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My guest is what what I would describe as the fans favourite,
the people's favourite. He is a stand up comedian.
He is a son. Is that right?
Is that fair? Hope so.
He is none other than the Prince of West Belfast, Lord Mayor of
West Belfast, Patrick McDonnell. And the greater W Belfast area.
I said recently when we were doing those gigs in Devon, you
should get a mural in West Belfast.
Would you like that or would you be worried that?
There is one where in West Belfast.
There's not. There is.
Where is it in Grant? You're just saying that because
you know I won't go there. No.
It is. There's one.
You're no, You're telling me. There's a mural, yeah.
What are you doing? Just standing, just start like
it's not like I'm a boxer and they can't really put you in a
well, no, the make. Surely you're surely you've got
a microphone up your mouth. No, it's an actual it's first
communion photo. It's in my magic.
That'll be my fate. Not that people are calling for
like I can't stop them if they do, but people want a mural me
in Hollywood. I'd be worried that like you're,
I'm like, is that a lazy eye, you know, or like your head
would be too big or too small? Yeah, because your right eye
sits lower in your left eye. So you want was it emphasised on
like a a mural when it goes bigger?
You know how to get into my head, right?
Right. That will fuck me.
But it's not gonna happen for the weekend.
What you do is you take a photo. There's an app you can get right
and you can half and half your face and it'll put the two best
halves your face together and it just.
What do you mean the two best halves your face?
Together. Like no way your face isn't
symmetrical. No, no, like nobody.
Like the real pretty people in the world maybe are the closest
to it, but nobody's face is symmetrical, so like your eye.
Yeah, nobody's feet. Nobody's two sides of their
face. They're identical, right?
That that's the thing, yeah. So what it does is it takes the
half that's really good looking and then puts it together.
Oh, it MERS the set, so it just. Once.
And then it makes your eyes level.
It makes everything level, your nose level, your lips level,
everything because, yeah, naturally yanked.
Yeah. So all I'm saying to you is you
don't want that. But on a big wall where you can
see that your left eye is lower than your right eye.
Should've said that a few times tonight and but then I just.
But then I'm going to start just doing.
But just a look at a fella. Yeah, but I'll start doing this.
Well, Lean and they won't say yeah, just about all that does
is is just emphasise it even more because.
If I go, here's what I'm going to go Coco and I'm going to tilt
my head to the right and then what?
My Barber and then I'm going to get it, but I'm going to get him
to do my quiff like here. Do you know what I mean?
Have you ever got it done on the other side?
I did that for a while and just the world stopped.
Like, yeah, people didn't like it.
People knew there was something up, you know, I mean, like the
world just wasn't right for a few days.
Yeah. And then I went back the other
side and. Everyone.
I couldn't imagine you'd like Skinhead or anything.
I used that dating well I up until I was I.
Remember playing football with you and you had a Skinhead.
Yeah, I'm toys with 16. I would do didn't.
Play football with you before you were 16.
Yeah, really you could. That was a third that that was
that was an offset. The we've got, we've got, we've
got low stock. We're going to talk about the
boxing people going to want to hear about that.
By this point it could be sold out.
I don't know. You've said you've had more what
some calls with this? And than anything else ever.
For anyone who doesn't know, we're doing Comedians Charity
boxing in the Ulster Hall. It's been talking about for
what, 2-3 years? I was saying yesterday on Talk
Sport, like I think it's four years now because you're
forgetting COVID happened. Yeah, yeah.
And I always went to you. You were like the go to person
because you were always up for it.
Like you were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just remember you and Mickey be the only two who really said
yes. Yeah, yeah.
But I also always tried to get Colin Gaddis involved in it
because of the I am failure thing.
Like I think he would have been top of the bill.
Whatever, there's good. Like if you don't do it, people
are like because people are like mention it like calling Dave a
few others. People are like who who just
play fair enough, didn't want to do it, but people are like
people are ducking them. So so I regret doing it.
I should have just said I'm not doing it.
And then people will be like nobody wants to fight Shane and
I go. I know, but now I am going to.
Fight. But I think you'd be good at it.
I think you'd be good at it. Like I was talking yesterday,
you and Sean Haggerty are probably the two fitest to play
for us. Yeah.
In the charity football. Yeah.
So you just have the fitness. Like I seen Sean last night.
Of course. Listen, boxing's not an easy
sport. Yeah, it really isn't.
Oh, I've, it's one of those ones you watch on TV, right?
And even before we had done any training, I'd watch it and go,
we'd have like, you know, McConnell and in here from the
North. And I watch it and I go, they're
skilled athletes. But when I watch boxing I go
reckon I can do it then did it. I've done 2 training sessions.
It's not, you're not the way you it's like if so it's like
playing football. You think when you play football
on a Saturday, the level we play at, you're like, it's like
normal. If someone videoed a match and
then you watch it, you go Oh no, this is not the standard.
I thought it was to see more boxing.
I was like this. I didn't think it'd be easy but
thought to pick up even the basic stuff that easy but.
It's you've so much gone on. So much harder and I thought.
It's you've got your feet to worry about, your stance, your
balance. Won't.
Yeah, I know. Your hands, well, that may be
knocked right. And wow, this, she's gorgeous.
I knocked up. It's not your eyes, your whole
face. It's just not so magic.
But that goes right into your skull.
There's nothing you can do with it.
But no, the boxing, Stephanie, I done it.
My dad was a real good boxer. My dad fought at the same time
as Barry McGuigan and Don Fryers and stuff like that.
And if they hadn't have been fighting, my dad probably would
have had 10 Irish titles. But because he was fighting
against them to really establish fighters, you know, it was
difficult for him. But he was a good boxer.
So when I was born he was like, ah, here we go.
I've got a boxer. But I think I hit about 7 or 8.
Mickey Hawkins, who was the coach for the Irish team.
They they were Holy Trindy. That's where I was.
And he was like, he loves a Wednesday, Pat, a Wednesday is
his best night. But I was like, why is that his
best night? And he's supposed to play
football in the hall next door with the youth club, Right.
Right. He says he prefers he runs in
and he's good at football. So he says you might want to
take a mirror. But I was always, the more I
train, the heavier my shoulders and arms get bigger.
And I was always fighting tall, older people.
Yes, yeah, Yeah. And getting the head pounded in.
So it wasn't enjoyable. Yeah.
You know, that way. I.
I think and people always people assume whatever your dad does,
you'll probably go in that like my dad was a motorbike racer, so
everyone's like people still whenever I was still like even
on top like 16 people that knew my dad from a racer meet me and
suppose you're into the bikes. I'm like, you've never met a guy
who's less into the bikes. We just not into it, no.
Foot like you football. But then he my dad never wanted
me to do it, so he took me on the back.
Of the bike, whereas the difference was my dad.
I'm scared you. Yeah, we went right.
I don't know. What's that thing of like,
what's our phrase where you go enough times past you can't be
prosecuted for it? Do you know what I'm talking
about? That thing, right.
My dad took me on a motorbike and he killed the guy.
No, he didn't. Yeah, he took me around Craig
Hamlet in Hollywood Hills, and we were going down back roads.
At one point he hit 90 and I'm on the back and I couldn't,
we're going that fast. I couldn't like lean forward and
tell him like slow down or stop. And I've never been more scared
in my entire like, no, he was because he was a professional
before that. He was totally in control.
He was never going to put me in danger.
Not sure. Over a certain speed, nobody's
in control. Yeah, maybe, but that made me.
Kick your cacks, yeah? And I was like, but I was never
think, here's the thing he didn't need to do because I
would never think about it in the first place.
Yeah, I showed no interest in it.
He's like, I have to put him off.
He didn't. I was already, I was never
already never going to. Go I really don't was this.
Fucking yeah just scared a child.
I the worst time ever on a motorbike for me was do you know
the guy I talk about in the podcast who went in the stag do
with the they fishy girls? I'll never forget them.
He bought an R1. What a big.
What's Yeah, I don't even know what.
That is it's big deal, right? What a big terms very, very
quick and he says just get dropped off down to work.
Sure, and I'll take you home on it.
Worst. Worst mistake you ever made?
Worst thing ever done. Yeah, I flew through W Belfast
in the back aspect. Down 200 million, I swear.
It was just he's a maniac. Yeah, he didn't her about that
so. Because you're were you holding
on like this or were you around his waist?
I had him by the balls. And then you get on to the bike.
I had him by the balls trying to get him to stop and he was
laughing. The more I hurt him, the more he
was going quicker. I I and nicely was holding on
like this and I was like that. And then I had him like that and
then I was like, stop. And he loved it.
He loved it. I was so.
And then he was like, do you want to go up to the Northwest
all the time? Like no wonder you keep grabbing
his. Box.
I guess you want to drive around Europe.
But he, he scored the fucking ballots out of me and I went
like how them guys do. Like I talk about Joey Dunlap
and all them boys, but I mean, Andrea's sister lives in Dundrad
on the circuit and you get the freaking standard right at the
edge of the road and watch them. It's like and you're just like.
Because people don't understand the road racing here means like
they're racing on the roads that you drive on, like country
roads, like it's not. And they're driving 200 men an
hour. Yep, on these wee country roads.
If any of us had one of those big accidents, you'd never go
back to it. They're actively like, like my
dad, some like he broke his back, his neck, all this, and
he's telling me about it. And I was like, why?
Why did you do it? What might?
I don't have a kneecap on one knee and he's the only guy here
did not have a kneecap. West Belfall.
Through sport, yeah, but he, he, his is legit.
Well, there's a sport too. I just don't know how you would
want to go back to doing that after you have a serious
accident. No, I'll get you.
Mental. I love the idea of like see
people who have a bike and they might go in a Sunday afternoon
or something, like around the Irish peninsula or something.
Like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that.
But it's the, it's the speed. I just.
Know at that, that part of it I'm just.
Like come off like you're you're just a wee guy sitting exposed.
Yeah, that's what I mean. Like you really don't have any,
but at least in the cot sort of feel protected a bit did.
You know we scooter. I could see you.
No, I did. I did a wee Vespa.
No, I never had a scooter. I had motorbikes.
I was younger, like scramblers, stuff like that.
And you take them on the road. No, a mate of mine.
A mate of mine. Of course it is.
So yeah, it was like watching pillars to go to the shops.
I know Paul wheelies up down the road, you know what I mean?
But and then a mate of mine died on one and then I was like,
you're not doing it anymore. I've got my first car.
A friend of mine was still doing motocross and he was like go and
get a trailer. We'll buy bags and we'll go and
do it. No competitively and on Saturday
and stuff like that. And the day I got the tow bar
on, Andrew was working in this bar and she phoned me and her
ma, I was away in America and she was like, will you go up to
my ma's and give me a jumper? I'm freezing.
And I parked in their driveway. They live sort of on a mountain
and they, the car rolled out of the driveway and went into the
house across the street, right. And the tow bar flattened in
that saved the car from getting completely crushed.
So the tow bar went into the wall of the house, bounced off
in the end of sort of lay against it.
But the tow part was. And do you think that was the
same from God? I was just like, not from God,
but from somebody to say don't fucking do it.
Like, yeah. And I went right, Didn't bake,
didn't do that. And then a man of mine bought
one of them banshee Raptors. Have you ever seen them?
They're quotes. I don't know what Kean Bartlett.
Did probably, but I near killed myself on it.
The Salem dark pitch, right like I hit the side it didn't turn
and I had a big ditch and went up in the air in hospital for a
day like so I so I was. You've had a bad car accident.
Yeah, yeah, Went, went. Couple of I've been in a couple
of real bad ones, like there was one that came Bartlett, they
tell you about that. We used to do a gig in Derry,
Korean Korean and when we get who's driving?
Kieran, Dr Bartlett, his last floor, he was in the front.
That was his retaining car he had and me and R McCann.
Oh the the. Dutchess.
He called. It gets.
Is that what it was I thought he gets or something I thought he
called it. He used to have a pillow in the
back. That's all.
A cushion in the back. And what happened was he put his
guitar because the boot didn't take it.
Like why he would buy a car that didn't have a boot big enough to
put his guitar into, I don't know.
So he would squeeze it in the backseat.
So I was being funny and I grabbed the guitar and put the
skinny end on my knee and put the big fatty end on orange knee
going ha ha. And a Butler in the back, too.
No iron McCann and as we were coming into Belfast where we're
turning off slip road and a lorry didn't see us and
literally just fucking smashed in this and sent us up to say
that back and the car came back down again.
See, as that's happening, is anyone talking?
I've never been to college. I was sleeping and I woke up but
the guitar went up in the air and slid down in between my legs
because I had the skin in the head and hit me in the face and
that 2T foot. So it was me being a fucking
prick by taking the wee in. And what was like because Karen
would get in a flop, Karen was at anything.
He was fucking, did you that fucking say his leg at all?
And then the cops came. The cops were just not
interested. Like they were just dismissing
this and then Karen would excuse me mate and give him the
licence. He was like Doctor Bartlett.
No, he didn't. He did, and it all changed and
like, it all changed like. Under his breath of journalism.
I'm a doctor of journalism. The cop was going OK, OK, Kieran
and all. He went, Excuse me, it's Doctor
Bartlett. Eva even with even in a life a
life threatening moment, he still drops that in.
And he was like, I want an ambulance now.
Who for? Himself so him and Chloe get
took away in an ambulance. Was he hurt?
Where did Arne Macon go right? Karen was Karen like he injured
badly? Yeah, he was injured badly when
we all were. I think though.
For the terms of the claim, we were all very badly, but the
best bet about it was like arms like I'm not claiming Karen was
like, listen, you're going to have to go with a solicitor
where you've got because it's through my insurance company and
it'll all go smoothly. And I was like, I'll do whatever
you want. You're a doctor.
It's the most. Clear thing I've ever heard
bringing people up. It'll all go smoothly.
If we all stick with one, right, So that was dead on.
There were real assholes who were dealing with the case then
the solicitors and he was going no, you have to stick with him.
And I was like, no, I'll stick with him, that's alright.
And then he phoned me up about 6 months later.
He's like, we're leaving, we're leaving.
Not solicitors we're going to, nor one hears the name of it.
And I was like, do you know what?
More hassle than it's worth. I'm not going to say all that.
So I rang your woman up and I went here, talked to Bartlett's
a perk and. By the way, I wouldn't be
surprised if he knew that lorry driver set it all up.
You think so? Yep, got the claim in told you
he was leaving the. Solicitors never.
Thought that apocaly. Well the thing of it was Kieran
fooled me and he was like here fucking.
After all that we only got 4 ground and I was like right,
right each and here is I4 ground each.
I mean that's not 2 bucks that's 8 ground because you and her was
like joint at the hip and he was like oh he says what's you get
him? He said and he fucking cracked.
He fucking cracked up. Because you said a bit the teeth
as well. Well, I just says he's a prick
and the solicitor agreed with me.
I says I just debut. He's like.
What was the first car accident ever?
The first one ever was as a kid and Mama, mama's mate and her
son was in the car and we were in an accident on the way Dr
road and it was like fucking the fire brigade fucking cut us out
of it. Like oh shit, I know like it was
fucking the car came down the way drive and we were going up
it and he didn't stop. I know what happened to the car,
but I was about four or five, like right.
And I actually, because you know, when you were a kid back
then, there was no seatbelts when I'm in the back and I was
probably on the partial shelf giving the breadths a finger or
something. And I flew down and I my head
went down to the back of the metal of the seat.
OK, I picture you like we tortill.
Dog in the back, lean on the finger, but I was Daphne up on
the partial shelf or something. And then I know another one was
was a guy who who was a delivery driver for an Indian and in the
individual and and me and two of my mates were going until like
Aga club did disco and we get in and I just remember I was in the
front seat and he went and he don't mind all the bags or any.
I run his donor and he flew down the Falls Rd and there was
parked cars for a Chapel and he couldn't stop the slipped right
in the back of his car. And the wee woman ended up
losing her leg. She was walking between the
front of her car and the car in front and the fucking squashed
her leg and the man, the handle broke off in his hand and sliced
his hand. But I remember getting cut out
of it and getting into the ambulance and all my mates were
there and they were really busted up and I was like Jesus
Christ. I was really bad in the back and
I went normally it's just from the accident.
I was like what happened? And I went, I thought we were
Hoos and they pulled us out of a car and they gave them as a
fucking kicking. Oh shit.
So I was lucky I was trapped. So I've been the guy behind me
went into the back of me and I haven't done in between where
all the Indians was. So I was like covered in chicken
tea again when they got me out of it.
But I've been bent over for so long.
And then I was done in the hospital for about two days and
had me on the stretcher making sure it was all right and stuff.
But this is. See the you're saying like
giving the finger to the Brits when you were a kid.
I might be interested in saying this.
There's a definitely a yes. It was a British soldiers in the
West up until when. Up until 290 something.
Really. Yeah.
On the street. Like they did like patrols and
all on the street, yeah. Yeah, at the end of every street
like Devas tar had one on the top which the only the drop the
fucking personnel and the stuff off by helicopter because they
wouldn't come up through the fucking thing.
And that was because it was the biggest building in Belfast.
So they had a tar there and then at the end of every street there
was near enough 1 you. Know and were they could could
some sort of be really sound some complete decks Was there a.
You weren't really meant to fucking talk now I remember when
you were really young, they would've let you look through
their glass and they're gone and all and no stuff like that.
And then somebody would come out and get like, get away, my
bastards and all that, right? I tell you're fucking man,
you're over talking them, right? Do you know that way?
And then? So if you went and chatted the
name, they'd chat. Some of them if.
You're supposed if you're a kid. Look, yeah.
Some of them I remember there was a big, big, it was the first
sort of black guy I'd seen when I was a kid and he was at the
end of our street in a park and he used to give all the sweets
and all. Everybody loved them.
Do you know what I mean? And then something happened.
I don't know what happened, but something happened and it.
Seem like you do. No, I don't know if if he gets
shot or something happened to him.
I remember something happened to him like and it was a wee bit
sad and like people were like, he can't be sad.
He's a breath. I was like, nobody was saying he
used to give all the sweets and all.
Was there like, did that feel out?
Did that feel totally not? Did that feel weird or just
because you'd always seen it? Was it just completely normal?
So I grew up with like, do you know what I mean?
So it wasn't, I think it's hard for people to understand like
that. That seemed normal as anything
to me. Like when I went to Scotland and
there was no Brits in the street, I was like, where's the
army bikes? Did you miss them with?
The peace lanes or but do you know what I mean?
I know, I know. What I mean so?
You're sort of called. Where are they?
You had more. The Brits to me were just young
fellas who probably didn't have a job and they were fucking sent
over here. Knew nothing about the whole
situation. Yeah, I always found the cops
the worst. Do you know what I mean?
Locally. Locally.
Or right, right, right. Because they were locals and you
know, yes, attended than that Lady.
Yeah, yeah. Would you have done a bit of
slobber? Of course it did.
But MO Johnson saying for Rangers.
Yeah, from Celtic. I was out in the street and
probably give them the finger on something.
I don't know what I've done. They're responsible.
And they jumped out they but I want to give them the finger
anyway. Do you know what was just that
when you were growing up? West Belfast, They were.
This is what you've done. You've seen the older lads doing
it. Yeah.
You grew up with people throwing
stones, shooting at them, calling them names and slabbing.
And then you've seen all the older fellows, like you're dying
stuff like I can fill up against the wall and I'm searching.
So you automatically thought the word.
Yeah. So I remember Moe Johnson
saying, and I was walking down the street.
I don't know what happened, but I just remember this.
Keep stabbing. And this old boy cop get out.
Grey hair, fucking slapped the face of me.
And I was probably only 78. And he fucked me over a garden
wall, not literally just steam me over it.
I remember your man at the house coming out and going.
You make around, tell your mouse all guarantee he was the type of
guy. He may have been a president
living in our street because he was never involved.
Now hang never. He was just and he was just
like, go around, tell your mother.
And I heard him like, that's ridiculous.
Give me your number and the cab going.
Give me your fucking number. And he was like, yes, yes, I'm
putting a complaint in. I didn't.
It wasn't a normal, you know, somebody would have come out and
went like, did you shot a contour something?
Right, right. This guy came out and he was
just like, and I went around and my my actually wasn't in.
It was my aunt Bernie was there and she was like, you may wait
until your man comes in. I don't know what that what
we're going to do. And I get in my mind was just
like, that's what they're like, just nothing you can do about
it. I couldn't imagine if a cop
slapped the face of my jade itself.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That I would have took it as.
You'd be OK with that? No, I can like I've since the
boxing's been announced and we when we chat about training,
even I got sent the pictures from last night.
I can see when you like put the boxing gloves on.
I can see your face change. What do you mean?
You just like you're just like these are focused on it.
Like I would like you're talking about like if a cop like, you
know, slapped your kid and that kind of thing.
I would hate for you to be looking for me for something.
Well, nowhere to get you. Yeah, that's true.
But do you know what I mean? Like I like.
But I ain't got. You always have a smile in your
face, right? You're always like, always
happy. But I think if you change your
expression, I I'd be, I'd be really scared.
I think so, yeah. 100%. I'm an underdog in this fate
like. I know do.
You know what I mean? Like a lot of people.
But I ain't got suture. I have got, I have got the the,
the short straw here and all of it.
Ronan actually knows what he's doing.
But you both know what you're doing.
Not really. I mean, I didn't compete.
Yeah, when I was older. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah. As far as the only match I've
had in the past few years is the incident, I'd say this bar and
that guy got disqualified because he was on drugs.
Now, are you thinking about a similar training camp like that?
Like are you thinking about going back there be security and
just. You know what you could do 5.
Weeks having a spar. The spar would be the the best
one. Party spar who with just know
what literally in the spar anybody just fighting people
like the. Phone Mrs Fitzpatricks just
failed. That was just we talked about in
Podcast 4. That was one of those things
during COVID, the just life just didn't seem real.
She didn't take it in at the time, but when I just got sent
in a random WhatsApp Group, A video of a guy like in self
defence, like beating somebody up, I'd set a spar or in a hive
is I was like party. And if that happened though, I'd
be like, this is meant that like you'd be talking, but during
covert you're just like, OK, you know what I mean?
Like you didn't know, You didn't prove that.
You were going back to stuff that you'd done before and stuff
like I went back to doing the door in this bar.
Yeah. That, I don't know.
It was the toughest door job I've ever had.
Even compared to like city centre bars.
I mean, I've done some of the modest nightclubs.
I've cleared some of the modest. That was the toughest door job I
ever. Do like enforcing rules and
stuff and being like, what do you mean?
Because people just didn't understand the regulations.
You've done the door in the town, right?
Say you've done the door, Thompson's or wherever I've done
the door, and somebody comes up and they're like, you know, and
then right? And you'll get a better orgy
party. But then they'll just walk away.
Right. Yeah, yeah.
You try telling a wee woman at half 10 in the morning the off
licence is nothing in this bar and she's to get a fog and four
pack for her, Frank. Yeah, yeah.
She's not thinking no for an answer.
Yeah. And also you're down in a place
where there literally was no COVID down there and people go
what do you mean bad? I'm like, they could tell lemons
on the news. Listen, if you go out and
breathe the OR you're going to die, that part of West Belfast
that people are like, you just follow Balikx and they'll get
their kids ready and go. Like there was food, families
turning up and I was like, you can't go with all your kids.
It's like 2 people at a time and two people together.
You can't. And she's like, I've 10 kids and
they're not in school. What do you want me to do?
Me tie them up outside or something?
They literally can't get in. You know, it was just that kind
of fate and then people come with it.
What do you mean the dog can't come in?
What do you mean I have to wear a mask to go into the shop?
What do you mean? It was just mental?
And it took two weeks of pure fating with everyone down there.
Plus as well people recognising you, that's not going to help in
that situation at all. They're just like, who do you
think you are? Like you're king tech knight
doing the door, telling people what the Canon can't do.
And I'm like, I'm fucking doing a job.
Yeah, yeah, People probably thought you just decided you
were doing this. I'm just as.
Opposed to you're making a few quit for your family.
People were like fuck who the fuck?
The many people turn around says I didn't know you in the rat and
I'm like you think the razzed in the door in a spar.
You don't get a job like I just if you're nobody.
That's that's part of you don't. Get a job like that if you're a
nobody and I'm like, it's my dad's me.
I don't do shop. My van was empty.
I couldn't do construction, I couldn't do Jordery and I
offered him the van for deliveries because I thought he
would have had more than to do. And he went, do you know what?
I need somebody to regulate the door because I'm only allowed so
many people in the shop and you've done the door before King
Dick, Do you want that? And I was like, and I said that
what I do, I'm just like, well, you have to work.
I'm self-employed. So I took it.
But two weeks of like full on the post office shutting at 2:00
on a Wednesday was the worst. The off licence being closed as
bad. But they'll see the post office
being closed at 2:00 on a Wednesday.
Like people would turn up to get their money on a Wednesday and
they're like, it's open at 2:00 after 2:00 last week.
And he's like, I know, but the rules have changed.
Now there's only limited time. The girls are allowed to work
behind the counter or something. And they're like, I'm not taking
this hanging. And I'm like, look, the post
office is closed. That's why there's not a lane
for it. There's a lane for the off
licence. That's a lane for the shop,
that's a lane for the furniture shop, that's a lane for the
butchers. There is no post office lane.
Well, I'm joining that lane hanging in the check.
And then they'll go in and check and come back and go, that's
fucking close. And they'll go told you at half
an hour ago, you know, you didn't need to join the lane.
Like it's just the people don't want to listen to you.
Yeah, but. I heard the rad to the Dorrance
bar and the UVF 2 centre. I think that's part of Good
Friday. Agreement.
Is that what it is? They they split it up that way.
You take everyone's, You take everyone.
I was the longest part of the negotiations.
I think, you know, once all the power melody stopped doing the
Doors in Belfast like it did change the city that way.
For better or worse. Oh, Daphne for better, like
right, Daphne for better. I think one of the best ones was
I remember Christmas time made of mine was like, we're all
going to go to Thompson's. We were all only about 1920
maybe. And we turned up at my mate's
house and his mate was there and he was wearing green cords and
an orange umber and he had black curly hair.
And I remember walking in and going, this is a waned up.
He looked like he lived on an island and cheered cheap.
Like I thought it was a waned up.
And they were like, no, that's how he dresses.
And I was like, we won't get in. We won't get in with him.
As then he wasn't breaking rules, but the the doorman would
just like be like Nah man, you wouldn't.
Get in right. Like, you know, you just
wouldn't get in dressed as that. He didn't look like he fitted.
And then like Thompsons was that hot at the time?
Like you had to make sure you had the red clothes normal to
get right, right. Like, you know.
So that night, what would you, what would you have been
dressed? In that night, I'd have been
worn. Ben Sherman shirt.
No, I never wore Ben Sherman shirts.
I had one and then I didn't like it, right.
So I definitely had a shirt on normally used to wear like a
clear white shirt, like a white shirt.
You know what I mean? Nothing on how.
Many buttons on them. One just tab right show off my
big gold chain and. What's a hair dude?
Are we talking gel down? Then we flick at the.
Front and I think I made a had curtains in right.
OK, maybe jeans had the curtains jeans and probably by
Caterpillar Shambuch. Do you know what I mean?
We laces hanging at the side. No, we were always tied.
Oh yeah. Oh, you always had to be ready
for action. Couldn't go to kick something in
your Caterpillar fucking steel coke cap and flying across the
room like I've been trying to pay for like.
They were like, we're in a carpet.
Why the fucking still talk cash for people?
See anyone? I knew they weren't kicking
anybody. No, but and we went down and
there was like a queue of people and I was just like, we're not
going to get in. And then we went and tried.
I think it was called rain if I'm.
Yeah, yeah. Or milk.
Milk. It would have been milk.
And we've been driving her and we get out of the taxi and I
said to the girls, you just get out of the taxi, you just get a
taxi verb, you get a taxi. You just do that first and then
we join using the queue. And we walked over in the
doorman and just went. Just a little bit different.
Just like Jesus Christ, he's going to get beat up, you know
what I mean? So we're like, didn't get in.
This is like boxing night, you're not getting in nowhere in
Belfast. And I was like, what I'm going
to do, hear me walk around at Thompson's and I can do
something and I'll try and see what happens.
And we get around to Thompson's and I walk to the front of the
queue. Can I just say see if I whenever
you see at that point at night, I'm going home.
See if you say I'm going to do something, I'm going home.
I'm I'm going home. So they're I'm worried.
OK, So what would I says just walk with me.
We're going to get a bit of slobber in the in the queue of
people, but just go with me in this.
So we walked right down to the front of the queue.
I says act as if we're mad to be there.
Get down to the front of the queue and the Dorman was like,
yes mate, there's a cure. And I went, how's it going?
I was on skiing holiday last year.
But Mark, who's the manager in here and he told me when I'm
over here with my pals to come to the club, he went.
He's away on holiday mate. I went, oh man, he told me to
come down, no issue. Like come to the front door,
tell him and he's like who who are you?
And I was like, Clay even met him on skiing holiday last year.
I'm from Glasgow and I see the mark if I come over, he says,
you come over and just come up to the club.
We get you and you and your pals.
And the guy was like, hold on, two minutes.
And he walked and they come back and he says, who are you?
You meet Clay from Glasgow and met Mark and skiing holiday last
year and here he was. Rick Money is there, her main
name. And he was like, fuck.
And your mom with the chords and the thing.
And then he looked at it. That must have made him go fuck.
They aren't from here and he Gladys in and we get in the
thousands had a great night, but though you had the drinks and
then the night was over and we're coming out.
It was like 2 in the morning. The doorman, he grabbed me and I
forgot about it and he was like, well, Claire, what do I got a
date? I'm he's like I got so fucked
up. He hit me in boot.
No, it was the biggest boot. No, I've ever got.
And he went, yeah, we bastard. Can I ask you a question?
Why did you have to change your name?
Just to make it as fucking. I know, but it won't.
You say party, then it's sort of you sort of maybe click on who
you are or something, you know what I mean?
But we'll get in. And it worked.
And like I used to do that so many places.
Once I changed that, I love that.
Changed the accent. Yeah.
The word was were you making up a manager was called Mark or you
knew that? No, it was Mark still there,
right? Right.
So I knew him from football and growing up, like, do you know
what I mean? So it wasn't even like if Mark
had to be Nur. It'd be fine.
No, he would have told me. Do you know what I mean?
But I knew he was away. What, what, what?
What have you blogged your way into?
You ever been like an event or a night?
I know. I personally, for me, right,
there's nothing really major, but the best one I've ever heard
of was Calvin Harris had a pool party in Vegas and Heskey was
over there with Dan, all right. Heskey, by the way, for anyone
who doesn't know what he's made from the West.
Right. So Heskey, Heskey and all the
ones that was there were like Calvin Hart's pool party.
So can I just establish Heskey at this point was not on the
guest list? Nobody was, yeah, this was a
very exclusive. There was probably 100 people at
it, right? But they found out it was in the
hotel and they were like, let's try.
And they couldn't. Like they tried emergency exit
doors and stuff because like Heskey would know how to black
his way so they couldn't vain his dad and they were walking
down the next minute they were able to look through and see the
pool party. They're going fuckers Jay-Z and
fucking Beyoncé and stuff like that.
And they were looking to see who was and he'd see us in the
middle of it. He just seen this wee man
swimming in the pool. All these people were nobody
like fucking like in the pool. Like it was just all Drake and
everything was there. Sit next minute he's dagging it,
he's looking at the ball and they fucking jump back in the
pool. There's that all about the next.
Then he came out of the party, came out and he was like, how'd
you get in there? And he says, I fucking just told
her my I'm fucking standing here.
Do you know what? I'm Harry Eska, that I'm
fucking, that's the pool. I'm fucking using it.
He says they're all fucking give me dirty looks.
And he was going, that's Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
His dad was in the middle of doing fucking fucking.
I just like it. He wasn't.
He wasn't trying to be at the party.
He was just like I've lengths to do here.
Yes, he was just like I want to you I want to have a sweat and
he get in till the party he didn't even know what he was at.
He was like wrong. I mean dirty looks not.
The Let's talk about the boxing. Over we presently.
I but by the way, I didn't. Oh yes, yes, we've talked about
this so many times. And I always kept forgetting.
Do you know where this came from?
No. Do you know Phil Meringue that
played for Man United? Yep.
He's priests 9. Yeah, he gave me this when we
were on a training camp there in Newcastle, County Down, and a
pair of shorts and the socks that came with it.
Thank you very much. Can I just say, right, that's
some of the best low key folding I've ever seen in my entire.
And I used to work in a clothes shop and couldn't afford it.
Like, yeah, like, like it was nothing the way you folded that.
We learned to do that when you were stealing the burdens.
Look at this. This is 9798.
It was before it was 9580. 6 And this is the this is the
invisible kit because United were losing it, said Hampton at
halftime. Did he make them change it or
was it just? I think the maybe did change kit
they were getting beat it so far.
Because Ferguson said. Thank you very much for this
mate. Appreciate it, Sharks, Ferguson
said. That the kit they couldn't see
each of the United players like they just wouldn't make a
football kit look at anymore. No, I thought it was a great
kit. I love it, I love it.
He probably gave it to me because they weren't allowed to
have them there because it was in like June he had that and a
pair of shorts and he gave that to me.
And then he also let me wear Hustlers Germany play for
Germany Hustler and he marked them and swap Norn iron top for
that top and they had that. I I wore training down there and
all that plus. So it's a good back story.
And I got you a present. I got you a protein bars and I
didn't even know you got me a present.
There you go. I think you bought them for
yourself and then just the I can like.
Didn't it your chocolate? Chocolate and I got a present.
Are you allergic to chocolate? Yep, I am.
I want to talk with the damaged eggs we did.
How good was that? Unreal.
With an early show, a Late Show in between Christmas, New Year
and the Devonish and it's one of those things.
It was the same with Fela. People go, that's going to be
real. They're going to be really
rowdy. People will be talking the whole
way through. It's going to be this, it's
going to be you don't get natural crowds.
Like they're lively and they're up for it and they're, when I
say they're rowdy, they're not a drop in your set, but like it's
electric. The first one, the early one,
was even better than the and that was. 4:00 yeah, it's like
4:00. But I think that was just
because they were alert. And I think the other one, like
people, it's Christmas, they're probably fucking hungover.
And then at the area 9:00 the next night, they're juiced and
you know, they were just topping themselves up.
But in between the shows with I didn't know we had two hours to
kill. I thought it was an hour or two
hours to kill them. Like, what am I going to do?
And it's me, you and Tommy McCarthy.
Tommy's been on the podcast couple of times.
Boxer comedian. So I have a good crack.
And then Patty met my mates coming up and it was burned it
with Connor Burns. Now what was there's a couple of
highlights for me. One was when I was waiting to go
on. Now it's probably what 400
people do shows and like you need to have a good one of
these, you know, I mean, like there's a wee bit of pressure,
like definitely. And I'm waiting to go on.
I'm we're in the sort of like kitchen off to the side the.
Green rooms. The kitchen.
Green room so I'm waiting to go on here.
We'll go. For some reason Burnsey is at
the door as a conduit between the tech for the show and us by
so he's going to let us know like you're good to go here.
He turned around. I'm in the middle of
conversation with party. Burnsey goes Shane, right?
321 pointed at me. So I'm like fuck, someone's
giving him a cue. I start walking out.
He's not looking at anybody. They weren't ready to start the
night and he kept doing it. 321 And he's not messing about like
he's not. He's not trying to make it that
good to me. He's just telling me he's ready
for me to go on. But the crowd aren't.
And see, sitting for two hours with you, Connor Burns and Tommy
McCarthy, I've never laughed more in my entire life.
The dynamic, the conversations, everything that's going on.
The the one for me was when Tommy started telling you we
tips about boxing. I because I asked Tommy's
professional boxer. So I'm like here, what do you
reckon about this? Tell me what, what advice would
you give me about this? But I'm only asking Tommy.
And then colour goes. No, you need to do it I guess.
Burns, he starts going. What you want to do?
Whack, whack, whack, whack. Now see when he's doing it, he
is night and day more talented a boxing than me like this.
Is the thing about Connor, he can dance Connor Burns if you
record Connor dancing. You can put.
Any music to it? It doesn't matter.
Gift. And it fits.
I don't know Hari does it because if if you've done that
with anybody else, I have a video of him dancing in a boxing
club and I just keep updating the music to it and it just
seems so recent, but it's. Years ago, it was one point
where he's thrown, he's throwing punches, messing about, and I
was like, fucking watch it. I was like he'd knock the.
Fuck, I told you not. Maybe that they did it the first
time I ever brought. Up.
So for anyone who doesn't know Burns, he's a character.
He's he's, he's from the West. No, he's from north Belfast.
And then? He's hard work, I'll tell you.
He's into his box and he's he's been on my Blood podcast a few
times. A lot of people will know
because he's very popular. Like one will know about him.
So he was in your house? I brought him up the house and
then so Podrick was like, Oh my God, what?
Age you've been. 1314 right. So it's like Conor Burns, like
all the all the kids really know who he is too.
Like he is like a celebrity and Potty came rolling down the
stairs at him and he was at the front door and he was like
Burnley like in turn I got and just mentioned.
Somebody put you up? And Burnley just went.
Boop. And put him up the card over
those and he's like and he's like Donny.
And I was like, what do you want me to do?
What? What kind of day?
And I went colour and he went, came at me, came at me let.
Me tell a story in the green room, you at the SSA were
chatting to someone and he thought they were threatening
you. And he went over and clacked
them. Yeah, like smart them.
There was AI went in, I was going to the boxing, This was
the night after the waterfront and I seen Connor walking along
and these guys the trained in the gym I used to train in.
So they were getting bushes, but I didn't know them all.
You know did obviously once I had a couple of drinks in, they
were like, I probably used to drink.
So they'll come over and 1 was grabbed me.
He's going, I hear I fuck, I'm getting a photo of you.
You take a photo of me, you know, while I was here.
So I seen Burnsey sort of go into his eyes.
Burnsey's 5 foot He was a push. He wasn't with me and he came
over and he says my dad, is he messing him about?
And my dad went aye and caller just went bop.
Her mom went what the fuck was that?
And he turned out and looked and then your mom went as he he
didn't know who Connor Burns was so he's just like is your mom
serious and you're better letting them go and he went fuck
matured even the author and then they said the Connor what
happened, but Connor reserved were like 5 professional boxers.
Your mom run down and then look and see all these kind of what
are you all doing about it and he.
How was Greg Crack in that green room?
Like, very funny. I think the past was something.
Did he connect or something? Somebody said nice as he
couldn't connect to the Internet and he got up and walked.
In the boxing is from when we're recording this six weeks away, 5
weeks away maybe? Five.
It wouldn't be 6. There's a reality check.
Like once you you know that it's once.
It's announced, Yeah. Yeah.
Because we're all like messing about and the crack was good.
Now it's like. It's the thought I seen Sergey
last night, like never has had a boxing glove all in their life.
And I could see it in her face last night, which, nice, she
enjoyed it, don't get me wrong. But I could see her going.
Hold on. Let me know.
Yeah. Yeah, you think a minute and a
half isn't a long time? It fucking is. 3 three 1 1/2
minute rounds. And somebody pounding the heady.
See when so we're training with my group or training with Sean
McComb. I said that do you see when Sean
demonstrated brilliant coach. See, he's demonstrating
something. I'm moving towards me with quick
fate. I can't because I'm like he's
that fast at doing it. And we're also doing getting
used to getting a hit because like part of it.
That's the biggest part of it. Part of what we're learning is
if if someone's thrown at you, the best thing you can do is be
really tight and close to them because then you can't extend
your punch. But that's easier said than done
for someone like me. You're not a fighter.
Your your automatic reaction, no matter what it is coming at you,
is the move it. If you're walking down the
street and something's falling at you, you you'll sort of go
off balance and jump out of the road and that's your Ottoman.
It's about being cool and taking a punch like in your.
And I said the surgery last night, you're going to see late
here. Yeah, you're going to see late.
It's going to be a big fucking late in your head.
And you're going to be. Yeah.
And I can remember when I was a kid, like the first time I got a
proper punch, I was like, what was that?
Yeah. Like I seen a big flash.
It was like somebody taking a picture in your brain.
Yeah. Yeah.
I was like, I don't want that to happen again.
I think I think it's going to be a lot of fun on the night, but I
think I'll be relieved when it's over.
The way I'm looking at is won't say a couple of minutes is up,
it's done, that's it, it's done. But I think it's because you're
doing it in front of loads of people too.
I think the last fight has to beat you and Ronan is the main
event. That's the last fight of the
night. I think the atmosphere is that
he's going to be great because there's going to be people,
there's the West is coming out for you, but Strabane is going
to be supporting him. They want to buy tickets but.
I got them. Because it's Strabane, I don't
have any money. It don't work.
Are going to buy tickets if they don't work that's you know what
I mean I love going up and gagging Instagram but come on
like they're not they're not coming they're not what a way to
watch like growing on a beer and it'd be one wee man and an
orange jumper and green chords went to tassels me one day stop
my sheep supporting. Them do you?
Will you engage any mind games? I'm not.
I don't talk shit. I just don't do it.
You know what I mean? I weighed people up, I stayed
on. But I'm not going to wind up
about this because, you know, I weighed you up.
I know you're not going to have gloves on and be standing in a
ring facing me and able to punch my face.
Depends on this one. Do you know what I mean?
No, no, please don't. Please don't.
But it was like, whatever you said to me.
Will you favour Ronan? Yeah.
Like my automatic thing is yeah, if you had to send me a message
that says will you fake call from that afford them Yeah,
yeah, I know will go big yeah, yeah, but it afford them yeah so
my Belfast. Thing so messy I went we too
scared to fight party was like yes what 100% you can pay me
money to box you right? They, how much they, how?
Much No, no, no. I would say you would get some
local businessmen that would pay for it, yeah.
And like some weird N down dinner party.
Yeah, we'd be boxing. From dinner for smokes.
Be weird. Yeah.
And what? If what if we give you and Shane
30,000 lbs each strip to the way I do it?
Do you know what I'm really? Into and I'll do it.
I like to win. I like them for 30 grand like.
From 3 to 30. 30 grand. O30 fucking 100% to 30.
Here's what I'm more into than the learning the fighting.
Buying the boxing gear. See the boots I bought myself?
What'd you buy? Reality does boots.
Oh, they're the worst. What?
They're the worst? They're the worst ones.
Why you go there? Because they look like the only
brand you knew. Probably, right?
You're looking at the other ones and going they're not the ones.
What's good? What's good brand?
Probably Everlast would be better than them.
What? Yeah, I know, but you wouldn't
wear an Everlast track ship. But Everlast was boxing, or do
you know what I mean? Longsdale.
Longsdale, they're boxing brands, so.
They're not wearing long longsale.
Do you know what I mean? Here's what, Because here's what
we're doing. I thought you would've got your
stuff made. Well, I'm thinking about a robe
customising the stuff, right? But.
Shorts and. That's all well and good of a
win. If anybody wants to buy my
shorts and get me a customised robe, I'm more than happy.
I actually get sent the guy who owns Valent Gentleman, he gave
me stuff for the boxing event before it was a hot and I don't
know whether I wore too much but he sent me messages.
He was like, you never beat that offy so I'm going to send you
more stuff, thank you very much. But he sent me all boxing gear
and it has Polly the dagger and a logo and all on it.
So I was thinking we need to get track suits for everybody.
Yeah, like matching type team track suits.
So we need to figure out maybe he can help.
Ross. I don't know.
I'm thinking about for if I get, if I get knocked out for just.
Getting everybody saying teams like, yeah, I had two turned up
last night. To your training.
Yeah, that was my heart in their football team.
It'd be off. That wouldn't be in the team
anymore. I'm thinking about getting
parked out of West Belfast. I'm thinking about getting team
of me put in the bottom of my boots, right?
Casey knocks me out. A good advertise.
People will see it. I'm just right now in the bottom
took. Me a while to get that.
Do you do you who do you think will be who do you think will
surprise you on the lineup? Can I say who from my team?
I think you, I think you'll surprise a lot of people.
I don't. But is that after you've tried
like Johnny Beau, although he's training like Mod, right?
He he doesn't strike me as somebody who's involved in
sports. Yeah.
Do you? Do you get what I'm saying?
He so so like the I think the good thing about it is me and
Johnny are like good mates, right?
So I. I like when did we announce?
When did we say this was happening?
When did he know that he was fighting you?
Good, but in advance like. Right.
He's been training for men. Do you think so?
I know so. Because he here's how I found
out he was. So I text him and I went listen.
He's no longer training me because he thinks I'm telling
you. Swear, swear and see the before
to you. You said he wasn't training.
You told me he wasn't training. I was told he wasn't training,
so he told me he wasn't training.
And then you get told by his missus that he was training and
then I get told by a boxer from their nerd that he has been in
there training here three nights a week.
Yeah. 3. Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Here's how I. Find he can't, he says he can't
train the Thursday night because he's working late night.
But I just think he's not coming because he doesn't want me to
see his moves. But I think I think the one.
Here's how I found. Out and he's in my team.
Here's how I found out he was training.
He was at Kieran's panel show on the limelight that we did, which
is great crack by the way, and he told me wasn't Excite text
him and I said we were chatting about when everything was
confirmed. I was like, you still happy for
me and you to fight. Then he was like, you're going
to be training much. And I said, I'll be honest, like
I, I do my own training anyway, but it's mainly cardio stuff.
I will be training and probably a day, a week or something like
that. And he said to me then we were
chatting about something else and he go, I said, how's your
training going? And he this was recently and
he's like, Nah, I haven't really started yet.
Not not going to do too much. At the panel show.
He was down to watch him in Victoria and then they were
getting a taxi to leave and I played his bluff because I said
to her he says his training is going well and she went.
He's never out of that boxing gym in Carrick.
And I went ah. And then I didn't tell him.
She is underground car park. Yeah, he has a punch back up.
What? Do you mean who is he fucking
partner? What do you mean this
underground car park? He lives in an apartment.
Right, right. There's an underground.
See where his parking space is? Because he doesn't have a car.
He's a punch back up. He's going to beat my fucking.
I think so. I do, I don't train 3 next week.
I've trained twice. Big Ronan, he says that you told
him that I've been training like fuck.
I did say you've been training like fuck.
I haven't been. I haven't been.
I said you've been training, I've been training and Sean
Hagger, he's been training. So he was, he was on the phone
and he's like, you're trying to like fuck and you're training
all these boxers and I was going, it's not true.
I've had a couple. Of he's worried.
What he's worried. No, I don't.
I said tell him I'm not out and I'm out like or anything.
It's a charity thing. Like it's I'm, I get home a big
role. But do you think he's out to
knock? You, if you had to got me
somebody who had been like, yeah, out of fucking like
Alexand, well, do. You.
Want me to name people on your show?
Because I will. Yeah.
You don't like them too. That's why I don't want it.
Dave Elliot I. Don't fall, Big Dave.
Do you know what Big Dave would have scored me?
Yeah. Yeah.
I'd say Big Dave called you like you'd be in trouble.
Yeah. Yeah.
You know, like Sean was training last night.
Sean's super fit. Yeah, but he got his eyes opened
about boxing last night, too. He's done it.
He's done white collar. Hand if Sean gets this together,
I feel sorry for Pete. But I was going to say, on my
team, the person who spreads you is Pete.
Pete can hit because he saves him.
He was throwing bombs. I get that, but Sean would throw
40 for every one of his. Yeah, that's a battle of Lorg in
that. One like if Pete throws, it's
like a sledgehammer of a connection with you.
But if Sean wears like, how much can Pete hold his hands up?
Will he be able to hold his hands up the whole thing?
That's, that's what I mean. And that that goes out in
general because you just naturally get tired.
You watch professional boxers and you go, where's his hands
down? He's fucked.
We were doing a thing where you put your hands in your head,
tucking the shoulders in right against.
Your back leg, I told you need to keep up planted.
I'm like a wee dog doing a wee. You keep lifting, I know.
But we were getting used to getting hit.
She had your hands in your head. And I partnered up with Sean
McComb because we have uneven numbers and he's just hook,
hook, hook said. Here he's not putting anything
into it. But see, just even with the
gloves up, punches coming left, I was all scared.
No. How's your feared?
I mean, if somebody puts their their hands up, they got if you
had a hard enough punch to it. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because that's that's what we all were doing.
And then he's like, get the hands in because.
You want, you want that like that's a phone.
Yeah, yeah. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, now I'm looking like burns are.
You are you going to get your own gear for it, like he says?
Here's what we're going to do. I've already put the thing out
there. Appeal.
Like if somebody wants the shorts boots or shorts boots.
But need to be. Blue, I'll pay for them.
Needs to be blue. Why is it need to be blue?
Your blue team. I'm not wearing blue.
I never wear blue. You.
Have to. No, All our gear is red, no.
What colour do you want to be? Great.
Right, you should be green then. But your whole team must work.
No whole team must roll again. No, that's not the way it works.
It is. You wear your own gear.
Really. Yeah.
We're all wearing red. No, and usually wear away.
We're not doing that. We're all individuals.
I said last night, listen to you just turned up here.
I said you're all on your own, right?
Paddy's pit bulls is not padding.
Yeah, because nobody's Shawn's not come back next week because
he's to drive down the motorway. Right.
For a world champion to train him, yeah.
And I was like, well, that's your decision there as a world
champion. I will be taking in everything.
That's a world champions willing to give up an hour to train you.
Yeah. And you're like, but I it takes
me 15 minutes and 7 LB fuel to get down here.
And I'm like, that's up to you. Yeah.
You know. Do you think, what do you some
people have said? I was talking to you know, Paul
Hughes, MMA feder. I was talking to Paul last night
after Lavery just run into him in the street.
We're chatting about it and he said cardio's key to it.
Few other people have said footwork's key to it.
What is the most important thing?
Breathing. Being able to pace yourself.
With breathing, were your gum sheet?
Yeah. Yeah.
And by the way, Paul O'han, who does the Irish Whiskey Week,
he's a dentist. I didn't even know he was a
dentist, but he contacted me. So he's given us all free pro
move guards. Thank you, Paul, but you're
breathing. Yeah, I think once you have all
that headgear on and you're trying to think of all that, you
forget the breathe in a panic situation.
If you don't put oxygen in, your man's not working right?
And then you're out a puff. Do you?
I'm saying all this and I'd be the one standing there, England.
What you would do after we nighted after.
Do the door. We should do the door and
Thompson. Just jade up.
Just wear the axle boxing gear and do the door and Thompson.
I am. I'm really looking forward to
it. I feel out of my comfort zone.
I don't feel I've picked it up. That's quick.
Nobody's going to be. That's the problem I have.
Ronan knows how to do it. Yeah.
So it's me mate, McDonald in a way, just what he said to me,
but he actually knows how to do it.
So I'm going to have to have a certain level of defence against
them. I think he's a longer reach in
me and he's taller than me. So do you.
What do you then keep a close? I don't know.
I'm not really sure.
I've never seen him fighting so I don't know.
Do you think, am I mental and saying do you think it goes for
us that we've played solo shows in big venues?
Goes for us. Yep, me and you as I'm Mickey.
As in. You, you.
You're not worried about the courage?
The walkout and stuff, that's not going to, you'll be pumped
up, but that's not going to freak out, No, because there's
people on the bill haven't played anywhere near the set of
crowd. Do you think that might?
Give a lie I mean that could affect that of us yeah
especially you in front of like you'll not want to look like a
fucking need it in front of the people No, definitely what I
mean boxing. So I think that's where you're
probably coming from, where you're calling a wife, only go 5
weeks and you're going all this here.
So you probably just practise your feet work and stuff like
that. Your fate would be a good fate.
I think so. Because these are both tall and
skinny, skinny and you know, you should be able to throw a lot
more punches than anybody. Me and Ronan like go through
half the punches as usual. Probably throw.
In the whole fate. We done a thing last night where
it was like tag where you were only allowed to get a point if
he got the shoulders, and I couldn't get Shawn's shoulders
because I have short arms and he didn't want to open up.
Yeah. So he was going this is dead
tight. And I was like, that's probably
the closest you'll get till. Pete, Yeah, yeah.
Tonight and he was like, right, And he sort of seen it in him
where he was like, fuck. Because I'm practising with
Sean, but he's but I wonder is it easier to practise someone
who, like me, doesn't know what they're doing?
Probably I would say a couple of weeks bars for somebody doesn't
know what they're doing would be good for.
You yeah, just just like randomly put a headgear on
somebody just in Hollywood High Street and just.
Some lollipop man or? Something might you just beat
the fuck up Just sparks me out. You have more chance that
happening, I think. I don't think it would be a bad
idea for you and Johnny maybe to do a wee Sparta guy.
Before does that not ruin it a bit?
I don't know. I like the unknown, do you know
what I mean? And also people won't believe
this it if if you lose, we're stand ups.
Do you know what I mean? There's something like like,
don't get me wrong, I'm not going to go like I don't want to
win. IA 100% want the win or you go.
For the win like you're. Going what would you want?
To knock him out like or. Would not want to knock him out.
Well, winning points. Want to win them, want to have
like at the end of it, I want us to be laughing, walking off.
I don't want anybody to get hurt in any of the fights.
I definitely don't want to get hurt.
But of course, everybody wants to win their fight.
But if I get knocked out five seconds in, I will be able to
enjoy that after it happens. Does that make sense?
Like. Like looking back.
Yeah, because we're doing a silly thing.
We're doing it for fun. Yeah.
But I want to win. I don't know, everybody still
call you a wagger. Like oh 100%.
You don't see in Todd and Wagger, you're getting that.
And he shared himself. Doesn't matter, it's for
charity. People just see you in a ring
and you know what I mean? In the best year, anyone that
can get away. But like, if he knocks me out as
soon as we walk in the ring and people go, he's a kickboxer,
like an MMA fair so. She had target not he's weren't
7 grand boots lying the. Ring him on watching fucking
ball back, you know what I mean? Some Carrick, for fuck's sake.
Really. You think me and him should spar
before it? I think so.
What's the what's the benefit of that?
I just think it would give us an idea what these are preparing
for. Yeah.
I think you remember Sean McComb.
He's a fucking. I watch Sean in the SSA a couple
of weeks ago, and he was fucking doing that.
No, but he's a fucking opponent. You know, Sue, you're not.
You're not really getting a true reflection.
You know, you go in there thinking Sean knows what he's
doing, like his movement. No, you go in there and Johnny's
totally different from that and you're going.
What the fuck? Yeah, he's going to be so
unorthodox unless he's fucking really good at this boxing and
that's why he's been in the gym for months and they've seen
something in him because that happened with John Finukin
before, you know John Finukin. So listen, we're doing a Charlie
Boxing thing. It was Charlie, it was a
fundraiser and I was fighting another fella and he was
fighting another fella and they put us in first bar and I
couldn't believe our goody was like, he could have been a
professional fighter. He was just fucking brilliant.
He fucking near took my head off and that was only a spar.
I had to fucking really take his ribs out like just to fucking
try. And he was like, you really hurt
me and I was like, you really were going to fucking kill me.
Or an I had the, you know, it was the toughest spar I think
I've ever had. I'm bossing for it.
I think it's going to be great. We'll raise a load of money for
Peps. It'll be a great night, but
there is a better development. To it, yeah, if you get beat
then never talk again. I just like she and listen.
It'll it like I won't win. Why is everybody ghosting me?
It's. 3. Seconds.
I hate Mickey and McCartney's feet.
It's going to be, I think. That's going to be a brilliant
fight because McCartney is a totally unknown quality.
He might be unbelievable, he may be shit.
I don't know. Yeah.
I don't know if he's you have this thing where you think he's
just a farmer and he's going to be brilliant.
I think he's in his garden right now, bench pressing baths, you
know what I mean? Like real unorthodox training
count. Maggie's Maggie has a sense, I
think Maggie looks in the mirror.
He's like Connor Burns looks in the mirror and he sees Avon
Drago from fucking rabbit. You know what I mean?
He Meg is select plus Cardi was better than you think.
Oh, Maggie, that's what I said yesterday.
A talk sport. I says Maggie Bartlett's the one
that you see in the gym all the time.
Yep, Maggie's all and he's brilliant with a skip rope and
also he's good feet. That that could be a big key to
his success, like because Maggie has.
Balls and should someone run a book for this on the night
someone will be doing it? Heskey probably.
Somebody will definitely run a book for it.
I've seen people taking odds on it.
But serious, if there is a book, you're there.
I won't put a few quid on Roman. No, it'll be.
It'll be. First round not right.
SSE. SSE.
So there's about Ed tickets left.
I know, I can't believe. It what date?
12th of May my birthday. Would you ever do a game at your
birthday? I did it.
I did Coleraine, Coleraine Riverside on tour.
Nobody brought me a cake or anything like that.
No Coleraine wants do you, do you want something arranged?
Just say yes or no. We'll not go in any detail, keep
it as a surprise, but would it fuck you up at the end if there
was like a wee thing? It's totally surprising.
Don't you want that? Don't you want that?
That's why it's on your birthday.
You want. It no, I think I think I picked
my date there because it came up and it was like that was an
option and I meant that's my birthday.
That's a good birthday present for myself doing the SSE for
first day. Oh yeah.
So. I don't really, it'll be a wee
thing. Butler maybe, maybe don't know,
do. You want there to be a thing?
No, You OK with there being a thing?
No, there's one there. Like it's not a big deal.
It wouldn't annoy me but no but I don't like it's the SSE is
enough. People go on and buy tickets is
enough. For me, sort something, sort
something. I'm waiting to be for the week
after so I have to do it now like I'm 42.
With me it's. Me and Andre is gone.
Anybody can go. You can go if you want.
Me, you and Andre if you want to go don't don't put a camera
Bartlett and make us sleep in a foundry room we're.
Standing the beefa rocks, it's like.
A Oh yeah, I've been to me orca rocks, not beef.
It's like a pool party. And there's gigs in the.
HH yeah, love that. Yeah.
Also, there's only people that are big fans.
Do you stay in exactly the same resort 1000% and you'll just on
the SSE you're going to be an abander.
I love this. Can we fill?
Can we send Mike with a GoPro on his head to document the whole
thing? Yeah, yeah, I'm doing a gig in
Santa Ponza San Megan. As part of that trip.
No, there's a normal trip. Like OK, these gentlemen,
Patrick McDonnell, the boxing is on the 10th or 11th, February
11th. Everybody thinks it's in
Fountain's day because you wrote Fountain's Massacre.
Massacre. Yeah.
So everybody's like, I don't know who.
Can't take my misses. Can't take my misses.
It's a beautiful romantic. Have a beautiful romantic
middle. Come watch.
If I brought my missus till a boxing match in Fountain's day,
I'd end up during my her. I took my wife to just the day
after our wedding to the front the fight in Manchester.
The day after fate. The day after I went, then go
the day I'll be snubby. Even worse, the day after the
fate taken the Emmy in, arena just empty.
Nobody are. Did he win?
No, he's apologised to me since. Has it?
Yeah. It's still in the spy rod now.
Yeah, you see that? It's good.
You see it? Yeah.
I'm used to this year. Yeah, it's good.
I was just with and suddenly calling up him in a high fizz.
Yeah, guys, thank you very much for watching, for listening.
We have Kieran Bartlett potentially on next week.
You should be said that. Who's he?
No. No, no we don't.
Need that? Don't worry about it.
Huh. Who's he?
He will be performing on the night of the boxing, but he
won't be not. Boxing What is happening?
Tell. You after very OK after Dan cut
the mics.