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Here's the thing, the Thompson family who make Punjana have
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Been trying to get this guy for a long time, come and do the
podcast, but he's always had a very busy schedule being a top
athlete and being in training camps and all that sort of
thing. But he's about to have a massive
fight here at home as part of the failure.
He's going to be fighting in Falls Park in his native W
Belfast and he's going to be fighting for a big title, which
he exclusively announced on this episode.
But it wasn't really an exclusive because by the time
the episode has come out, the news is already public.
But it's cool to have an exclusive like we felt we felt
pretty cool having an exclusive like you could see down on Mike.
Really surprised you couldn't see it on Mike because he
doesn't have eyebrows anymore. But but it was a cool moment.
So Michael Conlon is my guest. Michael is a good guest to have
at the minute because obviously the Olympics are happening right
now. And what better guy to talk
about his Olympic experience than enemy of Vladimir Putin?
Michael Conlon seriously very cool episode top guy.
I think you'll really enjoy this episode as always when we have a
sports personal and especially boxers.
If you're not really in the boxing, it won't matter for this
episode. His chat is very good.
Please enjoy this episode 1-2 one of the tea with me podcast
with Michael Conlon. Michael, do you drink tea?
You. You a tea drinker?
Like what's? Your I am.
You're a tea drinker. How like?
Bar Ice Tea. Bar ice.
No, it's Boris for me. Boris.
I'm sorry. Yeah.
Right. Well, look, I mean, I feel like
we should do some sort of blind taste test because you're going
to walk away from this being a pungent man and but gentleman
sounds like the worst Avenger of all The Avengers.
Well, how many cups you drink a day?
Would you be like A and is there a difference in camp and out of
camp? When my to camp, I drink much
more tea. When I'm in camp I try to limit
it because I have two sugars. So yeah. 2 Sugar mom you never
cut down. Nah, like I tried to go to 1
sugar and I was just like, this is fucking born.
Yeah, I don't like it. I used to be 1, my dad tried to
get me on the calendar rail for a while and we sweeteners.
Can't do sweetener in tea. I can do it in coffee no problem
in tea. Yeah, no, I mean, I've strong.
Strong, strong. Yeah, 2 sugars.
Strong with these. Why did you say strong like
that? I don't know.
Someone had I did a gig with them.
I did a gig on Thursday and the comedian I was with got hot
chocolate. I didn't even know adults, you
know what I mean? Did that?
Still didn't know something Hot chocolate you also.
Need chocolate as well? On the first day, earning
you're. Going to say like Christmas time
like. They have a hot chocolate.
Yeah, during the market. This was a Wednesday night in
Botanic. You have a hot.
Chocolate on a. Summer's night and knows your
8th birthday party. Yeah.
During the summer as well. Fucking lunatic.
Look, there's loads of wanna. I want to chat to you about
loads of things. We've got some questions as well
from people on the Patreon. But first of all, you're
fighting the failure this week. Yeah, it's going to be one of
the biggest, the biggest fight, one of the biggest fights of
your. Of your career, no.
It's it's be the biggest fate in terms of the opponent, but in
terms of like the crowd capacity and stuff, no.
Yeah, but it's a big, but it's a big.
Deal. This is the biggest so this this
is obviously not going out until a few days before the fate.
So the fate is actually been now confirmed, which will be
announced on Monday over past Monday for the WBA interim world
title. Exclusive, I mean now that
people will know by the time it comes out So what it might do is
just release this now, take a clip from that and put it up and
tag everyone in boxing. So it's going to so for a big
belt, yeah, Oh, class when you find that out. 2 days ago.
Does that change anything to do with your preparation?
It just means they don't have to make the weight below because
it's actually the weight above so.
It's perfect. You bulking?
Umm, no, because I was. Getting scrawny more than more
than anything, right? So just normally.
Right, right, right. That must be pretty cool that
it's not going to be for a big belt.
Yeah, it's it's something that I wanted.
I've been saying I'll favour like a a word title.
It's a version of the word title.
Yeah, this is a favourite word title to fail and it's actually
happening when I didn't think it was going to happen.
So can I just say if? I ever won a belt, I mean it's
unlikely, but if I ever won a major world, if I ever won a
major World Boxing belt, I would just wear it like a normal belt,
like Paddy 24/7. Yeah, like, like.
Just on my jeans 24700% always have it on the shoulder always
have it. Do you have to why do people
leave belts in the house I. I don't bring see any of the
belts I have. I have all them kind of versions
of world titles like WBO and their continent.
All these. I would never bring them
anywhere until the it's the actual yeah world Championship.
I won't. I won't.
I just don't think it's. I I won a a scouts competition
whenever I was about this. 100% true.
When I was about 11 for for like throwing a welly boot.
It was like Belfast district thing.
It was like welly boot thrown and then I think I maybe came
second or third in it and in my in my weight class and then I
got a medal for that and I got that for like 2-3 years.
What? Yeah, they wait.
Was it what we? Like it's just like lighter,
heavy and there's like other little fat guys or skinny guys
like me and they, the scout master used to used to weigh.
Yeah, yeah. Used to weigh, yeah.
And they like put your shoulders who you were.
And they actually. Were did he have a a weight leg
point He has no he. Had nothing on it was at his
house and but yeah, I can, I can really throw a boot.
I can throw it like it. If anyone drops out from the
fight that failed, just consider getting me chocolate boots.
Just me throwing boots for it's in a.
Park so it's like. It would fit well.
People bright, throwing boots, you'll throw worse things
around, false bark in the past and Boris will say is like, it's
obviously a big fight, it's not an even bigger fight.
But what I really appreciate is a couple of days ago you were on
Twitter just trying to get your own cabin on the standalone.
Coming home, coming home from camp.
I got it like that. Yeah, you got it.
Like that is like people think the lifestyle it must be
different. People be like, well, you're
probably coming home on a private jet, you know, you're
probably like, you know, flying on a private jet, Louis Vuitton
wash bag, you know, the Dre Beats on.
You're just on the standard line and you, you book the, you book
the standard line back and then, but it's a long boat ride
overnight, overnight, 8 hours and you were just going to have
to sit. In the way you no it's.
Just, I'm terrible, but am I? I imagine you just sitting in
the lounge and being like, he's fighting for like a world title
next week. I know.
So how did you get, how did you get bumped up?
Because I saw on Twitter you were throwing that you were.
I was a throwing. Rod out there, but they didn't
help. It wasn't it wasn't helped they
because no one runs their their social media at night time.
They says. So that's 10 silly.
Yeah, silly. They're missing a trick.
I asked the Scouse woman who was behind the desk.
I said listen. Do you say the scouts woman
scouts? I should say if you ask the
scouts woman, drop my name because you'll get you can
upgrade do whatever you need. I said the horses.
Isn't I'm I'm boxing for a world title next week.
Do you say this sorry so at reception as you walk on?
I brought her over to this table because then what everybody
else? I said I need a bed.
Is there any chance they get one?
And just like it was this, I'll put your name on the list.
And I looked at the list. The list was massive.
Yeah. I was like.
All people fighting for war title.
What the fuck? So I went and sit there and I
was in the we the we room where you can sit there, you pay to
get in. So I paid there.
I was sitting. Oh yeah.
I was trying to get comfortable. And then Harmony and being
called over to make loads of names being called.
The boat was packed, most packed I've ever seen it.
So I wasn't expecting A room. I heard my name, went and called
and I was like, there's no way. I bought my Outlast, but I
didn't spent got your room. I was like Berlin, straight up
to sleep. So she like the way she said it
was like I've sorted you out here.
Turn and says my daughter used to be a boxer.
Yeah, he says. Brutal.
From the map I got, I got a similar thing last week.
I was doing, I was doing a gig and we always see, we stand up.
We always go to Nando's before a gig.
We're usually on Dublin Rd. What do you get?
What's my order Butterfly medium peri peri chips so we pineapple
and three boneless thighs yourself.
Kind of basic, that is. Not the way I eat it, but not
the way I eat it like. Butterflies just so basically.
Yeah, I'm throwing a pineapple on there.
A pineapple. Pineapple makes it.
That doesn't That doesn't even belong in there.
Pineapple doesn't belong in hot food at all.
I don't think it belongs in the pizza, but you throw it on there
and it happened once by mistake. They brought a wrong order to me
and I just went with it and I've never looked back.
See, it's obviously fate week all I think a bit is food.
So you say I'm not the main repeating over.
I was a bit disappointed see me, but I was wet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I could.
I could eat anything I want today.
I wonder why I'll go after this. What's your, what's your what?
Number one food. Do you agree?
Pizza pizzas, pizzas me. Where from?
Have you tried the the Nougat Belfast food Blogger?
No. Plug right.
Unbelievable, right? Dan, order some pizza now and
have it ready for the next half hour and I'll just sit.
There no, but, umm, not pizza. And uh, I'm actually, this week
I'll become an ambassador of Belfast's new number one wing
place, Wing it. There's nothing funnier than me
when you and Paddy Barnes were on the podcast and just start
throwing out discount codes and plugs.
So. We're talking about teeth
earlier and I said, granted dental.
I asked Paddy Barnes when he was on the podcast.
Or do you get something under your teeth and he immediately
start firing out discount codes that anywhere I talked about
anywhere. And the fair discount was I'm
waving my flags and I've got a gold card for free wings for the
rest of my life and I'm looking forward to them.
They're good. Can't wait for that.
But if I go to Nando's, what the hell are half chicken hot parry
chips? No, it's just you said my order
was basic and you get a half chicken.
Yes, on the bone mate. OK.
Hot on the bone. You've got to I mean 3 hot wings
just that for a little sage for the for the starter.
Sorry. Yeah, Parry chips race.
What do you call the a lot of carbs?
Yeah, it's it's big. Yeah.
Umm, there's they have No, I forget the name of it.
It's a new little kind of like green tape stuff.
I don't know what it is. No, no, no.
Well, it's the same vegetable, but probably.
Tenderstone, did you do it? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I haven't tried that.
I tried that, yeah. He can just go to task and get
you. But yeah, I got, I got sorted
out. I am.
I was going to go before a gig, but nobody was.
Everyone dropped out. Of the Nando's beforehand.
So I I'd already left the house, so I went by myself and there
was a big queue. So I got back in my car and it
was raining. I didn't want to stand outside
and I made a phone call and got oh ushered in and it was class.
And you know the best thing about it was I was like, just
give me like a wee table to my I don't care where I get put.
And the girl said a booth. We only have a booth.
So I was just sitting in a booth by myself.
I found the aviate. Waited in the ring, fire in the
booth. And she was looking at them the
whole time. My pineapple.
Just the biggest smile, the biggest smile possible.
And yeah, fight week must be like, especially like being like
in camp, having to like, watch what you eat, all that sort of
thing. Can you still get excited about
the fight or are you just like going through hard work at the
minute? Nah, I'm excited.
I used to be really bad in terms of on fight week, I would live
on my Instagram just looking through pages and taking
pictures of everything and said and get not, get, not, get not.
And then when you weigh in, you never get any of it because
you're slick. OK, Yeah, yeah, I bet now I'm
not hungry, but not not at the minute.
No, I'm OK. I'm excited.
And also I know it's a hard fate, so.
Yeah, well, that's the thing as well.
Like I'm sure it was something like this, you know, fighting in
your own backyard at the failure it'd be, it'd be easy to take an
easy fight, you know, to to to know, you sort of know that
you're going to win. But this is like, this is a
tough opponent. Like this will be a fight, you
know, whereas you could electrically fought like me, you
know, you could fought me or or someone else from like media,
you know, you could have fought Julian Simmons, you could have
caught. I'd love the one of those.
Fates tell you what, there's something about Julian that I
think I don't. I think you could take a punch.
I don't know if he can throw. I don't know if he has hands,
but I think he could. He could.
He could take a punch. Probably like they get ramp,
ramp, ramp, a few good shots out.
I mean, it's gonna be like, did you, were you someone that spent
a lot of time in Falls Park when you were when you were younger?
I let my mess. This is literally 2 minutes from
the park. Oh yeah like literally.
She lives in the Glen Rd. They couldn't win.
When all the concerts run my my dad don't go to the field.
I just sit at the back and. Listen to the music.
I was going to say, will your mum be like offering the
driveway out or anything you know for for car parking spaces?
Sorry I took up sold. Yeah, Patty Bond was running.
Sold. I don't worry about Patty at my
mouth. He's always, he's always texting
my mouth. Something weird about that.
He's just being like, listen, if you ever need any dental work
done, I know a place. Don't get the vaccine, but you
know. Oh man, I I've known you for a
couple of years, but only funny like caught glimpses of each
other right now. I think one of the last times
was that Ryan Mcmullen's gig. He's been on the podcast before
Custom House Square and nearly got into like an altercation
that. Night.
Because there was a guy we were like stand, you know, we were
like up the side to give you. And we were standing watching
that was there with my wife and a couple we're friends with.
And that this guy, we've been standing there for like half an
hour. And then this middle-aged couple
came over and this really rude guy was like, oh, so I was
standing here. And we went, yeah, but.
We've been here. They're not, they're not
designated spaces. I was like, we're sort of here
now and there's other spaces. And the guy went, no, we won't.
We want to stand here. And I was like, you can't,
there's room all around us. And like nearly, very nearly got
into it. And then I, I say like into,
into a big argument. And the, the guy went off to the
bar. And then when he went off, I
turned around. I was a bit drunk and I turned
around to his wife. And I said, these are not more
important things in the world to worry about.
I said, what are we doing here? And I genuinely made everyone
rather me think. I said, look, we're having an
argument. We're in a lovely concert.
Let's have a nice time. It's a lovely evening, you know,
there's no reason we need to get into an argument, I said.
We'll move over a bit and you can stand on the other side.
And it was genuinely beautiful. And then I followed the guy back
to his car and just smacked him when he wasn't.
Looking. Kicked his head in, Yeah.
And just ran away. Yeah.
And then and then I saw your pizza pumps as well.
Yeah, what do you eat? Do you eat pizza?
You're opening a can of worms here, right?
I, I do, yes. But during the EUR final, I went
there and and I had the order ready for 15 minutes before the
match, the order booked in for take away and then I was going
to get. Them I think you thought as well
Italian, you're a final. Exactly.
Celebrating with, you know, proper Italian pizza, right?
So, so I was in Belfast so I was going to get them a mate.
So it's 15 minutes away. Started the football.
As soon as it kicked off I would have the pizza at the door.
They were under a better pressure, maybe 45 minutes late.
I, I met, I put up on my Instagram story that that fucked
me over a bit, but I was very much doing it.
Like I wasn't obviously genuinely annoyed.
I was just being a bit cheeky and hoping for.
A free one? What?
Hoping for a free. Hoping for a free one in the
future, but they I don't think Peter Punks liked it.
We got into it just a bit. But I've got to say, like I do
read the pizza was nice. I do read it.
Like I do read it. What's the weirdest thing you've
been asked to like, endorse or be an ambassador for or like,
got a message from a guy and said like, oh, me.
I can tell you the best message ever.
Right, so. I was getting these messages on
my on my was it my Facebook at the time or my Instagram and I
kept getting the same message. Hi, the person who was writing
the couldn't spell. I am very poor.
I need money to fix my I need 2000 lbs to fix my teeth.
I looked at this picture that's like fake.
Butts hanging out of his mouth like it was just sticking all
over. The face Can you please send me
2000 bucks to fix my teeth. I really need this money.
I am poor and I don't work anywhere I can't get no job.
But it was all like funny spelling and stuff.
He must have sent it about 17 * / a year so it was like he was
just non-stop doing it. I was like I just replied the
one day. I don't have that type of money
to send to you my friend and he replied in proper like text
everything. Thank you for your.
Reply thank you at all the whole time he replies.
Think if you reply. That's all.
You should have passed them on to Paddy Barnes who could have
sorted. My grandson would have been
perfect. What's your inbox like?
What's the mean? What's the main message you're
getting on social media? Is it just well wishers?
Is it all? Is it all good?
Send, send the boxing glove. Can you send the boxing glove?
Send me it. Yeah, I get loads of like like
farm mail. It's not farm mail, it's
autograph kind of mail from like Germany, Austria states, loads
of a lot of states. Nah, no, all the Scandinavian
countries, they're all Olympic followers.
They're all looking for the Olympic medallists.
They've got these much medallists and they send loads
of loads of folders within the scene, so you just send them and
send them back. But the ones that do my head in
is the ones who do not pay for their own return packaging.
I'm like, no, yeah, you don't buy a stamp.
I'm not you. Appreciate a stamp if.
You send the stamp, it's OK, but if you don't send the stamp,
you're OK. That's very sad.
I just picture you in your in your room just licking like 500
stamps. You've had to buy your own
expense. No, it's already on the paper.
They have it done in there. They'll be saying that.
Can you? So I've been watching a bit of
the Olympics. Can you, can you just watch the
Olympics or is it difficult now for you to watch the Olympics?
My dad's only the coaches have to.
Watch it. Yeah, yeah.
But now you see some decisions like today and Kurt Walker just
lost. Did he lose?
He lost for the bronze medal but The thing is so he lost the
first round and won the second round and third round and still
lost the fate. So I don't understand even on
the scoring. So like you lost the first round
five nil, won the second round 3 two and won the last round 41
and lost the fate so. Take us back to you at the
Olympics. How many years ago was that?
Now 8. 5. Five years?
Well. Rio was 5, London was 9, isn't
it? Right, right.
So five years ago you go to the Olympics to box for Ireland.
Were you a medal Hope before that?
Like did you think? So I went to, I got bronze in
2012 and when I went there I wasn't the hope.
It was only a kid, just turned 20 and was no expectation of me.
I went and got bronze and then going the Rio, I was going in as
the the gold medal favourite, right?
And then everything happened. You say everything happened.
Was that Was that in the final? No, no, it was for the medal.
It was quarterfinal, quarterfinal, quarterfinal.
So in the quarterfinal, you're in a fight, you're where's your
opponent from Russia, Russian opponent and you're comfortably
winning the fight throughout, not really under that much
pressure when the when the fight is done, like when I put in a
bell rings in the Olympics. Still, do you think happy?
Like you're no worries at all? No, I was worried because how
you get the scores, they will you don't get the scores.
Paddy Barnes is up in the stand looking at the TV's.
They give us the scores and he was shutting down.
And what I didn't know is what the coaches and stuff were told
like previously that they needed to get help because I was
getting screwed over. That's why they didn't tell me
that. But they knew that my whole
family knew it. And they were like after the
first round, when I destroyed him in the first, they were
like, Nah, it's, it's happening here.
So my dad was just in the corner and he was saying you need, you
need to stop this guy. So I was just trying to destroy
him so. Because he was thinking, they're
going to get your own points here, you know, if you knock
them out there, there's. A conduct, but I'm not a second
round. They almost did and the ref
stopped it and started waiting blood off me, which wasn't, I
wasn't bleeding but he was his blood and then waiting blood off
him and given the rules of time that came and recover.
And then the last year I went and I won even cleaner.
So at the end I was confident they had won, but I knew that
something was up. At what point did you know
someone was up? After the first round my dad's
never said to me go and try and stop him.
Then he just says do what you do.
Which is a massive change of game plan as.
Well, and it was working like destroyed my way as well.
Beat him, boxing him and beat him fighting him.
So like I was confident that one, but I knew that something
was up from just the way they were, they were they were
reacting in the corner and how things were going.
And then? So I hope he's.
In boxing, like whenever the fight's over and the referee
like as soon as the bell goes, it's when you see like both guys
being like yes mate, 100%. You know, like they're both
like, woof, I've done it and like you're going to be 1 of.
Your body language you can tell though.
Yeah, yeah, There's nothing worse than the guy who knows
he's been beat and should just go.
I lost he's. But he's like, he's up in the
top alone kisses. He's like, yeah, his corner
lifting him up. And it's like you didn't throw
one punch in this entire fight. But.
But at that point at the bell, you still must have thought,
well, even with anything that's going on, you've won the fight.
Yeah. And it's on how many people are
watching that like. The whole world, the whole
What's his eye? On hundreds of millions, the
Olympics, you're going to go through the you're going to go
through the sammies, you're hopefully going to win the gold
medal. Was it when they called out the
decision or the they called this?
Is that when? This is by anonymous decision.
And then it was all in Portuguese and then it's heard a
zeal which I knew you're kind of meant blue and I went fuck off.
But the finger thing. So I give up.
I flip the bird the the judges, but I plan to do the fingers way
before that wasn't just like a like a a spur.
It was a spur moment that happened.
But like I Remember Me and Patty were actually qualifying for
WSP. They were there for the
Olympics. They they screwed me over in one
fate and they needed to win the last fate.
Plus I needed someone who had already beat to beat someone who
beat me and I was like, there's no other way that's happening
and some Mar Marigold did, but I end up having hard fate.
So at the end of that fate, I won and I had plans because I
says this guy's not going to win.
I'm just going to give the fingers just and say fuck yous.
I'm gone pro. I end up winning and the fate.
Made the fate that I mean it could have went really wrong.
You had to put it back in your pocket.
The paper is that hard. I didn't do it and.
Then I go to the ring, party said you qualified and I was
like oh thank God I didn't do it.
So that was already in the back of my head.
So once it happened I was just like fuck usings.
But did it, did it feel like a did like everything stop And was
it, you know, sometimes like with stand up, although afraid,
there's obviously less people watching stuff like that, but
you still can have like with the adrenaline, everything like
that, you can have almost like an out of body experience.
Like, were you aware of everything that was happening or
was it just? No, I was just in it.
I was in it. Yeah, I wish.
The only thing I would change is I would have stayed in the ring.
Yeah, I would have stayed there longer and then.
Would you? Would you have brought in more
signs like? Yeah, I remember walking.
Past the judges and I was shooting at the judges like when
I was walking back the kind of Walker it was calling them
scumbags. What was the what was the
reaction of everyone? The whole crew, whole crowd was
boom. They were like cheering when I
was standing there and getting the fingers and stuff.
But when the decision, he called it the every the whole arena
boot. And then I get the a walk to do
the the TV interviews and BBC's first and BBC look in the
school, no. No, not happening.
RT. We're just like, yes, let's go
so straight over the RT. Didn't give me a minute to even
think and I just I just let it go like.
Did you? So So yeah.
What did you call them? Cheating bastards.
Frightened from the core, right?
The like doesn't even. Make it the way I said it and
everything it was spitting words even said during it.
I don't even know what I'm saying here.
So like I don't I don't. I remember saying like someone
was telling me. Stop cursing, I says.
I don't give a fuck, I'm cursing on TV.
No, no one even says you're cursing on TV.
I was just like I don't give a fuck, I'm cursing on TV.
Fuck them and cheating bosses. Rotten from the core right to
the top shows the rotten from the bottom to the top.
Rotten from the fucking core right to the top.
I was like what the fuck is going on?
Not that far. No, I was like what's up?
Like I just started like mumbling and saying shit and
then the. Realisation kicked them towards
the end of the interview and I was like, ah, fuck me.
So towards the end of the interview, in your head you're
going that just happened. They'd sort of caught up with it
and. I was just like.
And then what happened? Was my dream, like my dream was
the Whitby Olympic champion always like when I was a kid and
then I was going in the Olympic Games, the number ones, he the
the, the gold medal favourite and unbelievable.
What a one goal. But that happened.
So I was kind of going, ah, fuck me.
And then I remember, so that was on TV, all that interview.
And then I go around and do the interview with the papers and
all the Irish journalists and all English journalists are all
there and talk. Well, I remember just starting
to fucking feel like I just don't have fucked everything up,
cursing and reacting how I did. It's like not one person is
going to want to touch me in this fucking pro game.
I'm back. Children busted a crime,
children was crying and all the Cubans and all were coming from
when you won that fight all this year.
So sitting there obviously didn't have my phone yet.
I was like, I have fucked up here Big 10 with my reaction and
then left my phone and went holy fuck, this is unbelievable.
From like 3000 followers or something.
They're like fucking 150,000 followers and they're like, what
the fuck's going on? So it's like I just said they'd
done the right thing, and then I've done the stupid thing and
tweeted Putin, and then I started to ship myself.
What? Do you mean you tweeted?
I tweeted Putin just said, hey bro, how much did you pay them?
How much did you pay them? But I'm not lying for I think
for the next 2 1/2 years even as a pro and stuff, I always ship
myself anything I've seen. Russians, because I know like
they're so patriotic. I think yeah, they'll kill me or
something like. You have a guy to check your
food. I'm.
Just waiting on someone to come that we are we pens going?
Nope. I was.
I was like, I freaked out there. I was like.
Because it got so much reaction, there's so much fruitions were
writing. To me saying how dare you, how
dare you talk to Vladimir like that and Putin all this year and
I'm like, like Putin's our God. I was like, fucking I have.
I probably fucked up there because.
That's the thing I'd be most worried about is Putin looking
at that and going oh fuck out. So I end up in 2017 when I
actually 2018. I actually want to move back
over to the UK to train. I bought a I bought one.
No, I have tops to say hope on them and they have like, like
they probably have Barack Obama or something like that there.
Yeah, I bought one with Putin, right?
Just to build the. Bridge and just put it up just
to build that kind of bridge and fix, fix whatever happened.
In the big. Class if he.
Was from the road to failure. Oh honey, stage for the wolf
tones. Oh my God, it'd be amazing.
Oh so. So that, I mean, that is an
iconic Olympic moment because that I mean, correct me from
home and that and now nothing like that had happened before.
See decisions, Bad decisions have happened.
Didn't. Oh.
Of course I mean they would. Suffer and they've been like Roy
Jones and Mayweather and stuff, all these, but no one has ever
kind of stood up to the the organisation or the man and.
What was there a fallout from it?
Like was there any ramifications?
They sent me 10,000 and they repaired it like, well, I told
them to shove your 10,000. But what they tried to do was so
I'm banned from betting by Polly Par for the rest of my life
because I was betting on the Olympics while I was in the
Olympics, which apparently I know I do, which I didn't know,
but I wasn't betting on myself. Yeah, so they've banned me
Forrest of my life, but they have obviously alerted the
Olympics that someone is betting on the on boxing a boxer who is
in the games, me and Stephen Donnelly actually Patty was
doing too, but he was there from Stephen Donnelly's account and
he. Grasped him so.
Bad here. Here.
No, because he'll be happy I said this, Patty.
Won well, would have won 28 grand on 3/3 picks he picked. 2
gold medal winners. And just a medal winner and it
all came in and he only had like £78 on and he would have won 28
grammes because Steven Darling caught his account get cancelled
and he never got no. Money, so it's only party.
It would happen to him, but he didn't get, he didn't get his
money, so he didn't. Get in trouble.
But they brought me into like a meeting with the Olympic Council
and they were. They were the Olympic people
fuming with you. They were like, we could send
you home. When I was just, I was sitting
there, my dad was besetting me and stuff.
I was like I don't give a fuck, send me home.
And then with that, I was like, no, because you can go home a
hero here after what's happened, but you don't want to go home
with disgrace. Yeah.
So it's like, all right, this is
all right. Apologies.
I didn't know. So this is well, what we need to
do is you need to be like one of the ambassadors for this for the
next Olympics and be 1. I says I no problem.
No one that I'll never be in the Olympics again.
So I just went away. We have warning and party park
and cancel forever. Shit disgusted shit.
Proper disgusted. I mean that that incident
probably like would you have gone pro anyway just after?
That I was going pro anyway. You're going pro anyway, but did
that help the interest in you? Massively no.
If I go back now and change it and say you want to go medal, I
wouldn't. I have more, more of a profile
more. I'm definitely making more money
than any of the gold medallists from that Games, like all like
they've all boxed my undercards and stuff.
So I think that set me up way better than win the gold medal
and I'm I'm happy. And then when you said you were
going to go prove that the offers just fly in like that.
Before before I even says there's going pro, I was still
in the games and and top ranked who end up eventually seeing
them if they had already started trying to reach out to me and
can contact me and I was like this is brilliant.
Let me ask you about that also. You Mike over there filmed one
of your filmed up one of your fights.
What did you oh, did you I you were at the top four top right?
Oh, why class? But like see when you GoPro,
right? I was, I was so curious about
this. Do you have to pick like a
nickname when you GoPro or do you have that as an?
Amateur. I refused.
I refused to pick a nickname. I don't like nicknames and
stuff. Well, a good one is good.
A good ones good, but like how can you name yourself?
Yeah, you have to kind of out. People were saying like do it
till someone gives you a nickname.
Yeah, start waiting on my fucking nickname.
Oh God does. Give me a nick.
Do it right now. No, I'll.
Pay for whatever we come up with, I'll pay for it to be
stitched in the back of. Your shorts.
So don't nickname. A lot of people do.
A lot of people picked them before.
I probably have them from the amateurs.
Actually, no one has them in the amateurs no more.
It was a thing when you were a kid.
It'd be weird to have one in the amateur.
I remember, I remember when I was young, like when I was
young, it's like make too slick. Bring it back and have to be a
number 2 make too. Slick is looking great.
Hello. It's good if you win, but if you
lose? So you can beat up if you're not
slick. So that was that was as a kid,
but I would never carry out in their prose.
There are some bad ones. I mean, there are some great
ones, but like, I don't know if I what I would the student
teacher, you know, I just look like a student teacher, maybe
something like that. Yeah.
The boot substitute, the boot thrower.
The boot thrower. Yeah.
We're just, I don't know, master scout.
Master scout. Yeah, we're just, I know, like,
who's pretty boy? Oscar De La Hoya.
No. No Floyd Mayweather.
Floyd Mayweather's pretty boy. I like.
I like something like that, like.
I I like. Sean McCombs, the public
nuisance and what a story behind that because he came on, he told
us a story. I like it when it's something
like that and it's not just like random.
It fits a random type thing. Well, tournament.
I like tournament Kennis too. But like the leprechaun.
No, it's Patty was. Like no, no, but the it's like
random, is it? I mean, I think some it fits him
and he's gone like 100. I think I think I was one of the
ones that suggested it, but it does fits him so well.
What I like is he didn't just do the he didn't just have the
nickname. No, he went for.
He wore the full suit, the full costume, which was class.
He went for it. Have you seen the picture?
When he fought, he actually fought my show in New York and
in the Blues and yeah. The blood?
No, I don't remember. It does looks like he's been in
a bad position. It's like his nose is is covered
but it's like spread it down all over his face.
God, like I was at that fight. Where you are I?
Think so. I was doing a gig that night and
I went to your fight. I think you're was your brother
at the show. My brother's at all the shows
are. Your brother's good looking guy,
Jamie. Good looking guy.
Three brothers, so I don't know about the rest, but I do know
that when I was at one of your fights at the Odyssey, Jamie was
fighting and it was as usual for one of his fights, it was just
back and forth, back and forth, so many punches.
And I remember genuinely wanting to throw my own toilet and being
like, he's too good looking for this, for this style of fight.
And if he's watching, I want him to know, appreciate the way he
looks. You know, I think it's far
better like because he's doing so well for himself, obviously
as a promoter and. All I've assumed me and him now
we've kind of branched out and we've started our own management
promotion company and this word in the field.
List he should also get in the model like he should be
modelling for something like I could see him doing like a
Victoria Square campaign or something some local, but still
no no, no, not like how he's. He actually you.
You rate him like you do a. Cute guy, 100 percent, 100%.
I don't know about your other brothers.
If you have another brother who's better looking than Jamie,
it's game over. Like that guy need that guy
needs big mark in the leads. But yeah, that that that night
at the at the Odyssey was the first that was the first time I
think I saw you fight and it was class.
I love I love local fights and I the only thing I hate and I will
make up for it is I haven't been to the Ulster Hall.
I'd love to see a boxing match in the Ulster Hall either.
Good. You know, I been to stand up and
music and stuff there, but I'd love to, I'd love to do that.
It's like a little cauldron, isn't it?
So yeah, I haven't boxed as a professional boxer, as an
amateur. Yeah.
And lost. Oh, yeah, Should not have lost.
Like, terrible, terrible, terrible.
No, I just just fuck them, like everything.
And the. Well, the last time you have
you, Is this the second time you've fought the feeler?
The second, second. Would have been the third.
If last year had, I went ahead, but obviously it didn't, so this
is the second time fighting in the feeler and I'm excited.
Yeah, I mean, here's here's my dilemma with this fight.
I'm doing a gig on Rathlin Island on Saturday and Sunday
this week. Yeah, the show's 2:00 and it's
over 4 on the Saturday, so yeah. But then also on, we're doing
the Sunday fights, Friday fights, Friday, Friday, and I
think I might have to go. OK, what time, what time will
you be on? That I'll not be.
On till like half their 10 so you don't endure everything.
I can't like always say this, anytime we have a boxer on,
we're like I, it could be the best fight in the world coming
from America or anywhere else. Can't wait, can't say I'm not
staying awake. All fights need to be on a half
seven. They really do like start.
The undercard at 4:00. Yeah, I boxed on Manny Pacquiao.
I was in the card in Australia. Oh yeah.
And they were doing the fights, the fit American team, right?
So I was knowing at 1:00 in the day.
And did you had enough time to get a climate taste?
I was there two weeks before. So I was there at 1:00 in the
day, and it was the best, best ever because I fought and then I
went out. And then by 9:00, I was that
gone. I was like, I need to go home.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this time. So it was like, perfect.
And then I had to fly the next two days.
All this right? Yeah.
So it was. It was brilliant.
At the So I I performed at the feel about.
It was one of my first paid gigs about 12-13 years ago.
How did it go? It was class.
Yeah, it was unreal. It was in the fit.
It was in a tent, in a marquee tent beside Kelly Sellers.
Used to be like a big empty sort of square there.
And it was in a marquee. There's only about 200 people
out. Like, obviously their gig,
especially their comedy, got huge.
But this was, I was just doing like 10 minutes.
I was like, new to stand up because I was doing a show on
Feel FM Remember. Do you know the Conway Mill?
Yeah, I used to do a radio show on there when I was like a
student. And then I got asked like me and
two other fellas that did stand up did a radio show and they
said look, three comedy nights, 3 use, can do the local 5
minutes but and it was unreal. It was so good.
Tim McGarry was on and there was a guy from down South who
headlined it. And then obviously Paddy
McDonald's doing it this year with me, a Paddy.
And he's bringing, you know, a couple of guests with him, you
know, So who knows? How you get on?
You know, Paddy Paddy's in the field and no, no, no, he's he's
already booked a couple of people the but he's not
announcing. Wow.
He hasn't mentioned. No, I don't know him.
Just let's just wait and see, OK?
Let's just wait and see. I don't know if he set a moment.
OK, but that'll be class. Yeah, wait for that.
Is the atmosphere that unbelievable?
That's probably the best, the best of experience.
You know what, last year, more people will actually probably
get on to me about the music and the playlist.
Yeah, an actual fight. People are like between the
rounds, you know, I was just, no, I was off my head and I was
going mental. They come.
Crazy. They were like OK at that.
Moment that during that fight and you're like, what was it
when I threw up punch? He's like no one bits and pieces
was on before it. I don't even I didn't even stay
for the fight me. But honestly, that playlist, do
you sort the playlist? No, it was the DJ Donald John
Boy or something. He put the playlist on Spotify.
The feel of fighting a. Playlist so you can get the
playlist. Last year, umm, I think, I think
he's probably sort of a bit now and like properly went to like
sober up and don't know, it's a good thing of bathing.
For the fail of them, I'm going to be totally honest.
Like the music's like, because a little bit more like James
Blunt, like Ed. Sheeran, he needs to kind of
keep that that babe. I mean, I remember once seeing
one of the Klitschko's walk into genuinely true Ronan Keaton
singing them into the ring with Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.
One of the most bizarre things I've ever seen.
Amazing. I would do it.
I would do it 100%. Can you sing?
What I don't want to find out if the fail.
That's here. So I've got.
Like a Sony's favourite song, it's kind of burns that's.
Burns you raise. Me up, favourite song?
Oh. 100% mean burnt you could you edit you think singing into
the ring? I think that'll be good.
Yeah, I mean the the last feel of fight was, you know, packed
huge night for you Top Rank obviously behind it and
Microsoft of film and said it was just unbelievable.
One of the bigger stories from that than the fight was probably
the reaction to music. You're talking about the music,
about the music and them and there was a big, I suppose,
controversy. I don't know how big it was for
you, but certainly if you read like newspapers or articles
online, that's the thing people were for instead of.
Now that was that was that was sin.
Patrick's say the feeler one was all right.
Feels was just grace. I let the people sing and then
we had chilli Peppers so. And here, famous Irish songs
you've mentioned, Fornication you mentioned.
Klitschko, like you know what I mean.
So he he was only committed before.
Don't stop. So.
Like so that's what I've done at that time, but no, the other one
that was that. Was some Patrick's Day and
listen, I got, I got mad, my backlash.
I was like, people, they people can take it whatever they don't
want to take it. It was, it wasn't in a bad or
kind of evil way. I was using the music or, or a
spiteful way. I was using the music because
they knew what way the crib would react.
And they had an opponent to me who I know that I could probably
break mentally. So I broke him.
I remember walking to the ring and seeing him and the ring and
he was like, what the fuck am I in for?
It's like, what's what's going on here?
And I the reaction was direction was crazy.
It wasn't, it wasn't expected. And I think it was a bit in just
maybe I should have thought about it a bit more, but I just
thought about the atmosphere and and the crowd, which I thought
would be unbelievable. At what point did you realise it
it it had become a thing? Straight after or or.
Straight after people on Twitter are going absolutely crazy.
I remember someone saying I said so fuck it is what it is, it's
music. Did you did you ever think about
like maybe balancing it out with like, you know, Sally boys or I
mean, it's something that like, like I, I'm very much like each
to their own, but it's just it's you don't want to see it a
debate that then becomes not about sport.
No, that's the thing. It became completely different.
I remember umm, Steve Nolan called.
It was on his show, I think for two weeks.
Umm. It was Phrase up there with the
Bobby story situation first for Steven and I remember because I
was in America, obviously, I remember him calling for my
arrest in Dublin Airport. Someone needs to go to Dublin
Airport and arrest this man for insatin or hit and fail.
And so I was like. The bounty hunter, but the big
shades the best. Who's Beth?
Who's the bounty hunter? Who's Beth?
I love, I love, I love the idea if you just land the back after
that trip, you just stand them on the runway with the cops.
Slang by the BSNI. Yeah.
I mean that that was just a huge, a huge deal.
And did you after like after it, did you think?
Right. Well, I'm not going to do this
again or I'm going to do that different or did you think, did
you think you'd made a mistake? Not not not not a mistake that
the comedy music like people think no.
Do you regret doing that? See for what I experienced walk
under that ring and that moment, I don't regret it one bit.
It was amazing. But do I regret the kind of
maybe wrong decision of using it for the, the the people back
home that thinking of of what the reaction would be and the
people who would get offended, which the whole world's offended
night is. So I can't really control that
should have done it. Maybe not.
Do you have regret it? No, because there's no point of
regretting that hanging life once it's done.
Really. Umm, what it did again?
No, because of obviously you know what the kind of the
backlash would be, Yeah. When you when you have your next
fight in Magalbury, thanks to Nolan, will Will, what will you
walk into? This one, this one's going to be
this one will be good. I'm going to have.
Would you consider like teaming the Wolves tones up with like,
you know, David Guetta or, you know, I'm putting a little bit?
Of dance music guy, you know, be a bit of Dermot Kennedy.
Oh, I'll be class I I I'm big into my pre show playlist, big
into it. And I used to always have rap
always at these shows. So the first time I was doing
somewhere big like Ulster Hall or somewhere like that, I had
like a food like Kanye, Drake, Jay-Z, Two Chainz playlist and
then I realised that it just didn't.
Work, not the babe. That music ends and then I walk
out and go hello, you know, it just doesn't work.
So now my playlist is very much like, you know, a bit of Bruno
Mars, The Rolling Stones, 2 Door Cinema Club, a bit of.
Rolling Stones is on mine as. Well, Oh yeah.
What song? Satisfaction.
Paint the black and the devil was sympathy.
For the devil, no sympathy for the devil.
I said Symphony for the Devil, which is also also sounds like a
great song. I wouldn't say the Stones two
years old was the best concert ever seen in my life.
Yeah, definitely Croke Park. So in the amateurs used to warm
up, obviously when you're in the national term, which you warm up
in a chain room and there's loads of people or loads of
different countries. And I used to like be big and
they're like Tupac and stuff. And just think about the lyrics,
they hit them up and I used to have a blast in this room.
Wait, guy. You know, so it's like.
You're like the guy on the bus with the the phone.
Like what if we? Don't want to listen to this?
You're just. So I used to have a blast and I
was like, I don't really care what people.
Are going to say I think, but I've probably created that a bit
and just like I just do my own stuff, then I like me on music.
When people played music on a bus, you know, just like a
public bus, and there was just a guy playing music which phone
you were annoyed about it and you're like, you shouldn't do
that. But there were always bangers.
There were always bangers, fellas playing maniac Tooth on
this 50 to 10 and you're like, you shouldn't do that.
But I'll turn it up playing snake.
Used to be a a rumour around my school if you got if you
completed snake or like got a certain score knock you just
give you 2 free phones. That was the rumour I got
obviously started as knock you give.
Your free. Phone and then someone spoofed
and when it's actually 2 free phones I don't know if that if
anyone ever got that but but yeah I mean there's no oh sorry.
We we have I just would say there's my I want to ask you but
we have a question about tattoos yeah.
You have any tattoos you should regret getting from Jonathan
Sheer Craig. Yeah.
Do you have any tattoos that you you regret?
No. Many tattoos have you got too.
Olympic rings and rosary beads. What age were you when you got
them? So the funny story with the
rosary beads. I was just turned 17.
I told my dad I'm going to go and get tattoo.
I says I want to get roses and act but I got a bit too sore.
I says I might get them around my arm.
I was like, let me get that. No Fear saying on my arm.
The sign of any. Legends like I remember going to
the tattoo place and sitting there and this is it says, well,
what are you getting this? Is I want this, I want to get a
room and act, but you know what I heard it's too sore over the
the collarbone, so I'll probably get it around my arm and he says
you're getting around your neck because if you get it around
your arm, you'll. Regret it, Isaac.
All right, fuck, that's it. So don't I remember walking on
my dad? It can then start and he goes,
what the fuck have you done? He was like happy for me to go
and get a tattoo, but when I actually got it right, my neck,
he's like, you'll never get a fucking job now.
You're a fucking idiot. That's why he coaches so well
the boxing. So I was like, you never get a
fucking job, mate. And it is this.
What do you mean? It's like I don't need the job,
I'm going to be a boxer. She a fucking idiot.
Get up. A fucking start A trailer for
your. Movie Jesus Christ.
So like he was thinking only from a Malik.
I probably would regret this if it wasn't from a map because she
was like, it's lovely, You know, it's alright, Don't worry.
Don't worry. It's like, yeah, you can see how
to me. And you put the necklace.
I was like. When I'm really going to see it,
this is. You can see it when you have AT
shirt on if you had a shirt on. You won't see it, but you're not
going to be in a job of shirt what the fuck you mean?
So that's the. Most Irish parent thing to say
you'll never be in a job with a shirt.
Did you get the Olympic rings after London?
So the Olympic rings they were. You drank cheese, grated them
off after Rio. That was gold.
That was gold see getting them so we came back from I think
we've raved back in from London on the Tuesday me and potty.
I got the rings tattooed on my side on the Thursday and when
they're beef on the. Friday it was a gold touch.
It was just like, yes, I'm not guy, I'm him all days.
Yes, no, that's all I'm saying. Like, well.
I might get that, might get that done in the next couple of
weeks. Every single woman miss, we're
like going in Hannahs tattoo on my every weeks because everybody
was in a beat. It was only like a few days
after they were all watching the Olympics.
I was walking into like Joe spoons.
Go on. Yeah, free drinks please.
I'm 100% doing that. I'm.
Sure, they get the Olympic rings tattooed down my arm and then
when anyone asked to go, it was a few years ago, don't want to
talk about it. Men's curling didn't make a
squad like that. I was there.
What we doing? I was a.
Plumber none of the 2012. I was in London 2012 before a
show. West End.
Matilda. You know the big.
Village. We'll see all.
That I done them. Oh.
Man, yeah, I want to. I want to come see.
I thought it was Saturday. That's Friday if you want to go.
I'm sure Gmail after your lovely comments he'll.
I either want to go to that or if Jamie would prefer, me and
Jamie could just go out for dinner.
I love those with Jamie. You'd.
Probably prefer it. Honestly, good luck.
Guy doesn't like like usually look like a little bit Spanish
or something else like, you know, family like you've got
that, you've got like that Mediterranean kind.
Of look, I was Italian for last weeks, so it's been, it's been
part of the family like. Do you get abuse on social?
Media, it's unbelievable. It's amazing though, like it's
big so I don't have taken the piss right?
So at the start I was like, gosh, I'm an Italian anyway, and
I've seen the reaction like everybody gone.
Fuck you, hope you get. Knocked out in your next fight
And I was here, so I had to go into, I didn't know it was like
Victoria Station because I had to go in.
My ear was blocked and needed to get it cleared out.
So I read about the Victoria Station always over in training
camp. So it was the Gather.
The station I was going to was Victoria so it was around the
corner from it. Erology or something?
It was called I thought you just met someone at a train.
Station no no, my ear was blocked when I was training so I
was like I need to go and get this cleared so I can contact
this place. Got the train up to Victoria
station and I looked at my phone and I went bugging a box right
there. I've never seen bugging balls.
I walk around, go around and see it so walk around and I went
I'll take a picture and then say here supporting Italy and then I
went, hmm, actually not this play nice often video myself
starting to see poker and pause. So done that there, and the
reaction went off even more. So just people.
Wouldn't like that, no, but it was like on suit when I put it
on social media. The reaction people was like, I
was like, why the why the baton? They're all missed the book
like. Yeah, I don't actually give a
fuck who wins. Yes, stopping the movie I.
Get 100 percent, 100% see you just the queen just comes out of
the balcony and you just. So they're done, done the alpha.
Few people were giving me looks like, but I was like, I walked.
I just walked away and like I sat there for like the little
bit of the video, done that and then walked away.
It's like that's all I came to do.
Gathi Ashley went back, put it on social media.
That went off so I just says fuck it I'm going for Thailand
here. Stood on the Amazon.
Or Italian T-shirt. Ordered an Italian T-shirt.
Gelba, her back fucking started like playing Pavarotti.
It was fucking brilliant. It was unbelievable.
The reactions was just brilliant.
So obviously English people and then when they're lost, I put
that little video where some fella dancer just imposed my
face on and the people are like, I hope you fucking Dan always
here and you Irish potato picking bastard.
Some of the reactions so. In England, when I'm in
training, I know he stays me. Actually, it was Geordie Shore.
Yeah. Yeah.
So, you know, aren't from Geordie Shore.
Yeah. He's turned boxer so aren't
sexy. He actually lives with me.
So he was texting me through the whole time.
Oh, it's coming home and I was coming.
And then when it lost he wouldn't answer his phone.
So he was up and he was up in Newcastle and he was coming back
down on the Monday, so our Sunday evening.
So I'd set the Alexa, which is in his room and says wake up
call. 6:00 AM. Pavarotti, wake up call. 7:00 AM
Pavarotti, wake up call. 8:00 AM Pavarotti, he said.
He's sitting there there obviously comes in at work in
the morning because he's dreaming the Newcastle, so I'm
sleeping. He says fuck what I was saying.
The fuck is this no Sundorma and he did something he's fucking
relaxing, he's soft, he's back asleep then fucking sound.
The glove comes again and again. He says he's disgusted broke his
whole sleep up. He's already in a Barber from
them losing. He thought that I was going to
do more though He had like white flip flops.
I was going to paint them like green, white and red and like
just fucking just can you box? He's getting good, he's getting
good. Umm, he's not there yet.
He's not going to be, you know, your world champion.
Yeah, yeah, he's he knows what he's in it for.
Umm, those type of Jake Paul, all those type of guys.
There's big money and then fights now, so, so why not?
And you know what, he has a lot of heart.
He has a lot of dedication because he showed it in the
training he's been doing, but to have the balls to go and fight
MMA when you're coming from TV and the 4000 or 8000 people
would deliver in the arena when he fought all wanting the same
lose. Yeah.
It takes a lot. It takes a lot of crazy.
A lot. Of respectful people do it I'm
actually fighting bar best next Tuesday Oh yeah yeah don't tell
you like it's going to be tight Oh no no no I'm going to stop
him first and bar I don't know and then if I win that.
He can bring the Thunder. Enlightenment.
That's true. That's true.
But I think it's going to be sleep and I'm forecasting the
KO. OK.
People will believe this and go like where can I get tickets for
this mate? Yeah, we can make money.
We. Could make so much money.
Calvin boxing promotions so you know we're ready I.
Could spend a bit of time with Jamie.
Yeah, yeah. And.
Ready to show? Where we put that fight, I
reckon we could sell 300 tickets to that.
In North Down. Yeah.
Would Barbie Oh, he'd be hostile environment he would he's a W
Belfast is he? Is he W Belfast or Northwest I?
Think he might, Don't want to say I know, I know that you get
into murky waters there, you say from their own place and I don't
know which one he from, but he wouldn't want on my turfly.
I'll go to him, I'll bring the fans.
OK, I'll bring you're. You're the draw.
Yeah, yeah. I don't know now actually he
he's been up, he's been up to pen for pen rankings after Frank
Mitchell retired, like after her Frank retired.
Yeah, that's true. Although I could see I'd say
that for a laugh and then like would make the fight.
No. And then he'd be like, by the
way, I boxed for Ireland up until under 16 level and he just
sparked me out in the first round.
Have you ever seen the Says Frank Mitchell's hands.
No. They're like shovels, swear to
God. Why have you been looking so
closely? The hug is just reminded me like
we're talking about weatherman here and bear pause.
I remember talking in foreign. I was like this is like, why am
I waking my mask on or something like his heart.
His hands are like really big fate and hands like.
Yeah, I could see Frank throwing a job like.
I could throw a job and. Then.
Takes a lot of jobs and talks a lot of nonsense but like well.
What you want to do is get him fighting Nolan the big yeah, the
Big Breakfast radio guys. Don't know who would sway with.
Who would you You. You've Coach Frank surely?
I need a fan of a better one. Paul Clark.
Paul Clark, strike me, no offence to as a guy who's going
to bind and spark someone out. Who's controversial?
And they know the controversial figure here.
Bryson. No, he doesn't.
He's not heavy enough. He's not heavy enough.
Fights this Friday going to be
for a big belt. What you love that we have an
exclusive that we can't Exclusive, exclusive, exclusive
now in the room. I used to be the non the only
non people from my family who know at the minute.
That's that's pretty class, although Mike tweeted it out
from our account. So and so that'll be good.
And and then what? Like as soon as this is over, do
you take a break? Go on holiday, what are you for?
Nice two week holiday The Corfu. Oh, bit of grease.
Yeah, yeah, and food. Just load the food.
Can't wait, love Greek food. All right, check on all the
little food spots out. Sean sent them over to Sean and
she says, ah, you're making wait because they're disgusting
looking, mate. Yeah, I think fair enough.
Seafood. A lot of seafood there.
I like seafood though. I'm a seafood man.
I'm big in the pancakes. Like a bit of funky.
You know what? The good fucking pancakes.
Around here, what do you call that little spot around the
corner? Skinners.
No, there's a new one. Not not bakery.
Is it bakery? No, Joxer, Joxer bang Joxer.
I think you. Just told Shelf a new ambassador
and home and Humbird. They do good.
They they, they give pancakes. I've tested them out.
I've tested them all. I see your system here.
You just mentioned every cafe in Hollywood and see who comes in
with the DM Slade is sort. You have a few pancakes.
For your, but what do you get with the?
Pancakes. Oh, I.
Do the pants. Just like certain beacon.
Here, I'm a fan. I never was a fan, but I
actually, I'm a fan. And that's because of them.
Yeah, when, when you're over in America, the Yanks, they love
it. And I'm like, I don't, I don't
know. And then I tried and it was
like, oh, that's actually very good.
But best golf? I'm a big best golf fan.
On pancake, but you're not going to.
No, you really can't. You can't have before.
It's not bad. I bought a 2 KG tub of best
golf. A few training camps, yeah.
A. Few training camps I remember
like I had the halfway free training camp, but look you know
the top was near done. I was like why am I not making
weight? I was like oh for fuck, This is
why get to sit in my house at the Bennett.
But I love it everything and hang Biscoff.
I can see you as soon as this fights over like a couple of
weeks down the line, I can just see you like working out with
like 2 tubs of biscov and then winking at the car.
Cheers for coming doing the podcast.
Appreciate. It I've been a fan, I'm loving
it and watching them all. See when you like see back in
the day when me and Dave the boy town and then every once in a
while, like on Instagram or Twitter, you would like you
would like a thing. Yeah, we loved it.
Like genuinely, because there was no like, there was no one
well known like. Dave's brilliant.
Well, like what? Dave is brilliant.
So like, it's a jewel. Like he's need to be together.
You need to work together. Yeah, we would, but just there
was just some issues. We did that as a joke.
See, when we stopped doing Boy Town, we were like, let's
pretend that we've had a bad fallout.
And then loads of people like, and then we started mentioning.
He's got tattoos. I have a tattoo.
We had a bet and the loser had to get a tattoo.
I lost. I've got tattoo of the taller
father tattooed in the back of my leg 100% sure.
I've shown it in the last four podcast.
I've got to stop doing that because Dan said we could get
some sort of complaints because I'm always just taking the
trousers down for guests. And but yeah, I had to get a
tattoo. And if he had a lost the bet, I
was going to make him get a portrait of my dad's face on his
arm. But from when my dad was a
younger man. So he didn't even look like my
dad, like Dave wouldn't have known him then.
And just be like, who's this guy your age?
You've got that down in your arm.
And Dave would just have sex with my friend's dad.
As ballsy like. But yeah, we we pretended we'd
had a fallout and then those people started to believe it.
And then me and Dave just got sad because we were like, oh,
we're best friends and people actually think we're falling
out. So now I love him.
I mean, he has some controversial political views,
but but a little bit Andrews on race.
But no, no, no, no, no, it's Jesus.
I what race? What do you say?
100 metres or 200 or or or marathon, what is it?
One or two races, Let's just say he said we could do a night.
So, so. And they are.
No, no, no, no. You just gotta let him do his
thing. Yeah, let him do his thing.
He's just he's just racist, but he's funny.
He's funny. Like he's funny, funny guy.
Big shout out to him. No yeah, we used to when it when
it was like boom Mike comment like this post.
We we would love it. Berlin didn't don't make some
weird like we didn't like have a plan.
It seemed like we had a party. We didn't.
We would just text. You yo-yo, damn.
Guess what? He got it.
Booked the merchant bike there was so not cost effective.
Yeah. Look, I'm delighted you're on
the Gold Coast here. Cheers.
Come down in the podcast, see you Friday and let me know what
it is you want me to sing and we'll we'll make it work.
OK, OK. Can you sing Celtic Company?