A sad day in the pod parish as this episode closes the door on Read The Room. Yes Paddy and Maia are hanging up the headphones (for now!) and as befits the occasion they are chatting about goodbyes. The good, the bad and the irish. Thanks to each and every one of you that downloaded any of the last 42 episodes. If it was even half as much fun to listen to as it was to make then everypone's happy. Catch you all on the other side! x
Such was the hige response to thier boozy chat a while back, Paddy and Maia are back behind the counter to serve up some more ginwagging including remembering 'The Holy Hour, drinking til all hours and an unfortunate incident involving Johnny Logan and his white suit.
This week on Read The Room, Paddy and Maia discuss bad decisions. The good, the Brexit, and the eating from bins.
Do you literally prefer to be left to your own devices? Are you glued to your phone checking and updating and noseying? Well you just might need to have a 'digital detox'. With all the chatter about Twitter at the moment, on this week's Read The Room, Paddy and Maia get real about their own addictions and Maia even finds time to get 'attacked' by a bird.
It's last orders for ReadTheRoom this week! Don't worry, we haven't been canceled (yet), but Paddy and Maia are getting their drinking gear around the proposed new licensing laws.
This week on Read The Room, Maia and Paddy discuss how Not To Be That Guy, when hashtags go horribly wrong, and why Maia may need to wipe her search history.
This week on Read The Room - love it or loathe it, there's no avoiding Halloween, and Paddy and Maia talk bad fancy dress, monkey nut hair and half-a-face Francis. Get your turnips out!
This week, Paddy and Maia are winging it. Flying by the seat of their pants, taking a chance, throwing the dice and seeing where they land. Basically, this week's episode is like a box of chocolates - you might get stuck with the coffee cream. ;)
This week Paddy and Maia whip out their crystal balls and cross over into the mysitcal and murky world of psychics. They get visited by the ghosts of Gwyneth Paltrow, Derek and his motorbike and the Fresh prince Of Bel Air. Have a listen...if you dare!
Paddy and Maia bring the Salt 'N' Peppa vibes this week as they talk about, the ride, the no pants dance, the horizontal tango, the bed boogie, the boom-boom...yes let's talk about sex. The weird, the wonderful, the disappointments and in Paddy's case a 'memorable' trip to the beach. Ahem!
It's fair to say we've some along way from waiting by a phonebox for your pal to ring you but has the advent of WhatsApp made things any better? And what of the dreaded irritation minefield that are Whatsapp Groups? Well this week Paddy and Maia get behind the blue tics and needless to say things get angry and a bit weird.
This week, Paddy and Maia discuss the ever-thorny issue of parents who think their kids should be welcome everywhere. From weddings, to bars and gigs, should we suck it up or spit out our soothers?
This week Maia and Paddy are full of anxiety along with the rest of the nation as they go Back To School. They discuss oversized uniforms, covering their books with carpet & even teaching producer Ed how to cross the road safely.
Ahead of Read The Room making its debut at Electric Picnic, Maia & Paddy don their Hunter wellies, slap on the sparkle make up and pack an extra pair of underpants for this week's episode as they chat about all things Festivals.
On this week's Read The Room, Pod-Rage erupted when Paddy and Maia disagreed over their love/hate of E Scooters. Belt up, indicate and proceed with caution for this week's episode on Commuting.
How many days of sun constitutes a heatwave? Regardless, this week Maia and Paddy discuss why Irish people never look quite as well as our European counterparts when the temperature goes above 18.
Such was the reaction to their 'Weddings' chat this week, the happy couple (of pals) have some weird and wonderful wedding stories sent in by Maia's twitter followers. Have a listen and set your face to STUNNED!
Love them or hate them, much like death and taxes, Weddings are simply a part of life so this week Paddy and Maia discuss their takes on THE BIG DAY and share some horror/sweet stories of their own.
Here's a bonus follow up to Maia and Paddy's chat about Landlords with some eye opening/watering stories from Maia's twitter followers about their own experiences with Landlords. Fair warning, Producer Ed makes it weird.
Have times changed since Captain Boycott lent his name to the English language? Maia & Paddy take on the thorny issue of Landlords with some good, bad and ugly stories from the rental market.
Maia & Paddy laugh off the let downs and discuss the disappointments of adulthood on this week's Read The Room.
Does anyone need to Read The Room more than egomaniacs, and has the world ever been more rife with them? This week Paddy and Maia discuss arrogance and if there's ever a place for it. (Also featuring vomiting off stage and my irritating post-Covid throat clearing).
Crossed wires can either be laughed off or escalate quickly from a simple Twitter spat to a World War; on this week's Read The Room, Maia and Paddy highlight some hilarious examples & share their own verbal misunderstandings.
The debate around alcohol labelling is back! This week on Read The Room Paddy and Maia discuss if it matters, & if anyone has ever come up with a plausible reason why the Irish drink the way we do.
This week on Read The Room, Maia and Paddy are discussing sleep! Why we're obsessed with it, why the advice isn't always helpful, and why Maia's boring food safety chat could be the solution for anyone trying to nod off.
Fairy Tales are being sanitised more and more, much to the annoyance of Maia & Paddy. Somebody out there needs to Read The Room and keep their filthy paws off those airy fairy scary tales of vanity, greed and jealousy.
Is social media responsible for the death knell of school reunions or will we continue to hang out with school mates, 10, 20 or even 30 years after we leave education? Maia & Paddy share their thoughts and recall delightful and disastrous Debs stories.
We all know them, in fact we probably are them; those people who go on holiday and fail to read the room at every turn. Whether it's simply just saying "Hollibobs" or pretending to be somewhere fancy, when you're just in a high rise on the Costa del Sol, Maia and Paddy slap on the factor fifty and dig out their flip flops, to hone in on the subject of holidays this week.
From nicknames to unwanted hugs, Maia & Paddy discuss the difference between friendliness and over familiarity. Can someone who is hugely over familiar be more offensive than someone who is rude?
Despite the church's slump in popularity in recent years, there's no avoiding Communion season, which is back in full holy swing. Maia and Paddy discuss whether or not it's hypocritical to cherry pick from Catholicism, and ask if it's more about the buffets, banknotes and bouncy castles than the body of Christ.
