The Public Nuisance Podcast #076 “Nobody Can Do A Belfast Accent Properly” with Shane Todd

Welcome to a new episode of The Public Nuisance Podcast with me, Sean McComb.

This week we welcome Shane Todd to the podcast.

We cover Shane Todd’s North American tour, performing in Boston, Toronto, Texas and New York, the difference between great crowds and nightmare audiences, comedy on the road, travelling, sleep routines, recovery hacks and why Shane tapes his mouth shut before bed, MMA training with Paul Hughes and Fight Academy Ireland, boxing versus MMA, injuries, ageing, stiff necks, cauliflower ears, football stories, dressing room culture, World Cup plans, fancy dress nights, Belfast slang, public toilet etiquette, childhood memories, getting caught swearing by your parents, growing up in Belfast, local characters, Turf Lodge stories, The Green Mile, Boston’s Irish community, Irish Americans, Belfast accents, why Americans can’t do Northern Irish accents, life on tour, comedy, sport, family stories and much more.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction & Pre-Podcast Chaos

01:00 Shane's Neck Injury & Getting Older

03:03 Training MMA with Paul Hughes

05:22 Combat Sports, Injuries & Cauliflower Ears

09:14 The Reality of Boxing Damage

13:08 Football Stories & Dressing Room Craic

14:25 World Cup Fancy Dress Plans

15:10 Which Disney Character Does Shane Look Like?

18:37 How We See Ourselves vs How Others See Us

20:41 Shane's North American Tour

21:22 Best & Worst Crowds on Tour

23:04 Texas BBQ & Staying Healthy on the Road

24:47 Shane's Extreme Sleep Routine

28:21 Sleep Habits, Recovery & Health

29:03 Public Toilet Etiquette Debate

31:28 Stage Fright at Drug Tests

32:33 Belfast Slang & Funny Local Expressions

35:21 The Apple Tart Machine Story

37:04 Getting Caught Swearing as a Kid

40:20 Growing Up in Belfast

41:06 English Rob, Tony Bandy Neck & Turf Lodge Tales

44:35 Why Some People Always End Up Solving Everyone's Problems

45:41 House Breakers, Street Justice & Local Characters

47:29 More MMA Training & Future Challenges

48:04 Shane vs Glenn Wilkinson Challenges

49:29 Ice Baths, MMA & Competitive Challenges

51:18 Football, World Cup Trips & Travelling

54:23 America, Politics & Border Security

55:47 Boston's Irish Community

57:14 Irish Accents Abroad

58:50 Why Nobody Can Do a Proper Belfast Accent

1:00:00 Comedy, Accents & Performing Around the World

Transcript

Studio Welcome And Fake Gear

SPEAKER_03 0:07

Welcome to the Pumneats podcast. Right here in the studio where you get all your content. Four shoots and podcasts, video editing, whatever you need, we've got it right here.

SPEAKER_06 0:18

We'll put the tender on the phone to go back to Hollywood. Wait on your com You can put that in, but not always before it.

SPEAKER_02 0:28

Wait on your comment. I haven't even done anything yet.

SPEAKER_06 0:32

I got call I got called out for wearing fakers on the podcast. Did you? And I know I'm going. But the top always run at time was real. So I was dead defensive about it, you know?

SPEAKER_03 0:41

Yeah, just that makes it more. I know. That makes it look more like it's fake. I know. Because you're so defensive. Where if you don't be like, obviously, not paying for real stuff. I know. You pull it like a badge from it? No, but so tell us, um, how's life been? You've been you've been a busy, busy man.

Stiff Neck Spiral And MMA Mistake

SPEAKER_06 1:04

Life's been good, but then yesterday life's life got bad. So woke up yesterday morning. Yeah, I get a wee stiff neck. See see when I I'd be I'd be a true people wouldn't think it, I'd be a trooper. See if I if I'm injured or I'm sick or whatever. I get on with it. But see when I if I get a sore neck or a sore back, I I lose run of myself. I'm bad form, cranky, I get emotional.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Are you gonna cry today?

SPEAKER_06 1:34

Maybe we'll watch a movie. You ever seen the movie Luca on Disney? Ah, Luca. Yeah. Yeah, you have second attack.

SPEAKER_03 1:39

Yeah, I haven't asked it, like, but I've seen it like advertising.

SPEAKER_06 1:42

The thumbnail of it or whatever. Me and my kids have watched it loads, but we've never seen the end. I've never seen the ending of it. And then we sat down last night and I finally saw the end of it. Gone. Daddy's crying. You were crying earlier. You were crying because I made you the wrong porch, you know. But I I uh yeah, but I I just being real bad for it. Like, you know, you just do your neck, you sleep wrong, whatever. Yeah, I can't I can't handle it.

SPEAKER_03 2:08

Like what happened?

SPEAKER_06 2:10

Well, I d I I must have slept wrong on it, and I think I was on so many flights last week. I think I heard it last week. So I was touring in America and then I was trying to get workouts in in between, but it was no no warm-up, no stretching, just going in and lifting fucking giant weights, and then you know me. I've seen you go like right, so I just go in and I go, What's the heaviest weight? Give me it. And then I just do I just do four sets, four reps, four bicep curves of the heaviest weight in them out. One set, four reps out, but I was just I think I was just going in with no stretching, I must have heard it a wee bit then, and then loads of flights, driving loads when I came back, and then I slept on it wrong and I woke up. And then yesterday I had to go, I was filming with Glenn, Glenn Wilkinson, yeah. And we went to Fight Academy Ireland, and I went, you know what, my neck sore, but we'll go do MMA I've never done before. Not good for a sore neck. No. I felt everyone makes it worse. But and we were doing takedowns, and Paul we were doing with Paul Hughes, and Paul was demonstrating on me. And I was trying like do you know what it was like? You're sort of playing with bigger boys, and you you want to get in with them, like I was wanting to impress him, and I didn't want to give off about my neck, but it was it was real bad. And every time I hit the ground, I was making wee noises to myself, you know, oh yeah, and then it just got worse and worse, and then I just had to go and see a guy last night. And I had to go and see a guy getting massaged and then but you know what it was it was going into my head, yeah. He was doing that and then it was going into my head. Do you know what I mean? He was rubbing my neck, yeah, and I could feel it going up into the top of my head.

SPEAKER_03 3:55

Yeah. Um it's all connected, like it's crazy how much it is connected from like right up, right through, made up into the back of the head.

SPEAKER_06 4:02

But I was going like cross-eyed now when he was doing it he was like doing different brain. But I was just like seeing all different, I was like hallucinating and everything when he was doing it. You know, I felt like and he's he goes, That's twitching, that's good, and I could feel it all.

SPEAKER_03 4:21

And's the better today. Yeah, but I'm still doing like I'm making wee noise.

SPEAKER_06 4:28

I'm making wee noises, you know.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06 4:30

You know, and I hate that.

SPEAKER_03 4:32

That's like the the say that's whenever you start to realize you're getting old, like when you're getting making noises, getting in there crying a little bit.

SPEAKER_06 4:38

But he goes, he goes, He goes, I I always do it when I go when I get off He goes, he goes, and I don't like one of my suits says this, like he goes, it'll be worse the next day after I've done this. Like why haven't done it? You know? He goes, That's you sorted, but it's gonna be real bad now for a couple of days.

SPEAKER_03 4:56

What happens? Like sure could have been like it could have been eased up by tomorrow.

SPEAKER_06 5:00

I know. But I've been opened up now, like so. Yeah, I don't know, I I just I'd be in real bad form, like if I if I have a stiff neck.

SPEAKER_03 5:07

It's so uncomfortable because like you've d when people call you, like that guy downstairs taps on the back.

SPEAKER_06 5:12

Yep. I I drove here. I can't check my blind spot. Yeah, seriously. I just go, oh, hopefully it's alright.

SPEAKER_03 5:22

People beeping like fuck at you.

SPEAKER_06 5:24

I need to put like a wee a wee uh biker. Yeah. I need to stick one of them in the side of my head, but I'm just struggling a wee bit.

SPEAKER_03 5:35

Ah, you you're very you're a very fluid guy. You know what I mean? You're very like fluid. Gender fluid.

SPEAKER_06 5:42

Same gender fluid.

SPEAKER_03 5:43

Gender fluid.

SPEAKER_06 5:43

What do you mean I'm fluid? Like, what do you mean I'm I'm loose?

SPEAKER_03 5:46

You're you're very mobile. You're gonna mobile like athleticism. When you play football, you move well, when you box you move well. Fluid MMA.

SPEAKER_06 5:54

Because that's what I said. I said officially we're doing MMA. The pa we're hitting pads first. How it was his bread and butter to me. But then they were we're having to put knees in as well.

SPEAKER_03 6:04

Oh, it's different, Gravy.

SPEAKER_06 6:06

That's not my game. I'm just

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Grappling Curiosity And Cauliflower Ears

SPEAKER_03 7:03

In our gym, there's a wee fair there's a wee academy down the back of a like GJC MMA Academy, there'll be your McDonald's takes. And they're all at it, they're all down there, grappling, flat out, but now I'm starting to like you say, big boy to get in. I'm starting to go. But Marty just dislocated three fingers here last week, popped them back in and was like fuck.

SPEAKER_06 7:24

So do doing that?

SPEAKER_03 7:26

Yep, stiff necks every day, back stiff, just classically going, I'm in agony here like I'm fucked all the time, every day. I want to do it because that seems to be what they're all talking about in our gym, and I'm losing it. I'm starting at the back, like I have nothing in common yet. Do you know what it is? I probably use my whole life in the past.

SPEAKER_06 7:42

I look at you and I go, You would just be able to do that because it's fighting, but then that's probably like me, like my dad's a mechanic for cars, but that's like me going, Well, you probably fix a boat then.

SPEAKER_03 7:53

He probably couldn't. Yeah, I know it's just one of them things. It's people said to me, Yeah, would go like you're you're you'll be good at this because you're fucking mobile as well, and you you gotta he's like you would you're very technical. Yeah, you would know her. I'm like, that's making me want to do it more.

SPEAKER_07 8:08

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 8:08

But I know that I'm gonna go in there with that, like thinking I'll be good at this and get my box now.

SPEAKER_06 8:12

Are you just hoping they'll invite you in?

SPEAKER_03 8:14

They've invited me multiple c multiple times, but I'm I'm so afraid of getting injured. Because I'm too old now, and boxing them like if two years of me, like probably two years of me. Yeah, um, if I get two good years of boxing here, that's me finished, then I'll go. But I don't want to have Cy Flyers.

SPEAKER_06 8:30

No, I I'd hate that. But people are like But there's people who who try and get it. People love it. You seen the guy online tries to like hit you know put his does it we brick sandwich with his ears like hitting with a hammer.

SPEAKER_03 8:42

But like Lenny goes to me, just think about it. I says, I don't want Clive Flyers because he has Clifyers now. Yep, Pierce McN has Clive Flyers. Oh, they've all got Clive Flyers, have a Clive Flour hole, but um But uh they say just imagine you can already you can already like through your hands, imagine you have Clive Flyers, people are gonna be shit scared. Yeah, like I don't want people to be shit scared of me. No, that's a bad approach.

SPEAKER_06 9:07

That's a big it does look cool a wee bit, but then you always have to have it, you know, they don't go away. It's our forever.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

Stuck like that, like yeah, big thing.

SPEAKER_06 9:15

Would you not wear like a a wee scrum hat or something? Like in rugby for the trunks the American rattling trunks pulled up their whips, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:24

You know it's like two two leg Yeah, two leg big they have only there's a guy who trains with him, he's he's done the beginners class, and I see him every evening and he comes in, he has a wee haddle. Yeah, it's like wee chin strap. And it looks cool as well.

SPEAKER_02 9:38

You look at a bunch of hard bastards down the corner and then just he'll be he'll be the one laughing.

SPEAKER_03 9:44

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 9:44

He can put ear pods in. He what? He can put his ear pods in. You think he's a nerd just listen, just listen to them lads can't put earpods in?

SPEAKER_03 9:52

They have to wear big heads in.

SPEAKER_06 9:53

Oh, I thought you meant when he was do when he was when he was doing it.

SPEAKER_03 9:57

Alright. James Blunt back to Bedlam and get a rolling. They have to wear head pieces because the nothing fits in their ears. Oh yeah. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_06 10:06

That's a big fucking But then Is it but then I don't fucking wrong. I know, but see when I do we certain we certain jerk movements sore like. Um I don't know if our ears are worth prote we have slightly bigger ears, I would say me and you.

SPEAKER_03 10:28

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_06 10:29

But then that's gonna look worse if they're cauliflowers. But if I had unreal ears, I'd probably want to protect them, like. But maybe these boys just didn't have good ears to start with. Probably it's better to have cauliflower ears than just not good ears. Yeah. Do you know because then people like you're right, they're like, oh, he's a fighter or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 10:47

People like being intimidated by it. But how do you want to get like that? No one would like imagine you having cauliflower ears on stand-up. No one's gonna like haggle you, like no one would haggle. But how do you how does it go like that? Just like friction. Like, do you know Pauly McCrory used to he was bored of getting cloudflower ear because when he was punching he was doing this? He had a habit of doing this with his glove. Right. So the ladder rubbing off constantly rubbing off his ear like f like for years. So he used to have to wear like a headband, like a tennis headband on his ear, to p prev prevent himself like rubbing his ears going pure red and all that.

SPEAKER_06 11:22

I'm gonna sit and do that every night in the house.

SPEAKER_03 11:24

Yeah, that's it.

Boxing Wear And Tear Questions

SPEAKER_06 11:26

What do you what is there anything you you get from boxing? Like, is there any part of your body that that like boxers notice it changes? Anything to do with your hands or anything?

SPEAKER_03 11:33

Like, uh well obviously boxers break their hands, probably get arthritis, like after boxing. Most most will get most like fighters will end up with arthritis some season and big baggy eyes, like because of like cuts and scars all in our hair. And then obviously fucking.

SPEAKER_06 11:50

Would you get work done after your tire? Get would you get your eyelids done?

SPEAKER_03 11:54

I don't know. I I don't know if mine's just that bad, but well, they are like they actually are because they've had like fucking eight cuts, but they're not that bit in between your eyebrow and the top of your eye?

SPEAKER_06 12:04

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:06

Um probably. It depends, like how bad it gets. Yeah. Like Terra McCann's are bad, he has a lot of cuts. He's had a lot of cuts and his are really bad.

SPEAKER_07 12:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:14

When you look at him now, say he's taking a video, you'll notice this next time you see it, it's pure red. Yes. Like red scar tissue under his eyes. So like he could do a bit of work. But I I would do work. It's not frowned upon no more.

SPEAKER_06 12:28

Would you? Yeah. As soon as boxing door, would you get would you get BBL or anything? Could do you get a big arch? Big juicy arch.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Don't let farriers a BBL. Big red thong. They're in the hell's bay, talent. Fuck me, there's your eyes, hard con big state. Whoa!

SPEAKER_03 12:48

He's a big red thong on the big thing.

SPEAKER_06 12:50

They're all looking at you from the back. Oh fuck it. And you turn around.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

Jeez, let's have blood that woman. She's going back.

Football Memories And World Cup Dress Up

SPEAKER_06 12:56

Can I tell you, driving in the Ballyclare here gave me flashbacks? Last time we're here, we we drew Ballyclare Comrades in the cup. They're under 21s. What was the score?

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Eight now.

SPEAKER_06 13:08

What do you reckon? Four now. 13-1. It flattered download.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Don't tell me you scored. Well no.

SPEAKER_06 13:15

Yeah, flattered down with the score line. Did it really? No. I said that to someone. I I went, it was closely.

SPEAKER_03 13:22

13-1? Fuck bro.

SPEAKER_06 13:23

But so because they were they're kids like on a big giant 4G pitch. Yeah, they're just not um on the road. But someone said someone goes to some of my team and went, that's shin to all play no. Here he's he's shaping ping a ball. See once I get a big compliment like that. That's all you need. That's all you need. I can kick a ball far. Not two people, but I can kick a far. Who take and go kicks? 13. 13-1.

SPEAKER_03 13:48

13-1? That's a fucking I played in a 21-1. We beat the senior team, a Swift's beat the Swift senior team in the Cup, Irish Cup.

SPEAKER_06 13:56

Do you miss are you are you gonna play a wee bit?

SPEAKER_03 13:58

I'll probably play a wee bit when I retire as well. Again, just at this stage where I don't want to risk it for injuries, like for another sport that I didn't I didn't dedicate my life to.

SPEAKER_07 14:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:07

But again, you feel like I'm I feel like I'm missing out. Yeah like the team there's a big World Cup party in St. James's this weekend, Saturday. Everyone gets a draw. There's over a hundred men have to dress up. So everyone gets a draw. There's a draw done, everyone puts in three quid. In the national costume of the country? Yeah. So you have to dress up as something to do with the country. I drew France.

SPEAKER_06 14:31

Right.

SPEAKER_03 14:32

What am I dressing up as?

SPEAKER_06 14:33

Stripey, white and black.

SPEAKER_03 14:36

It's just normal, but nah, I meant. I thought it would say the box.

SPEAKER_06 14:41

Ratatouille?

SPEAKER_03 14:42

No. I wouldn't have to dress up.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

To show up? Just show up under someone's hand.

SPEAKER_05 14:51

Usually we a wee brown wee brown nose. Burn the works.

SPEAKER_06 14:58

I'm being serious. See now you've said that. You are the human that looks most like Ralatouille that I know. Now you've said that. Who do you think I look like most out of Disney?

SPEAKER_03 15:08

Out of Disney? I know. I've got at the Tamone.

SPEAKER_06 15:12

No.

SPEAKER_03 15:14

Hercules? The big guy or the despicable me, what I call him. You've got the same face as him. Grey. Grey. Grey.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

You do. You have the same like features as Grey. No, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_06 15:32

Oh you mature? She was a fool. You mean the guy that you mean the Incredibles?

SPEAKER_02 15:36

No.

SPEAKER_06 15:37

Hercules.

SPEAKER_00 15:39

The speckle of me is not from Disney. But that is it, that is it. Like the Segwall Me is where Grew is from, but it's not Disney.

SPEAKER_03 15:46

He's like Let me have a look at this.

SPEAKER_06 15:52

I'm trying not to lose my cool hair.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

That's not him.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

I don't actually mean him.

SPEAKER_06 16:06

Are you for is that who no that's not who you're thinking?

SPEAKER_03 16:08

No way I mean I I'm actually getting mixed up between him and the the guy from Hotel Transylvania.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

The guy out of the sounder play?

SPEAKER_03 16:18

Yeah, yeah, traggler. You look like Dragler from Hotel Transylvania. Show me. This is a fucking tate tate space and it'll be hard sworn like Yeah. Big long narrow face. Yeah. You look like him. You f like you If I look like Radatou, which I I agree with, I can see she ain't thought.

SPEAKER_06 16:54

That's bullshit.

SPEAKER_03 16:57

What is what doesn't resemble you in that photo?

SPEAKER_06 17:01

But about I don't have in that I I have like a very square face. I have a good like jawline though.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

No, but you're it's like an oval. Like a like an American football. Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 17:20

Nah.

SPEAKER_02 17:21

Nah he doesn't get it.

SPEAKER_05 17:23

Note you have, note you are, shall ha you look at your look at myself and go, fuck. Everyone else is going arco.

SPEAKER_02 17:37

That's when your man talks on the back downstairs.

SPEAKER_01 17:43

You think right with that? Holy fuck.

SPEAKER_05 17:50

You think I look at myself and go, that's a fuck, that's a boy there. And then other people go, oh my god. What's a scared? Yeah. Um maybe, maybe. Do you think? Sometimes I do. Do you see different yourself than you do the other people?

SPEAKER_06 18:02

Yeah, 100%. Oh yeah, we're just gonna be able to do it. But then as don't you see yourself, you're seeing yourself and people are seeing you in different angles? No. Back to front. No, you know what I mean? Like my image?

SPEAKER_00 18:15

Yeah, but Yeah, it is that because there was like a filter on TikTok where like I just flipped your face around and apparently that's how people see you.

SPEAKER_06 18:22

Right. See when I see myself good. See when I see that flipped around thing? Freak.

SPEAKER_03 18:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 18:30

So I don't know. I I just That's why I only look at people in mirrors. You don't notice, but I've got wee bit of trickery going here. But not my leg. Yeah, sometimes I I look at myself and and I'm really happy with that. And then but I don't really I don't really make an impression like I'm not turning heads like.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

When I look at myself, when I see a photo or a video of me from the side, yeah. Because you can't see yourself saying profile brutal. When I say profile, I have a big like I don't want to sound shit because of boxing my life, but I have a big straight nose that I never knew I had from the front. I think my nose's good, no. It's good. Oh, but you think straight better from the side? No, it doesn't think it looks too straight. It just doesn't like I don't know. It's oh like flat? Yeah, like just like that flat, but it's like so what would you get done?

SPEAKER_06 19:25

Would you just prop it up a wee bit?

SPEAKER_03 19:26

I don't know. I just think from like from face on.

SPEAKER_06 19:29

Why don't you put a wee bit of cell tape at the end of it and then back and then back your head?

SPEAKER_03 19:32

Because when I take the cell cell tape off my rock come off, fucking hanging off this for dear life. All that's left of it. Um but yeah.

SPEAKER_06 19:41

There's a bit of smoke and mirrors going on there.

SPEAKER_03 19:43

I don't know what's going on there. I'm quite versatile, it was born out of mine.

SPEAKER_06 19:46

But you you use it you have a good shaped head head. Your dad's bald, is it? No. No?

SPEAKER_03 19:52

Is anyone in your family bald? No.

SPEAKER_06 19:54

But I've got that.

SPEAKER_03 19:57

We all at my dad's a V hurling, a V front.

SPEAKER_06 20:00

But he's kept We all have it.

SPEAKER_03 20:01

He still has that V front right up the night. He just gives himself a two over, like.

SPEAKER_06 20:05

Would you shoot?

SPEAKER_03 20:06

Does he do it himself? It stalls, does it all right? Two, just two over.

SPEAKER_06 20:09

Would you suit being bald or shooting?

SPEAKER_03 20:14

Right. Heads far too small.

SPEAKER_06 20:16

So you have the opposite of a big head, like.

SPEAKER_03 20:17

No, I mean I like I I have a my head's too small, my ears are too big.

SPEAKER_06 20:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 20:22

That's just that's it. In a nutshell, I would look like fucking Uncle Fester or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 20:27

See I have a bit I have a big long hair at the back.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 20:30

Long like.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

How was America?

North America Tour Highs And Lows

SPEAKER_02 20:34

Don't want to talk with heads here, like a hair rabbit hole here. It was each other a lust. It was good.

SPEAKER_06 20:47

It was good. It was good. It was really good. Um everything went nice. Show although I say shows were good. We did a the last show of the tour was Toronto seven o'clock in Toronto and nine o'clock. And then our flight home was 11.55. So we had to get to the airport. Would you la arrive at the airport at the time boarding starts? Oh. So it's an international flight to say be there three hours before. Yeah. We'd be there 55 minutes before the flight took off. And we made it, we just about made it, but the early show in Toronto was one of the best shows of the tour, the seven o'clock. And the nine o'clock was one of the worst shows of the tour. Mad to just have those two back to front. Because the first one sold out real quick. And then they go, Do you want to do art a show? And the speed of the first one sold out. I was like, Yeah, definitely. Absolutely. And then the second one just didn't sell great at all. And there was like a group in the front row who who had done e I assume done edibles before the show. And it just if I had them in the front row would have been fine. Yeah, but it just it wrecked it and I also didn't sort of deal with it well enough 'cause the first one had gone so well, I was just kinda gutted that this one wasn't going as well. I mean it was it was completely fine, but it was just nuts to have. It'd be like d doing one of the best rounds of sparing you've ever had. Nothing will come off with you.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

How would you deal with it, like in terms of like a front row band, but you not just say, Look, listen, security can be just raise their fucking meltdowns?

SPEAKER_06 22:17

They weren't being that bad there was a lot of talking between themselves and you could the whole rest of the audience wanted the show and were enjoying it. And they but they they were like joining in with punch lines and all that kind of stuff, or like trying to add a bit, and there was a fella just sitting like middle of the front row. And I I I I think it's probably the sort of scenario where had had had he not taken the edible, would have been a hundred percent. It didn't seem like a bad guy at all. But it's just like they if you're gonna do that, don't come to a show. Like a show isn't where you want to be.

SPEAKER_03 22:48

You can't like the energy of the show doesn't match you, so it doesn't work.

SPEAKER_06 22:53

But it did have a I had a bit of a back and forth with them, but there weren't there they weren't being dicks at all. It was just their energy wasn't what the show was. But no, it was it was it was brilliant. Like Boston was one of the highlights of it. Um I had a day the only day off I had was in Texas. Got barbecu I got my barbecue food. I go to the same place every time. Nice. It is unbelievable. It's like you used to watch man versus food back in the day. It's it's that. And you just go in, there's just a long line of people, you're probably waiting about half an hour.

SPEAKER_03 23:26

That's how you know it's good food though. And they just slow cooked a lot of their stuff, slow cooked.

SPEAKER_06 23:30

They have this big smoker out the side, and then you you go in and it's just it's just food's unbelievable, but you need a day to just sit after and not do anything.

SPEAKER_03 23:40

See, um I thought I sort of thought that you you would struggle a bit with your food on the go like that. I do. On the go it'd be a bit of a struggle with the ring.

SPEAKER_06 23:49

I'll do one day like that, or I'll have the old burger here and there, but then I do kind of just you ever heard a place heard of a place called Sweet Green in America? It's like a salad place. I just go you're it's good like when I was thinking about it. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 24:05

Yeah, just keep it simple because when you're eating on the go and you're eating bad choices, it's just like you feel slowish and you're probably like you probably won't perform as good.

SPEAKER_06 24:12

Yeah, it's just like oh But I didn't do any like late I didn't do any late nights and then the flights every day I was doing, I didn't do any like 6 a.m., 7am flights. Yeah. I just paid a wee fucker man. I just paid a wee bit more to do like 10am flights so there was no early start. So I was getting my sleep. Not with this. But I do a weird sleep thing.

Sleep Rituals And Public Toilet Rules

SPEAKER_03 24:38

You would you would have a your routine would be cube asleep. I would say if you don't get your sleep, I would say bitch like I was travelling with my mate Denzi.

SPEAKER_06 24:48

Do you know Denzi? Matthew Dinsmore?

SPEAKER_03 24:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 24:51

He posted he sent me a picture of him and Dara at AVA the day after we arrived home and everybody was dead somber. Picture of him and Dara and he just wrote Bran Slavon.

SPEAKER_03 25:01

Brand Slav loads of people were saying that about me recently, loads were like fuck up your brand slattern or everything.

SPEAKER_06 25:09

So we so we had to share we had our own hotel rooms for the tour, but there was one night there was a there was a a mix-up and he went out for so we sh we're sharing a room and he went out after for a couple of beers and I was like I'll I'll just see you back in the room. But I didn't warn him about my sleep routine. Oh shit, I even he's come back and he no, he didn't wake me up. It's what I do, what I do when I sleep. So what I do is uh I put the I have a big eye mask. Yeah I do tape over the top of my nose.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

Fuck fuck's sake.

SPEAKER_06 25:46

And then I I tape my mouse with black tape, like a big giant strip of black yourself. No, I cut a hole in it so I can breathe. I said that to him as a joke. He goes, Do you really tape your mouse? And I go, Aye, but I cut a hole in it like so it's easier to breathe through it. He goes, Do you? No, you fucking idiot. But so I've got big black eye mask, the wee tape, we rubby fouler tape over here, and then mouse with black tape, and then I sleep outside the covers, pillowing between my legs on my side. But he's I didn't warn him about this, and he came in about an hour after I'd gone to bed, and I sleep in pitch black darkness, like so he just had the light of his mobile phone and he turned the light to where I was so he could walk past, and he his reaction will woke me up like he shot himself. Fucking right, you wouldn't all taped up and all the time. Like how do you think I should have told you about this?

SPEAKER_02 26:47

How did you discover that this means you sleep bad?

SPEAKER_03 26:50

Is it step by step? Like I'll like I'll start off maybe sleeping with a pillow on between my legs.

SPEAKER_06 26:56

I was the last thing. I started off with the eye mask, right? Because I like pitch black dark, but now it's coming into summer. Bit of light comes into our room, I don't like it. So I did that, and then I started reading about the mouth tape, and Erling Halland does it, so I go, well, if he does it, I should be doing it. Well not lose 13-1 anymore. Lou's 13 2, maybe I can get a goal. So then I did that, but then I go, I'm not used to breathing through my nose too much. So I need help. So then I get the wee strip. Yep. And then I was sleeping on my back, and then I read, you should sleep on your side, but then my hips were getting a wee bit sore and tight, I gotta get tight hips anyway.

SPEAKER_01 27:40

Like This is gonna go on for the rest of your life, you want. It's gonna be something near you.

SPEAKER_06 27:46

I tape more sub too as well.

SPEAKER_01 27:48

And then I I found That's why Denzi was disgust That's why it was all fucking disorientated. The hole was taped up. I was like, fuck us Shane, wake it up.

SPEAKER_06 28:01

I put the cotton buds and mirrors. No, I don't. Um That's next. Put the the pillows in between the easy game changer like and I'm sleeping on real. I put a wee po a wee history podcast on with a ten minute timer. Gone. Gone. Do you go to sleep quick?

SPEAKER_03 28:20

I sleep like that.

SPEAKER_06 28:21

Do you?

SPEAKER_03 28:22

So quick. No real What position you sleep in?

SPEAKER_06 28:24

I say you sleep in your front. I sleep. With your hands tucked under your chin.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

I sleep on my left side always. Apparently that's good for your organs, do you know that? I sleep with I don't know what, but I know what nine and it's good because my organs work well. Too well, probably. What? I'm like, can I go to the toilet? Yeah, like I must go to the toilet fucking three times a day. So do I. And she's like that's good for you. And she's like, What? Like, how's it normal? I'm like, Yep. Well, you've probably checked the shit in for about fucking two weeks. That's not good for you. You know what I mean? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 28:57

People tell you that and they're like, you should be gone like twice a month. What are you doing? Twice a month?

SPEAKER_03 29:01

What are you eating?

SPEAKER_06 29:02

Three I'd be th I'd be about three times a day.

SPEAKER_03 29:04

Oh three times a day. Yeah, easy.

SPEAKER_06 29:06

You get into a wee routine as well. Do you want to work out people who go, Oh, I I couldn't shit in public, like I I need to do it at my house? I go, well, how can you how can how do you work that then? I know.

SPEAKER_03 29:16

How about they just fucking hold shit in the rest of your life? But to do. Imagine being on the road. Do you do like a volunteer for two weeks? Do you do like a wee setup? No, I have them shit in public, like always a setup, or don't have her like. No, don't have her. People have her like.

SPEAKER_07 29:31

Do you do a wee a wee paper a wee paper?

SPEAKER_03 29:33

Like, I build a fort.

SPEAKER_07 29:34

All way around.

SPEAKER_03 29:35

I build a fucking fort.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

It's like a two-man tent.

SPEAKER_03 29:42

Just have it just set like folded, folded. And then I walked in a couple weeks ago and they are toilet. Look, what's our carpet doing?

SPEAKER_06 29:50

He's doing the same.

SPEAKER_03 29:51

And our toilet. Yep. And home toilet. I'm like, Carrie's when you do it in here that this is our house. Nah. He's done. I'm like, fuck a set of crater.

SPEAKER_06 30:01

I do, I do, I do a wee setup.

SPEAKER_03 30:04

A setup is a must. Some places have the wee hand gel.

unknown 30:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:10

Not hand gel like it's bacteria colour to clean the toilet seat. Some places city hall have it. So you would so if they have that, you're not building the. No, I still build a fort. But what that's good for is preventing, because it has a wee bit of moisture. You get it on the you get it on the tissue and then you wipe the toilet seat to make it like a wee bit moist, and it's clean, obviously. And then you get a couple of rolls of like toilet roll to make it refort and it won't move. The toilet roll won't move because it's like stuck to the moisture.

SPEAKER_06 30:39

Because sometimes you build it and then the air, the air of you sitting down can yeah. Do you get that sometimes? 100%.

SPEAKER_03 30:46

Oh fuck. Yeah. And you're on the toilet seat. Yeah. And you've built the four from now and it's too late, and they're just like, ah fuck it.

SPEAKER_06 30:52

Might as well just unleash. Cause I I would always say to my kids before your rhinals are going, don't let your E man touch. Because kids, kids don't know. So I make them stand back. Oh I sh they're missing like fuck.

SPEAKER_03 31:07

Yeah, yeah. At least they don't have fucking.

SPEAKER_06 31:10

What weird weird etiquette about that is like you go to your rhinals and a guy will see you and there's ten urinals and a fella'll walk in and go and to a cubicle.

SPEAKER_03 31:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:25

And then you go. And you go, well, I don't expect you to stand beside me, but like why why have I put you off anyone else being there?

SPEAKER_03 31:33

But then some people can't go when people are around them. Fuck I know. But then but then that's probably you also can't go on demand. I don't know if it's because it's like I think it's demand's a big part of it. And I think it's because like the adrenaline is still kicking around in your leg, button you like y it's hard to concentrate, so I really need to go in. And I always did in the end, but it's like it takes me easy. I need to like just go into zone.

unknown 32:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:01

And then I'm like, I'm trying to force it out, and then when I'm trying to force it every fart, like fucking. By the way, they're not there.

SPEAKER_06 32:13

For some reason, mental that you would say penis. Penis, I know well I have to say penis.

SPEAKER_03 32:18

Had to say penis, because that's that's their terminology, they would use it, penis.

SPEAKER_05 32:22

But I just let it rip and then you swear more than most people I know, and the idea that you say penis is just funny to me. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 32:29

Is there not a West Belfast for penis, surely, or something? Yeah, has to be.

SPEAKER_05 32:33

There's loads. Willard?

SPEAKER_03 32:36

Williard would be one of those fucking smelly.

SPEAKER_05 32:38

What else? Dwinger? I think it's you say doinger. Dwinger.

SPEAKER_06 32:43

You say dwinger. But no, but you say doinger like in the bedroom and all I can see you being like I'm my dwinger.

SPEAKER_03 32:50

Pierce and L was on here last week. I don't know if you know Pierce Pierce. Yeah, no oven people. Pierce saying the schlong.

SPEAKER_06 32:59

Schlong's a good one. Schlong, the poor, the poor Schlong can't be a wee one either. No, you can't have a wee schlong.

SPEAKER_03 33:06

Yeah, yeah. What else? What else? Butcher's block. Cat? Yeah. Fuck me, your butcher block's hanging it. That's good. Yeah. What else?

SPEAKER_06 33:18

The lad. I I just like the lad.

SPEAKER_03 33:20

The lad. The lad hanging it like. Yeah. That's very culchy, I think. Is it the lad? I would say that's that's culture, like nearly or something. Yes, yes. Yes. Wouldn't it be?

SPEAKER_07 33:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:32

Whereas Belfast, they're they're just so like they're acting it's like, oh fuck me, you had a cock like there.

SPEAKER_07 33:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

Something like that. Something like crude. Yes. It's always like the body. What are you thinking?

SPEAKER_00 33:46

No, I think it's like it's all the same. Maybe like your Mickey, maybe.

SPEAKER_06 33:49

See, that's too too like a wee old person would say that.

SPEAKER_03 33:54

Or a kid. Yes. Yes, it's too immature. Yes. Or daddy may make any go, my McGee's. Yes. That's something a kid would say.

SPEAKER_07 34:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:04

Um but kids nowadays like they're fucking they're a wee bit more Yeah, they're probably saying it with their words. Yes. They're not like nuts, my kid goes, I'd like to punch nuts. Nuts constantly said my voice ain't. Yep. And he doesn't hang on, you're driving me nuts. They're trying to take away the constantly saying that he's sitting in school. You know, add your punching nuts. Yeah, he trying to kick me in the nuts. Yeah. And like, well, you always just constantly talk about nuts. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 34:32

So I say, You're driving me nuts, and he goes, Ah, he ain't like he can't my uh my dad used to say instead of fart, my dad used to say apple tart,

Family Swearing Stories And Embarrassment

SPEAKER_06 34:43

right? Oh, he did away apple tart, right? And then I saved up enough pocket money back in the day to go to uh from Hollywood where getting a bit of grand away.

SPEAKER_05 34:53

Um bank transfer straight in oh we dividends um he's done order.

SPEAKER_06 35:10

But I I did not enough anyway to go to Elliott joke shop in Belfast and get a fart meeting, you know, bought the building and just kept leaving it in.

SPEAKER_05 35:21

Um what do you spend your pocket money on?

SPEAKER_06 35:24

Property, a portfolio this fart mission, it's just remote controlled, right? So like you said it anywhere and you're across the room hitting it. And I was about, I don't know, 11, 12, and my dad goes, Now when you go up and ask your man for it, he goes, Just say, just say apple, make sure you say apple tart. But he was joking, right? But I didn't know that, so I was like, Oh my dad doesn't want me to say fart like so I went. I ended up the guy working there and I was like, I'll never forget this. It's not even that funny. I've just never been more embarrassed in my life. I went could I have an apple tart machine? The guy goes, We don't sell those, and I was like, Oh, I just thought it said, Did it just do? And he's like, An apple tart machine, and I was I was going bright red like my dad was there, and I was like, you know, like uh make like funny noises, and he was like, Yeah, we don't do why you what are you looking at an apple tart machine for? And my dad and my dad and I like I was like, Oh, don't worry about it. Then got in the car and I was like, Oh, he he didn't know what I meant. My dad goes, You say fart machine? I went, No, I say an apple tart, then we'll let you down.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

And I was like, You could say fart your 121 that remember 12 But I got it, I got it, dude.

SPEAKER_06 36:46

I got it. Apple tart. So my dad never I never heard my dad swear ever, and then it must have been at about 10, 11, 12, something like that. My dad goes, uh I never heard him swear, and then he goes, uh, we're playing golf, and he was he was having a shocker, and my dad goes, I'm gonna swear, and I right and then he had a bad shot, and he said every word.

SPEAKER_05 37:19

He just he just shared them all up on blackwood, he just shared all of them on one go. You made it up for 12 years and then I go I didn't know he said that and he's he just cut them all out because he'd been holding them in like people gonna share them.

SPEAKER_06 37:35

He built the fourth, he said it all, and I was like, I was like finding out, you know, something he never thought would happen. He just said them all. You dirty fucking god battered fuck. Just all of them everything just having a meltdown, yeah. And then he's just swearing all the time. I couldn't believe it. I actually thought he didn't do it. Once his team was broke, that was it. I thought he didn't do it.

SPEAKER_03 37:56

That's quite a swear. No fuck. My dad was tricked on us, but like he swear that. Yeah, but he would never let us swear that us. He was like even like my my brother was like my oldest brother, Jared, he's 40 like, but he was coming up the Irish like about six years ago, maybe longer, about seven years ago. And might he we never seen him, he lives in like 23 or something, but he he just pops in out every now and different continent.

SPEAKER_06 38:26

He lives he's fucking lives with Asia or He lives in fucking somewhere they're not walking anyway, but he uh he walks in randomly, very rarely, like and then I tell you, fucking Jordan Fucking house on his mouth.

SPEAKER_03 38:42

I said, Mr. Truthus? Yeah, but like it's every second word. Yeah, yeah. You're the same. He just doesn't know and he's like I had a thing, I'm not gonna hell. Yeah. Like seriously?

SPEAKER_06 38:57

I got caught swearing when I was a body in these fields out the back of where we live. And it was like other kids are, I think I was trying to like impress them. Um we were shouting sort of back and forth with them to each other, but it was like kind of messing. And I was swearing, I was like, ah, you f you f you fucker, you bastard and all this. But it was like a a movie. My dad walked up behind me, and people were trying to go, you know what you'd say in the film. She ain't and I I was like, fuck off, fuck off, you dick. And I'm like, I'm laughing, and everyone's going dead quiet. And I was like, What is that? All right, and I slowly I knew he was behind me. I just knew. And my dad didn't say anything, and he just went, he just went home.

SPEAKER_03 39:41

And you know, you're like that walk home is like no words.

SPEAKER_06 39:45

I only got gr I only got grounded like twice in my life.

SPEAKER_03 39:47

Did you? Yeah, so you must have been good. I was good boy, like I remember I was grounded an awful lot. More more so was stuff to do with school. Like my dad was always very disappointed. I mean that like getting in trouble, like getting suspended in school or getting exp I got expelled one time. And funny enough, he didn't grant me when I got expelled. He was he like he was like, he didn't grant me, he went above and beyond to make to get it all sorted, and he did, and I got back into the school. But anytime I was sent home with ladder or suspended, I was like, he went ballistically.

SPEAKER_06 40:17

I would get the silent asylum treatments first. Manage wouldn't send anyway for a weekend.

SPEAKER_03 40:22

Big time.

Getting Caught Drinking At Thirteen

SPEAKER_03 40:23

I caught drinking when I was thirteen. Black. I would be stealing, drank six tens of butter. Six tens of butter. I don't know how I fucking even got these in the mouth. Thirteen road body, but then I did. RD tower on me. He beat the ball to me, bothered me, told my dad. My dad was away with it for the weekend on my man, hanging back, day told him to run on me. He was like fucking, he was like Dave was running about, like he knew like my dad. That's what he was even though like he never drank till he was 19. Right. So he was just like fucking always looking out for you. Found out who went in the off lines for me, someone called English Rob, right? He was living in Terra Florida time in the off lines for me.

SPEAKER_06 41:12

Was English Rob only allowed in tour floods at that time? Because he would have gone in the off licence for people?

SPEAKER_03 41:17

I don't know, I think his parents or his grandparents or something from the floods we were visiting for each holidays, and he was 18 or 19. We were only 13, but he was in there anyway. I wouldn't tell him who got me to carry out. I said, I don't know, I don't know, something fat. I said, I don't know, I don't know. He went down and fucking interrogated all my mates, threatening eminence. Everybody's was afraid of D like back in the day, like everybody afraid of him and he's like fucking so someone told him who it was. He said, Any swab. He said, Oh fuck, so he's robbed. Tony Bendinack. He has a bendy neck. It's me at the minute at you. I wish I was Tony Bendinack. Tony Bendinack with drink with Brand Slab. Funny enough, right? That's the true story, right? So Tony Bendinack has a bendy knack, right? And he supports Melbourne. Right. Super Mel Wolf. So he walks around, he blocks it and Super Mel Wolf on it then. So he walks about like a hooligan. You're seeing like hooligans walk with bending acts. Yeah, yeah. That's Tony Bendy.

SPEAKER_05 42:21

So his neck isn't like that, but it's when he's doing that.

SPEAKER_03 42:24

He walks just to be like Tony Bendinac. So that's how he walks. So they automatically assumed English Rob was Tony Bendinack because Tony Bendinack's from Melbourne. By the way, this is like a snatch type movie. Yeah, Sky Ritchie type movie. Yeah, like knacks.

SPEAKER_07 42:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 42:40

So they goes down to the green hut. But does Tony Bendinack know English Rob? No. Right. So there's no connection between them at all.

SPEAKER_03 42:49

Right. So D goes down to the Green Hut and What he just Tony Bendinack? He would be f nah, probably fifty. Right. Oh De goes down and fucking batteries Tony Bendinack for nothing. It's like the Green Hut. Or it's him taking him out for something. He's like, I didn't want the offerings for anybody, any kid. Or scuffle, D splits.

SPEAKER_06 43:08

What did he just do at this time?

SPEAKER_03 43:09

D' probably nineteen. Right. Twenty. So Tony Bendinack's been there for nothing. So D walked Tony Bendinack. His neck's going straight. And then the next time straighten them up. Next felt something. We'll test it out after this book. But uh so he goes up, finds out it wasn't Tony Bendinack, and then he goes around and bothered his English shop. Yeah. And then he's a big black guy. I get let out a week later. He's like, I was on parole. Yeah. So we'll get released. After a week, go back down and he's starting my big black guy. He's like, fucking tout. I was like, what? He's like, you fucking tout, you rat. And I was like, what who's a rat? You fucking tell your brother. I was like, I didn't tell anybody. Fucking rat or two. I was like, what? And I couldn't get my head on it, and then I found. That it was one of the one of my inmates turned.

SPEAKER_06 44:02

Yep, not me. But was your dad alright with D doing that? Did your dad think I was fair? Right.

SPEAKER_03 44:08

I don't even think he knew it'd be fair to say.

SPEAKER_06 44:09

Did D get power mad? Because he was running the roof when your dad was away. Probably.

SPEAKER_03 44:15

Yeah. He does get like that anyway.

SPEAKER_06 44:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:17

A lot of people come to RD for for help. Right.

When Your Brother Fixes Everything

SPEAKER_03 44:20

And I'm like, what are you covering for? Tell the fuck off.

unknown 44:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:23

And he's a big heart. Yeah. But I'm like, so fuck Emmons like. Right. Do you?

SPEAKER_06 44:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:30

Be your own man and fuck Emmons.

SPEAKER_06 44:32

But D you can kinda he can lead like he can reconcile people, sort of. Yeah. So what's sort of a problem with somebody come to D with? Just anything like that. Somebody in the street is playing loud movies.

SPEAKER_03 44:45

Someone goes to me, oh like if someone comes and goes like like one of a like a like a friend or a family member or something, would all run the D and be like, oh such and such like he wants this and he wants to hit me or he wants it. And D's like, well, why? So he has to go and sort it. And like he's going sort of the problem. Like say for example, one of my cousins who someone's money. Yep. And they're gonna bait my cousin up. These go up and go, What do we get my aunt's store? Do you like he's always in the middle of it? I'm like, Where are you? Get the fuck, what do they got to do with you? Yeah, he's like, well, fucking at him near me out such and such a store. And I'm like, I'm at that problem. He's always trying to sort people's problems out, and people always run him to sort his problems out. Yep. Just in that, like in that context of like trouble. Yes. And I'm like, just stay away from it. It's none of your business, like honestly. So there you go. That's that's where a lot of a lot of his trouble comes from it. And then one of my this is a good story, right? One of my good mates, right? Slapped a housebreaker. Like a housebreaker, a well-known housebreaker, he slapped him. While he was in his house or no, just saturated completely outside, like in a nightclub, right? Outside a nightclub, right? My brother took it upon himself to fight with him, my mate, because he slapped a housebreaker. And he said he's a we he was being ticked here, turn it and he sweet hit him a slap or something. So my brother went and hit him. Then they were fighting like fuck. Um Did he know the housebreaker? Yeah, and he knows he's a housebreaker. Right. D' like, why the fuck do you hit him for? You won't hit me like that and hit him. And he's like, he's a fucking rat. He's just and he was like, So what? You still won't hit me like that? And I'm like, Why are you defending him for?

SPEAKER_06 46:28

Well were you just cross because you'd heard that a fellow rat had been hit?

SPEAKER_03 46:36

Rats stay together, you know what I mean? You took a wee block of cheese after it? Here, come here, put him away. I'll be like, fuck in John Coffey, no. In the green mail? It's not John Coffee that has the rat, though, is it's is it the other one?

SPEAKER_06 46:54

Because I didn't never seen it.

SPEAKER_03 46:55

Have you not?

SPEAKER_06 46:56

No.

SPEAKER_03 46:56

You've never watched my mail.

SPEAKER_06 46:59

Nah, come on. I swear. I've seen like maybe a bit of it or something. I know how the big guy talks. But is he magic or something?

SPEAKER_08 47:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 47:07

Is he? He cures cancer. Right.

SPEAKER_03 47:09

I haven't seen that. I can't believe you've never watched me mail.

SPEAKER_00 47:12

No. Mr. Jingles is there.

SPEAKER_03 47:14

Mr. Jingles. There you go. Right. Well, you need to watch it anyway. Yeah, yeah, well what's it? Okay. It'll kill a good three hours of your time. Right. When you're when you're stuck for time. Right. When you're like resting that we knack ears. Yeah. Get the pillow side. Shiny Benny neck. Aye.

MMA Fear And Shane Vs Glenn

SPEAKER_03 47:31

Shiny Benny neck. Be no be no MMA for a wee while yet.

SPEAKER_06 47:35

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_03 47:35

Did you get the fever? Did you want to go back? Do you want to do it again?

SPEAKER_06 47:38

Get the bug. Do you know what I didn't like? See when someone like double leg take down when someone's taking you down and you're in the air, I go, just just sit me down. Iris leg. We're not having a competition fight, so just sit me down. Like I said, that Glenn had me like about take me down at one point. I went, just don't. I'll lie down now. You got me. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 47:58

Well what about you and so tell us we what about you and Glenn? Yeah, we started a YouTube channel.

SPEAKER_06 48:04

Shame versus Glenn.

SPEAKER_03 48:05

We're doing and everything, he's just gonna just part of the life, just comparative like he challenged friendly competition. Did you ever race?

SPEAKER_06 48:12

This is how it started. He challenged me to your race.

SPEAKER_03 48:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 48:19

Right. And I would win. So it was so he said how far will we run? Stupidly, I said 100 metres. That he's explosive. He's gonna he's gonna take off faster than me. Yeah. But once I get going, straight on big BFG legs. Yeah. So I should have said, I don't know, 200, 400 metres. Anyway, I was all up for the race. I was like, let's go. He had an injury. I went, well, kick it down the line a bit. Then we went to his house. Me and Calvin with a camera were maybe going to do a race that day. Claim put me through a one-hour leg workout. Then he goes, Do you want to race? And I went, Well, not now that my legs don't work. Then I had a bit of an injury. I've had I did the ligaments in my ankle about a year and a half ago, and I've just never stopped playing or running or anything. But it got worse and worse. But actually since the season end, it's got a good bit better now. And I'm doing some balanced stuff for it, so I should be alright soon. But we thought, why don't we do other stuff, other wee competitive type things, and then we'll build up to the race. Yeah. So we've done the ice bath, we've filmed the MMA yesterday. So it was do you know Owen who works out at Fed Academy Iron? McDonald? No. He's he's half from here, half Spanish. And he's like the the like number one PFL prospect in Europe. So he's serious, he's young, like. Um so the competition was who can last longer? When when's this gonna go out? Tuesday. Right, well I can't spoil it because it won't be out by then, but it was who can last longer with Owen? And you're not allowed to run away. So you've got to engage. Yeah. Um so that was the challenge. And then we're gonna do like we're doing gymnastics with Reese McClellan. Yeah. Who won the Olympic gold medal.

SPEAKER_03 50:14

Reese is a great, I was I I was aware with Reese before, come off games.

SPEAKER_06 50:17

Oh right. Serious Afflick. He's very serious. Serious Afflick. Um he has a big place up in Ards now, big place he trains out of that. I think it's almost like been built for him.

SPEAKER_03 50:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 50:27

So we're gonna get in with him and do that, and then it's all about we sillier kind of ones as well. So we want to do like diving. Yeah. You know, like off diving boards and stuff. Um I'd be good cracked. Um, and then just all all different things, but it's fun, like it is.

SPEAKER_03 50:41

You should do it doubles like together.

SPEAKER_06 50:44

I think we could build up to something like that.

SPEAKER_03 50:50

G for G-start, they're doing like a simulation, it's not a real like a big hyrax. It's it's a few. They're good, they're good. You would be you would be capable, very capable, especially with uh like a a doubles. Right. Because you're half in the reps.

SPEAKER_06 51:05

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would I I would love to at some point.

SPEAKER_03 51:07

Yeah, maybe it could be something you build up to. Yeah, yeah. Because when you're filming stuff, the atmosphere in it is unbelievable. Yeah. Proper hyraxes, but there it's it's a good way. That would be a good, like it'd obviously a good channel to follow because it's like a better competitive and a bit of crack as well.

SPEAKER_06 51:21

Yeah, it's good, it's good crack and it's not both of us want to win anything we do. Yeah, but neither of us would lose ahead if we didn't win it. You know what I mean?

World Cup Tickets And Border Reality

SPEAKER_06 51:30

But uh we're gonna do a football one with John Ellis, hopefully for the World Cup.

SPEAKER_03 51:34

Who do you think will win the World Cup?

SPEAKER_06 51:36

Um Spain or France? France.

SPEAKER_03 51:41

I drew France, and that we're gonna go. Oh yeah, so what are you gonna dress up as? A France bulldog. It's different. It is different. It's different. One of the lads last time drew England and dressed up as Queen Elizabeth, and someone threw it and dressed up as a Pope. There's a photo of the Pope having Queen Elizabeth pant over. Getting too by the Pope. There's a few few quality ones. My mate, one of my mates is French. We France, we do David, he his man is fully France, he speaks for France, whatever else. So one of the other lads drew France, yeah, dressed up as his man. Literally, I thumb over how to eat fucking black, wearing on glasses, we stripped me toppy, blue, fucking plays are not his quality. Uh so it's a big day in St. James's, and uh I've been offered tickets to go. I'm in a dilemma. Mate, a few of my mates are gone. These gone, they're going to Boston.

SPEAKER_06 52:41

See, that'll be great no matter what. I'm there for a tour show, New York, in a couple of weeks. Because the venue I wanted to play, I couldn't get it to sync up with the rest of the America tour. So we'd have moved the whole tour to the end of June, early July, but with the World Cup on, it'd be insane. So I was like, I'll just do New York by itself. So I haven't even booked my flights yet because I'm waiting to see what days it should go. Yeah. But I've been offered Norway, Senegal, Germany, Ecuador, possibly England, Panama. But I don't want to be first of all, the ticket, it's like face value tickets, which is great. That's great. But it's still insane money.

SPEAKER_03 53:24

I think they were saying like $1,500 or something.

SPEAKER_06 53:34

Is it a big game?

SPEAKER_03 53:35

I don't even know. I think it's opening day. It might be max.

SPEAKER_06 53:38

I just I I I I don't know what to do because if it was if it was Northern Ireland or Republic, I would easily pay no problem. You're going to support someone, you're actually involved, you're you're in so and the fact like uh women going to the England game because you you know you watch Premier League players, but then do I want to be in with England fans? I don't want to be in with any fans big set of fans that where it might like kick off, or it's Norway would be good. Norway Senegal might be alright. Norway would be. I come from Senegal. Um but something like that might be fun because there might be like a more fun atmosphere at that, but I don't know. I don't know if I'm gonna pull the trigger and do it. But then Germany, Ecuador might be a better game. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 54:28

That's a bit it's it's I might regret not being a legal experience, but I seen I've seen a lot of pundits saying that they should just pull out this the world cup just uh teams should just pull out of the world cup because of this ice thing with Trump and all this carrying on. I seen her like big kickback from like he's saying I'll be checking people's Instagrams and checking people's socials.

SPEAKER_06 54:45

Well I got told that going over to do tour, people to I I have visa, right? So people were like, you be careful, and they'll check all this and they'll check all that. And I say, No, I've got like an 01, so I can go I can go out there and work, no problem. And you're sort you sort of breeze on through, and people were like, even with that, I heard all these horror stories, you're gonna go through everything. Straight through. Straight through. Yeah. But in saying that, you know, we're white, yeah, you know, and we're coming from we're coming flying from Ireland, so would it be the same for people coming from Mexico or South America, anyway, other South American countries or countries that are more enemies of America? Um I don't know if the Iranians are gonna breeze in as quick. So I don't know if that was a false thing of me seeing it like that, but I don't know. I but do you know Canada would be the place to go see games? Yeah, Canada. Toronto or Toronto or Vancouver.

SPEAKER_03 55:41

Yeah, that's the best place, but probably be cheaper as well.

SPEAKER_06 55:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 55:47

Well, they're going to Boston because one of my mates live in Boston and they've they've they you know he's a big you've been to Boston? Been very similar at home. Nah, very similar. Very I prefer Boston to New York, funny enough. Like well, I can see that it's smaller, it's easier to remote, it's easier to get around, it's still got the big building, it's still got the f nice food spots, still got like everything for a drink, still got good like I just feel like it was just more easier to remote around the city, I take that.

SPEAKER_06 56:14

The gig I did there in Boston was in the Dubliner. So a guy called uh Orn from from Donegal actually runs it and um all the staff were from our literally doing a show at home.

SPEAKER_03 56:28

100%, no, a hundred percent. Did you ever go down to Lake Southey?

SPEAKER_08 56:33

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 56:34

Nah, but I didn't go either, but it was I was at the end of the street. Is it like a Irish part of it? It's like big Irish, like run down, fucking like gang shit. Like I think it's like the the like Irish gangs. It's like did you ever watch the film Town?

SPEAKER_07 56:49

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:49

It's based on based on a true story. It's like the bank Rom capital of the world.

SPEAKER_06 56:55

Chucky Arlam, mate. All that kind of stuff. Chucky Arlam, yeah. I swear to God, me and Denzi the whole time we were there were talking about that act, you know, the accent when like you're from home, but you lived out there in America for a long time. Because there was a guy who came up to a sort of show. He's with a big group of mates, and he came up to us and he was like, uh, yeah, I love the show, guys. Absolutely, uh, absolutely loved it, you know. And he goes, I've been out here for a few years now. And I'm trying, like, I'm trying not to laugh. Oh, that's fine. And I feel Dindy trying not to laugh. And then, and the get you know, the guy's like, uh, you know, have you you guys getting a couple of pints in tonight or what? And I'm like, Oh, I can't look at him. And he's being like, the guy is you find a lot of people who come and see these shows in America, they don't necessarily live in that city. Yeah, some of them fly.

SPEAKER_03 57:45

Yeah, that's fine.

SPEAKER_06 57:51

So you're honored that people have done this, but then and the guy's like uh, yeah, you know, three hours up the coast there, but I thought I'd come down and get a slice of home. And I'm and I I'm I'm you know laugh in somebody's face. And then I told that at the Boston show.

SPEAKER_03 58:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 58:08

And and all the other shows, I was doing a bit of a piss take about, you know, people exactly what you said, right? People come up to you and they go, uh, yeah, I left home a while ago, you know, a bit of an accent. And you go, How long you been here for? Uh six weeks. And then and then a guy came up to us after the show in Toronto, and I assumed he was joking because he'd heard what I'd said, and the guy came the guy the guy came up to us and went, I just absolutely love the show, fantastic. And we burst out laughing to him, thinking he was joking. And then he went, I know made the fucking accent, and he goes, You what?

SPEAKER_02 58:48

They turn your cheeky bastard It's like Americans.

SPEAKER_03 58:56

Yeah, like a challenge. Have you tried and get someone like an American actor to do a Belfast? Oh, hundred percent. Daniel Deleuze probably was probably the only one you can do. In the boxer? In the boxer. This was great. His was the only one you could say it was good. But any other actor who tries to do a Belfast accent is so fucking actor so letting it.

SPEAKER_06 59:15

I can it it'll r it'll ruin anything for me. Even if one of the characters has an accent from here that's slightly off, yeah, it just ruins it. I thought the guy in Say Nothing who who played Jerry Allen was brilliant.

SPEAKER_03 59:26

He was brilliant, very, very good.

SPEAKER_06 59:28

Uh, but it's not it's normally terrible.

SPEAKER_03 59:29

Yeah,

Accents, Stand Up Nerves, Sketch Life

SPEAKER_03 59:30

it's far it's uh uh it must be one of the hardest accents to to nail. Yeah, everyone has a twang. Yes, till they're when they're trying to do a Belfast accent. Even people from like the south of Ireland, yeah, yeah. They're trying to do an an accent, yeah. They can't do it. Yeah, they cannot do it. Yeah, and um it must be one of the hardest, like, because it's so strong, and that's one of the reasons why like so someone says, Would you ever do stand-up? And that's exactly the only reason the only reason why I would never even consider it, because I just know that people wouldn't understand me. I know that for a fact.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:03

But people take time to tune into an accent, so I notice when I do shows in America, Canada or whatever, people it's not just people from Ireland, or there's there's locals and there's people from all over. People bring friends, maybe who are from Boston or whatever, and I can always tell at the start, I can see this look, yeah. And then it's almost about six-seven minutes in.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:27

I can normally place it where I see people go, Oh, I've tuned in stick to the rhythm of the rhythm.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:34

Yeah, and also people it requires more attention, so it's it does, and people aren't always gonna get every word you're saying. And I realize that's fine because say we watch say I I love the War. War's my favorite TV show of all time.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:47

I I don't pick up every word. Yeah, just finished it for a second thing.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:50

But I get it, you know what I mean? I get it.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:54

No, I that's fair enough, like, but I'm just like I just feel like I'm too way too far gone. And even when I get excited, I laugh while I'm talking, so it's it does my head up.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:04

But they but you know that shouldn't be a reason why why not to do it.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:08

I'm doing the fla podcast, live podcast, first time ever.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:12

Right, where's that?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:13

Over in Ard One. Right. They understand me like that.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:16

So who what you're doing this live?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:18

I do it with Polly McDonald. This part of your podcast or my podcast. Right. Um I think he's doing standoff first. Right. And then I'll do the podcast after.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:28

Um But why don't you do see at the start of the podcast? Why don't you do a couple of minutes?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:32

No, I wouldn't have paused. But it's just an interaction to the podcast. I could do like I could do. Once you get on stage and and you have the attention on you and and you're in control, I I do know it's similar to if you're doing when you're doing a press conference. Yeah, similar, right?

SPEAKER_06 1:01:47

Talking on a mic.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:48

I know. It's just um lane. From like Tommy McCarthy from Barks and the Call of the World.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:57

Tommy's unbelievable, too many. See his sketches. Brilliant.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:01

He's loving it.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:02

He's just found the right formula.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:03

He's got a good uh see he's got a really good imagination, Tommy.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:06

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:07

He's a great imagination, and he always has.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:08

And he's hit he's hitting the nail on the head of like, oh, being in that city, people talking shit in the gym to you, or yeah, and he had there was a couple of guys uh at the Fight Academy Ireland, there was a couple of young fellas was were sort of training there and they were saying they've started doing sketches. Yeah. And there's one of those ones that were like, Would you sh you know, would you watch it and all? And and I was going, fuck, I don't I'll have to pretend. Uh-huh. I think it's brilliant. It's great. Great. Yeah. Sketches have changed from when I was doing them and that they're they're short now, and it's all like those POV ones, you know. Yeah. Someone and you you you get that comedy straight away. Yeah. There are one was was in a sonnet people were talking about fighting, and it's brilliant. Like it was I was really good. I know it's funny. I miss making sketch. I'm gonna make start making sketches. It's what I kind of start. I oh I started doing stand-up, but then I did sketches for years, and I I love it. They're so relatable. But you get in your head, you're like, I but you I've got to get a camera guy and I've got to get someone to edit it, and I've got to but you can you can just make it you can just do it really quick.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:05

Yeah, see, and we cameras now people are using just things just people are just using it. I don't think it's not professionally done, but that's what they're doing.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:13

I I I still would get weird. I couldn't go out and film something myself in public. No, absolutely not. So even talking to your camera, I couldn't walk down the street here and be talking to your camera in public.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:23

No, I I'm like that. There has been one around. I have to I don't mind filming in my car because I know there's no one walking

Sleeve Donard Chaos And Influencers

SPEAKER_03 1:03:30

past me.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:30

See if I'm walking I was walking down, we've done the sleeve downward with the gym on Saturday. Fucking chaos. Never did like it was just chaotic, get stuck at mountains for six hours. Oh, yeah. Yes, yeah. But on the way down, we got the bitch.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:43

How do you get lost going up Sleeve Donald?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:45

We went up Sleeve Donald right up the trail. Yeah. Two girls at the back of the gym. So all the rest of them went on. I went on. Right. They got stuck down the down so at the wall. So I fancy went back down, got them. Right. Brought them on the way back up. By the time we got them two to the top, the rest of the group were up our waiting freezes. We're like, we're gonna go because of freezing or shit. It's freezing as soon as you get them. So they left and went down the face of the mountain because the runners were trail runner, yeah, and they won't go that way. So they followed them. We went up behind them, they left, we sat down and he's like, right, you just have a break, have a sandwich. But our man had been up and down twice already. So I sat there, yep, more or less. And then they had their food, we cut we drink after 20 minutes, let them rest their legs because they were fucked, they were struggling. It is tough, it is tough. They did struggle, but they got up, right? Then we fouled the rest of the pack right down the front, facing mountain. I lame phone to me as soon as I got a signal. So I went down that way if I was you because it's it's all cliffs. There's no trail, there's no laughing. It's a gully and cliffs.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:45

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:47

We're just we're here, we're more less here now. He's like, them girls aren't gonna be able to do that. So it was just two girls, phone, phone, phone, crying. The girls were crying around here a million times. I was laughing.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:57

She was going to laugh, fully, like, over the egg and source.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:01

Fucking all I was doing was laughing. I was like, what do you want me to do? She's like, no, I'm not fucking moving, I'm not moving. She was sitting on the bottom. I was like, come on, let's go get the box. Give me a helicopter.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:14

She pulled the null. Stevie Nolan got stock up, sleep.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:22

She's like, I was like, I know we have to fucking tack her as money and get you in the helicopter, I'm gonna get the fuck, let's go.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:28

And uh we have anti got her down, but chaos, absolute chaos. What was I going with the story? Oh fuck me, I don't know you turn.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:38

No, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:39

Um but yeah, on the way down, filming video and rate, and I was uh just talking on the camera 'cause there's no one around me. Yes. Next thing I heard people all proaching banking. A hundred percent. But these influencers just in the fucking just in public lingering just. Just don't cry.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:00

Of people I saw in America, especially in LA, setting up a camera to eat. That's insane. Because they're they're maybe doing food reviews or something like that. But they're sitting by themselves in a restaurant, which I do, I don't mind doing that. But setting the phone up and a fool, hey guys, we're here, we're trying out. I'm saying it's insane. But no, I'm so normal now. No one bats an island. For me, it's weird. I just can't do it. It's weird to be like us. It's not weird that they're ballsy enough to be like we're the weird ones because we we're freaked out.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:29

Say if I was filming something and Darwin was there.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:32

Yeah. I and I or she comes in the house and I'm like, I think we're from that sort of generation or you're a bit of a bit ashamed to be doing anything like that.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:40

But like younger, like like influencers are just open. They set a camera up and just like at a bus stop and just start like doing stuff. I'm like, what the like I'm drinking back on, look at that f look at that lunatic. They're probably drinking looking at us going, you're lunatic.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:54

There was a guy on one of the trains we go from the airport, and he was about 16 or 17, and he was just doing like a full Michael Jackson tribute dance on this train. He just said the uh and and and every and no one was paying him any attention and he was just doing it loving it.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:10

That takes that out of heart. Did you ever see the people who film who who like hire a a Michael Jackson tribute act?

SPEAKER_06 1:07:18

Yeah, I so I saw this at the start with this guy hires Chase Hoffer or something he's called, is that him? And he hired like yeah, Michael Jackson tribute act to come to his house, and he's like, Oh, there's no party. Just me. And then the next day, I was like, I'm not watching that shit. And the next day, he hires two Michael Jackson tribute acts to come to his house and they don't know about each other. Then it comes up again the third day. I go, I know what it's gonna be, I'm not watching three Michael Jackson. See by the time he got to twelve, I was never more invested in anything. Oh my live up. Yeah, 12 Michael Jackson tribute acts in the camera. And then he was getting into work.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:56

You should have a heading camera in his corner plus his camera. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:00

And just be like, and he was 5.5. He was bringing in like uh he brought the Hillary Clinton and the Trump impersonators and got them to debate in his house.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:10

And I surely whatever you get so many views in your book and these people.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:16

I reck I reckon they'll we've got a like. I reckon they would probably know.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:20

But that kind of stuff is hilarious. Unreal.

Australia Plans And The Armrest Incident

SPEAKER_03 1:08:23

What's happening in the future with you? What's coming up? I mean you want to plug or no like them out.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:28

I've got a I I think we might be extending the tour to this year to do to do more of the UK ones again. Um I've got a straight of people are living out in Australia watching, the Australian October, which I'm buzzing about third time going over there. Um which will be class, but that's that's the only real big block of thing I have for the rest of the year.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:47

October and Australia? Yeah. Weather good. I think it's due to be pretty good. Where would you start it here? Like it was a coast Sydney and then do you like you don't even think about it?

SPEAKER_06 1:08:56

It kinda makes sense. You kind of travel like along the coast. Yeah. But and there's there's a bit of flying involved, but it's it because you no, you're not playing anywhere in the middle of it. You know, you're you're doing a few of this coast, maybe a few this coast, and you've got to fly over Australia once. But I uh I'm a right like last time I did it, I arrived the day of the show and just went straight in to do the show. Whereas now I'm gonna have a day and a half exhausted which is still not not long enough at all. Yeah. Like Lewis Crocker's fighting in Australia, yeah. And I saw Frampton writing his newspaper articles on being like, you should go out three weeks before that.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:30

We went three weeks before the come off games. Like we were out there for five weeks in total.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:35

Did you adjust?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:36

Well, I quit quite a mouth. Yeah. They gave us these glasses and all the team and I gave us like bought us all these flam packs with glasses that help you like adjust. I don't know. I I I don't even know what it does, but it helps you sleep or whatever. But figured you I just when I got there I was like, I was like Because did you think the glasses looked rare? No, I just I just didn't think it was gonna help me. I was like, what I mean for three weeks if I can't fucking adapt in three weeks before the competition. Yeah. What's up like go four weeks before anything? Yeah, yeah. But um it was alright. It was the tr the travel was something that I was dreading because I am like I'm very like agitated and I I find it very hard to get comfortable on flights. I very rarely sleep on flights. Yeah, see. I slept like a fucking log. Is that an up? I I can't sleep with my head like this. Can't I do that my neck broke fuck out? I had to sleep on the Wii I put my head down on the desk. Yeah. Or like I'll sleep like that. Yeah. But on and off between them two, I was sleeping a good lot of the flight.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:44

I got into a fly into Australia.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:48

Was it one of the Australia flights? I got into an arm fight with a a Wii Indian girl. So I was sitting in the middle seat. I was flying back from America, I think. This is a couple of years ago. So row of three, but I'm in the middle. So the unwritten ruler is I have dibs on the armrest, but I I I think it's rude to take up the whole thing. Yeah. I'm not gonna sit like this, but what I will do is I can either go arms front and then you get the back where I get here. Yeah, but I'm on the plane first. So it was one of those ones where it was an overnight flight, and I'm gonna be driving from Dublin Airport, so I need to sleep the whole flight. So I get on, just the eye mask, I wasn't doing my table now. I get on with an eye mask. Big coat over my head, and I put the headphones in and I'd taken a melatonin, so I was just gonna go. So I get on the flight and I put like my elbows in the back corner of the armrest. So the whole rest of the armrest is free. You work away, do whatever. But I'm there and I just go to go to sleep. And this wee girl gets on. Now she's probably anything between 18 and 25, I don't know. She's tiny. And she sits beside me, so I'm sort of like seeing who's getting on. And a couple of minutes in, she starts to try and push my elbow off. But I'm now the melatonin's kicked in, so I'm drowsy. But I just know in my head, I go, I'm not I'm not moving here. So the elbow, she keeps trying to dig her elbow in, but I'm just like, well fucking, I'm not gonna move, she'll get bored eventually. And then every once in a while she'll try and like put again push it in. And at one point, she put her elbow the whole way up my arm and at the side of my head and was pushing. But I was like, sh I was like, I'll just ride this out, I don't give a fuck. I'm just sit sitting here all drowsy anyway. And this kept happening, and at one point I must have like moved my arms when I was sleeping, and she got around she stood, but after about two or three seconds, she must have gone, right? I'm in I'm in now, and then she's gone to like get something out of her seat pocket, so I just went straight back in and she was cracking up like but in my head I'm like I've nothing else to be at, I'll win this. Like, and I kept going and she got uh flight attendant over, and she explained, and I could hear through my drowsy state, the flight attendant woman basically be like, whatever she was saying, she was basically being like, he's not doing anything wrong, right? She asked to move, right? So I'm I'm again half hearing this, I'm always out of it. So she asked to move, and the woman was like, Yeah, there's a free seat up here, and then so she was away. So I'm laughing. I'm laughing. Thirty seconds later, a minute later, trying to get to sleep, I go, What the fuck's that? What is that? And just before she left, she'd been because I'm glancing at my thing, she she'd ask the woman for a glass of water Before she left she poured a glass of water behind my hair full glass of water. We bastard and away she went. And it had obviously then got spread over my seat and it had soaked my boxers in the back of my jeans.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:15

That's a comp.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:17

What a horrible bastard. But I won't soon carry winning. And as we were getting off, she's maybe moved two rows away. I uh I I just gave her a big smile getting off. Big smile. But that was mental. Like it was mental of me not to just go, I'll just let this weirdo have the armrest. But I I I had nothing else going on. I was like, I'm not listening to the water.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:39

That's the next competition

Films, Boyzone, Impressions, Goodbyes

SPEAKER_03 1:14:40

between you and Glare.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:42

Elbow wars, like yeah, wars. But that is yeah, I could you get you get but middle t if I'm aisle or middle.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:49

Like when you have when you're in the like you were at the window.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:53

No, I was in the middle. You're in the middle, I've been in the middle. What I'm saying is if I'm window or aisle.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:56

Oh, you give it up because you've got that.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:59

And you've got that, and you you've you know people are in here, you're you're stuck on them, but you can't do yes, you're gonna be in being his space, you can't do this and be in her space. Yep.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:06

Give me yes, so I can just let's see if she'd said to me, if she went, listen, maybe I'm a nervous she didn't seem like a nervous flyer, but if she said I'm a nervous flyer or whatever, I'd probably have gone, yeah, work away. Just didn't ask. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:20

Just try to force her way in.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:22

Yep, yeah. And it just it just wasn't helpful.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:24

Like the English, yeah. Forcing her way in. Yep. You know what I mean? And I said, You stood tall, you'd be Irish.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:30

Yeah, that's what I was saying. It was like the wind the wind that shakes a barley. William Hoss, famously Scottish. What a movie that is. Oh, great show, great show. I sent that to my uh my wife's granddaughter, I'd never seen it. He was talking about something that something about Irish history, and I said, You've seen the Window Shakespeare Barley? He said, No, I've never heard tell it. I said, Brilliant, you have to say it. But no person can't just the way we if I told you to watch a film, you'd know how to get it. Yeah. So I went on Amazon and ordered it to go to their house, but didn't tell them. And my wife's grant granny rang her and was like, We were only chatting about that film yesterday. Whatever way it felt, it just happened to be St. Patrick's Day the day I got sent in.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:17

She went, Can you believe this?

SPEAKER_06 1:16:19

And my my wife was like, Ah, well, Shane did say you needed to see it, and she went, That's so good of the government. She thought because it was St. Patrick's Day, the government that sent every house. And then my wife's like, No, Shane got you that? And she went, Alright. I got no I got no glory for it.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:36

Didn't get the password, fuck me. But I that's probably the best one of the best Irish Irish films I've ever made. Unbelievable. Definitely.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:43

And loads of it was improvised. You know the scene where his wife or his girlfriend, Kelly Murphy's uh on screen, finds out that he's spoiler her dead. Yeah. Um and she's on her bicycle or something, or she gets she's outside the house, she like breaks down on hits the hits again a bit. Yep. Apparently her character didn't know that was gonna happen. Seriously you know, the director, I think Ken Lokes movie, isn't it? He he was basically like you stand out here and just react to what's happening to you, something like that, but there was a load of improvisation, which is why the acting's so good. I watched an unbelievable movie on the plane, one battle after another. Leonardo DiCaprio.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:25

I was actually advertised on the side of buses, and I kept saying that I want to go and watch it in the cinema ages ago.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:30

I watched the first half of it, unbelievable, so I need to see the second half this week. Will you cinema get?

SPEAKER_03 1:17:35

I like going to the cinema, but it takes nothing off me to go. But when I do go, no matter what movie I watch, I really enjoy it because you're just zoned in. You know, where there's no distractions, there's no phone, there's no shit. You're just sitting there watching the movies around saying no matter what movie it is, you're gonna enjoy it.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:50

Yep, you were you go Kennedy Centre?

SPEAKER_03 1:17:52

No, I would go to Cityside over in W uh Cityside over in New York Gate or just the Avenue if I want to make a wee bit of a dealer. I've never been there, but look at the city. Order food, order drinks, they come to you, it's great.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:10

I'm going I'm going to a big concert this weekend. Over in London.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:14

How's playing?

SPEAKER_06 1:18:15

Boyson.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:17

Boyson?

SPEAKER_06 1:18:19

Emirates Stadium. That's a big one, like class, like class. I I love Boyson. What's your favourite boys? Lummy for a reason. Do you know what?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:27

Nah, I don't want any boys on. I do not go. I just interrupted a a great bald there. I'm embarrassed about I'm nervous about doing this. No, I boys don't have a pup. Sorry. Sorry. The nerves are hanging out here.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:47

I'm prepared to try it one more time.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:49

Let's go. Hang on, be sad then. Don't love me for fun, girl. Let me be the one girl. Love me for a reason. Let the reason be love.

unknown 1:19:03

Don't love me.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:06

Oh, see, that was just kisses from I can do a decent Ronicating out with Gitley, but I can do a decent Ronicaton.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:13

Can you?

SPEAKER_06 1:19:14

Yeah. That's it. What song?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:16

Um There's Ronakaton sing If Tomorrow never comes.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:21

That's good. Which is originally by Garth Brooks. Garth Brooks? Yeah, what runa? What runo um It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:38

That was like the Americans with the bell for the top.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:45

But that was good. That's my ronin, sorry. That was good. You're a goose singer. Yeah. I'm a tablet singer. And that breaks my heart because dog is goose singer and my song's a goose singer, I think. I love you to train though.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:55

I have carving. What does he like to sing?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:58

Michael's action flat out. He's in the bath and he's upstairs and he's making these noises across me.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:10

He did meet me in the store neck. Do you look your moon in the bath a little bit? Is he doing the dance?

SPEAKER_03 1:20:26

I have a video.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:27

I have a full like one and a half minute video on my phone with dancing the nickel texting. He's doing the moon book. He's doing the ling in their phone.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:37

It's quality. He's got the moves. Like, I have to say, he's He would be a quality actor. Yeah. And loads of people say, you need to get him into drama, because Durville done a lot of drama went at the drama school and just bit like friends who do a lot of like Broadway shit. Yeah. And Durville was like, he won't do it for anyone else. Like with us, he's insane. But he'll find he'll maybe find it himself. And we we brought him this, we brought him the what do you call the wee The Wee or the Wee Drama School. Um Rainbow Fragment. Not Rainbow Factory's known for that. Um I wouldn't even know what I'm self-taught.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:16

But it'll come to hell yeah, you're just a natural. But uh give me any impression. Um Albertino. Not that give me different one.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:26

Um Jimmy Fox. Alright, let's let's think it's the box here. Robert De Niro. Robert De Niro You got it? You've got it? That actually is that's if you just done an impression and never told anyone what it was, they would automatically say Robert De Niro. You think so? Yeah, absolutely. I can't do it. My face is too scrunched up. I just look stoned.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:59

Yeah, boys on this weekend should be a good one, like Boys Only. I'll try and get for what? Solo? We writing solo. Are you going solo? Am I going by myself to see Boys on? Don't go with my wife, mate. Yeah. She'll be singing. No, no, no. She's a big fan. I'm just going like.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:17

What are they doing? A tour?

SPEAKER_06 1:22:19

Nope. Just one off. Farewell show. Two shows. Emirates, Friday and Saturday, Emirates Stadium. Powerful.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:26

Yeah. Well, I hope you enjoy it. I appreciate you coming on. Appreciate you. Busy, busy schedule. But look, we're here.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:34

You won't make time for friendship.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:37

See. Friendship goes along.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:38

Friendship doesn't no schedule.