I'm Grand Mam

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Cork chaos, queer wit, full glamour.

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I'm Grand Mam runs on quick reactions, shared history, and the kind of tangents that make a small inconvenience feel operatic. Kevin and PJ move from glasses, matcha, sandwiches, and teenage discos to tour plans, drag ideas, and early-2000s reality TV with easy Cork chemistry.

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About I'm Grand Mam

I'm Grand Mam is a queer Irish comedy show powered by Kevin and PJ’s quick rapport, shared Cork references, and talent for making tiny life events feel enormous. The pace is brisk. One minute there is tour admin, Apple Podcasts recognition, or a joke about video setup; the next, the conversation has swerved into matcha, premium drinks, family drama, or whether a chicken sandwich has been left too long. The charm comes from escalation. Glasses are not just glasses, but a prop, a flirtation tool, a new public identity, and a whole imagined community. Teenage discos are not just nostalgia, but a gateway to Cascada, old dance tracks, hairstyles, glow sticks, and the emotional geography of Irish adolescence. Tour life brings practical travel talk, but also costumes, props, coffee stops, and arguments about how far a live show could go. The show’s comedy is camp, blunt, and intimate without needing to be formally structured. Kevin and PJ regularly sound as if they are building the episode while racing through it, which gives the chat a lively, overheard quality. Pop culture is a recurring playground: reality-TV memory, drag lines, and pop references all become material. Cork itself also becomes a running character, especially when local distance turns into a mock call for unity. Beneath the mess, there is warmth. Family, chosen family, health scares, dating, body worries, and friendship are allowed to appear without dragging the show into solemnity for long. It is adult comedy with a soft center. Listeners get teasing, melodrama, nostalgia, and Irish gay shorthand in one rolling conversation. The show works best for people who enjoy personality-led podcasts where the point is not a clean argument but the pleasure of the detour. It is casual, loud-hearted, and intensely specific. The specificity is the engine.

Made for: Best for listeners who like personality-led queer comedy, Irish banter, pop culture nostalgia, and friendship dynamics that move fast. It especially suits people who enjoy camp exaggeration, recurring in-jokes, and conversational episodes that treat everyday life as material.

What sets it apart: The show stands out through Kevin and PJ’s lived-in friendship and its intensely Cork sense of scale, where a drink order, a bridge, a disco track, or a pair of glasses can become the week’s main event. It mixes queer intimacy with broad comic momentum without flattening either one.

In their own words

Two lads, originally from Cork in Ireland, have a cuppa and catch up each week while exploring the collective life landmarks that accompany growing up gay in the world today. Join Kevin and PJ as they navigate their way through life whilst battling with the internal shared struggle that every Irish gay man deals - ‘what would mam think?’ Follow us on Instagram @imgrandmam TikTok: @imgrandmamx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As heard by us

Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Kevin and PJ turn pop culture, Cork life and minor personal dramas into fast, affectionate comedy built on detail and escalation.

Kevin and PJ turn everyday life into elastic comic conversation, stretching glasses, drinks, driving across Cork and a carbon monoxide alarm into riffs with their own accumulating logic.

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Kevin's new glasses become a flirting routine, and you get recruited into the glasses community.

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to relive teenage discos with Cascada as their patron saint
to hear Kevin and PJ turn Cork's north-south divide into a mock peace summit

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Cork jokesteenage discos and dance musictour life and live showsglasses, dating, and flirtingmatcha, coffee, and premium drinkssandwiches and food anxietyearly-2000s reality TVchosen family and messy family drama

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Episodes

Ep 202 - Diva Summit

Ep 230 - Find the Fixer Upper

Ep 237 - Dunnes Stores Dynasty

Ep 236 - Brilliant or Busted?

Ep 235 - Is It The World?

Ep 234 - Soy Boy Heaven

Ep 233 - Burn The Bra

Ep 232 - Think of the Kids

Ep 231 - What If You Fly?

Ep 229 - Chilli on the Willy

Ep 228 - By Hook or By Crook

Ep 227 - I Think in Pink

Ep 226 - But Who Are We To Judge?

Ep 225 - Rally The Troops

Ep 224 - We Don't Judge, We Serve

Ep 223 - On The Shoots We Serve Glamour

Ep 222 - Kevinezer Scrooge

Ep 221 - Claddaghs, Cailíní and the Celtic Revival

Ep 220 - Pop That Spot, Pop That Puss

Ep 219 - Zoe was Late for the Canon

Ep 218 - Heat the Street

Bonus Episode - Coded in Curiosity with Science Week

Ep 217 - Crazy Cuckoo Bananas

Ep 216 - Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

Ep 215 - Stigmata, Stigmata

Ep 214 - No One's Spunking on the Sofa

Ep 213 - Busy Being a Boss Bitch on Business Bitch

Ep 212 - 8.9 on the Cunt Quake

Ep 211 - Bring Back Smiling

Ep 209 - Don't Grow Up It's a Trap

Ep 208 - Let's Douche! with JADE

Ep 207 - Use Your Brain

Ep 206 - G'way and Get a Friend

Ep 205 - Let's Not Get Bogged Down with the Details

Ep 204 - Stretch Your Kids

Ep 203 - Good Luck on the Bus

Ep 238 - Miss Me with the Matcha

Ep 201 - When in Lisbon, Be a Lisbion

Ep 200 - She Commits to the Bit

Ep 199 - I Keep It Real Girls 100

Ep 198 - One Slice Does Not Suffice

Ep 197 - Killing my Vibes with Leo

Ep 196 - Voulez-Vous Coucher Chat

Ep 195 - Coffee in the Back

Ep 194 - You Don't Need New Headshots

Ep 193 - Where's My Diva Juice?

Ep 192 - Crystal Swing Caused my Tinnitus

Ep 191 - All the Dolls in Bronze

Ep 190 - Vibes on Fleek

Ep 189 - All Gay Men Love Tits

Ep 188 - You Talk a Lot of Smack

Bonus Episode - Rich Beyond Our Wildest Dreams

Ep 187 - Keep It Cool Girls

Ep 186 - Soggy Biscuit with the Boys

Ep 185 - Mother is Mothering

Ep 184 - Thanks for the Mocha

Ep 183 - D'oh My God Girlies

Ep 182 - Mammy Manifesting

Ep 181 - I Got It From My Mammy

Ep 180 - Allege, Alleged, Allegedly

Ep 179 - The House of Abundance

Ep 178 - Sealed With A Loving Kiss

Bonus Episode - Post is Doing the Most with An Post

Ep 177 - Pritt Stick or Bust

Ep 176 - So Sue Me

Ep 175 - Where's The Peace Girls?

Ep 174 - Material Girlies

Ep 173 - I'm Just a Boy from Cork

Ep 172 - The Queer in Review

Ep 171 - A Horny Christmas Special

Ep 170 - Girl, it's a Moth!

Ep 169 - Holding Space for Jonathan Bailey