1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,280 Prime big Deal days is coming October 8th and 9th, which can 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,680 lead to involuntary deal squeals like the infamous deal on a new 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:13,920 massager squeal. Save big on prime big deal days 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:25,520 October 8th and 9th. Zippers, welcome to this episode 5 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,000 of the Tea with Me podcast. I have absolutely zero idea what 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,640 episode it is, but I'm going to start the podcast with this. 7 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,840 I've done my neck and that's great because you know, in the 8 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,760 Tea with Me podcast series, I've maybe done what, 2022 episodes? 9 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,080 That's a guess. But how many of them have 10 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,520 started with me going? I've done my neck, I've done my 11 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,880 back, I've done my hips. Why am I 85? 12 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:51,320 I don't know, but I've done my neck. 13 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,480 I slept funny on it because it wasn't really on the pillow. 14 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,120 You know what I mean? Like the pillow was there, but I 15 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,920 was lying at a weird angle and I think I slept in between two 16 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:04,160 pillows. And that's just, that's just not 17 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,080 a good, it's not a good vibe because you wake up. 18 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:08,520 And here's the thing, it was deceptive. 19 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,920 It was like a hangover. I woke up and I went, I'm 100% 20 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,360 I'm great. And then I got near the bathroom 21 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,360 and went, you know, when you make a noise like the old man 22 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:23,840 noise, the what about the old man of Dominic and noise And 23 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,120 then your shoulders go all the pens. 24 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,560 And then, you know, your wife's just trying to help you out. 25 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,520 She's like, if you relax your shoulders, your neck won't be a 26 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,720 sore. And you're like, I'm trying not 27 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,360 hurt when I did that, but I'm trying to relax my shoulders, 28 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,120 but I can't because my neck sore. 29 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:37,720 I would have relaxed my shoulders. 30 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,400 My neck gets even worse. I don't know, man, It's bad. 31 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,480 It's bad, but I know it's going to be OK tomorrow. 32 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:49,040 But today I'm just, I'm just not good because I'm a neck sore and 33 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,880 I had to reverse my car out of the driveway. 34 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,320 And whenever I did, I went like this because I couldn't check my 35 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,840 blind spot and I just resigned myself to the fact that I might 36 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,480 just get crashed into. I was like, Oh no, I just, I 37 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,400 just such a little bitch. It just reversed out and I was 38 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,560 like, hopefully nobody hits me, you know. 39 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,400 But the the upside would be obviously you don't want to 40 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,960 burden the NHS at the minute and it's a apartment episode to to 41 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,040 talk about that, as you'll discover. 42 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,440 But then, yeah, you know, it would be a terrible burden. 43 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,960 But at least in hospital they could soar like this neck. 44 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,480 Although I think what it is, is I injured my neck at the gym. 45 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:26,880 Don't know if you guys know this. 46 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:32,600 But but I left left lightweight and I heard it and I don't think 47 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,240 my neck has properly recovered and I think I might have an 48 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,840 underlying issue with my neck, which is brilliant. 49 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:41,800 That's really good because you know your necks not important 50 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,720 apart from everything. So there you go. 51 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,360 I've got that off my chest. I won't talk about this. 52 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:47,600 I won't talk about loads of things today. 53 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,360 I'm feeling hyped. I'm going to be honest. 54 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,920 There's been a couple of these solo episodes of the podcast. 55 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:55,560 When I don't know, I just feel a wee bit tired whenever I record 56 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,280 or I, I don't know, you know, if I do feel good, but I like, 57 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,320 maybe I'm a bit lethargic. I feel absolutely hyped because 58 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,800 I just finished watching Normal People. 59 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,720 I literally just finished the series Normal People, the BBC 60 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,320 series Normal People. And that's enough times where I 61 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:20,400 should say normal people. Wow, honestly, just to set the 62 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,720 scene, there'll be no spoilers in this. 63 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:27,080 By the way, if you haven't seen Normal People, it's a series 64 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:32,120 based down in Sligo in, in Ireland and it follows a guy and 65 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,080 a girl basically. It's like a love story in a way. 66 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:39,240 And, and it's a drama, right? And there's young people in it, 67 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:44,640 but everybody would enjoy it. I got to say my thoughts were 68 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:50,200 two things #1 it's potentially the best acting and the best 69 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,280 cast thing I've watched in a long time. 70 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,760 Every. What about when everyone's just 71 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,960 perfect for the role? You know, like like some of them 72 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:03,600 with The Sopranos or or The Wire, you know, you watch that 73 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,520 and you go, nobody else could have played these roles. 74 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,680 The Inbetweeners is a bit like that in the way where there are 75 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,200 different kinds of series, but you watch it and you're like, 76 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,079 yes, no one else could be these people with normal people. 77 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,399 I wanted to get their names up because I don't want to be 78 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:22,320 disrespectful and be like your mom on what do you call her, 79 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,240 Daisy Edgar Jones and Paul Meskel. 80 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:30,640 Honestly, by the way, as a series, I think it's 12 81 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,080 episodes, 12 half hour episodes. If you're in between watching a 82 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,120 couple of things, you know, if you've done Tiger King and all 83 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,840 the all the things we've all watched, watch Normal People if 84 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:44,240 you haven't watched it yet. I also, as someone who does like 85 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,640 a little bit of acting, obviously I'm more of a stand 86 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,320 up, but I've done a bit of acting and I want to do more of 87 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,520 it. It's me and me go, oh, I want to 88 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,640 be an actor. You know, I want to do way more 89 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,640 acting than I'm doing and push that a bit more because I don't 90 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,240 know, I just imagine myself as one of those actors watching 91 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,920 this programme on screen going what a masterpiece. 92 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,600 You know what I'm not, I'm not saying they think that, but just 93 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,560 something to Oh my God, be so proud of that. 94 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:17,080 That guy like Daisy Edgar Jones is 10 out of 10 brilliant in it. 95 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:22,680 But Paul Meskel, maybe he's just being a fella and and and I 96 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,400 don't know, I can understand that it'd be a difficult role to 97 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:32,240 play in a way. He just, Oh my God, just unreal. 98 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,000 Like the way it's filmed is incredible. 99 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,280 The dialogue is brilliant. There's a couple of funny 100 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:40,440 moments. The character, by the way, how 101 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:45,120 about the character Jamie, who's played by Finn O'Shea, who's 102 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,760 just like a little bit of a prick. 103 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,120 And what about the scene? Again, I'm not going to go on 104 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,560 about this too much that if you haven't seen it, you won't get 105 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,040 it. But there's a scene where where 106 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,320 her boyfriend Jamie demands that she bring the cream out for some 107 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:00,680 strawberries when they're in Italy. 108 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,280 And it was at that moment when he did that and everyone's like, 109 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,000 oh fuck, just leave it while you've been a prick. 110 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,840 It was at that point I realised, hey, that's my spirit animal. 111 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,640 You know, I, I like him. The guy who plays her like the 112 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,320 characters you hate in it, you really hate like her brother in 113 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,400 it as well. Unbelievable. 114 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,080 Acting like his mum who's who's played by Sarah Green. 115 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:22,880 Oh, man. Normal people. 116 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:26,080 It has a score of 8.8 out of 10 in IMDb. 117 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:27,200 I don't know how that's possible. 118 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,880 It is fucking brilliant. Really, really, really 119 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:34,720 brilliant. And there's an article one of 120 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,400 the actors in the cast were stunned by the BBC drama 121 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,360 success. Yeah, of course. 122 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,960 It feels like one of those things that almost could have 123 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,240 gone under the radar but has just had so much support from 124 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:48,920 people talking about it that it's become this. 125 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,840 You have to watch this kind of thing and you really do. 126 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:53,160 Normally I don't like stuff like that. 127 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,280 I think before I watch it, I judge it and I'm like, if 128 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:59,080 everyone's watching it, it must be shit, you know, that kind of 129 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,080 thing. But Oh my God, normal people. 130 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:05,240 I'm going to work really hard to get someone from the cast on to 131 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,840 the podcast in the next couple of weeks because I'd, I'd love 132 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:11,440 to talk about that. I'm, I'm really interested in 133 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,000 whenever something like that just blows up. 134 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,920 I'm interested in hearing what that's like for an actor, you 135 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,600 know, because I think we can imagine what it'd be like to all 136 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,880 of a sudden just be part of this amazing thing. 137 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,200 And there's a guy called Desmond Eastwood. 138 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:31,240 Desmond Eastwood who plays potentially the the most lovable 139 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,400 character in it. And he's from Lisburn, so maybe 140 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,880 maybe he'd be up for that. He's also been in Krypton, which 141 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,680 is a side note I just see on his profile. 142 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:43,440 Krypton is the thing I auditioned for. 143 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,360 It was a sci-fi series set in Belfast and I auditioned for it. 144 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,600 I think it was 12 or 13 times. So that's cool. 145 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,160 That is really cool. But yeah, normal people, I'm 146 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:53,480 going to try and get somebody on. 147 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,240 I'm going to get somebody on from the cast and hopefully 148 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:57,960 we'll do it. We'll do an episode, we'll see 149 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,320 what happens. I've got loads I want to get 150 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,680 through. And in this episode I was to 151 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,320 preface this, I don't know if preface is a word. 152 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:11,400 And by the way, there's somebody who signed up to the Patreon 153 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:16,840 that is being a little tight. And if you know this guy, you'll 154 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:18,640 expect this behaviour from him. OK. 155 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,400 He's very, he's a slippery little Otter. 156 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,360 He's called Matthew Myrnan. And what he does is whenever I 157 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:28,040 make a mistake on the podcast, he sends it to one of my 158 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,760 friends, either Arnon Butler or Dave Elliott and like points and 159 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:32,720 laughs. Like whenever I was talking 160 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,440 about the Michael Jordan basketball series on a Patreon 161 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,280 episode and I called it Sea of the Last Dance. 162 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:39,960 Easily done. It's called The Last Dance. 163 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:41,840 And there is a film called Sea of the Last Dance. 164 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:44,320 But he was straight on to my cohorts. 165 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:46,320 Look, look at this mistake he made. 166 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,680 Matthew, no one has made a bigger mistake than you when you 167 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:52,200 came to picking your car. And you know what I'm talking 168 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:53,400 about. And I know what you're talking 169 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,880 about. So let's let's move on. 170 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,320 Also, let me plug the Patreon before I move on. 171 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,200 patreon.com/tea with Me podcast where we put out the bonus 172 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,040 episodes every Monday. Every single Monday, a feature 173 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,920 length bonus episode with me and producer Dan goes up and you 174 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,280 support the podcast and everyone who has signed up for the 175 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,760 Patreon so far absolutely love that. 176 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,920 Thank you so much. It makes it really does make a 177 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:23,720 big difference at this fairly shitty time with no gigs or work 178 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,840 basically. So what I what I was going to do 179 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,880 a couple of weeks ago is like a coronavirus episode and it was 180 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,400 5050 about doing it. It was like, do we interview 181 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:38,120 some doctors and nurses and, or people that have had it then or, 182 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:39,680 or do people not want to hear that? 183 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:41,600 So it's sort of halfway through doing it. 184 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,880 And I did a great interview, which you're going to hear on 185 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:48,520 this episode with, with two friends of mine that are doctors 186 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,160 Niall and Niall, who played together in a musical duo called 187 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,120 the 9 inch Niles. When I did the my first Ulster 188 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,680 Hall show, they they, I got them to play in the venue just before 189 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:00,160 everybody went in in their class. 190 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,560 And two, two of the nicest guys you could meet. 191 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:04,120 They gave up a bit of their time. 192 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,560 I had a chat about it. So I thought what's better to do 193 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,880 is drop that interview into this, into the middle of this 194 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:15,360 podcast just to hear what it's like from 2 doctors like my age 195 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,440 or, or maybe the guy is slightly younger than me. 196 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,280 Just just to know what it's like at the minute. 197 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,440 Because we hear about all the frontline staff and you know, we 198 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,040 see social media posts and stuff. 199 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,480 But I wanted to find out actually what it, what is the 200 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,560 reality of it and how are they getting on? 201 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:35,600 And it was massively insightful. And, you know, we have all this, 202 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,080 you know, clapping for an NHS staff and so much love for them. 203 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:45,480 And I see all that. But like I to actually hear what 204 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,040 it is they're going in to do and what they prepare themselves for 205 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:51,160 it. Just if I didn't think it was 206 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:56,120 possible, but it just puts them another rung higher on on on on 207 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:58,920 the ladder for me. And and I think it was a real 208 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,280 interesting interview that I think you'll enjoy. 209 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,560 So I'm going to interview the two Niles later in this episode. 210 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,080 And I said that episode and Matthew Mirner will probably 211 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:13,320 fucking send that on the little piece of shit straight up tea 212 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:15,680 player, straight up tea for anybody inquiring. 213 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:18,680 Do I have sugar in my tea? I used to, and then I had 214 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:21,480 sweetener and now I just have nothing and I'm just bareback 215 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,480 when it comes to the old tea. Yeah, there's some things I want 216 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,400 to talk about before I play that interview. 217 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,680 I've got the old laptop here. I said that like the like nobody 218 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:34,640 really has laptops anymore. Got the old laptop and you 219 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,760 haven't heard of one of those? What I want to do is, first of 220 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,720 all, I used to do this feature on my podcast when it used to be 221 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,320 called the Shane Todd Cast. Great title. 222 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:49,400 I called TripAdvisor where I just like looked at TripAdvisor 223 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,000 reviews of places that I was going to be going to do stand up 224 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,840 in just to see what it was like. And obviously we find the worst 225 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:56,840 TripAdvisor reviews and just talk about that. 226 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:02,480 So I don't know what we're going to do this week, but I've got a 227 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,440 load of options. I thought we would look at like 228 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,200 Belfast sightseeing things. We'll pack a big company with 229 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,480 loads of reviews and then we'll just like go through the worst 230 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,720 reviews and have a good laugh at that. 231 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:20,520 So OK, OK. There's a Belfast black taxi 232 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,680 tour by the way, for anyone like not from here, that's been like 233 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:26,160 you're that's fucking really out of order that you would class 234 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:27,920 your taxi drivers by the colour of their skin. 235 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,000 It's the colour of their taxi. All right. 236 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:35,440 So yeah, black taxi is like a taxi you can get in in Belfast 237 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,200 with several other people. These guys were doing Uber 238 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:44,120 rideshare in in the 60s. You know, this guy runs a one of 239 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,560 the companies, I'm not give out the name of his business because 240 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:49,400 he might be like, yeah, mate, that's really sly. 241 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,880 And and he's got loads and loads of reviews. 242 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:54,800 So why don't we just go through some of those? 243 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,520 So I'm presuming we're going to be hearing from tourists here 244 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:59,120 that have done the black taxi tour. 245 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:03,280 And I just want to find out. I just want to see ones that 246 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:07,320 weren't happy. And also the guys responded, if 247 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,120 you, this will be brilliant. Even before we do it, I know 248 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,880 this is going to be good. Someone called Becca from London 249 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:18,120 gets in touch and says bottom line, the driver was rude and 250 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,840 disrespectful. Wikipedia was more interesting. 251 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,440 He tried to overcharge us and yelled at me from his window 252 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,240 after we paid the agreed rate. I wish you'd chosen a different 253 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,400 company. This experience ruined my visit 254 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,280 to Belfast. Here's the thing, yes, that's 255 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,040 not good, but that is an authentic visit to Belfast. 256 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,120 If you want to really come and experience a real culture, 257 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:37,600 someone will yell at you, you know what I mean? 258 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,240 But that that you know what? He probably yelled something 259 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:41,760 nice because that's the way people do it here. 260 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,520 You know, she probably got out and he's like, enjoy your fault 261 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,080 and make their head. And she's like, why is he being 262 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:48,800 so violent to me? But we're like, no, he's 263 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,200 obviously likes you. If he, if he called you 264 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:57,040 dickhead, yeah, she's gone into like a massive thing. 265 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,840 Pay the driver £40 to weighs 2 hours in a day and insult me. 266 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,160 This is not the Belfast experience I was looking for. 267 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,680 Hey, it's Belfast though. It is the real Belfast 268 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:11,280 experience, the guy, the guy's got back, right? 269 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,160 And he goes back delighted to hear from you on this platform. 270 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,120 I mean, he hasn't, you know, he probably isn't. 271 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,840 Here we go. I love a bit of sass when 272 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,160 someone fires back. Since we received your e-mail, 273 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:24,960 we've actually been investigating the incident and 274 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,320 I've also spoken to witnesses who were able to verify some 275 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,040 issues involved. To begin with, when we began our 276 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,280 conversation with the driver, the very first thing he said was 277 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,360 there was a very clear atmosphere from the minute she 278 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,880 got into the cab. This driver is one of the more 279 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:42,800 joking drivers we have, is always very bouncy and welcoming 280 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,520 the our guest. So that's this guy, whoever owns 281 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:46,680 this company, it's our way of going. 282 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,080 Look, the driver's a fucking rocket, OK? 283 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,360 So just that's just the way he is. 284 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:57,680 I know. I think they might be the 285 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,960 problem. When he introduced himself, he 286 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:03,040 asked your partner, stroke boyfriend, stroke friend his 287 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:04,840 name and began bantering with him. 288 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,800 When he went to speak to you and ask your name, there was a clear 289 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:09,800 standoff. He said this was very apparent 290 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,320 to him. I mean, what's happened there is 291 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,120 when he introduced himself, he asked your partner his name. 292 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,120 He's probably gone. All right. 293 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:18,480 What's your fault on you writing? 294 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:19,520 How are you? What's what? 295 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,240 What do you fault? What do you call your name? 296 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,480 You know, I think this guy might be the problem, but let's see 297 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:30,000 what happens here. He likes to think. 298 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,280 He likes to think passengers have a certain sense of 299 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:33,760 friendship and camaraderie with him. 300 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,040 That basically means he wants to RIP the bag out of you. 301 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:37,680 But he's going to say, like, it's all right, we're mates. 302 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:43,080 I mean, there's a thinly veiled threat here. 303 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,560 As the trip progressed, the driver was not reading from a 304 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,160 script. Because he's a man who's grown 305 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,240 up through the troubles. I mean, that's letting you know 306 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:55,320 that he knows guys that are bad boys. 307 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:59,720 You know what I mean? It's rather insulting you to try 308 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:05,080 and demean his story. I mean, this guy's response or 309 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:09,400 this person's response is maybe 5000 words. 310 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:11,920 And look at the way they finish with it. 311 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,120 We're trying to make this one of the top 10 visited cities in 312 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,680 Europe, in Belfast, and we're flourishing, as you can see by 313 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,440 our 5000 reviews. Yeah, I like it when the I like 314 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,080 it when the author hits back. I like it when the business 315 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:31,960 owner hits back. For sure. 316 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:35,520 Someone else says shame on you, your company is a joke. 317 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,280 Oh, no, I wanted to find. I want to find it when he hits 318 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:45,040 back or let's OK, an an American guy's taking the black taxi 319 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:51,840 tour. So basically the guy just didn't 320 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,360 show up. Oh, right. 321 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,360 OK, so someone didn't show up. We've got someone else. 322 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,360 I mean, here's one of the misleading things. 323 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:07,119 Black taxis in Belfast are blue. Obviously someone writes to that 324 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:09,160 note. Done this tour recently with the 325 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,640 name of this company, you would think at least you would get an 326 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,640 old style London black cab, not a blue minibus. 327 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,079 I like the idea that the driver is like, it's private, it's for 328 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:21,200 you. And then on the way down he 329 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,599 picks him up in a minibus. He's like Falkland, jump in, I'm 330 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:26,040 just leaving these one, I'm leaving these ones. 331 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:27,240 Then the Castle Court. Falkland. 332 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,520 Move over. Sir. 333 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:33,680 This is a car for eight people and what's your fault line 334 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,960 problem? Well, there's 68 people in here 335 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,480 Sir. I bet six of them kids fuck up. 336 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,720 I didn't see the relevance of soldiers XY and Z. 337 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,040 Also, I think our guy did have his dates wrong when he was 338 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:50,760 referring to the black and towns in Ireland. 339 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,680 So I think this person is like trying to catch him out. 340 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:56,480 It's essential to get dates right. 341 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:05,200 I mean, A1 let's some people were like, oh, the guy just lied 342 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:11,120 to us and made all the facts. That's funny. 343 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:15,800 Are they famous for not OK Stafford. 344 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:19,720 Someone someone from Marbella says read reviews for this and 345 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:21,920 was wary as a lot of people said the company didn't show up. 346 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,240 This happened to us. No one got. 347 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,480 Yeah, it seems like a lot of the time the people aren't picked 348 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,600 up. He's an elusive man. 349 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:35,720 Everything broke. No one showed up disappointed. 350 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:41,280 Someone goes trade value cops never showed. 351 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:45,960 Yeah, OK, look, a lot of these are people being like he just 352 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:50,280 didn't show up. I think what we what we want is 353 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,640 what we want is like someone who there's also somebody who's 354 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,840 meant to give a great review here, but left a one star one. 355 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,160 But it should be, like, way better. 356 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,800 Yeah. I wanted something, like, really 357 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:07,880 personal. OK. 358 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,760 OK. This person from Toronto, 359 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,920 Canada. As it turns out, it's incredibly 360 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:14,720 difficult to see things from inside a cab. 361 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,280 And because the murals on our tour are so close together, I 362 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,800 don't see why this wasn't done as a walk in tour because you're 363 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,200 constantly getting in and out of the cab. 364 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,080 We're driving distances of a couple of 100 metres at most. 365 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,760 Our driver was uninformative and occasionally outright terrible 366 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,800 at guiding. Going off on a tangent about the 367 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:41,840 internment trials and tribute. No, these people, these people 368 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,400 from Canada wanted to know about the troubles, right? 369 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:50,120 And I thought, and that it said, it said internal and I thought 370 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:52,200 it said internment. And I was like, why the fuck 371 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:53,520 would they be given off? They're getting to hear about 372 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,440 internment. It's way better than that. 373 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,880 Our driver was this person from This is Evan from Canada. 374 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,840 Our driver was fantastically uninformative and occasionally 375 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,480 outright terrible at guiding, going off on an impromptu 376 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:14,520 tangent about Fleetwood Mac in the 70s for about 5 minutes 377 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,400 while we sat in front of a peace wall. 378 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,480 He didn't seem to know or care about anything we saw. 379 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,240 He just kept talking about Fleetwood. 380 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:30,280 Mac. They want to hear about the 381 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,480 murals, they want to hear about Belfast. 382 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,720 There's just a big fat guy driving the taxi. 383 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,560 Being like ah Dreams is a fucking belter though. 384 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,840 Oh, that's so, I mean, just the image of that, it's just it's 385 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,360 just so enjoyable. Oh my God. 386 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,400 And can you tell me more about Bobby Sands? 387 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,080 I can tell you so everywhere is a Falkland. 388 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,880 That's a Falkland tune. Ask me anything about Fleetwood 389 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,640 Mac. I was hoping you can tell us 390 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,040 something about the murals. Fleetwood Mac deck head start 391 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:24,480 talking. I'm sorry guys, I'm sorry, but I 392 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,360 really, really, really enjoyed that. 393 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:34,960 I really so from Adelaide in Australia, said Book this tour 394 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,960 today, especially to experience a black card writer in Belfast 395 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:39,600 and learn more about the Troubles in Ireland. 396 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,800 I was extremely disappointed when a disabled taxi came to 397 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:47,120 pick us up. Don't be fucking discriminatory, 398 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:49,720 all right? In the sly, just a taxi coming 399 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,440 around the fucking crutches. I may as well have organised the 400 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,480 driver myself, so we've got the whole experience. 401 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,560 No disrespect to the driver, He was a nice guy. 402 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,320 A disabled taxi. Be nice to me. 403 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:07,720 He's a disabled taxi. Oh my God, I can't. 404 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,320 I can't stop laughing about the Fleetwood Mac guy. 405 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:22,400 Yeah, they, someone got taken to a building, but it was closed. 406 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,200 I mean, that's just Belfast doing. 407 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,960 Oh, sorry, what here? Do you know what? 408 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,160 Do you know what I'll actually do? 409 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,200 It's difficult for me to pick the best reviews out. 410 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,960 So why don't next week I properly research this? 411 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,840 I'll properly do it too. I'll properly and properly do 412 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,960 it. But this is this is going to be 413 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,960 a new thing every week on the podcast. 414 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,480 We're just going to go through the worst TripAdvisor reviews 415 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:49,120 for things in Northern Ireland. Oh my God, that's made me laugh 416 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:51,640 so much. That's made me laugh so much. 417 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:59,240 What we're going to do? What about Jerry Adams? 418 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,240 What about Fleetwood Mac? Fuck in hell. 419 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,640 Oh my God. Oh my God. 420 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,560 And I bet you that guy surname is like McKee or something. 421 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:15,680 And his nickname is of course, Billy Fleetwood Mackey. 422 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,680 For sure it is, for sure it is. What we're going to do is I'm 423 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,960 going to play the interview with with the 2 Niles, with two 424 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,040 doctors, 2 doctors living and working in Belfast at the minute 425 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,360 dealing with all coronavirus thing. 426 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:31,280 It's more to try and get the human side of it. 427 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:32,920 We're hearing about all these facts and figures. 428 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,280 But I want to speak to guy, the guys about their real 429 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,240 experiences. I'm going to play that now. 430 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,520 And then at the end of the podcast, I'm going to take 431 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,320 listeners questions. Let's get to the interview. 432 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,960 This is with two Niles who are currently doctors in Belfast. 433 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:59,210 Hope you enjoy it. Guys, can you start with, I'm 434 00:23:59,210 --> 00:24:01,370 going to call you glasses now, which is very, very 435 00:24:01,370 --> 00:24:04,570 disrespectful, but I don't know, or maybe not give your surname. 436 00:24:04,770 --> 00:24:08,930 Can you tell me what, what, what you do like, what, what your 437 00:24:08,930 --> 00:24:11,890 exact job is? And maybe just a quick sentence 438 00:24:11,890 --> 00:24:15,330 actually about why you got into this or or what what made you 439 00:24:15,330 --> 00:24:20,120 pursue this profession? So. 440 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:22,440 I have particularly good reasons for that. 441 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,800 So me, I, I work in the royal. Well, this was both work in the 442 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,920 royal and at the minute I the last couple of years I've I 443 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,440 worked in the field of neurosurgery. 444 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:38,920 So I think they do with brain and the spine sort of that sort 445 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,680 of stuff. And yeah, as now alluded to our 446 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,280 reasons, this is going to sound really stupid. 447 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,600 I I wanted to do Law until I started watching Scrubs and 448 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,440 Upper 6th. And then I was like, that looks 449 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,440 like a lot of fun. And then, yeah, I did some work 450 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,440 experience and enjoyed it. But yeah, it's probably a 451 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,840 terrible reason, but And also because it wasn't allowed to be 452 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,080 a musician. Look, if you offered me, if you 453 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,720 offered me 50 guesses because I watch Scrubs would not be in my 454 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,640 top 50. Yeah, we should do 1. 455 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:17,240 And non glasses Nile. I so I'm an F2, so I graduated 456 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:22,480 but nearly two years ago now and I'm in cardiology in the Royal. 457 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,000 So we sort of do different placements over the first few 458 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,440 years. And cardiology was meant to be 459 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,840 my second of three this year. But with everything that's going 460 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,360 on, just everyone stayed in their placements. 461 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:35,280 So where you would have been there for four months, we're not 462 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:40,280 there for eight months. Have your jobs changed because 463 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,840 of coronavirus? Like I've noticed like a lot of 464 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,800 consultants and stuff, having to go into COVID centres and that 465 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,080 kind of thing. So what's been the impact on 466 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,760 both your jobs? Big time. 467 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:55,240 I think it's just for us, like we were lucky anyway, we stayed 468 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,160 in the same place. So you don't have to go 469 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,840 somewhere new and get used to a new environment down there, any 470 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,080 or IC or any of that. But just everything you do is 471 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,320 different. You're just constantly aware of 472 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,640 it, worry of it. You know, you don't go and see 473 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,200 people the way you would have, you know, like 2 months ago. 474 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,640 Like, you know, you don't examine people until you know, 475 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,360 unless you have to. You don't, you know, you don't 476 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:18,280 get as close to people. Everyone's wearing masks 477 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,880 everywhere. It's just entirely changed the 478 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,480 way you go about your job without changing, you know, the 479 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,400 actual job you're doing, if you know what I mean. 480 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,400 Yeah. I think certainly around the 481 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,400 time that this started, I suppose just over a month ago, 482 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,480 we were, I don't know what it was like for you now, but we, 483 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,040 we, we had a lot of extra training sessions in 484 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,960 anticipation of us being redeployed to ICU and different 485 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,760 places. Because the, the doctors that 486 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,600 are going to be most effective, you know, in, in treating the 487 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,960 really sick people who have coronavirus or the ICU doctors 488 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,520 and the anaesthetists. And so the aimless to train us 489 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,400 up to a level to kind of cover some of their work so they could 490 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,480 go down to the COVID centres and they got these patients. 491 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,720 So it's strange. It kind of like certainly around 492 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,560 the start of it, like, again, I don't know, but you know, I was 493 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,440 absolutely terrified. Like I actually in a weird way, 494 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,960 like I actually felt like we were like preparing to go to war 495 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,000 because like you hear all these terms like redeployment and, you 496 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,080 know, things that, you know, we that's not a word that's banded 497 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,840 about in medicine very often. So yeah, I think the biggest 498 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,600 thing, and I suppose it's probably a good thing for me now 499 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,560 to can we get across if we can, I mean to break it down really 500 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,280 kind of in a simplistic way that probably the thing that gets 501 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,000 referred to Nile the most would be people with chest pain. 502 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,720 And the thing that would get referred to me most would be 503 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,600 people who have headaches for whatever reason. 504 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,120 And one thing we're noticing a lot of the especially in 505 00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:46,280 surgical specialties, a lot of the day-to-day stuff like that 506 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,680 case in clinics and the theatre lists have all been cancelled. 507 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,240 Obviously, you know, the kind of try and deal with with 508 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,200 everything else that's going on. And so a lot of the things that 509 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,240 we make up the day-to-day work have stopped and maybe things 510 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,840 are a little bit less busy. But what we're noticing is that 511 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,360 I think, and I think you've sat and do now you've had a summer 512 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:08,920 experience, all of the people that may her, her should maybe 513 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,840 be coming to Northeast with other health problems maybe 514 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,880 aren't coming as early as they should. 515 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,600 And so we're we're noticing a lot of people that are ending up 516 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,840 coming in and getting referred to each first species. 517 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,880 They're coming in actually a lot more sick than they would have 518 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,880 if they'd come in. And I think that comes from 519 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,920 people being a little bit fearful of coming up to, to any, 520 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,480 you know. People, I think people, yeah, 521 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,280 it's, it's a weird thing where like, I guess hospitals are 522 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,480 going to be in in, in a way, extremely safe environments 523 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,840 because you have so many regulations you need to abide 524 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,120 by. I get a, an infusion for having 525 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:48,720 Crohn's disease every, every but three months and I'm due to go 526 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,480 next week to get it. And it's weird because I hadn't 527 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,320 thought about it up until day for me to basically say, oh, 528 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,160 we're in a different building. And I hadn't got like nervous 529 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,800 about it until she said that. And and I, I said, I don't know 530 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,880 why I asked this, but I said to the woman on the phone, I was 531 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,520 like, here, do I need to wear like a face mask? 532 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,160 And she said, she said, you have a face mask. 533 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:16,440 And I said, yeah, I've had my own Louis Vuitton 1 commissioned 534 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,240 for seven grand. No, I said, do I have to wear a 535 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,880 mask? She said, do you have a mask? 536 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,120 And I was. Like, Oh no. 537 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,080 And she was busy like, so I asked him if you need to wear a 538 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,560 mask. She said we can give you a mask 539 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,720 when you get here. And I, I don't know, I feel like 540 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,000 I would like a mask. I feel like I've always been 541 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,320 very dismissive of people who wear masks, especially like, you 542 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,680 know, when you're on the Tube in London and you see people 543 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,800 wearing wearing a mask, you're like, oh, for God's sake, that's 544 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,160 overkill. Now I feel like, yeah, I feel 545 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,160 like permanently I'm going to be wearing a mask for for a while. 546 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,760 But is is the the sort of advice on that changing in terms of 547 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:55,840 wearing face? Masks doing it one public like, 548 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,480 but in the hospital it's everyone has to wear it sort of 549 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,880 constantly, like unless you're going for a, a coffee or lunch 550 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,360 or whatever, like everyone's wearing masks. 551 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,800 And that's the other thing is like also such a different place 552 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,000 because there's no vision allowed apart from very special 553 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,080 circumstances. So like the odd family member 554 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,000 and stuff you see about like are getting masks and that sort of 555 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,080 thing. Michael Jackson was Jackal was a 556 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,040 kids. Ahead of her. 557 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,000 But it's you kind of. It's all coming like. 558 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,760 The the part about that, that I was like, it's there's a good 559 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,120 reason to do it. But you kind of, I think when we 560 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,760 were walking around, obviously we're aware of the facial 561 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,000 expressions that we're recruiting, but you kind of 562 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,560 realise that patients, all they're saying is probably just 563 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,480 about your eyes. So I'm like, I was, I smile at a 564 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,560 patient. She had no idea that I was 565 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:47,960 smiling. She just thought I was staring 566 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:48,920 at her. And, you know, you can kind of 567 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:50,800 see people are like, no idea, like. 568 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,200 The good thing though, is that's, it's now you have 569 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,400 beautiful eyes. So that's, yeah, like this, 570 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:57,760 that's good. That's going to help that. 571 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,040 But I mean, it's, it's interesting you say about the 572 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,880 fact that, you know, when, when you heard all these terms about 573 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,560 redeployment, that and that kind of thing that that you guys were 574 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,960 nervous. Because I think in a very 575 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,200 ignorant way, when I hear about COVID centres, when I hear about 576 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,800 hospitals, there's always this weird assumption that doctors 577 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,880 and nurses are going to be OK. You know, it's almost like I 578 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,600 think, oh, you guys can't get sick, you know, because because 579 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,000 you're doctors, yeah, you guys are the ones that are, that are 580 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:35,360 there all the time. And I think this is really 581 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:42,680 probably helping that Will a lasting legacy of this is people 582 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,880 like me will, will think way, way more about that. 583 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,440 You know, I've always been like a fan of the NHS. 584 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,560 I've benefited from the NHS from whenever I've been sick before. 585 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,600 But I think now the fact that you're talking about 586 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:56,920 redeployment makes you sound like soldiers. 587 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,880 I think people are are thinking of doctors and nurses like that. 588 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,840 You know, using the term frontline isn't like a flippin 589 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,800 thing. You know, it, it, it really, 590 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,880 really is. And I guess I want to ask, 591 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:13,840 whenever you got into this, this profession, were you ever told, 592 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,720 not specifically this, but something like this could 593 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,240 happen? Were you ever told if there is a 594 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,800 pandemic or, or something like this, that look, you're going to 595 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,520 be asked to really, really throw, throw yourselves into it 596 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,280 or, or is that just part of the, is that just an assumption in 597 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,000 the job? I don't know. 598 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,920 There's definitely no specific time that I ever think of 599 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,720 something like this would come along. 600 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,880 Do, you know, even a few months ago when you were sort of 601 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,000 hearing about it for the first time, I was like, OK, you know, 602 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,640 it probably blew over just just like everyone else, you know? 603 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,840 And it's only really the past two months that I've probably 604 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,320 ever thought of, you know, ourselves as being on like the 605 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,720 front line or like whatever that really means and this sort of 606 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:56,600 thing. So I don't know. 607 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,280 I'd never. Thought about it to be honest, 608 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:06,840 yeah, me neither yeah, though I yeah like whenever we were kind 609 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,120 of like say about a month ago, we're getting all this extra 610 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,320 training and kind of trying to get used to things that we've. 611 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:17,200 Because obviously, you know, it's always people, you know, in 612 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,600 the news and different things. It's they just really talk about 613 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,120 broadly about doctors and nurses and medical and healthcare staff 614 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,160 and all the people that are involved. 615 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,520 But obviously within medicine, the nursing thing, healthcare in 616 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:31,640 general, like, you know, you're kind of a lot of us work in kind 617 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,440 of niche specialties and a lot of the, lot of the things that 618 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,720 you can do to kind of help the patients or the things that they 619 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,920 require to kind of get them through the worst part of the 620 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,080 illness. Like, and especially is that me 621 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,720 and our work and we've, we're not exposed to that on a daily 622 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,680 basis. You know, a lot of the machines 623 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,560 that are very like the ventilators, like, you know, we, 624 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,480 we, we got some training to, to, to kind of try and figure out 625 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,640 how these things work. But, you know, that was my first 626 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,760 experience and I was, I think off like since 2014 of, of 627 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,160 seeing that stuff. So but so, as I say, it was 628 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,560 terrifying and wasn't answered your question. 629 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,040 No, I never thought about it, but he kind of had to just 630 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:10,840 think. And thankfully, you know, you 631 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,120 know, at this stage, neither mere now have had to go to lose 632 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:18,199 areas yet, but you kind of just have at the end of the day, how 633 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,199 can you not go into it? How can you say no? 634 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,360 Like, how can you not? Like, you know, at the end of 635 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,639 the day, as Cliche and TJ as it sounds like, you know, you're, 636 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,400 you're trained to do certain things and you know, you have a 637 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,960 responsibility to step up if you're asked to. 638 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,840 Zippers, let me very quickly interrupt the interview to point 639 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,199 you in the direction of our patreonpatreon.com/tea With Me 640 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:48,040 podcast where we put up bonus episodes every Monday and we 641 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,800 have some like giveaways and stuff like that. 642 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,159 There's merch, news, gig news, all that kind of stuff. 643 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:54,920 There's loads of people already on there really helping us out 644 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,280 with the podcast. If you can also do that, that 645 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,800 would be great. patreon.com/TV Me podcast. 646 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:01,440 Back to the interview with The 2 Niles. 647 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,360 What has there been a big change in your like living 648 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,160 circumstances and things like that? 649 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:15,160 Have you had to isolate from family or partners or anything? 650 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,240 Not for me. Luckily I'm at home at the 651 00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:22,280 minute and the younger brother works up in Antrim hospital as 652 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:27,600 well, so we're just chilling in the heist when we're divorces. 653 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,760 Now's had a bit of a change in circumstances. 654 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,840 I mean, I was from, from it started, I was pretty much 655 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,680 cutting myself off from the family in the house. 656 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,360 I was kind of between houses. So I was living at home with my 657 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,320 parents for first time in 10 or 11 years. 658 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,160 I was on a short term basis when this all stopped and started, 659 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,040 sorry. And then the house that I was 660 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,760 meant to be moving into your, you know, that all kind of fell 661 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,800 through obviously. So I wasn't planning on moving 662 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,560 out, but then I actually had to isolate and get the testing and 663 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,600 get the swabbing and stuff. And then I realised although I 664 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,360 was fine when immediately whenever I was sent home from 665 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,200 work because of she's getting testing and things at that 666 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,600 stage, my whole family essentially then had to isolate 667 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,840 for two weeks and my brother had to cancel it, cancel two weeks 668 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,760 working that kind of, you know, kind of highlighted to me that I 669 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:19,800 probably need to get out of the house. 670 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:24,760 So, so I have left, I've moved out and kind of just be out by 671 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:30,840 myself at the minute. Is, is, is it a case of user, 672 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,960 user so busy you're doing so much? 673 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,200 It's it's, it's, it's overwhelming. 674 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,280 Or do you have moments during all this where you can, you can 675 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,880 really think about it, if that makes sense. 676 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,520 I mean, from an outside in point of view, I feel like doctors and 677 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:48,640 nurses and stuff are just so flat out at the minute that you 678 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,760 almost don't have time to to come up for air. 679 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:51,720 What? What sort of shifts are you 680 00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:52,240 just? Working with? 681 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:54,640 No I don't. I don't think it's a case of 682 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,400 being flat out at all, to be honest. 683 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,520 I think in fact, a few weeks ago actually, you were, you weren't, 684 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,480 you were because people stopped maybe coming in. 685 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:04,800 Nobody wanted to come into hospital. 686 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,280 Actually. There was a lot of time just 687 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,760 sitting around sort of thinking about it, chatting about it, 688 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,360 going to meetings about it, you know, which was good in terms of 689 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,200 you could get a bit more time to get trained and get used to PPE 690 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,120 and all that. But it was maybe a bad thing in 691 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,960 other ways where we're sitting thinking about it, you know, all 692 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,760 the time. Anxiety level sort of building 693 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,880 up a wee bit. It's a bit different than I, 694 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,840 but. Yeah, I think the sorry, no. 695 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,880 No, no, go ahead. I was just going to say, I think 696 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:37,000 the, the waiting around, like the waiting for it for me was 697 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,720 the worst part. I got to a stage where I was 698 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:42,280 like, I just wanted to come. I just, I was like, let's just 699 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,320 let's, just let's get on with it. 700 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,240 Let's get stuck in. Let's, you know, let's, let's 701 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:48,760 try and get through it. But it was those couple of weeks 702 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,800 where we were all kind of sitting because you hear the 703 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,040 news and a lot of stuff that we are told about or find out 704 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,280 about, it's the same stuff that but everyone else in the country 705 00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,360 is reading in the news. And so we what we kept here and 706 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,960 we were like 2 weeks behind London or whatever. 707 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,080 And so we were just constantly waiting for this thing to hit. 708 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:06,480 And that for me, that was the worst part. 709 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:08,760 Yeah, like the calm before the storm kind of thing. 710 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,520 Exactly. You know where the hell the 711 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:16,480 storm was or when it was coming. As a profession, is it, is it a 712 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,760 profession that if you did, you're talking about anxiety and 713 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,240 of of course, with what you're going through, that's something 714 00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:23,520 a lot of people are going to experience. 715 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,600 Is it something that you can have have proper chats with your 716 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,080 colleagues about? Can can you sort of speak to, to 717 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,520 people you work with? And is it like a shared thing of 718 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,480 look, how do you feel about this? 719 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,720 Is it, is it, is it like open in terms of that sort of thing? 720 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,040 I think in cardiology and we've been really well supported by 721 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:49,400 all our seniors and we've a good team of colleagues and all that. 722 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,240 And like most of the time the best of you feel like it's just 723 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:55,840 a bit of crack, you know, and everyone's up for sort of 724 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,080 chatting and stuff. But I don't know, thankfully, 725 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,520 because we're in the royal, we're not, we're on the 24/7. 726 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,320 So I don't know whether that would be different if you are 727 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,120 constantly and that you know, if you're in the matter or that and 728 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,680 you're you're surrounded by it constantly. 729 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,320 And yeah, so I don't know, don't know. 730 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:20,720 I think certainly so I suppose I got a lot of the people that 731 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:22,880 work with and colleagues and friends and working. 732 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,400 And obviously you've got all of your mates that you lived with 733 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,480 and studied with and you know, you kind of chatting to 734 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,160 different people who work around the place. 735 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:34,560 And at least in work, I think the general feeling was I think 736 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,840 there was nearly an acceptance that all of us were probably 737 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,320 going to just get it at some stage. 738 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,520 Then you just kind of, you know, you just kind of accepted that 739 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,840 there was no way to avoid it and it was going to happen. 740 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,440 It was it was more a case of when you got sick as opposed to 741 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,080 F and that was quite scary. But I think everyone with them 742 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,920 mentally was in was in the same boat. 743 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:54,000 But certainly the although, like I said, me and I haven't had to 744 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,040 be redeployed yet. And it seems like from the 745 00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,240 things they're saying in the news that, you know, this first 746 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:01,440 peak might have passed, but you know, there will be a second to 747 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,120 maybe a third. We have a listen. 748 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,760 So if we don't get redeployed this time around, we might the 749 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:09,040 next time and certainly the trust. 750 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:10,960 At least we both work in the Belfast Trust. 751 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,400 You know, they like, they have done extra training they have 752 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,080 done and, and everyone who has been redeployed that I they know 753 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:18,720 like the systems and everything in place. 754 00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:24,800 You get proper inductions, you get, you know, you're, you, you 755 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,800 work a set amount of shifts, you get a set amount to breaks. 756 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,720 You know that the systems are in place to ensure that physically 757 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:32,440 and mentally, you know, people are well supported through the 758 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:33,760 process, you know. Yeah. 759 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,160 Well, that, that, Yeah, that's great. 760 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,400 I guess that's what I was asking is, are things in place where 761 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:41,440 those natural worries that you're going to have are helped 762 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,400 and stuff? And that's that's good to know. 763 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,440 I want to ask you, I don't want to keep you for too long, but I 764 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,720 want to ask you about the extent of everything. 765 00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:53,000 So I was mentioned to you that earlier that I'm, I'm not 766 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,960 watching much news at all at the minute. 767 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,720 And that's different to when, when this all first came out, I 768 00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:02,440 was addicted to like the 24 hour news channels. 769 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,880 Since then, I've kind of taken an attitude of, and I guess me 770 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,800 having the luxury of being at home all day. 771 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,320 I, I, I can do that where look, I'll watch a bit of like Good 772 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,160 Morning Britain in the morning for half an hour. 773 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:15,920 And that's kind of, that's kind of it. 774 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,320 And I'm more sort of thinking about, you know, OK, I'll check. 775 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,960 I'll check the news once a day and have a look. 776 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,840 How are we doing? Because I you hear different 777 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,440 things you hear people saying on Northern Ireland, everything's 778 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,080 great then and you'll hear people say the opposite. 779 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,720 You you see on social media, people flaunt and lockdown. 780 00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:40,360 And this is a big thing at the minute of look at these people 781 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,640 doing that. And then there's also articles 782 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,680 up that, oh, we're doing great in terms of lockdown. 783 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:49,280 So from your point of view in your profession, how, how are we 784 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,440 sort of handling this as a as a public? 785 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,320 I think generally anyway, I don't know, it's hard to gauge 786 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,920 that like from in the hospital. But I think the main thing is 787 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,640 the change from the idea a few weeks ago as we've sort of 788 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,040 progressed through it, because everyone's a lot more positive 789 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,760 and hopefully that sort of speaks to the extent of how 790 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,720 we're doing. But certainly staff and wise, 791 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,760 do, you know, morale is very good about it, you know, and I 792 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,520 think a lot of the anxiety is lifted. 793 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,720 And I think that's just testament to, you know, most 794 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:23,520 vast majority of people sort of taking things seriously and 795 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:28,000 staying at home and helping us out from that point of view. 796 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,680 Nick. Yeah. 797 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,760 I mean, like I say, a lot of the numbers and the figures that we 798 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,400 would be aware of are the same as that everyone would know 799 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,320 because it's, you know, the Robin Swan and different people. 800 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,600 Like, you know, there's press conferences every day updating 801 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,160 us all. And I think the initial 802 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,000 modelling like a couple of weeks or a month ago, the predicted 803 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,560 deaths was 14,000. He's come out two days ago and 804 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,720 said we're now down to 1500 expected deaths in the first in 805 00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:57,440 the surge. And it's strange, I think we can 806 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,400 become a little bit numb to it because you see at least Spain 807 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,920 and even the UK now, they're hitting the guts of 1000 people 808 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:06,480 a day. And it's really hard to 809 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:10,160 comprehend like that, like you kind of just, you know, just 810 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,280 looking at as a number. But you've had so many people 811 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,000 and I think we look here and you know, our figures seem to be 812 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,760 somewhere between 5 and 20 a day roughly. 813 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,760 And that's still 520 people. You know, like that's still a 814 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,640 lot. And if we're currently sitting 815 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:31,200 in around 250 deaths and our expected is 1500 units, there's 816 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,160 still, that's still a lot of people that could lose their 817 00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:37,720 life. So I would say that certainly at 818 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:42,080 at no stage does it seem like the the situation here has been 819 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:46,480 at the point of overwhelming or causing the the hospitals here 820 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,880 to to breakdown. You know, certainly the social 821 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,200 distance in here seems to have been had a really good effect. 822 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:57,920 And I say that not to to relax people, but to, you know, to 823 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,560 encourageable to keep doing it because it would be great if we 824 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,080 went from 1500 and brought that number of expected people dying 825 00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,040 down as much as possible because there's no cure all. 826 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,600 The end of the social distancing is to, you know, is to, is to 827 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,120 keep the number of very sick people at a level where we can 828 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,720 treat them appropriately. And that's the aim of all of it. 829 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:19,760 And so if we keep doing that and we keep sticking to it, I'd much 830 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:23,960 rather be in lockdown for for longer and, and try and keep our 831 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,680 numbers as low, you know, as head melting as it is. 832 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,400 Yeah, no, thank you. I think that's really important 833 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,920 what you say about like we're doing well with the social 834 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,920 distancing, but let's like, let's just keep doing well with 835 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,880 it because the temptation is like, oh, we're doing well. 836 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,920 Let's have a street party and, and let's, let's play a public 837 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,000 game of Twister. You know, I think, I think like 838 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,400 you say, like if we're, if we're doing well at it, let's just, 839 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:52,160 let's just keep doing it because it is, it is, it is difficult 840 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,560 when the weather is good that they're not just, you know, 841 00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,600 look, if I'm a bit LAX about this or whatever. 842 00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,840 And but I think people, people are being good. 843 00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,440 And it's surprising because look, let's face it, guys, we 844 00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,280 live in Northern Ireland. There's a lot of headers about. 845 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,320 It. But even like even these, even 846 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,240 these guys, like there's people who want to get out there and, 847 00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:13,320 and, and do things, you know? Even like I'll be honest, when 848 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:16,440 they cancel the 12th I was like. Fair plenty lads, because they 849 00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,120 love it. They absolutely love it. 850 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,720 But even they're like, you know what, we're just going to chill 851 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,520 and do it bigger next year. But I just I just want to hear. 852 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,320 I appreciate, I really appreciate your time. 853 00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:30,080 And, and I just want to say like, do you use my final 854 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:34,840 question is, do you feel that love from the sort of from the 855 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,640 public for, for your profession right now? 856 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,400 Do you, does it, is it something like use chat about? 857 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,960 And I know the people are doing like the, the, the applause on 858 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,400 the doorstep and all that kind of thing. 859 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:51,240 And just generally like praising the NHS, like is, is that 860 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:57,120 something that you feel? So no, I think the general 861 00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:00,840 sentiment with around how many ways a lot of people are sort of 862 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:04,120 quite taken aback Bat, you know, there's almost a sort of like 863 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,720 Northern Irish sense of like we've been embarrassed about it. 864 00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:11,320 Like, you know, don't even take it too much that like, but I 865 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,480 definitely more annoyed than never before, obviously. 866 00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:21,040 Yeah, it's, I mean, obviously you get something like a little 867 00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,720 colleague of work, you know, tries to never comes around to 868 00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:26,880 the 8:00 Thursday club. He tries to time it just right. 869 00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,160 You know, he's put it into his drive. 870 00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,000 There's the. Pathoscope. 871 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,760 Like, you know. Scrubs. 872 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,360 Scrubs still on and he's open and he's a Porter. 873 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:41,800 You know, stethoscope. You know, but it's you know, but 874 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,200 clearly the, I think clearly the people at the top, you know, the 875 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,400 people making the big decisions and the trust and things, you 876 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,400 know that although they might not be on and me and I can't 877 00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,800 profess to be frontline of such. We're not working in any and ICU 878 00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,360 at the minute. You know, the people that are in 879 00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,480 the offices making the big decisions, you know, they 880 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,320 they're clearly they're not completely out of touch of what 881 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,440 it's like in the ground. And even simple things like, you 882 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:09,120 know, they're providing meals, you know, free meals to all 883 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,040 staff, everyone in the hospital and just little things like that 884 00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:16,560 to kind of kind of obviously makes the day-to-day, you know, 885 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:18,720 just a little bit easier. But yeah, it's great. 886 00:47:18,720 --> 00:47:21,240 And you know, like you see fireworks and different things 887 00:47:21,240 --> 00:47:23,680 going off. It's it's, it's the first thing 888 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:25,160 in a long time. It seems to be, you know, 889 00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,200 everyone is on the same side against the thing as you say, 890 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,640 except for the few headers. You're, you know, well this 891 00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,520 three party. And they'll get it, but it just 892 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,000 won't be for a while. And hopefully, if anyone of you 893 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,560 is having a few party 9 Inch Nails, you can pick us whenever 894 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,640 this thing's all over. Yes, is that are you missing 895 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,480 performing like are you still picking up the violin like in 896 00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:49,040 your in your spare time, in your days off you still able to to 897 00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,760 just just play in the house? The violin's a weird instrument 898 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:56,360 that's usually requires someone else to play along. 899 00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,800 Otherwise she's just a weird guy playing the tune by yourself. 900 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,520 I suppose different for now if the guitar might be a bit 901 00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,920 easier, but I in the last two days I've really, really missed 902 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,440 it. Like I really can't. 903 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:10,240 And I feels so much for all our friends who are full time 904 00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:12,640 musicians and anyone who's self-employed, you know, like 905 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,840 yourself and the creative, creative industry, you know, 906 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,440 it's, it just must be so difficult, you know, because of 907 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,560 all of their gigs and all of their, their, their livelihood, 908 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,080 it's kind of just been taken away from, you know. 909 00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,880 That's The funny thing as well for us is, you know, like, OK, 910 00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,200 you're going into work in this coronavirus and all that. 911 00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,200 But like, you know, we have a sense of normality quite a bit, 912 00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,320 you know, that a lot of other people don't have, you know, and 913 00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,160 you're maybe, you know, a couple days off, like even by the end 914 00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:40,960 of that, I'm getting cabin fever in the house. 915 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:47,000 So I know why everyone asks. I was trying to work like 916 00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,400 giving, giving off to myself, but like why have I been under 917 00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,000 work when it's so nice outside? You know, as if it was like a 918 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:52,880 normal day. Any noise? 919 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,040 Oh well, if it was at home and still be sitting inside anyway 920 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,200 like so. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's just 921 00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,240 funny though, whenever like I'm listening to you guys talk about 922 00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:03,720 the fact that, you know, you, you accepted at a point that, 923 00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:05,760 you know, you're going to get sick and you just got to 924 00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:07,880 continue your job. And for a second they're used 925 00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,000 for like, I mean, we just respect people in creative 926 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,720 industries, freelancers. And I'm sitting here like, 927 00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:17,320 cheers, like. I am a like and again, not the 928 00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:21,920 sound cheesy or like list and and and like I'm a I'm a proud 929 00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,560 patron of the boy town podcast, tea with me and the slag I 930 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,160 podcast and it's, you know, things like that. 931 00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,240 Like, you know, because like you say, whenever you get out of 932 00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:33,640 work, like now says works the easy part because you're kind of 933 00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,720 yeah, there is it just does a lot of the time feel like a 934 00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:38,120 normal day today whenever. You get out of work. 935 00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:41,560 I'm also not you're like works the easy part has never been a 936 00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,320 doctor. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. 937 00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,920 You know, you just get the shift on, do the rounds. 938 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:47,520 That's. You know what I mean? 939 00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:51,360 Like you get out, you get out of it and you kind of like sitting 940 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,800 down by yourself. It's like, no, it's obviously 941 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:55,840 not comparing like this, but you know, like when you do a good 942 00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,280 gig, whatever and you're like, oh, this is great. 943 00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,120 Then you go sit down. You're like, but what I do with 944 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,680 my hands now sort of thing, you know, when there's there's lots 945 00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,760 of people, musicians and comedians, different thing 946 00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:08,000 putting out podcasts and things that it's it's actually, it's 947 00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,680 it's mixed. It's a big help, you know. 948 00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:14,920 Well, honestly, the the, the I mean, I always had respect for 949 00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:16,840 doctors loaded doctors in my family. 950 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,440 But but since the start of all this and just hear, hear and 951 00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,480 just talk there about I don't know. 952 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,400 It's the fact that it's fact that this doesn't feel, you 953 00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,160 know, you're talking about like you're just about to move into 954 00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,560 your house. I know about moving into my 955 00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:30,400 first house, how how amazing it was. 956 00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,080 And you've had to like stop that and move into this temporary 957 00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:35,600 accommodation, being away from your family. 958 00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,480 You know, you sort of say it like it's not that it's nothing, 959 00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,680 but you know, you just feel like you've got a responsibility, you 960 00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,240 know, that that goes with the job. 961 00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:46,280 And that is that's, that's so, so admirable. 962 00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:49,160 So I really appreciate what you guys do. 963 00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,920 I think everybody does. And I feel like after this, you 964 00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,800 know, I feel like there will be quite a few stand up gigs for 965 00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:58,360 NHS stuff happening. And, you know, I'm aware that 966 00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:00,920 that will not be an incentive for a lot of NHS. 967 00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,240 I mean, you're all right. But but yeah, I think I think 968 00:51:05,240 --> 00:51:09,280 people like, like me are, are desperate to just get gigs going 969 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,680 again for the likes of, you know, health workers, all that 970 00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,120 kind of stuff. And I feel like a lot of people 971 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,040 will will be will be wanting to put people like yourselves in 972 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,280 the back after this. So cheers, guys. 973 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:23,840 Thanks very much for taking the time to chat to me. 974 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,480 I look forward. I feel like let's just when this 975 00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:31,160 is over, the violin, the guitar, the voice, which is what I call 976 00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,120 myself, let's just let's just perform. 977 00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,320 Let's just get creative. Again, do you patch up boys 978 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:37,760 numbers? I think I'll be. 979 00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:41,280 Did some, but I'm not joking, European Tour. 980 00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:43,880 Let's honestly, I don't know if there I'm sure there is a Pet 981 00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,480 Shop Boys impersonator. I bet you he's like a bit shit. 982 00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,640 He's probably just like a good singer, but he can't really do 983 00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,240 the Pet Shop Boys. This guy's bringing both you 984 00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:53,200 guys back me up. We go on Twitter. 985 00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:54,840 Perfect. This is going to be beautiful. 986 00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,480 Niles, thank you very much for for chatting to me. 987 00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,000 I'll post a link in the descriptions for some 9 inch 988 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,760 Niles videos because people will very much enjoy that. 989 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,120 And yeah, I really enjoyed chatting to you guys. 990 00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,560 Thanks very much. Thanks. 991 00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,640 Zippers there we have at the interview with the 2 Niles 2 992 00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:22,040 absolutely cracking guys talking on just a really human level 993 00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:25,960 about about what it's like to work on the frontline during 994 00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:28,600 this coronavirus crisis at the minute. 995 00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:32,000 Now that interview was recorded a couple of weeks ago, so some 996 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,160 of the stuff we were talking about there might things might 997 00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:39,080 have changed now, but but I hope the gist of it is is is is still 998 00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,080 relevant for people, and I hope you find that enjoying cheers to 999 00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,560 guys for giving up their what is at the minute very precious time 1000 00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,120 to do that. As I said, we talked about doing 1001 00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:52,040 like a a proper coronavirus episode, but I don't know, I 1002 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:55,520 think some people just kind of not don't want to hear about it 1003 00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,320 at the minute. I don't mean it in an 1004 00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,640 irresponsible way, but I think some people are like, listen, 1005 00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:02,760 I'm seeing so much in the news. They just kind of want to listen 1006 00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,240 to podcasts and especially with fucking idiots like me for a bit 1007 00:53:06,240 --> 00:53:09,280 of a a bit of a release, but but the guys were great. 1008 00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:10,720 And again, thanks for doing that. 1009 00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:12,320 We've got to do listeners questions. 1010 00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:18,200 Let me take a big sip at Hey, very sexy. 1011 00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:21,560 I probably put that cup of tea at about a 7.8. 1012 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,520 I enjoyed it. We've got questions. 1013 00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:32,320 Johnny Boo is jumping in. Johnny Boo is a stand up as well 1014 00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,480 as being a lovely guy. And he says he's a Patreon too, 1015 00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,400 so he's just extra sexy. What is the worst character 1016 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,720 you've ever created? Ones that didn't make the cup. 1017 00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,040 Yeah. So online characters and 1018 00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,320 sketches. There has been characters I've 1019 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,880 that weren't that like either didn't hit the mark or I just 1020 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,920 didn't think were funny. I don't know if there's anything 1021 00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,720 I've ever shot with a character that I haven't released. 1022 00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:04,000 I would say in a way, the character I played in Belfast 1023 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:08,080 Blues probably could have been developed a wee bit more. 1024 00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:10,040 Like I was caught in between doing a couple of different 1025 00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:14,560 things with it and I think because I was like, you know, 1026 00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:21,040 most, most of the writing with it, like a like Aaron kinda did 1027 00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:25,400 nearly all the directing and I did a little bit and then I did 1028 00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:27,920 a good bit of the writing and then we'd bounce it back. 1029 00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:29,480 What was that? It was it was a shared thing, 1030 00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,160 but I would start the script and then send it back and forth. 1031 00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:34,280 What I'm trying to say is I was doing a couple of different 1032 00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:36,480 things. So I don't think I think the 1033 00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,520 Acton was the last thing that I thought about. 1034 00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,280 So if I was doing it again, which I think Will will, I would 1035 00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:48,480 play that a bit differently. I did a character when Vine was 1036 00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:52,720 like a big thing called Chase someone, and it was like 1037 00:54:52,720 --> 00:54:56,240 parodying these like Vine superstars. 1038 00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,360 And that was years and years ago. 1039 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,240 That sketch never hit. I thought it was like like a 1040 00:55:02,720 --> 00:55:04,480 good parody of that kind of person. 1041 00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:08,120 But I just don't really think it worked or maybe just wasn't well 1042 00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,240 written. I did. 1043 00:55:13,240 --> 00:55:14,600 I don't know. I'm trying to think of older 1044 00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,640 ones that just didn't hit the mark. 1045 00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,200 Yeah, they're deaf. And also, even if a character 1046 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:23,600 like is established, like Mike Mcgoldrigger, Keith Cruz, one of 1047 00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:28,400 the there, there are still definitely like videos even now 1048 00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:32,640 that I make of those characters, the old one where I'm like, why 1049 00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,200 did I not do that differently or whatever. 1050 00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,440 But I don't really dwell on that stuff too long. 1051 00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,000 But yeah, they're there's been like ideas for characters as 1052 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,920 well that just never really turned into anything but the 1053 00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:47,920 worst. I don't know, like pizza man, 1054 00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,320 Marty was always a fun character and and it kind of changed and 1055 00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:55,960 evolved a wee bit. But the idea of of that was just 1056 00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:59,160 that he's just this massive loser, but thought like had but 1057 00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:04,320 had such confidence. And I think that was weirder, 1058 00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,520 you know, I think as I've got older and like doing this 1059 00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,560 longer, I think I enjoy like doing the old really weird 1060 00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:12,520 sketch too. But back at the time I maybe 1061 00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:17,200 thought if it wasn't like a kind of mainstream humour sketch that 1062 00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,880 it wasn't going to be good. So I should have just done a wee 1063 00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,000 bit more of that. But I don't know. 1064 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,960 There definitely has been quite a few misses though, for sure. 1065 00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:30,200 Daniel I also did that influencer character flames, 1066 00:56:30,240 --> 00:56:33,400 which I'm planning to do more of, but I'll approach it kind of 1067 00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:36,360 differently because the delivery was a bit shit the last time I 1068 00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,760 did it in terms of the way I presented it. 1069 00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,880 So I'll do something as that. Daniel Houston says, Would you 1070 00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,520 rather spend the rest of your life with a sailboat as your 1071 00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,640 home or an RV as your home? Oh, OK. 1072 00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:53,040 So like a like a trailer? What's an RV? 1073 00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,960 Like a camper van or, or a sailboat. 1074 00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:59,680 I mean a campervan, I think because people do that and it 1075 00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,680 looks kind of cool. Like I know they do it more for 1076 00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:06,000 like driving around Australia or something or going on a road 1077 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,080 trip. But still it's more convenient 1078 00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:09,920 to go and see friends. You know, if you're living in a 1079 00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:13,240 sailboat and your mates like here, do you want to call over? 1080 00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:15,520 You know, you have to ask questions you don't normally 1081 00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:17,480 ask. Like hey man, where can I dock? 1082 00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:19,760 You know, there's Dave Elliot phoning me. 1083 00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:24,440 And what pisses me off about that is Dave text me and said 1084 00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,680 I've got gossip for you. And then I phoned him. 1085 00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:30,280 I was like, OK, I'm just finishing normal people. 1086 00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:32,920 And then can iPhone you back and Dave goes, yeah, that's fine. 1087 00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:34,400 And then when iPhone him back, he didn't answer. 1088 00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,200 And that's one of the things I hate most in the world when you 1089 00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:39,360 keep missing someone on the phone. 1090 00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:43,120 So the answer to the question is definitely Daniel on RV. 1091 00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:46,160 I think Katie Mack says May Macfetridge. 1092 00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:47,880 What would that be? A dream guest. 1093 00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,480 I think thing would be interesting. 1094 00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,400 Definitely John Lenihan who play. 1095 00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,040 If you don't do May Macfetridge's May Macfetridge, 1096 00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,520 you're a liar. But May Macfetridge is like the 1097 00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:03,320 panto diem of Belfast pantomime and May is played by John 1098 00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:08,240 Linihan, who is a really, really nice guy. 1099 00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:10,720 I've done like one or two things. 1100 00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:14,040 I met him once or twice, complete gentleman, like real, 1101 00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,200 real nice guy and just a total pro as well. 1102 00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:20,160 Like, like been doing that for like, I don't know, 30 years 1103 00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:23,440 more the character Mimic Fetteridge at the panto and just 1104 00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:26,920 has people absolutely creased in laughter every time. 1105 00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,720 So, yeah, probably be interesting to speak to John 1106 00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:33,640 about that, like that character, how he came up with Mimic 1107 00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:37,440 Fetteridge and and I guess he was doing that through the 1108 00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:38,960 troubles. He would have been performing 1109 00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:40,720 during the troubles and that's always interesting. 1110 00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:44,080 So, yeah, potentially at some point Mimic Fetteridge would be 1111 00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:46,160 a dream guest. Oh, oh, no, she wouldn't. 1112 00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:49,160 Ha, ha, Chris Hens, because, you know, panto. 1113 00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:51,960 All right, Sweet Chris Hens says coffee shops are the dominant 1114 00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,520 place to get a caffeine fix. What happened to the tea room? 1115 00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:59,240 Yeah, the tea rooms just totally, just totally died out. 1116 00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,200 The tea room used to be the shit, you know, back in, like, 1117 00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,360 Victorian times, people will be absolutely buzzing the head down 1118 00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,880 to the tea room. But now it's all it's all 1119 00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:11,160 coffee. I think it probably is like an 1120 00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,000 American thing. Is it, you know, when, when 1121 00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:18,280 Starbucks would have started and like the idea of the idea of 1122 00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:20,840 coffee shops and all that kind of thing. 1123 00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,440 I think that didn't catch on in Belfast. 1124 00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:26,080 Coffee shops have only really caught on in Belfast. 1125 00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:29,360 And I'd say the last like 10 years, you know, in terms of 1126 00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:33,720 going out for coffee, you know, or you know, these places you 1127 00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:37,800 get on the Ormo road or whatever, where it's very, very 1128 00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:40,200 coffee based as opposed to places that were cafes that 1129 00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,800 happened to sell coffee. But the Tea Room is going to 1130 00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:44,200 come back thanks to this podcast. 1131 00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:47,200 Like we've talked about having a tea party, about doing like a 1132 00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,760 live episode, which you will do. Also. 1133 00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:53,800 Let me pick your brains as listeners about this producer 1134 00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:57,760 Dan and I were chatting about doing a live podcast on Zoom is 1135 00:59:57,760 --> 00:59:59,760 that and the Patreons would get it for free. 1136 00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:04,600 But you'd pay like just a couple of quid like 3 LB to see that on 1137 01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:06,280 like a Friday or Saturday night interview. 1138 01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,480 Some guests maybe have a bit of live music on it, like a live 1139 01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:11,640 podcast episode. Take your questions if that's 1140 01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:12,920 something people would be interested in. 1141 01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:16,800 Let me know in the comments or fire me, fire me a DM because 1142 01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:18,560 we're talking about making that happen. 1143 01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:25,200 Not hyper anymore says water slides are roller coasters. 1144 01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:30,040 I mean for me it's always the water slide. 1145 01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:33,680 I think Although I do like roller coasters you like 1146 01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:35,960 sometimes you feel sick when you come off them. 1147 01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:42,440 But water slides are water slides are just always fun to 1148 01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,800 me. Apart from the one time whenever 1149 01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,560 I was in Turkey and I nearly die, I didn't nearly die. 1150 01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:49,960 But like everyone said, don't everybody say that when they're 1151 01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:52,080 younger here. I nearly died there And I was 1152 01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:53,960 like, you didn't just somebody punched in the arm. 1153 01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:58,200 But I was in Turkey whenever I was about 19, maybe a bit older. 1154 01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:01,720 It's totally irrelevant. And it was like a Turkish water 1155 01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:04,200 park and it had been built by like you're down as mate, you 1156 01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:05,600 know what I mean? It was one of those kind of ones 1157 01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:08,520 where like it wasn't passing any health and safety type things. 1158 01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:13,040 It was, you know, like the four slides and you can race each 1159 01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:16,040 other, you and your mates, but they're really, really high and 1160 01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,960 like they just drop and then it goes into a pool at the end. 1161 01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,320 It was one of those, but I've never seen like steeper ones. 1162 01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:26,920 And I went on one that was like tubing for about 1/4 of the way 1163 01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:29,040 and then it just opened up into a slide. 1164 01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:32,280 And I was racing against the people I was away on holiday 1165 01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:35,640 with and I pushed myself off as hard as I could. 1166 01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:38,080 And I said push, by the way, not pulled. 1167 01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:43,080 And I went off with so much force, I guess because I'm so 1168 01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:47,440 freakishly strong and cute. But what happened was my back 1169 01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:49,680 lifted off the slide. It was going down with so much 1170 01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:52,520 force. And when the wee tube bit opened 1171 01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:57,360 out to a slide, I hit my forehead off the bottom off like 1172 01:01:57,360 --> 01:01:59,560 the tube in front of me, if that makes sense, at the bottom of 1173 01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:03,040 it. And I came to when I hit the 1174 01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:05,240 pool at the bottom. So I just, I just went down. 1175 01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:08,240 I went down like record speed. It was just like dropping a 1176 01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:11,120 potato out of a skyscraper. I just like a muscle Looks like 1177 01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:13,920 such a loser, like so vulnerable, just like totally 1178 01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:15,840 out for the count. I look like I'd fallen asleep. 1179 01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:17,960 I look like such an adrenaline junkie. 1180 01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:21,920 I look like I was like this fucking this does not nothing 1181 01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:23,280 for me. And then it came to the bottom. 1182 01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:25,520 And then when it came to the bottom, it was all panicked and 1183 01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:26,760 the lifeguard was blown as whistle. 1184 01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,040 Going out. You need to get out, mate. 1185 01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:30,520 You know, because that's the way Turkish people speak. 1186 01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:32,920 He's like mite. You need to get out mite. 1187 01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:36,640 Why? Why is everyone on holiday in 1188 01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:38,120 Turkey speak like that? Where is that? 1189 01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:41,720 That's not a Turkish accent. Might. 1190 01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:43,680 You can't. You need to get out. 1191 01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:45,640 Might the people in the top might. 1192 01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:47,280 They're going to come down and knock you out. 1193 01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:48,840 Might. And yeah, it went picky 1194 01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:50,920 blinders, but that's just the way those guys speak. 1195 01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:54,840 Sorry. Sorry for the truth bombs, but I 1196 01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:57,040 had to pull at the bottom after being knocked out and it was all 1197 01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:58,360 I did. The noise when I hurt my neck 1198 01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:02,160 this morning and the guy's like, you need to get out and I was 1199 01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:03,800 like, you need to stop with the attitude. 1200 01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,400 Mr And then he blew the whistle louder and I I shipped myself 1201 01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:09,720 and got out. But but yeah, still what? 1202 01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:12,240 Even after that experience, still definitely waterslides. 1203 01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:16,800 Belfast guy in China says if you could give your new child only 1204 01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:19,160 three pieces of advice for life, what would they be? 1205 01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:22,360 Mine would be be polite, be brave and be the person you 1206 01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:25,840 truly think you are. Also, I'd possibly advise if you 1207 01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:29,200 ever caught lying, just say, ah, Minty fresh and hope people 1208 01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:32,200 believe you. Yeah, shout out to that question 1209 01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:35,360 because if you remember last week in the podcast, I was 1210 01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:38,000 talking to my mate Stevie about this guy. 1211 01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:41,880 We knew he was just a bullshitter and he I'm going to 1212 01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:44,440 say I asked Stevie if I could phone him on the podcast to tell 1213 01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:47,280 the story. Some people really enjoyed it 1214 01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:50,160 where there was a guy in his class who was a real liar and he 1215 01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:54,800 had a wee pen with a wee tooth toothpaste, put a plastic on it. 1216 01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:56,760 And he told everyone in the class that it was real 1217 01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:58,800 toothpaste. And he smelt it and went, I'm 1218 01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:00,600 empty fresh. But everyone knew it wasn't a 1219 01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:05,960 toothpaste. I'm saying, Stevie, can you do 1220 01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:11,160 me those voice notes? Do those voice notes, mate, 1221 01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:15,280 Because Stevie was like, I'll not come on the podcast. 1222 01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:18,120 But what I will do is I'll leave your voice notes and you can 1223 01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:23,000 play them on the podcast. OK. 1224 01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:28,000 Hopefully he does it. Yeah, any advice I would give 1225 01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,160 and I would say I can't give it no, because I'm not a dad yet. 1226 01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:35,440 But my, my advice wouldn't be be the person you truly think you 1227 01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,600 are. Because if I was the person I 1228 01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:41,800 truly thought I was, I would just be this like I would just 1229 01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:45,200 be this like 55 year old drunk auntie. 1230 01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:47,560 You know that That's who I am deep down. 1231 01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:49,560 Never have a few glasses of red wine. 1232 01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:53,040 And I'm like, oh, thanks for inviting us over. 1233 01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:55,880 I hate your house. That's me. 1234 01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:58,360 So I can't be who I truly am. I have to really work hard to 1235 01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:01,080 not be but them. But I think the rest of that's 1236 01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:03,560 good. Be polite. 1237 01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:05,280 Be brave. I mean, being polite. 1238 01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,360 Yeah. Why does that need said? 1239 01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:10,080 The people It really does. Like you will pass them when 1240 01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:12,960 you're for a walk and you make eye contact the whole time and 1241 01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:16,080 you go hello. And they go No, you. 1242 01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:18,480 You don't get to just give me the purse lips. 1243 01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:20,600 If I gave you the hello, you've got to return it. 1244 01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:28,800 That really fucks me off. Being brave, yes, but like not I 1245 01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:32,920 think personally not too brave. Like what happens if some guy 1246 01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:36,600 looks like Johnny there says do you like, what the fuck are you 1247 01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:38,680 looking at when you're just walking down the street? 1248 01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:40,640 Don't be brave in that situation. 1249 01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:43,960 Don't be like you, you bald bastard, because then you just 1250 01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:46,880 get beat up. So I don't know Belfast guy in 1251 01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:48,320 China. I'm going to let you know down 1252 01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:52,640 the line. China OK, fake news Jai has 1253 01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:56,640 started the virus. OK, I feel like that will come 1254 01:05:56,640 --> 01:06:00,440 up in listeners questions Trump, But yeah, I don't know yet. 1255 01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:02,800 But let me come back to you and thanks for the question. 1256 01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:05,680 My next question comes from Emmett. 1257 01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:09,840 Emmett, who says interest in your tea making methodology? 1258 01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:13,000 Personally, I boil the kettle, transfer it to the teapot, 2 1259 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,680 lions tea bags, teapot on the stove for at least 5 minutes, 1260 01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:17,880 transfer to a large mug, then put the milk in. 1261 01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:21,440 It's important to make a full pot even if you're only making 1262 01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:23,960 tea for yourself. Always the option of more cups 1263 01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:26,640 of tea and different strokes for different folks. 1264 01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:29,320 I like it, I like the dedication, I like the tea pots 1265 01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:31,280 come into it. But here's what I don't 1266 01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:34,080 understand. If the water has just boiled, 1267 01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:37,480 why do people put it on the stove if they're just going to 1268 01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:40,400 then have tea straight away? You know what I mean? 1269 01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:46,240 Like, surely put the tea bags in the teapot, pour the tea, and 1270 01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:49,640 then maybe put it on the stove for second, third cups of tea. 1271 01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:53,040 I don't know why that I don't know why this stove comes into 1272 01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:55,200 it too early. Maybe you can explain that to 1273 01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:57,360 me. But yeah, you guys know by now. 1274 01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,600 I boil the kettle. I put the tea bag in the cup. 1275 01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:02,960 I leave it just about 30 seconds. 1276 01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:08,360 I pour the hot water in, dip it maybe 15 times, push against the 1277 01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:11,080 side tea bag in the bin. Don't put it in the sink because 1278 01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:12,400 you're going to have to put it in the bin later. 1279 01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:16,920 And then I put my almond milk in nice stir. 1280 01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:18,960 I take a pretty strong and that's it. 1281 01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:26,400 The that's is that the I thought there was more of on Instagram, 1282 01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:28,960 but there isn't. And I'm, I'm, I'm OK with that. 1283 01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:30,760 I seem really upset about that, but I'm OK. 1284 01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:32,960 There's plenty of questions. And that was just, there's no 1285 01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:35,000 need for me to really react with such sadness there. 1286 01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:37,160 Ben McKenna says, what are you at? 1287 01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:41,000 Just doing a podcast, mate. Yeah, just chilling, doing this, 1288 01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,840 doing the old pod. Thomas McCann says can you talk 1289 01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:48,200 about this guy lives everywhere in the world, and maybe that's a 1290 01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:52,160 question you should ask China. China, don't ask me ask. 1291 01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:55,080 China, that question, OK, When you ask them that question, you 1292 01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:58,160 may get a very unusual answer. Yes, behind you please. 1293 01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:04,520 Yeah, Big Don was Donnie. Donnie Trump was doing a press 1294 01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:07,760 conference. A reporter asked him. 1295 01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:12,160 An Asian American reporter asked him, You know, what about? 1296 01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:14,840 Is it like a point system? This this testing. 1297 01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:18,960 And she asked a question he didn't answer properly. 1298 01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:22,040 He's just like, you need to ask China what that what why they 1299 01:08:22,040 --> 01:08:25,800 created this basically. And she then was like, why you 1300 01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:29,319 asking me to ask China, mate? You know, because she's she's 1301 01:08:29,359 --> 01:08:32,439 Asian American, you know, she could conceivably have been 1302 01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:36,080 Chinese. And then she just kept asking 1303 01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:37,600 him. And he's just like, he just does 1304 01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,080 what he does, which he's like, no, moving on. 1305 01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:42,600 OK, thank you. And she just kept asking. 1306 01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:47,720 I think he, yeah, didn't answer her question and just moved on, 1307 01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:52,520 which was rude. But she was like, why you asking 1308 01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:54,240 me to ask China? Huh. 1309 01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:56,439 What is it about me that you're at? 1310 01:08:56,439 --> 01:08:58,240 Why would you ask me to ask China? 1311 01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:01,200 I think he probably would have said that to anyone, which 1312 01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:05,000 doesn't make it right. But like, I don't know, It's, 1313 01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,760 it's nuts. See if you can dig it out. 1314 01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:10,359 There's I think I've said this before and I think we're getting 1315 01:09:10,359 --> 01:09:13,720 this guy on the podcast, there's a stand up called Shane Gillis, 1316 01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:17,600 who is, I don't know if he's from New York, but he's on the 1317 01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:20,160 New York comedy scene. He does brilliant stand up about 1318 01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:26,319 Trump and just about his tactics of like, now, you know, no one 1319 01:09:26,319 --> 01:09:30,640 thinks to do that at that level, like being the president. 1320 01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:33,960 People think, oh, you have to just be really polite. 1321 01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,479 Then you have to. And he's just like, no, you're a 1322 01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:39,520 loser. Thank you, China, you know, that 1323 01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:43,160 kind of thing. So Trump, I don't know. 1324 01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:47,600 I, I can't say I know a lot about Trump, but like, it just 1325 01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:50,319 seems like politics. There is a, is a total mess. 1326 01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:53,040 And guys, Stevie's left me a voice note. 1327 01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:57,680 Stevie's left me a voice note. He I asked him to tell me this 1328 01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:05,640 story and here it is. So the guy that you want the 1329 01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:09,880 story's about, he went to our primary school and he was well 1330 01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:12,720 known for a tall tale. And the one that you always 1331 01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:19,200 laugh at is the one where he must have got a pen that was 1332 01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:23,600 from like a like a, a dentist or something. 1333 01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:27,720 And it had on the clip that you would clip it onto a, a jacket 1334 01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:32,160 pocket or something was a little plastic tub of toothpaste. 1335 01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:37,800 But he broke this clip off and he would walk around our 1336 01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:43,640 classroom with this little plastic toothpaste and he would 1337 01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,400 put it up his mouth and almost like it was a drug, would go, 1338 01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:50,160 oh, it's good. And he told. 1339 01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:54,000 Us all that his dad had shipped him in 10,000 of these many 1340 01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:58,320 toothpastes from Thailand. Nobody knew why. 1341 01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:04,760 And he was the same fella that got into a scrap in the middle 1342 01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:09,840 of the classroom and there was me and a couple of other guys 1343 01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:12,720 who were kind of around it. And the teacher marched the 1344 01:11:12,720 --> 01:11:17,080 whole group down to the principal's office and she 1345 01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:20,120 wanted obviously the witnesses to this fella starting the 1346 01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:21,880 fight. And I always remember us walking 1347 01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:26,280 down the corridor like it was a Scorsese movie in slow motion, 1348 01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:29,880 and him in the middle of this group of lads with us around 1349 01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:33,680 them and him saying you know what you seen. 1350 01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,000 Just tell the truth. And this was actually the same 1351 01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:43,040 guy who at one point had a pair of, you know, the Nike Air 1352 01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:45,480 trainers with the massive bubble in the back. 1353 01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:53,440 And I remember him coming into class one day and through the 1354 01:11:53,440 --> 01:11:58,400 course of the day, he stabbed the pencil into the bubble on 1355 01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:02,880 the shoe and sort of pushed it right the way through the the 1356 01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:04,880 bubble so that there was essentially a pencil sticking 1357 01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:08,760 out either side. And told everybody that the 1358 01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:14,520 reason that he had done it was because his dad had he had been 1359 01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:19,080 working for Nike, but didn't tell anybody because he was he 1360 01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:20,720 was the guy that came up with all the shoes. 1361 01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:23,240 But he had recently just moved to Adidas. 1362 01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:28,840 So he hated Nike and I, and they were they were some sort of 1363 01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:31,240 special shoes that Nike would have been raging with him for 1364 01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:33,800 destroying. So yeah, all the Jet stories. 1365 01:12:37,240 --> 01:12:40,120 Is this that was a pilot that worked for neck? 1366 01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:50,120 Oh, that is I don't know why bullshitting in primary school 1367 01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:56,280 was was just the number one thing that I enjoyed with 1368 01:12:56,280 --> 01:13:00,920 hindsight. Oh my God, that is you don't 1369 01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:04,320 know how funny that is to me. If that is funny to even a dozen 1370 01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:06,360 people listening. You're welcome. 1371 01:13:07,680 --> 01:13:09,920 Terry Charton. Stevie also says he can get me 1372 01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:14,120 the toothpastes. Terry Charton says, well, can 1373 01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:17,560 you have a listen to the the Four Idol podcast episode 8? 1374 01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:19,480 You're in it. Thanks, Terry. 1375 01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:23,400 Thanks for having me on. Terry is based in, I think, 1376 01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:28,520 Aberdeen and he's he's done a podcast and he had me on as a 1377 01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:33,040 guest and we chatted just about comedy and, and that kind, that 1378 01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:35,200 kind of thing. It was a long time, couple of 1379 01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:38,000 weeks ago. So 4 Idle hands is what the 1380 01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,120 podcast is called if you want to check it out. 1381 01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:43,360 And I won't listen to my own episode, but I will listen to 1382 01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:49,240 another episode because, you know, I talk a lot and I don't 1383 01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:52,520 like listening to myself back. I only like looking at pictures 1384 01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:55,400 of myself. Darren, Matthew says talk about 1385 01:13:55,400 --> 01:13:57,720 all or nothing. The latest series, the 1386 01:13:57,720 --> 01:13:59,960 Philadelphia Eagles. I actually don't know what all 1387 01:13:59,960 --> 01:14:03,520 or nothing is. If it sounds like it could be a 1388 01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:08,520 game show with Frank Mitchell where you you either win 1389 01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:12,720 everything or or Frank's catch phrase or you go home and fuck 1390 01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:17,280 all. Is it a West End musical that 1391 01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:20,600 they're that they're streaming for charity? 1392 01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:23,280 Darren, I'm going to be honest, I don't really know what it is. 1393 01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:25,640 I don't really know what it is, man. 1394 01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:31,760 But it is it is something and that is to be cherished. 1395 01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:35,840 But I will check it out. Laverkusen says What's it like 1396 01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:39,880 being the best anti comedian and talk about into the night on 1397 01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:43,840 Netflix. Hey, man, the Tanners in the 1398 01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:48,960 post. What's it like being an eyes 1399 01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:52,600 best comedian? Look, come on, it's pretty 1400 01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:56,800 sweet. Well, I just laughed at that. 1401 01:14:57,080 --> 01:15:01,720 Yeah, it's pretty sweet. I mean, the reality is I think 1402 01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:07,880 Northern Ireland's best comedian is, let me see. 1403 01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:11,400 Hmm. I actually think Northern 1404 01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:15,040 Ireland's best comedian is Tim McGarry. 1405 01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:22,440 All, all things, all things considered, if there was a 1406 01:15:22,440 --> 01:15:26,920 comedy night where everybody was doing like a 10 minute set and 1407 01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:33,000 it was all comedians here of all ages, I think Tim probably packs 1408 01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:36,640 in the most punch lines, has a great style. 1409 01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:39,640 You're watching them as well-being like, I'm already in 1410 01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:42,400 a way laughing because I know him from Get My Headpiece and 1411 01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:44,360 his character was fucking hilarious on that. 1412 01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:48,920 Tim probably. But there's so many comedians I 1413 01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:51,680 like. And obviously comedy is very 1414 01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:54,920 subjective, but you know, Michael knows what he's what 1415 01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:58,240 he's talking about. I'll tell you what, I don't 1416 01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:01,480 think anybody would be a good comedian right now because we're 1417 01:16:01,480 --> 01:16:04,880 all rusty apart from the people that are performing at home into 1418 01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:07,880 the mirror and stuff, which is weird. 1419 01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:09,760 Although we all have a process, you know, whatever works for 1420 01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:13,240 you. But it's weird, I think. 1421 01:16:13,480 --> 01:16:15,880 But good luck. I probably should do it. 1422 01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:19,440 Jimmy Douglas says copper mug. I don't know what End of the 1423 01:16:19,440 --> 01:16:22,080 Night is, but on Netflix, Jimmy Douglas says copper mug. 1424 01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:23,800 Dead, the amazing good series on Netflix. 1425 01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:27,720 What's the first series? Don't know about the second. 1426 01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:30,240 Got a lot to watch. We'll see what happens. 1427 01:16:30,440 --> 01:16:33,040 Christina Applegate. Let's see what happened. 1428 01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:34,680 China. OK. 1429 01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,360 Copper mug. Mug for sure. 1430 01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:42,320 Mark Moorhead says long thin mug or short wide mug for your tail, 1431 01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:46,680 you dirty bastard. Dirty bastard that doesn't get 1432 01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:48,120 that Dianoid, isn't it that phrase? 1433 01:16:48,440 --> 01:16:50,240 Oh, why? Dirty bastard? 1434 01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:55,360 Short, wide mug. I think Short, short, wide. 1435 01:16:55,760 --> 01:16:57,920 Stevie just messaged me. Forgot to say, when we were 1436 01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:00,040 walking to the principal's office, the fellow was barefoot. 1437 01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:02,280 He'd taken his shoes off for the fight. 1438 01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:05,720 You know, he's like, he's observing. 1439 01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:07,800 Like a Mai Tai style. I like that. 1440 01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:11,520 Or Muay Thai. Is is Muay Thai a fighting style 1441 01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:14,480 or a cocktail? I don't know. 1442 01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:17,240 I enjoy both. Connor Reddick, with your first 1443 01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:19,320 child in the way, what sort of parent do you think you'll be? 1444 01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:26,360 I don't, I don't know. You don't know until it happens. 1445 01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:28,520 I think from other people. I don't know. 1446 01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:34,280 I'm hope, like here's the thing, I say we're at like a party and 1447 01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:36,880 there's kids running about. There's like an adult's table. 1448 01:17:37,080 --> 01:17:39,240 I'm probably more comfortable at the kids table. 1449 01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:41,680 Like that's my level. I'll get into arguments with the 1450 01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:45,040 kids very quickly, like shut up and all, you know, that kind of 1451 01:17:45,040 --> 01:17:47,480 thing. So I think I can chat the kids. 1452 01:17:47,480 --> 01:17:50,960 Well, someone fucking yeah. Matthew Merlin will send out the 1453 01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:52,960 Dave as well. The isolated clip of me saying I 1454 01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:56,360 can chat the kids. I don't know. 1455 01:17:56,440 --> 01:17:58,360 I don't know. I think I'll be, I want to be 1456 01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:01,040 firm but fair. But I think I'll end up just 1457 01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:03,320 being fair. You know, I can see me being a 1458 01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:06,040 bit of a pushover. Daddy, can we get ice cream? 1459 01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:08,840 No, Daddy, but please. Yeah. 1460 01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:11,040 OK, get. Let's get 10 litres of Pooh Bear 1461 01:18:11,040 --> 01:18:17,080 for this guy. I don't know, I honestly don't 1462 01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:19,920 know. Hopefully I'm good, but then 1463 01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:25,400 again, who knows, who knows. I think though I'll be good at 1464 01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:27,520 it, but it's going to. It's a bit of trial and 1465 01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:31,080 tribulation I guess. Inca says Money Heist if you 1466 01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:33,480 haven't already watched it. I think I talked about Money 1467 01:18:33,480 --> 01:18:37,000 Heist today in last week's episode, so keep it brief. 1468 01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:41,280 I enjoy it, I enjoy it a lot. Although we're watching the 1469 01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:45,320 second series at the minute, I think I'd prefer the first, but 1470 01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:48,040 that's the way a load of TV is. You know, you can't just you 1471 01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:50,560 can't just have every series being the best series. 1472 01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:53,040 And I love the first so much that I've just saw the second is 1473 01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:55,040 just the second series. I would enjoy it, but I think I 1474 01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:57,480 preferred the first. But Money Heist is good. 1475 01:18:57,880 --> 01:19:00,360 Chris Bailey says how much Lego can you fit up your bum? 1476 01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,480 What? Man, what a fucking stupid, 1477 01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:05,360 amateur thing to say. That's how we're going to end 1478 01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:07,360 the questions. How much Lego can I fit up my 1479 01:19:07,440 --> 01:19:11,360 how would I fucking even The Death Star, the Star Wars 1480 01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:14,800 collab, the Death Star, four of them. 1481 01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:18,440 So guys, we're going to wrap it up there. 1482 01:19:18,440 --> 01:19:22,640 Hope you enjoyed the interview with the 2 Niles, I have a guest 1483 01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:27,280 coming on the Friday episode of this week's podcast, TBCTBC. 1484 01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:28,840 Let let's see what happens there. 1485 01:19:29,240 --> 01:19:31,760 I've I've put a few feelers out. Let's see what comes back. 1486 01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:33,960 Thank you very much for listening and watching. 1487 01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:36,920 If you want to subscribe to us on Apple podcast, that'll be 1488 01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:38,560 sweet. 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