Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle

This time I decided to try out a "Two Dudes Talking" style podcast and went in without any ideas in mind, just wanted to have a chat to Steve who's a good friend of mine. Steve's a very funny comic, as well as a talented musician and artist. He loves cats too, so he's a true triple threat. We start out talking about the kings birthday holiday which was the day recorded it, and moved onto James Bon...

In today's episode I rant and mostly rave for 45 minutes about this series of Japanese movies I love called Crows Zero. I show a few different versions of the international posters and talk about how hard it is for them to get the style right. I planned to go into more depth about the themes in the movies but once I started talking I mainly started raving about the things I love about the series a...

Welcome to The Phantom Files, a series within my podcast featuring paranormal stories from New Zealand; Cryptids, Ghosts, UFOs and everything else from beyond the veil. I'm a huge fan of the Monsters Among Us podcast and so have adopted the same format except focusing as much as possible on New Zealand. I highly recommend checking out Monsters Among Us, I have gotten so many hours of entertainment...

In this episode I talk about what gear and software you'll need to start recording content and posting it online, as well as breaking down the differences between each video platform and what sort of demographic they have and what sort of content works best with them. I also talk a bit about editing a proper special based on my experience making All My Covid Jokes towards the end. It's mostly rela...

I sat down with one of my favourite comics and people in general, Big Jimmy Small. Jimmy imparts a lifetime of passion for football on me in just over an hour. I'd been wanting to have Jim explain to me the ins and outs of British football for the longest time, even more so now that I've gotten so into Ted Lasso. Had a great time chatting with Jim, the conversation mainly skewed towards the busine...

Steven Lyons is BACK and this time we discuss all of the posters and media that have come out surrounding the second to last movie in the Fast & Furious series, Fast X! We go off on all sorts of tangents, from comparing the movies to Rocket League, to talking about a far future spin off for John Cena called The Pacemaker, as well as discussing the absolute insanity seen within the movies and t...

I sit down with Dan Bain, a writer, director, performer & maker of fun things based in NZ and finally get to pick his brain about his current Improv project Perfuct Storm. I'd been wanting to pull this apart with Dan for years so it was a very exciting conversation about where the seed for the idea started and how Dan's photography and graphic design skills have grown throughout this project....

I sit down with Dan Bain, a writer, director, performer & maker of fun things based in NZ. In this episode we talk about the album cover for the album Hail to The Thief by Radiohead and discuss the way this album and Radiohead in general have inspired Dan throughout his career as a creative. We get into Dan's workflow a bit and see how he manages his many projects as a sort of one band band pr...

In this episode we hear part 2 of my interview with Jeff Clark in which we talk about his alter ego Gary Starlight who he performs some incredible musical comedy as, the first time I saw him do it my mind was blown and I was really appreciative of being able to do a deep dive with Jeff and asking all of the questions I've had on my mind since I've known him. We get into the origins of the characte...

Episode 6 of the podcast is live and under the new umbrella title of Ruddle Me This! It's the same general formula, me talking with a guest that I find interesting, except we're not limiting ourselves entirely to poster based discussions, although I have found the format of asking the guests about posters meaningful to them to be a great conversation topic so we will invariably see more episodes a...

 In this episode I chat with Auckland based comedian Steven Lyons about movies 6 through 10 of the Fast & Furious series. We also chat about the idea of an actor's likeness being taken over and used in the case of their death by things like AI and Deepfaking. We get into the history of James Bond movie henchmen and the classic kung fu masterpieces of our youth. And naturally we riff on how rid...

In this episode I chat with Auckland based comedian Steven Lyons about movies 1 through 5 of the Fast & Furious series. Steven's a super smart designer who really knows his stuff and I felt totally out of my depth discussing this with him, so I hope that I bring the everyman charm to the banter. Check back next week for the remaining 5 posters! You can follow Steven online at: https://www.face...

In this episode I talk about 2 of 4 movies I've curated from a category I call "bottle horror" movies. Horror/thriller movies that take place primarily in one location with a small cast and they're usually talking head sort of movies that are weirdly cosy to watch. I think these movies are relatively unknown, so I hope I am introducing some fun new movies to you all. Today I'm talking about the mo...

In this episode I talk about 2 of 4 movies I've curated from a category I call "bottle horror" movies. Horror/thriller movies that take place primarily in one location with a small cast and they're usually talking head sort of movies that are weirdly cosy to watch. I think these movies are relatively unknown, so I hope I am introducing some fun new movies to you all. Today I'm talking about the mo...

In this episode I break down the branding and posters of my improvised Stand up comedy show This One Time. I talk about influences as well as go through each stage of the brand's development.  Check out the This One Time trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGjt7BlgsXk My name's Taylor Ruddle, I'm a stand-up comedian based in Christchurch, New Zealand and I like posters. In The Poster Podc...

Ruddle Me This! With Taylor Ruddle is an independently produced Kiwi podcast based in Christchurch, New Zealand where the host Taylor Ruddle, an Award winning stand up comedian chats to artists, comedians, performers and anybody else interesting in a long form, chilled out, cosy conversation. If you want to know what it's like to be an up and coming Stand Up Comedian, then this is the pod for you!...