Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available Ep 186 Mon 6 November 2017 TRAILER
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. Monday 6 November 2017
Episode 186
Our little-heard host is pleased by a good run of Portuguese Toast buttering in the cafe, the cafe's most impressive buttering run of the year.
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Thursday 2 November 2017
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.
A scarf-themed show today and are they grooming the Veteran Waitress’ successor in the café?
Listen here: Available 185
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Monday 30 October 2017
As Winter Coat Eve arrives, Daniel discusses yellow laces, his long and difficult relationship with The Man and there are smiles exchanged with the Veteran Waitress.
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All the Christmas Countdown 2017 episodes are here: DRT is Available Christmas 2017
Ahead of tomorrow's Winter Coat Eve episode, here's a trailer for Ep 184.
Thursday 26 October 2017
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.
Our little-heard reluctant podcasting host puts himself through his latest digital audio ordeal.
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Monday 23 October 2017
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.
Our little-heard host looks at urinal etiquette and explains why ‘hot desking’ could make Christmas with The Man less of an ordeal.
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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.
Our little-heard host looks at urinal etiquette and explains why ‘hot desking’ could make Christmas with The Man less of an ordeal.
Out Monday 23 October 2017
The awkwardness of using your café reward card to claim your free coffee.
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Thursday 19 October 2017
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.
Our little-heard host discusses his week away from ‘The Man’ and a curious dream involving a peanut in a café.
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Twitter: @1607WestEgg
You can buy Daniel's book, "Me! Me! Me!" on Amazon.
And please rate and review the show on iTunes ow.ly/tLWBq or any other platform you choose to listen on.
You can also support the podcast by clicking on the Amazon link on this website. The link takes you through to Amazon from where you can do your shopping as normal. Recognising you've come through the Amazon referral link on this site, a small percentage of your purchase trickles back to the show at no extra cost to you.
It came as a pleasant surprise this morning to learn that one of my favourite ever podcasts South London Hardcore had returned for a one-off special to wave one half of the duo, Steve Walsh, off, as he leaves south London for good. In fact, if someone had asked me which of my favourite now-deceased podcasts I wished would return for one last show, my answer would've been 'South London Hardcore'. I rate the show that highly.
Steve, a man who can talk about any subject for several hours (think of him as a Micky Boyd that actually puts the work in), together with podcast partner, the more elusive and very funny Jack McInroy, turned out some of the most original podcast content in the UK between the show's arrival in 2011 and 2015. The pair had the foresight to see how big podcasting was going to become (if perhaps not quite foreseeing how the small independent podcasters such as ourselves would be crushed when podcasting went mainstream) and set up their own podcast network, Hold Fast Network, which continues to exist and turns out original audio gems, the latest of which is Sherds Podcast.
The duo brought their show, fortnightly for the last few months of its run, to an end in the summer of 2015 and have been much missed. In its absence, Londonist Out Loud filled a bit of the gap for me, though that too finally ended at the start of this year and is also missed. However, South London Hardcore were always a little more left field with their guest choices and while some acclaim rightfully came their way in the national papers, they still remained very much under-the-radar.
Meanwhile, unlike Jack, Steve has remained busy in the podcasting world, co-presenting Mickypedia and Effing and Blinding with Micky Boyd, and astutely managing my old podcasting partner the way Alex Ferguson tamed Eric Cantona once upon a time.
South London Hardcore is a show I owe something of a debt to. My own podcast, Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available, was stalling towards the end of 2013, stuck on 40-something episodes as I got increasingly frustrated with the show's small audience. Fresh off the back of recording The Letter for Resonance FM, the guys got in touch and invited me onto their podcast. Tell the truth, I'd been waiting since their opening episodes. Finally, I got to appear on episode 102...and that appearance gave me something of a much-needed audio shot in the arm and got me some of their listeners. Within the month, Resonance had taken Available on, arguably leading to the show's strongest block of shows and another appearance on SLHC followed. Jack and Steve turned up for the Bumper Christmas Annual special in the Resonance studio where they got to witness The Kid and Micky Boyd having a bust up live on air and Jack even produced my penultimate Resonance show in December 2015. Given Available is now a podcast once more, I could do with another SLHC 102 coming to my rescue.
While I expect Steve to continue fronting many more podcasts in the years to come, Jack has been, from the little I know, reluctant to return to this world with the same commitment of old, and I can understand that. Independent podcasts are struggling for audiences and the work is ridiculously time consuming, especially if you're editing the shows yourself too. But I for one think UK podcasting has been worse off for Jack's absence.
In this Twitter thread on Saturday, Steve Bishop, co-presenter of the Seinfeld podcast Hello Newman, captured, rather perfectly, I thought, the struggle of independent podcasters right now as the industry goes mainstream, overwhelmed by late-to-the-party podcasters and audiences too set in their ways, reluctant to seek out original little-known voices.
SPOILER ALERT
Lastly, it was a nice idea for Jack and Steve to come back for one last-last episode and the final minutes of the show as they walk through their local park and record what may well be the last SLHC ever, were poignant.
Listen to it here. SLHC
And good luck to Steve Walsh in his new life.
Pic: (c) SLHC
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.
Monday 16 October 2017
Our little-heard host is unimpressed with the minuscule slices of cake sold in a charity-bake off and on Friday 13th, runs into the Urinating Man of SW9 in the café (not to be confused with the still AWOL Urinating Dwarf of SW8).
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.
Our little-heard host is unimpressed with the minuscule slices of cake sold in a charity-bake off.
Full show out tomorrow.
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.
Thursday 12 October 2017
Episode 179
Our little-heard host is a travelator hero and carries out an intense post mortem of his haircut.
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A curious dream.
A peanut had taken my regular table in a cafe.
Not my cafe, you understand.
But I had the sense in this dream that this was a regular dream cafe and as is my habit stretching right back to childhood when I had to sit in the same corner of the room during my music classes at Primary school (much to my teacher's chagrin), I had a favourite table in there.
I was taken aback to find the peanut sat at my table.
We looked at one another.
I couldn't be sure whether the peanut was looking right through me.
In front of them was a broadsheet.
I caught sight of a headline.
'Sent to Coventry'.
Thrown by the peanut's presence, and unable to settle for sitting anywhere else in the cafe, I left.
But I kept circling the cafe to check if the peanut was still sat at my table.
I must've looked a dozen times.
The peanut showed no signs of leaving.
Was the peanut waiting for someone?
Was it, I wondered, waiting for me?
I stepped back into the cafe and disappeared into its gents downstairs in the basement, where I found myself being sick.
Still, I had enough about me not to touch the toilet bowl when being sick, as you see people doing in films. Sure, I was thrown by the peanut's presence at my table, but I still had the presence of mind to make no contact with the bowl as I was sick.
I sorted myself out, splashing water on my face before heading back upstairs to check on the table.
The peanut was still there.
I didn't want to leave the cafe again.
I made my way cautiously to 'my' table.
I looked at the peanut.
The peanut looked at me.
We looked at one another for what seemed like an eternity and with great sadness.
And then the peanut rose from its chair and left the cafe.
I sat down at the table.
I looked at the newspaper.
'Sent to Coventry'.
The podcast returned earlier this month for its annual Christmas Countdown. Twice-weekly until Christmas Eve, the show comes out every Monday and Thursday.
Listen to Ep 179 here.
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.
Thursday 12 October 2017
Our little-heard host is a travelator hero and carries out an intense post mortem of his haircut.
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My dad disappeared 15 years ago this week.
This short excerpt is the story of my search for the man in black in the summer of 2002, as told live at Big Green Bookshops in 2015, where I performed The A to Z of Me and My Dad.
With Brooks Livermore as my dad.
Running time: 05:26m
Regular readers/listeners will know poor butter coverage on toast, even sandwiches, is something of a long-standing bugbear of mine. I don't see any reason for the corners and curves of your slices to be dry. Few things disappoint me as much as dry toast in the morning. This month I have been tweeting regular shots and analysis of my morning toast and asking people to tweet me their pictures of their own toast, so I can see what kind of butter coverage they're getting.
Below are some toast shots of what I've received so far. If you'd like to tweet me a shot of your own toast in the mornings, you can tweet me @1607WestEgg #TweetYourToast
A shot of my own toast this morning. Decent butter coverage until I got to the final slice which was a little patchy.
Portuguese Toast, as big a part of SW8 as tobacco, CHICKEN, custard tarts and coffee.
This flamboyant entry is from Ireland's @curtainqueen. She tweeted: This is my (french) toast. No butter, I go straight for lemon & sugar. #TweetYourToast
Impressive butter coverage from @steevbishop whose enthusiasm for my podcast last winter single-handedly kept it going through those cold months. Steve tweets: Having toast especially for @1607WestEgg’s #TweetYourToast. Always try to get full spread coverage.
I once tried to get @katchapman on my podcast. I failed. Several years later, I did manage to get her to #TweetYourToast. She tweets: "For me it has to be real butter, has to be completely melted, and has to go to the edges. I favour a Polish half-rye half-wheat loaf."
Want to see your toast here?
All you have to do is tweet me @1607WestEgg #TweetYourToast
