.
Walking along, it feels.
like I'm free. What's that sound? A cat purring in a tree. Hey, Mrs. Cat, why you meowing like
that? I say, talking to a cat, what am I like? She runs away. I can't blame you,
can't. On the night, I went out without my phone. I'm sitting on the bus.
But I'm not looking down.
I'm staring at the windows,
seeing the lights of the town.
This is my town.
And tonight I feel part of it.
Hearing conversation from the strangers beside,
Karen got back with Liam when his mother died.
Poor Karen.
I hope she's not making a mistake.
Also, sorry.
you're troubled him.
The guy behind me
singing Eminem to himself
but the only words he knows
for sure are lose
and yourself.
This is chaos, this is life
but I bloody love it.
Should always go out without my phone.
I get to where
I'm supposed to meet my friends
I'm half an hour early
but I'm happy to spend the time
watching a busker.
she's doing
the boys are back in town
and I'm like
I'm the boys
and this is town
and that is the greatest
Irish rock song that's ever
been real
and this is the best
version of it I've ever heard
and it's so good
that I look down
and like my feet are moving
like I am spontaneous
there's like six of us
and we're all dancing
and I'm like at the top of Grafton Street
in the drizzle
never happens when you've got your mobile phone.
And then I look over there, and some prick is filming us on his,
yeah, go fuck yourself.
An hour later, my friends still aren't there.
There must have been a change of plan along the way somewhere.
Not to worry.
I'll just go get some food of my own.
I'll read my book.
That's what I'll do.
Read my book.
That I've downloaded to M.
Pollocks.
But the first restaurant's full
And they recommend another place
But I can't find it
Because I don't have maps
Tell you what I'll do
Get a pint, that's what I'll do
I'll go off, go to an old fella's pub
I'll get a pint to stout
I'll reconnect with the soul of this country
Then a guy comes up to me
Outside the pub
Says his coat's being robbed
Asks if I can phone the cops
But I say, Would you believe it
tonight I actually
and he calls me a miserable
bollocks
I'm sitting in the pub
and this old fella comes over
because he says I look lonely
starts telling me about his brother
who lives in Tennessee
says he can't come home
because he doesn't have a visa
and he misses him whenever Ireland
have a match they listen to it together
on long wave and even though they can't speak
they know they're both listening
I'm like, this is so beautiful.
This is what I need it right now.
But then he moves on to how the country's full.
There's no room for anybody else.
We need a Trump to secure our borders.
And you can't even tell who's Irish anymore.
And what do the women want?
What do the women want?
And I wish I'd brought out my mobile phone.
I can't even book a taxi to get the fuck out of that.
there
walking home
in the rain
it's amazing
how much more
you notice
the smell of piss
when you can't listen
to the Adam Buxton podcast
I get home
I've got 12 missed calls
my friends are like
where are you
you're missing the greatest night
they've started putting photos up
on the WhatsApp group.
My friends are waking up
in like Auckland
and Sydney
and Buenos Aires
in L.A.
and New York.
They're like,
oh, it's nights like this
that I wish I still lived
in Ireland.
I'm like, to be honest,
when you're actually here,
it's something of a mixed bag.
Like, it's getting better.
We're sorting it out.
Year on year,
it's getting a little bit.
Give us a couple more years.
I mean, it's all right.
It's grass.
It's absolutely grand
If you just remember to bring out your phone
But don't check it too much
While the audience
While the audience
While the audience was applauding, I was trying to think of something
glib to say
but I
think that's just
such a great song
and it's funny as well
because I've been thinking for ages
I've been making notes
on my phone
where I make all my notes
for silly comedy things
I wanted to do a song
about sort of counterintuitive
about how much I love my phone
you know because obviously I'm aware
of all the shit things
about modern technology
and anyway you've done it much better than
we both have friends who've done the worthy thing
of get
I actually just use a Nokia, you know, for the weekends.
And then put the SIM card into the smartphone for work or whatever the rest of the time.
Right, okay.
Which seems like a brilliant idea, but then you, like, suddenly you can't send a funny picture of two swans boning to that person.
Would you be up for singing us one more song before we say goodnight?
All right.
Oh, there's...
Oh, yeah, they're good ones.
Yeah, that's another one.
Yeah, let me try and...
Whank on a bike, was that?
I don't know that one.
I don't think I can do that.
I think it might be my Elon Musk moment.
If I...
In the current climate,
can't even take a wank while you're cycling along anymore.
What does the world come to?
I'll do this one.
Okay, yeah, I've got a song.
Hello, 18-year-old me.
This is you in the year of 2018,
and I'm here to tell you so much stuff
about life, happiness, and love.
David
David take out your fucking headphones
What the fuck is that noise
This is you in the year
2018
Bullshit
If this is me in the future
Tell me something about myself
That only I would know
Before the mathematics state exam
You took and you were 14 years old
you wrote the quadratic equation on your dick.
And Matt's nerds in the room will realize something of a humble brag there.
Thank you.
To everyone else, it's not a short formula.
Yeah, that may be true, but I bet a lot of people do that.
Tell me something else about myself.
You haven't lost your virginity yet, but you will next summer.
Sweet.
What's it like in the future?
Future, what's it like?
No, I'm supposed to be giving you advice.
I mean, I don't know.
How do you describe the future?
Like, the stuff's different.
You just feel the same.
That's incredibly bleak.
Here, uh, what do I do in the future?
Yeah?
Did football work out?
Did the football?
Or my musician like that?
Did I make it in music?
My ultimate dream.
Did I become a musician?
Fuck.
No.
You do.
comedy. Oh, that's not bad. Like, what do I do? Like, perfect one-liners, like Mitch
Hedberg or Stephen Wright, or like, well, like Seinfeld, real slick stuff in a suit, come out
like, ching, shing, shing, absolutely not. You tried that for a while at the start,
but you just don't have the right sort of brain to remember entire sentences. You do
musical comedy. Oh, fuck. The lamest genre in all of comedy.
Hang on. How do I do musical comedy?
I can't sing.
Yeah, we've actually found a way around that.
What you do is more like melodic shouting.
Do you ever step in a dog in the dark at the bottom of the stairs?
The dog's like, that's basically your career.
Like what sort of stuff do I do songs about?
What be an example of one of my songs?
This wouldn't be a million miles from the sort of thing you might do a song about.
What do I play?
What instrument did I choose?
From the pantheon of musical instruments.
Do I play the guitar like Bill Bailey
or a Steinway concert grand piano
like Victor Borga or Randy Newman?
Which one did I choose?
Ah, fuck.
Do you know the shitty plastic keyboard in the attic
you got for your confirmation?
No, please.
Are you honestly telling me
When I'm 42 years old
I'll travel around
With that piece of shit
In an orange sports bag
You can't be serious
Fah
Well this is bleak
Anyway what's this advice you've got for me
To be honest I'm not really in the mood now
Keep practicing football
I suppose.
Hang on, where are you going?
I'm going up to the attic.
I'm going to smash up that keyboard.
You can't do that.
It's the number one rule of time travel.
Hey!
David O'Dogarty, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you so much, David.
And thank you.
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Hey, welcome back, podcats.
That was David O'Dockerty, back in October 2018 at the Dublin podcast festival at Vicker Street.
Thank you very much to David and to everyone.
who came along that night.
It was really fun.
I'm glad.
Finally, we've been able to share it with you.
Apologies once again for the delay.
There's a few very enjoyable performances from David
in the description, if you follow the links,
as well as links to a few other things we spoke about,
including that Dragon's Den sketch
with David's brother, Mark Doherty and Barry Murphy,
and their amazing dubbed series, Suppy Norman.
You'll also find a link to an episode of Talk 90s to Me, Miranda Sawyer's highly entertaining 90s pop culture podcast, on which I appeared talking all about the Adam and Joe show.
And of course, you can listen to that in audio only form, but the link I've put in the description is actually for the YouTube filmed version if you're someone that likes to watch podcasts and you want to see what color docker cap I'm wearing.
Anyway, it was a fun chat with Miranda
and I do encourage you
not only to listen to other episodes of Talk 90s to me
but I also recommend Miranda's book about Brit Pop
Common People
which I very much enjoyed as a music fan
and a 90s survivor
I've been stuffing a lot into my eyes this week
Squid Game, the Challenge
which I enjoy watching with the family
I also watched with my wife
the first couple of episodes of Pluribus
which is a sort of a sci-fi, high concept,
thriller, comedy, drama thing
created by Vince Gilligan who did Breaking Bad
and Better Call Saul.
And it's about a sort of space virus
that turns the population of the world
into a kind of single hive mind,
a bit like the Borg.
from Star Trek Next Generation,
except they're really happy.
They're not like the Borg who are mainly into S&M and clubbing.
Everyone in the world is assimilated into this hive mind,
except for a tiny handful of people,
including a misanthropic writer
who is played by Ria Seahorn.
She played Kim Wexler in Better Call Saul.
I love Ria Seahorn.
She's a great actor.
she's brilliant in this
she's called Ria Seahorn
you need Apple TV to watch that
I also went to see
The Running Man
the second film adaptation of a story
by Stephen King
this one is very different to the 1987
version starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
not one of my favourite
Arnie films I have to admit
this new one is directed by
I'm sure many of you know
Short of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver Director, Corn Balls Collaborator, a friend of mine, and the podcast, Edgar Wright.
So perhaps I can't be trusted for a totally impartial assessment.
But I really enjoyed it.
If you're not familiar with the story, you're dealing with a sci-fi action romp.
Set in everyone's favorite place, the dystopian future.
Where big budget reality entertainment shows exploit extreme wealth inequality.
to recruit members of the public
for a show
that is basically like hunted
on Channel 4
in which contestants
are out in the world
doing all they can
to evade a team of hunters
except in the running man
if you're caught
you get killed
and they show it in the program
which I don't think they do
on Channel 4 currently
Edgar's version stars
Glenn Powell
you know Glenn
he's got very white teeth
and a really lovely, toned, but very welcoming tummy
that I would gladly rest my face on.
You would have seen him in Top Gun Maverick and Twisters.
In The Running Man, he plays a husband and father
trying to get hold of money
so he can get some medical treatment for his sick daughter.
He just wants to help his sick daughter,
so he has to take on a sick society.
And reluctantly, he becomes a contestant
on the running man and along the way
he gets into some very entertaining fights
massive explosions, crashing cars and planes
battles with Josh Brolin
who plays the show's unscrupulous deep fake using producer
a lot of resonant current themes rattling around this film
you've got a great supporting cast
including Michael Serra Amelia Jones
Kat O'Brien and even
friend of the podcast
Emma Ciddy.
Yeah, she appears in some spoofs
of a Kardashian-style reality show
that play in the background of a couple of scenes.
In fact, as you'd expect from Edgar,
there's quite a few funny moments in the film
that reminded me of some of the media satires
that Paul Verhoeven would incorporate into his films
like RoboCopp and Starship Troopers.
And there's also design-wise,
looks great the film,
but it has a similar kind of brutalist architectural sense, I thought, to some of total recall.
That was one of the Arnie films that we really enjoyed back in the day.
Anyway, the Running Man is out, and it's good fun.
All right, that's it for this week.
Thank you very much indeed to Seamus Murphy Mitchell for his production support.
Thanks to Helen Green, she does the beautiful artwork for this podcast.
Thanks to everyone who works so hard at A-Cast for liaising with my sponsors.
But thanks most of all to you.
Thanks for coming back.
Hey, come over here.
It's good to see you.
Till next time, we share the same Aural Space.
Go carefully out there.
And for what it's worth, I love you.
Bye!
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