MEET IN THE MIDDLE

Is it a holy miracle or a medical emergency? This week on Meet in the Middle, Danny, James, Jake, and Rachel unpack a viral 50-year-old Portuguese priest dropping hardcore techno beats at massive raves, before diving into a horrific listener confession about industrial craft glue being mistaken for hair removal cream down below. The gang also exposes the hilarious truth behind why men form a prote...

Get ready for another laugh-out-loud ride with Danny, James, and Jake! We are back in the studio for Episode 115, and things are getting dangerously spicy and incredibly embarrassing. Rachel is away this week, making it a proper boys' night in the studio—complete with a few drinks and plenty of unfiltered chaos. First up in "Have You Heard?", Jake reveals a mind-bending new digital trend out of So...

Get ready for another laugh-out-loud ride with Danny, James, Jake, and Rachel! We are back in the studio for Episode 114, and things are getting dangerously spicy and incredibly embarrassing. First up in "Have You Heard?", Jake breaks down how Scottish football fans have taken over New England during the 2026 World Cup. Instead of causing typical chaos, the Tartan Army has collectively raised and...

Welcome back to Meet in the Middle with Danny, James, Jake, and Rachel! This week, the crew brings you another round of chaotic Irish and British banter, unfiltered laughs, and wild stories that will make you question everything. In "Have You Heard?" , Jake breaks down a viral dating disaster from China where a 29-year-old man named Mr. Lu went on a blind date, only for the woman to turn up with 2...

Get ready for another laugh-out-loud ride with Danny, James, Jake, and Rachel! We are back in the studio for Episode 112, and things are getting dangerously spicy and incredibly embarrassing. First up in "Have You Heard?", Jake introduces us to the world's most petty public monument. A local councillor in Cork, Ireland, has pitched building the world's smallest statue—a microscop...

Grab a cushion for your hole because Episode 111 of Meet in the Middle is officially off the rails! We kick things off in "Have You Heard?" where Jake takes us down one of the darkest internet rabbit holes yet: LooksMaxxing. Lads on TikTok are going to extreme lengths to get that blocky, Minecraft-character jawline. From aggressively chewing rubber devices that destroy teeth to "har...

Get ready for another laugh-out-loud ride with Danny, James, Jake, and Rachel! We are back in the studio for Episode 110, and things are getting wonderfully weird and incredibly embarrassing. First up in "Have You Heard?", Jake explores the ultimate competitive sport: extreme revenge on cheating partners. We break down the legendary 7,000-yard glitter bomb, a brutal digital billboard bre...

Get ready for another laugh-out-loud ride with Danny, James, Jake, and Rachel! We are back in the studio for Episode 109, and things are getting wonderfully weird and incredibly embarrassing. First up in "Have You Heard?", Jake introduces us to a truly bizarre medical phenomenon from Hong Kong. A woman strained so hard on the toilet that she triggered Transient Global Amnesia, completely...

The crew is back for another round of absolute mayhem! We kick things off in "Have You Heard?" where Jake investigates a wild rumor about "breeding visas" in Japan. While that might be fake news, the real story is just as bizarre: the Japanese government is literally subsidizing Tinder Gold and matchmaking apps to fight the loneliness epidemic. Danny is ready to sign up for gov...

Get ready for another laugh-out-loud ride with Danny, James, and Jake! We are back in the studio for Episode 107 (missing our girl Rachel this week), and things are getting dangerously spicy and incredibly embarrassing. First up in "Have You Heard?", Jake introduces us to the European Seagull Screeching Championship. It's a bizarre competitive sport in a Belgian pub where grown adult...

The gang is back and things are getting measurement-heavy! We kick things off in "Have You Heard?" where Jake reveals a London nightclub that’s strictly enforcing a 6ft height requirement for men. Is it a "Land of the Giants" dream or just blatant "Short King" discrimination? James has some very specific ideas about what the requirements for women should be, and let&#...

Get ready for another laugh-out-loud ride with Danny, James, Jake, and Rachel! We are back in the studio for Episode 105, and things are getting dangerously spicy and incredibly embarrassing. First up in "Have You Heard?", Jake introduces us to the Republic of Slowjamastan. It's a self-declared micro-nation in the Southern California desert founded by a radio DJ who crowned himself S...

Get ready for another wild ride with Danny, James, Jake, and Rachel! We are serving up another round of chaotic laughs and bizarre confessions in Episode 104. First up in "Have You Heard?", Jake breaks down a new dating trend taking over London called "Date My Mate". Singles are officially ditching the apps and instead pitching their best friends to a pub full of strangers usin...

Welcome back to Meet in the Middle! We are bringing the chaotic energy for Season 6, Episode 103 with bizarre confessions, deep chats, and absolute hilarity. First up in "Have You Heard?", Jake brings us Part 2 of the generational aging debate. This time, we look at Millennials and "Millennial Age Dysmorphia"—why do so many millennials still feel like they're 25? We discuss...

Welcome back to Meet in the Middle!. We're diving into Season 6, Episode 102 with a packed lineup of chaotic laughs and bizarre confessions. First up in "Have You Heard?", Jake explores the raging online debate: Are Gen Zs aging faster than millennials?. We discuss how growing up fully online with constant social comparison and stress might be raising cortisol levels and breaking dow...

Welcome back to Meet in the Middle! 🎉 We're kicking off Season 6 with Episode 101, and it's great to be back in the studio!  This week, we've got a jam-packed episode full of bizarre stories, hilarious confessions, and a brand new segment.  First up in "Have You Heard?", Jake tells a wild story about a Tinder date that went horribly wrong. Imagine picking up your date, driving to the bank, and su...

We actually made it! Welcome to the  100th Episode of the Meet in the Middle podcast!  🍾 To celebrate a century of episodes, Danny, James, Jake, and Rachel are popping the Prosecco (eventually) and getting absolutely wild. In this feature-length special, we put our friendship to the ultimate test with our first-ever  Comedy Roast . No one is safe as we tear into each other's fashion, punctuality,...

It’s episode 99 and you can have this one with a flake because it’s juicy, jam-packed and guaranteed to keep you laughing from start to finish. Jake kicks things off with Have You Heard and introduces us to Jenny the Scottish Vampire, a sentence we still don’t fully understand but absolutely had opinions on, A very well-attended matchmaking festival in Lisdoonvarna, County Clare in Ireland…which i...

The New Year kicks off with sharp banter big ideas and some truly questionable theories. This episode of Meet in the Middle sees the group dive headfirst into conspiracy territory as they unpack the Montauk Project touching on time travel mind control and long running military myths. The conversation jumps between urban legends folklore and pop culture while Irish and British perspectives collide...

Scarlett Lee joins us to talk X Factor fame reality TV pressure and what independence in the music industry actually looks like. She opens up about anxiety panic disorder and how music turns the worst days into something worth hearing. Family support kept her going. Creative freedom keeps her honest. We get into the long road to Nashville body confidence the new album built from her life stories a...

It’s time for the Meet in the Middle Big Fat Quiz of the Year as the gang look back at the most unhinged news pop culture moments and internet madness from 2025. From solar maximums lighting up the Northern Lights to drive through fines nuns on the run and a truly baffling cockfighting law in Oklahoma nothing is off limits. The quiz takes a sharp turn through viral moments music trends and interne...

It’s the  Meet in the Middle  Christmas special and the chaos starts immediately. The gang swap gifts in a full  Secret Santa unboxing , sharing big laughs questionable choices and some genuinely unexpected reactions. It’s festive friendship at its finest. The episode dives into  weird Christmas traditions from around the world , last minute gift panic and festive language quirks before Rachel tak...

This week on  Meet in the Middle  the gang are back with peak comedy and absolute nonsense as they unpack their recent Amsterdam trip Christmas madness and one of the strangest news stories you will ever hear. A South African pastor claiming he can heal people by farting sets the whole room off and it only gets worse from there. The crew dive into the messy reality of  public farts marriage farts...

The gang jumps into their first ever live Twitch episode, giving you the unfiltered, unedited madness that usually gets chopped out. Late entrances, tech meltdowns and Danny turning up dressed like a colour-coordinated icon. In Have You Heard, Jake reveals a £20k home robot that looks like an Apple-approved Teletubby and sends the whole chat into meltdown about privacy, stairs and whether it secre...

Two years in and the gang are somehow still standing as James absolutely butchers the intro, everyone argues over who’s actually turned up for the most episodes and they realise the 100th isn’t far off. Jake kicks off Have You Heard with Tom Brady cloning his dog, sparking a full moral meltdown over science, souls and whether bringing back your pet is sweet or straight-up unsettling. Rachel then d...