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Tyrant In Training

Tyrant In Training

By: Kevin Ryan
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Tyrant In Training is an improv comedy, power fantasy podcast that allows guests to rule over whatever type of country they want to dream up. Featuring interviews with comedians and podcasters like Gearóid Farrelly (Dancing With The Stars), Aideen McQueen (Waiting For Texto), Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood (Whose Line Is It Anyway?), Shazia Mirza (Would I Lie To You), Jordan Holmes (Knowledge Fight). Best Comedy Finalist at the Independent Podcast Awards 2025.

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Episodes
  • Less Air-Fryers, More Wicca Bread (With Jo Caulfield)
    Mar 19 2026

    This week’s tyrant is award winning comedian and author Jo Caulfield, known as Jo of Joland.


    Jo is the first tyrant to actually feed their finance minister Paul. Jo is also willing to put their friend, who is great craic, into prison for being a murderer, since that psychotic serial killer might reflect badly on her.


    Find Jo anywhere on Social media and her website for news about upcoming shows and her new book."The Funny Thing About Death"


    Jo has a new book out "The Funny Thing About Death" is out everywhere now. 'It's a wildly satisfying and moving read ... I loved this special book' - Graham Norton

    Six years ago, Jo Caulfield was about to go on stage when she found out that her big sister Annie had cancer. Not the best way to start a nationwide comedy tour. But the tour turns out to be a welcome distraction for both sisters. As Jo reports back from various hotels and service stations, they revisit their childhood and adolescence while navigating Annie’s illness, learning through trial and error how to behave when someone you love gets sick.


    The Funny Thing About Death is a hilarious memoir of two unconventional girls growing up in the 1970s. They didn’t fit in at the Air Force bases they were raised on or the strict convent boarding school they were sent to. The Air Force was obsessed with communists and the nuns were obsessed with the Virgin Mary, neither of which were of interest to Jo or Annie.


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    57 mins
  • The Giant Mariah Carey Statue (With Trae Renee)
    Mar 12 2026

    This week’s tyrant is blogger and podcaster Trae Renee, known as Trae of St. Traepez


    An island with its own Mariah Carey statue built into the mountain. Trae has allowed Taylor Swift to buy a small beach-house for 19 billion dollars. Trae is also busy admonishing her citizens for pronouncing the islands name wrong.


    Follow Trae on Threads

    You can also find Trae's blog and podcast - 2 Mean Blondes -Candid conversations about living with ADHD and other forms of neurodivergence here


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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • She's irredeemable In A Nice Way (With Athena Kugblenu)
    Mar 5 2026

    This week’s tyrant is comedian, writer and voice actor Athena Kugblenu, known as Her irredeemable Greatness of Athenaistan


    There's only one Athena on this island, and please no Stan's either. If you stand by the door on public transport instead of shuffling down the aisle then you're immediately arrested.


    Athena's approval rating used to be 73 percent so Her irredeemable Greatness brilliantly removed the troublesome 27 percent out to the countryside with no technology so they couldn't bother anyone.


    Follow Athena on Bluesky

    Also, Athena has new books for young people "History's Most Epic Fibs" & "History's Most Epic Fails" You can find them here

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    1 hr and 2 mins
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