The Swap Meet Podcast

The lads discuss Oasis doc 'Supersonic' and dispense conflicting advice to their teenage selves.

The lads discuss 1990's TV staple 'My Cousin Vinny'!

The lads chat about Nora Ephron-scripted mob comedy My Blue Heaven!

The lads discuss 60's marriage/sex comedy The Family Way!

The chaps discuss The Monkees' psychedelic, image-shattering romp 'Head'!

The lads discuss 2017 documentary 'Voyeur' as well as reality TV, the dustier corners of Lou Reeds documentary and the wooing qualities of literary science fiction!

The lads talk about Jerry's Netflix special 24 Hours To Kill and the lost art of Pop Tart smuggling.

The lads talk 1990 weirdo tenant thriller Pacific Heights!

The chaps discuss Neil Innes' and Eric Idle's beloved mid-70's Beatles pastiche The Rutles!

The lads talk Eurovision, Bob Dylan's slapstick comedy career and of-its-time mid-60's stinker 'What's New Pussycat'!

The lads discuss lo-fi rock gods Guided By Voices (to an extent) as well as Peter O'Toole, 90's nostalgia and the current cultural absence of genuine oddballs!

The lads discuss 1967 racially-charged whodunnit In The Heat Of The Night. And Morrissey, of course.

The lads discuss Eddie Murphy comeback 'Dolemite Is My Name' and reckon with the futility of talking about thing on the internet.

The lads have survived 2020 and are back - this time on Zoom and sober as judges! Hear them blow the dust off this dynamic of theirs and contemplate the place of Swap Meet in the new normal.

First pod of 2019! The lads talk about semi-forgotten early-noughties RTE sitcom Bachelors Walk, because of course they do!

It's a Coen Christmas everybody! The lads are back, talking the first and last of the Coen catalogue, while doing their best to get into the festive spirit!

New episode! A conversation about a Madonna musical from the 90's creates tension in the room, and a small school of Actors What Look Like Beatles is unearthed!

New episode! How do bombs work in space? Are all Star Wars films a bit shit? Is Billy Joel ever in a good mood? Did the bloke playing Freddie Mercury's teeth have to be SO big?

This week, the lads are talking 80's-loving crime-comedy 'Mindhorn' and Matt Groening's new Netflix show 'Disenchantment'! Also, Danny has had it up to here with the 80's, while Niall draws comparisons between Kirsty MacColl and Desperate Dan!

Drugs! Orgies! Maple Syrup! This episode, the lads sit down and talk about and around the original New York art-rock weirdos - The Velvet Underground.

The lads celebrate the Boss, each in their own predictably opposing ways!

The new episode of the Swap Meet Podcast has just dropped like a slippery dinner plate! This week Danny accurately describes Ryan Adams as an upright baby in man's clothes, and Niall reveals a hitherto unspoken affection for Lisa Tarbuck!

The lads are back after the break they took to watch the World Cup!... Hardly. This week Danny puts the Comedy Jerrys in their place, while Niall recounts his childhood fears of shoe tax!

This week Danny recounts a life-altering choice between Prince and Freddy Mercury while Niall discovers some holes in his pop-culture knowledge of 1996. Also, both lads are twenty years late for the Lauryn Hill train, but better late than never!

Hey hey folks! Continuing our completely random schedule, here's the latest ep! This week the lads are talking lightweight 80s comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and monsters of rock REM's debut album Murmur.Also, in the middle of all this, they violently disagree about the future development of the internet, with Niall characteristically deciding to hate fun and Danny endorsing an anarchic free-for-all barely worthy of the name society.Have a listen!

Hey hey folks! Back again this week talking confusing 40s noir detective classic The Big Sleep and 80s (but not so you'd notice it) horror classic Angel Heart.Also, Danny expounds on the difficulty of producing rock opera, while the lads finally come to the decision that maybe Bill Cosby was a somewhat hypocritical man. Not to burst any bubbles.

This week the lads dismantle the legacies of Sam Raimi and Keith Richards, as well as tackling the thorniest political issue facing us at the moment - sausage blanching.

Hey folks! The lads are back again, this time to chat about seminal Rolling Stones album Beggar's Banquet and seminal 90s thriller Leon.Also, Niall discusses the origin of his obsessive hatred of Gary Barlow, and Danny confesses his undying hatred of Gary Lightbody. The ep's heavy on Gary-hatred this week.Sorry about that, Garys. Just because these two eejits hate you doesn't mean you're not worthy of respect and deserving of happiness. Chin up, lads.

Danny's back from his gallivant this week, folks, and Niall's still where he left him. So here's a new episode of the ever-funky Swap! Meet! Podcast! Well, maybe not ever-funky. But often, we do put out episodes. You have to give us that.Anyway! This week the lads are talking anthemic new Manic Street Preachers album Resistance is Futile and whimsical sci-fi caper Valerian. How would you rather spend your bank holiday weekend? Having fun with friends and family? Yeah right. We can see through you like a pain of glass, we can. Have a listen!

Danny and Niall are on opposite coasts this week, so Danny chats to Galway singer-songwriter Neil 'Connor about his upcoming album 'High To Low'!

Little late this week, folks. So late in fact that it's next week!Anyway, this week the lads are talking 1992 Al Pacino Oscar vehicle Scent of a Woman and 2009 Eels album Hombre Lobo.In the midst of all that, Danny manages a reverie on the essential inauthenticity of the popular perception of male desire and Niall relates a mind-blowing but immediately obviously true observation which was imparted to him about seminal 80s man film Top Gun.Have a listen, if you don't mind your mind being blown.

Hey folks! This week the lads are chatting about New Wave SF masterpiece The Fifth Head of Cerberus and 90s music biopic Grace of My Heart.And... we have to apologise, because we do somehow end up discussing various issues of manscaping. Nobody wanted it, least of all us. But there we are. Anyhoo! Enjoy!

Fanfare!!! This week the lads have put swapping on hold to chat with Guitar-making supremo Fergal Quigley. When he's not playing weddings and pubs around the North-East, Fergal makes his own guitars and creates art for other well-known pop-culture podcasts (proper ones, not like this).We also talk butchers' bandsaws and the dangers (and arguable utility) of talk boxes. Have a listen!

Alright folks! This week, the lads are talking about a pair of sitcom classics - Seinfeld episode The Contest and Only Fools and Horses episode May The Force Be With You!Meanwhile, Niall ruminates on how maleness affects your ablutions and Danny blows minds with a totally new take on Schrodinger's Cat.

Okay folks, we're genuinely sorry about this, but the curse of Swap Meet has apparently struck again... We really have to stop mentioning people by name. We're like celebrity cyanide or something.Anyway, this week we're talking Hollywood documentary The Death of Superman Lives and comedian Dana Gould's special Let Me Put My Thoughts In You.Also, Niall gets straight to the heart of things and solves abortion, while Danny introduces a new aphorism to the United States. Both of these things with somewhat mixed results.

Ahoy-hoy! This week the lads chat about absurdist Steve Martin vehicle The Jerk and Macho modern stand-up Joe Rogan's Netflix special Triggered.Also, they manage to have a fundamental and impassioned disagreement on overblown romantic early 80's ballads. One of them likes them but can't respect them, the other vice versa. I'd try to raise some tension here, but who takes which position is basically exactly how you'd imagine.

Okay, this week's a messy, messy, messy one Swap Meeters... We pass the time talking about 80s high-concept family comedy Innerspace and the post-punk folky meanderings of Robyn Hitchcock's I Often Dream of Trains.Also, Niall reveals the secret of just how Jon Pertwee managed to be such a hit with the ladies and Danny finally answers the long-hanging question "If Glenn Hansard was a superhero, which superhero would he be?"What more could you want?

This week the lads chat about creepy political horror Get Out and creepy possibly-political drama There Will Be Blood.Also, Danny and Niall discover they have very, very different attitudes to night-out loyalties and the concept of "man down".

Hey hey! This week the lads chat about up-to-the-minute Channel 4 nostalgia-fest Derry Girls and short-change post-punk mumbler Mark E Smith's band The Fall.In the middle of all that Danny manages to share the secret of the perfect poached egg, and Niall takes you through the looking glass to uncover the truth behind the mutton conspiracy.

This week the lads discuss Laurie Kilmartin's deceptive special 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad, and promote themselves into the realm of intellectual heavyweights by discussing one of Jordan Peterson's Maps Of Meaning Lectures.Meanwhile, Niall allows his gender relations to be defined by The Apprentice, while Danny displays an uncanny knack for picking out identical voice twins. Have a listen!

This week the lads discuss Dave Chappelle's recent twin specials Equanimity and The Bird Revelation, and rockumentary Never Get Tired. Also, Niall expounds on the explosive consequences of naivete and Danny asks the much overdue question "What did Ghandi really do for us? Really?"

Back again folks!This week the lads discuss love letter to music and smarm Begin Again, and love letter adventure and alcoholism The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn.Meanwhile, Danny extols the trials of veganism while Niall proposes a new world government based on celebrity breeding. Have a listen!

First episode of 2018! Danny and Niall stand up for the contrarian in us all and chair the first meeting of the Judd Hirsch Appreciation Society!

As befits an end-of-the-year episode, the lads get very introspective about the podcast itself, and discuss the things that they no longer care about.It's a prodigious list...

Well, the lads let you down last week, didn't they?So here they are, limping back into the full glare of the internet to short change Black Mirror and Noel Gallagher.Also, Niall shares a harrowing experience at a Christmas party and Danny ranks the nations meat-market night spots. Have a listen!

The lads have a name for short-changing their swaps, but they have NEVER short changed a swap like they short change one of 'em this week.So this week, Danny ponders what conclusions he can draw about Charlie Rose's physique from his face, while Niall admires himself in a window.