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The Public Nuisance Podcast #003 “Food Blogs” with William Thompson
Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb.
This week we welcome N.I. Comedian, William Thompson.
We cover N.I comedy scene, boxing, Conor McGregor, West Belfast Boxers, I’m a Celebrity, Tyson Fury, DLA and much more.
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Before we get started with the next episode of the Public Nations Podcast, make sure to go to Killin Studios, who cover all your content, from podcasts to photo shoots to whatever you need in that industry. Welcome to episode three of the Public Nations Podcast. Welcome to episode 3 of the Public Nations Podcast. Our guest today is none other than William Thompson.
Speaker 2:I wasn't sure if you knew my name or not.
Speaker 1:There Is he going to get this. Do you know what it was, prince? What Prince William's in town In Northern Ireland, I believe Is he. And I honestly expected him to walk up here and start, but it turns out it was King William. Did I get it correct? Was King William?
Speaker 2:I think correct King William in the room cheers for helping me man.
Speaker 1:Oh no, fucking pleasure having you on like um. I was at the show, as was Sandy last week, and, uh, what a show Shane and you were. You were intro for Shane and you were also.
Speaker 2:You got your own yeah, little 10 minutes 10 minutes at the start yeah, weird like I'm glad I did it, but also in my head I'm like it's not gonna get bigger than that. That'll be the biggest thing ever I've done?
Speaker 1:what about I've picked? Do you have like a? You must have like ambitions to get that. Does that not give you a bit of like fire to go like? I want to do this because you know what a lot of people are starting to talk about you more and more now I feel like I keep getting told this and it scares me.
Speaker 1:That's why, like Shane says to me, william, it'd be great to have him on as a guest. Shane was here last week. He says, and I was like, well, someone else says that to me yeah, get Willie Thompson on.
Speaker 2:And then one of the like oxygen to people and he was like get your wee man while he talks and he saw him next week and he was buzzing for it and I was like fuck, where you going? I'm so used to being the wee mate. Do you know what I mean that? Like when I start up with Paddy and then I do Shane's a lot and I'm known as being the guy I feel anyway, that is just also there.
Speaker 1:So that's weird to me what it comes because see in a position, see the position you're in. I remember like when I started boxing with Paddy Barnes he was just a year in and everyone because he was in two time Olympic medalists, and everyone we were in Dublin living and I mean everyone would have stopped him and Michael Cullen for photos, everyone asking for photos, and I was just standing in the background.
Speaker 2:He was just coming onto the scene and there is a video and you're happy for them your friend?
Speaker 1:You're not angry. But there's a wee buddy, it's going.
Speaker 2:Especially doing stand-up people will make a deck idea. Come over and be like he's great, you're a brother, you're shit. Like they won't go out of their way to point out I love you too. Don't like you. My wife thinks you're a fucking melt. You can't crack up. Only five minutes give me my time and you can't, even. You can't stop, they're going. Well, fuck you I.
Speaker 1:So I was like you can sort of relate there. But but then I ain't getting loads of photos because like I've moved up in boxing as a professional and obviously I've been with Paddy and getting photos. And they're not getting photos with Paddy now because he's like irrelevant.
Speaker 2:Now he's out of the game, he's out of sport. Now I ain't going gee you know yourself, though. You see people getting photos and all, and I'd love to be him. And then it happens to you and you're like fuck it.
Speaker 1:I hate this fucking shit. You feel cat? It's just awkward. It's awkward as fuck. You're like fuck, what about him?
Speaker 2:Actually, I find in Belfast people have no social reading.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:When they're like. Can I get a photo with you?
Speaker 1:I'm like I'm sitting eating your dinner. I'm mid steak you're eating. You have a fucking whack of steak. As long as the word starts conversing with me, I'm like my wife always says to me. She's like fuck me, hi ignorant, and I'm like, it's alright, I'm just one of them people probably like yourself, I'm like come over, alright, I'm going fucks because.
Speaker 2:I'm like. I wouldn't like. I don't want someone having a story where they come around like I met him and he was a cunt.
Speaker 1:I know, I remember once I I was boxing in the Windsor Park on Karl Fram's car and Taysom Fury was fighting on and just because you're saying about feeling like that, I had like three pairs of gloves but I didn't want Taysom Fury to send them all. I was going to get him to send a pair. It was for Charlie, karl Frantz to send a pair and I think, like Paddy Barnes and try and get the whole card sent on one glove. So we had three gloves for three different things and Charlie's and I went to Taysom Fury. We had the three gloves. I was like, yeah, one pair. I was like, yeah, he's like not saying them all, saying one pair.
Speaker 1:I was like I know they're not for you but I felt like I was boxing the same card as him. I felt like are you for real? Fuck off. I felt like I don't even say it, but it was for a week, it was for a playing kid and I was like just saying it, fucking globally and he said it. He thought he was looking to get all these clothes, saying I'm making money trying to sell them or something, and I was like fucking hell, I sort of don't even like. It's hard to forget that feeling, though like so I've never gotten someone.
Speaker 2:You know what I alright, because you just don't want someone coming away and going. He was a, and I think they're wrong. I have my days, I'm just not in the mood and someone's cheeky to you and you're like fuck off man, I'm hungover and I'm in the petrol station, I went over and called him a fat spasnik. He was so weird about it. That has happened, people will be like are you being weird? I'm like because I don't know you don't even know who you are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're slobbering like fuck, 100%, do you?
Speaker 2:I suppose because you're a boxer, do you get people squirming, or did you ever get people fancy and like go?
Speaker 1:yeah, do you get it like people know what, know what. You get people trying to tell you what see, I'm funny and you know like people will like you need a deus or that and I'm like I would go out sober a lot of times like out sober and people all say to me how do you see you still this day? I don't know why I did because I'm just like fuck off away from me, you mother.
Speaker 2:People just be talking shit, especially when they're like fuck off and then there has to be a breaking point.
Speaker 1:They're like will you fuck off? You fucking pest.
Speaker 2:You always get the fuck off people like I. Suppose seeing them give you box advice too does piss you off, because you're, like I, am aware of how to box exactly or you should knock them out. You're like ah, didn't think that fuck me, do get it.
Speaker 1:So, yes, obviously, the ambitions you must have the big ambitions to do with change down there somewhere because, as I say, the people are starting recognising more people asking me to come on my podcast, and I haven't even started it, so I just want to show you that it's obviously good to see that what you're doing is working on. It's working on people, even if you do see yourself as like being the bigger names. Wee mate yeah, people love that character yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:people love that character like Jarvis for me even I love it I'm like he's just like a wee guinea pig who just gets him Like I don't we run. I don't mean it, like You're not doing anything.
Speaker 2:It doesn't mean like.
Speaker 1:You do all the work Like You're a ring girl. Yeah, you're a ring boy yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I'm a ring girl.
Speaker 1:Ring girl You're and I was like he's doing the shit that people don't want to do and it's funny as fuck, but I I love doing shit Like like this.
Speaker 2:No one wants to do it, so then I'm like the fun is, or the challenge is how do I make this a fun thing? How do you take what is quite a fucking nothing role and have fun with it and I love doing that.
Speaker 1:That's challenging to me, and it was so like you put so much energy into it. Aye, there's so much fuck and don fucking hours, don't get me wrong half the time you're, half cut you're full as a bingo bus.
Speaker 2:Fucks sake, there's times fucking. You can see it. The more I've been drinking, the more I've gotten careless with the way I'm landing and there was one, I meant to throw it back. I just went right on my neck and right back and then I was like I actually fucking nearly broke my neck his vats and it was just a slam.
Speaker 1:It was some rounds we were like slaying out and I was like.
Speaker 2:I was like turned around, going smooth, went well, and then every time it was like and there's something about that, because you know there's loads of lads that be like I wouldn't be dressing up as a woman. They're wearing wee shorts on, I'm like I find it funny, a wee bit of arse out no.
Speaker 1:I'm like that's hilarious that's so, whereas loads of lads are like wouldn't fucking do that, because I'm a big tough man, mr Macho, mr Macho, there's too many of them that's what Bell fasses me up off, mr Macho?
Speaker 2:that's it. But I tend to find the most vicious people I would know not the most vicious the people that be afraid to fight, and most calm people. Yeah, because they Because they're not, they don't feel threatened, they're not looking because they'll know they'll be fine, whereas the wee cons are like I'll fuck them, kick the fuck out of them Like you'll get your fuck knocked down anywhere I know, or someone who's just dead, like Tommy McCarthy, just aww, aw, so easy going.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah and do you roll that every week?
Speaker 2:Every week. Yeah, it's been about four years now. Seriously.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sometimes I remember doing that with you in the Calmary Mill that time. That's right though Obviously do you tour much with Paddy, not as much with Paddy. You do more with Shane.
Speaker 2:I would do obviously Tommy would. Tommy would be enough to do what you do for Shane for Paddy and I just always thought, because you've done the podcast and stuff together, I always thought you would have been more with Paddy, I used to, and then I started doing more with Shane and with Kieran as well, and then I ended up doing loads of tours with other people and Paddy was like I kind of want to get my own, because you're doing everyone else's, which I get, which is fair enough. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:but yeah, it was just because I worked with Shane and Kieran more you were just a wee slut yeah, I'm just like you were just fucking paying me, man, so I would go and they just ended up.
Speaker 2:I rarely gig with Paddy as much. I don't really know, we just I think now because our clubs were both headliners. It's very rare you get two headliners. It's very rare.
Speaker 1:I suppose as well. It's probably the bigger gigs like, the bigger like the SSE gigs and the fucking the full arena gigs where you're gonna need like that's when you have headliners, opening for headliners, when you just want three fucking great. Like you saw.
Speaker 2:On Friday you had me, murph and Andrew Ryan.
Speaker 1:And I'm sitting there being like what am I doing in this lineup? These are fucking legends, I know, but, as I say, that's where you're at now. It's weird.
Speaker 2:You've set the standard set.
Speaker 1:And then it's about pushing on, isn't it? That's it though. See it, though. And then, do you like see in comedy? See, because it's so good now and you're all so close, like these are all friendly, everyone is yeah, um, do you just have like a manager? And like we all have different agents these all have different all have different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have an acting agent, a writing agent, a stand-up agent and the corporate agent it's just one that maybe just because I know like the lamb, lamblet do a lot of the yeah, yeah, shine, manage a lot of yeah, shine and Lamblet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and some people are managed by them. I work with like they will work on my shows, like my tours and stuff, but I just book my own stuff. You have a big one coming up. Yeah, waterfront the 13th of December. Scumbag, millionaire scumbag millionaire.
Speaker 1:Shit myself. I love that name. Shit myself, shit myself. Man, that's a good. I suppose that's a catcher rally, isn't it because you need to be on it?
Speaker 2:oh, it's one of those like, well, that's the thing, you can never get tired. Like some people don't like doing loads of gigs at once. I like it because it's like a muscle, it's like yourself for someone. You're not gonna be shite, but you're not gonna be you. Yeah, I'm not stand up like if I take a week off, the first one back, I'm like I'm all over the fucking show because I'm not in tune with it. So that's why I did the Odyssey an hour before I went on I was on the Opera House with Foy Vance finished.
Speaker 2:That fucking ran over, yeah, but made it easy because I'm like, oh, I just did this five months ago, just repeat.
Speaker 1:So I'll just do that again, I see, because I was actually asking Shane that last week. How does he get ready? Obviously it's just training. When he's gigging, it's training. Yeah, it's my equivalent to training in the gym, and it's a good way to do that.
Speaker 2:I think what the Edinburgh Fest is in day and you hate it, it's okay. It's miserable, it's expensive and you don't make a lot of money, but you come out like I could do this in my sleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah do you know what I mean? So see whenever you actually like, obviously seen your post about your new, your new uh show coming up in the waterfront. Oh and uh, it says new, yes, that means new jokes. So do you write that? Yeah, is that written? Or do you just say it like repeatedly, like do you just uh, do you just.
Speaker 2:Ah, do I script it or Do?
Speaker 1:you script it and then learn it Right, or else do you just learn it through, like talking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't do. Anytime I've done scripting, it's like I can't remember it. I fuck up the order and it's not that good, yeah, whereas if I'm trying out new material, I'll go on stage with like 10 words on a page, yeah, and I know what that means. And then I just talk it out and it takes you dying on your hole, yeah, a load before you're like okay, I know, I know where that is, but that's just how it is do you do that on like lavvies and stuff?
Speaker 1:would that be like where you go?
Speaker 2:and do that shit, the new stuff, a couple of times at open mics or you know it can be a bit rough. Then, when it's sort of getting ready, then you take it to clubs because trying new stuff off like for the first time at a club, especially when you're on, if you're on a night with colin mckee, shane and the bar set- yeah, and I'm like, I'm not being, I'm not being the shite one tonight, because that's who you remember.
Speaker 2:From anything, you remember the best thing at it and you remember shite. And there's times people came to see me once and I'm like he's shite even now I'll give people. I saw him 8 years ago and there were 7 people in the room and he was shite and I'm like, yeah, I was fucking 19 and the woman was in the room, but people don't forget it.
Speaker 1:I know. So we say have you got people opening for?
Speaker 2:you and yes, I've looked McKibben and general James, but you do know James. Mckibben he surprised me at the box on the box and I did no trainer.
Speaker 1:I think, trained twice, he trained he went for a cosmos on me.
Speaker 2:That morning.
Speaker 1:He's just a freak. I freaking. He was good like he's strong, fine cuz darn.
Speaker 2:I remember last year darn through Sean McAlevey he's strong, darren's strong too, and he went to throw James. And you see, just like because, I go to the gym with James.
Speaker 1:I come strong like yeah, because of fucking. I was just thinking it'd be so funny if you got chained out in a few.
Speaker 2:I did want that, but he's not around. He's suspiciously not around.
Speaker 1:He's booked out he's busy out there he made himself not available out there.
Speaker 2:What are you posting? You know what I mean. He knows he's not you scratch my back. I scratch your back. You can open for me. At these shows I was like yeah, can you do this one? He's like nah, because you're always on the road.
Speaker 1:Last week he says it's very easy when you're on the road. He prefers going the most yeah, because it's just easy is having a good understanding where, like if he needs to go off for the day, he goes yeah, I know what his routine is like.
Speaker 2:I know when he needs to be left alone and I'm the same. He knows when I'm not feeling something and I'm just laid back as fuck. I don't care and I think he needs that a bit too, because he can be a bit freaking out.
Speaker 1:I was saying we were coming on a plane and he's like he shows up like I haven't texted him, where the fuck are you? And it's like, say, the freight's at half one and you land in like at like 1.25. And he's like, and you're like told you, and he's like no. And it pisses him off because I'm right every time I gotta have a wee lap back like, wow, I was like fuck it, don't worry. Don't worry, do you?
Speaker 2:know what the mistake I have and I make this mistake every time is. I'll have like an hour to get ready and I'll get ready in 10 minutes and then in 50 minutes. I'm like I've lost the time, don't need to leave yet, and then I end up not leaving for like an hour and a half because, fuck it, it'll be fine Every time.
Speaker 1:Oh fuck, you're sure of him, and all the guys as well, don't you?
Speaker 2:No, he books us separate rooms, me, ciarán, and Ciarán's wife, sure of him, which I didn't think was weird, until people we told people and they were like that's the weirdest, fucking thing I've ever.
Speaker 1:I can tell you now that that was weird.
Speaker 2:What are it? Just whatever's on the tv, except macho. Yeah, trying to get the answers. Yeah, so it'll be me, kieran, and his wife in the bed.
Speaker 1:And then there's just a side bed that I'm in like a wee cup no, the wee thing you put your bag on, just slamming that for a wee mattress.
Speaker 2:That's why I love being a short hour so I can sleep anywhere. See if I have a pillow, mate.
Speaker 1:Just straight down. I used to share a room with Paddy. I was saying he was on before Paddy Barnes. Always we lived in Dublin together when we trained the ice team and then we moved to Glasgow as professionals. Firstly, I'm trained there and Paddy's the worst snorer in the world. His nose is fucked. He was trying to tell us there. He self diagnosed himself to say his nose is only working 15%. He told you that. He says I'm telling you myself. He says where does he get the 15% from? He says it's just because it used to work 20% about 6 weeks ago and it's getting worse. So he self diagnosed himself. So his nose is racked and mashed. That's why I call him dust in the turkey, because he's got.
Speaker 2:He's got the big flubber nose like yeah he's just snoring like fuck.
Speaker 1:So I used to make this joke up and I used to say Paddy, what the like? Last night you were making these weird noises when you were sleeping. He's like that's because of snore. I sleep with my mouth open. He knew I wasn't snoring. It was like you were moaning, you were making like grunts and moaning and he's like fuck off McComb. No, it wasn't. I was like no, paddy, you were snoring. And he was like no, it wasn't snoring, it was moaning. And then he says for a few days I was waking him up. And then one day he one again last night and I woke up and looked across and there was a condom hanging around. What are you getting up to? And he says fuck me, there must be a poltergeist in this house.
Speaker 2:It's hot that I fucking ate oh, fuck me.
Speaker 1:I couldn't stop laughing. I was like, fuck right, we're going to have to get to your fucking nose plug. But there's these new things I seen on tiktok and I immediately thought of Paddy Barnes. You put it on. It's a magnet right, pulls your nose apart and helps you breathe better. I seen it on tiktok shop. I forgot to say to him he was in there. I'm going to buy him one for Christmas see if it helps nose too.
Speaker 2:So then he can't breathe. So it's his snoring like it's not even like, is it like it's? Like he's getting strangled, it's my night did that show my nanny walked into the wrong door and, as they thought it was gonna open, it didn't fucking just kept walking clean, broke her nose and then from then she keeps me up in there like just fucking, because I'm like are you dying? Like what is that fucking noise?
Speaker 1:it's mad to hear the noise of some people snoring and I know I can do it too. There's monitors now is there.
Speaker 2:Oh, you can do it on your phone.
Speaker 1:I would like to record, paddy, and see what the fuck goes on, because you would definitely hit the house or something.
Speaker 2:I love Paddy. I've only met Paddy a met patty barnes a couple of times, but his nose is racked. I I know what. I remember I saw him I love because he just says like he's not stupid, but he will say very stupid things sometimes every time I met him. There was time. Last time I met him was at the boxing. We were all backstage getting ready. I'm there, juicy shorts, big pink wig, crop top like hair and it's fake tits on. And he just came up to me and went alright, so what are you doing this year? Are you doing ring girl again? And I'm like yeah, mate, alright.
Speaker 1:Nah, I'm gonna tell you from up the show I'm not boxing tonight, I'm just watching he's like full fucking drag. I'm transgaming. What are you doing this year? Fucks sake, there's my thong hanging out. The fuck yeah that's it like.
Speaker 2:I don't think he's not thick, like, but he will just say things. Sometimes we were like what the fuck are you saying? Oh, I know he's a legend.
Speaker 1:I love him he's funny like he's fucking with like some of the stuff he comes off of, like he's self-diagnosing. He's done that forever. Oh, he's told us now he's osteoporosis. His bone marrow, his bone marrow's down.
Speaker 2:He can't how the fuck is he self-diagnosing his bone marrow?
Speaker 1:he does it. That's what he does. He's very controversial towards everything in life because it's his. It's his way or no way, aye.
Speaker 2:So whatever he says goes so he's just, he's just half decided. I have this thing just that's it.
Speaker 1:If he diagnosed himself with it, no one else in this world he can go to a doctor, and that's it. The doctor can say no, paddy, it's not the case. He can say no, it is the case, because I can feel it. My bones are brittle. The doctor says, no, we've done x-rays or not? No, they are, and that's the way it is.
Speaker 2:So you came up with him, was he?
Speaker 1:the only boxer you ever roomed with, or was there others? There was a couple of us, tommy, McCarthy.
Speaker 1:I'd imagine he's easy to live with. Fuck, he's the laziest man in the world. Really he's the laziest person I've ever met. It's fucking ridiculous. But you know what she had one stage it was the Belfast boys, it was me, tommy, because you scurvy dark Like proper scurvy dark, he's just liar. And then Mick would get up with like these bare fucking sheets and start going ooh, I'm not saying it wasn't the ghost, but Tommy used to go.
Speaker 1:Mick, will you fucking stop it? Will you stop it? Stop getting mad, stop, hurry up. And I'd freak out and I used to be like, have I said it's not a ghost, tommy? Why are you freaking out? Why is it? I don't know, it's not a ghost, but I'd plant a seed in my head. So when I'm going to sleep I'll start to think of a ghost. Think of it. So I was like what the fuck's the reason? We're like, stop it, stop it, mate. Every hour and night then. So the more he said it, it just happened every night Like half a lap, and Mick would come up. Ooooh, I was put to black. You couldn't see now, apart from this big white fucking bed sheet. And then Mick would start grabbing Tommy's feet and all and he was like will you fuck off? Stop? But it was a good crack like. But it was just. Tommy was just a liar on his laptop just fucking scrolling through Twitter, whatever, and Mick would fucking Mick and Paddy and me would just fucking have a crack like. But he.
Speaker 2:Tommy was always just.
Speaker 1:He must have been afraid of the dark.
Speaker 2:Tommy's one of those. You could just leave him by himself.
Speaker 1:I was leaving him, he didn't even know he was there, he's just a liar fuck. And we went to me and Tommy ran the European Championships before and this is a great story, tommy love this one. We went out day drinking all day. We could put out the competition, mick and Paddy and all were still in. So there was like this wee beer garden in Belarus and it was outside of the arena where the feats were. It was a big, massive TV, outdoor TV, like City Hall have, and we just sat beer-guarding it.
Speaker 1:But on the ice team we were allowed to drink. So we were boozing all day and then one of the coaches got wind of it and told the head coach that we were out drinking. And we got wind of it from another coach saying look, he knows you're out so you need to go back to your room. So we split back the room and tommy just lay like this, the way he always lies, and the head coach popped his head in to see if we were out and he's like well, that's how it is. And tommy was like well, and they just get this big lazy one word answers and the coach's like where have you been all day?
Speaker 1:and tommy's like we're watching the boxing. He's like what? What was the results? No, like trying to catch us out, but he didn't know we were watching the big TV outside anyway so we give him the results he's like ah no, no, brother, we're having a meet later, we'll see us later.
Speaker 1:And he went on out and it was just his body language didn't change, because he's just that lazy. He was like I'm on the edge, didn or something, and he was just I didn't answer and Tommy just done all the talking, but it was just I know where we're at, just pure lazy, and that's and did you get away with it?
Speaker 2:what would happen if you got caught? Would it be off the team?
Speaker 1:they would they would try and threaten you to pull you off the team, but they never really did it. You know what I mean. It was always like they you off the team. But if you're like, if you're in a position like Paddy and Mick who, and a few other boxers who always won major medals like Olympics, europeans, gold, they were near enough guaranteed their spot. There was no one to come in and take their spot. You know what I mean. But where me and Tammy, there was number twos, like if we were number one, they were number two, they would have been yeah there's more pressure on you, then yeah so you had to be fucking.
Speaker 1:you nearly had to be obeyed by the Ruzic. Yeah, Mick and Paddy got away with it. Nah, they got away with fucking murder. So I remember going away on football trips.
Speaker 2:When I played for the Serbo Ball Z team, they were strict as fuck because we'd been like world championships and all. So if you were caught in the boat walking because the championships would be in, like Spain and Portugal, in the middle of summer, so it's like 30 degrees. So if you were caught walking about with bottles without water, go fucking through you like they drop you from the team like properly, proper, proper strength.
Speaker 1:What way does that work? Again, is there like, is it all cerebral palsy on the team? Or is it like is it just because my cousin I think my cousin played for a public at Ireland, ireland and the Special Olympics of some sort, but I don't know what criteria I so CP football is just CP, cp and head injury, because that's what cerebral palsy is.
Speaker 2:But sometimes your head injury won't give you cerebral palsy but gives you features that are similar to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so they can play in it as well, what effect does that have on your tiredness and all that?
Speaker 2:so it's essentially Essentially, for me it's sparse the game of plagiarism. So really tight. You can see my hand like this. Yeah, it like restricts the muscles and stuff Makes it easier to get tired. Oh, wow, because it's a head injury. My memory's dog shit.
Speaker 1:That's why you didn't do boxing. Yeah, honestly.
Speaker 2:Well, that's why I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I did train as a kid. Because you come up to Holy Sunday or up to my gym and I say I've seen you, we're fucking burning.
Speaker 2:I says you're a fucking fraud, or is that wrong with you? I?
Speaker 1:says they're shitting us. Fucking pretend they're not wrong. He has to have a pole. You're a fuck all over him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but then you'll see by the end of the session. And I'm like, because it's something I I wouldn't really know much about, like, but I just remember like I asked him can Willie not do it?
Speaker 1:and he was like no, willie can't, cause of his condition.
Speaker 2:I was like alright, and then he explained me a bit about it and I was like oh right, fuck for me that's fair enough, cause I did do boxing training wants a license, and the doctor literally didn't even look up for my notepad went you want your son, who has brain damage, to start boxing? My mum went yes, and the doctor just went no, and just like looked back down like I've never seen a doctor have the. If the doctor could have got away with going, she would have. I've never seen a Luke give him bad. She just looked at her like are you fucking thick?
Speaker 1:oh, fuck me, luke.
Speaker 2:So I was the end of my boxing career, but I do enjoy the training. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:It's good, like it's a good stress relief, like for fucking anyone because, all the ones that done it says I'm going to keep this up? None of them up. Yeah, last week and he was, he's really Australian he got one size and then he was fucked. Shane hasn't come back, no, no, he says he's retired but he wants to keep up training.
Speaker 2:I think Paddy's still doing it.
Speaker 1:Paddy's still doing it he was a couple of times so he fought the bird. He did, he fought the bird, so he's enjoying it, he's moving on rightly. But you know what that helped Paddy in a in a healthy way. He trapped a lot of weight. He looks a lot better for it. He's more energetic. Now you can see it, he's got more confidence in a way you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the thing with this. The job we do is like as a kid, I used to always wonder why are all fat people comedians like, is it? And then the older I got and the more into this I got I went. Oh no, this job makes you a fop ass.
Speaker 1:No it's a lifestyle. You're eating on the go all the time, you're fucking on the turn, you're just yeah, you're drinking a lot and do you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Some days you're like you're on a fucking train, then a plane then morning what? Are you gonna have, do you know? A chinese, a kebab, something like?
Speaker 1:and then, because you've just had a fucking pizza before going to sleep yeah, you're not sleeping now, exactly because you've just munched a fucking and you wake up right and like fuck it, eat something else to fry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and now it's just that goes on that makes sense, that does make sense.
Speaker 1:So I've seen you. You put a hang up your day when you were hanging, saying don't tell the LA. I was over beside don't tell the LA. I was doing that, fuck me. A few people were sitting my friend I was like do you reckon he actually gets the LA? I was like fuck, I don't know if I'm serving Paul the cop as you get the LA. Yeah, it's mobility there you go, fuck me um. I don't claim as like you can claim higher amounts.
Speaker 2:I don't, really, I don't do a double, no, no, but you can't.
Speaker 1:Well, that's it's not the double anymore. You still get it because you're still, it's still a disability and that's yeah, yeah, yeah, do you mean?
Speaker 2:it's not the only thing I would get is the money off car money off a car because it is a mobility thing, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, like you said, like I could do the boxing, but I can do it for like half an hour and then I need an hour's rest because I'm fucked, fucked. Do you know what I mean? But people will just see the 30 minutes and go oh he's fine, oh he's fine. Aye, and also just from where I'm from fucking council estate things like you're like you don't want people to see that weakness that you have.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know 100% oh yeah yeah, so if you're doing your gig here, will you be doing 90 minutes?
Speaker 2:An hour, an hour, an hour and a half.
Speaker 1:That's still long too.
Speaker 2:The only reason for that is Is I would do 90, but I don't want to see someone For 90 minutes.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:Like I Maybe because I'm fucking ADHD as fuck Aye. I can't sit still and watch someone An hour, an hour and a half, an r's and an r10 is the perfect amount of time yeah, I know people because he had done the 90, didn't he? I think he did about an hour 20.
Speaker 1:Oh, I think it's. I think it depends on the tempo. I don't know all about comedy, so yeah, I'm wrong here, but he seems to go to like a. He pauses that yes and it's like the tamp was slower where you you're probably.
Speaker 2:I'm very punchy, yeah which is great for 20 minutes and then once you hit 40 and I'm still being punchy the energy so you have to slow it down. It's a weird thing. So once you hit about 35 minutes, you'll notice comedians start telling longer stories at that point because that's for them to slow the energy down, almost stop them laughing for a bit so that when you get to a big punchline they'll laugh again and then the last 10 minutes is punchy again.
Speaker 1:There's a weird psychology to it that I didn't even think of until I started it because people think it's just get up and be funny and then you realise there's like a weird science to some of it and there's loads of people, loads of eyes on you, just giving you, I mean, the thing's not like Shane even Shane was touching on last week the time you're wondering about time. Can I go and revert back? There's loads of shit going on in your mind at a rapid speed.
Speaker 2:Yeah see, I don't remember it a lot of the stuff I would do on the spot, because I can't remember a lot of the shit.
Speaker 1:And then if I do something funny on the spot, I'm like someone write that down, for that's a good thing now. But like social media and cameras and all the technology, you can always record that and look back and go. That worked.
Speaker 2:Aye, aye, it's yes, you can do, and I just get my phone out, stick the phone On the side of the stage and listen to myself back.
Speaker 1:Do you record while you're? While I'm on, I record so I can drive back.
Speaker 2:So if something doesn't work, sometimes you go that joke just doesn. I said that wrong or I left that bit out or that was too quick and you don't realise because you're in the minute. And then you record yourself back and you go. I suppose you would do it with fighting too. You're like I didn't realise. I'm like fucking.
Speaker 1:It's a good strategy to fix what needs fixed, because it doesn't need entirely taken out. Do you know what I mean? Some things don't need entirely taken out.
Speaker 2:Sometimes it speak higher yeah and the bit will work yeah like the bit I did about the flute bands. That bit didn't work for ages and then I added like a wee campy voice to it and it works, and it works.
Speaker 1:It works a treat, because a lot of times that's the reaction still expecting to get bait for where I'm from for that routine. But I fucking love it.
Speaker 2:Oh, fucking right, you have to sure listen that you came from, because of where you come from yeah, it's one of those like, if people can tell you know about the thing you're making fun of yeah, they're alright with it because you can relate to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can hear enough.
Speaker 2:You have like a fucking, like it's a, you're relating to it yeah, it's like if I went up and was like fuck Wes Belfast, it's shite people would be like on a specific road they go. Oh, he does know, what he's talking about and then they're like okay, that's fine, it's weird like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know he'd always get a favourite, nah 100% are you a Westie yourself? I am a Westie to a flodge man, because I remember doing the I've done your podcast with the Mudblood, with Paddy, and he was saying he's worked up in the Greenhut League but I.
Speaker 2:So what is it? Why is West Belfast so good for boxing?
Speaker 1:he's just knocking the fuck out of each other probably part of it, but I would say grassroots, grassroots. I believe it's a bit weird, right, see, see, west Belfast, there's loads of clubs and near enough every area there's a club, right, so you've a club in Alders Town, a club in Anadine, a club in fucking Turf Lodge, a club in Balmurphy. There's a club in every area in West Belfast. It's well funded by the Belfast City Council. Obviously the ambition is to go and win the All-Irelands. Yeah, there's no Northern Ireland Championships. Yeah, which, what? Which is what? Like? The Shank Old Backstreet Club want, sandy Robach Club want, they're voting to have an Northern Ireland Championship, but there is none there's no committee there doesn't exist, so they could do equally as well as we do and would they not do the All Ireland?
Speaker 1:they just don't want to do it they don't want to affiliate because it's not, but like if you look at the likes of Carl Frampton, stephen Ward, lewis Crocker, people who have just went. It's a sport yes like rugby. You don't have a fucking word about rugby.
Speaker 1:Irish rugby, yeah, it's just Ireland and that's it and if there's a Northern Ireland boxing championship every four years, we go to come off games. I'm from West Belfast and I went to Northern Ireland Championships and I was fucking Northern Ireland Games and I was representing Northern Ireland from West Belfast. I was team captain. I don't give a shit. So they're doing themselves out of an opportunity to be a good boxer just because they won't go down and box for Ireland, because if they win the All-Irelands then they represent Ireland, but they would do it for rugby. So why the fuck does it matter?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, it's, I don't know what that, because that's the side I'd be from too, and I would have friends that'd be like, fuck that. No, and I'm like do you not just want to be the best at the thing you do? Because that shit I'd get being proud of where you're from no 100% but that was Fram as well.
Speaker 1:It's like it's a sport and this is the only way I can do this sport at this level if you look at the Northern Ireland football team, a lot of them are Catholics that don't care, and it's like there's no one really who's from Northern Ireland that plays for the Republic of Ireland, probably apart from James McLean, maybe the only one it.
Speaker 2:It would happen to us in the Paralympic level. There would have been a lot of people jumping from Northern Ireland to Republic, but a lot of that was just Republic had better funding, so that's a problem I think a lot of people don't realise on is, when it's Northern Ireland, only your funding's fucked.
Speaker 1:There's no money for anything like it. We were lucky, we got both.
Speaker 2:Oh, you bastards, we got both.
Speaker 1:We got funding from Sport NI and Sport Ireland, so we got both. We got funding from Sport NI and Sport Ireland, so we now the funding in Ireland was was a lot better. There's a Portuguese coming. I'm not potty. I'm not potty barns that's my ancestors like.
Speaker 2:Stop supporting all Ireland teams for fuck's sake, fuck, don't you forget where you come from, you'll fucking turn cooked we're wee hunter out. Forget where you come from, you fucking turncoats. We're wee honing around.
Speaker 1:Now come back at 12 fuck me, fuck me, you do get it like. I remember watching a show about Kyle Fronting. Obviously his wife's Catholic, he's Protestant, his kids are just whatever, I don't know what the fuck. But. And there's people. Someone said they were at a flute band and someone said something sectarian to him on the show and he went oh boy, or hey boy, not that in the head or something. Yeah, and it's like, it's just, there's no need for it. Everyone has to be like comfortable. Just. I think Frampton plays it brilliant. He just is who he is. Yeah, his wife is who she is. There's no fucking like it's, it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 2:I mean yeah because I would get that too. Obviously because, like I would play up the prod thing for comedy, of course. Why not say, if I'm doing the fucking Roddy's or the PD, you almost go pantomime levels of like, yeah, you're the bad guy here playing into that's funny. But then people on the street will see me and be like you, fucking, you hate the Catholics and all too, don't you? And I'm like I really don't give a fuck, like I know. It's weird, I find, when people are my age and they really have the anger in them.
Speaker 1:They didn't be, they haven't been affected by it. You're not from that like fucking shut up. I know.
Speaker 2:I'll get you're from where you about it?
Speaker 1:Paddy McDonald, like I seen a video of him about John one of the boxers. I think it was John Fisher. Maybe he went to one of the loyalist bars the royal, maybe the royal bar and the shack and stuff, and they were welcoming him and like, why not? That's not a crack. You know what I mean? It should be just fucking come in and out.
Speaker 2:If you want, go wherever hit. Yeah, you know what I mean, because that's how I always find the boys from Barksney or the Westies, one like they'll come out with an Ireland flag on and then half the people are fuming about it and I'm like I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 1:But then Frampton sort of avoided all that he done. Well, he, just he was like I'm just Celebrity this year oh, fuck him, he'll have some. I heard a rumour he'll have some fucking phone bill, I heard. Mcguigan, mcguigan.
Speaker 2:McGuigan, four phones on the go. I called to the screen he fucked me phone up O2, what's?
Speaker 1:going on fucking McGuigan still using my fucking my account to connect to his fucking O2. It Fuck me. I had to hear it. I heard something that Frampton was meant to be on with her, isn't he? I heard that too. Fuck me. Imagine if both got them at the same time. I'd have fucking loved that.
Speaker 2:I would have been serious viewing like the times I would have been high Because I didn't know about that case. And then I read Frampton's.
Speaker 1:I'd have fucking killed him if I was a problem. Oh fuck me, it's terrible. It's terrible. People do that in boxing. It cannot happen to Barry. That's the despicable thing. That's what it's fucking like.
Speaker 2:That's the really shitty thing. You know what I mean. It's like Like it's shit to do anyway, anyway. But for like, you know how that feels, you know the personal level that betrayal's at turn up for training on a. Thursday that's fucking your mental.
Speaker 1:It's the lived again. Yeah, shane McGuigan was like best man of cars riding and stuff. Yeah. So then, and just to betray all that and do what you gotta do, just for a couple of quid. It wasn't like he was struggling. Anyway, they're loaded, yeah it's not like.
Speaker 2:It's not like it's not like it's not like it's fucking 2% and be happy with it like you get money off him.
Speaker 1:I got the money, the whole family got the money. Shane was getting a 10%, bob was getting a 15%, his wife was getting a percentage for fucking accountants and all the rest of it. It's like how much more money do you want?
Speaker 2:that's it. You're already a millionaire. You can't buy much more. How much more?
Speaker 1:do you need? When I see fucking one of the footballers in the Premier League getting 400 grand a week and they leave to go and play in Surrey River for a million a week, why? What are you going to buy? What the fuck more are you going to buy? You know what I mean? I can't. Ronaldo goes and joins fucking Al Zabara. How?
Speaker 2:many Bugatti's do you need? I know?
Speaker 1:fuck me, I've got those hotels and all around the world see for him.
Speaker 2:I get see, if you're like 38 and you know you're winding down and then you're going, I'll have two seasons. The football's easy and I'm getting fucking a billion. I would do that.
Speaker 1:I can understand all those positions but like Mares, for example, mares left man City on his peak. He was flying yeah, fucking champions league contenders. He just left, and for what? Millions? To do what? At this stage of your career, like, what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do with the money?
Speaker 2:then again you wonder if he's just one of them people who they read someone's good at something but they don't like it. You know, I don't know he hates it, does he?
Speaker 1:he despises, he absolutely despises boxing.
Speaker 2:We're a pageant so he would do that like fucking, he would just fuck it if you give him four million, do one more fight. Give him four million to have no more fights.
Speaker 1:He would just say fuck, give that. He hates it like he hates it. Fuck If you give him. See if before Kikachi won a world title before he won a world title. See if he was fighting for a world title fight and he says, look, you've got a world title fight here, Right, If you win it, you'll get three million, If you lose it, you'll get a million.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'll give you two million now. I'll give you two million now, just to not have the fit he would take the two million. That's a fact.
Speaker 2:That is a fact I mean I would get it like, because it's not only you're fighting. You have to keep your body in shape all your career.
Speaker 1:There's a lot that goes into it, but he's a fuck and he's just, he's mad. Do you know what I?
Speaker 2:mean.
Speaker 1:Unless you're.
Speaker 2:Ricky Hatton. He's a fucking ugly bastard he is. It's like him and Rooney are the two once they didn't have to keep it up. They were like.
Speaker 1:Rooney looks about fucking 60 years of age. He looks awful. His hair is like it's.
Speaker 2:He looks like one of those guys, like you'd see them in CX like working there like a manager, like he's got, like acne and all I'm like you're near 40.
Speaker 1:As if he hasn't seen sunlight in fucking, however amount of time I fucking. It's mad how people like themselves go like that. His wife's on that as well, colleen Rooney's on the celebrity Is she, her, and we bari get it on.
Speaker 2:Oh, fuck guy.
Speaker 1:Who's wanted her. We bari with her in with the other part. How many money is that?
Speaker 2:fuck me. I wonder how the public will take back, because I know here no one likes him. No one likes him. I thought they're saying in the boxing world, everyone's like snake, I would say. Everyone knows what he's capable of, and was that known before that, that he would be like that, or was that?
Speaker 1:out and left. Nah, I think Frampton sorted out of them right, it was sort of after fronting that like josh taylor left him yeah, he was another unified world champion scottish boy and then conrad cummings left him and everyone else just started leaving him and then people were like oh, like skeptical joining his team like so he hasn't made any major sentence. He like he has like one or two major fighters now but for the stable he had at that time like he could have had fucking massive things he was.
Speaker 2:Was he the manager to have in boxing?
Speaker 1:basically because he can just see the pool he had and just who not to fight see boxing. A lot of it's about who you don't fight because there's no point in fighting the best in before you need to. Yeah, or the a prospect, who's gonna be on? Who's gonna want to be the best in the world? Yeah fight them when he's the best in the world and that when he's gonna be, yeah, cause then you'll not even get a chance to cause, then the reals are in momentum.
Speaker 1:Yeah exactly so it's like he was classed at that.
Speaker 2:I mean they still are yeah, the Morg times you're like just give me it's. I'll say as a spectator, not a boxer, where you're like just give me the fight, I want I just want the best fights, like you know me personally, on like on a personal level for me, I want to fight the best now, right like.
Speaker 1:Right now I'm like, yeah, but they don't want to fight me. It's like what's the point?
Speaker 2:yeah, because I know that puts me off boxing a bit, when you you know you don't get fury and uh, joshua, joshua, like now, you might get it and I don't give a fuck about it. No, it's gone, it's gone, gone like no, I mean you hate fury's lost, joshua's lost. What's the point on that?
Speaker 1:three years ago it was like sort of a number of years ago. Pocket all my weather. There's a lot of tension around that for years. And then when the thought it was like no one even speaks about that fight no more.
Speaker 2:No, no one even remembers it, fuck's sake shit did I ever say after Hatton, and Mayweather was the one I remember being defeated by they were both in the prime.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were both in the prime and they were both undefeated and they were both, like I remember, going. Ricky Hatton will beat him.
Speaker 2:Obviously I was wrong yeah and this is such a gimpy sentence to say I always hated Mayweather's boxing until I did like a month of training and was like, oh he's amazing, aww, he's lethal. Because I used to be like, why would you not just get in there and dig? Why are you afraid? And I'm like see if you could work a style. It means no one punches you in the fucking head he's still not many, but he hasn't like he never had them to get yeah he didn't have many to lose, like his fucking dad was a fucking crackhead.
Speaker 1:But uh, I he's doing like the money he's making now he he made like seven million cash in dubai to fight three rounds against like some fucking, some famous.
Speaker 2:Some, no one like.
Speaker 1:Doesn't have been boxed. Yeah, he just fucked it up, it wasn't even a decision.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can see he does it, even when the Mayweather or not the Mayweather, mayweather, mcgregor, aww. Everyone was like this will be a great fight. I think Mayweather or McGregor will get him and you're like, no, no, he's nowhere near.
Speaker 1:He.
Speaker 2:Someone who isn't a boxer Is not going. You can see, mayweather is like slapping him.
Speaker 1:If Mayweather goes in a cage with fucking McGregor, it's a different story yeah, get fucking mauled, because that's what his sport is big time. Did you see McGregor get scooped? I did the other day, I mean you say get scooped.
Speaker 2:Riding your wife in your living room isn't scooped, but like there has to be be.
Speaker 1:He can't catch a break that fella. He's in court for fucking, for all these charges, and then he goes away to get his family away for a week, can't they even ride his wife in the living room. For fuck's sake, for fuck's sake, he's got a wee five minutes with his wife holy arl like a filler's elbow.
Speaker 2:She's on top too. The guy's just looking to relax.
Speaker 1:I know and all all the kids are standing like that. The point they went to the kids door and they're just being what's? That's amazing, it's like fucking news. You were now. It's just like within minutes. It just sat around everywhere and it's giving you a description of what happened and what happened after Mayweather, I'm going to this fucking door, Pulling up the fucking, big fucking Rolls Royce. We can't so, Gav. What's that? The shack? I'm like I'm doing me hair. Where's that video? He's not in there. This isn't the end of it, Got it.
Speaker 2:If you're 13 and they're like I'm McGregor's looking you oh, fuck me You'd shout yourself. That's the danger of these camera phones these days. But even that referee, do you see the football one? What's his name? David Coote. Fuck me what was he?
Speaker 1:thinking I see it on Twitter. Obviously people are going how fucking stupid can he be to speak in their video and talk about how much he hates Liverpool, how much he hates Scousers, how much he hates Jurgen Klopp? What was he thinking? Surely he's going gonna lose his job. And then someone posted a photo under and it's him and all like the officials with all these Thai fucking prostitutes around here.
Speaker 2:They're like they got stupid. Who's ever got? I've never got prostitutes in my life, but I don't imagine if ever did I'd be like here a quick selfie. I want to remember this me, and wee ping ping, oh biz yeah that's it. You see the one after he does the he's like there's another video. He's like yo, that doesn't go anywhere. By the way, don't show people that I didn't see it.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's so depressing.
Speaker 2:He's like I'd be in a lot of trouble if that got and you're like aye you are you got? Out. You're in so much trouble. Who is?
Speaker 1:the guy that recorded them, because why the fuck would he do that?
Speaker 2:I think it's just John. This is the theory I have, why the you know, when people give off about younger generations and they're not as wild and they don't go as mental because they've grown up with everyone who has fucking 4k cameras, I know everywhere all points I don't get. I don't get hammered around people I don't know.
Speaker 1:I know I'm not bigger, I think, but I'm like who the fuck knows. You have to have your wits about.
Speaker 2:You like, yeah, so if I'm at a house party and I don't really know. I'll have one or two, but I don't go on out of the days you get off your fucking trolley, like it seems like fucking.
Speaker 1:He's just fucking got his hand around birds and he's like it's just I ain't going. What's his wife putting up with? He's never, he's just constantly fucking. Does he not understand that it's like 2024 and there's a camera phone at every fucking? Everyone can see you doing that line and when you're so famous, they're specifically going to be recording you anyway, even if you weren't doing them. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I feel he's that level of between the amount he does show his heads a bit of way and also who the fuck's gonna tell him that I know, I know, and him and his bird aren't married. Oh, are they?
Speaker 1:so like they're engaged, so she's getting half a fuck she's waiting for a wedding. She's fucking off, she's alright, she'll get the wedding and drop the shoulder 100% because he's always been like.
Speaker 2:You always see him in clubs and stuff, just always at it do you ever meet him?
Speaker 1:nah, I never met him, I don't suppose there's much crossover UFC, I know. I don't like Paddy and all McNall's man. He would put me on the edge. He's the type of person I'd be like, fuck, like someone you're at a party with that.
Speaker 2:He's just like you're sort of saying something in wrong like a video you put a song on, he's like no, turn that off, fuck that shit you're like alright, go ahead.
Speaker 1:Dj fucking Greenhorn, get you up to it you'd walk in.
Speaker 2:No one else in the room. He's like shadowbacks. You're like don't ring him a fucking taxi. He's done with.
Speaker 1:Saka. Did you see what he done with Saka? No, he's at the Arsenal game and he was kicking Saka. I did see that pretending to kick him, and Saka was like freaking out, going this con's that nuts.
Speaker 1:He could turn at any moment because he hits him hard once and Saka's like right stop, do stop at me and then Arteta come out and says can we just not get him before any games anymore, because this is fucking, it's going to be the end of the one out players Rice as well, and Rice was like oh, I play for Ireland.
Speaker 1:And McGregor was like alright don't give a fuck about him, like not one fuck. I know, like I said when he went to Saudi Arabia to watch the fight I can't remember who it was, it was Joshua and he gets right next to Ronaldo and I said, fuck, ronaldo got the worst seat in the house and he's like talking to Ronaldo and Ronaldo's just sitting like that and he's like fucking he ended up giving Ronaldo a cauliflower ear and he was just talking bollocks to the air and he was just sitting going like how's it going?
Speaker 2:Ronaldo looks like he enjoys no one's company.
Speaker 1:Aww he just sits there like pure blank, like just man every couple of seconds just watching the face take. But fuck me, I'm watching it. Stuck on McGregor with all his hair.
Speaker 2:I think McGregor's going to be a fighter you look back on like a George Best figure of he was brilliant, but he's made a loot like he made something.
Speaker 1:He's a fucking billionaire, like billionaire off that fucking shite whiskey, if you're seeing this, connor.
Speaker 2:I haven't even drank it before it's rotten. I've heard it's stinking. I like whiskey, like I would drink Jameson, but I wouldn't so I can drink Scotch or Irish, can't drink like a bourbon. Bourbon like a Jack Daniels or whatever. I don't really like bourbon not for me.
Speaker 1:I would just drink the Jameson. Stick to the Jameson, but I've heard reviews about proper 12 and I've had it Smelling it now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh my God, it's not even worth a fucking 18 quid or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:You should all see because of how much strength in all you fucking Canadians do you're saying your lifestyle. You should bring out a wee bladder or something, a wee gin or something.
Speaker 2:It would be on the level of fucking Jericho Just promote Fucking cheap Ali.
Speaker 1:Pure, pure, Ruskin off like that's what I take over the cheapest shit. I say that none of us really.
Speaker 2:I drink Mickey drinks, colin and Aaron both drink on occasion. Paddy doesn't really drink, shane doesn't drink. Shane doesn't drink, karen doesn't drink, andrew Ryan doesn't really drink. No one really. It's always me and Mickey being like no one's staying out no, because you're Mickey. Mickey loves it like he fucking loves it for me it's like I'm 28, so I'm like fuck it, I'm still up for partying some people have kids too, like look Shane's two kids.
Speaker 2:He's fucking way down the road, that's it stand-up's dead late at night too, so there's times I'm like I've seen, ones I don't know, I just want to go to bed.
Speaker 1:Start relying on it near enough relying on it. Going into a gig. It's like going to a gig, but then it's alright when you're gigging once or twice a week, at the start maybe twice, get the gigs here and there and you don't have a pint, see now I'm six, seven days a week, six, seven days a week can't sustain that no, I'd say when you get I'm doing this too much, because Edinburgh would be like.
Speaker 1:I caused you a fortune drinking every day of the week Edinburgh would be like you'd be putting them for top rate. I don't raise that down no more. I just don't want to cause you any more.
Speaker 2:You need to up me saying them forms the fuck the Edinburgh Fringe you'd be like at, you'd have about 10 pounds a day aww, fuck me if you're not careful like you can just go from bar to bar.
Speaker 1:Ah, I just fucking not even realise that Like the five six in the morning, like because it all.
Speaker 2:everything stays open. The city's wide, like for that month.
Speaker 1:It's a good city, isn't it? It's powerful.
Speaker 2:I mean not if you fucking cerebral palsy or anything else tells and calls, I know, I suppose.
Speaker 1:It's a fucking get a go for me to get you one of my electric chairs, just to be electric. Things just fly about it'd be no good to me.
Speaker 2:Everything's stabbed. I'd have to get out and then carry the fucking chair there's fuck all around me, it's going to re-heave up. I always I love them. I was like you look fine and I'm like, oh, I'm cured now.
Speaker 1:I know that's what happens. Look how right, they're me. People judge you on what? Like judging about bats cover, basically, isn't it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love doing that, like if I can do an exercise, and people are like I can't even do that, you can do it and I'm like well, then you're a shithead, because I'm fully disabled and I can do it.
Speaker 2:do it too, but then I would like you have a valid excuse I would have and you still do it, john's, I think me and another guy, ricky bellshaw we're talking because me and patty had him on our pod and he has cerebral palsy as well and he was like do you ever? Patty was like, do you ever use your disability as an excuse? And I, we went, both of us went. All the time when we don't want to do something, we use it as an excuse. Something that we absolutely can't do, then it's an excuse. See, if there's something I can't actually do, I'm going to try and do it, try it yeah, I'll still do it and not take it when I actually need help.
Speaker 2:Well, not take it when I'm just being lazy. I'm like someone carry that for me my legs are tired, yeah, but the minute I find out.
Speaker 1:I can't do something. It when you get it, take it. Oh, I see, like when I'm fighting, if I'm going on the arena, people gives that bag and I'm like, no, it's all right. No, then you go like, give me your bag, and they're carrying your bags and all because you're fighting. And I'm like, is there a van? And I'm like, fuck it, take it. And then you start going fuck on the way out. You're tired after the fight, you've won and you're everyone's boss. And I'm like, here, take that bag. When you start, every leg ran on that come on.
Speaker 2:That's always something I wonder about boxers. What's the worst you've felt in like the week after a fight, like a really brutal fight, fuck the one I lost, not the last one.
Speaker 1:The first time I lost I had fucking bad cuts. I had a cut there, I had a cut there, I had a cut here and I lost when I shouldn't have lost, right like I could beat up. I was expected to win and I didn't beat up. The fight was like it was a draw at the stage and I just took my gloves off and was like get them gloves off me to fuck right, just to head up. But I get home and I mean I was fucking. My eyes were cut, hair cut, hair cut, hair, black and blue agony. Couldn't sleep for about a week, head melted because I could beat. I was just lying going, what the fuck? And I was just eating shit like I was doing emotional fucking eating I was going and doing food blogs trying to cheer myself up a bit.
Speaker 2:I was just eating like food you were doing. You got beaten and you started doing food blogs. Fucking hard did he hit you? I?
Speaker 1:was just trying to. I was trying to fucking derail how's Sean taking the loss? Come with me as I try this new burger van in city centre not well oh fuck, I was going trying all sorts and I was like I was actually getting good fucking support for it.
Speaker 2:People were just trying to go.
Speaker 1:At least he's good at something that burger looks lovely.
Speaker 2:Sean great for a plate of yarn, that wee burger because that's always the thing I imagine about like people see the big fights and the wins, but then once the adrenaline's gone and you have two weeks of just being in, agony, see when, see, you'll be sworn.
Speaker 1:Please, you don't realize you're never feeling nothing during a fight. Yeah, see, after you'll be going. Fuck like it's people. People think you're over exaggerating, but you're not. You're just in agony, even something you can't see.
Speaker 2:But you've taken like a punch to the rib and you're like anywhere like on your hip and all like.
Speaker 1:I was talking to Paddy McCrory last week after his fight in the Odyssey and he says you shook my hand and he's like fuck's your hand. So he went no, my hand's right, my hips are getting hit and stuff happening, movements that happen. You don't even realise it's happening. But if I go and play a football match, I be in agony really after I mean my feet, my, I just be sore and play. I go my neck, what's happening? Like I have a fuck my ear sore. Like hang on, like you don't realise. But see, after, when you shower and you get out, I'm like, fuck me, I'm in bits. Aye, that's me too. It's a different part. There's different parts. Aye, there's different sports. Obviously I'm used to boxing and I'm probably doing a lot of the same movements a lot of the time. If I go and play a match, which I'm not used to doing, fuck me, I'd be in big because it's muscles you don't use as often as you.
Speaker 2:It's like I would go to a gym a lot, like I could bench a quite decent amount and then I might have to do something that works like your lower back.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna do it by 10kg because I don't use that muscle exactly and I'm like that's fucking.
Speaker 2:How can I bench?
Speaker 1:100 and it's brutal. Look how that is Daphne is and uh, just wanna like to finish with giving us a wee plug on your. Is it so late you?
Speaker 2:sure, uh, no, uh. A lot of tickets left uh in the waterfront hall 13th of December.
Speaker 1:Scumbag millionaire, I ain't got no tickets for it, give me a shout out. 13th no, I ain't gonna buy tickets. I wanna support you and I want to see you hitting them numbers like Shane and the rest of them, because it's it's the growth you want to grow, and grow and grow, and just that's well, that's the thing.
Speaker 2:I've been going 10 years and I'm still a baby. I know, in stand up terms it's insane, it's like I don't realise. To look around, all my friends are nearly 40.
Speaker 1:That's who I gig with, and then they're all talking about wives and there's no one else coming through like there is, but there's no one young like Shane said he had his first gig when he was 18. What age were you when you were 17? There's no 17 or 18 year old. I know right now he's gonna gig down at Staddle, can't be you?
Speaker 2:no one, a few young ones, but it takes years before you'll know them it takes years to be half decent at it. That's mad, isn't it?
Speaker 1:it's fucking hard how do you end it? I just always loved it. Did you go to a comedy club and say I wanted to?
Speaker 2:open mic. I used to sit up and watch live at the Apollo. If I went on walks I'd stick on comedy albums I used to be a big fan of like Shane and Colin and like I was a big, big fan boy of them. Like growing up, that's all I would listen to. So I was aware of how it worked. Then just went down to them and then asked for spots and then you get spots, that's mad see.
Speaker 1:So anyone who wants to get in the comedy, just go shows up, go find where you're, fine where you're local people want to start at the big clubs.
Speaker 2:They see a lavries, they see an empire, they're like, or they'll see like one of the big gigs and be like. I'd love to do that. Go to some open mics first and see what it is, because that's where you have to start. Yeah, and that's all you'll see.
Speaker 1:It's a lot harder suppose that's where the like, that's where you have to grow a set and be like. I would say that's probably one of the hardest stages.
Speaker 2:Your career is getting started even to even now I would like I struggle on open mics. They're fucking difficult, yeah, they never get easier, but once if you can do them well, a club is a gift. A gift, yeah, but it's just you have to put the reps in with that. It's just a lot of I think I've done. I don't think I've really, other than COVID, had a week off since I'm 17. That's a lot, isn't it?
Speaker 1:it's proper proper full time? Do you know?
Speaker 2:what I mean. It's like, instead of going out with maids, I was flying over to England to do shows and stuff. It's just a lot of work. It's paying off now eh well, fucking hopefully, so hopefully 13th of December.
Speaker 1:13th of December, get your tickets.
Speaker 2:Waterfront Hall cheers for having me on man. I appreciate it cheers for coming.
Speaker 1:Thank you, mate, appreciate it.