The Public Nuisance Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome MJ Lennon, Eoin McDonald & Marty O’Hara to the podcast. We cover boxing vs MMA, jiu-jitsu, the mindset needed to become a fighter, autism and combat sports, natural aggression, coaching beginners, training camps in Kazakhstan, getting humbled in sparring, Traveller boxing culture...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Matthew Dinsmore to the podcast. We cover Belfast sayings, local slang, warm weather, sweating like a dog, dog’s balls, old-school smick culture, Nike Air Max, rockports, Belfast fashion, rap music, Eminem, Tupac, Biggie, Kanye, seeing rappers live, boxing trips to Kazakhstan, Georgi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Pearse Vallely & Gerard Hughes to the podcast. We cover leaving a normal job to pursue social media full-time, building an audience through comedy videos and hidden-camera content, creating viral moments in Belfast, dealing with online criticism, the reality of becoming recognise...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Shane Todd to the podcast. We cover Shane Todd’s North American tour, performing in Boston, Toronto, Texas and New York, the difference between great crowds and nightmare audiences, comedy on the road, travelling, sleep routines, recovery hacks and why Shane tapes his mouth shut befo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Pearse Elliott to the podcast. We cover growing up in Belfast when everyone knew everyone, bookies, horse racing, greyhounds, pigeon racing, hunting dogs and the characters that made local communities what they were, why gambling becomes part of social culture and the psychology behi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Paddy McDonnell to the podcast. We cover podcasting, Patreon and TikTok lives, why TikTok monetisation isn’t always worth it, snoring, separate beds and married life, getting used to living alone while travelling, the peace of being away for work, parenting, having five kids, the dif...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Stephen Ferris to the podcast. We cover the brutal physical reality of professional rugby, why every game feels like a car crash, GPS tracking, G-force collisions and how modern rugby monitors player fatigue, Brian O’Driscoll’s legendary toughness, earning respect inside elite teams,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Sean Hegarty to the podcast. We cover growing up sharing rooms, VHS tapes and the “good old days”, how life has changed for kids today and whether too much access has killed appreciation, juggling kids, work and trying to still chase your own goals, modern parenting and how different...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Jordan McMahon to the podcast. We cover getting sacked during Covid and starting from nothing, going from Starbucks to building a private chef business, learning cocktails from scratch and turning them into a USP, cooking in strangers’ homes and creating full dining experiences, why...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Kurt Walker to the podcast. We cover amateur boxing trips gone wrong, getting stranded in foreign cities with no phone or money, running from taxi drivers and jumping staircases at full speed, waking up on random boardwalks with no idea where you are, chaotic nights out during fight...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Micky Bartlett to the podcast. We cover falling asleep mid-conversation and waking up to chaos, couch wars and relationship arguments, Belfast accents abroad and thick humour that doesn’t translate, running routes, coffee stops and chaotic routines, boxing classes and throwing up mid...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Niall McGreevy & Garrett Smylie to the podcast. We cover viral run-ins with traffic wardens, parking rage and Falls Road chaos, conspiracy signs and 5G madness, why Muay Thai deserves more money and attention, first podcast nerves, the difference between TV production and just ha...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Bernadette Hagans to the podcast. We cover first podcast nerves, accidental connections through gaming, custom lobby chaos and competitive Call of Duty, becoming a mum and growing up in a big family, engagements and taking your partner’s surname, secret families and wild ancestry dis...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Caolan & Tiarnan Loughran to the podcast. We cover one-percent routines and why working smarter beats pretending to grind 13 hours a day, balancing school runs with two-a-days, building yourself inside a proper facility, moving to Amsterdam, elite sparring with Paedie, coaching f...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Pete Taylor to the podcast. We cover recording from Amsterdam, influencer boxing money versus real fighters’ paydays, Jake Paul changing the game, amateurs grinding for years with no exposure, Eddie Hearn loyalty debates, Conor Benn controversy, drug-test chaos, boxing politics, too...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Dave Elliott to the podcast. We cover Monte Carlo trips and getting “arrested in Hull,” Arsenal meltdowns and football delusion, panic before shows, crying on long cycles, weight cuts and being bone dry, cycling routines that last one Instagram post, mental health charity gigs, heckl...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Gerard Little & Eamon McCarthy to the podcast. We cover amateur football politics, pro contracts and youth-team heartbreak, Celtic stories and Paolo Di Canio madness, delegation and dressing-room leadership, fear of failure driving performance, assistant manager egos, losing jobs...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Daire to the podcast. We cover why amateur boxing can be harder than pro boxing, cutting weight versus walk-around weight, hydration rules and recovery, why fighters binge after weigh-ins, pasta and pizza as post-fight fuel, how weight cuts shorten careers, fasting versus breakfast,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Sean O’Neill to the podcast. We cover tea drinkers versus coffee drinkers, growing up in football changing rooms, never getting too high or too low, still going home to the kids after losses, apprenticeships and unpaid years, standards in sport, retiring into coaching, sleepless nigh...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Alex Norris to the podcast. We cover nicknames from school lunch lines, Japanese-Irish identity in Belfast, Asian market rituals, matcha firsts and deli rolls, POV skits and viral jokes, deleting and reposting anxiety, making comedy travel online, learning Japanese and Spanish, livin...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome John Man to the podcast. We cover Belfast accents with Hong Kong roots, Hakka at home and Cantonese chaos, code-switching without losing yourself, Chinese curry debates, chicken balls and tradition, Indian takeaway rankings, Chinese New Year at home, wedding graft and long edits, gim...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Jazza Dickens to the podcast. We cover cancelled paydays, opponents pulling out, short-notice salvation, Jazza Dickens vs Anto Cacace on Paddy’s Day, belts held hostage, ageing narratives in boxing, lonely road miles, small-hall grit, concrete-floor beginnings, influencer boxing real...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Sean Connolly to the podcast. We cover cardiac arrest and second chances, ICU lessons carried onto the gym floor, fundamentals under pressure, gratitude changing physiology, emotions hijacking performance, old-school weight cuts versus modern recovery, play-sparring over head-hunting...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Gerard Healy & Fra Lavery to the podcast. We cover weight-loss plans turned winning streaks, ten undefeated fights, two belts, driving tests passed, boxing as a second language for respect, ticket sales running careers, paying opponents’ hotels, bad decisions abroad, ring-walk ne...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb. This week we welcome Andy Malone to the podcast. We cover airport call-outs turned sanctioned fights, starting late at 39, bad backs and second chances, hype as a tool not a master, two-fight deals and February targets, restraint as the strongest punch, co-codamol addiction and quitting, digital identity...