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of the Tea with Me podcast. I have absolutely zero idea what
episode it is, but I'm going to start the podcast with this.
I've done my neck and that's great because you know, in the
Tea with Me podcast series, I've maybe done what, 2022 episodes?
That's a guess. But how many of them have
started with me going? I've done my neck, I've done my
back, I've done my hips. Why am I 85?
I don't know, but I've done my neck.
I slept funny on it because it wasn't really on the pillow.
You know what I mean? Like the pillow was there, but I
was lying at a weird angle and I think I slept in between two
pillows. And that's just, that's just not
a good, it's not a good vibe because you wake up.
And here's the thing, it was deceptive.
It was like a hangover. I woke up and I went, I'm 100%
I'm great. And then I got near the bathroom
and went, you know, when you make a noise like the old man
noise, the what about the old man of Dominic and noise And
then your shoulders go all the pens.
And then, you know, your wife's just trying to help you out.
She's like, if you relax your shoulders, your neck won't be a
sore. And you're like, I'm trying not
hurt when I did that, but I'm trying to relax my shoulders,
but I can't because my neck sore.
I would have relaxed my shoulders.
My neck gets even worse. I don't know, man, It's bad.
It's bad, but I know it's going to be OK tomorrow.
But today I'm just, I'm just not good because I'm a neck sore and
I had to reverse my car out of the driveway.
And whenever I did, I went like this because I couldn't check my
blind spot and I just resigned myself to the fact that I might
just get crashed into. I was like, Oh no, I just, I
just such a little bitch. It just reversed out and I was
like, hopefully nobody hits me, you know.
But the the upside would be obviously you don't want to
burden the NHS at the minute and it's a apartment episode to to
talk about that, as you'll discover.
But then, yeah, you know, it would be a terrible burden.
But at least in hospital they could soar like this neck.
Although I think what it is, is I injured my neck at the gym.
Don't know if you guys know this.
But but I left left lightweight and I heard it and I don't think
my neck has properly recovered and I think I might have an
underlying issue with my neck, which is brilliant.
That's really good because you know your necks not important
apart from everything. So there you go.
I've got that off my chest. I won't talk about this.
I won't talk about loads of things today.
I'm feeling hyped. I'm going to be honest.
There's been a couple of these solo episodes of the podcast.
When I don't know, I just feel a wee bit tired whenever I record
or I, I don't know, you know, if I do feel good, but I like,
maybe I'm a bit lethargic. I feel absolutely hyped because
I just finished watching Normal People.
I literally just finished the series Normal People, the BBC
series Normal People. And that's enough times where I
should say normal people. Wow, honestly, just to set the
scene, there'll be no spoilers in this.
By the way, if you haven't seen Normal People, it's a series
based down in Sligo in, in Ireland and it follows a guy and
a girl basically. It's like a love story in a way.
And, and it's a drama, right? And there's young people in it,
but everybody would enjoy it. I got to say my thoughts were
two things #1 it's potentially the best acting and the best
cast thing I've watched in a long time.
Every. What about when everyone's just
perfect for the role? You know, like like some of them
with The Sopranos or or The Wire, you know, you watch that
and you go, nobody else could have played these roles.
The Inbetweeners is a bit like that in the way where there are
different kinds of series, but you watch it and you're like,
yes, no one else could be these people with normal people.
I wanted to get their names up because I don't want to be
disrespectful and be like your mom on what do you call her,
Daisy Edgar Jones and Paul Meskel.
Honestly, by the way, as a series, I think it's 12
episodes, 12 half hour episodes. If you're in between watching a
couple of things, you know, if you've done Tiger King and all
the all the things we've all watched, watch Normal People if
you haven't watched it yet. I also, as someone who does like
a little bit of acting, obviously I'm more of a stand
up, but I've done a bit of acting and I want to do more of
it. It's me and me go, oh, I want to
be an actor. You know, I want to do way more
acting than I'm doing and push that a bit more because I don't
know, I just imagine myself as one of those actors watching
this programme on screen going what a masterpiece.
You know what I'm not, I'm not saying they think that, but just
something to Oh my God, be so proud of that.
That guy like Daisy Edgar Jones is 10 out of 10 brilliant in it.
But Paul Meskel, maybe he's just being a fella and and and I
don't know, I can understand that it'd be a difficult role to
play in a way. He just, Oh my God, just unreal.
Like the way it's filmed is incredible.
The dialogue is brilliant. There's a couple of funny
moments. The character, by the way, how
about the character Jamie, who's played by Finn O'Shea, who's
just like a little bit of a prick.
And what about the scene? Again, I'm not going to go on
about this too much that if you haven't seen it, you won't get
it. But there's a scene where where
her boyfriend Jamie demands that she bring the cream out for some
strawberries when they're in Italy.
And it was at that moment when he did that and everyone's like,
oh fuck, just leave it while you've been a prick.
It was at that point I realised, hey, that's my spirit animal.
You know, I, I like him. The guy who plays her like the
characters you hate in it, you really hate like her brother in
it as well. Unbelievable.
Acting like his mum who's who's played by Sarah Green.
Oh, man. Normal people.
It has a score of 8.8 out of 10 in IMDb.
I don't know how that's possible.
It is fucking brilliant. Really, really, really
brilliant. And there's an article one of
the actors in the cast were stunned by the BBC drama
success. Yeah, of course.
It feels like one of those things that almost could have
gone under the radar but has just had so much support from
people talking about it that it's become this.
You have to watch this kind of thing and you really do.
Normally I don't like stuff like that.
I think before I watch it, I judge it and I'm like, if
everyone's watching it, it must be shit, you know, that kind of
thing. But Oh my God, normal people.
I'm going to work really hard to get someone from the cast on to
the podcast in the next couple of weeks because I'd, I'd love
to talk about that. I'm, I'm really interested in
whenever something like that just blows up.
I'm interested in hearing what that's like for an actor, you
know, because I think we can imagine what it'd be like to all
of a sudden just be part of this amazing thing.
And there's a guy called Desmond Eastwood.
Desmond Eastwood who plays potentially the the most lovable
character in it. And he's from Lisburn, so maybe
maybe he'd be up for that. He's also been in Krypton, which
is a side note I just see on his profile.
Krypton is the thing I auditioned for.
It was a sci-fi series set in Belfast and I auditioned for it.
I think it was 12 or 13 times. So that's cool.
That is really cool. But yeah, normal people, I'm
going to try and get somebody on.
I'm going to get somebody on from the cast and hopefully
we'll do it. We'll do an episode, we'll see
what happens. I've got loads I want to get
through. And in this episode I was to
preface this, I don't know if preface is a word.
And by the way, there's somebody who signed up to the Patreon
that is being a little tight. And if you know this guy, you'll
expect this behaviour from him. OK.
He's very, he's a slippery little Otter.
He's called Matthew Myrnan. And what he does is whenever I
make a mistake on the podcast, he sends it to one of my
friends, either Arnon Butler or Dave Elliott and like points and
laughs. Like whenever I was talking
about the Michael Jordan basketball series on a Patreon
episode and I called it Sea of the Last Dance.
Easily done. It's called The Last Dance.
And there is a film called Sea of the Last Dance.
But he was straight on to my cohorts.
Look, look at this mistake he made.
Matthew, no one has made a bigger mistake than you when you
came to picking your car. And you know what I'm talking
about. And I know what you're talking
about. So let's let's move on.
Also, let me plug the Patreon before I move on.
patreon.com/tea with Me podcast where we put out the bonus
episodes every Monday. Every single Monday, a feature
length bonus episode with me and producer Dan goes up and you
support the podcast and everyone who has signed up for the
Patreon so far absolutely love that.
Thank you so much. It makes it really does make a
big difference at this fairly shitty time with no gigs or work
basically. So what I what I was going to do
a couple of weeks ago is like a coronavirus episode and it was
5050 about doing it. It was like, do we interview
some doctors and nurses and, or people that have had it then or,
or do people not want to hear that?
So it's sort of halfway through doing it.
And I did a great interview, which you're going to hear on
this episode with, with two friends of mine that are doctors
Niall and Niall, who played together in a musical duo called
the 9 inch Niles. When I did the my first Ulster
Hall show, they they, I got them to play in the venue just before
everybody went in in their class.
And two, two of the nicest guys you could meet.
They gave up a bit of their time.
I had a chat about it. So I thought what's better to do
is drop that interview into this, into the middle of this
podcast just to hear what it's like from 2 doctors like my age
or, or maybe the guy is slightly younger than me.
Just just to know what it's like at the minute.
Because we hear about all the frontline staff and you know, we
see social media posts and stuff.
But I wanted to find out actually what it, what is the
reality of it and how are they getting on?
And it was massively insightful. And, you know, we have all this,
you know, clapping for an NHS staff and so much love for them.
And I see all that. But like I to actually hear what
it is they're going in to do and what they prepare themselves for
it. Just if I didn't think it was
possible, but it just puts them another rung higher on on on on
the ladder for me. And and I think it was a real
interesting interview that I think you'll enjoy.
So I'm going to interview the two Niles later in this episode.
And I said that episode and Matthew Mirner will probably
fucking send that on the little piece of shit straight up tea
player, straight up tea for anybody inquiring.
Do I have sugar in my tea? I used to, and then I had
sweetener and now I just have nothing and I'm just bareback
when it comes to the old tea. Yeah, there's some things I want
to talk about before I play that interview.
I've got the old laptop here. I said that like the like nobody
really has laptops anymore. Got the old laptop and you
haven't heard of one of those? What I want to do is, first of
all, I used to do this feature on my podcast when it used to be
called the Shane Todd Cast. Great title.
I called TripAdvisor where I just like looked at TripAdvisor
reviews of places that I was going to be going to do stand up
in just to see what it was like. And obviously we find the worst
TripAdvisor reviews and just talk about that.
So I don't know what we're going to do this week, but I've got a
load of options. I thought we would look at like
Belfast sightseeing things. We'll pack a big company with
loads of reviews and then we'll just like go through the worst
reviews and have a good laugh at that.
So OK, OK. There's a Belfast black taxi
tour by the way, for anyone like not from here, that's been like
you're that's fucking really out of order that you would class
your taxi drivers by the colour of their skin.
It's the colour of their taxi. All right.
So yeah, black taxi is like a taxi you can get in in Belfast
with several other people. These guys were doing Uber
rideshare in in the 60s. You know, this guy runs a one of
the companies, I'm not give out the name of his business because
he might be like, yeah, mate, that's really sly.
And and he's got loads and loads of reviews.
So why don't we just go through some of those?
So I'm presuming we're going to be hearing from tourists here
that have done the black taxi tour.
And I just want to find out. I just want to see ones that
weren't happy. And also the guys responded, if
you, this will be brilliant. Even before we do it, I know
this is going to be good. Someone called Becca from London
gets in touch and says bottom line, the driver was rude and
disrespectful. Wikipedia was more interesting.
He tried to overcharge us and yelled at me from his window
after we paid the agreed rate. I wish you'd chosen a different
company. This experience ruined my visit
to Belfast. Here's the thing, yes, that's
not good, but that is an authentic visit to Belfast.
If you want to really come and experience a real culture,
someone will yell at you, you know what I mean?
But that that you know what? He probably yelled something
nice because that's the way people do it here.
You know, she probably got out and he's like, enjoy your fault
and make their head. And she's like, why is he being
so violent to me? But we're like, no, he's
obviously likes you. If he, if he called you
dickhead, yeah, she's gone into like a massive thing.
Pay the driver £40 to weighs 2 hours in a day and insult me.
This is not the Belfast experience I was looking for.
Hey, it's Belfast though. It is the real Belfast
experience, the guy, the guy's got back, right?
And he goes back delighted to hear from you on this platform.
I mean, he hasn't, you know, he probably isn't.
Here we go. I love a bit of sass when
someone fires back. Since we received your e-mail,
we've actually been investigating the incident and
I've also spoken to witnesses who were able to verify some
issues involved. To begin with, when we began our
conversation with the driver, the very first thing he said was
there was a very clear atmosphere from the minute she
got into the cab. This driver is one of the more
joking drivers we have, is always very bouncy and welcoming
the our guest. So that's this guy, whoever owns
this company, it's our way of going.
Look, the driver's a fucking rocket, OK?
So just that's just the way he is.
I know. I think they might be the
problem. When he introduced himself, he
asked your partner, stroke boyfriend, stroke friend his
name and began bantering with him.
When he went to speak to you and ask your name, there was a clear
standoff. He said this was very apparent
to him. I mean, what's happened there is
when he introduced himself, he asked your partner his name.
He's probably gone. All right.
What's your fault on you writing?
How are you? What's what?
What do you fault? What do you call your name?
You know, I think this guy might be the problem, but let's see
what happens here. He likes to think.
He likes to think passengers have a certain sense of
friendship and camaraderie with him.
That basically means he wants to RIP the bag out of you.
But he's going to say, like, it's all right, we're mates.
I mean, there's a thinly veiled threat here.
As the trip progressed, the driver was not reading from a
script. Because he's a man who's grown
up through the troubles. I mean, that's letting you know
that he knows guys that are bad boys.
You know what I mean? It's rather insulting you to try
and demean his story. I mean, this guy's response or
this person's response is maybe 5000 words.
And look at the way they finish with it.
We're trying to make this one of the top 10 visited cities in
Europe, in Belfast, and we're flourishing, as you can see by
our 5000 reviews. Yeah, I like it when the I like
it when the author hits back. I like it when the business
owner hits back. For sure.
Someone else says shame on you, your company is a joke.
Oh, no, I wanted to find. I want to find it when he hits
back or let's OK, an an American guy's taking the black taxi
tour. So basically the guy just didn't
show up. Oh, right.
OK, so someone didn't show up. We've got someone else.
I mean, here's one of the misleading things.
Black taxis in Belfast are blue. Obviously someone writes to that
note. Done this tour recently with the
name of this company, you would think at least you would get an
old style London black cab, not a blue minibus.
I like the idea that the driver is like, it's private, it's for
you. And then on the way down he
picks him up in a minibus. He's like Falkland, jump in, I'm
just leaving these one, I'm leaving these ones.
Then the Castle Court. Falkland.
Move over. Sir.
This is a car for eight people and what's your fault line
problem? Well, there's 68 people in here
Sir. I bet six of them kids fuck up.
I didn't see the relevance of soldiers XY and Z.
Also, I think our guy did have his dates wrong when he was
referring to the black and towns in Ireland.
So I think this person is like trying to catch him out.
It's essential to get dates right.
I mean, A1 let's some people were like, oh, the guy just lied
to us and made all the facts. That's funny.
Are they famous for not OK Stafford.
Someone someone from Marbella says read reviews for this and
was wary as a lot of people said the company didn't show up.
This happened to us. No one got.
Yeah, it seems like a lot of the time the people aren't picked
up. He's an elusive man.
Everything broke. No one showed up disappointed.
Someone goes trade value cops never showed.
Yeah, OK, look, a lot of these are people being like he just
didn't show up. I think what we what we want is
what we want is like someone who there's also somebody who's
meant to give a great review here, but left a one star one.
But it should be, like, way better.
Yeah. I wanted something, like, really
personal. OK.
This person from Toronto,
Canada. As it turns out, it's incredibly
difficult to see things from inside a cab.
And because the murals on our tour are so close together, I
don't see why this wasn't done as a walk in tour because you're
constantly getting in and out of the cab.
We're driving distances of a couple of 100 metres at most.
Our driver was uninformative and occasionally outright terrible
at guiding. Going off on a tangent about the
internment trials and tribute. No, these people, these people
from Canada wanted to know about the troubles, right?
And I thought, and that it said, it said internal and I thought
it said internment. And I was like, why the fuck
would they be given off? They're getting to hear about
internment. It's way better than that.
Our driver was this person from This is Evan from Canada.
Our driver was fantastically uninformative and occasionally
outright terrible at guiding, going off on an impromptu
tangent about Fleetwood Mac in the 70s for about 5 minutes
while we sat in front of a peace wall.
He didn't seem to know or care about anything we saw.
He just kept talking about Fleetwood.
Mac. They want to hear about the
murals, they want to hear about Belfast.
There's just a big fat guy driving the taxi.
Being like ah Dreams is a fucking belter though.
Oh, that's so, I mean, just the image of that, it's just it's
just so enjoyable. Oh my God.
And can you tell me more about Bobby Sands?
I can tell you so everywhere is a Falkland.
That's a Falkland tune. Ask me anything about Fleetwood
Mac. I was hoping you can tell us
something about the murals. Fleetwood Mac deck head start
talking. I'm sorry guys, I'm sorry, but I
really, really, really enjoyed that.
I really so from Adelaide in Australia, said Book this tour
today, especially to experience a black card writer in Belfast
and learn more about the Troubles in Ireland.
I was extremely disappointed when a disabled taxi came to
pick us up. Don't be fucking discriminatory,
all right? In the sly, just a taxi coming
around the fucking crutches. I may as well have organised the
driver myself, so we've got the whole experience.
No disrespect to the driver, He was a nice guy.
A disabled taxi. Be nice to me.
He's a disabled taxi. Oh my God, I can't.
I can't stop laughing about the Fleetwood Mac guy.
Yeah, they, someone got taken to a building, but it was closed.
I mean, that's just Belfast doing.
Oh, sorry, what here? Do you know what?
Do you know what I'll actually do?
It's difficult for me to pick the best reviews out.
So why don't next week I properly research this?
I'll properly do it too. I'll properly and properly do
it. But this is this is going to be
a new thing every week on the podcast.
We're just going to go through the worst TripAdvisor reviews
for things in Northern Ireland. Oh my God, that's made me laugh
so much. That's made me laugh so much.
What we're going to do? What about Jerry Adams?
What about Fleetwood Mac? Fuck in hell.
Oh my God. Oh my God.
And I bet you that guy surname is like McKee or something.
And his nickname is of course, Billy Fleetwood Mackey.
For sure it is, for sure it is. What we're going to do is I'm
going to play the interview with with the 2 Niles, with two
doctors, 2 doctors living and working in Belfast at the minute
dealing with all coronavirus thing.
It's more to try and get the human side of it.
We're hearing about all these facts and figures.
But I want to speak to guy, the guys about their real
experiences. I'm going to play that now.
And then at the end of the podcast, I'm going to take
listeners questions. Let's get to the interview.
This is with two Niles who are currently doctors in Belfast.
Hope you enjoy it. Guys, can you start with, I'm
going to call you glasses now, which is very, very
disrespectful, but I don't know, or maybe not give your surname.
Can you tell me what, what, what you do like, what, what your
exact job is? And maybe just a quick sentence
actually about why you got into this or or what what made you
pursue this profession? So.
I have particularly good reasons for that.
So me, I, I work in the royal. Well, this was both work in the
royal and at the minute I the last couple of years I've I
worked in the field of neurosurgery.
So I think they do with brain and the spine sort of that sort
of stuff. And yeah, as now alluded to our
reasons, this is going to sound really stupid.
I I wanted to do Law until I started watching Scrubs and
Upper 6th. And then I was like, that looks
like a lot of fun. And then, yeah, I did some work
experience and enjoyed it. But yeah, it's probably a
terrible reason, but And also because it wasn't allowed to be
a musician. Look, if you offered me, if you
offered me 50 guesses because I watch Scrubs would not be in my
top 50. Yeah, we should do 1.
And non glasses Nile. I so I'm an F2, so I graduated
but nearly two years ago now and I'm in cardiology in the Royal.
So we sort of do different placements over the first few
years. And cardiology was meant to be
my second of three this year. But with everything that's going
on, just everyone stayed in their placements.
So where you would have been there for four months, we're not
there for eight months. Have your jobs changed because
of coronavirus? Like I've noticed like a lot of
consultants and stuff, having to go into COVID centres and that
kind of thing. So what's been the impact on
both your jobs? Big time.
I think it's just for us, like we were lucky anyway, we stayed
in the same place. So you don't have to go
somewhere new and get used to a new environment down there, any
or IC or any of that. But just everything you do is
different. You're just constantly aware of
it, worry of it. You know, you don't go and see
people the way you would have, you know, like 2 months ago.
Like, you know, you don't examine people until you know,
unless you have to. You don't, you know, you don't
get as close to people. Everyone's wearing masks
everywhere. It's just entirely changed the
way you go about your job without changing, you know, the
actual job you're doing, if you know what I mean.
Yeah. I think certainly around the
time that this started, I suppose just over a month ago,
we were, I don't know what it was like for you now, but we,
we, we had a lot of extra training sessions in
anticipation of us being redeployed to ICU and different
places. Because the, the doctors that
are going to be most effective, you know, in, in treating the
really sick people who have coronavirus or the ICU doctors
and the anaesthetists. And so the aimless to train us
up to a level to kind of cover some of their work so they could
go down to the COVID centres and they got these patients.
So it's strange. It kind of like certainly around
the start of it, like, again, I don't know, but you know, I was
absolutely terrified. Like I actually in a weird way,
like I actually felt like we were like preparing to go to war
because like you hear all these terms like redeployment and, you
know, things that, you know, we that's not a word that's banded
about in medicine very often. So yeah, I think the biggest
thing, and I suppose it's probably a good thing for me now
to can we get across if we can, I mean to break it down really
kind of in a simplistic way that probably the thing that gets
referred to Nile the most would be people with chest pain.
And the thing that would get referred to me most would be
people who have headaches for whatever reason.
And one thing we're noticing a lot of the especially in
surgical specialties, a lot of the day-to-day stuff like that
case in clinics and the theatre lists have all been cancelled.
Obviously, you know, the kind of try and deal with with
everything else that's going on. And so a lot of the things that
we make up the day-to-day work have stopped and maybe things
are a little bit less busy. But what we're noticing is that
I think, and I think you've sat and do now you've had a summer
experience, all of the people that may her, her should maybe
be coming to Northeast with other health problems maybe
aren't coming as early as they should.
And so we're we're noticing a lot of people that are ending up
coming in and getting referred to each first species.
They're coming in actually a lot more sick than they would have
if they'd come in. And I think that comes from
people being a little bit fearful of coming up to, to any,
you know. People, I think people, yeah,
it's, it's a weird thing where like, I guess hospitals are
going to be in in, in a way, extremely safe environments
because you have so many regulations you need to abide
by. I get a, an infusion for having
Crohn's disease every, every but three months and I'm due to go
next week to get it. And it's weird because I hadn't
thought about it up until day for me to basically say, oh,
we're in a different building. And I hadn't got like nervous
about it until she said that. And and I, I said, I don't know
why I asked this, but I said to the woman on the phone, I was
like, here, do I need to wear like a face mask?
And she said, she said, you have a face mask.
And I said, yeah, I've had my own Louis Vuitton 1 commissioned
for seven grand. No, I said, do I have to wear a
mask? She said, do you have a mask?
And I was. Like, Oh no.
And she was busy like, so I asked him if you need to wear a
mask. She said we can give you a mask
when you get here. And I, I don't know, I feel like
I would like a mask. I feel like I've always been
very dismissive of people who wear masks, especially like, you
know, when you're on the Tube in London and you see people
wearing wearing a mask, you're like, oh, for God's sake, that's
overkill. Now I feel like, yeah, I feel
like permanently I'm going to be wearing a mask for for a while.
But is is the the sort of advice on that changing in terms of
wearing face? Masks doing it one public like,
but in the hospital it's everyone has to wear it sort of
constantly, like unless you're going for a, a coffee or lunch
or whatever, like everyone's wearing masks.
And that's the other thing is like also such a different place
because there's no vision allowed apart from very special
circumstances. So like the odd family member
and stuff you see about like are getting masks and that sort of
thing. Michael Jackson was Jackal was a
kids. Ahead of her.
But it's you kind of. It's all coming like.
The the part about that, that I was like, it's there's a good
reason to do it. But you kind of, I think when we
were walking around, obviously we're aware of the facial
expressions that we're recruiting, but you kind of
realise that patients, all they're saying is probably just
about your eyes. So I'm like, I was, I smile at a
patient. She had no idea that I was
smiling. She just thought I was staring
at her. And, you know, you can kind of
see people are like, no idea, like.
The good thing though, is that's, it's now you have
beautiful eyes. So that's, yeah, like this,
that's good. That's going to help that.
But I mean, it's, it's interesting you say about the
fact that, you know, when, when you heard all these terms about
redeployment, that and that kind of thing that that you guys were
nervous. Because I think in a very
ignorant way, when I hear about COVID centres, when I hear about
hospitals, there's always this weird assumption that doctors
and nurses are going to be OK. You know, it's almost like I
think, oh, you guys can't get sick, you know, because because
you're doctors, yeah, you guys are the ones that are, that are
there all the time. And I think this is really
probably helping that Will a lasting legacy of this is people
like me will, will think way, way more about that.
You know, I've always been like a fan of the NHS.
I've benefited from the NHS from whenever I've been sick before.
But I think now the fact that you're talking about
redeployment makes you sound like soldiers.
I think people are are thinking of doctors and nurses like that.
You know, using the term frontline isn't like a flippin
thing. You know, it, it, it really,
really is. And I guess I want to ask,
whenever you got into this, this profession, were you ever told,
not specifically this, but something like this could
happen? Were you ever told if there is a
pandemic or, or something like this, that look, you're going to
be asked to really, really throw, throw yourselves into it
or, or is that just part of the, is that just an assumption in
the job? I don't know.
There's definitely no specific time that I ever think of
something like this would come along.
Do, you know, even a few months ago when you were sort of
hearing about it for the first time, I was like, OK, you know,
it probably blew over just just like everyone else, you know?
And it's only really the past two months that I've probably
ever thought of, you know, ourselves as being on like the
front line or like whatever that really means and this sort of
thing. So I don't know.
I'd never. Thought about it to be honest,
yeah, me neither yeah, though I yeah like whenever we were kind
of like say about a month ago, we're getting all this extra
training and kind of trying to get used to things that we've.
Because obviously, you know, it's always people, you know, in
the news and different things. It's they just really talk about
broadly about doctors and nurses and medical and healthcare staff
and all the people that are involved.
But obviously within medicine, the nursing thing, healthcare in
general, like, you know, you're kind of a lot of us work in kind
of niche specialties and a lot of the, lot of the things that
you can do to kind of help the patients or the things that they
require to kind of get them through the worst part of the
illness. Like, and especially is that me
and our work and we've, we're not exposed to that on a daily
basis. You know, a lot of the machines
that are very like the ventilators, like, you know, we,
we, we got some training to, to, to kind of try and figure out
how these things work. But, you know, that was my first
experience and I was, I think off like since 2014 of, of
seeing that stuff. So but so, as I say, it was
terrifying and wasn't answered your question.
No, I never thought about it, but he kind of had to just
think. And thankfully, you know, you
know, at this stage, neither mere now have had to go to lose
areas yet, but you kind of just have at the end of the day, how
can you not go into it? How can you say no?
Like, how can you not? Like, you know, at the end of
the day, as Cliche and TJ as it sounds like, you know, you're,
you're trained to do certain things and you know, you have a
responsibility to step up if you're asked to.
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What has there been a big change in your like living
circumstances and things like that?
Have you had to isolate from family or partners or anything?
Not for me. Luckily I'm at home at the
minute and the younger brother works up in Antrim hospital as
well, so we're just chilling in the heist when we're divorces.
Now's had a bit of a change in circumstances.
I mean, I was from, from it started, I was pretty much
cutting myself off from the family in the house.
I was kind of between houses. So I was living at home with my
parents for first time in 10 or 11 years.
I was on a short term basis when this all stopped and started,
sorry. And then the house that I was
meant to be moving into your, you know, that all kind of fell
through obviously. So I wasn't planning on moving
out, but then I actually had to isolate and get the testing and
get the swabbing and stuff. And then I realised although I
was fine when immediately whenever I was sent home from
work because of she's getting testing and things at that
stage, my whole family essentially then had to isolate
for two weeks and my brother had to cancel it, cancel two weeks
working that kind of, you know, kind of highlighted to me that I
probably need to get out of the house.
So, so I have left, I've moved out and kind of just be out by
myself at the minute. Is, is, is it a case of user,
user so busy you're doing so much?
It's it's, it's, it's overwhelming.
Or do you have moments during all this where you can, you can
really think about it, if that makes sense.
I mean, from an outside in point of view, I feel like doctors and
nurses and stuff are just so flat out at the minute that you
almost don't have time to to come up for air.
What? What sort of shifts are you
just? Working with?
No I don't. I don't think it's a case of
being flat out at all, to be honest.
I think in fact, a few weeks ago actually, you were, you weren't,
you were because people stopped maybe coming in.
Nobody wanted to come into hospital.
Actually. There was a lot of time just
sitting around sort of thinking about it, chatting about it,
going to meetings about it, you know, which was good in terms of
you could get a bit more time to get trained and get used to PPE
and all that. But it was maybe a bad thing in
other ways where we're sitting thinking about it, you know, all
the time. Anxiety level sort of building
up a wee bit. It's a bit different than I,
but. Yeah, I think the sorry, no.
No, no, go ahead. I was just going to say, I think
the, the waiting around, like the waiting for it for me was
the worst part. I got to a stage where I was
like, I just wanted to come. I just, I was like, let's just
let's, just let's get on with it.
Let's get stuck in. Let's, you know, let's, let's
try and get through it. But it was those couple of weeks
where we were all kind of sitting because you hear the
news and a lot of stuff that we are told about or find out
about, it's the same stuff that but everyone else in the country
is reading in the news. And so we what we kept here and
we were like 2 weeks behind London or whatever.
And so we were just constantly waiting for this thing to hit.
And that for me, that was the worst part.
Yeah, like the calm before the storm kind of thing.
Exactly. You know where the hell the
storm was or when it was coming. As a profession, is it, is it a
profession that if you did, you're talking about anxiety and
of of course, with what you're going through, that's something
a lot of people are going to experience.
Is it something that you can have have proper chats with your
colleagues about? Can can you sort of speak to, to
people you work with? And is it like a shared thing of
look, how do you feel about this?
Is it, is it, is it like open in terms of that sort of thing?
I think in cardiology and we've been really well supported by
all our seniors and we've a good team of colleagues and all that.
And like most of the time the best of you feel like it's just
a bit of crack, you know, and everyone's up for sort of
chatting and stuff. But I don't know, thankfully,
because we're in the royal, we're not, we're on the 24/7.
So I don't know whether that would be different if you are
constantly and that you know, if you're in the matter or that and
you're you're surrounded by it constantly.
And yeah, so I don't know, don't know.
I think certainly so I suppose I got a lot of the people that
work with and colleagues and friends and working.
And obviously you've got all of your mates that you lived with
and studied with and you know, you kind of chatting to
different people who work around the place.
And at least in work, I think the general feeling was I think
there was nearly an acceptance that all of us were probably
going to just get it at some stage.
Then you just kind of, you know, you just kind of accepted that
there was no way to avoid it and it was going to happen.
It was it was more a case of when you got sick as opposed to
F and that was quite scary. But I think everyone with them
mentally was in was in the same boat.
But certainly the although, like I said, me and I haven't had to
be redeployed yet. And it seems like from the
things they're saying in the news that, you know, this first
peak might have passed, but you know, there will be a second to
maybe a third. We have a listen.
So if we don't get redeployed this time around, we might the
next time and certainly the trust.
At least we both work in the Belfast Trust.
You know, they like, they have done extra training they have
done and, and everyone who has been redeployed that I they know
like the systems and everything in place.
You get proper inductions, you get, you know, you're, you, you
work a set amount of shifts, you get a set amount to breaks.
You know that the systems are in place to ensure that physically
and mentally, you know, people are well supported through the
process, you know. Yeah.
Well, that, that, Yeah, that's great.
I guess that's what I was asking is, are things in place where
those natural worries that you're going to have are helped
and stuff? And that's that's good to know.
I want to ask you, I don't want to keep you for too long, but I
want to ask you about the extent of everything.
So I was mentioned to you that earlier that I'm, I'm not
watching much news at all at the minute.
And that's different to when, when this all first came out, I
was addicted to like the 24 hour news channels.
Since then, I've kind of taken an attitude of, and I guess me
having the luxury of being at home all day.
I, I, I can do that where look, I'll watch a bit of like Good
Morning Britain in the morning for half an hour.
And that's kind of, that's kind of it.
And I'm more sort of thinking about, you know, OK, I'll check.
I'll check the news once a day and have a look.
How are we doing? Because I you hear different
things you hear people saying on Northern Ireland, everything's
great then and you'll hear people say the opposite.
You you see on social media, people flaunt and lockdown.
And this is a big thing at the minute of look at these people
doing that. And then there's also articles
up that, oh, we're doing great in terms of lockdown.
So from your point of view in your profession, how, how are we
sort of handling this as a as a public?
I think generally anyway, I don't know, it's hard to gauge
that like from in the hospital. But I think the main thing is
the change from the idea a few weeks ago as we've sort of
progressed through it, because everyone's a lot more positive
and hopefully that sort of speaks to the extent of how
we're doing. But certainly staff and wise,
do, you know, morale is very good about it, you know, and I
think a lot of the anxiety is lifted.
And I think that's just testament to, you know, most
vast majority of people sort of taking things seriously and
staying at home and helping us out from that point of view.
Nick. Yeah.
I mean, like I say, a lot of the numbers and the figures that we
would be aware of are the same as that everyone would know
because it's, you know, the Robin Swan and different people.
Like, you know, there's press conferences every day updating
us all. And I think the initial
modelling like a couple of weeks or a month ago, the predicted
deaths was 14,000. He's come out two days ago and
said we're now down to 1500 expected deaths in the first in
the surge. And it's strange, I think we can
become a little bit numb to it because you see at least Spain
and even the UK now, they're hitting the guts of 1000 people
a day. And it's really hard to
comprehend like that, like you kind of just, you know, just
looking at as a number. But you've had so many people
and I think we look here and you know, our figures seem to be
somewhere between 5 and 20 a day roughly.
And that's still 520 people. You know, like that's still a
lot. And if we're currently sitting
in around 250 deaths and our expected is 1500 units, there's
still, that's still a lot of people that could lose their
life. So I would say that certainly at
at no stage does it seem like the the situation here has been
at the point of overwhelming or causing the the hospitals here
to to breakdown. You know, certainly the social
distance in here seems to have been had a really good effect.
And I say that not to to relax people, but to, you know, to
encourageable to keep doing it because it would be great if we
went from 1500 and brought that number of expected people dying
down as much as possible because there's no cure all.
The end of the social distancing is to, you know, is to, is to
keep the number of very sick people at a level where we can
treat them appropriately. And that's the aim of all of it.
And so if we keep doing that and we keep sticking to it, I'd much
rather be in lockdown for for longer and, and try and keep our
numbers as low, you know, as head melting as it is.
Yeah, no, thank you. I think that's really important
what you say about like we're doing well with the social
distancing, but let's like, let's just keep doing well with
it because the temptation is like, oh, we're doing well.
Let's have a street party and, and let's, let's play a public
game of Twister. You know, I think, I think like
you say, like if we're, if we're doing well at it, let's just,
let's just keep doing it because it is, it is, it is difficult
when the weather is good that they're not just, you know,
look, if I'm a bit LAX about this or whatever.
And but I think people, people are being good.
And it's surprising because look, let's face it, guys, we
live in Northern Ireland. There's a lot of headers about.
It. But even like even these, even
these guys, like there's people who want to get out there and,
and, and do things, you know? Even like I'll be honest, when
they cancel the 12th I was like. Fair plenty lads, because they
love it. They absolutely love it.
But even they're like, you know what, we're just going to chill
and do it bigger next year. But I just I just want to hear.
I appreciate, I really appreciate your time.
And, and I just want to say like, do you use my final
question is, do you feel that love from the sort of from the
public for, for your profession right now?
Do you, does it, is it something like use chat about?
And I know the people are doing like the, the, the applause on
the doorstep and all that kind of thing.
And just generally like praising the NHS, like is, is that
something that you feel? So no, I think the general
sentiment with around how many ways a lot of people are sort of
quite taken aback Bat, you know, there's almost a sort of like
Northern Irish sense of like we've been embarrassed about it.
Like, you know, don't even take it too much that like, but I
definitely more annoyed than never before, obviously.
Yeah, it's, I mean, obviously you get something like a little
colleague of work, you know, tries to never comes around to
the 8:00 Thursday club. He tries to time it just right.
You know, he's put it into his drive.
There's the. Pathoscope.
Like, you know. Scrubs.
Scrubs still on and he's open and he's a Porter.
You know, stethoscope. You know, but it's you know, but
clearly the, I think clearly the people at the top, you know, the
people making the big decisions and the trust and things, you
know that although they might not be on and me and I can't
profess to be frontline of such. We're not working in any and ICU
at the minute. You know, the people that are in
the offices making the big decisions, you know, they
they're clearly they're not completely out of touch of what
it's like in the ground. And even simple things like, you
know, they're providing meals, you know, free meals to all
staff, everyone in the hospital and just little things like that
to kind of kind of obviously makes the day-to-day, you know,
just a little bit easier. But yeah, it's great.
And you know, like you see fireworks and different things
going off. It's it's, it's the first thing
in a long time. It seems to be, you know,
everyone is on the same side against the thing as you say,
except for the few headers. You're, you know, well this
three party. And they'll get it, but it just
won't be for a while. And hopefully, if anyone of you
is having a few party 9 Inch Nails, you can pick us whenever
this thing's all over. Yes, is that are you missing
performing like are you still picking up the violin like in
your in your spare time, in your days off you still able to to
just just play in the house? The violin's a weird instrument
that's usually requires someone else to play along.
Otherwise she's just a weird guy playing the tune by yourself.
I suppose different for now if the guitar might be a bit
easier, but I in the last two days I've really, really missed
it. Like I really can't.
And I feels so much for all our friends who are full time
musicians and anyone who's self-employed, you know, like
yourself and the creative, creative industry, you know,
it's, it just must be so difficult, you know, because of
all of their gigs and all of their, their, their livelihood,
it's kind of just been taken away from, you know.
That's The funny thing as well for us is, you know, like, OK,
you're going into work in this coronavirus and all that.
But like, you know, we have a sense of normality quite a bit,
you know, that a lot of other people don't have, you know, and
you're maybe, you know, a couple days off, like even by the end
of that, I'm getting cabin fever in the house.
So I know why everyone asks. I was trying to work like
giving, giving off to myself, but like why have I been under
work when it's so nice outside? You know, as if it was like a
normal day. Any noise?
Oh well, if it was at home and still be sitting inside anyway
like so. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's just
funny though, whenever like I'm listening to you guys talk about
the fact that, you know, you, you accepted at a point that,
you know, you're going to get sick and you just got to
continue your job. And for a second they're used
for like, I mean, we just respect people in creative
industries, freelancers. And I'm sitting here like,
cheers, like. I am a like and again, not the
sound cheesy or like list and and and like I'm a I'm a proud
patron of the boy town podcast, tea with me and the slag I
podcast and it's, you know, things like that.
Like, you know, because like you say, whenever you get out of
work, like now says works the easy part because you're kind of
yeah, there is it just does a lot of the time feel like a
normal day today whenever. You get out of work.
I'm also not you're like works the easy part has never been a
doctor. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, you just get the shift on, do the rounds.
That's. You know what I mean?
Like you get out, you get out of it and you kind of like sitting
down by yourself. It's like, no, it's obviously
not comparing like this, but you know, like when you do a good
gig, whatever and you're like, oh, this is great.
Then you go sit down. You're like, but what I do with
my hands now sort of thing, you know, when there's there's lots
of people, musicians and comedians, different thing
putting out podcasts and things that it's it's actually, it's
it's mixed. It's a big help, you know.
Well, honestly, the the, the I mean, I always had respect for
doctors loaded doctors in my family.
But but since the start of all this and just hear, hear and
just talk there about I don't know.
It's the fact that it's fact that this doesn't feel, you
know, you're talking about like you're just about to move into
your house. I know about moving into my
first house, how how amazing it was.
And you've had to like stop that and move into this temporary
accommodation, being away from your family.
You know, you sort of say it like it's not that it's nothing,
but you know, you just feel like you've got a responsibility, you
know, that that goes with the job.
And that is that's, that's so, so admirable.
So I really appreciate what you guys do.
I think everybody does. And I feel like after this, you
know, I feel like there will be quite a few stand up gigs for
NHS stuff happening. And, you know, I'm aware that
that will not be an incentive for a lot of NHS.
I mean, you're all right. But but yeah, I think I think
people like, like me are, are desperate to just get gigs going
again for the likes of, you know, health workers, all that
kind of stuff. And I feel like a lot of people
will will be will be wanting to put people like yourselves in
the back after this. So cheers, guys.
Thanks very much for taking the time to chat to me.
I look forward. I feel like let's just when this
is over, the violin, the guitar, the voice, which is what I call
myself, let's just let's just perform.
Let's just get creative. Again, do you patch up boys
numbers? I think I'll be.
Did some, but I'm not joking, European Tour.
Let's honestly, I don't know if there I'm sure there is a Pet
Shop Boys impersonator. I bet you he's like a bit shit.
He's probably just like a good singer, but he can't really do
the Pet Shop Boys. This guy's bringing both you
guys back me up. We go on Twitter.
Perfect. This is going to be beautiful.
Niles, thank you very much for for chatting to me.
I'll post a link in the descriptions for some 9 inch
Niles videos because people will very much enjoy that.
And yeah, I really enjoyed chatting to you guys.
Thanks very much. Thanks.
Zippers there we have at the interview with the 2 Niles 2
absolutely cracking guys talking on just a really human level
about about what it's like to work on the frontline during
this coronavirus crisis at the minute.
Now that interview was recorded a couple of weeks ago, so some
of the stuff we were talking about there might things might
have changed now, but but I hope the gist of it is is is is still
relevant for people, and I hope you find that enjoying cheers to
guys for giving up their what is at the minute very precious time
to do that. As I said, we talked about doing
like a a proper coronavirus episode, but I don't know, I
think some people just kind of not don't want to hear about it
at the minute. I don't mean it in an
irresponsible way, but I think some people are like, listen,
I'm seeing so much in the news. They just kind of want to listen
to podcasts and especially with fucking idiots like me for a bit
of a a bit of a release, but but the guys were great.
And again, thanks for doing that.
We've got to do listeners questions.
Let me take a big sip at Hey, very sexy.
I probably put that cup of tea at about a 7.8.
I enjoyed it. We've got questions.
Johnny Boo is jumping in. Johnny Boo is a stand up as well
as being a lovely guy. And he says he's a Patreon too,
so he's just extra sexy. What is the worst character
you've ever created? Ones that didn't make the cup.
Yeah. So online characters and
sketches. There has been characters I've
that weren't that like either didn't hit the mark or I just
didn't think were funny. I don't know if there's anything
I've ever shot with a character that I haven't released.
I would say in a way, the character I played in Belfast
Blues probably could have been developed a wee bit more.
Like I was caught in between doing a couple of different
things with it and I think because I was like, you know,
most, most of the writing with it, like a like Aaron kinda did
nearly all the directing and I did a little bit and then I did
a good bit of the writing and then we'd bounce it back.
What was that? It was it was a shared thing,
but I would start the script and then send it back and forth.
What I'm trying to say is I was doing a couple of different
things. So I don't think I think the
Acton was the last thing that I thought about.
So if I was doing it again, which I think Will will, I would
play that a bit differently. I did a character when Vine was
like a big thing called Chase someone, and it was like
parodying these like Vine superstars.
And that was years and years ago.
That sketch never hit. I thought it was like like a
good parody of that kind of person.
But I just don't really think it worked or maybe just wasn't well
written. I did.
I don't know. I'm trying to think of older
ones that just didn't hit the mark.
Yeah, they're deaf. And also, even if a character
like is established, like Mike Mcgoldrigger, Keith Cruz, one of
the there, there are still definitely like videos even now
that I make of those characters, the old one where I'm like, why
did I not do that differently or whatever.
But I don't really dwell on that stuff too long.
But yeah, they're there's been like ideas for characters as
well that just never really turned into anything but the
worst. I don't know, like pizza man,
Marty was always a fun character and and it kind of changed and
evolved a wee bit. But the idea of of that was just
that he's just this massive loser, but thought like had but
had such confidence. And I think that was weirder,
you know, I think as I've got older and like doing this
longer, I think I enjoy like doing the old really weird
sketch too. But back at the time I maybe
thought if it wasn't like a kind of mainstream humour sketch that
it wasn't going to be good. So I should have just done a wee
bit more of that. But I don't know.
There definitely has been quite a few misses though, for sure.
Daniel I also did that influencer character flames,
which I'm planning to do more of, but I'll approach it kind of
differently because the delivery was a bit shit the last time I
did it in terms of the way I presented it.
So I'll do something as that. Daniel Houston says, Would you
rather spend the rest of your life with a sailboat as your
home or an RV as your home? Oh, OK.
So like a like a trailer? What's an RV?
Like a camper van or, or a sailboat.
I mean a campervan, I think because people do that and it
looks kind of cool. Like I know they do it more for
like driving around Australia or something or going on a road
trip. But still it's more convenient
to go and see friends. You know, if you're living in a
sailboat and your mates like here, do you want to call over?
You know, you have to ask questions you don't normally
ask. Like hey man, where can I dock?
You know, there's Dave Elliot phoning me.
And what pisses me off about that is Dave text me and said
I've got gossip for you. And then I phoned him.
I was like, OK, I'm just finishing normal people.
And then can iPhone you back and Dave goes, yeah, that's fine.
And then when iPhone him back, he didn't answer.
And that's one of the things I hate most in the world when you
keep missing someone on the phone.
So the answer to the question is definitely Daniel on RV.
I think Katie Mack says May Macfetridge.
What would that be? A dream guest.
I think thing would be interesting.
Definitely John Lenihan who play.
If you don't do May Macfetridge's May Macfetridge,
you're a liar. But May Macfetridge is like the
panto diem of Belfast pantomime and May is played by John
Linihan, who is a really, really nice guy.
I've done like one or two things.
I met him once or twice, complete gentleman, like real,
real nice guy and just a total pro as well.
Like, like been doing that for like, I don't know, 30 years
more the character Mimic Fetteridge at the panto and just
has people absolutely creased in laughter every time.
So, yeah, probably be interesting to speak to John
about that, like that character, how he came up with Mimic
Fetteridge and and I guess he was doing that through the
troubles. He would have been performing
during the troubles and that's always interesting.
So, yeah, potentially at some point Mimic Fetteridge would be
a dream guest. Oh, oh, no, she wouldn't.
Ha, ha, Chris Hens, because, you know, panto.
All right, Sweet Chris Hens says coffee shops are the dominant
place to get a caffeine fix. What happened to the tea room?
Yeah, the tea rooms just totally, just totally died out.
The tea room used to be the shit, you know, back in, like,
Victorian times, people will be absolutely buzzing the head down
to the tea room. But now it's all it's all
coffee. I think it probably is like an
American thing. Is it, you know, when, when
Starbucks would have started and like the idea of the idea of
coffee shops and all that kind of thing.
I think that didn't catch on in Belfast.
Coffee shops have only really caught on in Belfast.
And I'd say the last like 10 years, you know, in terms of
going out for coffee, you know, or you know, these places you
get on the Ormo road or whatever, where it's very, very
coffee based as opposed to places that were cafes that
happened to sell coffee. But the Tea Room is going to
come back thanks to this podcast.
Like we've talked about having a tea party, about doing like a
live episode, which you will do. Also.
Let me pick your brains as listeners about this producer
Dan and I were chatting about doing a live podcast on Zoom is
that and the Patreons would get it for free.
But you'd pay like just a couple of quid like 3 LB to see that on
like a Friday or Saturday night interview.
Some guests maybe have a bit of live music on it, like a live
podcast episode. Take your questions if that's
something people would be interested in.
Let me know in the comments or fire me, fire me a DM because
we're talking about making that happen.
Not hyper anymore says water slides are roller coasters.
I mean for me it's always the water slide.
I think Although I do like roller coasters you like
sometimes you feel sick when you come off them.
But water slides are water slides are just always fun to
me. Apart from the one time whenever
I was in Turkey and I nearly die, I didn't nearly die.
But like everyone said, don't everybody say that when they're
younger here. I nearly died there And I was
like, you didn't just somebody punched in the arm.
But I was in Turkey whenever I was about 19, maybe a bit older.
It's totally irrelevant. And it was like a Turkish water
park and it had been built by like you're down as mate, you
know what I mean? It was one of those kind of ones
where like it wasn't passing any health and safety type things.
It was, you know, like the four slides and you can race each
other, you and your mates, but they're really, really high and
like they just drop and then it goes into a pool at the end.
It was one of those, but I've never seen like steeper ones.
And I went on one that was like tubing for about 1/4 of the way
and then it just opened up into a slide.
And I was racing against the people I was away on holiday
with and I pushed myself off as hard as I could.
And I said push, by the way, not pulled.
And I went off with so much force, I guess because I'm so
freakishly strong and cute. But what happened was my back
lifted off the slide. It was going down with so much
force. And when the wee tube bit opened
out to a slide, I hit my forehead off the bottom off like
the tube in front of me, if that makes sense, at the bottom of
it. And I came to when I hit the
pool at the bottom. So I just, I just went down.
I went down like record speed. It was just like dropping a
potato out of a skyscraper. I just like a muscle Looks like
such a loser, like so vulnerable, just like totally
out for the count. I look like I'd fallen asleep.
I look like such an adrenaline junkie.
I look like I was like this fucking this does not nothing
for me. And then it came to the bottom.
And then when it came to the bottom, it was all panicked and
the lifeguard was blown as whistle.
Going out. You need to get out, mate.
You know, because that's the way Turkish people speak.
He's like mite. You need to get out mite.
Why? Why is everyone on holiday in
Turkey speak like that? Where is that?
That's not a Turkish accent. Might.
You can't. You need to get out.
Might the people in the top might.
They're going to come down and knock you out.
Might. And yeah, it went picky
blinders, but that's just the way those guys speak.
Sorry. Sorry for the truth bombs, but I
had to pull at the bottom after being knocked out and it was all
I did. The noise when I hurt my neck
this morning and the guy's like, you need to get out and I was
like, you need to stop with the attitude.
Mr And then he blew the whistle louder and I I shipped myself
and got out. But but yeah, still what?
Even after that experience, still definitely waterslides.
Belfast guy in China says if you could give your new child only
three pieces of advice for life, what would they be?
Mine would be be polite, be brave and be the person you
truly think you are. Also, I'd possibly advise if you
ever caught lying, just say, ah, Minty fresh and hope people
believe you. Yeah, shout out to that question
because if you remember last week in the podcast, I was
talking to my mate Stevie about this guy.
We knew he was just a bullshitter and he I'm going to
say I asked Stevie if I could phone him on the podcast to tell
the story. Some people really enjoyed it
where there was a guy in his class who was a real liar and he
had a wee pen with a wee tooth toothpaste, put a plastic on it.
And he told everyone in the class that it was real
toothpaste. And he smelt it and went, I'm
empty fresh. But everyone knew it wasn't a
toothpaste. I'm saying, Stevie, can you do
me those voice notes? Do those voice notes, mate,
Because Stevie was like, I'll not come on the podcast.
But what I will do is I'll leave your voice notes and you can
play them on the podcast. OK.
Hopefully he does it. Yeah, any advice I would give
and I would say I can't give it no, because I'm not a dad yet.
But my, my advice wouldn't be be the person you truly think you
are. Because if I was the person I
truly thought I was, I would just be this like I would just
be this like 55 year old drunk auntie.
You know that That's who I am deep down.
Never have a few glasses of red wine.
And I'm like, oh, thanks for inviting us over.
I hate your house. That's me.
So I can't be who I truly am. I have to really work hard to
not be but them. But I think the rest of that's
good. Be polite.
Be brave. I mean, being polite.
Yeah. Why does that need said?
The people It really does. Like you will pass them when
you're for a walk and you make eye contact the whole time and
you go hello. And they go No, you.
You don't get to just give me the purse lips.
If I gave you the hello, you've got to return it.
That really fucks me off. Being brave, yes, but like not I
think personally not too brave. Like what happens if some guy
looks like Johnny there says do you like, what the fuck are you
looking at when you're just walking down the street?
Don't be brave in that situation.
Don't be like you, you bald bastard, because then you just
get beat up. So I don't know Belfast guy in
China. I'm going to let you know down
the line. China OK, fake news Jai has
started the virus. OK, I feel like that will come
up in listeners questions Trump, But yeah, I don't know yet.
But let me come back to you and thanks for the question.
My next question comes from Emmett.
Emmett, who says interest in your tea making methodology?
Personally, I boil the kettle, transfer it to the teapot, 2
lions tea bags, teapot on the stove for at least 5 minutes,
transfer to a large mug, then put the milk in.
It's important to make a full pot even if you're only making
tea for yourself. Always the option of more cups
of tea and different strokes for different folks.
I like it, I like the dedication, I like the tea pots
come into it. But here's what I don't
understand. If the water has just boiled,
why do people put it on the stove if they're just going to
then have tea straight away? You know what I mean?
Like, surely put the tea bags in the teapot, pour the tea, and
then maybe put it on the stove for second, third cups of tea.
I don't know why that I don't know why this stove comes into
it too early. Maybe you can explain that to
me. But yeah, you guys know by now.
I boil the kettle. I put the tea bag in the cup.
I leave it just about 30 seconds.
I pour the hot water in, dip it maybe 15 times, push against the
side tea bag in the bin. Don't put it in the sink because
you're going to have to put it in the bin later.
And then I put my almond milk in nice stir.
I take a pretty strong and that's it.
The that's is that the I thought there was more of on Instagram,
but there isn't. And I'm, I'm, I'm OK with that.
I seem really upset about that, but I'm OK.
There's plenty of questions. And that was just, there's no
need for me to really react with such sadness there.
Ben McKenna says, what are you at?
Just doing a podcast, mate. Yeah, just chilling, doing this,
doing the old pod. Thomas McCann says can you talk
about this guy lives everywhere in the world, and maybe that's a
question you should ask China. China, don't ask me ask.
China, that question, OK, When you ask them that question, you
may get a very unusual answer. Yes, behind you please.
Yeah, Big Don was Donnie. Donnie Trump was doing a press
conference. A reporter asked him.
An Asian American reporter asked him, You know, what about?
Is it like a point system? This this testing.
And she asked a question he didn't answer properly.
He's just like, you need to ask China what that what why they
created this basically. And she then was like, why you
asking me to ask China, mate? You know, because she's she's
Asian American, you know, she could conceivably have been
Chinese. And then she just kept asking
him. And he's just like, he just does
what he does, which he's like, no, moving on.
OK, thank you. And she just kept asking.
I think he, yeah, didn't answer her question and just moved on,
which was rude. But she was like, why you asking
me to ask China? Huh.
What is it about me that you're at?
Why would you ask me to ask China?
I think he probably would have said that to anyone, which
doesn't make it right. But like, I don't know, It's,
it's nuts. See if you can dig it out.
There's I think I've said this before and I think we're getting
this guy on the podcast, there's a stand up called Shane Gillis,
who is, I don't know if he's from New York, but he's on the
New York comedy scene. He does brilliant stand up about
Trump and just about his tactics of like, now, you know, no one
thinks to do that at that level, like being the president.
People think, oh, you have to just be really polite.
Then you have to. And he's just like, no, you're a
loser. Thank you, China, you know, that
kind of thing. So Trump, I don't know.
I, I can't say I know a lot about Trump, but like, it just
seems like politics. There is a, is a total mess.
And guys, Stevie's left me a voice note.
Stevie's left me a voice note. He I asked him to tell me this
story and here it is. So the guy that you want the
story's about, he went to our primary school and he was well
known for a tall tale. And the one that you always
laugh at is the one where he must have got a pen that was
from like a like a, a dentist or something.
And it had on the clip that you would clip it onto a, a jacket
pocket or something was a little plastic tub of toothpaste.
But he broke this clip off and he would walk around our
classroom with this little plastic toothpaste and he would
put it up his mouth and almost like it was a drug, would go,
oh, it's good. And he told.
Us all that his dad had shipped him in 10,000 of these many
toothpastes from Thailand. Nobody knew why.
And he was the same fella that got into a scrap in the middle
of the classroom and there was me and a couple of other guys
who were kind of around it. And the teacher marched the
whole group down to the principal's office and she
wanted obviously the witnesses to this fella starting the
fight. And I always remember us walking
down the corridor like it was a Scorsese movie in slow motion,
and him in the middle of this group of lads with us around
them and him saying you know what you seen.
Just tell the truth. And this was actually the same
guy who at one point had a pair of, you know, the Nike Air
trainers with the massive bubble in the back.
And I remember him coming into class one day and through the
course of the day, he stabbed the pencil into the bubble on
the shoe and sort of pushed it right the way through the the
bubble so that there was essentially a pencil sticking
out either side. And told everybody that the
reason that he had done it was because his dad had he had been
working for Nike, but didn't tell anybody because he was he
was the guy that came up with all the shoes.
But he had recently just moved to Adidas.
So he hated Nike and I, and they were they were some sort of
special shoes that Nike would have been raging with him for
destroying. So yeah, all the Jet stories.
Is this that was a pilot that worked for neck?
Oh, that is I don't know why bullshitting in primary school
was was just the number one thing that I enjoyed with
hindsight. Oh my God, that is you don't
know how funny that is to me. If that is funny to even a dozen
people listening. You're welcome.
Terry Charton. Stevie also says he can get me
the toothpastes. Terry Charton says, well, can
you have a listen to the the Four Idol podcast episode 8?
You're in it. Thanks, Terry.
Thanks for having me on. Terry is based in, I think,
Aberdeen and he's he's done a podcast and he had me on as a
guest and we chatted just about comedy and, and that kind, that
kind of thing. It was a long time, couple of
weeks ago. So 4 Idle hands is what the
podcast is called if you want to check it out.
And I won't listen to my own episode, but I will listen to
another episode because, you know, I talk a lot and I don't
like listening to myself back. I only like looking at pictures
of myself. Darren, Matthew says talk about
all or nothing. The latest series, the
Philadelphia Eagles. I actually don't know what all
or nothing is. If it sounds like it could be a
game show with Frank Mitchell where you you either win
everything or or Frank's catch phrase or you go home and fuck
all. Is it a West End musical that
they're that they're streaming for charity?
Darren, I'm going to be honest, I don't really know what it is.
I don't really know what it is, man.
But it is it is something and that is to be cherished.
But I will check it out. Laverkusen says What's it like
being the best anti comedian and talk about into the night on
Netflix. Hey, man, the Tanners in the
post. What's it like being an eyes
best comedian? Look, come on, it's pretty
sweet. Well, I just laughed at that.
Yeah, it's pretty sweet. I mean, the reality is I think
Northern Ireland's best comedian is, let me see.
Hmm. I actually think Northern
Ireland's best comedian is Tim McGarry.
All, all things, all things considered, if there was a
comedy night where everybody was doing like a 10 minute set and
it was all comedians here of all ages, I think Tim probably packs
in the most punch lines, has a great style.
You're watching them as well-being like, I'm already in
a way laughing because I know him from Get My Headpiece and
his character was fucking hilarious on that.
Tim probably. But there's so many comedians I
like. And obviously comedy is very
subjective, but you know, Michael knows what he's what
he's talking about. I'll tell you what, I don't
think anybody would be a good comedian right now because we're
all rusty apart from the people that are performing at home into
the mirror and stuff, which is weird.
Although we all have a process, you know, whatever works for
you. But it's weird, I think.
But good luck. I probably should do it.
Jimmy Douglas says copper mug. I don't know what End of the
Night is, but on Netflix, Jimmy Douglas says copper mug.
Dead, the amazing good series on Netflix.
What's the first series? Don't know about the second.
Got a lot to watch. We'll see what happens.
Christina Applegate. Let's see what happened.
China. OK.
Copper mug. Mug for sure.
Mark Moorhead says long thin mug or short wide mug for your tail,
you dirty bastard. Dirty bastard that doesn't get
that Dianoid, isn't it that phrase?
Oh, why? Dirty bastard?
Short, wide mug. I think Short, short, wide.
Stevie just messaged me. Forgot to say, when we were
walking to the principal's office, the fellow was barefoot.
He'd taken his shoes off for the fight.
You know, he's like, he's observing.
Like a Mai Tai style. I like that.
Or Muay Thai. Is is Muay Thai a fighting style
or a cocktail? I don't know.
I enjoy both. Connor Reddick, with your first
child in the way, what sort of parent do you think you'll be?
I don't, I don't know. You don't know until it happens.
I think from other people. I don't know.
I'm hope, like here's the thing, I say we're at like a party and
there's kids running about. There's like an adult's table.
I'm probably more comfortable at the kids table.
Like that's my level. I'll get into arguments with the
kids very quickly, like shut up and all, you know, that kind of
thing. So I think I can chat the kids.
Well, someone fucking yeah. Matthew Merlin will send out the
Dave as well. The isolated clip of me saying I
can chat the kids. I don't know.
I think I'll be, I want to be
firm but fair. But I think I'll end up just
being fair. You know, I can see me being a
bit of a pushover. Daddy, can we get ice cream?
No, Daddy, but please. Yeah.
OK, get. Let's get 10 litres of Pooh Bear
for this guy. I don't know, I honestly don't
know. Hopefully I'm good, but then
again, who knows, who knows. I think though I'll be good at
it, but it's going to. It's a bit of trial and
tribulation I guess. Inca says Money Heist if you
haven't already watched it. I think I talked about Money
Heist today in last week's episode, so keep it brief.
I enjoy it, I enjoy it a lot. Although we're watching the
second series at the minute, I think I'd prefer the first, but
that's the way a load of TV is. You know, you can't just you
can't just have every series being the best series.
And I love the first so much that I've just saw the second is
just the second series. I would enjoy it, but I think I
preferred the first. But Money Heist is good.
Chris Bailey says how much Lego can you fit up your bum?
What? Man, what a fucking stupid,
amateur thing to say. That's how we're going to end
the questions. How much Lego can I fit up my
how would I fucking even The Death Star, the Star Wars
collab, the Death Star, four of them.
So guys, we're going to wrap it up there.
Hope you enjoyed the interview with the 2 Niles, I have a guest
coming on the Friday episode of this week's podcast, TBCTBC.
Let let's see what happens there.
I've I've put a few feelers out. Let's see what comes back.
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