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!
Latest episodes
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45 min
136. Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts with Matt Threadwell
Another surprise episode. Matt and I have been friends and colleagues for years and been talking about how we need to have a conversation about our mutual enjoyment of the Final Fa…
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43 min
135. Interviewing Pro Wrestlers Big Gun and Matt Attack
This week I got the privelige to interview two more Unified Championship Wrestling competitors in the UCW Heavyweight Champion Big Gun and the UCW Light Heavywight Champion Matt At…
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44 min
134. Starting A Theatre Company & Pub Tales with Chris Sainton Clark
I'd been wanting to sit down with Chris Sainton Clark for years and talk about how he got started with his small theatre company Raising Cain Productions as well as some of the beh…
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1 h 46
Taylor Ruddle Newsletters 2025 Compilation
I've been releasing a newsletter every month in 2025, trying to fill it with interesting content instead of just plugging my gigs, had about 100ish readers but it never really grew…
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1 h 11
133. JokeTober Aftermath with Grant Cattermole
Another cheeky little bonus episode for the faithful Ruddlemaniacs still listening along to these secret episodes. This time I brought Grant Cattermole, a local comic who has becom…
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1 h 07
132. The Cost Of Greatness: A Star Is Born (2018) With Geoff Wilson
A cheeky little bonus episode for you. The podcast is still on hiatus in the sense that I'm not doing weekly episodes, but when the inspiration strikes or the right person comes al…
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9 min
Hiatus Announcement
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 th…
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1 h 03
131. Musician Jeremy Redmore (formerly of Midnight Youth)
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 i…
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40 min
130. Mushroom Poisoning & Memphis Belle with Melissa Katherine
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…
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38 min
129. Life's Curveballs with Richard Dryden
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 Rich…
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41 min
128. Tony Hawk & The 90s with Craig Westenberg
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…
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51 min
The Inevitable AI, War & James Bond Episode | Hoss Town Podcast Ep. 9
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, G…
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42 min
127. Independently Producing Theatre with Austin Harrison
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,…
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41 min
126. Meal Prep & Mental Helth with Comedian Richard Dowling
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…
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39 min
125. From Russia with Laughs with Comedian Anya Rzhevitskaya
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…
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55 min
124. Local Politics (Again) with Ben Tito Caldwell
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…
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41 min
123. The Invisible Hook & Kitchen Confidential - RMT Book Club!
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…
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37 min
122. Talking Wrestling & More with Mudit Mahajan
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 coupl…
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48 min
121. What I'm Grateful For & Lessons Learnt After 2 Years As A Freelance Entertainer
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…
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1 h 24
120. Da Movies, Comedy & Manic Impressive with Tristan Miller
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…