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Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle

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!

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9:23

Hiatus Announcement

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/07/20

Hey Ruddlemaniacs, I'm going to be putting the podcast on ice for a currently undetermined length of time. The long and short of it is that I've been burning it at both ends for the past couple of months and the weekly nature of the podcast was beginning to grind me down. I've been sick as a dog for going on four weeks now and frankly I'm just knackered. Thankfully the last episode with Jeremy Redmore was a banger so I feel I can go out on a high note while I rest up.This audio clip is essentially

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63:08

131. Musician Jeremy Redmore (formerly of Midnight...

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/07/15

This is a HUGE get for the podcast, quite possibly the biggest guest I've had so far! Jeremy's a musician currently living in Holland but from NZ originally. Jeremy was in a band in 2009 called Midnight Youth who released some absolute bangers that I remember hearing all the time in high school. I heard one of them on the playlist at Little Andromeda several weeks back and ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole and actually getting in touch with Jeremy who's been an absolute gentleman and a

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40:01

130. Mushroom Poisoning & Memphis Belle with Melissa...

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/07/13

Today's guest is Melissa Katherine, a stand up comic from Auckland who's been gaining a bit of traction online lately after discussing an Australian true crime event where someone poisoned some people with a beef wellington, she even got a cease and desist letter from the Australian supreme court as it's actually illegal to talk about crimes while the case is still pending. Fascinating stuff! We also talked about the film Memphis Belle and why it's meaningful to her, as well as the role that wartime

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37:52

129. Life's Curveballs with Richard Dryden

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/07/10

Today's guests is one of my favourite people, Richard Dryden. I know him primarily as a stand up comedian but he's lived a whole life before we even met. The long and short of Richard's story is that he had a kidney transplant at 17, and tongue cancer resulting in a very hefty muscle transplant. He's worked in radio, he does stand up and music, and he's genuinely one of the sweetest guys I've ever met in comedy, even though he refers to himself as a grumpy curmudgeon. Great chatting with Richard

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40:56

128. Tony Hawk & The 90s with Craig Westenberg

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/07/06

To coincide with the release of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4, I brought Craig Westenberg back onto the podcast and we reminisced about the 90s, skate culture, extreme sports, music, jackass and the like and Craig walked me through the history of the Tony Hawk video games and why they are so meaningful to him.Follow Craig Online:https://www.facebook.com/CraigWestenbergComedianhttps://www.instagram.com/craigwestenberg/https://www.tiktok.com/@craigwestenbergcomedy--Increasingly uneasy about the

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50:45

The Inevitable AI, War & James Bond Episode | Hoss...

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/06/29

Well folks it was inevitable, the geopolitical state of the world today was always going to come up on Hoss Town and so we've reached our inevitable episode about AI, War, Nukes, Geopolitics, and of course James Bond. Taylor got very briefly mistaken for Matt out in public again, so now the score is 2-1 to Taylor.We'll be honest this is probably going to be the last episode of Hoss Town for a while, Taylor's going to be taking a much needed hiatus from creating podcasts in a couple of weeks, but

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41:34

127. Independently Producing Theatre with Austin...

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/06/22

Today my guest is Austin Harrison of Wellington and we had a yarn about some of the projects he's been working on, mainly I'm Proud Of You: Improvised Yarns With Your Dad and Coro, a homage to Coronation street. We also got a little bit into the nuts and bolts of making showbiz your living when you're just a battler and not somebody big off the telly. More to come on that front when Austin returns to the pod.Follow Austin

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41:17

126. Meal Prep & Mental Helth with Comedian Richard...

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/06/15

Today my guest is comedian Richard Dowling, an up and comer from Ireland by way of Wellington. I'm a big fan of Richard's work and work ethic so it was a delight to have him on the show. We initially sat down to talk about the Dark Souls series but the conversation naturally flowed and we ended up talking about health and mental health in comedy in what I think was a really nice episode.Follow Richard

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39:04

125. From Russia with Laughs with Comedian Anya...

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/06/08

This week my guest is Anya Rzhevitskaya, a Wellington based comedian who produces gigs with Drug of Choice productions. Anya offered to come on the pod and talk about growing up in Russia, a country that I think we all find fascinating due to how similar it is to the United States but also completely different. This was my chance to ask any questions I had about what it was like growing up there to someone who actually did it. We also talked about comedy, the arts, a bit of politics as well as what

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54:38

124. Local Politics (Again) with Ben Tito Caldwell

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/06/01

Ben "Tito" Caldwell is back for another guerrilla podcast while he dropped into Christchurch for a couple of gigs. Ben thought it would be a good idea to chat some more about local politics as in New Zealand the local elections are coming up soon and so we might help keep them in people's mind. We chatted about what it's been like working as a public servant as Ben has, what powers the local councillors do and don't have, and then we also talked a bit about the central politics as well as the

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40:38

123. The Invisible Hook & Kitchen Confidential - RMT...

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/05/25

This week I decided to sit down and yap about a couple of books that I have read this year, I'm trying to be more proactive at reading books instead of doom scrolling on the phone or playing video games, other stuff like that we use to space out. This time I talked about The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson, a book about the economics of Pirates, and also Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.--Increasingly uneasy about the American oligarchy's rapidly tightening grip on social media? Me too! Join

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122. Talking Wrestling & More with Mudit Mahajan

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/05/18

This week I'm joined by Mudit Mahajan, a young lad from the Auckland comedy scene. We worked together a bit a year or so ago on a project and I've caught him at The Classic a couple of times. We had been meaning to have a proper chat about wrestling for ages so decided to do so on the podcast! Sorry if you're not a wrestling enjoyer, but next week I'll be back with my Book Club talking about The Invisible Hook and Kitchen Confidential.Follow Mudit

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47:55

121. What I'm Grateful For & Lessons Learnt After 2...

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/05/11

It's here! My reflections on what it's been like working as a freelance entertainer for the last 2 years. I broke this one down into things I'm grateful for and lessons learnt. And there were a lot more lessons learnt. Hope you enjoy it!What I'm Grateful For:I've paid all my bills for 2 years off the back of telling jokes and reading quiz questionsI've begun to get some response from the content I'm creatingI'm feeling more connected in my communitiesThe podcast has been a very good networking

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84:51

120. Da Movies, Comedy & Manic Impressive with...

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/05/04

It's my 2nd anniversary since going full time as a comedian! I was planning on doing an episode full of reflection and evaluation, but the week got away on me and so I've bumped up this episode instead. This week I'm delighted to be joined by comedian Tristan Miller, based up in Auckland originally from the US. Tristan brought a list of tiny joys for us to discuss, as well as comedy, culture and of course Da Movies. I've been a guest on Tristan's podcast twice now which you can catch here!Follow

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119. Pro Wrestler Kawa Kupa & His Manager Archie Bower

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/04/27

Well there's a first time for everything and today's the first time I've had guests walk out on me during a podcast! Today I interviewed Unified Championship Wrestling's Light Heavyweight Champion Kawa Kupa and his manager Archie Bower. We got into how Kawa started wrestling, how they started working together, Kawa's attitude shift as of recently, what moves are the best to hit and which ones hurt the most, and then at the end I said something that set them off and they ended the interview early.You

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62:19

118. April & Leland From Crime To Burn's Tiny Joys

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/04/20

Today I'm joined by April and Leland from the Crime To Burn podcast, a true crime podcast that focuses on crimes involving fire including arson and criminal negligence. April and Leland have been super supportive of my podcast and they often share my posts so I figured it was well overdue for me to try and help promote them a bit! April genuinely works in the fire safety industry so it's a really well researched podcast. We went through some of their tiny joys and in general chatted about arson and

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54:30

117. The Best Chicken Chips in Christchurch (ASMR)

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/04/13

My friend Jarrod Cook and I decided to sample as many of the different flavours of Chicken potato chips that we could find in Christchurch and figure out which one was the best. We also made an unexpected stop in at the Christchurch City Libraries book fair at Pioneer stadium where we collected some books. This episode is definitely one of the weirder one I've done, and I wanted an ASMR element with the crunching of the chips towards the end of the episode. I hope you enjoy it!Follow Jarrod

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116. Cobra Kai & The Karate Kid Recap (+ Life Update)

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/04/06

I recently finished the series Cobra Kai and was hit by the sudden realization of how much time has passed since I started watching in around 2019 which was when I had just got back to New Zealand after living in Japan. I suppose you would call that my "Spool of wire" moment, look it up on tiktok if you have no idea what that is. This is a solo episode where I go through a bit of a life update, what's changed in the 7 or so years that this TV show has been running, my thoughts on the show, the

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47:48

Going Viral, Becoming A Funcle & Sauna Chat | Hoss...

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/03/30

The Big Man and The Medium Sized Man are back for another rambunctious visit to Hoss Town! This time the fellas ruminate on Matt's first time doing 60(ish) minutes of stand up comedy, Taylor's recent moderately viral Chris Luxon impression TikToks, tips on how you can make your own content pop off online. Matt's about to become an uncle or Funcle as he calls it, Taylor rang the bell and did ring introductions at local pro wrestling company Unified Championship Wrestling's event. They end with some

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41:19

115. Mental Health? In Stand Up Comedy?? In This...

Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle ·

2025/03/23

This week I'm joined by Paula Jane Newman, a clean comic living in the USA by way of England who runs her own comedy movement emphacizing mental health in Stand Up Comedy. She's also done a heap of meditation work and is just in general a really sweet and interesting character. I hope you enjoy it.Easiest way to check out everything Paula is up to is by visiting her website www.paulajanenewman.com which has all of her relevant links.--Increasingly uneasy about the American oligarchy's rapidly

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