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The Tommy and Hector Podcast

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  • Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What happened with her?



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Tommy's mother committed suicide about 15 years ago.



  • Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ah right. Didn’t know that either.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,314 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Her sister too



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,725 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    There was a bit in one of the earlier podcasts about digging her up in the dead of night with his brothers, burning her remains and spreading the ashes on slievenamon. Mad story



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  • Posts: 69 [Deleted User]


    Hector got a brown envelope from the antique shop, that’s for sure,



  • Registered Users Posts: 1 father_buzz_cagney


    So only just got into the pod, it's a great listen at times. Actually think Laurita is decent and well able for the two lads, but the constant talking about the farming, the GAA and Knockmore is a bit tiring now. that charity single was absolute cringe. Going through the episodes from the start, which one was it that was causing the controversy, the episode from Knockmore where Tommy was being a rude prick about Ballina?

    Also am I wrong in thinking, some of the content is a bit, well.... kinda racist. 'North African pricks' story springs to mind as well as the 'comedy' accents of Africans and indians, not comfortable with that...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,314 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    "did they go in through the vagina? "


    Lol, Tommy not the anatomy expert



  • Registered Users Posts: 674 ✭✭✭dog_pig


    Do you reckon Tommy was saying those things because of his hatred for other races?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭Raoul


    Yeah. Not sure why doing an accent is racist. Plus Tommy actually lived in Nigeria so maybe he just does a really good impersonation.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,323 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    Been disappointed with the last few podcasts. Seems like filler stuff that didn't make the cut for previous episodes.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I hadn't listened to a podcast in a while, yesterday's offering wasn't great tbh. Again only for Hector they would have nothing of interest to talk about. Tommy just comes across as a creep, he always has to crowbar in some bit of cheap humour involving his sexual escapades from years gone by followed by a fake shocked reaction from Laurita...sad!!Laurita's efforts to be the bold woman bossing the guards around and demanding lifts home, seriously!! I felt embarrassed for her, she made an awful plonker out of herself yesterday. This woman isn't far off 40 and she sounds and acts like someone in their early 20s and what's all the secrecy about her "lover/partner" he is never referred to by name. They really need to bring guests on now or wrap it up. Glad I stopped paying for the bonus episode!🙄



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭Raoul


    Maybe the partner is someone well known to the public ...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,314 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Think my humour level is low, i thought the bit about "sucking the tits off her" was hilarious. Also the salmon of knowledge bit. Everyone in navan has bradán feasa, the chippers sell it in batter.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I have seen some previous comments online about one particular person, but I find it hard to believe....



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Each to their own I guess...thought it was a bit too crass tbh, especially two married fathers in their mid 50s😏



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭Buddy Bubs




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,314 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Hectors story about being in Bulgaria was brilliant, as Tommy said, the guy can tell a story



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Totally agree, it was excellent, without Hector they wouldn't have a podcast!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,730 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    Hector is doing all the heavy lifting recently - Tommy & Lurita contributing next to nothing most weeks other than encouraging him to tell more hit and miss stories about his current and/or past travels escapades.

    Lurita badly needs to go on a girls holiday to Ibiza for a week or something to generate content.

    Anyway, the pod is slipping down my listening list rapidly - what is the subscription episode like?



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Odd episode today. After 3 ads in the opener they just swung into Hector talking about awaiting a Covid clearance pass to travel from Serbia via Turkey and onto Dublin. It took them a while to get around to saying Hector had contacted Covid when in Belgrade. It was disjointed episode when it could've been far more coherent and interesting.

    Was it talked about in one of the previous paid episodes?

    Laurita's whingey interjections are making it almost unlistenable for me. She badly needs to start bringing something to the table.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,550 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    The £750 story was brilliant. Great delivery from hector



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,314 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    "The second time I rang simon coveney for help."

    "the other was when you killed that hooker in China"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭BKWDR


    Beginning to think this podcast has run its course.

    Between the ads (the funniest one was the one for the taxi app which was put directly after the segment of laurita telling the story of her trying to get the guards to drive her home) and the replication of stories. It really is the Hector show and tbh I was never a huge fan of his but his story telling is really keeping it alive.

    I wouldnt even half consider paying for the bonus episode its gone so stale

    The push for the merch is a bit constant too.

    Tommy has some great rants but they're becoming hit and miss too. Describing the good looking young wan was a bit wtf

    Laurita is just getting a bit whingey and where I thought she was a good anchor for the two lads before, can't see it now. Even the 'knockmore' craic has long since run its course



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,833 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    Hector's stories from Romania on the most recent episode were entertaining. He's the star of the show.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭ILikeBoats


    They're really good.

    Maria and Nickolai!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,314 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    I would agree but the donkey story about his newfound love for donkeys and how he felt something special when he hugged a donkey went on a bit long 😂



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Curious to know if paid subscribers got fresh material over the Christmas?

    I notice that over on the free ones they posted 2 "best ofs" in the last couple of weeks.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭Reati


    Haven't listened in ages and had an hour to kill so stuck on latest episode. Jesus it's fallen hard.

    Laurita getting offended because some Tommy knows a lad who said Asian woman have softer skin than western women. (literally all I remember her contribution was)

    Hector crowbaring "I was here" "I was there" into every segment was annoying. Only bit I enjoyed was Tommy calling him out on it. But like the Uncle from only fools and horses... "during the war..."

    That was annoying but wtf is with Tiernan. He was like an horny terrier. Every story had some innuendo to it. I thought the talk about being a bull and going and riding cows even if they didn't want it was a bit odd, but never to be afraid to hit rock bottom he proceeded to a story about a goat raping a woman only to finish off with his philosophy studies contemplating what 8 and 12 year old girls must think about when they see a horse with a hard cock.



  • Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Idiot boy


    Stopped listening a few weeks ago..i used to ĺook foreword to it.. gone a bit stale..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,304 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    yeah that was a bit of a low point the horse and young girls bit.

    To be fair its effectively comedy so some shows hit better than others, the two best of pods showcase it at its best.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭Reati


    You see, I don't think this is fully true. I actually think the "pod" is actually Tommy at his realist (compared to his produced image on the TT show). It's the real TT as he is at home and is some weird outlet for him. That said, I wonder why he stopped his own podcast.

    Anyway, it does seem to repeat the same 3 topics.

    Knockmore gaa

    Tommy pretending he wants to be some wandering shaman

    And Hector "Let me tell you about the time I was in..."

    Funny thing is, I actually think Hector is the main force keeping the topics moving. As he has all the stories from been on the road.

    Can't complain too much, it's free the odd episode I listen too though and I wouldn't miss it if they moved 100% paid either. I'd love to know how many paid subs they have.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,833 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    I'm amazed that this podcast is the most listened to every week in Ireland. It might not be for everyone but credit to the three of them for pumping out the content every week.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,304 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    Incredibly difficult when you think about it without guests , same 3 people week in week out.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭Reati


    It's not, is it? I looked up the charts and it's in the top 5 most weeks tbf but it's not number one. Joe Regan for whatever reason is normally top.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Less is more...its gone to the dogs, they need to liven it up a bit. They need guests and just do one episode a week. I agree with previous posts...Tommy's fantasy about wandering the world like a tramp...seriously just feck off and do it!! Yeah I said recently Hector was the saving grace of the show but kind of over his travel stories now. The two are arseholes to Hector though...and tbh the podcast would have gone down the toilet without him! Tiernan is a right creepy f$%ker at times, totally agree re previous comments. Laurita needs to take on a more powerful role, instead of being shocked by everything Tommy says. I'm kind of sick of the two **** on about Navan...and yip Knockmore 😴😴



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭fatbhoy


    Laurita needs to get ta fcuk. At first I though she was needed as the straight-man between mental, funny, dark, cantankerous Tommy, and seanchaí Hector, with his gift for great storytelling, having the craic with Tommy, but after listening to her stupid questions and irritating ways I'm beginning to wonder what's the actual point of her on the show. I'm amazed she got this far; she must have some connections and push, because Tommy and Hector have genuine talent, but she's got none, in my opinion. I've a pain in my swiss listening to her.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha




  • Registered Users Posts: 674 ✭✭✭dog_pig


    There are people in this thread who consider her essential to the podcast so she must appeal to some.



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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    It's been a while since anyone has defended her presence, mind you the thread itself isn't getting much attention.

    I thought she brought something of herself in the beginning but that's long passed. She's just a pain in the hole. Between her moaning and Tommy's kinda unsettling fixation on talking about "riding wimmin!" it's fairly unlistenable to for me.

    It's a waste of Hector. I'd like to see him doing something better within a Podcast format.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭Sorolla


    Congrats to Laurita and Joe



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭onrail


    I only found out 2 weeks ago that Lairita's 'beloved' is Joe Brolly! Complete shock was an understatement.

    A bit odd that he's always kept anonymous on the pod. I wonder who has instructed that?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,314 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Last week they were telling stories about guys in Somalia having 10 kids and one dying on the way to a food camp. This week Ireland is overpopulated and we need to stop having kids



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭Bellbottoms


    Hang on what? Tommy lived in Nigeria? What? When? Why?



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,323 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    The podcast is gone very poor. If you listen to one of the earlier episodes and compare it with what they are dishing out now it's like night and day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭Bellbottoms




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,762 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    I'm new enough to this podcast, the two lads are gas and have great chemistry together, I just wonder what Laurita brings to it? I can't warm to her.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,314 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Holy fúck they got shítfaced on the Christmas podcast



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