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This is a Global Player original podcast. Welcome to. My therapist ghosted me with myself, Joanne McNally. And as people. General people will know some people won't. Vogue Williams is in Le Jungle being a celebrity and chewing paratic. So we had to have, as a last resort, yeah, I had one of my best friends and companions and my other work wife, Garoud Farley. Or as my captions call him when they pick up my transcription, Garbage Barry.
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Garbage Barry, Yeah. And when I. When I got the call, like, this afternoon, I was like, 20 minutes ago. This is clearly Joanne was supposed to ask somebody else.
A
Yeah, I was like, the lit. The list of people who rejected me is so long, I'm. Now there's a file of facts of rejections and Garbage Barry, you are the last resort. Jokes, obviously. Garbage Barry knows how much I love him. And. And also we have Joe Ashy. Well, he's always here, really, just kind of creeping around in the background.
C
Hello. I feel I should say at this point that as we're recording this, we've seen none of Vogue. This is. This is last Thursday when Vogue was about to be on the telly for the first time. And we haven't seen her yet, so we don't know about the parrot dicks or anything else.
A
No, I know. And Jo, you're right. You do time travel. Well, I can't keep track, but I know she is. We record ahead of time for various reasons. And I know she is. She is officially, like, in the jungle now, isn't she?
C
Yeah. On the day that we're here now, we will see her on TV for the first time.
A
Yes. Yeah. Sucking off a kangaroo. Because she said when she was going in that even when she landed in Australia, she had to say she was there for a roll and home and away. And I was like, this is.
B
Come on.
A
I know. Like, like I said before, this isn't Jason Bourne's. It's a TV show.
B
Exactly.
A
Like, this isn't Floyd of the Navigate. Like, anyway, did they.
B
Did they ask her, like, did she have to have a role? Did they give her, like, a fake role? Did they tell her anything about Home and Away?
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A row, A roll?
B
Okay, so she was like a troublemaker from Yabby Creek.
A
Yeah, she's a hot chick with abs. They were just like, oh, yeah. Any role. Do you know what I mean? A row. They're like, she's just in. And also grow before we chat to you, because I do want to chat to you, because I just don't see enough of you 24 hours a day seven days a week isn't enough for me. I'd like to get to know you more. I would like the listeners to know Joe Adiwell is sucking on a can of beer. Like it the only way a father of two under two can you. You look deranged. Joe, what is going on?
C
Also for context, because it is last Thursday. I always treat Thursday evenings like they're Fridays because actually I don't have a reason for that. But I think it adds. I think it adds.
B
This is very familiar.
C
If you can treat Thursday like a Friday, it means Wednesday is a Thursday. Then yes, and in fairness, it is after five o' clock.
A
You've gifted yourself a three day weekend like the Scandies. I have. Yeah, very wise Garage. Tell us because obviously the listeners won't be familiar with you on this podcast. Any news? What are your star signs?
B
My star sounds Libra. I'm incredibly balanced. Yeah.
A
Oh God. I will say. Sorry to cut across your garbage, Barry. I have never met a more balanced person in my life. He doesn't have a voice. Garod can just sit in his own feelings. Joe, you've never seen it like us. Joe, you're not even looking at us.
C
Because I've gone to find what Libra's got in store for today. I'm. I'm having a look at what we've got today. We can do your own script today.
B
Go on, hit us up.
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Go on.
C
Okay, okay, okay.
A
Because I actually had a therapy session today and it was one of those therapy sessions that I booked when I was having a spiral and an existential crisis. But by the time the session came around, I was actually grand. So when I went in, I was kind of panicked about what I was going to talk to her about and we ended up talking about astrology. And she has been kind of half convinced to start buying into us.
B
No, When a therapist starts this stuff now, I'm like, ah, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'd like, I'd like science, please. I'd like.
A
Yeah, yeah.
B
The moderation of feelings. Not like, you know, there's three stars in Uranus. Or no.
A
Or no feelings as we like to discuss.
B
Exactly. Go into the doctor and say, I. I've had a feeling and I don't want to have any more until the middle of next year.
A
Yeah, yeah, I'm all field.
B
I had to facilitate that. Please.
A
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you.
C
I think this horoscope sort of, it might suit. Actually, it sort of makes sense. I think a new unity and purpose could create a more Positive atmosphere regarding your career.
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Sorry. Read that to me again.
C
A new unity and purpose could create a more positive atmosphere regarding your career.
A
Oh, my God. Garoud. Am I your purpose? You're picking up?
B
I was thinking that maybe it's like your dark force has now just moved to Africa or Australia.
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Australia.
C
Recognition. Recognition and increased income are just over the horizon. That's good. No, don't be surprised if changes lie in store. You could end up in entirely different profession. All right, so it isn't necessarily comedy.
A
Garud. I did tell you to sell those Converse on vintage. I said they didn't suit you.
B
Yeah, you did. I wore red Converse on the abuse that I have received over those red Converse. And even when I mentioned them on, on that, on that post that you put up of you very aggressively attacking me over them, people. People come into the DMs and we're just like, I'm sorry now, but she is right. Like red cumbers. It was like, excuse me, this is not up for discussion.
A
They do look like. I'll be totally honest. And I was surprised at how honest I was with you about the red Converse, but I think we have the type. We are quite honest with each other, I would say.
B
You are quite honest with me. Yeah, go on.
A
Yeah, with each other. With each other.
B
Very honest.
A
Very loud when I, when I went. But when me. And when I was on the Prosecco tour, Garrel was on the Prosecco tour with me and he went from driving a Mini Cooper at the time to driving a high ace van to bring the. The sat around. The set was a very deranged looking baraka tube with the sage thing hanging out the top foot, which looks great on week one, but by week 60 billion it was hanging together like a piece of string. But I was. I had a lot on at the time and I was maybe over overdoing it on the hard seltzers. And.
B
That'S.
A
That is fair. That's a fair assessment, isn't it? I was, I was a bit green. I was new to the game. I was. I was stressed. I was probably a little overworked and I was. I was hitting the. I was hitting the hard seltzers. But Garo did a very stern conversation with me at the time and he was like, I just don't think. I said, I think I'm going to. I think I'm going to drink less seltzers. And he went, yeah, I just don't think there's enough in the world to.
B
Facilitate you keep it going.
A
Yeah, yeah. To facilitate you keeping going was your answer. And then one day we were on the way to Cork, I think, and I took a post seltzer nap against a neck pillow. But on the, but on the car window. Would that be fair?
B
Yeah, that is fair to say. Yeah. So if you were driving by, you would have seen like a little hole in the cushion with your nose and mouth pressed against the glass on the.
A
Side of the window. But then I will say also, in my defense, G, you did also nearly take the lid off the van driving through a bridge. That was for a borrower. Yeah, it was like for a, it was for a. It was a Polly pocket bridge.
B
The van was three foot too high to go under this bridge. But I, but I, I went for it. I was like, if we just go quickly.
A
Yeah, he's an adventurous spirit.
B
I will tell you that van, something I don't think I've ever told you and I was thinking about this today is I used to park it in a loading dock right beside where I live outside.
A
I think parking is a stretch. I think you would just throw it up and I'd roll out one door and then we'd hope for the best. And then they'd have to rearrange the flowers after.
B
Yeah, I'd stop, I'd just stop it. Yeah, I wouldn't.
A
Yeah, you just stop. We'd stop and roll.
B
Stop and roll. Yeah, yeah. And I used to park it in this loading dock outside this electric shop near where I live. And they got very annoyed at me one day when I was getting to the van. They were really annoyed and they were saying like, you've been taking up the load like for four days. And I was like, yeah, loading. I'm loading, I'm loading.
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Yeah, I'm loading and I'm baying. And that's taken me four days.
B
And he said, and this has been going on for quite a while. He said, this van has been parked here at night for months. And I was like, yeah, but nobody uses the loading bay at night. And he said, and it's not just the fact that you're taking up the loading bay, it's the broken wine glasses. Is that you as well? And I was like, it's nothing to do with me. But it was, it was always a wine, there was always a wine glass that I would be getting out of the van and just knocking onto that. And I was like, oh God.
A
Yeah, I was on the seltzers garage, not the wine.
B
They were. Well they were, they were. Venue, wine glasses, venue.
A
Oh yeah, fine. Yeah. I have no respect for them.
B
No, None.
A
I've put on a 3 arena.
B
Very exciting.
A
Yeah.
B
How are we going to get into this now?
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G is pretending, cuz no more than I to pretend the V was going to the jungle. Garod knew that information. But. But Joe, you didn't.
C
No, I didn't know that. That's big when.
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When it's going on as though. Pedophile 3 arena in Dublin. It's not till next December, December 12, but it'll be on sale when this goes out. And we're gonna go. We're going large. We're going Kevin and Perry large. Yeah. Grow to be there. Grow's gonna be on stage with me on the night. I'm thinking full. I. I could. This could be my opportunity to fly.
B
I was just gonna say that you were very keen to fly last time when you were doing Ghosted at the 3Arena. Very keen, very keen to fly.
A
But you have to learn how to do it. I was like, just throw me up and toss me round.
B
The thing about flying at the 3Arena is that back in the day, the 3Arena was always too low to fly.
A
Low to fly.
B
It was a low roof. And like, as the legend goes, that when Beyonce came to Dublin back, I think it's around like 2010 or 2008. Like, it's a good while ago, she wanted to fly and they were like, too low. It's too low because she used to fly over the audience. She insisted. She insisted on flying, so. And somebody robbed her shoes.
C
No.
B
Yeah. Which is the most Dublin. It is the most Dublin thing I've ever heard of. I mean, you can imagine that person just jumping and holding on.
A
She wasn't flying really, that. She was kind of just.
B
She was levitating over the.
A
Yeah, she was slightly elevated.
B
Yeah, exactly.
C
What I do think is, whilst, you know, it sort of makes sense for Beyonce to fly. Lots of amazing songs etc, you get to the climax of the show, she flies.
A
Joe's like, you have to deserve to fly.
C
I'm not saying you don't deserve it. I'm just sort of.
A
No, you are.
C
You're saying it's not about deserving, it's about how. How do you get into it? Because when you're on, when you're. When you're Beyonce and you're singing a song and it's your most recognizable song, then it makes sense to fly. How are you going to get into the flying? What will you do that gets you into the flying?
B
What's the bit of material.
A
Oh, well, okay. So it's a little different. It'd want to be some gag.
C
You're going to tell one of the old favorite gags.
A
You want to be some finisher or a gag that you know isn't as strong. So when they're kind of deciding whether or not it's funny, you just start spinning through the air to kind of distract from the fact that the gag didn't work. I think that's maybe the strategy.
C
Look, look at me.
A
I have some material about drunk shopping that wasn't well reviewed. So maybe when I, when I do that, I'll just start while they're like, I didn't think that was that. Oh, my God, she's in the air. I know you don't listen to the podcast because you don't support me in the same way as I don't support you, but on the bonus apps, we read an email. Now, this is a big day for me because you get to read the email because I'm already doing it. I panic under pressure of having to say too many things in a row.
B
I will just say that with regard to not listening to the pod, I did have to start listening to the pod because I had a very strange experience. I was in a Tesco's in Marion a while ago. This would have been when we were on the last tour and a woman that I had no idea who she was came up to me and just went, do you really travel with a travel. Your own travel kettle? And I, I was just like, I don't know where this was coming from. I had no idea you'd spoken about it on the pod. I'd like, there was just so many.
A
Oh, my God. Yeah.
B
And I was just like, what?
A
And she's like.
B
And it took a while for her to explain where she'd heard it. She was just in.
A
I couldn't even remember.
B
Very sinister. I've had to start listening.
A
Gerard's one of those travelers who. Do you ever see these tick tock videos of women. Sorry, Girls who are like, oh, God. Who are in hotel rooms on their own and they're like, here's how I stay safe in a hotel room. And they're basically like nailing the door short with like. Like, it's so. It's the. It's so ridiculous. To the point where the comments are like, why just stay home? Like, if you feel that unsafe, they're building, like a panic room in the hotel so they feel safe in this, like, random hotel. And like, it's. It's too much. That's. That's grout.
B
I like to be prepared for every eventuality.
A
Oh, my God, he has a tablet box. And we will get the email, I promise, which he's now given me one. A tablet box, which is like a teeny, tiny tablet box. But he has all the little secret. The listeners won't be able to see, but I'll show. Now, this is one he made for me. That's why all the stickers say illegal. But he has a tablet box that you open and.
B
And each little vessel, Joe looks very concerned.
A
Vessel. He has, like, ibuprofen, sadine, but we're on the road for diarrhea. Imodium. Anyway, and he has them all labeled and put in. It is the most impressive thing ever. So, anyway, obviously he got me one and he has just labeled mine as beta blockers. Prozac. And the rest just go illegal, illegal, illegal, illegal, illegal.
C
Did they all do the same thing, the illegal ones? Or do we have to sort of miscellaneous.
B
All I will say, Joanne, is that.
A
Something I swallow first, ask questions later. There's a pink tablet in the bottom of a pencil case, and I'm like, I don't know. I. Sometimes if I'm anxious before a show, I'm like, I could take it. It could be a beta blocker, but it could be. You wouldn't know.
B
All I'm gonna say is, Joanna, some people are prepared for these eventualities. Yeah, like, some people buy their medications from a chemist. Not everyone treats things with stuff they bought on the dirt web. Yeah, that's all I'm saying.
A
Exactly. Yeah. No, that's a fair point. Garbage. It's a fair point.
B
Fair point.
A
Absolutely.
C
No.
A
Okay, so we. This. Okay, so we have an email.
C
It's time.
B
I'm excited.
A
It's going to come out of my mouth and then. Garbage. It's your job then to have an opinion on it.
B
Okay.
A
Hey, girls in jail. I've been thinking about writing in for a while, and this week's bonus app has really given me the push. Please keep me in on, as all my friends listen to this pod. As all women should, smiley face. That's very sweet. Thank you. My husband and I have only been married two years. However, I, too, like the previous emailer, have found. Oh.
C
I don't know how far back this emailer is talking about because I recall us talking about this subject, but I don't know how recent it was.
A
Okay, I found. I, too, like the previous emailer, have found messages on my husband's Phone to a Thai masseuse.
B
Oh.
A
I found a message which said, do you have half an hour Now? Google. Googled the number, found it was a Thai massage parlor and also found it on a men's forum. So I am under no illusion.
C
It's probably worth saying not all Thai massage parlors, isn't it?
A
Oh, big time. I've gone. These poor women. I've gone in for a Thai massage and on the door it's like, please keep your underpants on. Please, please. Four pleases. Yeah.
B
That's so gross.
A
My question is, I kind of agreed with your comments. If it's not an affair and. And he loves me and her family, if it's just a handoff, do I just leave him to it?
B
Oh, God.
A
It does still make me upset and I feel really weird about the whole thing as we do have a decent sex life, so I don't understand why he would need to go. My biggest fear though is could this move on to something else as the years go by? Do they just offer handjobs or is it the full shebang? I find myself hating the days off he has on his own as I think he's there at the parlor. But we are about to try for another baby and I don't know whether to address it or just let him carry on. I feel like if I address it, even if we can make our way through it, it will put a hold on the whole next baby thing and body clockwise. I don't have too much time to waste. What would you do?
B
Oh, God, I know. They've got a baby already.
A
She said. Yeah, she said they're trying for another baby. It's like. Do you take the occasional wank seriously? Is it. Is it just a functional ejaculation? Is it just a bit of letting off steam the way I suck my thumb or.
B
Yeah.
A
Do we put a romantic element on it? Is there an emotional.
B
There isn't a romantic element on it. Definitely not. This is just. This is just a little. He is just. This is a bit of mischief in his eyes. That's the way he sees it. He doesn't see it as a big deal. He doesn't see it as anything serious. Yeah, he's. He's not going to tell his wife about it, but this is something very separate. Like, I don't think this is going to turn into an affair or anything like that.
A
No. If. Yeah, if anything, he is choosing the functional route rather than the emotional route. I do believe the more I engage with men like both of you and My other male friends. I, I re. I, I think I really understand men.
C
Yeah.
B
Well, I, I, I think he. I think this is just someone that just wants a bit of excitement. It's responsibility left, right, and center. And then he just goes and does this cheeky little thing every so often. That said, it is a betrayal.
A
Yeah, it is. But, like, isn't. Like, I think men have the ability. Joe, you're not saying much here. I think men have the ability.
C
Yeah. That, that's not an admission of anything or.
A
Well, it is kind of actually. Response. Silence is a response. My therapist tell me that silence is a response. Joke.
C
There is absolutely no way. And I think this is probably a reflection of me as a male. I, I just, I couldn't go, I couldn't go in and do that because I, it's not that I don't see the point. I get why his wife checks the statement. They're functionally doing that.
A
She hasn't chipped. She's got one airpod in his bum bag. She just follows him around all day.
C
I'd imagine these sorts of places are cash only, and that's just a wild guess.
A
Would you imagine that, Joe?
C
Yeah, I would imagine.
B
No other information?
A
Nothing at all? Just a gosh. Instinct, is it?
C
No, just, you know, you don't want the tax. You don't want that crypto around in those affairs. I just.
A
I'll rev you. I'll rev you a little. Rev.
B
Wank.
A
Yeah. You're not putting on the Barclays. Let's face it. You're not creating a chain.
B
I do think in my past, I have accidentally been one of those creepy men at massages because I got a massage when I was on holidays in Tenerife years ago, and there was this little, little lady who came in to give me the massage, and she just pointed me at the towel. And this little blindfold thing. I thought it was a blindfold, but it was actually the underpants. You know, those little, those little strap with like. It's like a little strap of cotton with like two elastic bands on it. I thought it was a blindfold. And she was like. She indicated for me to take off my clothes and then she went out the room. I stripped myself naked and then put this thing over my eyes. No. And then lay down on the thing. Bollock me. I'd never have a massage before. And then she came in and started screaming.
A
Oh, my God.
C
You're the problem.
B
Very embarrassing.
A
You're the reason those signs are on the back.
B
I know.
C
Yeah.
B
It was Just please, please, please, please. I'm the fourth.
A
Please. Oh, no. I know that men can funk functionally and feelinglessly, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah. And I'm sure there's women who can do it as well. I'm not one of those women. I kind of ride people I like, or if I ride them, I like them after. Yeah, the riding's a bit of a gateway drug for me.
B
It's like.
A
Yeah, it's like, you're in me now. You break your boy. And what's the plan for the. What's. What's our plan now? We're obviously. You're obviously mad about me. I'm mad about you. So it is confusing. And when I come up against those situations where you're like, oh, he just. It was just a functional ride for him. It's not like, you know, he doesn't like me. He doesn't like my character or personality or anything like that.
B
But you're very involved.
A
Evolved or beaten down. It's like evolved or traumatized. Yeah, it could be. It could be that I'm evolved or it's that I've dealt with so many of these situations that I just accept it now for what it is. So if my husband was getting the odd talk off masseuse in a parlor somewhere, I'll be honest, I'd probably want. I'd probably do a drive by and see what she looked like. That's. Hands up. That's me being totally honest. That's terrible, isn't it? But I would. I want to see what I'm doing. I want to see what I'm dealing with. And if she was, like, super duper hot, like fashion model, super duper hot, I would feel a little put out. If she was a normal enough woman and he was just getting it, like a little talk just to relax himself. I think. I think I'd let it go until I had a drink. And then obviously, oh, dear, the world large. Yeah. I'd store it all up and be like, no, no, it doesn't matter. And then I'd wait for our anniversary or Valentine's Day or someday like that, and then I go mental. Yeah. No, but that's. That's my advice.
B
I don't think she should be putting herself into a situation where she's having another baby with this lad.
A
What? Why? A tug off from a suit.
B
Yeah, I just feel. Because there's a disconnect here. Like, I think that for her, like, if this is happening right, she. And she feels. Feels this way about It, I don't think she should be having another baby with him. I think she's had a baby with him. I think grand, but I, I don't think, I think that she will frustrate herself because all through this pregnancy, every time he, you know, he heads off, she's like, is he going, is this what he's doing? And I think being pregnant is difficult enough when you're. Yeah, partner is on board.
A
I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell you this now as a woman speaking to two lads and, and as a woman who has had many pregnant friends, that is the. As, as a pregnant woman, your fellow getting a tog off of masseuse is the least of your fucking worries. I know, I'm telling you. I know women who found that their husbands are having full blown affairs. I know pregnant friends of mine whose husbands have left them when the baby was two weeks old. I know women who have chosen to have babies on their own because they're like, I can't rely on this prick. Like, there is so much, like, women being pregnant brings so much into the relationship that, I mean, I'd love to get Joe's take on it, but obviously we won't because we'll get the official line.
C
But.
A
It shifts so much in the dynamic, I think, I think sometimes men then kind of see them as a mother rather than like a partner they want to ride. And there's like, there's so much going on, there's so much chaos. So like, genuinely, if I wanted to have a baby, my partner nipping off for the odd wank down a massage parlor wouldn't stop me, to be honest.
B
Okay, all right.
A
It really wouldn't. It really, really wouldn't. I'd be more concerned about like, is he going to help me raise the baby? I'd be like, okay, if we split up, at least I have someone else I can give the baby to at the weekends. Actually. This is great. Have a kid with them, then bring up the time as soon. Wanking situation. Co parent. Get your life back.
B
Are you saying basically like, instead of like shagging the nanny, you're shagging someone first and then they become the nanny?
A
That's exactly what I'm saying.
C
It's probably time to say that we don't offer professional advice, isn't it?
A
Sorry, Joe. No, I've actually, no, I've had an epiphany. If I got knocked up by a lad, I'd set him up. I'd put one of those sugar butter people in. What are they called the butter people. You know when you set them up.
C
Honey pot, honey pot, sugar butter.
A
I put one of the sugar butter ladies in, catch them in the honey pot and grant and gift myself a co parenting situation so he has to have the kid half the time.
B
Thank you so much for listening to this bonus episode of My therapist ghosted me with me Gerard Farrelly and I have a podcast called Agony Rants with Eurovision winner Neve Kavanagh. And I've got a podcast called Chatting with Cherubs which is three gays chatting. And also I'm on tour in the UK in January and all around Ireland for the rest of the year.
A
Fucking hell. Oh, that was, Was that like a nine minute plug? My God.
B
Sell, sell, sell. I learned from you, Joanne. I learned from the best.
A
All right, garage, we need to end this podcast. We're on stage in 20 minutes. This has been a global player original production.
Podcast Episode Summary
Episode: MTGM EXTRA! “Do I let him get on with it?”
Hosts: Joanne McNally with guest Garrod Farrelly (and Joe Ashy)
Date: November 26, 2025
This week’s bonus episode features Joanne McNally joined by close friend and fellow comedian Garrod Farrelly (affectionately “Garbage Barry”) stepping in for Vogue Williams, who’s off in the jungle doing “celebrity things.” Along with their friend Joe Ashy, they dive into their trademark blend of irreverent chat, personal stories, and listener dilemmas—delivering unfiltered, comedic takes on everything from therapy and horoscopes to relationship betrayals involving “Thai massage” parlors.
[00:02-03:38]
[03:38-05:47]
[05:47-10:00]
[10:00-13:05]
[16:09-27:03]
A listener emails with a dilemma: she discovers her husband has visited a Thai massage parlor (with hints of sexual services) and wonders if she should confront him, just leave him to it, or reconsider trying for another baby.
The “Functional Wank” Debate
What If It Was Me?
Should She Have Another Baby?
Notable Quotes
Memorable Moments
| Segment | Timestamp | |-------------------------------------------|-------------| | Guest Introduction & Vogue in the Jungle | 00:02-02:28 | | Therapy & Astrology Chat | 04:09-04:36 | | Tour Stories: Red Converse & Vans | 05:47-09:04 | | 3Arena Gig & Celebrity Anecdotes | 10:00-13:05 | | Listener Dilemma (Thai Massage email) | 16:09-27:03 | | “Travel Kettle” Incident | 13:05-13:41 | | Drug Box Segment | 14:26-15:45 | | Garrod’s Tenerife Massage Disaster | 21:10-21:58 | | Joanne’s Take on Pregnancy & Relationship | 25:34-26:03 |
The episode is chaotic, honest, and irreverent—packed with tangents, personal admissions, and the unique blend of real-talk advice and dark wit fans expect. Joanne, Garrod, and Joe manage to keep things hilarious yet surprisingly relatable, especially when navigating grey zones in relationships. If you ever wondered how far “just letting him get on with it” should go, or enjoy candid takes on modern adult life, this episode delivers—with laughs, catharsis, and no nonsense.
Note: For more advice (unqualified, as always) or chaos, find bonus content and contact details at mytherapistghostedme.com.