Television Times with Steve Otis Gunn

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Steve Otis Gunn is a writer, performer, and musician — and a former sound engineer who has spent most of his career in close proximity to people doing interesting things, occasionally on purpose. His Edinburgh Fringe debut, Steve Otis Gunn is Uncomfortable, earned a ★★★★ review, and his first book, You Shot My Dog and I Love You, is available everywhere books are sold. He created Television Times to have the conversations he actually wants to have — with actors, comedians, filmmakers, and creative misfits who've either spent their lives on television or watched a lot of it. The format is loose, the topics wander, and the whole thing tends to end up somewhere nobody planned. Mishaps, wrong turns, and the time everything went sideways. This is where those stories live. Original music written by Steve Otis Gunn (unless otherwise credited) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tvtimespod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tvtimespod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Meka Mo: One Borough at a Time

    6d ago

    Meka Mo: One Borough at a Time

    Meka Mo grew up in Queens, worked on Wall Street, watched the Miracle on the Hudson happen from her office window, lost a South London church basement crowd the moment she swore in front of some Jamaican grandmas, and has never once been pickpocketed anywhere in the world. She's been navigating cultural minefields ever since — and making it look easy. Meka Mo is a New York City-based comedian, host of the emotional wellness comedy podcast We're Done Here, and a regular on the international comedy circuit. Her new show, New York City Dreams, will be playing at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. Why performing internationally means constantly working out which jokes travel and which ones don't Why she's never been pickpocketed anywhere in the world — and the flatmates who kept getting robbed in LondonThe Columbus Day joke that went badly in Las Vegas Watching the Miracle on the Hudson happen in real time from her office window on Wall Street. Connect with Meka here: InstagramYouTubeWebsiteGet tickets for Meka's Edinburgh Fringe show here: NewYorkCityDreams Find us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    52 min
  2. Please Stand By: Regular Programming Will Resume Shortly

    Jun 7 ·  Bonus

    Please Stand By: Regular Programming Will Resume Shortly

    Steve returns to the microphone to explain why his brief podcast rebrand has already been abandoned, why Television Times is back, and what he learned from watching listener numbers dwindle. In this short bonus episode, he talks honestly about burnout, second-guessing three years of work, and the surprisingly emotional experience of trying to rename something that people already know and trust. Why the rebrand to All My Clothes Need Burning lasted only a handful of episodes before being reversedThe listener reaction that convinced Steve he'd made a mistake — and the awkward task of re-editing episodes and contacting guestsWhat three years and 120+ episodes have taught him about podcasting, branding, and knowing when to stop fighting your audiencePlus, an adventure story from Thailand in 1999 featuring malaria tablets, questionable holiday hair braiding, and a brief encounter with the Thai police that could have gone very differently. Normal service resumes shortly. Television Times is back, and Steve will now try to refrain from starting any more unnecessary rebrands. Find us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    18 min
  3. Dewey Gaedcke: Five Days Lost in a Hawaiian Lava Field

    May 31

    Dewey Gaedcke: Five Days Lost in a Hawaiian Lava Field

    Dewey Gaedcke was in Hawaii as a last-minute concierge favour when a friend told him about a volcano worth seeing at night. Five days later, he was rescued by a teenager in a tourist helicopter. The park service had already told his family he was probably dead. Dewey Gaedcke is known for surviving one of the most extraordinary ordeals in recent memory — five days lost on a remote lava field in Hawaii without water, proper footwear, or any idea where he was. The small decisions that compounded into a survival situation — an hour-and-a-half hike, a pair of jogging shoes, and no waterWhat it actually feels like to be lost with no landmarks, no path, and no signalHow he kept himself alive in conditions that should have killed himThe footage he recorded for his daughters in case he didn't make itHow a teenager in a tourist helicopter found him after the park service had already told his family to prepare for the worst Connect with Dewey here: Facebook Find us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    43 min
  4. John Scott: Wrong Place, Right Story

    May 24

    John Scott: Wrong Place, Right Story

    John Scott has been doing stand-up since 1999, accidentally said "Brexit" at a Yorkshire corporate full of insurance folk, co-wrote a Japanese animated drama, and once did a gig in Budapest that he's fairly certain was arranged for the Russian mafia. He also wants to go back in time and hang out with Bowie in Berlin, but then again, who doesn't? John Scott is a comedian, scriptwriter, and host of The Scottish Sweary News, known for his sharp, laid-back delivery and a career that has taken some genuinely unexpected turns. The Budapest gig — flown in, flown out the same night, performing to a room full of salespeople who were, he strongly suspects, selling to some very dodgy people indeedWalking on stage at a corporate event and saying the one word he'd told himself not to sayHow a pandemic freelancing site led to co-writing a Japanese animated drama — and what it taught him about storytellingHow The Scottish Sweary News started as an accident — and suddenly gained thousands of followersWhy he's stepped back from the Edinburgh Fringe — and why he thinks it stopped being a viable career step a long time ago Connect with John here: InstagramTikTokYouTubeFind us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    56 min
  5. Seymour Mace: Clowning Around — From Tokyo Street Theatre to Doing Exactly What You Want

    May 17

    Seymour Mace: Clowning Around — From Tokyo Street Theatre to Doing Exactly What You Want

    Seymour Mace spent time as a clown in Japan, did a Fine Art degree during COVID, built a potter's wheel in his back garden, got a first, and somewhere in the middle of all that did some stand-up. He's fine. Seymour Mace is a British comedian and actor known for his surreal, offbeat humour and cult status on the UK comedy circuit, best recognised for his role in the BBC series Ideal. How he ended up working as a street clown in Japan in the '90s — and how he nearly stayed on as Big Bird at Tokyo DisneylandWhat doing a Fine Art degree during lockdown taught him about creativity — and why the education system quietly beats it out of most people Comedy courses and clown schools — why Seymour thinks the best training is just being around funny people and working out why they're funnyThe freedom of not chasing fame, and why, with no mortgage or anyone to answer to, he's essentially living like a rich person without having to be a c**t Connect with Seymour here: InstagramFacebook Find us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    44 min
  6. Howard J. Ford: Caves, Cannibals and Cannes

    May 10

    Howard J. Ford: Caves, Cannibals and Cannes

    Howard J Ford has stared down a four-ton boulder held up by a single pebble, sat on funeral pots containing the dead while eating lunch, been lifted off his feet by hundreds of people in Burkina Faso, and walked out of a Mississippi murder house that nobody could bring themselves to buy. All in the name of independent filmmaking. Howard J Ford is a British filmmaker, director, and cinematographer whose films include The Dead, Never Let Go, The Ledge, River of Blood, Dark Game, Escape, and Bonekeeper — out now on Prime Video & Apple TV. His new action thriller Zipwire is heading to Cannes, and if his track record is anything to go by, it won't be long before it lands on your streaming service of choice. Why filming Bonekeeper in real caves in Wales and Herefordshire meant learning to light absolute darknessThe Burkina Faso incident: filming in a village with no electricity, sitting on pots containing dead relatives, and being swept off his feet by hundreds of people at the end of the shootThe haunted house in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where both Howard and his producer felt something was seriously wrongThe screenplay Howard wrote, which Morgan Freeman once wanted to star inWhy boredom is the starting point for everything — and how every film begins as a blank void before thousands of images and a story slowly emerge from nothingThe cannibal on a bicycle who stayed to watch the shoot — and why he was laughing Connect with Howard here: InstagramFacebookFind us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    57 min
  7. Paul Critoph: TV Round-Up of 2025 - The Year Television Lost the Plot

    Jan 1

    Paul Critoph: TV Round-Up of 2025 - The Year Television Lost the Plot

    Paul Critoph returns for the annual TV debrief Paul Critoph is an actor and regular friend of the podcast, joining Steve for the third consecutive end-of-year television review — the one where they figure out which shows they've actually both watched. Why Alien Earth started brilliantly and then made its xenomorphs bulletproof in broad daylight — and why that ruins everythingSquid Game 2 and 3: the hide and seek episode that was genuinely brilliant, the policeman on a boat for far too long, and why the ending made them angry instead of emotionalThe Summer I Turned Pretty — a show aimed at teenage girls that Paul's wife binged entirely while Paul occasionally wandered in to ask who Conrad and Jeremiah wereWhy Andor is the best Star Wars thing since The Empire Strikes Back — and why it's really a show about fascism and how it gets its tendrils into communitiesBlack Mirror's return to form — and why the Bandersnatch multiple-choice situation still annoys SteveThe Bear: essentially someone chopping a radish very slowly while looking moody, for weeks on end Connect with Paul here: InstagramFacebookFind us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    58 min
  8. Do Not Adjust Your Pod!

    12/21/2025 ·  Bonus

    Do Not Adjust Your Pod!

    Steve empties the whiteboard, clears his head, and has an honest conversation about what making this podcast actually feels like from the inside — the burnout, the uncertainty, the ads he hates, and why he's seriously considering living in the woods. This is a bonus solo episode featuring no guest, one very good cup of coffee, and more honesty than most podcasts manage in a full series. A full rundown of every podcast Steve actually listens to — from Memory Lane and Parenting Hell to The Rest Is Politics, Louis Theroux, What Did You Do Yesterday, and why Bill Maher is simultaneously brilliant and infuriatingWhy the end of a season brings on the funk — and what it's like running a podcast entirely solo with no producer, no team, and no idea who's listeningThe comedy character he's been developing in his head for years: a sound engineer with a broken mixing desk, a Mick Hucknall lyric, and a show provisionally titled Knob JokesThe treacherous taxi ride at 3,000 metres in the Bolivian Andes to reach the schoolhouse where Che Guevara was killed — and the song he eventually wrote about it Find us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    48 min
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Steve Otis Gunn is a writer, performer, and musician — and a former sound engineer who has spent most of his career in close proximity to people doing interesting things, occasionally on purpose. His Edinburgh Fringe debut, Steve Otis Gunn is Uncomfortable, earned a ★★★★ review, and his first book, You Shot My Dog and I Love You, is available everywhere books are sold. He created Television Times to have the conversations he actually wants to have — with actors, comedians, filmmakers, and creative misfits who've either spent their lives on television or watched a lot of it. The format is loose, the topics wander, and the whole thing tends to end up somewhere nobody planned. Mishaps, wrong turns, and the time everything went sideways. This is where those stories live. Original music written by Steve Otis Gunn (unless otherwise credited) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tvtimespod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tvtimespod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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