Thanyia Moore - "I didn't choose comedy - comedy chose me!"

[00:00:09] Hello and welcome to the latest episode of You Should Have Been Here Last Week, the podcast hosted by myself Steve Gribbin and fellow comedian Paul Ricketts.

[00:00:40] How you doing everybody? You Should Have Been Here Last Week is the podcast that looks behind the glittery curtains of showbiz and takes a peek at the innovators, the instigators, the originators, the sooner or later, the starry eyed, the swimmers against the tide, the eager, the beleaguered, the gaggers, the blaggers, the taggers, the grinners. The skinners, the winners and the sinners. Those amazing people who all go to make up this business that we call comedy.

[00:01:07] And today's very special guest and we're delighted to have her is stand up comedian, actress, writer, voice over artist, TV presenter, life coach and one of the best MC stroke compers on the whole of the comedy circuit, the wonderful Tanya Moore. Welcome to the show, Tanya. What an intro. Thank you. Lovely. Lovely. Just to get this out of the way, I'll just say the one word, hair, hair. Yeah. Yeah. And my lack of it. Come on. Come on, Steve.

[00:01:36] You've got, Paul hasn't got the memo. That's the problem. Paul's the problem in this chat. No, that's all right. He's got hair that touches his ears. I know. It's coming out of my ears. That's the bone problem. Yeah. And your nose as well. It does, doesn't it? It does. It does. Well, there are those things you should squeeze. It's not a moustache is what you're saying. It's not a moustache. No, no, it's all coming out the nose. Are you asking why I cut it?

[00:02:06] Yeah. Well, it seems to be the obsession with that. I mean, you go on, put your name into Google. Yeah. And the first question is, does she shave her hair? Yeah. That's so interesting. Yeah. Yeah, she does. She shaves it herself. I cut it off in 2018. That's when I shaved it off. And people always get confused about this. It makes sense to me. When I was growing up, I was always told I looked like my dad.

[00:02:33] So I just thought like a man with hair and all of my hairstyles would like cover my face because I hated my face. And then I got to an age and I was like, you just got to just accept what it is. So I said, just shave your head off because that's just what I do. It's zero or a hundred and see how you feel. And I think it was the best thing I did. Yeah. Why do you think people are so obsessed with it? Because I think society just says women are supposed to have hair.

[00:03:00] I have lots of young girls in shops saying to their mom, mommy, why doesn't she have any hair? And because I'm vain. I'm like, oh, so I look like a girl. Okay, fine. I'm okay. So long as she's not saying, why does that boy have a skirt? I'm happy that they say, why does this woman no longer have hair? I'm happy with that. I'm grateful. I'm okay. So I still look like a girl. That's fine. I mean, can I just, we always ask this question a bit, but why, why particularly did you choose to go into comedy?

[00:03:28] What was it that attracted you to comedy as a, as a, as an art form? I didn't choose comedy. Comedy chose me. Ugh! Clip that out! Ooh! Come on! Yeah! All right! Someone punch me in the face! I did! Indeed, you're not supposed to envision it! No, that's going to be on the, it's going to be on the, on the thing on YouTube. That's exactly the quote. Comedy chose me. That's right.

[00:03:57] It's like, I never wanted to do comedy. I was, um, a host. I used to be a dance teacher and I used to host our annual dance events. And the parents would always say, you're so funny. You should do comedy. And I used to always say there's three, I think there's three types of comedy. You got pub, pub comedy, barbecue comedy, and then you've got actual standup comedy. And I think I'm barbecue funny. And, um, uh, and then one day my friend saw a comedy course in New Cross and was like, I've gone for bands. Just, just sign up, see what happens. And now we're here.

[00:04:27] And which one was it? The one in New Cross? The, um, Harry Denford. Harry Denford. Yeah. We know him. Yeah. Yeah. Was that the one that used to have it on the bus? Yes. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So what year was that? That was 2018. 2018. Wow. No, sorry. That was 2012. Sorry. 2012. Sorry. And how, how long between you doing that and then the first gig? How long? What was the gap?

[00:04:56] I did, we did the course for five weeks on a Sunday, every Sunday for a few hours. And then we did our first show at Up The Creek. Uh, that was your, your, your showcase show. Wow. And then someone from Up The Creek was like, I run a gig in Croydon, do you want to come? And that was three days later. And then that was it. It just was, it was ongoing from there. Do you remember your first gig? Your first proper gig? I remember that first gig in Croydon.

[00:05:22] And I remember thinking when I got off stage, those, those people up The Creek were really kind to us. Cause no one laughed at that first real gig. That preview gig. I came off stage and I was like, wow, I am a comedian. Wow. We, who knew? Then I went to Croydon and I was like, no, yeah, I got, yeah, I'm not a comedian. Could just be Croydon though. These people don't give a shit. They're not, they're not laughing cause they like you or cause they care. They're just looking at you and like what's happening here, where's the comedy?

[00:05:52] Yeah. That's what that was. Yeah. For a little while actually. So yeah. But most of the people that go on to, you know, uh, have a good career or stick the course in comedy is that thing of having a thick skin because everyone has the first few gigs might go really well. And then you've just got to be prepared for the one that just goes. Yeah. Pick yourself up and get back on the horse and do it. And you keep going. Yeah. I think I was really lucky as well. I met some really good people.

[00:06:16] Paul being one of them who always like gave me gigs, took me places, you know, just kind of give me like behind the scenes information, why you should stay in the game, how to stay in the game, all that kind of stuff. I met quite a few lovely people like that. And yeah, that really helps when you've got people who are already doing it telling you this is how you're supposed to feel. You're in the right place. You're supposed to feel shit because you've got to work at it, you idiot. You're not going to wake up and just be funny. Like that's not how it works. You can be funny.

[00:06:46] I'm barbecue funny because I've got a funny personality. But when you're thinking about the craft of comedy, it's a different, different muscle, isn't it? Different game. Yeah. So to begin with, were you going to do dancing or acting or both? I've always wanted to be an actor. I've been doing drama since I was seven. So I still do acting now. It's still my number one love. If I had to get rid of everything, it would just be acting and that would stay. Oh dear. Oh no. You've broken my heart. Sorry, Paul. I'm sorry.

[00:07:15] However, the reason why I love comedy now is because in those other spaces, I was like everyone else. But now comedy gives you a little extra flair in it. Now you're a comedic actor. Now you're a comedic writer. Now you're a comedic presenter. You're somebody of comedy time and you can make a horrible situation seem light. So, yes, it works. I mean, you are one of the best compers and MCs on the comedy circuit. I mean, what do you... Because I'm barbecue funny, babe. Yeah. But what do you think makes a good compere?

[00:07:44] What's in your mind, what do you have to have? For me, it's about recognising that it's not about you. The job of a compere is not to be the extra comedian. So I don't think you should go on and try material or do material because the room's not set for that. Your job is to set the room so the comedians can have a good time. But that's what a compere's job is. So I find some comedians, you know, they go on stage and could they... They'll do like one or two bits at the top and then they'll go straight into a set. And it's like, that's... That's not fair. Because what if your joke's shit? Now the next comedy...

[00:08:15] The first comedy is going to have a dreadful time because you're being a self-suffer. The job of an MC is to set the room up and get the room ready for the comedians. And I have this nudist beach theory in my head, right? But when you go to... There's three times that you go to nudist beach. The first time you go, you've got something on because you don't know what the vibe is yet. You just go in to have a look. The second time you go, you've got a little bit less. You're not all the way naked, but you've got a little bit less.

[00:08:42] Then the third time you go, you're naked because now you know what's happening and you're in. So I like my audience to be naked before the first act, not for the last act only. So as a host, when I go on, I go on hard because I'm like, let's set the room so the first act can show a similar audience to the last act. Yeah. I think that's important. But when I watch your company, you always seem to be interested in the people as well that you're talking to, which is... Because I'm an actor. I'm an actor.

[00:09:12] I'm an actor. I'm a actor. I think that's something was so good. She's convinced you're her best mate. She's constantly telling me about things. Oh, now I have to send her a lovely text. And she actually replied. I'm thinking, you're too nice, Tanya. You're too nice.

[00:09:40] Well, I think it's important that every interaction someone has with you, I want you to feel like this is me and you are locked in. Forget the world. and maybe that's quite a problem because when I leave that interaction I leave that interaction right there where it was and that's why sometimes people will come up to me and they'll say hi and I won't know who they are because maybe the interaction happened and between that time and this time I've had several hundred interactions yeah I can't remember everything yeah it's

[00:10:07] interesting if you if you're on stage though do people feel that they have that connection with you yeah and they'll come up to you like they you're a you're a lifelong friend no torture you at the bar and they'll do it in years they'll come up to me and be like oh do you remember me from when oh I met you at a gig in 2017 babe are you all right are you are you well in the mind I can't do that we gig so often we meet hundreds of people a week like what do you want me to do

[00:10:36] yeah unless you saved my life I'm not going to remember you yeah going back to the you the sort of like the early years do you remember that who your contemporaries were when you you first started on there do you yeah still see them yeah I mean Athena Athena Cablenu oh yes great was one I spent a lot of time with Jamali and Sindhu Catherine Bohart who else was there quite a few of us when I came I was

[00:11:07] uh I had really nice relations they were already doing it for a while but Susie Ruffell Stephen Bailey were there and they were really kind Michelle Deswart was there um yeah quite quite a few people have done gone on and done some amazing things that yeah because I mean there we we often talk on this show about this there's still quite a high attrition rate isn't there you know that people thank god it's yeah thank god they all jump off the cliff yeah yeah because it's

[00:11:35] there I'm pushing them what's that misdirection what's that yeah look over there but I mean people don't realize it any of a lot of people say oh well how often do you work well you know it's a 20 minute or a 30 minute set but they don't think of everything else that goes around that yeah you know and it's quite mentally uh tough a lot of the time the comedy world isn't it

[00:12:04] which sort of leads us on to the other question because you you run are they empowerment workshops I do well they're more confident confidence based so I didn't this is all stuff that I've fallen into because of comedy right so lockdown came and this guy who's seen me on stage a few times he has a he's a teacher at a college and he messaged me and he said look I want my students to have like a confidence session and I think you'd be really good at it and I was like babes it's it's lockdown are you paying what do you mean

[00:12:34] he was like yeah we are I said sign me the fuck up okay so I got on the call and there were some things that I didn't think I think it's common sense but I recognize that not everyone thinks the way that I think right but I was just saying stuff to them that felt like common sense but they just lapped it up so I just kept going they kept hiring me I kept going back and then outside of that I had like solo clients but I never really thought to advertise it

[00:13:01] as a business and then when I did I realized I was right in the first place don't do that shit now everybody wants confidence I'm not a guru okay also I'm really busy so I've just turned it off is there is there any one of your clients you think oh shit I've done too good a job they're too confident I've created a monster the thing is I don't know if there's such a thing as too much confidence I think some people are they push their luck a lot you know what I mean I think

[00:13:30] they test the boundaries they're like children you know when children grow up and they test the boundaries and you've got to be like no you can't put your hand in the fire you wally it's that kind of stuff you've got to you either test your boundaries and you test yourself out of the face or you just keep being lucky that's what I think I think it's too so you've given this up I mean I was gonna ask you for one-to-one session because I'm a tender flower you know a lifetime of getting on stage you're asking this is the wrong way to do

[00:13:59] don't be fooled by the exterior inside I've got a handful of clients there but I'm not doing no more it's too much I mean I'll pay no I won't pay double the amount no I'll pay half the amount oh dear so yeah so you're knocking it on the head

[00:14:27] and yeah it's too much everything else that I'm doing is just too much so much so I was going to also ask you about because some comics might say uh that's well we have it lucky because we've got two circuits we can play we can play yeah yeah and uh and you know I normally ask the question what is the difference between uh the black circuit and the mainstream circuit but I might uh add in

[00:14:54] that we've done a gig together on the uh a black gig yeah and with another black comic yeah just totally panicked it was one of the funniest little adventures yeah and in a strange sort of way yeah what are the what the mistakes you could make when you're playing a black gig mistakes you can make playing a black gig is saying anything bad about religion uh a lot of I find white comics have the

[00:15:22] punchline of my flatmate we accidentally had sex sorry mum there's no we don't find fucking your mum funny there's no fucking your mum funny jokes there's no jokes where you and your parents are in a sexual moment there's no funny jokes here okay you will do that and we'll look at you like so you want us to laugh that you fuck your mum sorry someone right now is calling dps let's just leave it alone

[00:15:48] we don't do fucking the mum joke um what else um sometimes age dependent too much swearing or swearing at all yeah they don't like that and some of them don't like if they if they deem you to be young to be having what they consider to be grown folk conversation the only reason why I'm talking about it Sandra it's because I fucking experienced it you weirdo it's just such a weird it's a weird

[00:16:14] thing so there's like small strict rules but once they like you they laugh the whole the whole building's shaking when they laugh and I think that's why you really feel it when they don't laugh because yeah it's not it's not just them being silent at a mainstream gig if you if the joke doesn't go well people will still look at you like it's all right give us another one but at a black gig it's so yesterday I went to the bowling alley they could be front row and then you just need the

[00:16:41] light of a phone oh yeah it's like they're so they're so harsh but I also think that's where you get your chops to like deal with a crowd if you could be dying you know how to get out of it because you did a black gig I always say that doing a black gig is teaching you how to hold a hard room for sure yeah for sure I'll add in one of the other mistakes he made was after he died was talking to both of us

[00:17:11] about how he died in the end we had to say fuck off babe we gotta go back on yeah stop putting in your ugly vibes I don't care it's like every comic like that it's almost like it's contagious isn't it it is get away get away get away yeah because now what you want is for me to get off stage and be like oh yeah me too no yeah that's not gonna happen it's a brutal reality I'm afraid yeah

[00:17:43] we've talked about this as before though sometimes you can be playing a really horrible gig and someone's having a tough time and all comics have got this voice in their head haven't they oh this is this is fine I mean they're a tough crowd but you wait till I get on and then with about 30 seconds of you going on you went oh shit um oh god no and I suppose all comics are the same yeah you think you're gonna

[00:18:10] sort it out and then sometimes it's just no one can sort it out yeah sometimes it is the audience yes sometimes it is the room sometimes it is the way the promoter did or didn't set things up for you the microphone sometimes it is out of your control do you know what I mean yeah it's one of those gigs where it looks it looks like all the audience have met up before and and said yeah should we be

[00:18:36] absolute twats today yes yeah I feel like that when I can't get them to that naked stage before I get the first comic on I get off and I'm like oh everyone wasn't naked that's so annoying and normally those people sit in the front and they're so miserable like I don't mind you being here but sit in the back you absolute selfish foreskin you're so unnecessary you've come to the front

[00:18:58] to be a menace why sorry it's the foreskin thing that's making I just think if you're here for no reason that's foreskin okay like if we got rid of you could we have a better life yes possibly actually I think I think we found another clip

[00:19:30] there is that thing as you wonder why some people do you know some people do come out deliberately so so you know uh you know you say oh what do you do oh well you know I do such a what do you do oh yeah like no one's ever heard that before you know oh I'm waiting for the comedian to come on uh or I'm let's go through them there's uh unemployed which is really oh god fuck off uh uh what's the other one uh I am I work for the BBC talent uh thing yes yeah

[00:20:00] all that crap stuff that people do to MCs uh which of course we have plenty of replies now yeah exactly yeah what's your what's your sort of favorite type of gigs to play what do you enjoy most I think I enjoy I'm I prefer more of an intimate crowd than I do like an arena type vibe I just think the more intimate the more you can like just get everyone in the room on board and the less

[00:20:29] likelihood there is going to be some menace somewhere sitting with his mates trying to be the funniest person in the room do you know what I mean you just have a really nice group of people who've come out for a good time and that's what we're gonna have so I prefer those types of gigs yeah yeah yeah so are you are you touring at the minute then are you uh I've never toured in my life it sounds dreadful I can't this is what I have to I just had a very stern talking to from Michelle

[00:20:54] I don't consider myself a comedian because I fell into it and I find that there are what people who I consider to be comedians who live and eat and breathe the stuff you know like you've got like a Jeff Innocent he wakes up he writes he writes he writes he goes on stage he goes home he writes he goes to bed that's a comedian that's someone who's like really trying to look for the best of the material I wake up and I'm like oh that's funny let's see if that's material try it I don't know but one one approach is not necessarily any better than the other I don't think because

[00:21:24] you know that that works for him and that the other one works for you you know yeah so I think a lot of people beat themselves up thinking that there's there's only one way to do it that's true you know that's true but I haven't I've never toured it took me 10 years to get to Edinburgh because I was thinking you you might tour um your Edinburgh show I've done two and I haven't toured none of them but the second one's going to be made into a feature film so it might be worth

[00:21:51] touring that close to the time that that might be coming out yeah that should be quite tough doing that show uh August uh yeah because it's an emotional show yeah but I've I've I've pride myself on taking hard subjects and making them fun so it's not emotional when you sit and watch it there are emotional moments but you are primarily having a good time uh and you are laughing and at the end

[00:22:17] we end on a joke that's the point right so yeah people people tend to be laughing and crying at the same time at that moment and that's what I wanted so I want to I want to just showcase that you can experience bad things and still find the joy in it if you just look for it so yeah I was having a bad time but also bloody good for a show man that's the terrible thing isn't it I know that's the thing

[00:22:46] about being a comedian I'm like as a comedian we never have a bad day we just have how much minutes this is going to cost us so if I have like a bad breakup I'm like okay that's a good what seven minutes it's a good seven minute set just add that in but if I'm having like this massive miscarriage in the middle of my debut um month at Edinburgh after 10 years of fucking waiting want to come yeah that's another fucking hour damn fucking hippie that's hour number two thank you the fuck

[00:23:17] I'm glad you can look at it like that it's fantastic that's what it is that's what I say in the show I'm like that's what so yeah here we are in my second fucking hour the Edinburgh show yeah beckons beckons all of us I'm telling you and once you have a good one and you get a good tour out of it you sit at the end of it you're like because when I did when I finished my run at Edinburgh last year I came home and I was like that felt good actually now I can just fuck that whole situation in my life I can put it in in a box yeah fun and now we move on it's a really good

[00:23:44] way to get out of your body as well and get out your system comedy is therapy I mean yeah which it is it yeah totally is yeah but I have a silly question now uh I was looking at some of your hobbies uh the one that stuck out to me was pole fitness and then the other one was darts ah God just fucked my god if you could do pole fitness and throw darts at the same time I mean that would be amazing yeah I mean I would be amazed by that as well

[00:24:16] yeah I used to be a dancer I'm a world hip-hop champion ah right okay 2005 we went to um LA and we won the world hip-hop championships I've been dancing my life since I was three the world hip-hop championships fantastic wow yeah what did what was the music that you used oh we had um oh it was a mix is it missy I can send

[00:24:42] you the youtube link you can watch it well actually what I'll do is I'll put it in the uh yeah that'd be great yeah because of all the years that it's been going the uk have only won it twice and we did it first in 2005 and then we got back and then I left the group and then the group that reformed went back again three years later and won it again wow wow no and now it's an olympic sport you could have been representing the country oh god no thank you

[00:25:14] yeah who's the the woman that uh did was it for new zealand or ray gun for australia yeah for australia yeah she was doing uh yeah uh but it turned out she was a complete fake uh she didn't know how to do any hip-hop dance yeah she didn't just made up some moves and the only one she could do is the one that did like that you know oh god dreadful i mean they did tear into pieces though it was a bit

[00:25:42] sad i don't know they tried to do it like uh say she was like eddie the eagle but it was completely different thing i think wasn't it did she fake it paul did she actually know willingly go in thinking i'm just gonna try and see all i've read is a headline recently saying she admits that she faked it and i didn't go in and reading it because my life as i said i lack confidence so i just

[00:26:07] i could never do that i could never do that you're not even saying it with a straight face i don't know if i should believe it so um just going back to the edward show that's going to be made into a movie um are you going to be you're going to be acting in that yourself or i'm going to be acting it myself but i'm not going

[00:26:31] to be playing myself oh right okay yeah i think that's too much i think somebody yeah somebody else needs to take on that i think i'd rather be in a more directory role around that space and then i'm going to play like the side character are you going to write the write the script yeah it must be yeah yeah wow well i don't know it's a weird thing to say do i look forward to it or not it's a weird thing yes you should look forward to it

[00:27:02] yeah you should you know what when i was doing my previews i recognized through the previews how much men needed that show as well because i had men coming up to me yeah one man even cried that was a lot he was he said his wife and he had the experience and she hadn't even told her best friends and then after the show her but her and her best friends were around the table and he's like she's telling them now because she's just feels free and she's making a joke about it because they had their

[00:27:27] miscarriage as she was queuing up to go to the toilet at the vatican and i was like oh god wow the ultimate irony i know i was like to me that's funny yeah i know you know what i mean like that in my comedic brain i'm like wow what a punchline yeah good thing she's not a comic that yes i was like what a waste of material i know it's one of those things all this good material just throwing it

[00:27:54] down the fucking drain killing it terribly at the pub ruining every part of the craft are you sure you meant to say down the drain in that situation throw it all down the drain she's going to toilet let's go into the next question then uh which is uh oh it's always the future of comedy

[00:28:21] isn't it it's always we always ask that one so what do you reckon i want to i want i want to desperately hold on to the hope that comedy is like a good pair of jeans okay now you can go down the market and get a market pair of jeans and they're going to do good for a little bit but after a while they're going to get fucked up and you're going to go back to your original pair of jeans so whilst

[00:28:45] we are experiencing these people who are good at editing calling themselves comedian because you're good at editing because the stuff that you do that you post if you did it on stage you would still be waiting for the laughter yeah we've got to bypass this little moment of them being the new face of comedy because even when you go to their shows i've been to a few of their shows just out of interest

[00:29:10] they're not actually dropping punchlines they're saying things that it's like a rally they're saying things and everyone's like yeah you're right you should we shouldn't do that and i'm like yeah and that's great that's great that's great but it's this is a comedy show so that should have been delivered as a punchline and we should be laughing now instead of applauding this also is not an applause break in the comedy sense guys okay this is someone clapping the sentence you just said

[00:29:36] because they agree with you and that's where we're at now so i'm hoping that real comedians never die we always manage to keep working and i hope that the other comedians i hope the wave is over soon so we can just get back to the regular pair of jeans do you think that it is that's all it is just a wave or is it um because they seem to have come onto the circuit and not many of them have done very well at all and then they seem to be receding now and just go because that in a way that you know

[00:30:06] the social media it's a different form of comedy and it's all very well if you're looking at your insta or x or twitter and it works on that level but yeah but i find that the ones on social media who are successful are actually real comedians in real life yeah and they've used the pledge you know what i mean the ones that aren't real comedians in real life they're the ones that are going because they're realizing oh you actually you've got to put work into this you can't just get up and be funny

[00:30:33] i think a real comedian a really good comedian makes you believe you can just get up and be funny because that's how good they're delivering the craft they're delivering it like it is a conversation like they are just thinking about it as a first ball like they haven't sat down and churned and churned the joke that's a good comedian you should as an audience member when i get off stage you should feel like you can do this too that's when i've done a good job other comedians the social media comedians

[00:30:59] the ones who aren't actual really funny they're they're the ones that are going on and stealing someone else's ip and just recreating the work themselves they're not creating anything of their own they're not doing muño chihuahua no one's doing you know what i mean no one's waking up looking at the news creating the piece together getting the team together filming editing no one's doing that they're just looking and being like oh it's a trend so now we're all doing the trends

[00:31:24] trend trend just means i'm lazy and i don't want to do my own fucking work that's what trends are that's another clip so basically i'm going to be cancelled after this podcast that's not a real thing either 150 people who watch this are not going to cancel you

[00:31:49] if they turned up at a gig to you know to you know complain about you you'd be happy you go i'd have an audience i wish they'd turn up at my fucking gigs listen i hate to be the i think we're rapidly drawing yeah running out of time and so we should uh thank you tanya uh that was brilliant brilliant get into your name we could have done that as well

[00:32:16] i didn't even get into the ironing i wanted to talk about the ironing oh no it's a little bit actually when you do it when you've got a tv show to watch you just put the board in front of the tv that's what i remember growing up my mum would do a sunday and the sunday ironing watching the omnibus of eastenders yeah good way of doing it washing was done and then she'd just be ironing and watching her tv yeah my mum would be a sudden she was a sunday ironer

[00:32:43] still is actually probably um yeah and your underpants i'll just say yes everything yeah why are you doing that yeah separate it and then call you to come and put it away as if you decided that you also want to have a sunday moment no no one was asking us anything uh yeah well i think we've we've got a wrap up thank you thank you tanya that was absolutely brilliant thank you man i enjoyed that definitely

[00:33:11] yeah that was tanya moore uh lovely interview uh very dark very dark sense of humor at certain points yes indeed yeah really enjoyed that uh as well well well worth your listening time you people wherever you are listeners viewers sometimes viewers are listeners because they're not actually looking at the screen so they become listeners yeah what do you call a cross between a viewer and a

[00:33:40] listener a visna a visna yeah if you want to do that and you know have it watch it on youtube but don't actually watch it do some ironing while you're doing it and and that very soothing isn't it yeah very soothing but you know although you might be so engrossed that you might burn a hole in your shirt although most of the modern ions now have a little um they have a warning thing don't

[00:34:05] they go yeah haven't they got ai in irons yet they probably have haven't they yeah i'm sorry steve i can't let you iron this shirt not that anyway i mean i've done ironing for a long time buy non-iron shirts and etc etc do you yeah i haven't iron clothes right yeah i've got like um dress-up shirts that just

[00:34:35] non-iron you just stick them on the hanger and then and they just turn into wonderfully ironed things yeah they've probably got ai in the shirt actually probably everywhere oh crimpeline what's that terrible uh material oh god it was the polyester no uh it was like crumpled shirt um crushed velvet

[00:35:02] no i can't remember like czech shirts of the 70s to have that the special material no something like that yeah i don't know you don't know i don't know either you know but who knew we'd end up tanya would be tanya would be able to tell us wouldn't she should be here yes i think she probably would i think yeah but unfortunately she's not here and uh well she's gone now it's not but she's just but she'll be forever immortalized on on this podcast yeah and listen

[00:35:30] to what you should do for me and the viewers stroke listeners if the viewers want to stroke the listeners if you can get that far and what you should do is find out that uh what the name of her dance troupe was that won the world championship so i can put it in the description of either the uh well either on youtube or wherever you might download and listen to the podcast yeah

[00:35:58] that's a good idea because she didn't actually say what the name of the thing was no and you know i could put you know tanya more uh world champion i forgot what she got world championship in uh it was the hip-hop uh hip-hop dancing yeah yeah not many people could say that isn't it no i couldn't the

[00:36:23] world they won the world hip-hop championship in 2000 i couldn't even remember it let alone say it yeah so um please listen like yeah all the rest of it stroke viewer stroke listener stroke the listener just gently just gently no back in fact backstroke them make them uncomfortable well so you could iron if you want to iron the listener as well that'd be quite good yes although that'd be quite painful

[00:36:52] i should imagine i could use a cold iron cold down yeah yeah any any cold eye why am i sorry i don't know where that came from but yeah whatever you do spread the word spread the word like that yeah yeah or you could use other sort of hand gestures that you can't see if you're listening to this that's what they're saying

[00:37:19] and football they always do that don't they yeah they do that once again i have to describe this for the listeners he's doing that the thing they do when they say speed up the substitution in football or put it yeah or an old-fashioned one we put some cotton on the reel of the factory but that's what it is originally um yeah so please do um put some cotton on the reel yes

[00:37:44] and cut down the reel see that song's not as good as any any any cold iron it's not it never caught on did it no it's okay they should have used that in the world hip-hop championships put some cotton on reveal yeah yeah i think that could work be put some cotton on the b-reel yeah yeah you know what i'm saying no anyway uh

[00:38:11] that was only yeah also yeah they always say that you know what i'm saying well yes uh otherwise i wouldn't uh be listening would i when you uh i didn't know what you're saying we can we can we can it just said someone's like no i don't at the end of every time they say it well it's like the old uh the cockney one isn't it now i mean no i don't i don't know what you mean

[00:38:40] but a lot of y'all of the young ones say if that makes sense don't they no it does they say something and it does well most of the time does that make sense no it doesn't make sense i'm not being funny yeah i know that yeah yeah you never have been they should just say like jelly but mong aardvark uh turtle boo boo boo does that make sense no no it doesn't it doesn't why do you keep saying that because i like it anyway look let's get out of here let's get out of here let's get out of here

[00:39:10] um yeah so thank you very much for watching listening to the one that we just done and please continue in your lovely support yes yes indeed we'll see you at the next one bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye

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