What they're saying about "Me! Me! Me!"

What they're saying about "Me! Me! Me!"

"Like getting a handjob from a clown."

"Daniel's hilarious concept for the modern office toilets must be implemented now!"

"His take on the tyranny of leaving cards, presents and associated office-based events is long overdue, much-needed therapy. A special treat for introverts."

"Wry, sincere, well observed and very funny."

"Very funny.  A must read."

"This emotive collection of short stories serves as a guide to a London not too many know, Daniel brings it all to life. In a detailed, emotive and very humourous way."

"A brilliant, touching, laugh out loud look at life. You don't get more joy for £2 anywhere else."
 

Me! Me! Me! Available on Amazon, £1.99

Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available Ep 127 - Euro Special 2

Ahead of Monday's Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available, where I continue to look at my largely non-football related memories of the ten Euro tournaments I remember, I'd like to hear your own memories of where you were in your life at the time of these tournaments.

Do get in touch: drtavailable

The first Euro special can be found here drtisavpodcast/ep126

It started with Sabotage Times

Thank you those of you who have shared or retweeted links to my new eBook, Me! Me! Me! As always, your support is much appreciated.

Spanning missives written across five years, Me! Me! Me! was borne out of a series of enjoyable columns I wrote for James Brown's Sabotage Times when it launched in the spring of 2010. Matt Weiner, my old commissioning editor from Four Four Two during my days as a freelance football journalist had contacted me asking me if I would be interested in writing for the site. By then, my comedy work was being commissioned by a number of television broadcasters and Matt suggested I should write pieces similar to some of the more off-beat interviews I'd done with the likes of Alan Hansen, Les Ferdinand and Terry Venables back in the day for Four Four Two. I was less sure than Matt that I could do so successfully, but encouraged by him, I wrote quite a few pieces for Sabotage Times that spring and summer and the type of work I was turning out persauded me to move into podcasting and stand up within months. Writing for Sabotage Times took my work off in a completely different direction.

A few of those early Sabotage Times pieces are reworked here in Me! Me! Me!, much the same way James Brown (the singer) would rework his own material so that it could be argued there is no any one definitive version of his great songs.

And Me! Me! Me! is available on Amazon for £1.99. goo.gl/QXTEOP

Please do rate and review it on there.

 

 

 

Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available - Get in touch ahead of Ep 117

On this week's Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available podcast, I'm looking at:

The housing crisis - how is it affecting you?

The problem with bringing up children in the suburbs if you don't drive.

Bedside table videos - send in your bedside table videos.

And back pain. Do you suffer from it? If so, how do you deal with?

Get in touch with the show on these subjects or anything else ahead of tomorrow's recording via drtavailable@westegg1607.co.uk   

Bedside table - send in your videos

Coming up to six years ago, I used to run a surprisingly popular feature on my first ever website called Bedside Table in which listeners to my early podcasts would send in videos together with commentaries of their bedside tables, allowing us all to see what they keep by their beds. Some bedside tables were cluttered, others were uncluttered. But all the videos were interesting. I've long been interested in reviving this feature.

If you'd like to show viewers of my site what you keep by your bed, send your bedside video to me, including your social media details if applicable, at drtavailable@westegg1607.co.uk  

Videos will be posted on the site late at night.

Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available podcast returns Monday 18th January

Thank you to listeners who downloaded the five Christmas specials last week. The show returns as a podcast only show on Monday 18th January and can be downloaded via this site, iTunes and Acast from early Monday evenings.

If you listen via iTunes, do please take the time to rate, review and subscribe to the show and you can also get in touch with the podcast via drtavailable@westegg1607.co.uk       

I hope you all had a nice Christmas and all the best for 2016.


Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available - Bumper Christmas Annual 2015 Podcast

From Sunday 20th December through to Christmas Eve, you can download a festive podcast each day from this site or iTunes as I'm joined by guests, some of whom are into Christmas, some of whom are not. I'll be joined by the bald, the broad backed, the big gunned American, the formerly broken, the green fingered and a few others too.

You'll hear how the 1982 Argos catalogue effectively killed the Christmas Annual in the UK. There'll be this year's Channel Christmas listings, the odd carol singing and I'll be speaking to an organisation helping those for whom Christmas will be a tough time.

If you'd like to contribute your festive thoughts to the show, drop an email to drtavailable@westegg1607.co.uk

If you'd like to contribute your festive thoughts to the show, drop an email to drtavailable@westegg1607.co.uk

 

 

                                    

Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available series finale and Christmas Countdown podcast

It's the Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available series finale on Resonance 104.4FM on Monday 14th December. Monday's show also marks Available's end on Resonance and from 17th January 2016, the show returns to its podcast only roots. It will be downloadable from this site, iTunes and Acast.

In other news, from the 20th to Christmas Eve, there will be a daily Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available Christmas Countdown podcast available on here and iTunes with a number of guests already lined up for it.

Please do take the time, if you enjoy the show, to rate and review it on iTunes and subscribe to it. With Available returning to its original podcast format, getting back into the iTunes charts is critical and will help maintain the advertising that the 2016 shows will carry.

Thank you to those of you doing your Amazon Christmas shopping via this site. The support is appreciated. For those of you unaware, the way it works is you click on the Amazon link on the site's home page and it takes you through to Amazon. You do your shopping as normal and a small percentage of your purchases comes back to the show at no extra cost to you.

 

Jack McInroy guest produces this week's Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available

South London Hardcore's Jack McInroy guest produces tonight's Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available, recorded out on location in central London in what is a complete departure for the show.

Meanwhile, next week's show, the last in the series, will also herald a change of direction for the show. After 62 radio episodes, from January 2016, Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available returns to its 2012-13 podcast only roots and will be downloadable from both this site and iTunes every Monday.

After the radio farewell, there will be a short series of Christmas special DRTisAvailables, more news of which soon.


Please remember, you can support my work either through a secure donation via the Paypal link on this site or by doing your Amazon Christmas shopping through the Amazon link, also on this site. A small percentage of your purchase trickles back to the show at no cost to you.

Meantime you can also download my daily Advent Calendar podcast from both holdfastnetwork  and  iTunes


One half of Gavin and Gavin on tonight's Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available

As the show edges closer to the end of its third series, I'm joined lived in the studio tonight by writer-performer Sharon Gavin, one half of comedy duo Gavin and Gavin.

Their latest stage play When the S*it hits the Fan stormed Edinburgh this summer and Sharon will be in to discuss how she and her sister mined a very difficult period in her lives for the show.

Listen live on Resonance 104.4FM at 10pm or download the podcast overnight, which this week will feature bonus material.

 


Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available #103 - Get in touch

Monday 16 November 2015

Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.

Listen live on Resonance 104.4fm or listen via resonancefm.com every Monday at 10pm.

Series 3: Episode 7

This week our little known host discusses his early morning swimming travails, considers the hierarchy of festive nuts and is momentarily thrown by ‘new’ lights in the SW8 skyline.

What's your favoured choice of festive nut?

Is it the walnut? Or perhaps it's the hazlenut? Or are you more of a Brazil nut connoiseur? Surely not the Almond?

Get in touch: drtavailable@westegg1607.co.uk

And if you've started doing your Christmas shopping on Amazon, do please remember that by clicking on the Amazon link on this site, you can support the show. A small percentage of that money trickles back to this site at no extra cost to you.

You also have the donate what you can option.

Thank you for your support.



Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available #101

On Monday 2 November 2015

Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life. 

Listen live on Resonance 104.4fm or listen via resonancefm.com every Monday at 10pm.

Series 3: Episode 5

This week, our now winter coated little known radio host reports on a controversial working class safari launching in south London, and Ben Green, producer of The Guardian’s Football Weekly, the UK’s biggest sports podcast, is live in the studio to discuss his new book, Podcast Master: Your Short Guide to Broadcasting Online.




Engineer: Chris Dixon


Andy's Barbershop - Landor Road SW9

At the end of the year, Andy, the local barber, will finally retire after 50 years of cutting hair from the same barbershop on Landor Road, Clapham North, where I grew up. Every guy I knew back in the day in my neighbourhood, father and son, regardless of ethnicity, had their cut by Andy. 

Next week, I will be recording a Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available podcast only special with Andy, looking at his fifty years in the area. His recollections from that time, how the area has changed, his memories of customers now long gone and the rise of specialist barbershops that were just not around for certainly the first three decades of Andy's time cutting the hair of SW9 and beyond. His departure is likely to be the biggest individual loss to the area since Harry Jacobs legendary photographic studio closed in the early noughties. 

If you ever had your hair cut by Andy and you would like to share your memories of that on the show, or if you'd like to ask him a question, do get in touch.

drtavailable@westegg1607.co.uk

Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available - 100th Episode

Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life. 

Listen live on Resonance 104.4fm or listen via resonancefm.com every Monday at 10pm.

S3 E04

From its humble beginnings in a box room in the now unrecognised borough of Merton in late 2012 to the glorious Resonance era, the show reaches its 100th episode. This week, Daniel makes little headway with his Imaginary Son and in the café, is kept hanging as he looks to complete his latest greeting with Future Me.

With a surprise special guest.

Engineer: Chris Dixon



Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available Brixton Special reviewed

3 October 2015

The Brixton Special 'Mitchell's Story: Brixton and Me", recorded, I should stress, three weeks before The Standard did their week-long special on Angel Town, has gained some belated attention this week.

Check the Reviews page to find pieces on Brixton Buzz and the outstanding Microgroove33 sites.