How Sorted Works – GRILLED
Most of our viewers probs know us best for our YouTube channel but over the last couple of years, Sorted has been growing internally as a business as well. Behind the scenes of Sorted, each of the four founding guys have some kind of ‘specialities’ within the wider team (we use the term loosely so they don’t get too big headed)
You guys really love ‘Grilled’ and we thought we could take it a step further and tell you exactly what goes on in a given day at the Sorted studio. Expect a lot of transparency as well as the usual top bants as you discover how much truth is behind our videos and if Jamie’s really that annoying. Spoiler – he is.
Jamie
“It’s difficult trying to tell someone ‘I’m sorry I couldn’t answer your important email…I had to go and dance like Sia for half a day.’”
Ben
“This wasn’t him being a bit of a d***…it was just a prank”
Barry
“You gave me a compliment about six months ago and I still haven’t gotten over it”
Mike
“As a team, we’ve got to make two videos a week, every week…until the end of time”
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S3 E4 – Watermelon Ban & Jellyfish Are Taking Over the World?!
You know what? This podcast was actually going alright until it got to your guys’ questions. But now everyone’s scarred for life. Great. The normal(ish) things discussed in this podcast included a jellyfish epidemic, soup slurping illegality, and fishing off a camels back. Totally normal, see?
S3 E3 – Edible Shoes & Overcooked Mushrooms?!
The secret’s out…sometimes more than one of these are filmed in a day. You have Jamie to thank for ruining that. This week is all about eating shoes, most hated foods, and the fact that Andy Murray lives off a diet of haggis and deep fried Mars bars. True fact.
S3 E2 – Bucket Lists & Donal Skehan?!
This is one special week as Donal Skehan heads down to the Sorted studio to work on a couple of exciting projects! There’s a strong discussion on celebrity restaurants, tea bagging (?!) and Ben vows to make quiche cool again. Good luck mate.
S3 E1 – Olive Oil Mafia & Getting Lobsters High?!
We get season three of Feast Your Ears off to a brilliant start with a talk about drugs, the Mafia, theme songs to life and FAVE superheroes. You may be asking yourself where the topic of food comes into any of this. Well it does. Precariously…but it still does. Next season could always be better I guess.
S2 E10 – Coffee Drones & Drinking Avocado Milk?!
Mike’s back! For the final episode of Season 2 we don’t deviate from our usual topic of BUMS. We have an excessive conversation about butt cheeks with a couple of interesting foodie facts thrown in.
S2 E9 – Tree Octopi & Cool As A Cucumber?!
Sorted becomes a trio in this week’s poddy but don’t you worry, the facts and lies are probably wackier than ever. We chat about land octopi, running the world off of cucumbers and try to change the way you guys think about food.
S2 E8 – Choking On Ants & Oysters Are Vegan?!
We debate veganism in this weeks episode which might actually be the first useful thing to come out of these podcasts! We also talk animals that can make you choke and things get super deep when…
S2 E7 – Exploding Marshmallows & Bat Poop Seasoning?!
Right, we’re calling it ‘Feast Your Ears’. We’ve committed now and we can’t change it. This week we discover that tea cakes aren’t as fun as we remembered, poop can be used as seasoning and James can fly a plane?! HOW did we not know this before??
S2 E6 – Baz’s HA-UGE Announcement & Entering Dewy Bushes?!
Mike’s off galavanting around America at the mo’ so we subbed in James. What do ya think…should we have him back? ALSO…Baz makes a MASSIVE announcement!!
S2 E5 – A Tasty Wedding Dress & Sorted Fanfiction?!
There’s a LOT of talk of edible balls in todays episode and we find out that Mike has the least creative parents EVER. BUT more excitingly, we might have actually come up with a REAL name for the poddy: ‘Feast Your Ears’! What do ya think??
Gentlemen, Sorted team, I am genuinely impressed by all you have accomplished. I am thankful to get this look inside your roles and the sorted family because, I have wondered. I picked up on your friendship and the over-arching love of food, but finding out your brilliance in each of your individual areas are truly great. Thank you for this. I appreciate this ‘company/business/family’ thank you.
Had the thought that if ever Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer leave Sunday Brunch the Sorted team would be the perfect replacements. Then I heard Ben’s Channel 4 story
Is there going to be a grilled episode about what James does as we know he is the development chef but it would be nice to hear about what that means day to day as it must change depending on the content (type of video or book recipes). By the way I love this series, it’s excellent to hear how sorted is ran and it’s easy to listen to on the bus on the way to uni
Yes I agree!! Would love to have one of these for James! Would also love to see him more in videos 🙂
I totally agree about hearing more about James. More of James in podcasts, in videos & definitely more of his skills and goals. I’m doing his bread workshop now & I wish there was more of it because he really is brilliant. Videos of him showing and explaining how to make different breads would be great. I’d love to see his take – Sorted’s take – on traditional Scottish foods and how to kick them up a bit.
I’m really enjoying hearing you guys talk about yourselves and your work – thanks for sharing. The five of you are really talented in such different and yet completely complementary ways, and I think this is part of the secret of your success. The other part is how intelligent and eloquent you are, something which really strikes me in the podcasts. Please don’t leave Mike and James just doing behind the scenes roles as they’re both amazing in the videos!
This series has helped me to appreciate everything that the Sorted team does even more than before. I’ve always kind of known that Barry’s the creative force behind a lot what goes on at Sorted but not to the extent that was shared in the podcast. Looking forward to seeing what he comes up with next!
Super interesting! I’ve been following you for years and seen how you’ve evolved. Understanding what goes behind the scenes, how you think about business, about future developments, growth, as well as details on how to be on camera (thinking about Ben’s ability to focus on what matters) gives even more depth to what you do! Thank you for this, it’s a delight to listen to.
Love this series, thanks for giving us a peak into the behind the scenes with you guys! And definitely keep those post-work beers flowing 😉
I would watch an entire season of home made ready meals and Ben restocking his fridge freezer.
Given that Barry is the person to “Get things started” (his words), I’d like to see him as the first person in a Pass It On and see what happens!!
This is such an enjoyable series. You guys are being SO honest and it’s endearing. Felt all warm and fuzzy listening to Barry’s episode especially! Good job y’all!
Not sure of the timeline but enjoying.. thanks guys xx
Definitely need more of these for everyone
A Recipe for Sorted, perhaps?
I love you guys! I’m in U.S. I’m just really figuring out how to listen to this pod. It doesn’t go to my podcast App. Think I can listen in the car on my commute. Thank you for making my day