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I'm getting into this my get Look, it's a Cork special here
and a lot of people, Andrew Ryan will like me saying that because
he'll want to be part of it. He's not here today.
My guests are none other than returning favourite Chris Kent
and Cornelius Sullivan, who by the way Chris, this guy here
opened for me in the Cork Opera House last week.
Killed. I know, yeah.
What did I tell you? Murder pitcher.
He's great, isn't he? It was great.
Speaking of beardo and beer products.
But I'm interested in the the ball stuff that you were talking
about there. Yeah.
I mean, does the carpet match the rug at the minute well?
Longer, I'd say the. Promises that you were making
are they like can I take him to the bank you know if I. 100%.
I'll take everything you've got, yeah.
The whole lot, yeah, lads, I'm, I'm in love with Cork.
I Yeah. I'm in love with your city.
Was that? Your first time down there?
Oh no, it wasn't because you were down there a long time ago
doing a club. Yeah, and I did the field.
I did 4/15. Of course, because I met you and
we did a yeah. I'm only in and out.
That's the thing, you got to properly walk around.
I show up on. The two days in a row.
I'm only seeing Cork under the cover of darkness.
This is the first see when the light hits out city.
Yeah, it's brilliant. It's gorgeous.
Yeah. And the people.
Not sure look. Tell us more.
Well, when you're what I went for a run and I put on on
Spotify, just like Irish artists.
Spotify, Yeah. And Bag of Tail came on.
Now it was somewhere in Dublin, so correlated in no way to Cork,
very specifically a Dublin song that.
Was a good story. But it was it was all about
being by the by the river. Now they're talking about the
leffy. But when I was running by the
river and I just imagined they were singing about that.
Yeah. Yeah.
And then, look, I just, I just had a lovely time.
The food, people. He took me to a Son of a Bum
burger place. Of a barn.
It was great. It was.
Brilliant. Savage.
I just, I just feel like, I feel like it's its own.
It feels like it's his own country almost like you don't
feel like there's anywhere around it but Cork.
Just it's like, it's like a Kingdom.
Yeah, you've got it right. Yeah, and the opinion people
have their own city I. Know yeah, yeah, we're delighted
with it. I love that.
Do people because their cities you go and people from there
don't love it, but the Cork people love Cork.
I'd say yeah, I didn't get that for a long time.
I think that we're arrogant and all that and we love Cork, but
the more and more time I'm spending there because they get
that. Because I didn't realise the
court Dublin rivalry until we didn't show.
Yeah, and they had tea backstage.
You know, tea bags they had backstage.
Lions. Probably.
It's more Opera House, the corners.
Lost his mind, yeah. He's like, don't you can't drink
that shit as I was slapped them out of my hand, threw them out
of fire escape. I was like, why?
He was Dublin tea. Dublin tea, It's a fact.
Like like I don't understand what I was doing there.
And then he just, I swear to God, from behind his ear he just
produced like Barrys 2. Bags always carry a couple
behind the ear firm I. Can't believe.
I can't believe we have, we have Irish T wars.
I had no idea. Oh, it's a big thing.
So the Cork Dublin rivalry is massive, is it?
It is. From their side, I mean, we're
confident. Yeah, yeah, I guess it is.
Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is.
Well, like I think everyone's rival with Dublin, like Dublin
kind of have theirs kind of an autocracy, kind of they.
Get everything they. Get everything and all the home
games in the GA. It's all in.
I mean, my tour, sure, there's already done, but the time this
goes out so they get everything up there.
You'll be done. Yeah, Yeah.
Silver spoon. Yeah, I agree.
I think I was away from Cork for a long time, like 10 years.
So I have a weirdly new appreciation for that I didn't
have before I left, certainly so I feel like.
I think we, I love, I love from being from Cork.
I absolutely. And I don't think I'd want to
live anywhere else than from Cork, even though you know, I
know you've lived abroad. I've got first for a small way,
but I think, I don't know, it's just everything that you said.
It's just that there's a vibe there, like just a vibe.
And I think Cork people love being from Cork.
Where are you from? Cork or past Mallow class?
Yeah, yeah. That's not class to Mallow.
Mallow, that's because. The only person I.
Bad example. Like day-to-day, the only person
I know regular, like I see Chris obviously when he's for shows or
in the pool, but you know, socially the only person I know
from Cork is Andrew, of course. But when you meet other people
from Cork, you go. It is.
It's actually a great place.
Yeah. When you meet other Cork people,
you go ragged. OK, I get it, But nausea,
Andrew. So proud of being that.
There's a good pricing there like people love.
But why is Cork? Why is Cork the Rebel county?
I never asked that one who was there.
Well, it goes like, it goes back to the War of Independence,
really. You know, we're just and you
know, I mean stubbornness, stubbornness and.
I mean, you saw how you reacted to tea bags.
Can you imagine? Yeah, anything political.
Yeah, we reacted to because. When Edger Theo volunteer on the
Marquis, yeah, someone obviously told him, say he's like the real
capital of Ireland. And that was.
They're going mad for that word. We could have started a battle
that night like they would have marched on Dublin.
They were that fired up as soon as he said that.
Yeah, the real Republic, I think that's, it's kind of a nice ring
to it as well. You have to, you know, you have
to admit. Where did you live abroad?
London. Very tropical.
Yeah, find yourself lived in London for a bit.
Yeah, Yeah, lived in London to East London.
You worked in bars and I'd started, that's where I started
doing comedy in London. And yeah, I suppose East London
is nice. In London isn't great like so
any anywhere after East London is going to be tropical, really.
Yeah, You know, so, but like, I just think in general, anyone
that I know that that goes away from Cork, even if they go to
Australia or they go to their pine immediately for Cork, the
minute they land down somewhere else, they're like Tommy Tiernan
has a bit where it's Grant, but it's not Clark.
Yeah, John landing on the moon. It's Grant, but it's not Clark.
And like you tour, Chris, and you guys say like your tour is
gigantic. Yeah.
The amount of dates and the times and the villages and the
cities that you play where are cracking spots in Ireland that
like we wouldn't know about where you just go like you need
to see this place. But not not like, you know,
everybody would say, oh, you got to do like the ring of carry or
yeah, colonies where where where hidden gems.
You go on tour that you're like, you need to go do this West.
Cork Have you been to West Cork? It's lovely.
He's not wrong. He's not wrong.
It's so nice. The barrage is pretty good,
yeah. Bad trees, good.
E cork is good as well. Yeah.
And I'm from Norcork. I'm not going to diss Norcork.
Yeah. City.
Where did we go? That was particularly nice that.
You know, all I love is is clears and Kilkenny.
Kilkenny is a good Kilkenny. Kenny's in the good city.
Great place. It's a lovely size, and Galway
too, but you'll probably get been to God.
These are not really hidden gems, are they?
But yeah. Buckle Kenny's way, maybe go.
Why am I not playing more regional places in Ireland?
Yeah. Like here's here's a great place
with great venues and I want to do more.
You ever done a show on Ackle High School holiday?
I have been up there but I never done a shorter.
I'd love to do a shorter. Didn't you do a show in the
Ireland disaster? I did a show in Yeah, it wasn't.
It wasn't. Which one was it, though?
I don't know. Umm, fuck.
I did. Yeah.
I can't remember a name. You did a.
Tour show there. Yeah, no, no, I did.
I did a show, I just did a gig like a spot at a festival and it
was absolutely brilliant. The lawlessness in this place,
in each Baffin, in each Baffin. Get the thing over.
I mean, now, do you know, do you ever see, do you ever see
someone? Eh, it's rare these as you see a
child in the car with no car seat, with no child's car seat
in the car. I saw a child still in its buggy
rolling around in the back of a van.
The van was just driving up the road and I was like this is the
best place ever. All the licence plates falling
off the cars. Yeah, there's no NCT's.
Yes. So what's happened when it's
when an inspector comes over? I was asking someone about it.
There's a big field and they just put all the cars in there
and then the inspector, anything that's NCD or taxed is left kind
of out next to the Paul bar out in the road.
And so they know when they're coming over on the boat.
Like there's no that's. Similar to raffle an island,
when I said to the bar, you know, there have been room, you
know, I said hypothetically if you guys were keeping this place
open, yeah, past opening or this was like 12 years ago, you know,
I said hypothetically, if hypothetically if right now it
was 423 in the morning, yeah, I go what would happen if like
please find out about this is like they have to ring us to
bring them over to the island. They have to go and pick up the
place. Yes, on a boat and bring them
over to see if they're still open.
It's just. So like system, it's perfect to
go and go and bring you to investigate.
Me, but I'd be in the like Tory Island.
I'm in any of these cases. That was my first time going
there now and I've really enjoyed it.
Beauty like beautiful place. Was the venue nice?
The gig was kind of like it started about two hours late.
It was one of those or This is Island, This is Island time and
we're all a bit wild. Yeah, and I kind of love this.
There was no kind of coverage there.
It was just lovely. Yeah, but I'd say I was there 24
hours, me and Eve. I had the family there as well.
We did, we did the gig. We had a couple of points.
Again, it's umm, when we got there, we were like, this is
brilliant. Isn't this beautiful?
However, the next morning I was like I cannot wait to get off
the site. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can see how it drives people crazy as well, because there's
nothing here. I think we're too used to
growing up in a city. Grow up.
I have so many places near me where I go for a lovely coffee
or a walk or. If you want Oreos.
Are you? You know what I mean?
Or get Oreos. What do they do if they take?
They get them delivered from Super Valley once a month or
something. Yeah, exactly.
If they take a Craven for Butterscotch, and I know it's
not that, not the 1910s, but if you did, you haven't created for
butterscotch. You can't do anything about it.
Yeah, unless you wrap other door.
You know I'll trade you a bar. Probably a bar tree kind of
system going over there, yeah. I'm looking for butterscotch
what you take and it's stayed kind of like.
There was a there was a chippy on raffling just opened like a
chip fan and I was like, that's genius because there's no
competition and luckily it was great.
And nice. She has no competition or a nice
little coffee van or something like that on an island like
that. I didn't get more of that in.
Valencia Island one time, don't wait.
Kerry is, yeah. Oh, I thought you meant you
people. Place No No.
No. I've been to look, I have been
to Spain as well, like, you know, I have travelled as I've
already alluded to. London, Glasgow EP Around the
world, yeah. Valencia, you know.
Where's what's, what's where is Valencia?
It's down in Kerry, down in South Kerry.
It's I think it's the biggest island.
It takes so far how long to get to, doesn't it?
About 3 hours. From.
Car from Kerry, Yeah. From Kerry, from one party.
It's crazy. Three hours from Kerry.
Oh, it's mental. It's Kerry's huge like.
Yeah, and the roads are terrible, like and and also
Kerry people you. Drive to Yeah.
Ah, but you can drive. There's a bridge.
Like a peninsula kind of thing like you.
Get the ferry there, but you can get the bridge from Port McGee
which is a villa land like on the land that the mainland
across to it as well. But again, it's lawless.
Like it is lawless, Yeah. You go across the ministry,
you're on the island, you just kind of go.
Yeah, because I said I was like, is there a police on the island?
They said no. And I said what happens if like
a tourist kicks off in the bar and starts like going crazy?
A guy goes, we take care of it. We take care.
Take care of it, Yeah, I love. That yeah and then we they rough
land at the pub Olympics so they do all these pub games to just.
Go do it right? Oh, that's cool.
I'd love to enter. The pub, there was a guy like
the strong man of the island and he's the champion at this game.
We sit in the pub floor on your arson.
You have your feet pointing up and you hold on to your brush
shaft. Someone sits opposite you, your
feet, your soles, your shoes touching the soles, their shoes,
and you're trying to pull yourself up.
What do you know what I mean? So it's lush.
It's a strength. And balance thing.
And this guy was like, I'd never been defeated.
He was like, you're famous on the island or whatever.
And then Dave Elliott, Dave Elliott, 9 pence against my God,
accepted the challenge. He's not a small guy like.
He's beat him and the guys are like.
With. Respect their specs, the guys.
Like you're from king of the island, king of the king of.
He's living there. He sits on a throne.
That's amazing. But he but you're right.
You go to these islands and you go.
I should live here like this is real living.
Yes. And then but then when you you
know, when you don't have grave 4G to watch the Premier League.
I like you. Yeah.
No, it's not. You need to be the city.
Episode of the Penguin or whatever.
Hanging for an Oreo or whatever. You know what I mean?
Like, yeah. And also you can see why they
make up all those pub games and all that.
Yeah, just bored out of their minds.
Yeah. Like in a normal pub, you just
beat people on their phones having a good time.
Let's go for a burger or something.
As anyone hungry. Go down or like.
Is a Penguin good? In the brush up, I love it.
God, I love it. Yeah, Colin Farrell.
Properly into it. He he got a lot of backlash
because people were like, you shouldn't be playing fucker if
you're not fat. I'm being like, that's a real
thing. Yeah, yeah.
I don't know. But they're not.
A line at that, Yeah, yeah. Because then you've got to go up
to actors and go, you're fat. We'd like you to be in this.
Yeah. We need a fast role.
I mean, if they offered me to. I actually agree for Colin
Farrell. Actually.
Taking all the fucking roles. I was born to play the Penguin,
you know, I'd go to where are they, Antarctica as that were
there. Yeah.
Actual Penguins. I'd get into character and live
with them for a couple of months, whatever it took.
You know? He's got enough movies at this
stage. You.
Turn very quickly there. Yeah, I know, but like, listen
Bora, when it's been taken off you all your life.
Obviously when I'm in Cork, I'm thinking about young offenders.
I'm seeing places where I'm like, Oh yeah, that that was
where the shot, this, that was shot that.
Has anything else filmed there? Anything else big?
When the shakes, the barely. One of my favourite.
Films was this year with film Clarkson Cork.
Oh yeah, there was loads of people in it.
Yeah, all of my. Favourite.
Films. Yeah.
Norcork. I might have told this in the
pub before, but I was telling my wife's grandparents who put that
movie. I was like, we're talking about
like great Irish films and I said when the shakes already for
me, one of the. Greatest ever.
It's a great movie. Phenomenal film.
They never heard of it. They were.
They were intrigued. They were like, we'd love to see
that. I said say no more and I
secretly went at the time, went in Amazon Prime delivery, got
the DVD sent to their house. The next day they phoned my wife
and when you're not going to believe this, she knew I'd
ordered when it was it was it was a Saint Patrick's Day by
chance the next day they went funny you, you know, she was
talking about that film. The Irish government must have
sent out DVD's of this to every house in Ireland for Saint
Patrick's Day. And she went, no, Shane sent it
to you. But it was like Shane's working
for the Irish government. It was like 15 hours after we
had the conversation. They were like, yeah, sure he
did. What's more probable, he got
that sent to this house in less than a day or the Irish
government mass sent out these DVDs.
So I still think they don't, they don't they don't credit me
with ordering they. Still don't believe they?
Still don't believe that that was me.
That's like 1. Another car play.
He's brilliant in US. Yeah.
It's an amazing movie, actually. It's a great I'm watching a long
time improvised a lot of that emotional they.
Would send people in the scenes that they didn't know what was
going to happen and that's the rest of the actors knew.
Yeah, but people didn't know. Yeah, it was really cool.
So realistic as well. Like it's so like, you know,
modern movies, it's all CGI and yeah, obviously of the time
they're not going to be using CGI, but it was just just to
show the harsh brutality of it. Like, yes, yeah, it's great
movie. We draw it on.
Have you got someone send me a DVD there anyway?
I have. It just came into the right on
my door. I mean the Irish government, you
better have to send them to every house in England.
Maybe that would be the way to do that would be like, we know
you didn't get an education school, so just watch this and
you're. You're so fired up.
Yeah, you'll be caught up. Oh you are?
Aren't You know what playlist changes dramatically from rap in
the Spotify? I think The Chieftains and Shiny
O'Connor. Oh yeah, it's the song Foggy
Jew. Oh yes, in a great scene in
that. What a song.
Yeah, that's a great. Beautiful.
Umm. What a voice.
Wrecked by every boxer an MMA fighter from Ireland using Oh
they all, they've all used it. They need to dove again.
They. Need to sit down and like,
shotgun someone Shotgun, yes, You know, it's the same with
grace. I think Michael Conlon, our
first dibs on that. I think so too.
Yes. That's not sure about right.
Sure doing it. I don't care how well he does
it, but yeah, I don't know, man. You don't have the shoes first,
you're. But I went to see Rod Stewart
recently. And he you'd see Rod Stewart in.
Paris yeah, this guy is. A traveller.
He's not a traveller. He travels around.
Paris Mallow. Wherever Rod Stewart is, you'll
be there. It doesn't matter where he.
Is I'm there? So did you go to Paris to see
Rod or you were in Paris and Roger happy?
I went to see, I didn't go to My wife loves Rod Stewart and I
went along then for the piss take.
He has a couple of bangers. To be fair, he's a.
Couple of bangers. Brilliant.
Of course he. Does but he had about 7 or 8
different costume changes and what I didn't like about him and
he's sick afterwards now so I don't want to be talking I'll of
him but he kept giving out to the audience.
He was like come on, shake it up, shake it up.
They're all in their fucking 80s.
Yeah, they can't have. Them are shaking.
They didn't take. Their my bills.
You know, give it out to the audience that they weren't
rocking hard enough for him. But yeah, it was good.
It's good gig though. One of my first ever concerts
might have been my first ever concert.
Rod Stewart at Stormont, you know, or.
Right. Political headquarters where our
governments based. The home ground.
Storm the State, Big Rod don't show up there.
Outdoor it was great, good crowd.
I didn't know any songs. It was brilliant.
Yeah, you get, you get a few, then it's one of those you you
don't think you do. And then you hear a few like,
oh, that's, that's him. Can you look?
Up please. What age is Rod Stewart could
you think about? You won't see this guy Outfit
changes. Sexy leopard print lady
screaming over him. He's gyrating. 79. 79 Busy 80.
He kicked the footballs off the stage.
Yes, and now he was incredible. Doing that, he heard.
But he'll be, he'll be thrusting right, and I'm sure it's all
sexual. Yeah, he's older than my dad, so
he could be a great grander. He could be trusting and you
know. He's someone's there's, there's
a childhood there. Being like my great grand is
great for his age. And then Rod Stewart is doing
that, but like. What does he do?
Does he, you know, does he, does he go walking every day?
Like better than that? He's he's you can't fuck, he's
fucking the. Air, you can't, you're fucking
the air. But he's got trousers on.
So if he didn't have trousers on, he'd be sweeping the ground
with his with his joy race. I heard they're all his back and
then come down and like a seat belt there's.
A little chain too little. Balls hanging off his.
But it's crazy how like guys like that, like if they stopped,
they would get old straight away.
Yes, they need that. They need to keep.
He doesn't need the money. No but but.
They need to keep yes, having that adulation.
I think they're finding it very hard.
You see so many farewell tours from Elton John and these
people, they just keep coming back.
Yep, we saw who I went to see. Another man that puts on a good
show and what's his name, Bruce, The Boss.
Springsteen went to see him in court with such a long show, and
I was so disrespectful. I was Bruce, yeah.
You just fella, Bruce. You see, yeah, he's a cop, but
he. You didn't like.
You didn't like? Bruce, why?
You get into it, you know, and I was in the.
Climbers is too fucking long. Way.
For anything. Anything for a movie.
Anything. Sex, it's like.
Three hours. It's too long for us.
Like spent sex for three. Young people, do you know?
3 minutes is loads. Loads, but I was also I got the
tickets, he sold out and I got on someone an Aiken and they got
me tickets. I just I still paid for them,
but they were in a kind of a VIP area called people around me
were not. You know, he's a rock, isn't he?
Rock. Really.
Oh yes, rock. People.
They were not rock, they were wearing G lays.
They. Were swaying maybe?
Sunglasses on their head. They weren't saying they're
doing worse. They were jiving.
They were doing, you know, that thing.
See that thing there when they're there?
Jumpers tied over there. Oh yeah, right.
And there was another woman next to me.
Dublin. Crows.
Probably there was a woman down from Dublin, definitely because
it was next year. To me, she was just, she was
fucking annihilated. Drunk.
Yeah, she was keeping me, kind of.
She was like, oh, this is great. She was.
I liked her because she was 90 other people around me like, is
she OK? I was like, she's best.
She's the best thing about this night.
And she was like, I'm going to be out of my house.
I'm getting thrown out under the streets and in four weeks and
I'm like, I'm not surprised. Tickets.
For grand on the gold, no. Crazy I got into my eventually
nieve my wife was bored out of her mind and said when he came
out that guy looks like the guy from The Sopranos.
What's he called? He is in The Sopranos, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's guitar. Guy on the bass, isn't it Really
cool guy as well, but just took a small but it was too it was
too much for me. Do you know what I mean?
Three hours. It's kind of the cool thing to
say though. Oh, he's brilliant.
He plays for three hours. Some people there were so into
it, though, and I was like, I'm there for that.
That's lovely. Yes, I was leaving.
I accidentally kicked someone's point over.
Felt bad about for a second. And now to this day, I think
about it every night. Just keeps me alive.
Yeah, it was the way he reactionally, he was like.
You're just almost a full. Point that was like, yes.
Yes, he had said that. Yeah, you might have.
You might have gone and bought him another.
One I would have gone about him another one but I was just say
it kept me warm and the rainy night we went to see.
Hamilton in Dublin, night after court or so, I don't know, it
was like last week. I heard it's excellent.
Two hours, 40 OK, I was given off of.
I'm a huge fan of the soundtrack and of what on Disney Plus.
Did you watch the ball Broadway? Dublin as well was it?
It was in the board. Board dash is it?
Board. Gosh, I'll wait until you said
it first because I've been calling it Board Gash for a long
time. That's a different club.
But in that you want to get in the golden circle for that but.
Trouble for going there? But I'm here in two hours, 40 as
I can't be numerous, can't be numerous.
Let's leave early, we'll get to the car first.
The best thing I've ever seen in my.
Life go away and was. Captivated.
I also pulled the way, you know, Yeah, we couldn't get tickets.
So exactly like you pay for it. I just need the tickets, but
we're happy to pay for it. They have a thing there called
Gold Members Circle or something.
You go in, is it? In the stalls or is that up a
bit higher? Is it on the rim of that there's
a? Restaurant.
Go away. There's a restaurant, you walk
in there, your seats for the whole night, You can leave your
coats there, whatever. And you can order drinks for the
interval. So when you come back, what
about this? You could order a starter and a
main course And if you want dessert for the interval, Yeah,
you could do it like that. Go away.
No, there was a point where I thought this was all free.
Heads up. They bill you at the end.
Yeah. But it actually wasn't even a
mental. It was really.
It was like normal restaurant price and it was, I wouldn't
even drink and I'll it was brilliant.
It was the best thing I've ever seen.
It was packed. It was every night with how
long? Is it there?
It's got no, obviously gone. They'll probably come back if it
was so. Popular for a month, Yeah.
And it and I'm like, how do you learn these lines?
And then friends of mine who had been to more than one show of it
go the actors swap roles sometimes, you know, if if
you're playing the main role, one of the main roles, the next
night, they might say you play one of the more bit part roles
if you get a bit of a. Rest a bit of a break and.
Then that guy steps into Europe so I'm like how the fuck do you
learn 2 roles never mind one? It was how long are they on
toured then? I think they they tour in depth.
Multiple casts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. It's not the original people
doing it. Lin Manuel Miranda wrote it and
was the main guy. He does the music for Moana,
stuff like that. He's like now huge star zone,
right? But it was it was the best thing
I've ever seen. And I'm not in like musicals
replaced. Really not not really.
I don't mind them, but. Must be good so.
As I was like, every part of this is amazing, yeah.
And it really devalues in my head what we do.
I'm like. Yeah, I was just going to say,
isn't aren't we great to be in the arts now?
Yeah. So we're not in the arts after
watching that. No, no, no, but.
It's completely different, but I I love that venue as well.
Yeah, it's massive venue. Yeah.
Yeah, I went to. I went.
I've only been there once. I took my kids to see Joseph in
the Amazing Technicolour dream coat.
They're telling you this, actually.
That's really. High, isn't it?
It's like, is it really, really high if you're up, up upstairs?
Or am I imagining a different? Place I wasn't, we were down to,
we were down the cheap seats at the lower at the back, but it's
kind of sweeps around like. Yeah, yeah.
Not really a bad seat. Yeah, I saw Joanne Doon stand up
there actually was brilliant. It's good.
What's capacity 5? 3003.
Is it big? Yeah.
What was that? Sure.
Like Joseph and. He we to leave at halftime, my
young fellows autistic and he was kind of having a kind of a
bit of a meltdown. So we went.
But like the first half was great.
I don't know what the second-half was like.
Yeah. I wanted to go back in
apparently. It wasn't the right thing to do.
I catch you back at the hotel, but I was not.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, it's great venue though.
It is a great venue. I definitely want to go back and
I'd love to see something like that there now.
Like, yes, that's the venue for that.
What them like when you guys are travelling up today for the show
and come through this pod that's a long, I find that's a long
drive for Cork. How do you split it up or you?
Do you have certain service stations and stops that you
like? Or do you just play it as you
play it as you? Find normally we do.
We drove on a bit today though. We stopped in.
Lusk was us. We time lost today and what's
it? You went cork the Lusk.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I pick kind up in Mitchell some.
Yeah. And then we went straight there,
straight up to Lusk. Yeah, that's quite a stretch.
It's a good one. Yeah, that's.
But you can make the mistake of make your first stop too early.
You can make it too early. Yeah, JCT 14 is normally a good
spot for us. Is that a Circle K?
Mayfield, yeah, Supermax, the whole.
Is a nicer place now when you're coming out from Dublin, Yes, you
know, you've you put me on to on the left, on the left.
Or when you're coming home. Yeah, there's a 24 hour place
now. America.
Spencer's a coffee of nice coffee.
Gourmet coffee drive to place like burger.
King. Do you know the issue with those
service stations? And some people hate the service
station chat. Some people love it.
The problem with those ones is they're not signposted well
enough to creep up on. Your man that that's.
They're just little slips. I know where that one is and
it's still I still miss it. The you know what I'm talking
about. It's very badly signposted.
You can't go back to that now. On the other side of that, I
went to my way back from Court Calder Village.
Oh yeah. Too much of A turn off for.
Me. Oh, that's a big yeah.
You're you're just adding on to your journey.
Into that car park. It's too much journey too much.
If you don't again, I'll go completely rogue and I haven't.
I did it once on a tour last year.
I think I went off on the alternative route.
You know that one intro? I believe we had to do it once
or twice that when the road was closed.
Often worse. Old school, but actually it was
lovely driving through all the old towns I believe, and all
them. That's not the night I got sick.
That's not the night you got sick.
That was coming back from Kilkenny.
That was absolutely brilliant. Yeah, I mean.
Well, that was that was. We took a wrong turn that night
as well. Didn't.
We that way that was nothing to do.
But you're getting sick though, I don't think.
I think. Oh yeah, we were on Windy.
Roads to be We were on windy roads, but.
We did a couple of the gigs in Kilkenny and you're like just I
was like, alright man, I can pull over.
No, I'm grand. I'm grand and then gotten.
You were very quiet, which is very unusual for for like how
many minutes probably. I don't know, maybe.
Actually pull over there and was a side of a windy Rd pitch
blackout. Midland nowhere.
It was like I've never I ever in my life heard anyone vomit so
hard. It just came out in a volume.
Like an intense. It was slapping on the pit.
Yeah, and slapping on the. It was 2 noises simultaneously.
There was more people I could have started the kind of a.
Slapping. Yeah, If there was a talented,
talented guy, don't know, he could have recorded bits of it
and mixed. It Yes, yes, yes.
But yeah, that's double slap slap slap.
You, you went down. You took a wrong turn that night
as well. Yes, yeah, probably.
That was we we went through shitty Rd.
Like the roads are so good. When you go back to country
odds, it is kind of like. Nothing worse than a diversion
on the way somewhere, OK, when you've got that Google Maps
going and you know you're going to be home at 1:22 AM and you're
visualising just getting in the bed, the visualisation.
Version that happens to me. I live just on the opposite side
of Jack Lynch tunnel. When you get to Cork and
everyone again I get home and the tunnel is closed for
maintenance and I'm literally when I get to the tunnel I am 3
1/2 minutes and I'm in my driveway but everyone again the
tonnes closed. I have to go back this way into
the city. It adds on 25.
Because you used to be an electrician.
You're not. You're not.
Still, I've been. Tempted here I know the guys
that are in there and I have been tempted to cycle answer
just leave me true please. But I think health and safety
wise, me driving through two in the morning in my events.
I mean, I wouldn't have the terminology, but maybe you could
be like, oh, I'm just, I'm just checking an LED.
I'll just check it out. Yeah, I just want to check it
out. Yeah.
You know, something like that. Just bring my screwdriver the
next time, yeah? I saw they're thinking of
closing that for a couple. Years tonight now again, yeah,
there's a big, huge job in it. Yeah, yeah.
Sometime when I say diversion, if I'm on tour, on the way home,
I just feel like pulling up in the hard shoulder and just like
either given up or just rolling onto the road itself and just.
Yeah, when you're so tired, when you visualise that time in the
bed, that's the problem. When you're like your body is
ready to go. Yeah, don't.
You'll be in bed soon now, Yeah? Do you drink a lot of coffee on
the road? I've got so I was on three a
day. Today's going to be 3 there.
Today's going to be a tree for us.
Early start with a kid. My wife.
Because I've got the big show coming up.
I've been afforded extra time in bed in the mornings.
Yeah, which is a godsend, but it's early start.
Kids at school. Three pods today.
Argue with the car wash guy this morning.
Taking a note of me, did you? Don't start ME3 pods Dublin for
the show. Today's going to be a three
coffee day. Yeah, normally I'm done to one.
Yeah, actually, I go to the car wash this morning.
Yeah. I was through the car wash this
morning. I go to the same one quite
slightly on my way to go to this one.
Good, good guys. Is it the outside you're getting
done or are you going to validate, you know?
Yeah, I get the outside done, get the.
Outside done it's a fiver for just washing go yeah washing go
5 LB. The only money I have with me
cash is £6. Normally I give them say seven
or eight, yeah, I've £6 on me. I go don't feel so bad.
There's a bit of a tip there's. A bit of a tip, yeah.
My car is a Peugeot 3008 GT right?
It's not a it's just below an SUV size.
I'd say maybe a small SUV. They do wash and go. 5 LB small
car 7 LB large car. I go through the car wash.
Different guy, different boss man.
I don't know boss man today, right?
I normally know boss man. This is an unfamiliar boss man
and he's not giving me like. He's doing for the Seven.
He's not giving me the look and I know when I put my window
down, something's not something's going to go wrong
here. So he just, he just, he puts a
hand out. No problem.
I slide over that 7 and I say don't worry.
But now I've pre, I know what I'm at.
I know he's charged me more than five.
I'm given the sex and saying don't worry about it.
As in that's my cost cover. There's a plan for the voice.
Yeah, He goes 7. I said it's not, it's 5, but I'm
giving you six. Yeah, he said it's seven.
He said your car is very dirty, I said.
That's. Why We're all here.
That's why we're all here. Extra.
For a dirty car, clean ones are 5.
He said, he said it's it's seven.
I said I'm here a lot. Yeah, it's 5, but I'm giving you
6 here. I was tempted to hit that pound
out of his hand. I said I'm here all the time.
It's 5, but I'm giving you 6 here.
He said it's seven. Large car.
I said it's not a large car. It's not a large car, right?
It's not. It's not Mr Bean's car.
Yeah, but it's. Not, but it's not a lot.
It's this is a small car, technically.
And the guy's like, no. And I was like, I don't have any
other money with me. And the guy's like he said my
boss has cameras here. I was like, well, I felt like
you'll get sucked in. He's going to see your
incompetence. Yeah, at a valued, loyal
customer who's given you one point.
One point it was. On pocket here and I said, and
this where I played his bluff, I went, I'll happily pull up here.
I'll leave my car here. I was blocking quite a bit.
I mean, I'll leave my car here. I'll walk over to that shop down
there. I'll get money or I'll break it
5 or 10 LB note and I'll come back with a point.
And the guy went, don't worry about it this once.
And I felt like going, what do you mean?
You're not doing me a favour here?
You're not doing me a favour. Give me a dirty look and I drove
off and I'll tell you something. I'll never be back.
Never. Ever.
That's it now I mean. It you're God, you're out you.
Find another, be back, find another this.
Is a great opportunity for listeners to the podcast.
Yeah, we have a car wash that's a get changed.
That's 6. Pounds or less, yeah.
The car will be dirty. That is a fact.
That. Will be dirty tell you this
Chris and I resent the tone there.
See if it's you've had a Tanner. I know, yeah.
That keep the 10 maybe like that I just happened to have sex
which is over the pre agreed amount that's it and boss man
tried to do me dirty like. That's that's terrible.
That is terrible. And he's, you know.
You're very upset about it. He was we're both upset, me and
him. It was it was a standoff.
And I would, I would say like, I don't, I don't want to like my
my relations with the Romanian community, car wash Romanian car
wash community here say that fast five times my is.
Taking a very weird twist. My standing within the Romanian
car wash community here is high. But this will, this will, no pun
intended, dirty, dirty, muddy, you know.
But then you know, sometimes. You put a bit more dirt on.
It I'm going to have to wait till there's a new crew in
because sometimes these boys switch in, right?
Yeah. So I'm not blaming the car wash.
I'm blaming him. I'm blaming this guy, yes.
I must get I never get my car. Do I get your car wash?
I do, yeah. Yeah.
There's a there's a very good one near me that you do have to
do it yourself. I'm going to go there from
there. You do.
It won't be cost to found the car.
It won't be cost to be a fucking.
Great car wash if you come to Clark, I'll tell you that.
Yeah, I think. I think it's a.
Tenor. But it's it's you do it
yourself. But it's it is really it's a
really good one. You do yourself.
They have a proper spray. You spray on the foam.
These boys do. I know.
Yeah. But this is this is a good one.
I do. I do like the idea of.
All you spray it on it's it's brilliant yeah, it's really good
do. You get your car washed every
week. No.
Do you? Get your car.
No. What do?
I'm not the ambassador of Switzerland.
I'm just trying to figure it out because I don't.
No, I would say every couple. Because that's the fact that.
You get there one more washed. Car Weekly.
That is part of the job, Bill. Gates over here, get in the car.
I do you know what 2nd and I live in a countryside, my car
gets stinking easily. I got a washed on the way here,
got it down outside of the car. Very middle-aged married guy
things. Going to take a photo of my
clean car to send them a wife of course.
Thinking again. Thinking again already, yeah,
the inside of my car gets destroyed because the kids and I
try and clean the tour, stay on top of that and just tore.
Bottles of water, coffee cups. Yeah.
Bomb site, Yeah, bomb site. But yeah, look, look, I think we
all we all learned the lesson today.
I need to carry a bit more cash, yes.
And when you work somewhere, if the price is a price, then make
it, you know, have it be that price.
Stick to it, yeah. Don't be just inflation and all
that. That's he's probably blaming
because. It wasn't a Washington.
He didn't, you know, won the Washington Dry.
Yeah, you didn't get right, No. Tiles used, you know, Yeah.
You came away from that experience satisfied?
Yeah, I. Wouldn't want to try it.
We're looking to get a sauna today.
Oh yes? Well, it.
Yeah, yeah. Sorry.
Actually, that's really. You said that it was very city
all together. We're looking.
We don't have any shorts yet. We are going to buy some.
We're looking for something to buy.
Anywhere good to go, what we do? You're speaking to the the
Sultan of Sauna. This guy's a sauna.
I love a sauna. I love a sauna, so let me ask
you if you're getting into them, let me do a like a.
Survey you that so so. Can I take my top off?
Question one, how long of a sauna do you like and tell me
and if you have breaks, how long do you have a break for?
What are you doing that? Break so I'm I I used to go for
sauna every day, up to a box maybe.
From a new tour. A bit much.
Up to about two or three months ago and then I I just knocked
off it for a while, but when in my peak and this is where I want
to get. Back to I'm thrown off. 2020
minutes. I go in for 20 minutes.
I take a break, cold shower and go back in from our 20 minutes.
I'm nowhere near that. OK, that's that's black belt.
Is it? But that's when I'm match fit.
I do match. 1515 minutes. I'll do.
Cold bucket of water and then back in again.
I like a. 15 and A5. A 15 and A. 15 cold chart back
in for a week 5 but that's a long time in the sauna and are
you will you be lying down in the sauna?
Are you? Sitting up usually do my
affirmations in my mind. What's your chap preference?
Somebody walks in. I talked to.
Yeah, we had a big conversation about this in the car.
I want to set up my own little business silence sauna where no
one fucking talks. Not allowed to.
Shut the fuck up, get in here and sweat.
That's what you're here for. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what. Unless you're friends, no one
else in there. Yeah, yeah.
Chat. When it's just randomers
chatting across you. I'm like, oh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or a guy who's like lying down.
He's got the flip flops, the bottle of water.
Or the rubbing, The constant rubbing.
What are you doing someone? Sweat, Yeah.
Someone walked in. The ledgers aren't the one I
used a while ago and just like an entire half a litre bottle of
water under the whatever, asking what they're asking and everyone
left. Everyone's like nice one.
Oh yeah. Have you had the experience of
the salts, where they put the salts in there?
They say they're they're banned and one I'm in but essential
oils but they do smell nice. There's these ones, right?
They come from Turkey. They're they're rock salts,
right? And they'll throw where I go for
my son, a mellow. They'll throw them on to the.
The cold. The cold.
The create in a in a room or what?
It makes you cold. I swear to God check them out
right makes you cold. You're like, you're actually got
goose pimps, goose pimples, and. I'm saying goose pimps.
From now on I'm saying goose pimps.
That's every MLA. New saw the business of like
goose pips goose. Pimps so cute.
Silent sauna. Like silent sauna, but it's like
but you can last way longer than inside there it's like you're
not. Sweating though you're but
you're still. Sweating, but you feel cold for
ages. I don't know the name of their
Turkish rock salt. Anyway, is what it is.
Making note in this episode. Yeah, goose pimps.
They're amazed. Goose pimps.
I, I, I'm a If there's no one there, I'll lie down.
Yeah, yeah, You're not ashamed to take it up a bit of space on
the. Top shelf corner guy.
Yeah, me too. Put your back against the wall.
Yep. Same.
While it's West so it doesn't heat up.
Don't make that mistake. Don't make that mistake twice.
I I love it but I think every day is not advised.
I think it's I think it's like 3 * a week.
Is it 4? Is that right?
Well it is. I do feel in the evening I could
be very tired if I've stayed in there too long or something.
I feel like she's correct. You have to build up to level.
It's like fitness I suppose, build up to it over time.
But yeah, you're right, every day is bad for you.
Like three to five times a week is They did a survey in I think
it might have been Sweden was one of the Scandinavian
countries. A 20 year survey over a large
scape of people like 200, three, 100,000 people, all different
jobs and male and female and whatnot.
And five days, 15 minutes in the sauna five days a week elongate
your life between 7:00 to 10 years.
And this is a proper like categoric survey.
Again, you'll just have to Google it, but it's easily
Googled. They're so good for you, so good
for you. The Scandinavians love it.
They love it, they love it. And it's not to love, it's I
always feel like a million. Books.
Yeah, the ones outside are great.
You were sick today. We did the tour last year in
Grey Stones. They have one like you can see
the sea from in being inside like, but you go down and you
just jump into the sea. I think we did it in like
November it was. Old.
And it's beautiful, but you get these kind of you get the kind
of pins and needles as proper, like almost violent.
It feels like crazy. And then you get back in.
But you're meant to finish in this.
You're meant to finish out of sawn, aren't you?
Closure pores and all that should have been natural.
I kind of. Cold.
I love when I'm on tour. Workout or run.
Yeah. And then get the sauna.
Yeah. And then a nice shower.
Go to the show when you feel. Great.
Yeah, feel great. It's an unreal.
Like, obviously we're all drinking coffees and Red Bulls
and whatnot, but this is a great way to get you reinvigorated.
Yeah. For the for a show on a night.
I find it brilliant. Yeah.
So where's your where's your tip?
Is there any saunas that we're going to, we're going to Bangor
today? Any saunas that are outside and
you get into the sea or even in a gym.
No, but I'll tell you this for outdoor sea swimming from here
to bank in between here and Bangor, Perfect.
Helen's Bay, it's called faulty. Is that what the steps are?
So there's like almost like an outdoor pool on the beach.
No private or anything. You just go to it and there's
like steps down into it and. There's no sauna or.
People bombing, there'll be people probably already there
when you go down. It is excellent, but no sauna,
nothing nearby. But in Bangor there is the
leisure centre there got renovated a few years ago, Cool.
And it's like a huge amazing top of the range leisure centre
called Aurora. Nice.
And they will have like sauna, swimming pool, all that stuff.
That sounds like we went. We might have went there on the
way up last. Year we'll do a day past.
Yeah, yeah, we went in there. We got the picture, remember?
Was that in Bangor? That was in Aurora I think.
I can't remember I. Remember, we stopped, all right?
Yeah. That's that's where you want to
go. Yeah, it was really cool.
Yeah, as you go. The name sounds familiar.
Aurora. And we were allowed, OK, We were
allowed, yeah. It was a big refurbished kind of
place. We did a bit of boxing in there
and everything. Yeah, running.
I did my first box and back notes just hitting pause.
Yeah. With.
Paul Hughes, Paul's MMA fighter. Oh yeah, yeah, from Derry.
Here he went pads with him or for him or.
He was holding the pads. Oh yeah.
Yeah, unbelievable. But it but it was me, him and
for events the singer for he's doing the operas all this week
and he does a bit of Mai Tai. So he was kicking and it was
good to be back out of book. Yeah, I tried that multi move.
They don't kick with their foot to kick your.
Shin, you kill everything in your shin, you kill all the
nurses normally are not. That's the, that's the, that's
what they get to do. Yeah.
And it's a serious sport. I was that close away from
having a fight in it and I was like, I just didn't.
I went to a few competitions and like boxing is is great and all
and like, but I went to a few competitions were full rules MMA
and as fellas like Yep, just killing each other with their
elbows and their knees and their.
Sheets to the head. Oh.
How do you not hop away and be like, Oh yeah.
I'd get one, I'd be down after one box, I'd be down after one
back at this stage at races. Yeah, I was travelling back from
Australia years ago when Eve and travelling through Thailand and
was like, I'll do a little Thai boxing thing to get back in
shape and not like I may do it every day while I'm here.
Oh my God, the guy absolutely killed me.
Yeah, he kept making me kick the pad and I obviously hadn't done
it in a while. So her shins are really sore,
just bruises from my knee right down to my but he keeps making
you kick it. He's like again, again, again.
Yeah. And then he was like let's do
some sit ups. So I lie down the ground too it.
Was funny about that as it was nearly an accent.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was nearly.
But see, the cork accent could be confused, could be similar to
so many accents. It's so it's very.
It's very, very close to a lot of accent.
Very sing songy to Cork accent. Absolutely.
Yeah. Like I think I have a much
different accent note to Crystal.
Yeah, I think. You know, I'm sitting there kind
of. So then say I was say I was
talking to say I had a Co host who was from like a Ballymena.
What's the crack how you was doing?
Would you think that was 1,000,000 miles away from my
accent? Yeah, that's up and down.
Yeah, the way it. Is everywhere.
Every country in the world think they have a huge range of
accents or is it just us that. Yeah, maybe your air is more
trained into your own kind of colloquial.
England you look at like long, like Cockney.
Compared to skies, yes. Or Yorkshire?
Exactly. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, but even in Cork alone, like the city you've you've.
You've a north side, but they don't have a Nari accent.
That's another step above mine, which is a young offenders he
type of what's on again, English.
It's got an English Cork accent. I was going mate from Cork.
It's a hybrid. It's too.
Good.
Save the king, man. I think it's his is a blend.
This is definitely softened down through the years.
Like what would you think of his compared to ours?
It does sound like a Cork accent, yes, but it's it's it's
softer probably, but then I don't think you'd have harsh
accent normally. But I could pick it up straight
away and go Cork. Yes, whereas I would say he's
from that part of Ireland, but I wouldn't land on Cork
specifically. Maybe you know, you know.
There's a twang of it there to me, but probably not to you.
Yeah, yeah, I can. And it's not like I always mess
with him because when we lived in England and we were, he used
to call over to me. And Jack was probably 2-3.
I remember he called over one time and it's like it's got a
bit of an English accent and I was like, he's getting it off
you. You're the only one around here
talking in English accent. And Eve, I've got Irish accents.
Yeah, yeah. And but yeah, yeah, I'd say the
accents. It is a strange 1 though I do
wonder about other other countries especially that speak
different languages, their accents vastly different or.
Because American never obviously like deep sights and stuff, but
it never say it feels like they're just a general American
accent. Australia too seems like a
general enough one to me. Yeah, that's a huge country,
1000%, 1000%. It's not as populated off.
Yeah, maybe. Yeah, it's only like, I'll
probably imagine I'll gig in these places hopefully at some
point. But like when you're Australians
talk about like Canberra and stuff like living in Melbourne
and Sydney and all these places to seem, I can 1000% see why
people do it. Seem brilliant, lovely cities,
excellent, the beach, all that. When they talk about like places
like Canberra, like in Lamp, like bang in the middle, Yeah.
And they're like, it's the temperature of the face of the
sun, yeah, but everywhere is like air conditioned.
That makes me feel like, not claustrophobic, but like if I
was there, yeah, I'd be like, God, it's if there's a problem
with the electric or something. You're going to just melt.
Everyone will just melt. Yeah, it's nowhere near the
waters. Somewhere near the city.
Yeah, it's crazy, man. I drove across the middle of
Australia, right across the Nullarborough when we lived
there. Takes like 6 days to drive or
something and there'll be times where you won't see anything.
They won't see anything. You have to.
You're on like a like a bad Rd. Is it a bad Rd?
No, it's not just a straightest Rd in the world.
It's used for an emergency runway almost for planes and
everything it can. It can be used for that, you
know, but you have to fill up, you'd fill up your car and you
have to fill up these kind of Jerry cans as well, you know, to
get somewhere else. So you're filling up.
It was incredible. So you.
Even if you fill your tank. You might.
You fill up more. Yeah, you fill up more again.
You have too big to keep it, too big.
Cans as well to fill up. It's crazy.
It was a brilliant experience, but you're stopping at all these
kind of places as well. And then you never see those
people, but they always see you, if that makes sense.
So they're constantly seeing tourists coming through these
old roadhouses of they're just in the middle of nowhere.
This little petrol station you park up, where do you sleep?
In the in the campervan that we had.
We drove a campervan, We watched Wolf Creek in a driving like
where was, it was soft, like real immersive experience.
It's class. Scary.
Scary at all? Yeah, it was terrifying,
Absolutely. Terrifying so barn, but.
Good. But like, you know, like in a
kind of a. And these are places you can
stop as, like, restaurants on the way.
Yeah, like old. Houses I think right across the
Nullarbor proper. Just old.
Wouldn't be a great choice of stuff now, but it could be
hundreds and hundreds of kilometres before you before you
see something. Else nightmare flying doctors
over there that's. Yeah, yeah, my, my.
Nightmare for me if I call in. Excuse me, do you guys have any
gluten free dairy for you? Yeah, you just the.
Next place, those roads? Yes, six days that way.
Because I had friends over there, they broke down on the
way across and that's the worst. They had their own car.
And then it just, you have to just, you know, flag someone
down, get services, get it, get your car towed and you're just
at the mercy of them. They can say it's $5000 to fix
their car and. They're like if it was a guy got
me at the car washer earlier. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Good luck. I'm gone.
I'm out of good luck. At what stage you are you on the
tour you just started? New Tour I.
Stupidly started a new tour. Very You're like Rod Stewart.
I am like. Always can't.
Get enough. This is the farewell tournament.
Yeah, I'm only into it. I'm just have to start and like.
Three days 8. Days.
I took four days off between the tours and now I'm back out with
a new tour. So I did a tour extension in the
UK that happened months after it was finished here and then the
other one. I didn't realise it was that
gap. So it was that gap, it was that
gap. The gap was three days between
the doors, technically. The Irish tour finished in the
middle of the summer. It's finished in July.
Yeah, we finish up in the every man but a good old send off.
It was a great night, great night.
Yeah, it was unreal. It was my first time doing,
being a tour support, you know, So all around the country, all
these venues, it was just. Like unbelievable.
It's a great way to play. Great venues have great crowds
and obviously there's pressure, there's huge pressure on the
interest where you've got to set the tone.
But like, you know, you're it's it's kind of a free hit as well
in a way, yes, you know, and then you you're planting the
seed for you, You going back to these places, yes, you know, so
when you want to do a tour, absolutely you've been to all
these place and play and this amount the people have seen you
play. So it's nice to just set up like
the next, Oh, it's a next thing. Unreal.
It's unreal. Like I was club a club comic
before that, you know. So just doing clubs and Cork and
maybe a couple of gigs in Dublin, a couple of gigs in
Galway, do the odd fringe. This has been just unbelievable,
exactly what you said going into all these unbelievable
majestical venues and like Chris's tour was just amazing,
was all sold out like. It was great.
Like literally every. First time having experience
that as well, though. It was nice.
Yeah. In a way like, because I've done
tours in the past, but they've been small and, and I've been to
tour support and, you know, and again, it is, it's a different
pressure. You're going out 20 minutes, no
one's there really to see you. You have to go and do a
different. It's a different.
Job. There's the challenge in that,
too. And like when I've open for
people and still do, they don't necessarily even know there's
someone else on. Yes.
So you you can be a bit of a barrier between the person
they're here to see. Yes, yeah.
You know, so they're like like I've had a sometime when you
somebody Walker, you get a great reception.
Sometimes you walk out and people are.
Like you can audibly did audibly you'd hear someone touching her,
Yeah. Yeah, they said I was starting
and people are coming in from the bar.
Yes, Yeah, yeah, yeah. For people milling around, Yeah,
yeah. But that that being said, that's
just a small price to pay for what is in general an
unbelievable experience. Yeah.
You know, like some of the like Vicar St Even for me now like
last. Class, yeah.
I never like I was just I've. I opened for if I don't once or
twice. I opened for Jordath Reagan
there once such. In Vicar St.
Yeah, a few years ago he was on tour message and was like, I've
always wanted to play there. Can I come down and open for
free? I'll do, I'll do any kind of
spot. And he put me on and it was
just, it feels like you're playing to 50.
People. Yeah, yeah.
But. It feels like you're in
somebody's living room and actually there's like 1000 or
whatever. Some people there.
And it's it, there's not a bad seat in the house and it's just
intimate and close. And yes, it on the Olympia,
Dublin. Right in class, yeah, like,
yeah. Dublin's blessed with two of the
best venues are our class anywhere their class?
Olympia is totally different, but it's great too, because it
just feels like historic and prestigious and the audience are
like, right, It's massive again, but they're so close.
The appetite for stand up now is just unbelievable compared to
even 5-6 years ago. You know, I just think since the
pandemic, I've said this to you as well before, since the
pandemic, I think people found, people who never saw comedy
before, found us during the pandemic.
Yeah, yeah. On YouTube, watching clips.
Like, people come up to me now and they'll talk, talk to me
about comedians in America that I don't even know.
You know, they found themselves. Yeah, they're more comedy savvy,
the audiences more definitely, Yeah.
Which is great. It's really great, you know,
because like, like even with with yourself now that we went
to tour Makini, do you remember? That kid or Tour Makini?
Yeah. In Mayo, in the middle of
nowhere, that was. Probably the weirdest.
And that was a hidden gem. Yeah, that was what we were
talking about. That's what we should have
thought of. That was the one where I gave up
the Internet for two months. Yeah, to write this show.
And they said do a gig and tour makini.
And I don't think I don't have ever had so much fun going to a
gig in my life. Me and Khan had the maps out.
We had to get there. Whether it's sat enough.
That was the first. Challenge.
You can't even. So no, no he couldn't.
No sad film he. Hadn't made a documentary.
And a road, we had Rd maps and we tried to get from Cork for
Makiti, which was great. We got into Galway and got
small, but last in Galway. I think we were brilliant to
stop for. Food and then tried to book and
what do you call it? Try to book accommodation
actually impossible. Were you allowed to ask people?
Could you stop? We could stop and ask for
directions and we did that quite a bit.
But coming to accommodation and stuff, I didn't want to cheat
that when I said let's do it. And we bought a tent with us.
So I bought a tent from my, I rang the promoter and I said are
we allowed tent? Put a tent up next to the place.
And he was like, OK, yeah. And we tented right next to the
pub where we were doing the gigs.
What I did when I was rough. And it was amazing, Yeah, but
now it took us 2 hours to put the tent.
And we actually had to get people who were coming to the
gig to. Put the tent, we just couldn't
put it up. We found ourselves be more use
useless than ever because we couldn't YouTube stuff.
We wouldn't even YouTube anyway. We were like, well I can YouTube
but so no, I can no longer do that.
You've made it out. You filmed all this process.
Yeah, yeah. And and like that's all
documented and that might be ATV thing or something.
Yeah, I need to see that like it was.
Amazing experience. Amazing experience.
So interesting, but that was so much fun and we got loose that
night with a couple of points again is in an old pub yeah,
fires were lighting. They were just cooking steak
there on that. Oh my God.
And chips. And it was like the depend was
outside. The people were amazing.
It Mayo it's in the Midland nowhere in Mayo like it really
is a difficult place, but the P is properly how many?
People maybe? Or something like that. 60,
something like that. Yeah, Tiny, tiny, tiny smell of
There was just a fire lighting in the pub while we were doing
it. And they were so appreciate.
They were just so, again, like just in the middle of nowhere.
They're so delighted to come out and see.
Yes, on the doorstep and not have to travel to a city or
whatever. And to hear people then speak in
Irish as well in there, which I'd be ashamed.
I wouldn't have much Irish now in between because it was a part
of Gayle talks like you know and what just say fortune fortune.
Yeah, yeah, it was that was that let's about as far as much as I
have as well. She and if you fall it off, you
get like Aaron Green Garcia. That's it then.
Fortunately, I had con with me, you know, it was great.
Yeah. And the accents there and me are
fierce. Flat aren't as well that.
Was on a weird world of the pure.
Flatter just on that, there's nothing that does go anywhere.
They don't know tone. Upstairs just to one level all
the time, but everything. They just what did, what did
they cook there that night? It was just all of a sudden they
were like. Steaks.
I was finishing up and the guy was putting steaks on right at
the back of the room fire, huge fire and chips and it was just
just, they weren't selling it. It was just like he went out and
bought. Like this is a midnight 50.
Sticks and put them on while we were in there.
It was class. Yeah, it is a great spot, but
there's some cool little quirky little places like that in
Ireland that that's a nice entry.
But that'd be a nice interesting tour as well.
Like 50 seaters. Find all these little places.
Chris, you're playing Belfast in January.
January 17th, it's my birthday, so I was able to, yeah, yeah.
Market Whitla Hall. We did the Mandela last year, so
we're doing the Whitla Hall this year, so I've never even been in
there. I'm excited about it though.
We'll put a link to tickets in the in the description.
Thank you very much, Can't wait. Anything else?
Just want to plug, promote, put any pods, any YouTube things,
any. I have a podcast, conversations
with Cornelius, a lot of listeners, 200 lessons per
episode at the moment. So I'm you probably don't.
I probably, I'm probably, I'm probably grand actually, for a
shout out. Yeah, I'll be honest.
We'll put a link to that to the Part 2.
In the description there's a. Great podcast, yeah.
And Aurora for the song. I wish I could.
Do off the song or no? I wish I could join that with.
Thank. You very much thank.
You for having us go to Margaret.