Irish People Find REAL LIFE UFOs?! w/ Gráinne Blumenthal & Paddy Murphy

REAL LIFE UFO Stories - In our sixth episode, Seán Connolly welcomes Paddy Murphy and Gráinne Blumenthal to The Green Room! They review the new Stephen Spielberg film 'Disclosure Day,' then dive into some larger than life UFO stories - but are they real or fake? The answer might surprise you... but not before they give Seán and acting masterclass, culminating in a heart-wrenching monologue - enjoy!

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Transcript

Introduction

SPEAKER_01 0:00

I still have my eyes open and I can feel them getting drier.

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Go double blink, double blink. That's the perfect time to not blink.

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Uh for the audio listeners. Uh I can tell you it's getting difficult. I could feel the stinging. Oh, oh no. Oh, I'm about to blink. Hello there and welcome to episode six of the Green Room Podcast, brought to you by the Tri Channel. My name is Sean Connolly. I'll be on hosting duties today, and joining me are the fantastic, the mystical, the well-dressed Grania Blumenthal and Patty Murphy. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 0:40

That was so kind.

SPEAKER_01 0:40

Did you enjoy those uh lovely adjectives that I gave you? Beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 0:44

I do feel like I feel like one of us has missed the dress memo for today compared to me and you.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

Oh, it's in flowery shirts. Yeah. That's not about Patty. That's not like me at all. To be fair to Patty, normally when I see you out and about in your daily life, you have fantastic shirts, whether they're flowery or floral or or whatever colourful patterns. But today you've gone a bit more like the Grim Reaper. Well, not the Grim Reaper. I'd say you're kind of deluxe. I described you as Patty Deluxe. Patty Premium.

SPEAKER_03 1:08

There's worse nicknames in fairness. Yeah. You've upgraded your uh credit card from plastic to metal.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

So, guys, yeah, welcome to uh the green room, your first episode of this podcast.

SPEAKER_03 1:18

I'm very weirdly nervous. Because it's a new setting.

SPEAKER_01 1:21

I'm like, where am I? It is. Uh many people have commented already in the episodes that have gone up that uh, of course, uh, oh look, we have legs. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:29

We do that's a big table.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

I grew them, I grew them myself. I worked really hard on them, they're very long. And and we don't have the safety of a table either.

SPEAKER_03 1:36

We don't, and I do like to kick my legs. I do like to kick my legs like this a lot. It's just gonna be a leg kicking podcast.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

Oh hey, let's go, guys. Come on. Yeah, yeah. Welcome. Welcome to the green room. It's fun down here. This is it. This is all it's gonna be for the next 50 minutes. Enjoy the ASMR, audio listeners. So, guys, uh, what we normally do when we uh kick off the podcast is we have a little segment called What's News With

What's News With You?

SPEAKER_01 2:01

You. So, what's news with you?

SPEAKER_02 2:04

Well, I'm just back from a week in Rome. Oh, very nice. I was at a lovely wedding, two of my friends were getting married. It was stunning, amazing. Yeah, yeah. You could spend a week there and still not see half of it. I know. Um and Goroni, how about yourself? What are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 2:15

Yes, I'm just back from two weeks in France. I was uh teaching children how to act for screen um in Aix en Provence, and then I also got to do some exploring in Marseille and Cassis. Um, but I was technically working.

SPEAKER_04 2:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:30

But by working, I was doing three hours a day and then drinking the rest of the time.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

I mean, look, that like that's it was the dream. That does sound like the dream. Uh I'm only back from uh a week in Barcelona myself where um we went to Primavera. Nice, which is a big, big old music festival.

SPEAKER_03 2:45

Um this year, the bit of an issue with that, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Yeah, it's now look, it was great crack, great fun, lovely sunny city, but then well, rain. Rain happened in Barcelona and they were not prepared. Yeah, so the whole first day of uh headliners were just completely cancelled.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

You wouldn't get that in Ireland, like if it thundered out of heavens and the four plagues get like the loads of plagues came and the flood came, Electric Picnic wouldn't care.

SPEAKER_03 3:06

The festivals will go ahead. A part of Irish music festivals is definitely uh being in the mud at some point. Yes, like knee deep, but you're like the music still goes and the stash carries on.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

You end up looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger at the end of Predator.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Oh well, speaking there of aliens, actually, another thing that I got up to recently is I went to see Disclosure Day.

SPEAKER_03 3:24

I've seen it too. I saw it yesterday. Are we allowed to talk about it?

SPEAKER_01 3:27

So uh we will say yes, uh we're gonna chat about some spoilers about disclosure day for the next few minutes.

SPOILERS START - Disclosure Day Review

SPEAKER_01 3:32

So this is your spoiler warning. Spoiler warning. Uh cut forward to I'm gonna put time. Yeah, I'm gonna put the graphic uh whatever the uh time code is, it's on screen now to where the spoilers stop. You can click forward to there. Uh if you're an audio listener, I'm sorry. Oh no, it'll be in the chapters, actually. Yes. So if you're an audio listener, it's in the chapters. Cool. Oh boy, do I have some opinions. Oh, me too. What do you think? What do we think?

SPEAKER_03 3:55

I thought it was fine. Okay. It was even lower than fine. Well, it was it wasn't bad, but it was fine.

SPEAKER_02 4:04

Okay, Patty What? I don't want to say it's the biggest disappointment of my life, but it's it's pretty close. I am sh I really, really liked it. No, I don't think it's the best.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

And here's me gonna say it's appealing to dumb people. Well, no, no, no, call me a dumb person. No, I I think I really liked it because it uh it was very earnest. I love movie music and I love John Williams' music. Yes, and and there's a lot of themes in Spielberg's film where you cross over um the science, the technical uh math with art and creativity and all that kind of stuff. Like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:38

And it had that kind of um uh visual look of like minority report as well, I felt.

SPEAKER_01 4:43

Yeah, I feel like as well, you know, if if it comes to a Spielberg film, even if you don't like it, you can still the stuff he does with a camera in it is just beautiful. It's a fair thing, it's great.

SPEAKER_03 4:50

That being said, you can if you were to put uh third encounters nope, first encounter of the third Close Encounters of the Third Kind and uh Disclosure Day together and like no sound, just watch them. First Encounters Close Encounters look so much better because it's all like practical effects. Yeah, whilst the animals in particular in Disclosure Day was some of the ugliest CGI I've ever seen. And I know it's meant to be like, oh, it's the aliens like trying to look normal to humans, but then you see the aliens, and they also have that awful CGI. It really just took me out of it completely. I was like, you can get a fox and train the fox.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

Well, this is the thing, I foxes are not in short order, they're everywhere. I I didn't mind it. There was one shot of the fox, I know exactly what you're talking about, and it looked kind of like I also I also loved as well, to be fair, um the some of the scenes operate on video game logic. There is like a farmhouse kind of deserted, and there's loads of FBI agents. That was so annoying. Yes, I know exactly crawling through a field like solid snake, yeah, and he crouches down, and uh the the fence is very open, yeah. And he runs through the past the fence, around the cars. At no point at no point do the 100 plus agents turn their heads even slightly his direction. It was very much like whole circle to crouch and go up, you're invisible. Um, but also I don't think that's a flaw. I found that funny more than anything else.

SPEAKER_03 6:08

It felt it was a lot of uh just there wasn't that much getting in their way. Does that make sense? Like everything just kind of worked out for them.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

There was nothing at stake, really. Yeah. Well, I mean, hey, look, let's do a little impromptu uh film rating. Uh, what would you give it out of 10? Out of ten. Four. Four out of ten. Four, yeah. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

Yeah, there's so much better out there. And can I say as well, like there's loads of aliens all speckled throughout the film, right? And they're all like little hobbit-looking creatures, right? Like leprechauns. The final alien comes in and it's like somebody fired a CGI guy halfway through and got someone else in, and they never compared notes. The final alien is like seven foot tall, towering above them. But he was old, he was the old alien.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

I I do like the idea that there's different alien kind of things.

SPEAKER_03 6:49

Yeah, and I like that they were a lot of them were like the classic grey alien, big eyes, like the classic design. They had a very funny walk. They kind of walked like, hey, what's going on? I'm an alien over here. I actually I saw I was reading my friend's letterbox review, and I thought she made a really good observation about how it's like, oh, Josh O'Connor's character, he knows the maths and the science. And Emily Blonde's character is she's a woman, so she's empathetic, and that's what that's what her power is. And I was a bit like, Yeah, you're right, it is a bit. It's a bit cliche.

SPEAKER_01 7:19

It is, but I will say that does come from his whole parents thing of Tristan, of like his mom being this pianist, creative artist person, and his dad being the computer sciencey guy, and they're and you can definitely tell this movie is made by a very old man who is very earnest in his life now, and he wants everyone to be happy. I think I really enjoyed the earnestness, but I do understand that in a for a modern audience, maybe it's more uh difficult to come across. Gronia, what's your rating out of 10?

SPEAKER_03 7:44

Uh my letterbox review is two and a half stars currently. So I'm gonna uh convert that into 10 star ratings. So I honestly four star as well. Like I really just it was a fun time at the cinema, absolutely. And I did really enjoy the whole uh news coverage segment. Like it did kind of give me that feeling of like wonderment that Steven Spielberg is really good at conveying. But my rating for disclosure day is 10 out of 10, it's the best movie he's ever seen. He loved it so much.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

9.5. I would say uh seven out of ten. Oh I would I would push for an eight, but I no, in all the criticisms, I can't quite argue against them. They don't matter as much for me, but I can't argue back. So seven out of ten for me. Okay, so

SPOILERS END - Disclosure Day Review

SPEAKER_01 8:28

that's been uh a little impromptu review, group review of Disclosure Day uh by Steven Spielberg, a young up-and-coming director, and I think he's got a goal place. Yeah, he's got a bright com. Yeah. But before we move on to talk about more alien things, uh, we'll be right back after this. Welcome back, and we are now into segment two of episode six of The Green Room. I don't know why I'm introducing it that way. Oh my god, can you believe 10,000 points? It's like I was possessed or maybe abducted.

We Are Not Alone

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Ooh, that's right, guys. I think we can uh talk about our next uh wonderful little segment. And I've called it incredible segue. It's great, it's very good. I'm very good at these segue. We are not alone.

SPEAKER_03 9:19

I'm assuming there's a some sort of tune that's gonna play. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

We'll play uh whatever the non-copyright version of the X Files is or two Y files. Do do do do do do. I could play that on the thing. I should have brought it. So, guys, keeping with our alien theme today, um uh We Are Not Alone is a little game where I'm gonna give you five alien encounter stories. Okay. Some of these are genuine, unexplained things that happened. We're not saying they're aliens, yes or no, but they definitely have not been um explained by any rational things. Okay, and then the other stories are confirmed fully hoaxes, um, definite fakes. Yeah, so guys, do you believe in aliens?

SPEAKER_03 10:03

I definitely I there has to be something. Yeah, there has to be something. Like not there can't only be life on this one tiny rock. It ah, sorry, I get passionate about it.

SPEAKER_01 10:14

So look, as as as young Jim Hawkins in Muppet's Treasure Island once sang, there's gotta be something out there, something out there, there's gotta be something out there for me. Cabin fever, that's the only thing I remember from that movie.

SPEAKER_02 10:26

It's mathematically impossible for there not to be life out there. Yeah, for all the stars, there's more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on planet Earth. Yeah, so it's mathematically impossible. Plus, if the universe goes on forever, then every thing that can happen will happen, which means there's universes that have identical copies of us, except you have ginger hair.

SPEAKER_03 10:43

Well, then, yeah, we're going down into uh alternate universes as well. There is infinite everything. It's a rabbit hole.

SPEAKER_02 10:48

Growing up, I used to be obsessed with aliens and the paranormal and the X-files.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

I love sci-fi films, anything and it's kind of having a resurgence now, I think. Definitely, yeah, especially like with Project Hayomary just came out, book as well. When I read that a while ago, fell absolutely back in love with sci-fi. Um, it's just everyone seems to be really enjoying it. And then you got the discussion about lizard people. Hey, I mean, look, aliens I mean, we might be them. You might be. You never know. Hiss.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

I mean, uh, I've seen you guys do that.

SPEAKER_03 11:15

We are very cold-blooded.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Yeah. Aliens and dragons are having a resurgence, so maybe there's a connection. Okay, so uh, I'm gonna reach. I'm gonna read stars. I'm gonna read I the abuse I get trying to host this podcast is disgraceful. So I'm gonna read you each a story, and at the end of it, I need you to tell me whether you think it's real or fake, and I will reveal the answer.

SPEAKER_03 11:37

Maybe converse. Yeah. You can confer between the two. What is this university challenge? Ready for it.

UFO Story 1: Pentagon UFO Video

SPEAKER_01 11:45

Story one. In 2004, a squadron of Navy fighter pilots training off the coast of California were redirected to investigate a strange radar contact that had been confusing a nearby cruiser's crew for days. Uh when the pilots arrived, one of them spotted a small white object below, moving erratically over the water with no visible wings, rotors, or exhaust. Okay. As his jet closed in, the object suddenly snapped to match his flight path and then accelerated away faster than his aircraft could follow. Another jet's targeting pod locked onto a similar object minutes later and recorded several minutes of footage before it vanished from the screen. Real or fake.

SPEAKER_02 12:19

Do we have that footage? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:21

If this story is real, then that footage does exist.

SPEAKER_03 12:24

Okay. I wonder, is it was it like a balloon or something that that was a weather balloon? Yeah, that because that has happened a lot where the there's a really famous one where it looks like some weird alien is like floating through the sky, and it turns out it was just like a star troopers balloon that was let go.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

Well, I will confirm that in these stories, if it like is a balloon or turn out a balloon, then it's like one of the fake stories. If it's unexplained and they still don't know what it is, then it's one of the real stories.

SPEAKER_02 12:48

Well, I think if you have a story and the stories out there, they'd have to have the footage to go along with it.

SPEAKER_03 12:52

Yeah, but it's like something about like there'll be a lot of like air uh disturbances from all these uh planes. So he might have got caught up, caught up in something and then been flinged away, never to be seen again, back into the ocean.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

The basic elements of that happening, I believe, are true. But you're gonna say, ha ha, it was San Francisco, it's false. I can affirm I won't be that pedantic. Yeah, don't worry.

SPEAKER_03 13:13

I also kind of find this one to not be that like extravagant. Like it's not that like like oh my god, it's an alien. I'm just more like, oh, what's that white thing? So a little part of me thinks it's true because it's underwhelming.

SPEAKER_02 13:25

Okay, yeah, yeah. I mean, we've heard a million stories just like this before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So what do we think?

SPEAKER_03 13:32

I'm gonna say true, even though like it's kind of a blah story, not because of your storytelling.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

No, that's true, fair.

SPEAKER_03 13:38

This is just a fact.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

It's fine. My delivery is what's making the aliens real or not. Sorry, didn't the American government come out and say like aliens exist like a few months ago and the regular people are like, we don't care? Are they gonna pay our rent? Are they gonna buy our groceries? We don't care. Well, guys, so you're both saying this is real?

SPEAKER_01 13:52

Uh I would say, yes, this is real. I can tell you that story number one is real. Hey! Well, one for one. This actually tell us more. This actually happened a few years ago. They did the US government has been essentially releasing, you know, records of things that happened that they're like, we genuinely don't know what it is. They're like, This is this literally happened. Here's some video if they can. So, like, I remember seeing this. This was one of the big videos, I think, a few years ago that came out. And it's grainy radar footage, but you can see a kind of a little uh white orb spec thing just moving very, very, very fast. Yeah, it's it's it's it's officially documented and it's still unexplained.

SPEAKER_03 14:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

There you go. Okay, does that make you excited? Does it make you nervous?

SPEAKER_03 14:31

Yeah, I hope these stories get more thrilling. I feel like I'm being so mean.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Giant chihuahua, step no, okay, no. Are they aliens or are they us from the future time traveling back? Well, this is the thing. Is it time travelers? Is it interdimensional travelers? Is it aliens from another galaxy?

SPEAKER_03 14:46

Have penguins finally learned how to fly?

SPEAKER_01 14:48

I mean, maybe that's when we're all dead. Call the government or tell them. Call government, call your local government, and uh warn them about penguins. Uh ready for story two?

UFO Story 2: Maury Island Incident

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Absolutely. Okay. In June 1947, a man boating with his teenage son near Puget Sound said they watched several large, slow-moving discs hovering overhead, one of which appeared to leak a metallic slag-like debris. Some of it reportedly struck the boat, injuring the boy's arm, and the family dog on board later died. Uh, the man reported the encounter to a colleague who passed it along to a magazine investigating UFO sightings. And the story spread quickly through early UFO research circles before two Air Force investigators flying to look into it died in a plane crash en route.

SPEAKER_02 15:27

Poor dog. Wait, so there was something in the air, all these objects, and one of them started leaking jet fuel or whatever it was that they fly with, and it crashed into the boat, killing the dog and injuring the boy, yeah, and went into the lake. Yeah. More exciting, the last one, a lot more detail.

SPEAKER_03 15:41

Yeah, a lot more death.

SPEAKER_02 15:43

Like to go back to disclosure day as well. If aliens are so smart, why do they keep crashing? True.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

I mean, hey, look, people get their driving licenses.

SPEAKER_03 15:51

And that that's also a whole point in uh War of the Worlds as well, where the aliens are so intelligent, and then as soon as they leave their ship, they're like, Oh god, we actually can't breathe this air. We're allergic. Whoops. Whoopsie doodles, or what is a signs? Signs where spoiler for very old film, uh, yeah, they're allergic to the thing that covers up what 70% of the earth. Yeah, that one was a bit silly aliens.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

Like, oh, water is like acid to you, and they invaded a planet that's primarily blue. Yeah. Um, yeah. So, guys, what do we think of this story? Really fake.

SPEAKER_03 16:19

So, this was documented, this wasn't just someone telling a story, this is actually documented as well.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

Pass along to a magazine investigating UFO incidents. So that's where it was first published.

SPEAKER_02 16:28

I feel kind of like the two people coming to investigate it when they died in a plane crash, it's kind of unrelated. It's like, yeah, a woman down the road had a heart attack.

SPEAKER_03 16:36

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like this happened, but it was debunked, is what I'm thinking. Because like I feel like the liquid was probably like you said, jet fuel or something along those lines. Maybe again, back to my weather balloon theory, it could have been like a some sort of balloon in the air. Balloon leaking spherical object that nobody can explain. A balloon leaking jet fuel for some reason. Yeah, but uh my heart says like the actual incident happened, but it being alien is not true. Therefore, Sherlock. False. Poor dog. I don't care about the pilot.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

The dog, what kind of dog was he? So you're both saying fake? False. False. Yeah. False. Guys, I can tell you that story two is fake. Woo! This is a proven hoax. Uh we're very good at this, aren't you? You're very good. It's such an admitted fabrication. Um, which I'm glad because I don't want to have a story where dog dies.

SPEAKER_03 17:26

Me neither.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

I'm also we've all seen John Wick.

SPEAKER_03 17:28

We um I've I also realized why I keep mentioning balloons, it's because of Balloon Boy. Remember him? Yeah. But that was a genuine hoax as well, where he was just up in the attic and his parents were like, the boy's in the balloon, he's flying away. Didn't that go on for like days? Yeah. And then they went live on television and the boy got sick in a bucket and then was like, You told me to lie, Dad. It's a wonderful shit show. If you've never seen Balloon Boy, look it up and enjoy. Yeah. But uh, please tell me that's your next story. A boy got lost in a balloon in the sky. An alien in a balloon.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

No, okay. Right, let's move on to story

UFO Story 3: The Cash-Landrum Incident

SPEAKER_01 17:59

number three. In December 1980, three people driving home one evening near a wooded highway came upon a glowing, diamond-shaped object hovering low over the road, surrounded by a ring of military helicopters. They pulled over to watch, and within minutes, all three began experiencing nausea, headaches, and skin irritation. Over the following days, the symptoms worsened into blistering burns and hair loss severe enough to require hospitalization. None of the witnesses could explain what they'd seen, and no agency ever acknowledged owning or operating anything matching their description that night. That's very men in black coded. Very men in black. Did they live? They all lived, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:30

Okay, because it was sounding like radiation poisoning for a second there. This one I think is too fantastical now.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

We've gone the we've gone the complete opposite way. Well, this one is probably the mix between the first and the second, where it's definitely a bit like woo, but there's not as much, I guess, uh, death.

SPEAKER_03 18:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:46

I mean, if they all got sick, why didn't the men in black get sick?

SPEAKER_03 18:49

Again, it might be just completely irrelevant then that they got sick. It might have been they all just ate something really bad earlier that day. Bad tacos.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

I'd say okay, so three people, they see a glowing diamond.

SPEAKER_03 19:00

Yeah, it's the diamond that makes me go, that's silly.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

It was just the tip of the spire.

SPEAKER_01 19:05

Everyone knows UFOs are triangular. Yeah, yeah. If it's a rhombus now, then we can maybe get into a discussion. But but diamond, no.

unknown 19:12

No.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

Is that what you're saying? So you think it's uh I I'd say it's false.

SPEAKER_03 19:15

I want yeah, my heart's saying false. Like it's not it's like it's too far gone, but it's also like not fun enough that if it was true, I'd be like, gas. I think this is fake fake as well.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

Maybe they were just near some radioactive zone and they all started hallucinating or something.

SPEAKER_03 19:29

Yeah. You know, I think they just had bad tummies.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

Guys, I can tell you that story three is real. What this is an officially documented and still unexplained uh thing that happened. Yeah, so apparently, you know, did actually happen, as in it was uh confirmed that there I think there was helicopters in the area and there was something in the sky.

SPEAKER_03 19:48

Um is there evidence that of this diamond? Or is it just someone said I saw a diamond in the sky and it's helicopters there?

SPEAKER_01 19:56

I think it's one of those ones. Therefore, it is true. Shared hallucinations. Yeah, I think it's one of those ones where it's corroborated by enough people, similar to the first one where they're like, you know, we all saw the the flying white dots. Yeah, we've no idea what it is. And like this thing, they're like, we don't really know what that was or what happened, but uh it did happen. There you go. Interesting. Ready for a story four? Absolutely.

UFO Story 4: Rendelsham Forest Incident

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Over several nights in December 1980, security personnel at a military base in the English countryside reported strange lights moving through an adjacent forest. A senior officer went out with a small team to investigate and later wrote a detailed account describing a glowing metallic object on the ground, depressions in the soil where it had rested, and unusual radiation readings taken at the site the following morning. The lights returned on a later night, beaming down toward the base itself before disappearing.

SPEAKER_03 20:44

Because I know there is like a phenomenon that can happen with like density packed forests, and if there is like um a certain amount of I think it's humidity, but like lightning basically is able to like bounce through the trees and it looks like that there's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

There's a thing called ball lightning. Yeah, which is it kind of goes, it's a weird actual thing where like a sphere of lightning like floats through the air. I personally would be like, I don't think that's a real thing. I think that's someone has made an explanation for aliens. Um but yeah, apparently it's a real natural phenomenon.

SPEAKER_03 21:17

Yes, they love forests. Yeah, I'm thinking that they saw that happen and then the dad went in and was like, You won't believe what I found. Uh to aliens. Aliens are real. There's elements that I think are true, but then the actual alien part is false. Again, did he did they take the sphere away?

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Was it too hot to touch? No, no, I think it's just that there was uh there was obviously some device that uh was on the ground, was there and then left, but they they found basically proof that it had been there.

SPEAKER_03 21:45

Is this not just the plot of the uh what is it, the colour purple? Nope, wrong movie. Oh my god, it's Oprah Winfrey! No, uh Nicolas Cagerson recently. It's uh a Lynn uh not Lynchin. Oh my god, I'm mixing everything up. Lovecraftian. He has a story about their In a colour from out of space. I forget what it's called. It's not the colour purple. Very different film. I think this is just that movie. So therefore, I'm gonna say it's false.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Patty, what do you think? I think that if they had have seen a ball on the ground, they would race to secure that before it got away. And the fact that they didn't do that, I think it's false. Guys, I can tell you the story four is real.

SPEAKER_03 22:22

God damn it! Oh Nicholas Cage. The truth is out there. The truth is out there.

UFO Story 5: Alien Autopsy

SPEAKER_01 22:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

Okay, you ready for your final story? Absolutely. Absolutely. So we got two right, two wrong.

SPEAKER_03 22:33

Maybe we shouldn't agree on the next one. So one of us wins. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

Yes. In the mid-1990s, a roll of black and white film surfaced showing what was said to be a military medical team performing an autopsy on a small, large-headed humanoid body, allegedly filmed shortly after a 1947 crash recovery. The footage showed surgeons in protective suits removing internal organs and examining the body's unusual proportions. It was licensed for broadcast and aired on television networks around the world, sparking enormous public debate over its authenticity.

SPEAKER_03 22:59

This is the Antonek film. Yeah. I've seen that footage. What is it called? It's called Autopsy, I think, which is Yeah, no, that's a hoax. That's a that I think we actually know this one. It was a it's a created hoax, but it's like filmed and uh it was uh broadcasted and people genuinely believed it, but according to the they it's it's all fake. It's a big old dirty hoax. And then they made a movie with Anton Deck recreating it and showing how they did the hoax.

SPEAKER_01 23:26

So, guys, uh yes, you are right. This one is fake.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

Yeah!

SPEAKER_01 23:30

We know our movies, but I do enjoy these kind of stories because it's also like um you know the story of uh War of the Worlds. I was literally the radio broadcast where um what was it?

SPEAKER_03 23:39

It caused uh a mass hysteria in I think it was in America. So basically people tuned in halfway through a radio drama of a uh radio drama of War of the Worlds, where it was read out like a news article. So we're gonna be.

SPEAKER_01 23:56

The device is opening. Oh my god. Uh the tripod thing.

SPEAKER_03 24:03

And people Yeah, the music starts playing. And people start packing their bags like, oh god, the music is happening.

SPEAKER_01 24:15

So, guys, we had five stories there, and uh for three of them you guessed correctly, uh, but for two of them, they were actually real when you said fake. Shocking. Are you guys now uh true believers? Oh no. Absolutely. Well, I I was always a true believer. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_03 24:28

Yeah, um, you haven't like ruined my already standing opinion, but I'm more likely to think things are fake. And I'm like, I'd like it to be real, but you need to really prove it to me. Well have you know I get abducted every night? Yeah. What do they do to you?

SPEAKER_02 24:42

Oh, I don't remember that part. Okay. Yeah. I've repressed it. Probably for the best. Probably for the best, you don't know.

SPEAKER_01 24:47

Well, uh, guys, you know what you can do? You can abduct your focus. Now I was I was trying to think I was trying to think of an alien pun to segue into the ad break. Obduct your focus is what I can say. It doesn't work, it doesn't work at all. Uh we'll be right back after these messages, I guess. Welcome back. We hope you had a nice alien free break. And uh guys, how are you doing? Are you ready for uh the rest of what we got planned?

SPEAKER_03 25:19

We're ready for the rest of our lives. Oh, good. From this second. Absolutely. Right now.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

Guys, you both are actors. What? Who told you?

SPEAKER_03 25:30

How did you how did you find out?

SPEAKER_01 25:31

I j I just I got the vibe. He knows. He knows too much.

unknown 25:35

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

I love that I'm gonna be I'm gonna be killed in the acting segment as opposed to the alien segment.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

No, don't worry. We were acting.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

Oh we won't actually hurt you.

Acting Masterclass

SPEAKER_01 25:44

Guys, what we're gonna do for this segment is both of you are going to give me an acting masterclass. Oh dear. Because I am not wise in the ways of the acting world, and these two, sure, they've been on camera uh several times. More than that.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

Yes. We can say at least several times. Well, first of all, can you both give me a little bit of background about your acting experience?

SPEAKER_03 26:07

Well, it's an interview now. It's an interview. I thought it was acting from the moment I was born. Yeah. Isn't life just acting?

SPEAKER_02 26:14

Oh, the world's a stage, I believe. Burst out of my mama's womb doing jazz hands. Nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

The doctor was like, oh my god, what is that? Put him back. Going, I guess give me a brief free to you how you got into acting, or what was the interest?

SPEAKER_03 26:27

Yeah, uh as a I'm an only child, to no one's surprise. Um, and my parents would just put me into everything. So they'd maybe go swimming, I'd do sports, I would do horse riding, I would do art class, and they would just go, Oh, we've got to find her something that she likes. And then they put me in musical theatre class and went, oh no, this is the thing she likes. Oh no. But they also like they took me to see like the opera to ballets, pantos, obviously, as a child. Like I grew up like being consuming art. And then I went to my first ever like acting, acting thing when I was 10. And then, oh no, the rest was history. And I've done acting ever since, and I'm trying my best to get more work.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

What is it about it that you love?

SPEAKER_03 27:06

It's really hard to explain because it used to be a case of like this feels like the most authentic form of myself, even though like acting, you're often pretending to be something else. I was really badly bullied as a child, and for having a personality, how dare I? Um not allowed. Not allowed about it. Um, but I found by performing in shows, it was like I'm allowed to be a bit weird, and that's accepted. And that was really nice. And then it got I grew and grew more and confident. I used to be a very introverted child, now I'm extra I think I'm very extroverted now, and I'm very loud and annoying, and that's how I like to be. When you're on stage and there's an audience and they have all of their intention and specifically focus on you, and they're listening to every single word you're saying, there really is no better feeling, and it's like I feel it in my bones. Like I literally will be on stage and I'm like, this is right.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

It's like a laser focus all on yeah, I forget that.

SPEAKER_03 27:56

And like you forget that they're there as well. Like when you get swept away with the text, and when those moments happen, it's like it's like ascending, basically. That sounds so lanky. But it really like to me, it's like I don't know about you, Patty, but it is like it feels it's in my bones, like this is right. I might not be the best actress in the whole wide world.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

But for you, that's like that's the thing.

SPEAKER_03 28:15

This is right. This is why I'm on this earth, uh, and it's very important to me. And Patty, yourself.

SPEAKER_02 28:21

Um I just walked through a door one day. Someone said, Hey, do you want to be an actor? I was like, Yeah, sure, why not?

SPEAKER_01 28:28

If the intro to this segment is Grogna's like uh emotional spilling out my gut. I'd be like, Oh yeah, just go crack. It's like a well, yeah, so sorry, but for when you were younger, Patty. In all seriousness, though, like jokes aside, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

Growing up, I've always been such a creative. Like, even when I was in school, I used to have a notebook beside my bed. And if I just did regular things throughout the day and I went to bed, my mind would be racing. I'd be up until three or four in the morning, just like thinking, overthinking this, that, and the other, like creative things, making stuff up my mind. So I had a notebook which I take out every night beside my bed, and I start writing lyrics or stories and just create stuff, and it was only when I was mentally exhausted creatively would I be able to sleep at night, you know? And I had to do that every single night, or else I'd just be awake overthinking all night long and I'd be exhausted the next day.

SPEAKER_03 29:13

Did you keep a dream journal? Not so much. Oh, I did actually. I did too.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

Yeah, and then I eventually turned it into a dream dictaphone because I'd I'd forget the dreams too fast, so I'd I'd have it next to my bed.

SPEAKER_03 29:23

Yeah, that's smart, that's smart.

SPEAKER_01 29:24

And then, so yeah, as you grew older, then did you get into like what what what drew you into?

SPEAKER_02 29:29

Yeah, I I did all like the plays. I studied before like didn't leave a certain time, and then I moved to Spain for four years, and I kind of worked in the bars, lived a highlight. You always forget you lived in Spain that amount of time.

SPEAKER_03 29:40

Yeah, he's the most Spanish man we know. Yeah, look at him.

SPEAKER_01 29:43

C so but uh you you both kind of talk there about you know it being like a sense of flow or drawn to it. I kind of have the same with writing, like it's a thing that once you start doing you're like, oh yes, this makes sense for me. I can just like focus my entire creative brain.

SPEAKER_03 29:57

Yeah, the flow is a very real part of creativity, and you often suddenly will realize hours have passed and you're like oh, and then you snap out of it and you've made all this stuff, and then it's hard to get back in.

SPEAKER_02 30:07

Yeah, and then when you review it, you're like, I don't remember right now at all. Yeah, it's like it's not what you do, it's who you are, it's like part of you, you know, you apply it to everything you do in life. Yeah, it's an identity kind of exactly, yeah. So after like the four years, I felt the call of the creative side of me, you know, calling me back to reality because when you're in Spain, it's very much a tourist bubble. Yes. So I came back and I threw myself into the whole acting world, did all the courses I could find, was doing all the student films and getting as much experience as I could and making connections and going to festivals, all that sort of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

That seems to be the way with a lot of things, whether it's acting or writing or um comedy or anything. It's it's you need to have the interest to do the thing, but also the interest to like reach out and like take you know whatever job or connect or chat or something.

SPEAKER_03 30:50

You have to put yourself out of your comfort zone.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Well, guys, for today's masterclass, what I would like you both to do is teach me how to act. Okay. So what we're gonna do is gonna go back and forth, and each of you are gonna give me uh a tip, three tips in total each on you know, best practices, the best things to do. Um, and then at the end, I'll have to prove myself with a little monologue. So you can judge me on that then.

SPEAKER_03 31:11

I've come prepared. Okay. Okay. Got the uh the little the little notebook out. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

For the audio listeners, uh, Groni has taken out a small notebook and a felt tip pen. Uh right, so Patty, we'll go with

Tip 1: Paddy

SPEAKER_01 31:23

you first.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

So let me say for the very first thing, if you have a monologue there, right? You're talking to somebody, you're projecting to somebody. The words are the words, they're on the page, but what do you want? The words all have significance. What do you want of that person? You know, I want you to love me, I want you to love me. And then you learn the words, and the words just come out, but you you're trying to get some say it with a passion as if I want you to love me.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

So I I I want to lead with emotion, is that what you're saying? Yeah, lead with emotional. But choose a specific emotion. Is that is is that what you're taking? You don't choose emotion, don't choose emotion, no.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

You just you choose what what exactly you want them to do, and then okay, like if you want to plead it off them.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

So so so okay, so it's it's it's not just about the words, it's about placing this this intent behind a very important thing.

SPEAKER_02 32:05

The words you learn the words like just in the back of your mind, and if you learn them off road, off like off script, they'll come.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

For your number one tip, if you were to summarize it in like a sentence or a few words. What is your intent? What is your intent? Okay, what is your intent?

Tip 1: Gráinne

SPEAKER_01 32:18

Groonia.

SPEAKER_03 32:18

Unfortunately, mine's kind of similar.

SPEAKER_01 32:20

I said we're actors, they're all the same.

SPEAKER_03 32:23

We all have the same tips and tricks, but it's it's a similar line, but it's important. You see how we're speaking right now, like we're not thinking my next line is I'm going to say, I'm going to say this, I'm going to say this. When we're naturally speaking, the words are just coming. Like, we're not, there's not a second thought behind it. So when you're saying a monologue, if you mess up a word, who cares? Yeah, keep going. Because a lot of people think, like, especially for auditioning, you need to have the words perfect, perfect, perfect. As you speak every day, like you stumble, you mess up, you your brain like might take a second to kick in before the next thing comes out. It's it's it's hard, it's easier to say than it is to do, but it's just allowing the words to flow out of you.

SPEAKER_01 33:02

So your number one tip in a sentence or in a few words? This is this is gonna be the hardest part where I get them to summarize this wonderful depth of knowledge that they're giving me. Hey, don't think. Hey, don't think. And what was your one to get Patty? Uh, what is your intent? What is your intent? And hey, don't think.

SPEAKER_04 33:19

Don't do it, don't do it. I'm gonna have a fun time.

SPEAKER_01 33:21

Because I will say, so my acting experience is um really from like when I was in school. In primary school, I played Scrooge uh in the music. Uh Charity begins at home. That's all I know. All I can remember. Uh and my singing. Scrooge was a tenor. He was, yeah. Oh, literally, that's that's what I sang it like. The final musical we did in school was uh called um Back to the 80s. And I played a nerd uh and I got to sing uh Love Shack and Video Kill the Radio Star. And you didn't have to act at all. I didn't because that's just um but yeah, though that was the last time I would face comedy over here. Yeah, this is the thing. That's the last time I can remember acting. Uh okay, Patty, number

Tip 2: Paddy

SPEAKER_01 33:59

two.

SPEAKER_02 33:59

Uh if I want to sound very arty farty, have you ever heard him saying on a set like, Oh, he made some great choices? You know, yes. So there's certain ways you can get what you want. You know, about getting what you want, what your intent is. How are you gonna get that? Are you gonna flirt with the person? Are you gonna deceive the person? Are you going to interrogate the person? You could do it three different times and it would be all completely different. But you're always trying to get the same thing, yeah, in different ways, different doors to the same location. Like if I was to say, okay, do it again, but seduce them. Okay. Or manipulate them.

SPEAKER_03 34:32

Similarly, devastate them, you know. On that, it leads to discovery as well. Yeah. What Patty is saying. Okay. It'll help you, you'll make discoveries.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Well, I like that because I I, you know, I might not be much of an actor, but I've gotten quite into improv over the past while and that sound that sounds quite similar to that in terms of like as it happens. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:49

Why do the same thing every single time? And there's some actors who, in the audition, they just do the same thing again and again and again, and the director goes, Can you do it like this? And then you do the same thing again because they've learned in their mind one way, and they won't get the job because they're not listening to the director. They can't take direction, they're just doing their own thing.

SPEAKER_03 35:05

That's why a lot of people struggle with Shakespeare, especially because there is such a rhythm to the world. Of course, yeah. But then as soon as you're asked to perform a different way, you're like, But I learned the Iamic Pantamic.

SPEAKER_01 35:14

How could you do this to me? What's funny because that point reminds me of uh a clip I saw recently where it's Matt Damon talking about working with Clint Eastwood when he filmed it was a rugby film. Two takes Cleastwood, yeah. Yeah, and he had to do uh he had he said he trained months to get a really you know good South African accent, and then when he got onto set, he was like of a few different ways I think to do this scene, and they shot it, and it was just the one take. And Clint Eastwood was like, Yeah, cut like move on. And Matt Damon was like, Can I not like can I can I not have a few more takes? And apparently Clint Eastwood was like, Do you want to waste everyone else's time? He was like, Okay, well, I guess we're moving on.

SPEAKER_03 35:50

I I I've done films where we've done take after take after take after take after take. I'm like, you definitely get it within three. If you're working with good people, obviously experience people's a bit different.

SPEAKER_02 35:59

So, Patty, what was that one just there? Number two. How are you gonna get it? How are you gonna get what you want?

SPEAKER_01 36:04

You have to make a choice, make a choice decision and figure out how you're gonna get what you want. And Groania, what's your number

Tip 2: Gráinne

SPEAKER_01 36:09

two?

SPEAKER_03 36:09

My number two uh is for outside of the room. Consume everything, watch everything, read everything, watch things you don't want to watch, read play scripts, read movie scripts before you watch the film. Like you just want to take it everything out. You want to watch everything, you want to see how other people do, watch the master class, absorb, absorb, absorb. You're not taking this information in and you're gonna replicate it perfectly. It's like that's not the goal. It's just to see like what are the options? What can I do? What can other people do? But you've watched movies. I've watched movies, you've read books, I've read books, you've seen plays, I've seen plays, you've seen shows that I'm in. I have. And you went, it's growing. I did. You know what? Channel Grania. Channel Grania. Channel me. Is that your number two tip? Channel Grania. You saw me in Jesus Christ at the start. Channel that what would Grania do?

SPEAKER_01 36:59

Ever, ever the modest, uh subtle.

SPEAKER_03 37:04

Hey, I'm just giving you asked for this.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

I did I did ask for these tip. So uh modesty is one of her best qualities. What's your one and two? What was your number one? Don't think. Don't think, and channel grogna. How are you going to get what you want? Cool. That's we're uh we're on a roll here. I definitely remember all these, and I'm absolutely gonna be able to put them all into effect when I do my monologue.

SPEAKER_03 37:24

Do you still want one more from the boat? Yes, absolutely.

Tip 3: Paddy

SPEAKER_02 37:28

You're talking to somebody who you might not know in real life, but you have to, in your mind, evaluate it to a real life circumstance that you have. If you have a loved one, say um a sister or a girlfriend or a mother or whatever, imagine like there's different acting techniques. There's like, say, for example, there's one where people draw upon past lived experiences and they relive those in their mind. Yeah, but because they're not saying it out loud, the audience don't realize they're reliving past experiences.

SPEAKER_01 37:53

That's the one that you know, I as a as a lay person, that's the one I think I would know of.

SPEAKER_02 37:58

I would I would assume actors draw on emotions up. Yeah, emotional recap, but that can be very harrowing. Like there was somebody on stage one time and they were bawling their eyes out after the show was finished because they had to relive the death of their father again and again and again and get every night.

SPEAKER_03 38:10

It's a very old acting technique pen by uh Stanisovsky, and it's not recommended anymore because it is such a like it can make you depressed attack on your mental health.

SPEAKER_02 38:20

There's a much more healthier technique called the Meisner technique where you visualize, say, if your sister is perfect and healthy, you visualize her in your mind, she's dying, and you go through that mentally of her death. So you get to relive that, you get to live that in the scene. But when that's finished, you can call her up and say, Hey sis, we're going out for dinner later, yeah? And then you get you're cured.

SPEAKER_01 38:40

So you do your imaginary awful thing, and but you're able to fix it straight away. Yeah, cool.

SPEAKER_02 38:46

Okay, so it's it doesn't stick with you afterwards and depress you and ruin your life. So uh your shortened uh summary of that tip surplant the person in front of you with someone that you love in a similar circumstance to get the emotional expression that you need for the scene.

SPEAKER_01 39:00

Okay. Does that make sense? It does, and I but I love that that was your summarised version, but I understand, but I understand for the sake of it why it was as long as it was. Um, Grania,

Tip 3: Gráinne

SPEAKER_01 39:09

what's your number three?

SPEAKER_03 39:09

You're doing a monologue, you're not. It's so my it would be to listen, but it's just you speaking, so we'll forget about that for now. Okay. Um but that will be my my biggest tip for all actors is listen to the other person speaking. Being the improv, yes, as well. Yeah, specifically like again, if you need to cry, like if the characters tell you you tell talking to you about something sad, listen to them. Don't think about my sister as acting is yeah, acting is yeah, acting is reacting. But uh, do you remember how my last tip was be more like Ronia? Yes. My act my final tip is just be you. Oh, great. I know.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

But at the end of the schizophrenia, your tips are gonna be so like Patty, Patty has the true.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

Paddy's got the actual like uh my my acting teachers, I've got the lived experience. Oh fair. No, no, no, no. But be yourself.

SPEAKER_01 39:54

So that's a good contrast. There we go.

SPEAKER_03 39:56

But uh that by that I'm saying um, so when I studied at Bow Street, that was a very big part of it. It was kind of like I have a bit of a I'll fuck it throwaway attitude. But also at the end of the day, when you're acting on stage, it is you on stage. Sure, it's always you, it's always gonna be you. You are not becoming uh Stella in a Tennessee Williams Stella and you're not in Streetcar Name Desire. I'm more of a Blanche Dubois personally, but uh you Sean are not playing Stella, you are still playing Sean. I'm Sean, but you are going through Stella's life now. Okay, but at the end, it is still you living that.

SPEAKER_02 40:32

Yeah, it's your version of her.

SPEAKER_03 40:34

Yeah, it's a weird one, but it really did help help me a lot when I started taking scenes, and rather than thinking, like, who's this person? I'm like, no, this is me. Yeah, like I'm experiencing what this person's going through because it's me. Okay, I I it's a bit more abstract, weirdly.

SPEAKER_01 40:47

No, but I I get what you mean though, um, and I do get the the point of it.

SPEAKER_03 40:51

And it takes the demystifying out of acting as well. Yeah, yes, like you are it's you. It doesn't have to be perfect. So if you get to find me, but it really is, it helped me a huge amount because I would get so bogged down in character details and like who is that, who are they, what is their backstory, where do they grow up? How old are they? It's granya, it's me. Uh I am this person, I am uh a green witch flying through the skies.

SPEAKER_01 41:16

You've got your own flavor. Yes. So your number one is don't think, your number two is bigro. What what was Big Grogna short for again? Just so she could double check. Uh let me have a look at it. Because if it's don't think, be gronya, be short.

SPEAKER_03 41:27

Oh, yeah, it's because I said consume everything. Consume you saw a play I was in. So I said control eater of worlds.

SPEAKER_01 41:35

So so year one, two, and three are don't think, consume everything, and be yourself.

SPEAKER_04 41:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:41

And Patty, yours are know what you want, know how to find what you want, and uh supplant a personal connection personally. Swap the actor out for someone you love. Exactly. There you go. Interesting thing that I note now that we're at the end of these three, your tips seem to be kind of going for like instinct, and then yours are like again, just a different way of kind of doing it, I guess, a more uh technical, like uh practical, practical way of tips, which I think seems like two of the big things to have as an actor.

SPEAKER_03 42:13

You need all of what we said, everyone. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:15

So like you need you need all the tips and the practical stuff, but you also need the instincts as well. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 42:19

100%. There you go. Like you could have all the tools, you could have all the tools that Patty said, but if you don't have any instincts or any risk, it becomes stale, it becomes robotic.

SPEAKER_01 42:29

Much in the same way that in Disclosure Day, the two main characters, uh, one is you know to do with all the emotion and empathy and heart, and then the other is to do with all the technical science things and math. So, guys, you both maybe disclosure day. Maybe we were visited by aliens been you two. Do you know what? It's the friends we made along the way. Exactly. So, guys, uh, I think it's time for my monologue. Ooh, I don't know what this monologue is. So we're just gonna have our uh uh helpful uh producer here, Mr. Colin Regan, he's going to drop in. Uh oh, we have lovely Yorick here. I'll ask for Yorick.

SPEAKER_03 43:05

Oh, Yorick's been on the town, he's been partying.

SPEAKER_01 43:08

He got some tattoos. He went to Modigraph. He's filled with uh Cah Blanco Tequila. Fair play. So I'm gonna do my little monologue to to Yorick here, maybe to you guys as well. I can I can hold him, I can hold him up like this. Do you know who it who you're talking to? I'm gonna talk to Yorick, yeah, but I'm gonna be aware of you guys there as well.

SPEAKER_02 43:24

Oh, can I say one more acting tip? Yes. After every line, look directly into the camera and wink. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 43:30

Okay. That's that's a okay. That seems like the most important one. I think. It's the most important part. I don't think I'm gonna remember any of the rest of them. Do you need to cry? That's all you need. If you want to cry, keep your eyes open and just don't blink. Oh, let me see if I can do that. Okay, from now, I'm not gonna blink and I'll see if I can create tears. Now, here's the question. Do I read one of these as my monologue? Do I try to do like a dramatic reading? Like a dramatic reading one of these things.

SPEAKER_03 43:51

Do you have a monologue in the back of your head ready to go at all times, like we do?

SPEAKER_01 43:55

I don't. I could I could try do Aaron Burr, sir, from Um Hamilton timing. I still have my eyes open and I can feel them getting drier.

SPEAKER_00 44:04

Go double blink, double blink. That's the perfect time to not blink.

SPEAKER_01 44:06

Uh for the audio listeners. Uh I can tell you it's getting difficult. I can feel the stinging. Oh, oh no, oh, I'm about to blink.

SPEAKER_03 44:14

No, if I just push through this, uh Yeah, and when it's a little bit too long gone, then you can blink and push it out. Oh God. Push those tears.

SPEAKER_01 44:20

Okay. Uh I've I've also just realized I have to do my monologue. Oh, oh, this is sore. Okay, so I'm pushing past it. I'm pushing past it. You got this.

SPEAKER_03 44:29

I can see the tears. Your eyes are going red. Oh, that's squeeze. Squeeze.

SPEAKER_01 44:33

Ah, squeeze, squeeze. Audio listener, I'm sorry. This is uh gonna be just like a radio play for you.

SPEAKER_03 44:36

Oh, look how sad he looks. Oh, see, it works. See, it works.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

Okay, let's give this a go. Remember.

Séan Connolly's Big Fancy Monologue

SPEAKER_01 44:43

Um, pardon me. Are you Aaron Burr, sir? Oh, that depends who's asking. Oh, well, sure, sir. I am Alexander Hamilton. I'm getting nervous. Sir. I was studying at Princeton College. Sir. Fight me. Uh Alexander Hamilton enemy. Something to do with your father? And scene. Yay! Nailed it. Give that man an Oscar right now. Me and your golf claps all rounds. I thought I knew the lyrics to that song better than I did. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 45:23

And if you if anyone who's listening who didn't doesn't know the lyrics, because you never you didn't stop, you kept going. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 45:29

The audience will only ever know what you showed them. Can can I say genuinely, when I got to the point where I didn't know the rest of the lyrics, I did take the like push through, don't let your mess up. Yeah, um take it. So I use the tip.

SPEAKER_03 45:41

Sometimes that in breath, that take taking of breath is so powerful too.

SPEAKER_01 45:46

And Patty, uh, for you, you know, I was staring at the skull and I was thinking, what do I want? And I wanted empathy. I wanted empathy from it. Guys, uh, thanks for your master your mastic after class. That was what I was about to say. Thank you for your acting masterclass. Uh, what do I get out of ten for that performance? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:02

Uh well, disclosure day got a four out of ten.

SPEAKER_01 46:05

Am I better or worse than disclosure day? Is the question. Ooh.

SPEAKER_03 46:09

Ooh. York was listening to every word you had to say, and that is very important to me as an actor.

SPEAKER_01 46:15

Oh god. Out of ten, what do I get?

SPEAKER_03 46:17

I'm gonna give you seven point five. Yes! So it's higher than your disclosure score. Value.

SPEAKER_02 46:23

Well, you know, uh, you put in a valiant effort. I believed you. Thank you. You know, you had us all in the palm of your hand, the tears, the passion, the energy. You could tell that you really wanted something off your kid. You know, and I'm sure if he had lips that he'd say the same thing. I'll give you 8.5.

SPEAKER_04 46:39

Very good.

SPEAKER_01 46:40

Well done. Yeah. Uh thank you very much. Uh, you know, uh, but hey, uh I couldn't have done it without your uh wonderful tips in your in your master class. So uh thank you very much. Thank you. Well done. Well done to you guys. Well done. Well done, brava. Guys, uh, that just about brings us to the end of the day. Let's do another hour clear. Yeah, you're all day. Is it still time? What's time? What are you feeling? Do you have a good time?

SPEAKER_02 47:01

It was weird because it's a new format, so like I'm a fish out of water. Yeah, feel very good. I couldn't be in better company.

SPEAKER_03 47:07

Yeah, I have more tips if you want more.

SPEAKER_01 47:09

Yeah, that'll be a whole other podcast series. Groinia's 70 billion tips. But hey, you know, guys, you'll be back in this podcast sometime soon. Really? Uh we'll see, we'll

Outro

SPEAKER_01 47:18

see then. Guys, thank you very much for joining us. Where can people find you? And uh are you up to anything currently? So uh Patty, let's go with you first.

SPEAKER_02 47:25

Um well, you can find me everywhere at Patty J. Murphy. That's my handle across the board, across the universe. Um, and what am I up to now? I'm just learning how to drive. Hey, very exciting stuff. How are we finally? Uh well, I've actually just signed up for my theory test. So I'm at the very early stages. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:44

Wow, I've had mine since I was 17. I'm 72 now. Yeah, look at me now.

SPEAKER_02 47:48

I want to be like you. I want to be more grongy. You want to be more grong. I want to be more grinding.

SPEAKER_03 47:51

We can all take something out of today's video. Cool. And Grania, where can people find you and what have you got going on? My usernames on like Instagram will be That One Who Sings, and on TikTok, I'm Gronia Bloom. Drop the Gronia Bloom. I haven't got anything major coming up. However, I'm in a lovely film called The North, which is a beautiful Dutch-Scottish film that I shot a couple of years ago that has finally made it out into the world, and I believe it is coming to America soon. I don't know when. It's still currently doing the rounds in Europe. But uh fingers crossed, those of you listening or watching in America might get to see me on a big screen.

SPEAKER_01 48:26

But thank you everyone for watching. Uh this has been episode six of the green room. You can like and subscribe and click the bell for notifications here on YouTube where we upload the video and the audio. But we're also on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts yourself, give us a rating, give us a like, uh, comment, and uh yeah, I think that's everything we need to say. Uh bye bye. Bye bye, but