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The Public Nuisance Podcast
The Public Nuisance Podcast #002 “Conspiracy Theorists” with Paddy Barnes
Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me Sean McComb.
This week we welcome The Leprechaun, Paddy Barnes.
We cover boxing, self-health diagnosis, old boxing stories, Paddy’s Freddy addiction, Uber, conspiracy theorists, the 5G towers, Paddy’s height, Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson, and much more.
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The Public Nuisance, sean McCann. Welcome to the second episode of the Public Nuisance podcast Coming from Killin Studios, where you can get all of your content done, from podcasts to photoshoots and all the content you want out there Podcasts, the photo shoots and all the content you want out there. And our second guest is none other than the Leprechaun Paddy Barnes. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2:Paddy, thanks for having me Sean, but recently I had Sean, I had Shane to call him first.
Speaker 1:I know, I know, but here he actually asked Shane asked he begged you.
Speaker 2:I suppose I had you over.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean you were playing hard to get, and it sort of went hand in hand, because Shane was one of the main reasons I've done the podcast. Do you know what I mean? It's your hair, paddy. You're a bigger name.
Speaker 2:Bigger name.
Speaker 1:I, paddy, you're a bigger name, bigger name. I live closer as well. Live closer. You know what I mean. Maybe you can be A recurring guest, do you?
Speaker 2:know what I mean, but then you need to Employ someone For the subtitles. So I suppose you need to get the subtitles On point.
Speaker 1:You need to get a script, I don't know, like someone who sits in court and just writes out as it's happening. But then you need someone who you understand, who speaks the same language as you. I remember me and you were both bad. I remember when we trained in Dublin one time and we were in this shop and a girl called her name and was like I can understand, paddy, but I can't understand you and I went what I?
Speaker 2:think it's because she's a phantom in word or what I mean. I suppose it's funny we're talking I seen Paul McCrory comment recently about the stammer, obviously the highlight in it, and I'm pretty sure that I have one as well and I described this to my wife last night that in my head if I'm going to say a sentence, it's in my head clearly and clear as day, but me trying to talk it like my tongue gets further and my jaw can't move. It's weird move.
Speaker 1:It's weird, so I'm gonna die with myself with a stammer too. Um, you're just looking a bit of no, no, it's wrong, we get the other part there. You're just looking an excuse to stand around. What is on the news speaks about it. You just think right, I have a good opportunity to keep me relevant. You're retired from boxing and you're just like I need to stay relevant, so I'll just say I've got a speech. What do you call it?
Speaker 2:speech impairment or something well, here it must be like, because obviously I do a lot of coaching right, especially a lot of classes, and before I talk to anyone I say listen, I know I speak fast. If you can't understand me, I can go fuck, and they all laugh. And then they all know that basically he talks really fast. They don't laugh at me, they laugh with me.
Speaker 1:I think, they are anyway, they don't get the joke, they're just there, so if you laugh, they laugh exactly so.
Speaker 2:If you slag yourself, then who else is going to slag you?
Speaker 1:if you slag yourself and they don't know what you're saying? They won't know you're slagging yourself then, we're all fucked. So you may as well just say it, emmons, because we'll never know, do you?
Speaker 2:know what.
Speaker 1:I mean I might give it a go next time so, like something happens where you get in trouble with the police, you can just say what you want.
Speaker 2:Thankfully I never get in trouble with the police.
Speaker 1:Oh, we saw a lot of things about speech right, that's another true story.
Speaker 2:So basically, I have 15% now use of my nose, so the way I speak is obviously is affected by my nose, and that's a true story 15% of your nose. I thought it was 20% a few months ago, but now I feel worse, so it'll have to be at least 15%.
Speaker 1:I love how you diagnose yourself with just everything. Everything you have also something that I actually wanted to touch on today. I'll touch on now. While we're heading down this road of diagnosis, obviously over the course of maybe a decade or more, you were making serious weight the box from, say, mainly 2007, was it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, actually 2005. Obviously from before that 2005,.
Speaker 1:You were boxing at light flyweight, which was 48 kilograms at the time. Yeah, it's insane. Like to think that's 48 kilograms. Now you're about 148 72, but so you were making 48 kilograms from. You were about 16 until so.
Speaker 2:Basically, when I was 14, I was 44 kilos. When I was 16, I was 48. Yeah, when I was 14, I was 44 kilos.
Speaker 1:When I was 16, I was 48. Yeah, when I was 16, I was 48 kilos. And you said 48 kilograms, so you were probably 30. Yeah 30, yeah, 30. So over the course of what? 14 years, 14 years, 14 years of continuously making weight through boxing, and one of the main reasons was I wanted to touch on is because it had an effect on you, didn't it?
Speaker 2:yeah, listen, it's had a lot of effects on me. It has obviously an effect on my growth. I'm 5 foot 4. I'm a brother. I'm a brother 5 foot 4 and a half. All my younger brothers are taller than me and I'm her brother, five foot and a half. All my younger brothers are taller than me and basically, like Sean's not funny, I'm only joking. So basically I got I got tested in all two when I was like 28 and tonight I think I was 28 I got tested in all my 20s for my bone health and it says I have a thing called osteopria I can tell you what I'm talking about, at least for my bone health and it says I have a thing called osteoporosis. So obviously on the scale there's osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is on the borderline of that there. So obviously osteoporosis is irreversible. But I have is reversible and that's obviously down to pure diet that looked not for what I ate starving myself, pure nutrition advice.
Speaker 2:Obviously, you've seen yourself. We've been on the Highly Formers team, the elite of the elite teams, where you would think and maybe they are the top nutritionists in the country, but for the intelligence they have, they never give us the support we needed. It was never at that elite level, you would think, and assume it would be tailored to each individual athlete. It was just generic advice on food that didn't suit me whatsoever.
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Speaker 1:I know, I think there's a big culture with boxing, especially making weight. I think now you're starting to see it with MMA, but I don't really believe MMA started cutting weight at a younger age the way they do in boxing, from watsuits and sweatsuits. I believe it's all old school methods and it's just carried on and there's no one really stepped in and tried to fix it, even with you. Obviously you can see. Now you're saying you're border. You're basically borderline osteoporosis, yeah, and that's like your bones, isn't it? Your bone density, yeah, is right there and your brittle bones, basically, do you?
Speaker 2:want you out in there to be honest with you. I've never broken bone in my life, except my nose a few times, but I didn't tell but, I was thinking is that why you're 15%. No, it's just before I had there, like when I was a kid, I got an operation on my nose.
Speaker 1:Oh, it didn't work what percent was it working when you got the operation?
Speaker 2:I reckon like 60, like good 60 it's turning 15 now when I'm in the area, like probably nam. So I said eat again, I'm talking, sounds strange.
Speaker 1:I don't know what's wrong with me. You do you, and then you snore a lot. We obviously share the room, yeah I do snore like in dublin and in glasgow you snore an awful lot like so I don't know if it's a 15 snore or or what.
Speaker 2:See, there you go, my snore. So I breathe obviously through my mouth. Like I about lose easily a kilo. You know yourself a kilo, a kilo and a half In my sleep. I wake up my mouth dries up on me because I'm sleeping with my mouth open just breathing. That's in flies. I'm losing like three pounds a night in my sleep. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:And then I'm asleep. It's crazy. And then so you put it down to obviously pure penetration throughout the course of 14 years.
Speaker 2:No, no support from yeah, like no, not that because I had support right, I had support, but it was extremely inadequate for a high performance athlete. So I do kind of blame that, that inadequate support that I was given.
Speaker 1:Now it's understandable and it's obviously had an effect on you.
Speaker 2:Not just because I was using the method that I was using. I was only giving generic advice, so I wasn't really giving that good of advice for what we call an elite athlete. But not only did it affect my growth, but obviously when you're dehydrating and making weight, the fluid in your brain. There's less fluid in your brain, so you're less protected and you're in spawn 10 rounds nearly 3 days a week and that's something I call it. I don't want to do out here and basically to be a part of a team. You have to do this here. So now my memory is starting to do quicker as well.
Speaker 1:My short term memory is. Is this another self diagnosis?
Speaker 2:no, this is this is true story, like my short term memory, is is next to nothing, honestly so like, what do you do?
Speaker 1:like, like, honestly, do you believe you would have been successful? Like, honestly, do you believe you'd have been successful if you'd have grown in the same? Like, would you put down the win, the Olympic medals, the European medals, the Commonwealth Games medals. Like, would you have been successful at a bigger weight? It's just.
Speaker 2:It's just you'll never know.
Speaker 1:You'll never know so like it's one of them things. Would you ever go back and do it all again or would you just let yourself grow? You know you wouldn't know, because the success came with what you were. And who's to say Me personally?
Speaker 1:I feel you because I can answer from what I know and what I've done, because when I got heavier and I just let myself go and grow because I had the size to go with it, I sort of I feel like I got better. So when I moved from 56 to 60, I felt like a batter. I won the isolates. Now, when I was struggling with 60 for a couple of years, I was losing, and then when I moved on to 64, I just got way better. I was able to focus more on my performance and rather than making weight and it made me better. So maybe if, if you were from 16, like you still had what 16, you still had five years to grow till you're 21. Yeah, you could have filled out, growing better, still had the same stage, still had the same stamina, still had the same power, had a heavier weight, had you allowed your body to adapt to it yeah, no, 100% and get better.
Speaker 2:And like I always blame my mum after my growth because she smoked and was pregnant, so I thought she's done my roof, but obviously I wouldn't. It was the terrible advice.
Speaker 1:I was given, there we go, yeah, so it's down to the terrible boxing.
Speaker 2:So, going forward, obviously kids now need to be well-worn, they need to be more dialed in and I must give credit to Ultra Boxing because they have Stephen Floyd, who's absolutely brilliant. He engages more with the athletes, he tailors their intrinsic plans more to the athletes and for me, for me, just the way he delivers his sessions and speaks to athletes, it's just, it's more on our level and it's he's a he's fantastic at his job.
Speaker 1:No, he is. I worked with him myself, stephen, and he was. He was fantastic. It was sort of a turning point in my career from going amateur to professional working with Stephen and then, really like a lot of people now ask me advice loads of kids, loads of boxers, loads of people like I went to fight something Gert Reid or something like that was watching kids boxing, juvenile boxing, and the parents were asking me like advice about making weight and I'm like let him grow. He's like cut three kilos. Someone actually stopped me at one of them, pumpkin patches, somewhere, with three kilos. Someone actually stopped me at one of them, pumpkin patches, somewhere, with a child. And they were like he's a wee boxer, he's from Tyrone, I don't know, and I was like, yeah, talking about him. I was like he's a cut three kilos. I was like let him go, he's 14, let him go, don't be cutting three kilos for what?
Speaker 1:ah, but there's, there's only one boy on his weight at the weight. At the weight he's at, I was like so so what it's? It's one thing I always say it's not about what you win now, when you're 14 or 15, because no one remembers it. It's about growing and winning when it actually matters, at elite level. Do you know what I mean? Because everyone, what's the point winning all these screw boy boxing championships, making weight from your 11 years of age till your 16, 17 years of age, hating the sport because you've made weight 11 years? And then you get a bit of freedom when you're 18 to go out and drink and do what you want and you're like fuck this, I'm away.
Speaker 2:I absolutely hate the sport because of that, because I'm training for tournaments and like training hard and then we get a fight at the end of the match just turned me down to me and I was sick. I very rarely fought for Ireland in any multi-discons because I used to be bored because it was a major tournament for me it didn't mean anything for me, so why would I fight them like Europeans? World Olympics absolutely, but W tournaments for me see the.
Speaker 1:Can you remember the time we were at the Europeans and you got the final?
Speaker 2:oh aye. So basically I'll tell you that, right, mine was a rally.
Speaker 1:It was broke before before we were in Ukraine at a European championship or European training camp, training camp in ukraine right, that was, broke his memory. You're running ahead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's basically. My first fight was against hungary and I blew everywhere. Oh jeez, I thought I thought wales, I think wales, that he probably more and then got the same final and I thought the current champion, uh, was from azerbaijan and I beat him. I remember the referee kept stabbing because my nose was bleeding that much, but I was clenching and rubbed my nose on his vest to kind of clean my face every time and I remember at the fight my nose was literally shaking.
Speaker 2:I wasn't that sore but no problem. But what happened was the doctors didn't know it was broke, obviously, and uh, I was like you know what I'm two kilos after the fight. I can't even barbeque. Now, mate, like I was the conor McCarthy who was the physio, so this I said my name was shaken, but he agreed, so they sent me to the doctors. They I was at Hexie drinking a two litre bottle of coke and Conor went Paddy, what are you doing with me? I'm drinking this coke. Why he goes? Listen, paddy, if your nose isn't broke, you can fight tomorrow. I said this Conor, see, if my nose isn't broke, I'm going to run my face through that wall and I'll fight tomorrow. I just started drinking coke again and thankfully, I don't really want to.
Speaker 1:We were obviously just filling the conversation talking about boxing, which is alright, but what are you doing now? Like what? Are you people, don't really know, but you know, people often ask what's wee Paddy doing himself now?
Speaker 2:see I'm not a mystery but I'm a man who does everything. At the minute my main job is I'm a club development officer for Ulster Boxing so I really go after all the clubs kind of governance trying to search for fun opportunities, help them with their affiliations, anything online you need help with. I run a schools program in Ulster. Actually we have Taron McCullough and Eamonn Gilliam-Mancham different coaching schools free of charge for schools. I run a few tryouts for kids in, like Hardwick Joyas kind of people who had never actually had the opportunity to settle boxing, try boxing for free and hopefully maybe make it to the club from out there.
Speaker 1:And does that? You were on the road. A is that a? You were on the road. Are we like you were on the road away as well? Weren't you obviously helping out with the coaching as well, were you, or what are you doing?
Speaker 2:No, so basically on the road. So when I was on the road, basically more or less for the, I'm on the I'll place a and they've sent me to Milan not Milan, so Rome, brussels, twice, just everywhere to tie in with the European office, commission, to kind of help them with voting and stuff and different governance stuff for athletes.
Speaker 1:Do you think that's part of your lifestyle being away, Because you've been away your whole career?
Speaker 2:It's like it's your lifestyle.
Speaker 1:Your wife's used it, my wife's used it. The kids's your lifestyle. Your wife's used it. My kids are now. So it's like you've always been away your whole career. It's like you're with her. You think, all right, you're home with sales. Then you're home and you're like you can't stay at home. You need to go away and it's like you need that. It's like it's you're both used to it. It's a way of living and you're right.
Speaker 2:Like since I was 16, I've been living in Dublin, basically, and home since the weekends, and it was hard getting used to being at home for this long time. But again, I'm away all the time, whether it be Dublin, training in Ulster for my job or going on trips for the office, which was fantastically, because the people I've met it's just, it's burning for me.
Speaker 1:I was saying you're in a run. I was saying you're in a run lucky am I he doesn't know what to be at. He's a you're gonna. You're gonna advance right.
Speaker 2:Do something else, or he knows well, actually wait a minute. Wait a minute, because sometimes I was spurred how to begin right, so I was like, what could I do now? Like so I thought you know what, I'll go do a bit. I'll go do a taxi, because I'm always in the car, love talking to people like you actually look like a taxi man, a wee bagel.
Speaker 1:For me he's just a, isn't he? He's a taxi man, he's just a. I can just imagine you picking up. You'll be proud if you're smoking in the internet.
Speaker 2:It was my wee cup of tea smoking well, we know, smoking might have to say, but here um wee blue shirt, wee buttons and all. I went to the car college in Twins Parish in the Falls route and they learned about the test. I thought, oh, let's go and do a test. It's pretty hard. It's pretty hard, you know, it's so tiny, all the tests and the track, and it's a money-making scheme. What taxing is? No, the three test.
Speaker 2:Some silly question, but I only test 10 times. It's really a lot. Taxing test, Taxing test 10 times 37 quid, so we're down to 300,000.
Speaker 1:37,000 quid 37 quid.
Speaker 2:So we're having to disgrace but see, that means in a minute you get your first job for the first 10 jobs you put the meter up you have to put the meter up, but come here so I, I put my test right on a Wednesday last month and my tatty test driving test threw away. People said, paddy, how do you get lessons on me? What do you mean? Lessons, you're only just driving. No, no, you need lessons. No, or show me, tell me all this different stuff you need to do. But listen to what I'm about. I'm fluky. Bang. First time, positive. First time totally are natural multi-talented multi-talented, so you're gonna be.
Speaker 2:You're going to be taxing, hopefully, hopefully, now, um, do a bit of Uber the weekends so I can't take people off the streets because I'm only going to be a class C tax driver. What's that mean? So class C means I can't just pick up people off the street and it has to be pre-booked oh right, and is there a criteria with your car or anything for that? Or does it? No? No, you can just drive out of your car.
Speaker 2:Is there a criteria Like I can just grab a wee fucking Well no your car needs to be put to what we'd call a PSV test, so to make sure. To get an MOT basically Make sure it's a stock taxi. Yeah, your car, two-door Porsche, you wouldn't pass my car went on fire.
Speaker 1:believe it or not, my great car went on fire. It's car went on fire fucks sake.
Speaker 2:It's fine because it's exactly on your car, on my car, but hers was demolished, obviously in the back road. But I'm desperate. What?
Speaker 1:kind of car was that? Again an Audi S3. It just went on fire. It's crazy and I'm waiting on insurance now getting back to me. I was actually emailing this morning to say what's going on with this car, because that's two weeks now I've had this shirt car and she had to go land on her brother's car. So I'm taking her car, she's taking land on her brother's car while he's working on the boats, and then it's a nightmare, it's a disaster so once he gets back, next week.
Speaker 1:He was away for six weeks working on the boats. When he gets back he takes his car and I'm going to leave it for the car, which they should do, because the car was obviously faulty. It doesn't just go on fire, listen why? Why you pay shit away well, my insurance must be fucking about because you don't see who accuses insurance no.
Speaker 2:I'm not even.
Speaker 1:Admiral it's in England maybe that's, maybe that's where it is, but it's rid off. Car's rid off thing went on fire things and I was heart broke. I was heart broke when I got to the wagons, when we had the car two months and it's a cracker and I was like I thought you know what? I'm going to buy this here? I've bought the house, got the house all done up, had a big fight in April, had a good few quid and I went and I just tripped myself to a nice off an Audi S3 and it's a wagon and a fucking hang around car.
Speaker 1:So she went around and she had a wagon wheeled by me and I'm like, fuck, see next week or see if they do pay me out, I'm just going to buy myself a fucking, a wee bike buy my car, electric bikes and all there's this fuck and that's an our money making scheme. Cars going far. See if insurance I'm going fire. Save insurance. Don't pay me. That's me Down all that money For an oven. I've always Going to have A fucking bit of crack On this car. Two months Laster Things in fire.
Speaker 2:Disaster I'm brilliant Disaster.
Speaker 1:So fingers crossed Say a wee prayer For me. Paddy, your Twitter. You haven't been Really controversial. You haven't been as controversial as you used to be Pad spotlight.
Speaker 2:So maybe, yeah, you know what someone said to me recently actually someone in sport, a few people, actually a few people in sport. You're not sports people, but they're sports administrators kind of comment like about why you still can't say on facebook, no, on twitter. I mean, listen, think about it. People say I'm controversial, what's is? They're entitled to their opinion, but what have I ever said? That's false. And people say you're right.
Speaker 1:No, just like obviously all the obviously the COVID stuff. Yeah, it was like you were anti-vaccine, which I was as well, but I just didn't give my, I didn't care. Yeah, I just don't want to get, I don't want a vaccine. If I die to be without a vaccination, it's all me. So what's?
Speaker 2:that you go back to that vaccine thing. So obviously I was more invested in discussing discussing that, sorry, because one of my closest friends was a was a surplus in the Clemence Street surgery and he got the vaccine two years, two heart attack. Now he has written proof of a cardiac the cardiac consultant in the royal hospital that that's what that was down to. And then people saying why I get the vaccine for well, exactly, I mean it took it. I don't need it. Well, I don't think I need it. I made too good to get the heart attack, why would I ever stop for? And then I had the health service written to me, asked me to promote it and I said and I said, well, I can't promote it, like, because, like, if something happens to someone, like, is that on me because I promoted it to them, I know so I wasn't. I can't do that that way.
Speaker 1:Because a lot of people people were saying everyone conspiracy theorists. But it seems like, see, recently in the last, I haven't really I don't follow conspiracy theories, but I just think the way the world is going it's fucked up with like all the wars and all the shit that's happening that conspiracy theories just all seem to be coming out great recently. They're right about a lot of things and I've seen even on the day that they're trying to get people to basically eat 20% less meat by 2030 to help the weather.
Speaker 2:Now, I read this on Twitter. As I said, last week.
Speaker 1:I go on Twitter like you. You always used to. I don't know if you still do anymore In the mornings. Go on and use it to see what's happening in the world. I seen this morning that they're trying to get people to stop eating. Like to stop eating 20%. Reduce eating meat by 20% by 2030 to help the weather. Now, I don't know how the fuck that's going to work, but like what's going on.
Speaker 2:Are you trying to say that Ireland's miserable all the time because we're eating too much steaks? What a load of shit.
Speaker 1:I know so. It's just a load of shit. Now people are starting to say I'm going to eat 20% more, but they must enjoy the shit I probably would too that's what you're up against. So, like some fella last night, burnt a fucking 5G tower up in Andetown guys what's going on?
Speaker 2:I think the video put it out. My first thing the a fucking 5G tower up in Andetown. Guys, what's going on? I think the review put it out to each other. Alright, my first thing. The first thing came to my head was there has to be something at all. How the fuck am I going to reach up there?
Speaker 1:they must have brought ladders with them and climbed up right out, right out straight on the town ladder.
Speaker 2:So first off road closed off, let's, let's, let's, eliminate suspects here. Letters has to be a window cleaner. Who else? I think? I think it's something like that. He's talking in Germany. He has an alibi, he's in Germany never tell me, but here, whisky way podcast. It's easy, it's easy.
Speaker 1:You know, damn, you do. You know what? I was a fan of Turf Laws, got arrested a couple months ago, was over like, sent around WhatsApp because he was he's a conspiracy theorist and he was burning 5G towers. Now there's no signal anymore, on Turf Laws. I can't ring my dad if I fucking haven't hung up. I can't ring no one. There's no signal. What are you like if you're watching this? What are you trying to do here? Like? I can't communicate with people, no more.
Speaker 2:I can't speak to 5G, I just. I don't know what I believe in.
Speaker 1:I just what is the conspiracy? What are they trying to say? So I heard this.
Speaker 2:I heard this is like. This is mad. Sure what anything can be believable nowadays, but I don't believe it. People get the vaccine and they turn their 5D mask on and you die like I don't know it's an internet signal for your phone.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. It speeds your phone up. It's like saying phone cables, like it's just.
Speaker 2:I don't know I would say that conspiracy theory. I just I don't know why I'm not going to be invested in that one what are you invested in, amy?
Speaker 1:um, there's people who say that the fuck. In some countries they're shooting the clouds with lasers. I believe that it's helping.
Speaker 2:I don't know what they're doing, but I know in Dubai they're able to dim and lit the weather. That's mad like you're guaranteed sunny weather anyway over, but for your, for your wedding you can. You can pay for guaranteed weather. It's crazy so obviously it is a thing it can happen, I could have done more with my wedding. Fuck, she was lying my wedding was burning, I know I know you preferred.
Speaker 1:If I had your money I'd have preferred, but sure I didn't fucking get the take here, especially with that car going for it.
Speaker 1:Fucks sake, no good at all. Oh jeez, fucks sake. So on the everyone see, when you get to a certain age, it's just all wagons, wagons, wagons, wag. And then I think there's going to be a wee break. We're no wadding. I'm actually looking forward to that break because I have a fucking couple of wadding every year like, and it's just your suits, it's just. I can't plan a holiday if there's wadding because you spend so much money going to the wadding. Just go on as a guest.
Speaker 2:It was yours it was Bounties, it was Jamie Collins. I couldn't go to Jamie Collins because it was in Bristol in the university, but it was my mate, jesus, something like that. What was the wedding like? This year, four wedding.
Speaker 1:No restaurant. Everyone's just looking to spend all their money. And you know what that is? The grant scheme. People got grants when they were out of work and they've saved it for their wedding you know what nah would you spend.
Speaker 2:Would you spend that put with?
Speaker 1:me nah, nah, I'm becoming a fucking conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2:He's got the grounds. So I see you talking about. You said, or come back what you say about me on twitter being controversial, do I? And that is vocal on twitter anymore, because I'll tell you what? I'm a bit older, right, and I've learned to keep my opinion something to myself that not everyone needs to know my opinion, paddy, see whenever you were controversial on Twitter, you needed not to be for sponsorship reasons, so you've picked the wrong time in life to fucking stop.
Speaker 1:I know I no no, I'm a professional.
Speaker 2:That's why I'm in the in the world of work when you were a professional. You weren't actually a professional?
Speaker 1:no, no, it was, you were self-employed, basically.
Speaker 2:I was. I just I didn't need it. I was employed couldn't be sacked. An employer now. An employer now. I have two kids as well.
Speaker 1:I need to start buying something myself here, but sure, whenever you go out taxing, you be self-employed again. Is that how that works?
Speaker 2:yeah, so I. So I. Yeah, I'll be an accountant and pay taxes. Think I'll do anything in my job? Jesus, he doesn't pay taxes tout, tout on himself well, I'll pay him with the tax money it on himself. Well, pay up, mr Taxman, don't worry 100% and then here holidays, any holidays planned um holidays planned. No, but I will you're too busy working. Have to pick one next year or more, fuck me.
Speaker 1:You're working, you've, you're working. You must never be home.
Speaker 2:I've had some here.
Speaker 1:I've had some here oh, let me tell you the life. This is a day in the life of Paddy Barnes. Right, he works, he does hair rocks. He's now doing he does cross or not. Hair rocks, he does. He coaches the Paddy box. He's up here doing podcasts. Do you pick kids up from school? Do you have any? No one of your freddies but I bring what do you offer as a husband?
Speaker 2:I bring the kids. What I'm offering? I'm offering a. What do I offer? I don't cook, I don't clean, I make brilliant tea. I have the body of a great god. So she's lucky.
Speaker 1:We used to we used to share a room in Glasgow right, and Paddy, he never cooked. I done all cooking, done all cleaning. Paddy would go, I'll go to your shop and bat. If you cook it, he'd say go ahead. So Paddy would always go to your shop. Do the school run or do the shop run? Come up, I would cook whatever chicken, rice, vegetables or steak rice, whatever it was, and uh, you know I was great and all he would help do dishes. We would have to do dishes and then obviously, we were talking earlier about the nutrition and making weight.
Speaker 1:Steven floyd was our, he was our mate, but he was also our nutritionist and the uh, obviously patty was struggling to make weight. And one day Paddy was away for the weekend and I stayed, so he went home see the kids and see Mario, and that for the weekend, and I decided, well, I'm going to clean this whole house. So I scrubbed the house, took all the bed sheets off, pulled the bed out and I looked down and I said to Paddy's bed, and there was fucking Freddo rappers and sweet rappers chumps, rappers everywhere, and I was like he wasn't even telling me his weight isn't budging and he's struggling to make weight and there's
Speaker 2:fucking Freddo rappers stuck there inside of his bed. He didn't even tell you, he didn't tell you.
Speaker 1:He didn't tell you he didn't tell you anything about them. There's me feeling sorry if we go.
Speaker 2:My body's just getting too I remember the time that it was 10 days before my birthday and I was 10 kilos over. I was drinking water, laughing, and you were like, paddy, what's going on? I've been oppressed about you and I was like, do what? I got that bad. I didn't drink anymore, so what you're going to be, I'm going to cry about it or just laugh about it. And I choose to laugh about it. But I wasn't a lot of weight because it was.
Speaker 1:It was tough here 10 kilos in 10 days, like and for a small but there's a lot more.
Speaker 1:I was a family small and it was wasn't much on you like I have at the minute. I think I'm I'm a lot more professional how I lose weight. Now I make it easy. But uh, I just think, for for me, if I was like at the minute I would go in the fight week before kilo over and I would cut that out. I would cut that out like I would be sweet, but like it's still a struggle. The last, the last day, still like hell, yeah, taking the last bit of water out. But if I was like you were going in the last day five pound over with nothing in you, bone dry, yeah, bone dry. I don't know where you got the energy from to make that weight because I just be zapped.
Speaker 1:I have no carbohydrates.
Speaker 2:I mean nothing, I'm just done so you remember that day you and Molly put me up. I stayed at my hotel for the weigh in for the J-Horse fight, I was leaning over a green box near my feet. Now for a ball. I've ever felt I feel great, I feel like a new person I feel recovered. I can never blame the beating and process, because I always feel brilliant in the fight.
Speaker 1:In the fight, I know it's a matter of life. And now you've what are you?
Speaker 2:72 kilos solid muscle, solid muscle. Nah, we will evaluate. Surely you've no brittle bones, right like I? Think the damage is done, like you know so you can't reverse it like, in fairness, the, the RAC, in terms of the C, gave me in the base when they take like calcium and that there and iron supplements and all the health components like I'll help you take them. So maybe now I'm back to back to full health.
Speaker 1:I think, probably you'll need to diagnose yourself. You'll need to diagnose yourself. You'll re undiagnose yourself again. Ah, we'll see. It happens. It's us to approach it. Undiagnose yourself, it's just being normal bones it's funny.
Speaker 2:I probably have none of this here. I need to say I do, I know that's what you do.
Speaker 1:You diagnose yourself. You're.
Speaker 2:We used to call you hy, I am absolutely, absolutely. I have no contact. You're still afraid of flan are you Afraid of flan, afraid of seagulls, afraid of sharks? Anything to do with that? Where?
Speaker 1:have you ever seen a shark Like where have? You ever been in the proximity of a shark? It's just a thought. What about a lion? So if a lion come at you, you wouldn't be afraid of it.
Speaker 2:But the thought of a shark and the thought of a lamb, I feel like I've more chance of coming into contact with a shark and a lamb, I don't know.
Speaker 1:You used to live close to we used to jump in.
Speaker 2:Banger. No, we used to jump in the water in Banger. I was always last minute because I was afraid that they would jump in first and they'd get out first to be right. But Obviously there's no reason to be shocked when Barf Cokes put the till in it. Just it panics me.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I was actually thinking about this. I went to Mexico before and I swam with dolphins and the force that they produce underwater. I says to myself I don't really know. I see one of them. Things take a turn for the worse, it's game over here, game over. It's like. Remember I watched a thing on Netflix called about the whales whales over in Florida, and a killer whale just took a turn for the worse and just ripped, just stiffed one of the workers and their proper predators. Imagine like you are hopeless and that's you're in water, you're dumb, there's not a chance. And like the force that a dolphin, a wee dolphin, was producing while I was in Marra, I was like one of these things. I don't even know if they're capable of doing that, but I was thinking if my mhinges just said, just go like and just flick me in the water, it's game over.
Speaker 2:I know that, says me, fucks sake, have a go at this.
Speaker 1:Turn up me you, ow, ow, ow, I know you could just do that and get away with it, but that's it oh, fuck me, big, big, big damn on the boxing world, jake Paul.
Speaker 2:Jake Paul fighting Mike Tyson. Um, if I was a bad man watching anymore, thankfully I would be putting that money on Jake Paul the bin. So would I? I really?
Speaker 1:do, but we were just speaking before me and Ryan saying that I think in the clause Karl Fratch was saying that Tyson's not allowed to knock him out but like see people think a lot of people are saying to me about.
Speaker 2:So look at him in the past and he's good, blah, blah, blah. Right, take it back to his favourite Kemper Bride, right. Obviously he was a younger man, a fitter man, a more shorter man and, like her taros against Danny Williams as well. J Paul, young fella, j Paul, fresh off the block. People think J Paul's a YouTuber. He's not. He's a cute boxer. He won the silver gloves in America when he was a kid. Like he has a backstab pedigree. Obviously he's athletic athletic.
Speaker 1:Probably juiced as well, probably probably.
Speaker 2:I think he'll knock Mike Tyson out. I don't want it to happen. I love Mike Tyson, but I think it's a kill victory for Paul.
Speaker 1:I don't really know the rules. Is there any two?
Speaker 2:minute rounds six teenage clubs, eight rounds?
Speaker 1:surely there's not a lot that's happening there, like 16 clubs. Paul, he's a fast fighter. He had the dream because people are going by the fight that Roy Jones Jr had with Mike Tyson, I think, but you have to understand that both of them are very old. You know what I mean. This is like a young, explosive fella and Jake Paul taking on Mike Tyson, who's not nowhere near like it shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 2:Nah, that shouldn't be happening, nah that shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 1:I personally think Jake Paul wins easy easy and I seen a thing this morning saying Katie Taylor in the press conference bat Jake Paul, or first to teach him that, or with the to teach him to win. And I was like what is she? What planet is she on? Because it's like Katie's. Nah, that's stupid. So I seen her reaching over, shaking it it was on IFL TV this morning, shaking Jake Paul's hand and says Katie Taylor's agreed to bat her purse to take some and beat Jake Paul. Maybe it's fixed, maybe it's fixed. So now I'm starting to go.
Speaker 2:Jake Paul wouldn't take her purse over, nah she's the one paying it, and Dick Paul Netflix. If you're talking about Dick Paul, he's a big advocate for women's boxing. He's been paying paydirt's party.
Speaker 1:For a party. I'm like fuck, I reckon. I reckon it's fixed it. It must be. Well, it might not be fixed, because why would he lose? Why would to you? So, whatever he's batting in return, maybe true, not, I mean true. So if he wins he gets nothing really, or he gets Katie's purse should be loses, he gets nothing and I guess, beat yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:So it's like I don't know strange one be interesting to see, like, yeah, but I hope it doesn't go down that road. We're boxing sort of. It's sort of oh, we'll play some YouTube boxing tonight. Not against it, to be honest with you, because they're making money and all these influencers are making money and that's what people want to watch. Let them do it. It's like me. Like, for example, me getting into a podcast as a boxer people he's not, he doesn't do podcasts. It's like Tom McCarthy in the comedy from boxing. He's not a he's not a comedian, but he is. He's capable. They're capable. They train and do the right training and they go in and fight someone within their capabilities and someone but like Tommy's not getting into comedy and saying I'm the and you know, peter, peter K of Cumberland, that's you. You know he's not going to, he's a hot dog you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:He should be, but I know. But like that's, that's what, that's what Jake Paul's doing. He's insane. He'll be canal. Do you know what I mean? And I think that's sort of why people are going. I hate these.
Speaker 2:YouTubers. But then what happens? Then people talk about exactly that's where you get a big name, like so trice talkers are usually wanting the most money because they talk themselves into fights.
Speaker 1:So I think I'm going to start just telling people I am the Joe Rogan of podcasts. Why not? Absolutely because I was like what, why?
Speaker 2:is he eating a chicken? And then people said like, and I was like, is he?
Speaker 1:joking, and then I go on and say it and then I come in for a tongue cat alley and shillage it and protein shakes talking about 84 hour fasts. You're not being fast.
Speaker 2:I had to try the fast last week so I was trying to do a bean, onion, egg onion. Dad, it's taking an ice breakfast and that chocolate, same with your litter. Then with the biscuits I had, because I had it was a dickless. I can't deal anymore.
Speaker 1:It's what's hard in life, paddy. That's what happens. It's bad like, so why do you want it fast? I thought you were happy you know.
Speaker 2:No, I want to be about 65 kilo. I want to give hair rocks a good go. I reckon this time next year I one of the best in Ireland High Rocks Dragon and in tails it could get a bit wrong like I was exactly and I must be fast, do you know when I had COVID. Apparently I done 5k in 1936. That's good going there that's good going for someone smaller, for COVID, for someone with COVID as well, apparently, someone that I is vaccinated 14 minutes.
Speaker 2:I know so you had a great full leg honestly, I reckon I could do very, very well at the High Rocks. Now.
Speaker 1:High Rocks is a lot harder than CrossFit or a lot easier than CrossFit, crossfit's Olympic lifting. So we have more skill, isn't it, high Rocks?
Speaker 2:we do it in our gym.
Speaker 1:High Rocks. So our general population members can do it in a self fitness right. Yeah, go to a crossfit gym. It's in a big living. It's a whole different ball game, isn't it?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's more skilled, it's more technical, but they kind of slumped into each other, obviously for the plumbers carrying and the wall balls and all that.
Speaker 1:It's near enough. The same energy system that you're working on. So if you're good at one energy, if you've got a good threshold in one energy system, it'll carry on into the other, which is good and because we have three of our lives.
Speaker 2:It's not easy, but it helps us a lot.
Speaker 1:We used to do circuits in Glasgow that were very like the Runnerm training and we love that's exactly I rocks and we were good at, so we basically created high rocks.
Speaker 2:Well, right, but they created high rock for a story where you think about the run of my. I think I'm on circuit and I see a two kids to treat them night club. I had the run of my circuit but it was boxing one that way it's not.
Speaker 1:But see the best of the show you like. If you had a put his head in that, turn down the hair he'd have to stick it out there actually milliner, so see wherever else you can go with, make sure you just take action and jump in there. Just jump in with two feet, steal it, steal it, parry, we'll call it. We'll call it a day here, right, you relax now? You relax, you relax now you relax, don't be putting the meter up when you're going to the taxi.
Speaker 2:So sorry. See the door hang with Uber. See the door hang with Uber. So it's all card. Do you pay? What do you mean I pay? Do you pay Uber? Do I pay Uber? Do you have to pay Uber?
Speaker 1:to be able to.
Speaker 2:So it's a good thing. So just say it costs you 20 quid. To rate me right. Uber take 15% already, so I don't have to go and get Uber and blah blah blah. But the money I make? Obviously I declared and I'll be paid tax out there, but Uber makes the process more easier. I shouldn't even be saying this here. I'm selling the product for Uber for them. They should be sponsoring me.
Speaker 1:Hopefully they will maybe they will when I take the 15% exactly when I take the 15% exactly. So here what happens with you can get raided on Uber. I believe, yeah, so basically, so I know for a fact what's going to happen.
Speaker 2:Maybe you're a slapper no one's getting out of the car and it's a five stars.
Speaker 1:That's a fact, well, that's another. That's a good way of going about it. No workloads, people know you, but when they get us, if they're from Belfast, yeah, and you can say here it goes, we get five stars. What happens if we get five stars? Can you charge more?
Speaker 2:no, no, no, it's just like you're waiting. People like oh, I like him, bang, I'll pick him. I think actually. No, I don't know, I just dance, that's it. Make it up as you go along and see what happens.
Speaker 1:Paddy, thanks for coming on. It's been a pleasure, as always, to have a chat with you.
Speaker 2:No problem, sean. Next time we'll have more news again, so we'll have a deal. No deal for you. I'll keep controversy. I'll go back to your show and we'll talk about it. Right, I'll have a deal.
Speaker 1:You hit the, or else you can go on, go on the UTV and talk about your speech and whatever it is.
Speaker 2:There's a lot to talk about.