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The Public Nuisance Podcast
Host Sean McComb interviews various guests
The Public Nuisance Podcast
The Public Nuisance Podcast #032 “Seany Taco” with Gary Quinn
Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb.
This week we welcome Owner of Taquitos, Gary Quinn to the podcast.
We cover Taquitos Adobo Paste, Taquitos Burning Down, Boxing, Business Partners, Fatherhood, Going to Mexico and much more.
New episodes every Tuesday.
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The Public Newsleys, sean McCann. Welcome to this episode of the Public Newsleys podcast, brought to you from Killin Studios right here, where you can get all your content done, from photo shoots to podcasts, you name it, we've got it. Let's not forget that praise guy doing great things within the community. Let's not forget that praise guy Doing great things within the community, helping out all over the Belfast area and bringing millions of pounds worth of praises to you. Get on their Instagram, check them out With us. Today we have Mr Taquito himself. Gary Quinn, how are you, man? What's the crack, sean? All good.
Speaker 2:Thanks for coming up.
Speaker 1:It's been a fucking spot I'll need for it. Terrible mate. The weather's terrible and we're here anyway. We have to show up, don't we? It's the first, my first podcast this late at night. We always do them in the mornings, okay, so it's new for me as well, how do you feel Are?
Speaker 1:you good, good. I was starving on the wet road, my guys, and got one of my meals in front of the house. Did you steal any bars, did you? Nah, I'm not sure I've had that conversation before. I've fucking. They've brought all the protein bars to the front counter.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure I can steal them.
Speaker 1:They're sure fucking genius. That's it. But no my luck, I'll have a big poster right up in the middle of it saying Wanted.
Speaker 2:Sean, just a wee thing. I'll go quick with this one. Has anybody ever asked you or has anybody ever said Do you look like Gary?
Speaker 1:Quinn From Taquitos. Someone stopped me In the Odyssey or day, not the or day I was with my big mate. Now we were at Throne of Canisford, mate, isn't that mad.
Speaker 1:And those people Were getting tortured. Someone called me and goes. I didn't say Gary, I went Taquitos, taquitos and laughing and I clicked on him. I think he was saying Gary Quinn, and my mate now was like what the fuck? And then he came back and he's like oh crap, where's the pretos? He was shrugging my shoulders and saying yeah, I'm coming, you fuck off. I have had her a couple of times.
Speaker 2:A couple of times because I knew I was doing this podcast about a week ago, wasn't it?
Speaker 2:I missed people hang their mirrors out of here, that's it, but I knew I was coming here and that was one of the things I had here's me. I'm going to ask, sean, when I get on to the podcast does anybody ever ask you? Do you look like Gary Quinn? Right, see, that night that we sponsored you and you had the taquitos in the back of your shorts, right, some fella come up, big, tall fella. Can't remember his name, can't remember much about that night, but what I do remember is he turned round to me and he started have you got a sister?
Speaker 2:he started mentioning something about your sister. Oh, fucking, fucking this blah blah blah and I'm like what he went? Sean, your sister, and I went. Sean who he went? Sean McComb and I went no.
Speaker 1:No, it's not I. He's getting completely mixed up with me.
Speaker 2:But that's not the first time that's happened. A few people said to me I'd be walking down the street. Oh, you're a spit that, sean McComb.
Speaker 1:I heard I've lip read Girls in a car before Traffic lights.
Speaker 2:Are you reminding them of the?
Speaker 1:Kato's. Are you reminding them of the Kato's?
Speaker 2:I've actually, I've actually lip read People saying that as well and I go Yo what? And they're like Fuck, you heard me, you heard me.
Speaker 1:I've heard it. I was two girls Sitting in the car I go. I'm like that. And I turn around and I look again and I go that's him from to Quidditch, because I don't know when they're going. Is that Sean Com from Ticqueiroes? That's mad, isn't it fucking mad? It's good it's happened to both of us, isn't it? That's it because the other one being gone, he's full of shit. That's what.
Speaker 1:I thought he's being I'm going to ask him, he's going to go nah mate, but it's funny, he's going to say it what was the other thing I wanted to say to you know about that.
Speaker 2:You knew about that.
Speaker 1:Sure, I seen you right Aye, you opened the restaurant.
Speaker 2:That's right. I can remember that that's right.
Speaker 1:I can remember a wee clip. Just because someone texted me it was Pete Tubbs or something Texting me like Fuck me, jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:There you go, because we brought their brother as well.
Speaker 1:He was like, fuck me. I was on the news Andersonstown Road with a child, got him out of school and then, I don't know, there's all cameras here, I see a casement. So the first step I was like, do you mind doing Rico's casement got a 50 million loan or 50 million funding from the UK government for casements.
Speaker 1:So they asked me to talk about that, to talk on that, and I didn't know it was going to go on the news and I was like I know your face, did you play for Antrim or something? And he's like no, paxson, he's like Sean. He just knew right away. And I said Paxson, sean McCormie is at Newark, nisha, and he was talking away and he's like oh, you, you do it like your muck is here everywhere you fucking are, but you're you have to be, don't you?
Speaker 1:get yourself out there, get about and that's it 100%. Take the opportunities when they come, definitely so what's happening with you to quite those? Let's touch on.
Speaker 2:Sean, at the minute I have two trucks right. I have the big black one you were down at last week and I have another wee white one that we use for, I'd say, catering events. And I have a license for that wee white one at Raider Square, around the corner on Danny Galle Street. But when we're ready we'll pull the trigger on that one.
Speaker 1:We're not just ready on that.
Speaker 2:A few other things in the pipeline as well, including our adobo paste here. I'll just yeah we were talking about that before it's Sean we're open seven years here in September and we've been making Mexican adobo paste. If we don't have this here, we can't open the doors of taquitos.
Speaker 1:So the flavour that everybody loves from taquitos, this is it all in a small jar, you're going to do yourself a bit of business here, because what's happening is everyone's going to buy this and make their own taquitos, and they're not going to be coming up with a truck, no more. But this is the reason, unless you get the tourism.
Speaker 2:So I want people to have this in their kitchen cupboard so when they order some food, some chips, they can make themselves a quick adobo mayo. Or if they're doing a Sunday roast, or if they're making some spicy pork mince, then this is the piece. I know. You're sitting there confused.
Speaker 1:I know, I know Because obviously it's interesting, because it's like it's only one piece but it does all your food. Your food's so good, sean we cook our rice in that.
Speaker 2:Do you like our?
Speaker 1:rice. Yeah, we cook our rice adobo mayo.
Speaker 2:We cook our beans. Beans chorizo.
Speaker 1:Pork steak so that's the magic recipe behind all the behind the magic, that's the recipe behind the magic. It has three products where do people? Get it then where do people just buy it? In the shop?
Speaker 2:you can buy it on taquitosbelfastcom, alright, we also have a stockist in Belfast, sawyers oh yeah, sawyers, brilliant class shop so the boys down there, gary and the boys, have taken this on board and it's early days, so it is so that's it. That was one of the reasons I reached out to come up and let people know, because I know you love the group, don't you?
Speaker 1:I love it. I've always been a fan of it, like, and see if me and Derval go away on holiday. We always try and maxing this one, because we've just always looked at it. I don't think none's ever, like none's really ever, came to the Quiddos. To be fair, I know, I know it's just, I don't know, it's probably the pace, it's the pace so. I don't know and you've explained it to me before, even before the camera started rolling and.
Speaker 2:I was like really, I know, and I smelled it and I was like fuck, that's great, and I smelled it and I was like that's great, I'll be eating that.
Speaker 2:That's the one. Do you want to see the paste? I actually have another one down in my van there. I should have brought it. It was the one that I tried to release before Christmas. The packaging wasn't right, the paste wasn't right. I made the paste. It was the one we were making, for that paste is a wee bit bitter and a wee bit sweet. This one's fully packed. Yeah, it has acidity, salt, spice and it's full of flavour.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I mean? Yeah, the other one just wasn't as good.
Speaker 2:So to be in a position that we're in now, seven years down the line, to be making a better adobo paste than we've ever made, yeah, is special, and I've been cooking with this, so I so I got 24 tubs of 4.2 kilograms so that I can cook for all the people that come up to the truck and then I'll sell them in jars, right, but see the stuff I've been using the last week the flavor of the food is so much better. Do you know what?
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, it's just marketing too, isn't it? But it actually looks well Now you know, what I mean. That's it. Obviously, the way you market stuff is a big thing, and obviously it looks well. You know what I mean. So, if anyone like because I've always heard you saying about it, though, and I didn't really know what it was- Nobody knows.
Speaker 2:For God's sake, this is my time to tell them what it is, because even you, before the camera started rolling, we're a bit perplexed and confused. You're like what the fuck's he talking?
Speaker 1:about. I know this is the money maker so see that wee jar.
Speaker 2:You take that home and you say one spoonful. And then we fucking drop a mayo.
Speaker 1:Four times the amount of mayo to one to one spoonful, that's enough say four spoonfuls to one spoonful four to one ratio there you go magic. I'll be on it'll be fucking Sean. He thought what are we coming here?
Speaker 2:but no, this is it, sean fucking. This is what I wanted to do. I want to bring taquitos to everybody's kitchen, you know, without the need of having to go down to the truck fort.
Speaker 1:Yeah 100%, 100%, fucking Lyson. I don't know I I could have done that on the way up or I'd have made myself way toasty in the house and slugged it back out of the storm, it's true. So obviously you had the. Remember you had the when you had the restaurant and stuff as well.
Speaker 1:And that what was it? Cracker, it was just. I remember it was a headache. First of all, you put a lot of effort in that place. Big time I've seen your man up, so your man was like he's fucking, he's stressed out. So much.
Speaker 2:It took me nine months or something to build that restaurant during. Covid couldn't get people in to do it, couldn't get things. Things happened pipes bust. This happens so much so many complaints that no one gives a fuck. You know what I mean. But you have to dust yourself down and get on with it. You know so we. So we got it built and then ran it for seven months. Had a couple of gooey nights in it yeah, I was in it a few times I loved it.
Speaker 1:It fucking was hard work to say go to, to be honest because it was a gooey cocktail bar and the cocktails were lovely.
Speaker 2:They were. The head part was lovely. It wasn't all big time.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like you're working in and eating and being busted. You were eating with flavour and then having the drinks. You were enjoying grub with flavour and that being busted, that's it you never see when you go out to some place and you eat and it's like I'm ready to go home.
Speaker 2:You want to go to sleep, don't you?
Speaker 1:You're just in there you're just enjoying the music.
Speaker 2:It was always a wee bit of like windows the whole minute you were able to see out there was no people could see in it.
Speaker 1:It was just so whenever me and Derv we were walking up and I said we need to get in the hallway and take a quick, it was now a couple of weeks later. I'd fucking just seen. It was closed down, it was gutted. But it was just a hard it's probably just something people don't see.
Speaker 2:You know like but it wasn't the start of the fucking thing. Burnt down, yeah, after seven months of real tough it was hard like my head was up my bangle mate.
Speaker 1:Was it a good learning curve for you Like, is it something? You were like a big experience to let that go.
Speaker 2:You know yourself. You have to dig deep as fuck, mate. You have to really dig deep and try to understand yourself more than anything. Do you know what I mean? Oh, that you're at the helm of this business with no business partners, and you have to try your best if you don't, you're going to look like a fool, and I've looked like a fool many times anyway. So it's no big deal, as you know, like if you think, if you think you're looking I say that like you're looking like a fool because you feel.
Speaker 1:But you know, and all of us, know that feeling anyone in the business sector, it's not. You may feel like that yourself, like the amount of times I've lost and the amount of times even stuff like that you feel like you've let everyone down, but realistically you haven't, and sometimes people are like glad to see see it just go like that's the best thing that's happened to him, because the fucking stress he was under he was going to fucking.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean? He was border your mat. Then he is fucking. I hadn't even opened the doors yet, I know, and I was going fuck. He must be just under serious pressure spending so much money and you don't even know what's going on and you're just like fuck no mate, and you're in a rush to get the doors open. Plus, you've got the truck open and you're trying to manage that 100% yeah, it's all learning curves.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. All big losses that can only set me in good stead for the future.
Speaker 1:Honestly, have you any ambition of opening another Fentanyl location?
Speaker 2:There you go, location, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It really is location. I love cooking. Sean Cooking's my passion. Yeah, I love cooking, especially with that and good salt. That's all I need. All I need, all I need to cook with, is that did you, were you always a chef? Always a cook, always I'm a shade chef Sean.
Speaker 1:I'm terrible.
Speaker 2:I'm a fucking class cook because you know you've seen the cues of the flavour.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:they want my flavour and I know how to give it. But in terms of being a chef, I'm not really a out. Yeah, because a chef is a very stressful job.
Speaker 1:He's fucking right you're doing crazy hours and people fucking shouting and slavering in a wee like a wee intense environment in a small kitchen broking a hat. They'll stick someone fucking yeah I know into a boil matter or something. There you go, man, I lose a plot. But every chef I know just go from job to job. Kathy stressed out fucking on the drink every hour and night after work.
Speaker 2:They're fucking stressed out 100% other things as well. There's no point talking about.
Speaker 1:I know, but that's the way, that's the lifestyle it is. But I suppose just fainting, fucking like fainting, was good for you and obviously controlling this certain environment, because people when they're late they're mad just because they can get the job or whatever, and then they're in there just fucking hating it Exactly One of the things as well, sean, as a business owner and as a manager and as the head chef or whatever you need to learn.
Speaker 2:You need to understand how to manage people. I can't manage people.
Speaker 1:I can barely even manage myself at times.
Speaker 2:I'm a really good cook and I have an eye for business and gaps in the market. I would love a couple of business partners, I think with the right people.
Speaker 1:What way would you go about that? Trying to advertise towards it? Would you not even bother advertising you? Make a lot of time wasters and people trying to take your arm.
Speaker 2:I've had a few of them, sean. What would you advise? Just out of conversation, what would you advise? How would I go?
Speaker 1:about looking for a business partner, someone that maybe go to someone who is successful already in a business and maybe do a collaboration of some sort okay and say let's see what happens off a back guess. Like you cook a certain traditional food, I cook a certain traditional food.
Speaker 1:Let's say we can collab and maybe make something of it and then maybe come in and we'll open a restaurant together, something along M lines, and if he's going together, he's going 50-50 together, and then you still have the truck going, they still have their thing going, something along the lines of that like a collabing. And then because at least if he's collaborating first he'll know if it works or not, you know what I mean. Like something. Like let's just say, for example, someone has a restaurant and you approach him and say, look, let's do it a mexican date. I'll collab with you. We'll do to quit those food. I'll bring all the products, I'll bring all that until we paste you want. So you know we'll get it. Quite those food.
Speaker 2:I'll bring all the products. I'll bring all the adobe paste you want and we'll get it going.
Speaker 1:That's what you'll need, bro. We'll get it going, I'll cook, I'll do all the cooking in the kitchen that night and we'll do a Mexican themed night once a month or twice a month, right, and then we'll further down the line. We'll maybe look into another piece of mo, something along those lines have you got much time about you, sir fuck me. I ain't fucking using some of my.
Speaker 2:I ain't going to have some of my hands out really on that note tell us a wee bit about your thing, your wee table, I know that's it.
Speaker 1:I've a fight again here. Obviously I won that European title a couple of years ago in the Odyssey and defended it twice. I was trying to get a bigger fight and then I did. I got that fight in America, in New York, mm-hmm, and obviously fucking didn't go the way I wanted it to go. Life, isn't it too? Ah, it's it Just fucking.
Speaker 2:Did you learn from it?
Speaker 1:Ah, I've always learned that the game's corrupt the fucking arena.
Speaker 2:I back at it how's treatment going for you?
Speaker 1:flat out pulled a muscle in my rib, for fuck's sake, and it's aching fucking.
Speaker 2:I'm aching.
Speaker 1:Don't even know how it happened, but I swear to fuck. I had to go and see a physio yesterday and it happened about three weeks ago and I've just been sparring on it anyway and every time I get jabbed on it or anywhere near it, it's just fucking right back to square. Now I can still punch and still like. I still hand out fucking batons when I'm sparring, like you know what I mean but, it's just.
Speaker 1:It just gives me a wee bit of jip when I'm sleeping and when I toss and turn I'm like, oh fuck, I'm gonna beat myself up. And then I've got a four year old running about like a lunatic jumping over me fuck's sake.
Speaker 2:Carver's a month older than Amelia, so he is I remember back in?
Speaker 1:2021 that's right, 100% is.
Speaker 2:Carver 2020 the end of 2021 he's a start of 2021.
Speaker 1:Was he January, january?
Speaker 2:15th of January.
Speaker 1:I can remember that's right fuck me 10 goes 4 years, he's fucking funny.
Speaker 2:I know school, I know I'm flying about.
Speaker 1:He's really classic I say this all the time again. I had a meeting with his teacher yesterday.
Speaker 2:He's a fucking bomb scurvy like yourself, and he brought someone in. What did you expect, my wee girl people?
Speaker 1:keep saying that. But I get frustrated and I go like see the day I was sitting on my own and I was like I don't know what to do with this. He's fucking every night, like he's just every day. I ain't getting up and getting complaints of his teacher.
Speaker 2:Nah, I lap her up.
Speaker 1:I got someone in the. I got someone in the assessment last week and the teacher said he was a scuse goal, like he was like.
Speaker 2:Of course, because they know how to manipulate bro.
Speaker 1:And she's like so we've asked him back, and again the day last week she says he was just going to school and he was. He was singing opera. And I'm like fuck's sake she's like no, it's just sorry. No, it's like fuck's sake. And Dara was like what's he singing that for me?
Speaker 2:I don't know he's with me. Must have been on the radio.
Speaker 1:I ain't pulling a peach, no more than that. I got a yarmulke to do with her letting on that cool AFM but, uh, there she got him in the day again and then we went up to pick him up from school and she was like she's seen the real carpet of day, like he was just back to himself. Yeah fuck she does say he's just, he's just a full lunatic, he's just very boisterous he's one of the like yourself when you were four.
Speaker 2:That's my next question do you think he takes it off to you? I? Know, obviously he does she's the exact same as me. I honestly believe that we've had a similar upbringing.
Speaker 1:You just want to be Jack the Lad you just want to be the Santa of Tansing, you want to be so. That's Carver now at the moment.
Speaker 2:Exactly Amelia as well. She always wants to be the boss, she always wants to try and, you know, sort everything out sometimes I like give a straighter.
Speaker 1:But then I give a straighter at the school and I'm like what the fuck? And I'm like what do they expect from me? He's only four or not? And then I go, but there's other four in the class and I get none of that and he's doesn't stop and then you just shoot and then he's like why are you? Shooting for, because it's the only way to get through his thick fucking skull. And I'm like a burr. He's like look at the way you're getting on me, because he won't listen, he won't listen his brain's a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 1:I ain't doing a runner see, I've got this here's broadcasting. I'll be on the back, I ain't going to do a shot for a carton of milk. I ain't at my back. Fuck me, fuck me. Four years I ain't raising. That's enough.
Speaker 2:I'll be away see where you see where you have to tell a thousand times or a hundred times what to do. Don't do that, don't do that. I just, I just.
Speaker 1:I can't.
Speaker 2:She doesn't listen to me.
Speaker 1:She won't listen to me at all it's like see, my third was like third little shout at me. Sean, you better tell him to stop. So I go, cobra, and then I shout at him, and then she shouts at me for shooting at him. Don't shoot at him you've just told me to shoot. Tell him all, get him to stop. Don't shoot at him like that. I was like fuck. I guess it's a bit up against it's when you book a flight it's when you go for a carton of milk.
Speaker 1:Do you know where you go? I feel like it took me a couple of years time. Maybe speak my Spanish accent, that's right, hola.
Speaker 1:Como estas Que tal Como estas, have you ever Spent a week In the car truck Cooking like fuck With a wee piece Of river? Powerful, so it's good Like it's fucking. Nah, don't get me wrong, it's good experience. It's come with being a parent, obviously, you know it's just sometimes it's fucking. I think it's maybe more so with my I get. I have less patience when I'm training hard because you're tired and you're eating less.
Speaker 2:Your dad's up the left isn't?
Speaker 1:he See, whenever I'm able to do the want, I just sit for a pint and go away. You go. I got my brother-in-law with me. Sean, he's away around here, he's all right. He's leaving, sean. He's way around the back of your building. I know, like we're sitting in a bar, I go, are you alright, though? And he gets back around Sean.
Speaker 2:Do you often drink? You don't drink during training.
Speaker 1:No, I wouldn't drink during a camp, like if I had a fake news, if I had a fake, just just like I say train every day I'm in our gym as well of Jim going for you good busy. Yeah, he's busy. We've just run ads. We're starting new ads, we're fucking do you find the ads? Help you oh, I definitely do, like you get. We have a guy doing sales calls and stuff for us and that as well, so what way does that work?
Speaker 2:just straight on the finger aye.
Speaker 1:So once he gets people, go near there. People click on the ads and fill in their details.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm and he follows up and then he'll follow up straight away.
Speaker 1:So they'll go to like a thank you page where we like thank them for putting their details in and a team will be in touch soon. And then he goes straight on the blower and arranges a call with them when they're free and then hopefully signs them up that's it. He gets a retainer for it, like maybe just a. So we get them in the gym and it's our job to keep them there.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean obviously they only work to go to like a month of time, like a month trial, and then it's our job to keep them there longer yeah, so that's it.
Speaker 2:You learned your trade from Lanny, I would say, wasn't it, lanny? Lanny's a man that knows exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 1:He was a mentor for us at the start and he helped us open the gym, give us all the fucking right direction and exactly step by step what to do. Look at me doing it. It was brilliant 100%.
Speaker 2:There's a wee saying that you can't read the label from inside the bottle yeah, exactly, if you're in the business, that's me at the moment. I'm knee deep and shit you know in the business and you just have to be. You either have to be. I need staff. I can't onboard staff.
Speaker 1:I need partners. How do you get staff? Like what do you have to get?
Speaker 2:do you have to come and work in a food truck you know, as a chef or?
Speaker 1:a cook, but how would you sell to someone like say I've been trying to for seven years.
Speaker 2:I know it's just like at least.
Speaker 1:At least there's a wee bit of like customer service going on. You know what I mean we're in a kitchen we're stuck in the kitchen 100% man if you're in a wee food truck. You're getting the meat like I watch your wee films, your wee videos and stuff you do. That's class because you're engaging with people from. You're engaging with people from.
Speaker 2:You're engaging with people from all over the world and you're getting it's like it breaks your day up. I literally love house in her mind. Do you know? What I mean is talking to people and I love nurturing, people nurturing, and I love cooking for people and seeing their reaction do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:yeah, that's it. It's to receive what people say. You're more that. You're happiest when you're bound for other people. That's near enough. The same feeling when you're bound someone's up to present or you're giving someone a present.
Speaker 2:That I love. I love the because I know how, I know how good my food tastes and that's not me being cocky. Anywhere I went. I went to Mexico in January and, as I say, I was running around the streets of Mexico trying to find something similar to what I was doing. Mexico, don't do that. It's a completely different ball game. Over there, they don't sell the same food. This is all my food. That's what.
Speaker 2:I understood see I was. I went for two weeks right see in the. After the first week I couldn't wait to get home this is all transparent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you knew like you were near enough more advanced. Not even that.
Speaker 2:I just I couldn't wait to get home because I wanted to give people this paste. I knew that that paste was was.
Speaker 1:I wanted to cook my food yeah, do you know what I mean? I used to actually have a video of you cooking over her you did.
Speaker 2:I was actually on my way to. I woke up at 7 o'clock in the morning. I have a load of videos in my phone. I'm going to post them all one after another. So I woke up at 7 o'clock in the morning and I noticed, because I lifted a big bundle of t-shirts and I noticed there was a taquitos one there and I was telling this. We followed down every morning. About seven o'clock in the morning I was saying yo soy un taquito, I'm a taquito as well, yeah, in Belfast. And then I went down, showed him my thing. He gives me like, no, like a like meat broth soup.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, no like broths yeah, broth Tequila's T-shirt Walked down the street On my way to a certain Taco joint that I found on Google, and then I stopped Because that one Made my mouth water and I was going to have A couple of tacos there, and then, next thing, fucking just ended up. I was like Speaking in a wee bit Broken Spanish. I was like Yo quiero trabajo aqui. And she says I want to work here. And she says Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Wash says alright go ahead wash your hands and get ready, and she starts throwing these fucking tortillas onto the comal onto the hot plate and away we went unbelievable.
Speaker 1:It's good. It's good, it's good for people to invite you in, because otherwise they're only going to go here.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean they obviously just went, go ahead work away, definitely, and just to be in the streets of Mexico City making tacos again, nurturing their people, speaking to them in Spanish. I couldn't even speak Spanish. I can't speak Spanish a wee bit. I can you know broken stuff, but it was a great experience. I couldn't beat it 100%.
Speaker 1:Well, the videos. Obviously, if you post the videos, you get a good insight.
Speaker 2:That's it what it was like. So my brother says to me I read you, you don't go to Mexico and just end up wearing a taquitos t-shirt. So there was a wee story about it. The videos I'll post all the videos from that day. Do you know what? I mean 100% some amazing taco spots awful. I would definitely recommend. Have you been to Mexico?
Speaker 1:City. I've never been to Mexico City.
Speaker 2:I've just been to.
Speaker 1:Cancun just on holiday.
Speaker 2:Mexico City is like the it's like a concrete jungle man is it? It's like the New York of Mexico. I feel, but highly recommend I would definitely recommend it because I've been to Cancun.
Speaker 1:I don't think I'll go back because I've been there and it's just the same shit all the time.
Speaker 2:What is it like?
Speaker 1:it's just a beach resort a beach resort. Load of liquors, that's all it is. It's not like actual scene. I love like I've seen Ryan Curtis and a couple of my mates went to Medellin and stuff. I would love to go in and see, see, going to Columbia yeah, columbia, I could be anywhere. You'd be fucking like Mexico. The beaches were lovely and the hotels were class, but you don't need resorts.
Speaker 1:We did like in fairness, but they're just holiday destinations, so it's not actually Mexico which you're getting to see, whereas if you went to Mexico City, you're getting to see Mexico City. Do you know what I mean? You're getting to see what Mexico's about you're getting to in Amsterdam.
Speaker 2:I had a connecting flight from Amsterdam to Mexico yeah, a 12 hour flight from Amsterdam. I got my. I phoned my cousin that morning, went to the thing, got a bottle of water. Lost my phone in the airport right before my flight to Mexico.
Speaker 1:Fuck never got it back in there.
Speaker 2:Never got it back, no way but I got all my photos and things back today actually, so I did get couple of photos in my account and all back today, because all Steve's, doesn't it?
Speaker 1:like on fucking happy days but happy days.
Speaker 2:Took me four months to get the fucking to get into that account, but anyway we're there we're here now. Anyway, we'll take it as a win.
Speaker 1:Four years or four months. Better late than never. You know what I mean. Why a maximum food when you were a cook? Why a maximum food?
Speaker 2:In 2016,. I ended up going to America. Yeah, it just so happened that I touched lucky because, within my job, three chefs had just left the French Laundry in California, which is a three-mits-on-star restaurant, so all three of them have cooked with the best in the world, the very, very best. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1:It's like fucking hanging out with Tyson Fury and Mick Tyson for fucking 20 minutes yeah, the best with the best in the world, the very, very best.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. It's like fucking hanging out with Tyson Fury and Mick Tyson for fucking 20 minutes.
Speaker 1:Do you know?
Speaker 2:over the course of two years, their conversations, how they set up, how they cleaned, how they just their essence of everything, just a perfection it's really instilled in that. There I took everything from them and then created my own little thing and, as you say, and as you say, why, mexican food. I ended up meeting a Mexican girlfriend. I had a Mexican girlfriend for a couple of years over there.
Speaker 2:Yeah 2016, 2018. She visited me in Belfast, in my mom's house, and she made a Mexican salsa, the same salsa that we make, the same one you're eating the same one. Everybody else is eating, and that was, that was the moment I went Jesus, fuck the night and day I woke up and then she made these chilaquiles, which is like tortilla chips fried in the salsa and topped with eggs and lettuce and cheese, and I was like, fuck this and that was after.
Speaker 2:That was after I came home from Florida. So have all this knowledge, all this and I'm like, I'm like yourself, I'm. Carver and the fact that I can't you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:But they're like, the thoughts are just like, ideas are starting.
Speaker 2:You're an entrepreneur, you've fucking many, many different businesses, many different things on the go at the minute. You're a boxer, do you know what I mean? So you know what you're at and you're you're not gonna settle, you, don't you? Don't settle you want the next.
Speaker 1:Thing don't you? You're not the best, it's just the way we are. You wanna be the best at what you do?
Speaker 2:that it was. It was so I was working in in in fine dining, right yeah, For a guy called Norman Van Aken he's a celebrity over in Florida right yeah, he had a recipe book that I went in and I was just taking loads of photos of it, right, and it ended up. I had to get out of there in April 2016, or, sorry, April 2018. And I had to sell my car that I'd fucking saved up for or whatever, and get out visa's done, expired not, expired not yet. But I was going down to Miami 150 mile round trip every single week on my day off or my two days off.
Speaker 2:I tried to get them to gather so that I could work for free for 14 hours to learn the high level shit.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean? Um, and I did, did that for seven months. But then they says to me, they offered me a job and said to me that would sort out the visa for me. It fell through and it didn't work and I had to get the fuck out of there, simple as that. So when that happened, I flew back to Belfast. But I knew, when I stepped on the flight, son, I knew I was going to make tacos.
Speaker 1:I loved eating in the taco trucks when.
Speaker 2:I didn't have work and I worked my balls off like I work, work, work for the knowledge. Yeah, loved eating the tacos and then you come back to Belfast. You don't know whether you blew up or stuff.
Speaker 1:It's not even here. It's not a big. It's not a big thing here. No, nobody knew what a fucking.
Speaker 2:That was trap here.
Speaker 1:That's it.
Speaker 2:I still do do you know another thing, sean I still do it. See, if you come down, I'm inside the truck. You'll see me whistling the people. Yo come here taste that, because I just love people tasting, and if I cook it I know it's going to be fucking really, really good 100%.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean, like when you know good food, I ain't fucking what you try us. You ever tried it before? No, here, that's it, and then that just changes people's mind. Oh fuck, I need to come back here that's it I leave.
Speaker 2:I want to leave a lasting impression on people, sean, that's what it is. And again, and I'm going back to this piece, this is what it is. This is going to leave a lasting impression at the skeptical. Yeah, this paste, but when? When they do purchase it and they embrace what the qualities that it has is packed full of 100 clean ingredients, mate, there's, if you look at the allergens in that. It says it says uh, allergens are in bold.
Speaker 2:There's nothing in bold, mate yeah, it uses natural lumber apple cider vinegar from armagh right. That's only a couple of minutes up the road there, oh shit it uses brighter gold rapeseed oil. Again, that's only another couple of minutes up the road, so I'm keeping everything local, keeping everything Irish yeah, as well as having those Mexican ingredients powerful.
Speaker 1:That's the job, man. And, as I say, fucking travelling. Once, except for Ireland. You're strung out. For fuck's sake, I'd be like heroin. I'd be fucking. I'm on emos, I'd just throw it on the ring.
Speaker 2:I'm glad that you're fucking. You're putting that up against heroin.
Speaker 1:No, it'd be a technical like it. Fuck's you, I hope it is, I really hope it is no, obviously like, as I say, right marketing the the right market and the right strategy of just pushing it, which is the reason why I like it, because it is good. I've tried the food and, trust me, people want to say, if you haven't tried the food, get down and try it. Because I'm a fucking. I wouldn't say I'm a food connoisseur, but I know good food because I've had it in so many different places and I usually always stick to what I know it's good.
Speaker 2:Sean, this is the exact spot that everybody's at. Will I buy that or won't I buy that? It's a couple of quid what the fuck it's okay, it doesn't matter, people want that couple of quid you know, what I mean. They'll go out and spend four shots blocked out of. They'll not fucking bat an eyelid, right. But see, when they know that that's 12 quid, they're like hang on the fuck. What's that 12 quid for? I know because it's fucking 12 quid people just like, even for our gym.
Speaker 1:It's the same we're trying, that's what we're trying to spend the life. People like we're saying, oh, I'll do 30, I'll do the 30 day trial. How much is it after? Worth it or not? Because at the end of the day, it must be spent on takeaways. You know what I mean it must be spent on takeaways there's many variables many takeaways. Would you do two maybe?
Speaker 1:three spend 30 40 quid a week easy on takeaways. Yeah, so take that away and be good for four weeks. Drop body weight, be healthier, live longer, move better. Is it worth it? 100% worth it. That's how much our gym is. Let's go, shane. That's the way it has to be that's the seal.
Speaker 2:That's the seal, though, and going back to that, it's like people are so skeptical at the moment. It's like, well, I buy that, I don't want to buy that, and it sits in a cupboard and a thing I don't do this well for you. If you don't cook, this is fucking Daphne for you. Yeah, because I want to get people that don't cook into the kitchen. One spoonful of this will change every single meal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's not a. That's not a. You need salt with it as well. It goes hand in hand with good salt. Yeah, not Saxa.
Speaker 1:Do you understand what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:Proper salt proper salt and that paste, then you're off. I'm going to put some more videos out there to let people know exactly how to use it, and it's not even that hard, but I can understand why people's a bit scared of the go to.
Speaker 1:Yeah just recipe it, buy it, just do wee reels, just do wee reels, wee reels of different things you do right, that's exactly right and just keep doing it and the health benefits and so many different types of like taxes could be. The mail could be whatever whatever it is, you do just different always, and you say explain the health benefits to it you want to see the health benefits.
Speaker 2:Some of the ingredients in it are lethal. Let me, can I whip out my phone.
Speaker 1:Of course you can go ahead. Left it now so that won't be sick, was this you no, so?
Speaker 2:that won't be sick dude was?
Speaker 1:it? Was this you that came up wanting to make this, or is it like have you got like a mentor or something?
Speaker 2:no, this is all me. I need a mentor, a business, my mentor, you should say to.
Speaker 1:Lanny or something a mentor.
Speaker 2:Lanny's a good mentor.
Speaker 1:I know he is Lanny's the man he's got the good connections and he's got Lanny's like and big man like like very expensive mentors for himself. Yeah, so he has a mentor.
Speaker 2:I think that's. My biggest problem is not having a mentor, so anything he's stuck with.
Speaker 1:He just goes to that mentor and they'll do what needs done. But he knows a lot and that's it. I know he works in the fitness industry, but a mentor is business. Is he a business mentor big time? You know what I mean so just real quick.
Speaker 2:I know it's a load of nonsense, but anchovies and chipotles boost metabolism and immunity, rich in vitamins A and C. The garlic, obviously, is natural antibacterial. Supports the immune cumin aids digestion. Do you know?
Speaker 1:all these types of things the natural umber.
Speaker 2:Apple cider vinegar from Marmite is unfiltered and raw natural probiotics. Promotes gut health and blood sugar balance again. Apple cider vinegar from Marmite is unfiltered and raw natural probiotics. Yeah, promotes gut health and blood sugar balance again. If there's anybody in that are ill, yeah, this is going to be good for them as well, but I'm you should say you know who you should say to maybe have an ad.
Speaker 1:Another wee lad, the Irish King Seamoss do we race I race. Get him a starter for you as well. I was thinking that because he promotes everything anyway, definitely he just be all fucking he promotes, he promotes health yeah, there's so much health benefits too, so why not have you tried a CMOS? Nah, I don't know, I've never tried CMOS.
Speaker 2:I've never, ever taken it. He's a legend.
Speaker 1:I've never taken it and I take that Shillage it. I take that Shilajit, Do you? I take Ramadhi Shilajit and I love it. What?
Speaker 2:do you?
Speaker 1:think I love it.
Speaker 2:I can't, I just Keep it nice and strong.
Speaker 1:Yeah, keep it yeah, just see, because of boxing, making weight, my whole life, my testosterone, I was just shit. So I see, from taking that Shilajit, boost your testosterone, it boosts my testosterone and I can feel it lift my weights. I'm stronger. I just feel physically stronger in the ring and more energetic and like, see, at this stage usually when I'm making weight I'm two weeks out from making weight I would be depressed off my head seriously.
Speaker 2:Usually I'm fucking flying happy right and do you think that shows you? I just think there's something because a wee tub of it in my cupboard. I put my coffee every single morning, every morning, I don't miss it it's like see the way people put sugar in their coffee.
Speaker 1:I put this in my coffee. I do not miss it. Don't miss a day of it taste of it stinking though, isn't it? It's just. I just mix it around. Just a wee small bit of it, and I just mix it around and I'm't mind it.
Speaker 2:See, I don't mind it, you know what it tastes like the sea moss Reese's batch of it. It tastes like a cinnamon lozenger. Do you remember you used to get a cinnamon lozenger? I suppose that's not bad at all, it's nice.
Speaker 1:It's decent. But I've seen that now I've seen the benefits and stuff like all the patient stuff who have benefited from like so much from that CMOS, like obviously it gives you all your nutrients and stuff you need and all that kind of stuff packed full of nutrients and minerals. Yeah, 100%, so like obviously there's a big benefit to it, but I would say get down and see.
Speaker 1:Get down and see, rhys, I've never no, I was actually going to text him the other day about coming on here because I think he's a good character the way he does all his wee videos.
Speaker 2:I used to work with him in Mallorca fucking 14 years ago maybe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's good because he always goes on about the chemists and all his natural.
Speaker 2:This is the same thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, chemists and all are just and that's the money makers. They just, the government, passed stuff that's going to make money on the campus. So there is just people on the world. There were some bankers or fucks, 100%, but uh, that's what Andy Malone was on.
Speaker 2:What was he talking about?
Speaker 1:around the tablets. Was it the eye briefing or something? The paracetamol paracetamol, andy Malone, was like they're fucking addictive. What's in heroin, but he's fucking right.
Speaker 2:People can laugh as much as they want. Is he saying something that's wrong? No, he's 100% right. He's fucking right.
Speaker 1:He says he's done his research on it and the fucking people are getting addicted to painkillers and that's what leads them on to stronger targets and that leads them on to Before you know it, they're taking fucking heroin. That's the way the world works, even if I have like a sore rib, bad rib. I just just grind it up, just grind it out, it's not going to matter.
Speaker 2:I take one thing that you grind, but I don't think it's natural, it's natural.
Speaker 1:There you go, it's natural, it's natural all the way through you know, it's going from the planet. So like what? So you're going to focus on this. Now for the next, what just push this, push this, push this.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to push this, sean. I, just like I say I've already explained where I am and what I like like, what I like doing, so I love to nurture. So I want everybody to have this in their kitchen cupboard. As I say, I'm not trying to repeat their fucking thing I want people to have this in their kitchen cupboard and that's that's where.
Speaker 1:I the best way to do it like I know who's a master at like just putting stuff in people's faces and it works. I have to admire. We can't be fine, we can't be fine he just does, he doesn't care, he doesn't give a fuck. That's how to do it. He does not care. That's why. That's why he's in a position. He's in to be like telling his own shows and all day. Ah, he was over, and all day.
Speaker 1:So like you have to admire, like that Drive to just 100% and that's the belief that he has in himself. He's almost, he's almost delusional.
Speaker 2:That's what it's like and he says it himself and like so am I, so are you, so is everybody and their own belief. We get then we have to do, and we try our best to get it done yeah, so if there's something you believe in, it's just like forcing it down people's fucking like you say you're chasing people up and down.
Speaker 1:It's like get that trap see.
Speaker 2:The other thing is though, sean, it's alright, I can do it all in real life out there chasing people up and down see when it comes to the fucking social media I don't post. You know what I mean. If somebody else is videoing me, that's okay, but for me to do it myself or shut up, I don't know, I just get lost.
Speaker 1:I don't mean, I just talk shit. People don't even look too much and the people who are me Fuck it. You're a hez. You know what I'm saying, I'm sure. What else would you be?
Speaker 2:Sean, where's your fate, where's your?
Speaker 1:How it Saturday there? I just found out it was cancelled. I haven't even gotten a point yet it's a six rounder just to get me back in the swing. So what happened? I signed with a promoter GBM and their new promotional company in the UK and he wants me to fight a six rounder here in Hull on the 20th of June and then fight in September for a title. So straight back in the mix. See, you can't fight for a title until you come off a win ok so it's just to get a win with no injuries.
Speaker 1:No, fucking, no stupid cuts trying to get and just go straight back in the mix in September lovely maybe win a title in September and then maybe headline Belfast in December. That's his plans, like so fucking right, mate, back on the wagon.
Speaker 2:Sean, see, to be honest with you, like from from you've had the child, from you've had the child. Like lots has happened and you've really fucking, you've really. I think you've really proved to yourself that you can do things you've obviously shown what your plans were from 2020 to now and you're knocking down each plan. I know I'd say, just get there it just happens like you don't.
Speaker 1:There are all we goals I've achieved along the way. I've bought my own house. I've fucking I've got my. I've got a house, I've got a chair, I've fucking two cars, the door, everything is like, everything's good. I've got the gym and now we're doing this podcast and they're all we you have to be proud of yourself 100 I am like, and stuff don't happen by accident because it's years and years and years of work, and then obviously just the Silver Liner will be nice to win a world title, and that's like I mean it was Rob's thinking for a world title.
Speaker 1:I'm never going to sign with Barbosa in New York, but I don't think too much about that.
Speaker 2:It's just like it's been and gone and I know when I get another opportunity meant to be in that's it.
Speaker 1:They decided it wasn't. That's it. It's still up to me to keep going that's it, it's very easy for anyone else to just go fuck it. I'm done because it corrupts me as a sport. But I'm not done. You know what I mean. I decide just showing people, like on a global stage, how good I am yeah, that's it, and I know how good, I don't over anything else that we need to speak about, I'm just happy enough, you came up and shared your shared your, we'll make this worldwide paste.
Speaker 2:It's a double paste.
Speaker 1:We'll be fucking buying this in Mexico soon. We'll get the right marketing. Thank you for coming in. I appreciate it, gentlemen, and I wish you all the best. Happy Tesla Gentlemen. Bang bang, adobe paste. That's right.
Speaker 2:Bang bang.