This week on Shut Up I’m Talking, Jack and Tom are joined by the one and only WillNE. YouTube veteran, BG Media survivor, coffee entrepreneur, and creator of an impressive Uber Eats history.

The boys get into everything from YouTube nostalgia and Minecraft lore, to bioluminescent Jamaican plankton.

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This episode features:

• WillNE’s worst moment of the week.

• Taste-testing Rodd’s Coffee and why Twitter freaked out over it

• Will’s 2,100+ Uber Eats orders

• Quitting bullying kids on YouTube & the consequences of old commentary content

• Will’s most drunk story, featuring a shirtless Stephen Tries

• Easy early YouTube days and working with James Marriott

• TommyInnit deleting social media, reading books & trying to live without Instagram reels

• ADHD, calendars, structure vs chaos, and the YouTube grind

• The sausage dog custody era

• School seizures, eye injuries, bum problems, and the most cursed tour bus stories

• Also - How’s the worm doing?

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Written & presented by: Tom Simons & Jack Manifold

Executive producer: Mirren Mace

Directed by: Mirren Mace

Producer: Russell Noon

Production coordinator: Tori Sheard

Social media: Tori Sheard

Camera, sound & lighting:  Owen Rogers & Hazar Ayyildiz

Editor: Owen Rogers

Shorts editor & Thumbnail: Snikrep

Set design: Mirren Mace

This podcast episode was recorded on 02/09/2025

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• Tom’s worst moment: pre-Tomedy gig nerves & stand-up disaster stories
•  Long-distance relationships, e-dating confessions & fans oversharing
• Should Tom join LGBTQIA+ as ‘Questioning’? 
• Is TommyInnit making Pride all about himself?
• Everyone admits to peeing in the sea. Except Jack
• Jack’s dad’s Belgian beer reviews & how Jack gets way too honest after 6 pints
• Tom visits a butterfly sanctuary, plays with stick insects & blows a wooden train whistle
• Brighton life = paradise for one expensive month only
• Jazz night fallout: Tom ignores Jack’s invite & instead cycles recklessly and helmetless
• Jack’s birthday ruined by Ikea opening, A-level results and MrBeast
• MrBeast joins Kick, AI debates & dark woke arguments
• Tom’s book obsession: should he stop outsourcing his big life decisions?
• Jeremy Renner, love, and the secrets of the universe
• Tom’s near-death stunts: bungee jumps, jetpacks, tanks & almost wing-walking
• Worm update: the enclosure is now shit brown’, the worm’s still alive, but Tom doesn’t care
• Rap names, streaming ADHD & Jack Manifold’s new video teased

• Tom is back on coffee and Jack has to deal with the overthinking
• Jack’s YouTube age restriction disaster: J Schlatt collab tanked from 500K to 2K views overnight
• Tom’s beyond brutal stand-up gig: is it time for him to quit comedy?
• How bombing on stage made Tom more money than Jack on YouTube
• Tom self-diagnoses ADHD after reading one book
• Jack crashed the Wednesday Season 2 premiere and accidentally became Steve Buscemi’s plus one
• Jack Manifold made friends with the zombie waiters at the Zombie-themed afterparty
• Are Jack’s Meta Smart Glasses actually invasive?
• Jack’s bird’s eye view of Brighton Pride: NHS floats, Tesco drag queens & Northern manners in the toilets
• How Married at First Sight’s Paul Brunson got Tom to tell all on the We Need to Talk podcast
• Jack’s review of the Oasis reunion tour and why Liam Gallagher’s tambourine featured so heavily
• Brotherly violence and why Tom Simons hates lad behaviour
• New TommyInnit ‘Not Doing Well’ merch flex
• Medicinal wanking for dopamine (Jack’s theory, not professional medical advice)
• Why Tom will never aim for the sink

• Why Tom made the tough decision to evict Harry and the truth about living together in Brighton in a house with velcro walls, basement leaks, cobweb pipes & emergency plumber nightmares
• Harry’s worst moment of the week bus disaster & old lady outrage
• Why Tom never wants to live with another streamer again
• Could anyone in reality, survive living with Tom?
• Toilet seat wars, condom wrapper evidence & why TommyInnit never shags
• Neighbour complaints about Tom’s loud piano playing and how over Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan Harry is
• Reality vs expectations of being friends with Jack Manifold & TommyInnit
• Harry reveals who out of Tom and Jack he would save in a life or death situation
• That time Harry’s Royal Marsden Christmas Lego charity mission was ruined by TommyInnit’s trending braces news
• Harry’s Twitch origin story:  PS4 streams, Minecraft, viral clips & dodgy gifted subs
• Why Average Harry was banned from Twitch, losing huge numbers of followers overnight
• Harry’s Polish meme fame, Chilean fanbase & South American love
• Lockdown weight gain, OVO designer scam & livestream fail moments
• Gamers Got Talent bot vote controvers
• Worm update & general podcast chaos
  
  PLUS:
• Did Bo Burnham & Sam Fender conspire to ignore Tom?
• Ellen Degeneres conspiracy theories
• The ‘Would You Do Hand Stuff With Me?’ debate rages on.