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You love it. Cheers, everyone.
Welcome to episode 100 of the Tea with Me podcast With me.
She and Todd and I did a cheers and then I didn't take a little
sip on my tea because I'm worried that some people go.
I don't like the sound. If you drown, give a fuck.
It's episode 100. It's episode 100 of this thing,
which is not because we only really started this in I think
it was February last year, just before lockdown was.
I don't know. But what I do know is we've come
a long way. We've come a long way without
you, my friend. I like that song a lot.
That's on by Charlie Puth or Perth, not pews.
If I was called Charlie Puth, I would tell people because Perth,
like Perth sounds like the noise you make when you sit down on a,
you know, like a big chunky city, big chunky leather city
Perth. But yeah, I would 100% tell
people my name is Charlie Puth just just to amuse myself, you
know? But that.
But yeah, what about when that song?
It's been a long day. When it came out and then and it
was used in Fast and Furious and it was about Paul Walker, really
Paul Walker and Vin Diesel. And I like the message that that
was conveyed because obviously, like, I mean, I like Fast and
Furious films. I know they're not, you know,
they're not going to win Oscars, but they're fun.
It's but like this podcast, look, it's not going to win at
the word podcast awards in the Latin section, but it hopefully
is a bit of fun. Yeah.
When that when that song came out.
Why are they taking 7 minutes just just to get my thought on
this. So yeah, they had like a CGI
Paul Walker in one car and then actual Vin Diesel in the other
car. What they should have done is
also CGI Vin Diesel because Vin Diesel just looked like Vin
Diesel a guy and Paul Walker looked like he had been
animated. And I thought that was a bit
weird. It was a nice gesture, but part
of me was going just animate big Vin too, you know?
But these things happen Fast and Furious.
I mean, I don't know how many, but I think I've been in a few,
the Fast and Furious, you know it, there's been not many of
them. I remember when I went to see
the first one, I took a girl on date.
We went to see Fast and Furious. And then, and this actually
happened on my first date as well.
She brought two of her friends. She thought it was a group
thing. And I and I didn't and I was
just terrible myself. And and that's, and that's what
it is. Oh, I miss the cinema anyway.
I mean, I'm, I don't really go to the cinema.
Look, I'm just not for God's sake.
I'm nervous because it's episode 100.
It's a milestone. And you know, I've said this in
the podcast before, but I used to do a podcast called The Shane
Todd Cast, which would win at the word Podcast Award for best
title, The Shane Todd Cast, but it was sporadic.
You know, it was a little bit like your die you it was around
for a while, then it sort of went away.
Then it would come back and you were like, yes, and you got 2
episodes in a row. You know, you've got same two
weeks in a row and then you just didn't see it for six months,
which is not what as a child happened with my dad.
That makes it sound like a terrible story like that.
I don't, but I do remember a childhood friend who said that
they're mom's boyfriend. He was like, oh, just going to
the chemist to pick a prescription.
Then he never came back and I was too young to ask this
question, but I said what was he going to get?
Like why was he away? What why did he get lost?
And then my friend was like, no, he left us like, but part of me
was going, well, maybe there was just a big queue, you know.
My mate said, well though, what would he be getting?
It was worth waiting. You know, this happened seven
years ago. So what, you know, why would why
would you be waiting seven years in a queue for a chemist in
Bangor? That's too specific.
But we've had them all on the pod.
We've had some amazing. Let me just look through some of
the guests that we've had here because here's what we're doing.
It's like the last day of term. We're having a wee bit of a
celebration. I've got a guest.
It's a Party's Day special and the title gives it away, Saint
Patrick himself. I have got Paddy Barnes coming
on the pod today to join me as my guest.
I love Paddy. He's a national treasure.
He's brilliant and I've wanted to get him on the podcast for
ages. But it was one of those ones
where at the time I was trying to do it, the restrictions kept
changing, you know, and I was like, yeah, well, maybe we'll do
it then we'll weren't, then we'll wear them weren't.
So we're doing it over Zoom. But when we get the studio
sorted, we'll bring him in and and hopefully he'll be up for
doing an episode. But and then next week we've got
another Patrick. We've got Patrick Kildee next
week. So, you know, maybe we just keep
going and we always have Patrick's, we have Patrick
Stewart, Paddy McGuinness. Now we have to end it there
because I don't really know any more parties.
And well, so yeah, we've had Jesus.
We've had, we've had them all. The first ever episode we did of
this podcast I'm pretty sure was.
Hold on. Oh, there's old Shane top cast
episodes that are still up there if you care.
The first ever episode was a solo episode I think.
Yeah, the first tee with me was a solo episode.
And then and there's no. Video for it, which is weird.
Then the second episode was with Sam Holiday from Tudor Cinema
Club. That was my first guest
interview in the old studio, which we put so much work into
and then left as soon as I started doing this podcast.
Then Stephen Watson was the 2nd guest.
Jim Owen, you know, then we're in lockdown like 9, well, 8
episodes in we were really in lockdown.
So then I just started asking like a load of different people.
Episode 11 Eamonn Holmes 13 Jamie Dornan, which obviously is
the most listened to episode that we've ever done and was
just so much fun as an episode. Let me see Liam McCord on
Colgan. These are just ones that are
catching my Jamie Lee O'Donnell and loads of solo ones as well
and I will get back to doing more solo episodes then
obviously I've had you know the likes of Kieran Bartlett on
Mickey, Colin, Dave, Aaron McCann.
I've had a load of friends on like a load of times.
Paddy McDonnell, of course, I just, yeah, load the.
So I always say I'm going to get back in the solo episodes.
I haven't done one in a long time, but I definitely will get
back into them. I mean, just listen to some of
these titles. Burning the digit, Little money,
Toad Slim shiny, the way the cookie crumbles.
How has this been going for a year?
Christian Aaron from Game of Thrones, Aaron Butler's been on
for a load of episodes. Terry George, Oscar winning
director and these are all on YouTube on my channel.
If if you ever want to go back and watch any of them, then some
of my favourite comedians like Joe Les Giannis Pappas, Mark
Normand, Conor McNeil, the great local actor was on who who's
absolutely killing it and see genuinely like people say.
And by the way, the last episode was Sean McComb went down so
well. People when I'm chatting to them
about the podcast, whether it's in the shop or out and about,
people always say, is anybody a Dick?
You know, that I've had on or that has anyone not been like
the way you would think Genuinely, right.
There's nobody I've had on that I wouldn't have back on.
And the only episode I've done where I went on no was when I
had Todd Barry on, who is a phenomenal stand up based in New
York. I mean, if you watch or listen
to the podcast regularly, you know, I have a wee bit of a an
obsession with the New York comedy scene I mentioned I find
some way to mention in every podcast.
I've gigged in New York and I told Barry on and told Barry's a
very dry comedian. He is so good.
But he's like the one speed and he is a real original act.
And I got it wrong with what I thought it was going to be.
You know, sometimes you think when you have a comedian on, you
just sort of go tell me a funny story and you leave them to it.
So it was kind of me who like not messed up the episode, but
definitely you can go back and listen to it.
Let's just say my interview skills were were very poor on
them. And that is very what would you
say? Big of me to say that because
I'm a very humble and talented guy.
But, but honestly, I mean, any, any message I get on Instagram
or Twitter or whatever where people say and look, I'm not
getting thousands of these, but you know what I mean, where
somebody goes or I listen to the podcast every week, it keeps me
seeing during lockdown or it gives me laugh during lockdown.
Like that means so much. And it's class for me to do it
as well because you feel like you are in a way performing to
an audience or even though it's way more laid back, you're still
interacting with an audience. So I've got to say a big thank
you to anybody who's listened to or watched the podcast in the
last year. And we've done 100 episodes.
I think by episode 200, I would hope that we have a, let's just
say a better setup because obviously because of COVID, my
setup at the minute quite a lot of times is my kitchen.
I'm normally in the living room, but I've, I've moved, I've
transferred into my kitchen. So we're work, we're going to
see more studios in the next couple of weeks and get
ourselves like a bigger, a bigger place to work out of and
do the video podcast and that kind of thing.
So the podcast is growing all the time and I see that with the
amount of people who download and listen to it and try and
listen to you a lot as much as possible for potential guests
that people want on as well. You know, I, I just go for it.
Like I just asked and if people don't want to do it, they don't
want to do it. Like, obviously the famous time
where I asked Snoop Dogg to do the podcast, but I copied and
pasted a message I just sent to Jamie Foxx.
Snoop Dogg was the next person I messaged and I started the
message to Snoop Dogg with. Hey, Jamie.
So. I think about wasn't for that.
He would have done in fact, the thing of wasn't for that.
He would be Co hosting the podcast and it'd be called tea
with me and also a big fat blonde.
A big fat blonde is also caught me rhyme and slang not for Snoop
Dogg. I'm not slamming Snoop Dogg.
Don't start a beef between me and Snoop.
Imagine that. Imagine I just got into like a
full beef with Snoop Dogg and it really like escalated, you know,
like I like I was over in LA, you know, getting in the
scuffles in a nightclub. And then he's, you know, he's
the Maple bar in Hollywood throwing bottles at me.
It'd be a bit of fun. I would definitely be up for a
few years or Snoop if you're watching let's get a go and you
twat, I love Snoop Dogg. There's a Snoop Dogg song I love
called Lay Low, which is on one of the albums of Snoop Dogg's
that I've bought before, which sounds like a lie.
But genuinely, I have a couple of Snoop Dogg albums.
This one had a cartoon was a cult dog pond.
It had a cartoon dog buying prison bars on the front and a
timid Nate Dogg. And any song with Nate Dogg was
always good. You know, and I wish Nate Dogg
had. I just experimented with more
artists who weren't necessarily just rappers like Speaking of
blunt, like James Blunt, and I was going to do impression of
what that would sound like, but I don't have enough time to come
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I was a big fan of him when he was boxing.
I thought he was a real entertainer and the sort of guy
that and I don't know a lot about boxing, but he feel a lot
of boxers like are very methodical about who they fight.
You know, they go right, well, I want to have 5, five fights
taking it easy and then I'll try and step up a bit and then
eventually I'll fight this guy. Paddy Barnes always just seemed
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He want to win a world title quickly.
I think he wanted to like break a record for the quickest person
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I think I might have that wrong. He'll definitely correct me on
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nicest guy he was in Belfast Blues, he killed it in Belfast
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It was a real laugh to do it. I haven't seen it.
I don't know how it turned out. It was a lot of fun in the night
and I think if we can, if we can show how much fun it was, I
think people will enjoy it and it look, you can't go.
It's shit that you can't go out for parties day, and I'm not
saying this is a substitute, but maybe if you want to crack open
a stout and and have a drink with the boys on TV, that'd be a
good way to do it. So the rave lockdown tonight,
which is the night this came out, but you can get on iPlayer
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We'll put it in the link down below.
But let me welcome because it's Paddy's day.
Let me welcome the paid the patron St of box and himself the
main man, my friend. Please welcome to the T with me
podcast. Paddy Barnes.
Parties day courser that I have the man himself on Patty Barnes.
Patty, my first question for all my guests is, do you drink tea
or are you sort of in the coffee camp or what's your relationship
with tea? Well, every morning I will have
a cup of coffee, but during the day I have about 3 or 4 cups of
tea. Yeah, yeah.
I'm trying to cut down because I have 3 sugars.
Any any any 3 sugars. But that then that's not tea.
You're just, you're just drinking Sweetwater.
Basically, and that's I just love the taste of it.
I don't know what it is so. I used to, I got into tea
because whenever I was a kid my granny used to leave me.
This is stinking now but a bit of her tea.
I don't know if like loads of people actually you thinking in
tea was that my granny took like 2-3 sugars like you're saying
and would leave me a bit of her tea so I'd drink cold cold sweet
tea and then I always had sugar and then eventually weaned
myself off it and now the idea of drinking sugar and tea
disgusts me. You know what you say my
granny's a reason I have so much sugar in my tea as well.
Because he used to have it herself.
Yeah, and I can't be there. But tell me this when you're
drinking tea. Yeah.
Do you have a tix? David Twix.
Our sorry, have you ever had tricks?
We have baked both ends off and use as a straw.
See stuff like that, that stuff, I don't if you do that then fair
enough. But that stuff I don't believe
happens like people say oh, I get my chips and my Mcflurry.
I don't know anybody does that. I think it's just made-up, but.
Please do it. Well, I can't be, I can't be
Twixes because I can't, I can't have dairy because, you know,
from Hollywood, from North and we have dairy allergies.
But I, I actually actually, actually can't.
But there are Twix alternatives they can have.
So what? Happens.
What happens if you have dairy? You die because believe me, this
is worth This is birth death. I mean, no, thankfully I don't
die, but I mean, what a way to go be like hardly.
Die COVID no Twix. He took a party sized Twix and
you know, God bless him. No, I would just, I'd be OK if I
had a wee bit of dairy, but if I had a little bit more, let's
just say I would need a toilet nearby.
OK, well this is worth a trip to the bog, believe me.
Yeah, fair enough. I mean, I do spend Easter just
sitting on the toilet. I can imagine.
I think Sean McComb got me into that.
There the tricks. Yeah, John McComb on a couple
weeks ago. I don't know if you saw that,
but if you did, did it surprise? Did you feel like that was
someone you didn't know talking when he was saying about froth
milk and hot milk and all that kind of thing?
He's like. Because he's never made me one
of those, so I was surprised and disappointed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Froth milk.
I could, I can believe like I just met like I've never met
him. We just talked online and and we
we went actually like, let's go take away coffee before the
podcast. And he said like, oh, can I get
hot milk? And I didn't know how to look.
I was like, oh Jesus, I'm joking a lot.
You, you may have. I don't know if you remember,
but you and me have been out for a coffee.
Glasgow. In class we're at Glasgow, me
usually and. Tropicana Yeah, you're right.
I'll tell you all, that's three big headers.
That's three big. Headers it was indeed.
Yeah, yeah. And then we went.
That was that. There was that night we went to
see you stand up. Yeah, it wasn't a good gig.
I thought a good gig. Do you?
Know what the problem was? I mean, it's sometimes the
slightest things in stand up really threw you off because it
was in a nightclub. It was in the garage in Glasgow,
the stage, it was like a nightclub DJ stage.
It was so high. I know if you remember the
audience were like way down below me.
And it wasn't, it was, it was just a weird one.
I mean, it was OK, but it was, it was a bit of a weird one.
But you had a, you had a hot chocolate we went for we were
you putting on weight? Were you moving?
On a little bit. Or you were losing weight.
All right. Oh, yeah, that's right.
I think you got a hot chocolate. You got hot chocolate and Costa.
And then you were like, oh, I'm trying to be striking my weight.
And I thought you were going to, like, bend the hot chocolate.
And you took a few of the marshmallows off.
Yeah, every little counts. And then you'll do shopping
ballot Twix. Don't.
Tell him what? Yeah, there's loads.
There's loads that I want to talk to you about in boxing,
outside of boxing. But see, first of all, can we
talk about you? You gave me one of the funniest
moments and sometimes if I ever like feel down or slightly
unhappy, I know that if I watch the video.
Review that your wife took. Falling off a bike in New York.
I know if I watch it I will feel so much better and so much
happier. For anyone who hasn't seen it,
usually in Central Park just on holiday.
Yeah, it's in the park. Yeah, for a weekend.
Mary, your wife was was filming and you were on a like a bike
that you hire behind her. And I don't know what happened,
whether the steering, the handlebars went back to front or
whatever, but you just cope and it's it's a perfect time because
it's right at the end of the video do.
You know why the video end above 4?
She didn't stop. She fell for a big laughing
people. People must not genuinely think
it was stage because how could happen?
I generally had I thought I'd pumped the back brake pause did,
but I was pulling it out of your wheelie and it's been overt and
I was reasonable because I thought like but by can I just
put the beer. I thought the shreds.
I think turn it in the back working my coat, but thankfully
some Italian fella core and asked him was OK and I got up
after that but 10 minutes later flying down no hands had him
back so I'm not going to die. It was all.
Right. Yeah, Yeah, that would be two
terrible ways to die. Me with chocolate and you've
fallen off a bike because that is a work childlike thing.
I whenever I was about 18, I I didn't drive.
I was 21 and I used to cycle everywhere, right?
And I was cycling from my house down in Hollywood town centre
and I fell off my bike and I went over the handlebars and my
like, look at this, right? And if anyone's not watching the
video version of the podcast, watch it for this.
See the difference between my wrists.
See this? Yeah, boom.
I went over the handlebars, landed with my hand like this,
and then the bone just went through my hand and I had to go
up the hospital. Like obviously straight away my
dad took me up the hospital and the woman at reception up at the
Ulster was like, can you tell me what happened?
And I said, yeah, I fell off. My bike I've had an.
Accident and she said was it a motorbike and I just had to go.
It was like a boy's bike. It was like it was like a
child's bike. BMX.
Yeah, so. So while I was laughing at your
video, exactly the same things happened to me.
And yeah, that's not good luck. But here actually, before we go
into the podcast any further, obviously people know we can't
really talk properly, talk too fast, but keeping worse than I
because I'm more Invisalign on the teeth I.
Mean. Have a list basically a bit I.
I did the Invisalign thing as well and it's class and I like.
We're book 2, but here I may watch this here.
And the one Invisalign themselves go to Grandson Dental
Barnes, 50 from Gold. And that's the dip I've got.
Serious. That's a serious plug, I mean.
It would be funny to do it as a joke, but then it's even funny
when you're like, no, January that.
Way that's real. Unbelievable.
Did you approach them and say like, listen, you just know me
sort out my teeth or or was did they approach you?
I just been what I didn't say listen of I need a Nicer's fix.
So yeah, let's do it and. Do is that one of the things
with boxing you wouldn't really do anything like that?
Like why you're still boxing? Because although if you weren't
a gum sheet, you wouldn't get your teeth that damage, would
you? No, if he's praised, there's
people who do get their teeth knocked out, even gum.
She didn't. So like my tooth was bent and
like there's no point in effects boxing.
But now after I'm retired. Just an influencer now.
I love that. Teeth straight make it threaten
my face hard on. I'll be great, you see, in our
next year. Be great.
See, whenever you see like that, you know, the Sunday World or
Sunday life will do a story. Go on.
You know, these paramilitaries said no money, but they're
they've all gone to Turkey to get the teeth in the hair done.
Part of me looks at that and goes that would be a decent trip
to be politics aside, that sounds like a decent trip coming
back. Come on.
But here's the mistake to make right?
You me are doing this line. I'd like did it like a year ago
and if you're ever in Lisburn rule quote Todd for I want to,
but imagine imagine I have my own deal and I just edited your
bit out of the podcast. I would take you to court.
Yeah, the get like getting the teeth on.
The problem people from here make when they go to like Turkey
and get the teeth done is they go for like the brightest white
to go for the brightest white. And that looks stupid.
But I understand they've had a few drinks, they've had a few
fish bowls and ballroom or wherever they are in Turkey and
they go, listen, may as well just do it.
Give me the highest shade. Yeah, when I get mine done,
finished off and they ask for like a Belfast yellow tent.
Yeah, just. To keep fighting the ground,
Yeah. What was the thing?
Was it at the Olympics you had the you had the sign about
sponsorship? Was that the Was that the
opening ceremony of the Olympics?
Yeah, that was the opening ceremony of the London Olympics
2012, because already for no tell the sorry the village ring
beforehand. And there's ecologist Jay Hussey
saying, Paddy, you have to do something mad like me.
Why? It was because there's millions
and millions people watch this here.
You know what I mean? You know what?
You're right. So I'm going to do this here.
So when I get sponsors for sponsorship and.
You haven't wrote it right. But her name I put here, I wrote
it. And like a barely filled amateur
handle, they get to me made clear.
But here 30,000 followers in about four hours.
Obviously the opening ceremony of the Olympics, especially
London, is one of the biggest TV events in history.
And I imagine what you're told to do is just like be like the
rest of the athletes, sort of like, you know, represent who
you're representing with the head up and be respectful and
stuff. When you rolled out basically
like you'd sponsor my Twitter, Did you get, was there like
falling from that? Like did you get shit for that
from anyone? I can't remember, but I think
there was words spoke with the coaches.
But here I didn't give a shit. I knew that one.
But they're going to stop me. Like, yeah, they're they're
overseen and stuff. I understand like the shift
admission needs to do the job not but I didn't care, you know,
I seen an opportunity, I can grab it and I paid off.
Did you have people like Because Paddock?
Did you start working on Paddy Power around that time?
So I'll tell you what, 2016, I worked with Paddy Power and they
had like a fake Twitter beef, so.
That's right. And then the renamed the shop in
Dublin, I think it was Dorset St Potty Barns to the party power.
But the plan was so I was favoured for gold in 2016.
And it's not nothing. I people know this but the deal
was made to change my name by depot the party power.
But it couldn't be done the Olympic rules because it was too
long of a period. I qualified as Poly barns, that
wouldn't let me do it, but I was down the game for it.
So you were going to change your name by you were going to change
your name legally. Yeah, to Poly barn, I was all
hard. I was all hard by money.
Would you have changed? Would you have changed it back?
Depends. I would have built it until.
I love it, Yeah. And yeah.
And then you're just like, like many other betting companies,
you can be party coral, you can be party bat fair, whatever
Patty granted them. I love that.
I mean, it's one of those things where you think especially
athletes at the Olympic Games and all that must be very boring
as well, like, you know, haven't always, like, you know, toe the
line and fit in and do that kind of thing.
So when you do anything like slightly funny or different, it
makes such a big, such a big impression.
Like it's funny to people outside of the village and the
games because see in in the big village, it's like a high
pressured environment because it's a bit important in the
world. Like people have trained all
their lives just to be an Olympian, not even the medal or
could be good just just to be an Olympian.
So it's a high press pressure environment for in regards to
like all these people are, they're late for the compete for
the country now. I did too.
But the reason for me, I know this because I don't know the
reason for me being so successful because I was able to
next, you know, like high end sport was fun because like if
you were dead serious and like trained meticulously and we're
headstrong, it's easy to get like down to get.
I think you feel down all the time if you didn't make succeed
every single time. So.
Well, you're a robot then, aren't you?
Like if you just. You're just a robot like more.
There's no enjoyment in sport then if you're like that, you
know what I mean? If you want to go my Olympic
Games, you know, and you're one, you're one of those people like,
do I win that? Like expect, like if you look
at, I mean, different sport, but if you look at Tiger Woods,
like, I don't know if you watched that documentary
recently, that's somebody who obviously is one of the best at
all of all time and has achieved so much.
But like, at what cost? You know what I mean?
Like you look at the, the, the, the drug addictions and, and
being totally obsessed. I think you got to have a life
too. Like you absolutely have to have
a life. And part of that is, yeah,
enjoying yourself and having laughs and.
I've been like I've been to see an ambitional favour people from
Manicip to the Olympic but if I had to give out a bit of ice my
young kids home 3 would be like you know, yes train hard and
dedicate each other sport but equally try and enjoy the
moment. Like don't be like you know it's
up to be our end all. For some it might seem so, but
honestly enjoy it as much as you can so.
That's it's probably like a gig in a way.
I mean, at that like City Olympics, the stakes are
obviously higher. But like you can have a button
no matter how much you plan for stand up or back yourself as
being really good, you can still have a bad show.
And I think you have to kind of be able to laugh about it in a
way and just and just write it off as a bad day.
Like obviously you want to perform for people like you want
to, you know, perform for your fans, for your sponsors, all
that kind of thing. Kind of similar of a stand up.
But at the same time, if you just have a real bad one that
you've worked hard for, sometimes you do you just have
to say, like fucking it didn't work.
That was that was like what, when Sean McCombs on the podcast
there and, you know, his last fight, he did kind of just at
the end say, like, I was able to have a laugh and say that it
didn't work for me, you know, And I think people love that as
well when they see a human side of someone who is dedicated to
what to do. You see there you go like hit
the only head. We are only humans, you know
what I mean? So we have off days just what
happens, you know, even this, for example, of Jen the car like
people make me say stream car people.
Christ, knock on this stuff people.
They silly stuff that they don't mean to do high end sport, you
know, like it can apply to any sport.
If you have a bad performance in my 1%, I can cost you the fate
that can cost you the much. You know, it's just those
inches, those percentages so small at the high end of sport
that cost you stuff, but isn't one of humans and loses a part
of life. And that's just the way it is.
Like you get this. It's just the way it be lived.
A difficult part of boxing though must be that so when I
related to stand up, if I have a bad gig, I can probably get a
gig the next night somewhere, even if it means a bit of
travel. I can bounce on the line up
somewhere else and make up for it and hopefully have a good
one. One of the bad parts of boxing
must be the discipline of the camp.
And you can spend months in a camp and then like you say, you
make one mistake, 11 mistake in a split second.
It's not like the next night you can have another fight.
You might have to wait six months or more to correct it.
So you actually probably have a lot of time when you were boxing
to think about your mistakes, which isn't always a good thing.
Yeah, well you're right. They close.
Say you know, you have a 12 week camp and like when you're
starting your cap for fate, like you're not the building from
week one, you're building basically from week 12.
You're working backwards so you're ready for that day.
And like all our training, you give me the best relief.
No mentally focused math, physically ready.
But you know, Fate day, something stupid happened,
something small happened. So I thought go to your mind or
you may feel a bit tired that day and it'll affect your
performance. And like those 12 weeks are the
window because you know, and it actually even in the fate you
have a game plan, you're fighting a certain kind of
opponent. It's not working.
You know, you're back to what you know and the plot, the 12
week plans that don't know, but it's about the best athletes
know. Just learn to adapt and learn to
overcome certain situations so. See with see with dedication
like and in terms of, you know, boxers being so disciplined and
into what to do like you're, I think you came on the rate we
did. You came on the radio show years
ago when we were just talking about it briefly a bit.
But I don't know whether you based yourself or you were
travelling up there like it was a clock or our glass.
Yeah, so. As a kid, like as a young kid to
box. Yeah, so I was like my cousins
lived in our glass and like at this stage, I mean boxing a week
in Belfast, mates boxed but every weekend in our glass and
my cousins boxed down. There is a club down there in
Polly Ornith. I mean it was a coach.
So just to fit a night I boxed and I had joking every weekend I
sparred my cousin fans in London.
I used to be crying. Yeah, I speak isn't battery, but
like it's just a Hardy having bigger me and I'm running back
the corner. My uncle saying you OK me Yeah.
Of hay fever like it wasn't solvent, but there's tears in my
eyes. Yeah, yeah.
He's not beaten. And I just stuck at it because I
couldn't. I just wanted to fit in
basically. Like I wasn't much good.
I wasn't terrible, but because my cousins and my friends don't,
I just don't stick just to to fit in basically.
See, whenever, you know, I imagine a lot of people you,
whenever you were a kid that you're boxing with, don't do it
anymore, that, you know, fall out of it down a different path.
The sort of guys that were like beating you and sparring then
and punching you so hard and it was just sort of cried a bit.
Did you ever get your own back like down the line?
Like, did you ever just take the club off, go up to them blind,
send them Sunday and spark them out outside their house?
No, what do? The heck was still bothering me?
I can't. I couldn't their family, so
wouldn't. I wouldn't have attacked them.
Yeah, fair enough. Maybe not.
There's a good chippy in our class.
I cannot remember any of it and is nice chippy.
And docks. No, no, it's, no, it's in
Newcastle, it's right down by the harbour.
Yeah, that's a good spot. That's a good spot.
I'm only going to once there's. A bar, Face it.
Yeah, yeah, as we as we said, that's a sign of a good chip.
Yes, go in and you're going to get your take out and then you
go hold on. What's our tables and chairs
just in a separate one of us will think of it before the end
or I'll look it up if I forgot it by the end of the podcast.
So like boxing from a very young age and then what age did you
sort of go into the amateurs at and start your?
I my career was busy start right away because I started boxing my
first time ever on a Wednesday night that Sunday had a fight
so. Basically.
What is 11? So straight away a bespoke like
a few years here, like I was busy fighting every second week
as well. How'd your first fight go at the
age of 11? I lost their fellow who I'm
friendly at the minute, fell W Belfast in Finnigan.
I actually had a remind even a few years ago that I fought him
and he beat me my first year of faith.
You know, I was thinking quite rarely every second week.
It's crazy. I've had about, I would say
about 350 feet as an amateur. Especially from that, from that
young age, like jeez, I, I, I didn't, I didn't even think you
fought till you were like, I just presume like, oh, maybe
when you're 141516 you start. I enjoy the idea that like, like
maybe just being a spectator or maybe that's something after a
lockdown. I'd like to watch just a lot of
kids being fucking. And actually seeing I see see
the kids nowadays, like if I was the age that was if I was the
same have the same talent, sorry as I had when I was a kid again,
the kids now I never made it. The kids and I are unbelievable,
sort of all. What do you why do you think
that is more professional like as in as in there's more like
sports science and things like that and what?
I don't I think maybe it's just like high performance, maybe
maybe falling down to like grass tower rich.
The coaching is better. You know, I think success be
successful like you have legs of us stick when the mad limits.
There's more money invested in sport and then there's more
opportunities for kids fighting abroad and like the coach is
getting better. So I think that's a big fact.
And I as well, I think it's probably Judy K Taylor women's
boxing in Ireland. Like I think this Olympics here
we're probably more reliant on the females for the great
success because women's boxing in Ireland is a massive dominant
like. I mean, Katie Taylor is the the
best probably compliment you can pay.
The Katie Taylor is one of them is you don't think of her as and
no disrespect of female boxers, but you don't think of her as or
nowhere as a female boxer. You just know her as a boxer.
And in years gone by, it was probably more you know, all
that's, you know, female boxing or you put someone in the
category of a female boxer. She has made she has put so much
eyes on that, on that side of the sport on female boxers, like
like just one, one person doing herself and.
Her success has like shown girls and Ireland actually across the
world that you know, women can do women can do it, which is
amazing. And I have likes of Kelly
Harden, who won the world title is not mature for Ireland and OK
their fee Garden will follow her few steps and take off boxing
too. So we're boxing, boxing after
boxing. Ireland is a good place
especially for for female preservation at the minute.
Speaking, speaking amateurs like you, you're like and then like
obviously like, you know, marry and stuff and, and you've called
yourself biscuit ribs on a couple of occasions.
How was me as my kid? Your son.
What were you?
Oh, you're yeah, I mean that. I what I love about you is you
can just have a laugh at yourself and don't take, we're
talking about a bit earlier. Don't take things too seriously
but like genuinely like you are like a a legend of Irish boxing.
And you. You.
Make an uncomfortable me saying that, but like, I, I think you
like are, are so popular in so many different places in Ireland
as well, like up here down South, I'm I'm sure, and
especially going to Olympic Games and and and all that kind
of thing. Do you was it difficult to
decide when to turn pro, or was it an easy decision to stay
amateur for quite a while because you were having so much
success at it? To be honest, no, I've never
ever had dreams of going professionally professional
boxing. For me, it's not something I
imagined doing. It was never a game of mine
because amateur boxing, professional boxing are two
totally different sports. One's a sport and one's a
business. So for me, pro.
For me, it was always as soon as I stepped foot in Jaya Stories
gym at all Your family. One thing was was thrilled into
me the Olympic dream. So once I have the Beijing, I
have the field for it and I just want to be an Olympic champion.
We just want to be a Olympic champion for me, all the
Olympics. I suppose, I suppose having as
well like just that one dream that all amateur boxers share
and separates it from professional boxing a bit
because you have so many belts nowadays.
And I by the way, know very little, but I'm no, I'm not a
boxing expert at all, but I see that there are so many different
champions. So there are so many different
goals to go for. Whereas with amateur, it's like
that's the one thing you're. Going yeah.
So as amateur Olympic title is like the pinnacle of sport.
So obviously it was it was funded.
It was a funded I think. So it's going to await tax free
from the Irish government and up here it's for an eye because the
box for Northern Ireland called games.
But you know, it was the job. And remember I had a meeting
with MGM Spitzer, an INTK before Rio and they asked him to go
professional. I said this, I've been to the
Olympic Games. I was 29 at the stage.
Then I think, no, I'm making. Get to our maids making.
Allow me the other one. I'm going to give it a go.
But I'll GoPro if you promise me, if you fast track me the
world title because you know, in Belfast, I mean, well, I say
Ireland, but they can say Belfast.
There's loads of world champions leave like some Burnett,
Frampton, William McCall. There's loads of work.
If I'm again, there's loads of world champion, right.
So I just don't want to be a world champion.
I want to be like say from Ralphic, someone special like,
you know, the fastest world champion.
Yeah, I said that things. I don't care if I lose.
I just want the opportunity to try to quit history and they
gave me some maniac from first fight to lift me up.
Bulgarian hair case. I remember reading that report
of that fight and thinking it was a it was a joke he just
picked up at four months left. I was so happy because her debut
for wasn't for me. It was titled because he wasn't
engaged. He kept running away.
And like your debut, you meant to sell yourself.
I couldn't sell myself because, yeah.
And then follow our journey map after that.
There, I said this to my head. And like, I can't make up for
these faith because they're coming to lose.
They're getting care to lose. Also, some people might fight
what, 10 journeymen, 15 more, you know, just constantly,
constantly building up. But that separates you because
you you just want to fight. And I remember you used to
always want to fight the best people.
Like it's a fellow this. Is uncommon.
It's a fellow called Donnie Nates.
He's factly fighting on the front, the front of the card.
He's a four time world champion. I asked for him in my third
fight. Now looking back, I already
retired two among he couldn't bother me.
Do you bother me? But the third fight I'll be
fought for the WBO European titles against a fellow who who
was robbed in Japan for the world title was European
champion. So he wasn't genuine.
And then obviously I fought for the I got two more fights.
I got nor take a fight and the world take me 6 feet.
Was I ready for it as a pro? Probably not.
Did I care? Absolutely not.
I had that opportunity, took history and boxing anything, it
happened. I think it was boxing well I
felt it was like maybe 3-4 rounds and as I was still a
punch he just caught me a cracking shot and I remember
being underground never hit the hard to body my life.
The referee Victor Lachlan counting and the bell going I
ever sent himself. Am I saved by the bell because I
can go to, I generally can go up in the store for about two hours
after. I think I'm the only person ever
to go to hospital or concussion from body shot and I jump on I
was hospitalised and. I know it's it's only funny
because you don't take yourself seriously.
Which is, which is. True.
But I know, but I mean. I think, I think, I think our
one too. So obviously I'm back in
changing done drug tests, can back out to watch fountain fit
Luke Jackson. Are you still in agony at that
point? I was a bit sore but tender
right? So had my clothes on.
Whatever and I just left Mari and my mate her mates were as
well. We use a favourite Latin room
was I had to watch fanfare. There are no problems sitting in
the drink. So I sat say Rocky feeling it
was the fate. I turn rocky feeling says Rocky.
You know what I don't feel good. Well, Nah, I think I'm a faint.
Wait the party and I was Jesus there's a daughter called Martin
Duffy doctor I'm going to faint. It was wacky.
I'm going to faint. They sit down there 2 seconds.
You're right it's something that better then that's not back over
it go by M2 there to paramedics me right there's a stretcher me
anything on the stretcher. It's a Polygon stretcher.
So the one guy stretcher and Lander we light feed the crowd
Mauri as a doorway. Martin Mauri said to me, what
are you seeing? The stretch of me.
How long is that there? It was me like face white at the
hospital, concussion, body shot, body shot the head.
It was terrible. But here I probably want to die.
I am a hypochondriac, so I thought that's nice.
We did. Yeah, yeah.
I mean from a body shot as well. But you know what?
Let's tell tale. God, I remember that body shot
and yeah, just the sound of it as well.
You could see the force and I mean, people like me can go and
you could feel it. Obviously we couldn't, you know,
you nearly killed you, but Jesus, that was a fucking.
I was punched at the same time so I got the full force of it
like. Because your body was already
totally open. Gee, I mean box.
I was doing like 30% sets a day. Like I should have been in good
shape right? Like but obviously slips are all
the shit. You you speak my setup well.
Press UPS. Actually, you broke my record Q
Radio on Over the City beat at the time it.
Was it was City beat time do. You remember they used to do Was
it Steve? Was it Steven Clements show?
Steven Clements. Yep.
Steven Clements had a, I had a thing on a show where you would
do a minute, the most present, 30 seconds, 30 seconds.
And by the way, his show was always the most crack to go on,
like the most crack to go on. See so many people.
You kind of you kind of go on. I genuinely, I would say him and
Pete Snotton are very, very good at actually engaging you in an
interview and taking an interest.
And Stephen was just really good at making it more than just the
usual kind of. So what gigs have you got coming
up anyway? We, yeah, it was 30 seconds.
Many press UPS, as you can do now.
There was a leaderboard, like a Top Gear leaderboard.
And I remember going in and not really paying attention to the
interview. Like, you know, Stephen's there.
Everyone in the room's laughing at what he's saying.
I'm laughing. But in the back of my head, I'm
going. All I care about is the prep.
The 32nd press UPS and he went to a track and he said to me he
goes, do you fancy sticking around doing the press ups?
And I went. I, I'll.
Do it now. I've been like, I've been
thinking about it all the all week and then I go down, see all
the Ulster Rugby players on the leaderboard and I'm thinking if
I can do. I think the top was 51 and I
thought something like that. And I thought if I can do 40,
I'll be happy. Genuinely.
It was 30 seconds. So after about 20 seconds, I got
already beat. I already beat it.
I was just, I was just bobbing up and down like like the
gravity wasn't a thing. I was just bouncing up and down.
Kate. Kate, you remember Kate used to
put her fist like this in the ground and you had to hit it.
So it was fair press UPS. And anyway, I'm just bouncing up
and down doing the press UPS. I remember, I remember looking
up at Steven at one point and he was just like, this is this is
he's wanted like. He.
And they put me up on top of the Ulster Rugby players who
probably weren't really trying but I was fucking going for it
and they put me up in the lead report and I think you were on
the next week and I think you got 15 more.
But you what as far as I cheated?
Did you? You slept slept Kate a fiver and
you were not touching the I think you got 67.
No, but 62 but I lied. Right, right, right.
So I so I. You're you're, you're the NI
champion of press UPS. I cheated, I'll admit.
See, when we're talking about that body shot, boxing is one of
those things that is a complete, I mean, football is 1 as well
where you're watching football and you're, you know,
criticising Kevin the Brainer from making a certain pass and
you're going, he should have slipped, he should have just
slipped the easy ball in. But.
Boxing like I do. Well, boxing.
You know where I'm going lesson he needs to he needs to get off
the ropes. He needs it and it's as if as if
he doesn't know he needs to get off the ropes.
It's getting absolutely mauled on the ropes.
But I sometimes I watch boxing and I go, you know what, I've a
bit of fitness about me. I have a bit of cardio I can
move. I'm quite tall.
I, I, I reckon I, I would have a wee bit and I went to a boxer
size class with a girl from work about 10 years ago.
And like you've taken that body shot.
I thought it was going to die. And it was like mothers.
It was like mothers doing this thing in the local leisure
centre in Hollywood and all you had to do was go out the pads
for, I think it was 2, three sets of two minutes.
And I I thought I was going to be sick.
So, Matt, it's easy to think, you know, it's easy to watch a
fight, right? And like, it's easy to
physicalize you being a boxer, it's easy to physicalize
yourself from a certain combination.
But see, until you actually hang in the ring like stand up and
understands, I find out that you have no coordination whatsoever.
No grace. Whatsoever, then you can't punch
because like boxing is solely about coordination and bounce.
That's two fundamental things about boxing.
Coordination bounce, like people, everyone's taught the
box a certain way, so hands up, you know, in certain stance.
But really that's actually not right.
You know, boxing is individual. So what I mean by that is it's
like if you feel comfortable punching in a certain stance, if
you're balance is perfect while you're throwing that stance and
your coordination is great, then that's your stance.
That's why you should box. So you said about most people
stand like this. I wouldn't.
I'd be I'd be Princess Mohammed. I'd be off Ioffer him a
Chandler, you know, Duke away a wee bit left and right, left and
right-handed. Mean he's just bar.
Somebody hits what? Mean he's just bar.
I can't. I've got a funeral.
You can't have burned. I thought you'd enjoy that
reference. I you know what I would love?
I would love to as long as you didn't hit me.
I go home from Beijing, right, And there was a felt, no, a
malar. It was a week before Beijing, a
fellow called Johnny Stones. He was a journalist.
Since that guy to piggy blinders.
He's a journalist and you're not being a naughty family, he said.
Pierson, when you come home from Rio, I'm going to try new home
from Beijing. I'm just throwing you, but I
want to spoil you. But I don't want to spoil you
right now. I want to give myself six weeks
training so I can learn a bit of boxing, but I don't expect
whatever. So it was one Saturday morning,
I got a phone call. Daddy's story said Paris father
hangers for you. It speaks up me what?
I was black before me 5 probably this year.
I went down right? Not me, down me.
What age is this guy? He's at the time I say he's
about 40 odds. Right, right.
And I have about 21 but so we under ring and I messed about I
was just what was important just as fainting this messing about
and he hit me and they say that hey or my heaven fit that back
my mate it was old Polly gotcha. I was laughing fixed right not
joking another word of lie, I'm right this train and fresh or
true of his ribs. Not a legit story and that was
the end of him. What did?
He die? Yeah, he laughed.
He was just sagged down the corner.
I couldn't breathe properly, but he was laughing but trying to
laugh. Did he write the article?
Yeah, did I? And was he was.
Not trying to find it because his name is Johnny Stones.
He was a freelance. How much happening, Dario?
I'll, I'll try, I'll try and find it right now.
I'll I'll just Google the two names.
It would have been 2008 had he born Johnny Stones 2008.
Johnny Still 2008 got it is it it was for the independent.
Oh, it says, sorry, this there was an error generating this
page, but it is there. It is there.
I'll try. And if we can find it, I'll I'll
put it in the bio for this episode, the description for
this episode. But yeah, it's one of those
things where like I would love to do like I had a idea for
YouTube like boxing series, like comedy series, obviously, where
I would interview fighters in the ring, but on the condition
that like don't try and hit me in anywhere, you know what I
mean? Like we're just, we'll just keep
busy, you know, I mean, we'll just throw a few, but I, I, I
mean, I'm guessing what I'd be right in saying say me and you
genuinely would spar. I wouldn't land anywhere near
you would at any point if you didn't want me to.
Yeah. Wouldn't land anywhere?
No, never. Making a state making a state
you would land on the gloves on the on the arm like but you
wouldn't have been the face different.
If he's part strong at home, you wouldn't touch him because his
day, but calling the same. But my kind of stage you've had
llama clothes. I will let you because my kind
of attack will be as you land your hands out there sign
currently shoot away. Right.
You know what I mean. Do what I want to do.
I want to register as an manager.
Have a fight like you did. You know, like register on a
Wednesday, have a fight in this Saturday, run the whole fight
and, and like and obviously in a draw like no punches thrown.
And then I then I retire and say I was a boxer amateur.
I retired undefeated. No matter why did you just take
me? I'll let you win because I'm
just losing anyway, so it's nothing to me.
So me and you fight where would we do it?
Like Europa or something or Ulster Hall or see SSA mean you
fight your but here's the thing you've you've done yourself
there because you've just said. There was a guy called Johnny
Stones. He did the same thing and he
landed one on you and you broke his ribs.
So I think what would happen is I'd land 1, you would get
flashbacks to Johnny Stones and all of a sudden I'm getting
taken out the stretcher. It was young and mature and
experienced back in nine months. Don't worry about that.
Yeah. I think they're I think they're
famous last words. I think you know what I mean.
You'd see the fans there. You just you just get the good
feeling back and you'd spark me hurt, but.
It could happen. Because it's, I was talking to
Sean last episode about, you know, it's always talked about
comedians, boxing, like could we get a charity night or some sort
of, I hate to use the term local celebrity night, you know, where
I mean, let's be honest, none of us are celebrities, but that
that was always talked about. And I, my attitude to it is if I
know I'm going to win, I will do it.
But I don't want anybody to punch me in the nose because if,
if my nose goes like I've already broke my nose, it's just
a bite of don't nod right. Like you're looking at it and
going, hey, and I can see it was put back in the place, but it
has a wee slate bend in it. So I, my looks are really all I
have. And so I don't want to fight.
I don't want to get in with someone who starts taking it
seriously. Like my nose been broke twice as
well. Yeah, but you know what you say
after about the comedians fighting that's been done
double. He had likes of like Eric
Lawler. Yeah.
Big Fred is a Fred West. Jeez, I hope they weren't
getting Fred Weston. Fred Weston celebrity box.
No they all thought and it was a brilliant night and I thought my
man on too for a laugh and I would ignore story so I made
down the fight. The pair, first two in Dublin,
all stayed not but in hotel. Is your mate a boxer?
No. No, he's not, but I pretend that
he was all Ireland champion and there weren't Irish champion all
like I had their but for my life.
We haven't probably told told you about you and they're for my
life. But when I took him around, it
didn't kill me, but it was it was fucking burning.
Better when you're falling alive.
Because I think one of those things are like the likes of
white colour box and stuff like that.
You could plan for, you could train for months.
But like you were saying earlier about it's all well and good
doing that, but you make one mistake.
I think as soon as the bell would ring, everything out the
window, especially with a crowd there and.
We call it different because you know, you can train and you can
be absolutely amazing training the 5G techno better.
One thing missing, it's faint in the atmosphere, the nerve balls
up and that's that's a massive Yeah.
I thought there was like 80% of it, believe me.
You've been doing coaching and I think didn't I think you started
it just before lockdown and then obviously you've you've had to
take a break from it, but you'll be you'll be doing it again.
You're kind of training people in in their houses.
Is it difficult to when you get back to that will be difficult
when people make silly mistakes, You know, when you read things
like, you know, when Roy King became a manager and Terry Henry
became a manager, they find they get very frustrated because the
players they are managing are capable of doing what they could
do. Is there an element that were
you or do you just go with it? No, because what I do obviously
Poly box, he called so I love people's houses is 10 rounds of
boxing with exercising. It's a very, very tough space
session, but it's enjoyable. But there's no real emphasis on
technique. And not going to share them but
I do try and taste them like the fundamentals of muscles so they
can do it, not obviously want them to.
Learn a bit. I'm not strict and make sure I
know it's not a job. Wrong.
Whatever. You know what I mean?
It's more enjoyable. It's more for fitness.
Yeah, but before locked in there, you know, obviously I had
to take a big knife on it, but I just flam like, you know,
couples knock on their houses and training people, the kids
who come to the gym, I'm on there and make and plus the
thing about training was but like well-being too, because
people couldn't go to the house, couldn't meet people or talk to
anyone. So I was going to their house
and like talking to them and training them too.
So it's a different physical and not the last backs being being
the doctor. Did people do what I did with
that boxerized class? Like the people think, oh sure,
10 rounds, just hitting the thing.
Did people do a round or two and just end up completely banjoxed?
Well, I had Chris here in it, Chris here on 10 rounds in
furnace, but I thought he was going to die in the 20.
Yeah, but thankfully I, I, I'm qualified in first aid.
So he was OK. See a fans.
Yeah, I mean. Didn't have the enough to move
but you. Didn't have to, but you did.
And I. Didn't have people that did
because I don't. I won't let see if I was stuck.
Yeah, yeah, get you. I think like I would love to do
that with you just and we can maybe shoot a video about it,
but just just for the sheer laugh of it, like because I,
because I'm talking myself up here being like I'm fed, you
know, go run on a workout. There is not a mission.
I'm going to box 10 rounds and that and be standing at the end
of it. You know, I got I'll make sure
you get fit. Don't worry.
So after restrictions pendant. Yeah, exactly.
I was messed about. Can I take my top off?
Yeah. Baby oil in the rings on
Twitter. You can do John.
See, Speaking of, Speaking of restrictions, right, you are
very vocal about, about COVID government, you know, just all
this and a lot of it probably stems from, I guess your, your
love for sport and you know more than anyone how good sport can
be for like, like you mentioned, people's people's health or
mental health and, and all that kind of thing.
Do you think part of it is the reason that it can frustrate you
so much is because you're used to training so much, being
around the environment, train even when you stop boxing, It's
all about being active, training, watching people do it,
helping people. Is that part of the reason why
why it's difficult to just have a ring stop?
Yeah, Daphne obviously isn't like you said, I am very vocal
on the restrictions and obviously the COVID stuff.
But I'm vocal in the sense for I'm asking a lot of questions,
like obviously I don't know the answers, but I ask a lot of
questions on Twitter about reasons why, like there's
certain restrictions in place, reasons why just just ask
different questions and people shoot down at you like, oh, he's
a he's out of the faxer and he's fucking COVID denier.
But I neither you know, I don't know the answer.
Like, and the I people who don't ask questions are fucking just
brain dead. Like, let's go.
I give me S here or we'll we'll laugh down the first of the
legs. If you say so, people need to
ask questions. People need to ask themselves
and ask questions. If the trade is right, if it's
wrong, it's wrong. Not no one ask questions.
But you know, obviously at the start it's a highly indexes
virus. So there need to be some
instructions obviously in place in sport.
Obviously nearly all supported contact and that'll be some
restrictions. But as it went on, I don't think
there was any data to suggest that there was like outbreak in
sports. So that's that.
I back up because, you know, people are training people like
getting trained with others for not just to be physically fit,
but no for their well-being too, You know, awfully be from here.
You know the mental health problem we have is fucking
ridiculous. And sports, sports, when sport
is not just for fitness, not just for welding, but sport is
one of those things that bring communities together.
You know the fuck the place we live sport is able to bring all
all together and help. Boxing, boxing, boxing being the
big boxing and football, you know, I play, I play football a
little level, but I love it. And there are two sports that
are two very popular sports that are so good at just cutting
through, cutting through all that.
It's not it's not an issue. And a frustrating thing is you
see guys that can play football in mixed football teams, travel
to any estate and it's not a bother.
Yet you can still see these same people be sectarian and bigoted
and you're going, well, if it doesn't bother you in the
football pitch, why is it? Why is it bothering you anywhere
else? But you know what?
You're always going to get people out there no matter what.
Yeah. Like fucking look at me.
People know who I am. I'm a Catholic, whatever, who
cares? I can go anywhere.
Like I know people with shaggle and I actually train people from
the Beaver state. I've seen people in the shaggle.
I've seen people Lisburn like staunch, loyal stories.
Like people see me in their house.
Like no one care. Like they'll say probably what's
happening. Like I people are starting to
ways up, but I feel like obviously you'll get on both
sides decade the both sides, but generally speaking, like, you
know, I think it's a it's a better place now than the bulls.
Oh, of course, and a good example that is, you know, like
the the Rangers title winning party night on on the Shankill.
I think if that was any other time, there would be a riot just
just because just but just because there would have been
interface problems and all that kind of thing.
But it's weird that a kind of a year inside and a bit of
lockdown has made even like the biggest nationals be like
fucking enjoy your daylights, you know, just for the baseball
guys. Go on, have a can, you know,
they're throwing stuff. But this time it's there was
there was he not going that far? But you know what I mean?
There was definitely an attitude, not with everyone, but
of some people, big fans going enjoy it because we had it for
so long and you wouldn't have had that kind of thing before.
So it does give you, it does give you hope in some way, but.
I'm not a massive salty fan. I like them because a train
Scotland on because it came to dashboard them like I'm more of
a clinical fan, but I was disheartened.
Like didn't do the 10 at all, you know what I mean?
It was a big, big one for Peter. Major fit in the first ever
title so. Part of the the enjoyable thing
about sport and Rangers probably couldn't be considered an
underdog like when you consider what they've won in the past and
they are have what have been the second best team for that
decade. Well, some of them.
But what I mean is that's the to me, like, yeah, I'm not in the
Scottish football at all. I was talking when I had Patty
McDonald on the podcast. I don't know whether it was on
the podcast or offered what we're talking about, Celtic and
Rangers and that kind of thing. I look out for Celtic results
because in one of the first championship managers I had, I
got the Celtic job. I started off at, I think it was
Motherwell or part of Thistle, and then I got the Celtic job
and it was, you're talking like Larson and Bobby Petta.
And. Tom Boyd It was that era of team
and I remember being in wise buys, not wise buys and I think
bargain books maybe in Collinswater when I was a kid
and there was a Celtic diary and I swear I think it was 10 P
because I don't think that we're selling many of.
Them. And I remember getting it and it
was a diary that I never used. But it's weird that like it's
like I barely support Man United and I've been over the load of
games and I have, I've had nearly every kit.
So I support any other team a lot less.
But it's just the fact that here, yeah, like I obviously
support, you know, Man United and no other.
It's a bit like Irish League clubs, like people are obsessed
with knowing what club you support.
We want to put people in a box or in a category straight away.
Clearly. It's like who who supports
Celtic and Rangers? And I go I don't support either
of those teams at Scottish football and people are like, I
know, but who do you support? And you're going to know
genuinely like it's, it's Scottish football.
I don't support any of these teams.
I think people will start to hopefully care less about all
that kind of thing like. Soon as soon as the batter as
well, because it's fucking ridiculous.
I think either knocking on the head or if you want to keep
going with it, have like 1 big fight.
I'm joking, Jesus Christ I'm joking.
I don't want that to be a headline Telegraph or anything.
And you know what I mean? Like a big feeling somewhere.
Like what? Wherever the dead battle of the
boy, I think that is still just like big open feelings off on
the hard. Shoulder which we get the best
thing Catholic against the best thing puzzle.
Which would be Connor Burns versus.
Car Burns versus Jim Moulton do. You know what that that would
shift tickets. I can we get on the baller
Junior bracing as a referee. Yeah, yeah, 100% yeah.
That's the sort of thing after lockdown, people just want
entertainment. That's not a bad idea and that
could happen. But yeah, boxing is so good at
cutting through that. Then, you know, you hear
fighters who trained and trained different parts of Belfast and
it's just it's not an issue. And it's one of those things
where like we make jokes about it and I do in stand up and on
podcast and all that kind of thing.
But it's like if you don't laugh but you cry like it is, it is
beyond mental. You have to make you have to
talk a bit to happen. But how is it still a thing?
Like, it is still, I think it's about 400 guys roughly.
They're still really into it and everybody else just sort of goes
with it because those lads love it.
Like don't get me wrong, there are lads who love it, I'm not
denying that. But I think that it's a very
small group of them. But I don't know, it's crazy.
I guess one of those things where like after lockdown we
should just all be like, let's pretend it didn't happen and
we'll just move. Let's get these walls down and
move on. But here, you know what the
walls and everyone down and the reason for that, because at the
minute they're they're tourist attractions.
So I there's too much money, you know, for tourists, tourists
flat to see these balls, these peace balls.
I think the only ones in Europe. Well, I think what we could do
is make them like garage doors, you know, when the tourist goes
like make the last ball 7:00 at night and then just like leave,
leave the leave the door. Yeah, yeah, we temporary ones
and wait. And then, you know, maybe even
we stage a few like fake riots or whatever during the day.
Like, but it's, it's like they're like plastic bottles
that look like glass or what do you call that?
That glass. Sugar glass, sugar glass, sugar
glass. 100% fellas, fire and sugar off, he's got me catch him
down and then as soon as the last keep an eye out, last bus
is gone right lads, let's have a.
Barbecue, you know I. Mean that's what I'd like to
see. It's fit down the Kelly seller
for 10 or something. Yeah, look, as soon as we can,
we'll definitely do that. We'll definitely spar.
I think that would be a lot of Jesus got sorry, not spar.
No, we'll do the Paddy boxing. We're not going to spar.
We'll see.
What about me and you on the undercard of of Burns a versus
Jim Wilson? That's it.
No, no, I, I, I don't. I don't trust him.
Actually, you know what? On Twitter.
Yeah. Robin spawn.
Yeah. Does game defeat me?
He said he would. He said.
He said he needs some training, I think.
I genuinely. Think.
I genuinely think he's, I think he might have a bit if he's
saying that. I think he's going, yeah, sure.
I'm just a politician I reckon because he is like the most high
pressure job probably you could have in politics at the minute,
which is saying something for here.
And I would say as soon as he gets on my, I think he's, I
think he's on the heavy bag like.
Well, isn't there's only one to find out.
I'll fit him no problem. Actually, what?
I'll fit him, he wins. The lockdown ended, I win.
Do you know what would be terrible if you lost?
That everybody would fucking. Believe me, I make sure he dies
in the ring or something. I wasn't going to win.
I would. I, I'm my, my mum.
That's a tough one to call I think.
I think Swans got a bit and you know what I think he does?
I think at the end he takes the gloves off and he just gives it
the Swans. He shows you the guns 100%.
Oh my God, I forgot those Swans. Seems really funny.
Yeah, he said, he says. He says you have to.
You're lying on the canvas. But to be taking a line of
stretcher and he goes. You just got attacked by two
Swans, Mama. Enjoyable.
All right, Well, party cheers for cheers for coming on.
No. Problem Tom, I'm glad to be on.
I appreciate it and I'm. Happy actually, it's, it's your
100th podcast, all right. 100th episode of the podcast Patty's
Day and then it's a no brainer. My kids do not believe my name
is Patrick, because Patrick Day, I mean.
I mean, what would be more unbelievable?
Not just Patrick, but if Patrick Parr.
I'm actually reason that you know.
If you do, you know what Patty Parr sounds like?
OK. Just sounds like the betting
shop. Patrick Parr sounds like a
refined gentleman, You know what I mean?
Like. Patrick Power sounds like.
I I don't think a refined dental do.
I think you change your name to Patrick, you get Shooter to give
you a top hat. You can have it especially if T
fixed her done. Invisalign.
What's the code? What's the code again?
Let's get it out. Go to granted that though W
Belfast Barns 50. Yes 100%.
I mean if my Invisalign doesn't work out.
I'll come back. Go back to where?
What? Take it off.
Yeah, a little better. I mean, I didn't think my teeth
were bad. And then I looked at photos of
me before I had it. I went, Oh no, how did that guy
ever get on TV? The live light and mine was bad
so. Yeah.
All right. We'll look, we'll we'll compare.
We'll compare teeth when we're on the box.
Patty, I appreciate you coming on.
Cheers. Take it easy.
Have a good day.