He has to have a pair of flares on, that's all.
Oh wow, I love it that that is stylish.
I like the glasses but a double breasted with no shirt
underneath? You and you.
Is this something? Have you ever done that?
Before Oh I every week that is class.
What'd you get that? This is a wee M&S suit I got for
doing the Late Late Show. Is beautiful.
Now you and you were the only one.
It's split opinion. That's why I wore.
There's not what I'm wearing right now.
I was obviously wearing AT shirt and not these glasses, but doing
the Late Late Show, I went for a suit because I think I noticed
that people nowadays on like chat shows like that, which
seems like a real old traditional thing.
They wear T-shirts and that is lovely jeans and I thought I'm
gonna go old school and wear a suit.
And you sent me a nice message, said it looked great.
I know, but a lot of people. Marks and Spencer.
'S not nice things. Oh, why?
Well, sure that that goes to the, but if I.
Ever get in the Late Late Show again?
I'm wearing nice. I'm just ramping it up from now
on. It's yeah, but this feels good.
You can't do you, do you? I know you hate that last.
You hate my chest here. I don't.
I'm not saying anything last. Time I showed you my physique
when you were on Last time I knew mime doing this, you went.
Well, I am quite hurry like I would have a full on carpet, but
Jillian, she she likes me. Hurry.
Yeah. Here we go again.
Sorry. No, I'd probably just do that.
But you know what you can do? You can.
You can do that are. You going to tell me to vape?
No, you can do like the line down like I have a line of.
You want me you're you think I should shave like my in a like
you could do? Brazilian you could do your abs
knows a Brazilian lot. Oh, that would be good.
Like give it to. Define them a bit.
More, bit more definition. Right, right, right.
But I I quite like this because I don't really have like I'm not
like I can go hair on my face. So I may have gone forward by
having like a chess beard, but and then I'm thinking if I but
people go, if you shave your chest, then you're going to need
to shave it all the time. I will.
I think it does come back a lot and.
You think it? Does your legs and all that.
Where's this going? Where's this going?
No, I don't shave my legs. I only shave.
I don't. I shave 2 parts of my body right
and my face is one of them. OK, and where's where's the
second one? Not my legs, my chest, my arms,
my back or my head. Are you?
I'm a modern man. Compensate or something for that
I. Well, we we're spot.
We used to be sponsored by Manscaped, who make men's
grooming shavers. OK, so make of that what you
will. So that's the but the chest.
I don't know, I might. Well, coming into the summer, I
might just. Just go for it.
Well, my my wee daughter Grace, she works in Marxy.
So I I wore a wee white one last Sunday on the on the Sunday
vibe, yes, and when you're getting like 20% this discount
on your stuff right now. I did a video for, I used to do
some stuff for the Northern Ireland team, right, that was
sponsoring Marks and Spencer. And they gave me this Sparks
discount card. And then they stopped doing the
videos. But it just kept working.
And then I was getting groceries with it and I went, this is
brilliant. I get like 20% off.
Yeah. And then I went and bought a
load of clothes and I went, I got 20% off but to stop the
card. But I didn't realise.
So I end up to tell and I was like, it's £200.
And the guy went, no, I mean this card doesn't work anymore.
So I need to I need you to get give me friends and family
disco. I'll get it.
No, no problem at all. And how you've been, haven't, I
haven't seen you in ages, obviously.
I've been good, I've been busy and just just graft and chain.
Just being a husband, being a daddy.
I've been across to the to the States quite a few times.
I'm going to ask you about that, but I will say there's not a lot
of things in life you can be sure of.
There's very few things you can be sure of, but one thing I can
always be sure of is day and night, every day since we've
done the last podcast, Glenn Wilkinson will still be replying
to people with the fudge comments and I think it's
Swedish. Like I, I'd say without
exaggeration, you've replied to 1000 people.
I've probably in that comment section.
I'm sort of, I can't be a wee bit of a wind up sometimes, you
know, people think, oh, he's, he's a nice guy and you can wind
indirectly without, you know, causing too much.
Yeah, yeah. Because it kicked off in that
comment section. Is it Greek people who are
annoyed with you? I think it's both actually Greek
and sweet. Greek and Swedish.
Yeah, I'm just waiting. I put a Greek flag up in my gym.
Yeah. And which I think that was even
worse. That was like even more of a red
raggedy Boo. So I'm just.
I'm just waiting on that. Or a Blue Flag do Greek.
You went to America. So that basically the last time
you came on the podcast was the first time we had met.
Yes, and then we'll talk about America in a bit.
But then I did you're and we're going to do a live stream
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Very exciting. Also shane.comedy.com.
I am on tour here, there everywhere this year, starting
off down South Europe, UK, eh, Big show, the SSC Arena in
Belfast, eh? I hope I'm in America and me,
Australia after the summer. I think, I hope we're trying to
figure all this out. She.comedy.com So I did your
eight week grindstone programme, Brilliant and it was
unbelievable. Did you enjoy it?
I did every single day, didn't miss a day.
Every day was different. So like every single workout was
different loads. Exercises never done before
change. My glasses.
It tough. It was tough as well.
It was doable, yeah, but it was, it was tough and I did it.
The accountability and everything was there.
I felt like at the end of it I could definitely see results
felt great. And I said I'll take a week off
after this going to take a week off.
And then I slowly started trying to get back in exercise and that
kind of thing. And I went, I put so many block.
There were so many things where I went once that's done, I'm
back at it. And then that became the next
thing and then it was back at it.
So I did this really disciplined 8 weeks and I have had a real
bad at the end of the year, right, yes, OK, so that's a real
I'd love to go. I've been killing it every day
since, but I need. I need to get.
I need to go back properly at it.
Well, I'll send you the next one because this is accountability
relationship. You know, when I talk to, you
know, guys and girls about, you know, training and it is the
whole, this buzzword out there at the minute longevity.
So after you've done one, it's got a group of exercise or a
time of exercise. It's called a meso cycle.
So you have a bit of a dealo. You may take a week off, which
you did. I've been in, I've been in a big
dealo. Yeah, so.
A major dealo. It has to become part of your
lifestyle. You know it, short, quick fads,
you know, quick fixes, they do work.
But then you've got to get back onto the horse and keep going
and keep going and keep going. But I'll send you my new one
because I've gone all fancy pants and I and.
You always said you're not a fancy pants guy.
I mean, no one is more of a fancy pants guy in a fashion
sense. But I know what you mean because
everything you're doing is, is about being like down to earth
and realistic and all that kind of thing and not
overcomplicating the way you explain things to people, which
is I think why everything does so well.
But the longevity thing, I'm now probably at that age where I, I,
I'm looking at like longevity. Yeah, you know, because I just,
I'm like 40s coming up and I want to keep like fit.
I want to always outrun my kids. I think you'd be OK for a wee
while. Yeah, no, but I mean forever.
Actually, Jillian, I don't know whether she was weighing me up.
So I'm 55 and Jillian's 41, and we're having coffee.
They're actually going to kill me for saying this.
Just do you fancy having another, another wee one?
And like I would big time, you know, because I suppose there's
that thing being the the fastest daddy in in the playground.
You know what, yes, sports day. Like that's, that's probably
always going to happen, you know, even if I'm like 65.
But then I think she thought about it and she's going to kill
me for saying that. Then she said no, it was only it
was just a fleeting moment of of of madness.
But I but like you, you could do it.
I could whereas like it. There's guys who are your age
that look completely different and don't like, I wouldn't like
to race you at the dad's sports day race.
I would hate that. We should have that, We should
have that race. Hi, like are you quick?
Thanks, Erin. Cheers.
Thank you very much. I am quick.
I am quick over the over the 1st 10 yards.
I see. Here's my thing, I struggled
over the 1st 10 yards but then see once I build up we had a
steam, I'm gone. Right, OK.
So do you, are you? Hold on, I am quick.
No, the boys at Ballymena with with them because I do all the
plyometrics and all the warm up and being a foot so that there's
a big and I'm going down a different tangent here, but
there's. Let's go down as many times as
we want. There's a real difference
between football strength and performance then going to the
gym. So when I commend the Ballymena
guys, the lads are maybe just, you know, doing their, you know,
chest and biceps and you know, all that sort of stuff.
But that's totally inappropriate, not totally
inappropriate for football, but you want to be very specific.
So there's certain things there's like what we call
isometric and eccentric and plyometric and all this sort of
stuff that you want to do on particular days.
Just the whole view is, is to make you performing on on the
Saturday or, or the Friday or whatever it may be.
So I I get to do all those things on a daily basis, so.
You're still because that's the thing to go and there's some mad
stat where like guys over a certain age don't Sprint or half
and sprinted in a certain amount of years.
I again going back to my longevity programme, I have 12
tests of longevity and you can do them when you're 20304050 and
there's they're very simple. So one of the tests that I do
with when I go into the kids in schools is can you jump your
height? No that way. 6 foot up.
No length way. So you'd lie down and a pillowy
measurement between your heel and your head and he's looking
for you. Probably can do it.
Give us one that we don't. Have to is what you have.
I could. I could jump my legs.
You could jump your height. Are you?
What are you, 58? Glenn.
We had this conversation before.
Yeah, it looks like we're having it again.
You said you were 6 foot. I am 6 foot.
Well I'm I'm 4 foot 8 so. Yeah, I could jump.
I could jump my, I could jump 62.
OK. And then the next one would be
6/2. Well, 6 foot.
Can you hang? Can you hang?
Do you want me to jump without doing the thing?
Without the measurement. Yeah, and you just see what you
think. Are you going to lie down?
No, but I think I think roughly you might know.
OK, right. I would standing, yeah.
Oh yeah, you have to have a standing just.
What now you look above you? You watch, you wouldn't hit your
head, but I'm. Jumping out the way.
Yeah, you're jumping, but you've got, you've got to think about
the trajectory of it, you know, are you going low, close to the
ground? I think you think I'm going to
be really good at this and now you're trying to make me
overthink it so that it don't jump that far.
I'm psyching you out. Or you're thinking of like a
degree of angle. Where roughly would I need to
jump to? Probably.
Lay down, just give give him an eyeball where it's going to be
then from the corner of that carpet so.
You corner of that carpet and let's do.
That bottle, right? Oh, easy, easy.
Oh, but. You've got you've.
Got I'm so confident. Ready.
You've got to land it. OK, so.
Like a gymnast. Like don't move.
Yeah, so you've got to land at stationary so that then we can
we can register the score. Watch those tracers look a bit
tight. Those chords ears here.
He was decent, but he didn't land it that that that would be
a no Rep. I love that suit.
Yes. Yeah.
So I think if you can do that, you're in.
Longevity, so I'm never going to die.
I wouldn't go that far. Oh no, I thought, that's what
I'm. You're in the the top 5% and
there's like a sit and reach tennis, yeah.
There's like a are you serious? Yeah, I'm in the top 5% of.
And then there's a, a test for your hips and just to see.
So I would encourage most guys or all guys to sit.
I call it the hangout position, right?
So it's basically a posit. Depends what way I'm sitting.
I do hang out. That's why she Anyway, I'm going
to show you that. Yes.
So the hangout position is is just when you just sit here.
Right. And you sit there for maybe a
minute or three minutes for I could probably, if I'm watching
a match, I'd probably just sit there telling me going, there's
your man again, sitting. See, I think I'd drop my hips
and glute aren't good. But when I was doing your
programme, I'm not just saying this, but you're doing a lot of
work on hips, you're doing a lot of work on glutes.
So I would have felt like I was getting somewhere, you know?
And so there's a lot, lots of at what it does is it gives you a
measure. I think exercise is important to
establish where you are at the start so that you can go on a
journey that you have some data, then you go through the system,
then you go and retest. So providing you've done all the
stuff and that's, that's accountability to yourself as
well. Can I want to ask you a couple
of things. I think soon I'll have my first
sports day DAZ race. OK.
What sort of shoes do you showing up in?
Because you can't show up in spikes.
Why not? You want to win, you know, No,
I'll. So I was doing, I was very
kindly asked to do a penalty shootout at Seaview.
Yes. And it was good fun.
And your friend Thompson was almost there.
I He was funny, but it was a bit of a he's funny.
You know, he's a good footballer, man I.
Don't know about that. I thought I was anyway, that's
another story. So it was a bit of a, a lose,
lose situation, you know, because I had been practising
right with the lads. A guy, Sean O'Neill, is our
goalie and decay. And I was practising for months.
You know, I'm gonna go down the middle and I'm gonna do a Pianka
and we're gonna, you know, disguise it.
And I was practising and I got it all right.
And then came up and little did I know that the goalie was
Pudsey Burr. So I was a better and I had
this, you know, the full on Ballamy, Nick and everything so.
You're rifle in the past. Pod dealer.
I sort of just don't meet them. And I did score, but I felt bad,
you know? But not bad enough to the they
had a few into his chest. No, it's still competition.
Like I still want underwear. But I, yeah, because I the dad's
day race, I'm like, can I show up in shorts and trainers and
like a sports top or do you have to go in jeans and go like, oh,
and converse, you know, because I, I, I, I think I could still
Sprint, I think in 100 metre me and you in 100 metre race.
Do you fancy your chances? Do you?
Right. The last one-on-one challenge
race I had was with my dad who's 76 now.
This was when he about 68, right?
And I smoked them. OK then my dad only has one
kneecap. That is true.
Motorbike risk is 1 kneecap right?
And he broke his neck and his back and stuff.
What? It was a hollow victory but I
took it telling you buggy bear and one-on-one rate.
What surface are we talking? Cross or?
Seeing whatever service. I don't like that answer.
You see that? Ever see when it's competition?
I love it better. See it, it's got my head.
You over the first hit, your explosive of that first 10
yards. That's where I struggle.
It takes me a while to get going.
I'm like do same bolt. Once I get going, I'm going.
There's a bit of a resemblance there, really.
Ian, you seen Bolt? But the thing about it is on
sports days with dad's hamstrings are very precarious.
They do, because you said it a wee while ago, unless.
So jumping when you're getting older is very important.
Once you lose that elasticity in your, in your, in your, so you
have your fast twitch fibres. So that old adage, use it or
lose it. It's very important.
So sprinting is, is important as you're getting older, jumping,
but not only jumping up, but jumping down.
So I get a lot of my folks, if you're going to get injured,
right, you don't really get injured, you know, jumping up
or, you know, stepping up on this, you're going to fall down
yes. So it's that what we call
deceleration. So jumping and sprinting is, is
very and I, I Sprint a lot. I do.
We did. We We wager on that kid.
I don't know because I don't want to lose.
He's he's checking it out now. What would the wager be?
What we do, I don't know. We could you can wear my flowers
for a week or something. You have to wear an outfit that
Glenn gives you for a gig a big. Oh wow, I've got one in mind.
And it's not even not that's what I'm scared about.
You've got a nice bit of mind that is beyond.
That this is TM. Right.
And if but if I win? What would I have to do?
I know what you have to do. What if I win you based on the
last episode, which I know everyone will have seen you have
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again and. People, that's not a challenge.
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With that I could probably organise it at Ballymena.
I don't want to. Cry.
You don't. Want to cry?
Not anymore. I did at the start of this.
Shane, I could organise that 100 up the pitch.
Right, I know what we'll do. I'll speak dig after.
I want to do a thing around the Irish League clubs where I do
like a drill, like a shooting drill type thing and we film it
for like a video series thing. So why don't I do the first one
of those at Ballymena and we kill two birds with one stone
and then we have a race? Right, 100 metres. 100 metres.
OK, yeah, in like now. I've also, I've been sick for
about the last three weeks. So what I'm saying is I need a
wee bit of time. OK.
Did you just get back at it? Do I get a head start from my
age or anything like that? No, and I know you're just
trying to get my hair because you don't need a head start.
Do are we using blocks? No.
OK. No, and it's just obviously just
a straight run. Straight 100 metre run. 100
metre run, Yeah. What is your you?
55 What are you? 37 but I have Crohn's disease so
yeah, I need to we better attack because I tried the break before
you got in here. We were asking chat GPD about
what records we could break and it was most jumping jacks in a
minute and I tried to break that record, start jumps and then but
I haven't actually how many been able.
I couldn't even play football last two weeks and I would play
anytime. I love it.
But I've been proper sick with like a flu.
But I'm feeling good now. You say me as a guy doesn't get
sick. I've been self-employed for like
all my life and I can't remember either.
Maybe it's an old thing that my daddy was the same.
You just, you just get on with it.
Like, you know, maybe I'm not too sympathetic, but growing up
and you know where I come from and everything, you just have to
get on with it, you know, And I'm not saying that you.
See, I'm from Hollywood. We don't get on with.
And you went to Campbell College?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like I like bed rest.
I went the boys medal. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I love the boy she and see Belfast.
I've said this before, Ballymena, Northern Ireland.
I think I'm not blowing smoke up your backside, but you represent
Northern Ireland so well. Oh, thanks very much.
You do, you know, and I love, I love to see people doing well.
I think it's maybe, umm, I don't know, a cultural thing, you
know, but I, I love this sweet place yeah.
And I'll you know, our dream is to go to to America and, and
live there and. Oh, really?
Because that that's injury. Because the last time you were
on, we were talking about that a bit and you were thinking about
that idea, but you were, you were, you weren't sure.
So that's that's a thing you're thinking about now.
That is, that is the dream. I think it's important to have
dreams and I need to be kicking your backside.
But at the 100 metres first, yeah, yeah.
But that, you know that. Then the rest it'll come.
If you lose, you don't leave, you stay in Ballymena.
But where and where would you think?
Where would you think about going?
California like it sounds. What does California have the
Ballymena, doesn't it? Well, there's a place that we
really enjoy going and it's it's called reading and it's like the
the. Glen, that's not in California.
It's just outside. London it's Reed or but it's
like Ballymena, but there's there's lakes and like there's
lakes and Ballymena there's mountains.
There's slim ish, you know there's.
No full size shopping that's in Derry actually I meant.
Fairhill, Fairhill. And there's another one, but
there's another one. Tar Tar Centre, yes, to our
centre, but it's just we, we went last time, went to San
Francisco and toured around and did all all that I got, I got, I
told you got mugged in. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That wasn't a good experience. But then it's like the Ballymena
of California. That's what they sell when you
drive in. So that's it.
But you mean it's more compared to somewhere like Los Angeles or
whatever you mean it just is more homely, it's more not
touristy and that sort? Of thing, it's not touristy at
all. It's just in my daughters.
They hopefully want to go to college there.
And you know, there's, there's lots of, you know, moving parts
and I've, I've, there's lots of wee things that have happened,
Shane, over the last few months that sort of text boxes like I
was at an event that sounds. No, it wasn't an event.
I was talking to some accountants in the rabbit.
I was really, really nervous. You know, they asked me, would
you come in and talk about fitness and well-being and
longevity and come in for 30 minutes and an hour and a half
later was I was, I was a bit like this.
Hope you charge them three times.
But, and there was a lady who asked me to go in and do that
little presentation and she says all I have friends in
California, right? And that's a big place in
Northern California, all right. But you're finding that this
tiny place you have already have links to this small place.
I it's it's I don't really believe in coincidence.
I don't know what your thoughts on about we things have been
happening in my life and I've been connecting with people
specifically from this this tiny wee place in the whole of
America, you know, Redding, CA in about 3 or 4 occasions.
I can't. I said to Julian, like what?
That that's not a coincidence. So there, there's there's
something, yeah. You know, and obviously I
believe that there's a greater thing going on, but nobody.
Is Jillian on board with the move?
Oh, why she's on board. Yeah, she is she like the, the
sort of the the pace of it. Like we've been married 22 years
and like she, she is amazing. She so on my on my thing on my
Instagram. She's never on, on she she
doesn't really like to come on. Yes, yeah, yeah.
And she's always in the background.
You're you being married. You know what it's like.
And like she says, wouldn't really get not overwhelmed if I
say, well, what do you think of that?
Or I'm doing this today says whatever, whatever.
You know, she keeps me pretty grinded, but they.
Obviously get that reaction online of like either like
complete praise or the opposite, you know, or hate, you know,
whereas I think it's, it's good to have just that, like not
indifference, but the real, you know, the reality that like
grounding that you're talking about.
I think when people say nice things, it's it's very nice and
you, you don't, you know, get puffed up or think you're you're
a big time Charlie. Or when they say nasty things, I
say listen, mate, all the best. Have a good day.
Some boy was on hammering and I've.
I've got I've started to do this thing.
I go and have we look to see who's hammering me.
Yeah. Do you know what I mean?
You. Have a look at the profile and
then you feel less bad when you see the person and you know
what, I'm all right. Well, that's I don't mind that
I. Normally say what?
What age you mate you're trying to give me?
We better stick there, you know? Challenging the races, that's
what you need to do. Go and race the trolls.
I hope you're not going to back out of this now.
Oh, no, no, I'll speak to Sean O'Neill first, but no, I'm not.
I'm not back. And definitely one, definitely
100 metres. Do you want to change it?
You change your mind. I I can do 400, I can do
whatever you want to. Keep it at 100.
OK. Or 60.
No, I think we'll keep it. 100 is good with me, OK, 100 metres
is good with me. Got a couple of laps in around
the page, get a wee warm up and then yeah, you know, I'm, I'm
good. I wonder if there's like a
particular, umm, whole match we could do it against?
I could just do it like sort of more behind closed doors.
What what, what's your 5K? You ever do a 5K?
What would you what? What's your best 5K to?
About 8:10-ish. Right, we'll keep it to 100
metres. Yeah, I see.
I think sometimes when we. Moving to America.
When you have a better muscle and people might think you're
wee bit sort of muscle bind, like I'm only 73 kilos, but
because CrossFit, I still I love CrossFit because it gives you a
plethora of of different sort of, you know what we would call
modality. So we walking on your hands and
yes, ring muscle ups and snatching, but also sprinting
and, you know, doing all sorts of.
Well, here's here's my plan in my head.
I so I did your programme and then what I was going to do is
take a break, do a bit of something else and do it again.
I was going to just go back straight back on.
I've never done kettle bells. I'll get you another one, a
different one sometimes. That'll be good.
I bought kettle bells and I was like, I've never done these
before, I'm going to just do something different.
We bit of a shock to maybe like a sex week programme on this.
What weights did you buy? Twelves what?
Too late. Yes.
Come on, Twelves, What's that? You need a better load when
you're working with kettle bales, because there's a lot of
them. I love kettle.
Bells up here, Cliff, I have to remember. 12.
Is that no good? I'm not saying it's no good, but
you know, if you want challenge for sophomore, if you want to
beat me at 100 metres, I would probably advise you going a
little bit heavier. But I'm going to start on the
twelfths. I'm not.
I'm not interested in where I'm in.
I'm interested in explosive par between now and our race.
The twelves are good while you hinge in or you snatch in what
what you're. Snatching in the house and not
doing them yet, but I will be do.
I don't know. OK, I'll do.
I'll get something going. Now if you need any help I can
I. Can No, I'll not be speaking to
you until the race. The rivalry started.
No, I definitely don't want to do it at an Irish League match
unless he's he's. Checking out doesn't.
He like I want to do the race but I wanted to, I want to do
more private. I'll do it from all the doing
from the Ballymena squad, then if I beat you and I won't
respect you anymore and then I'll have to be the SNC coach
and I don't have time for. That if you beat me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're confident, Glen.
I'm going to win. I can't let you know.
I can't flex in this suit. I want to ask you have I and I
hope the answer to this is yes after the last part we did have
phage reached out No are you serious?
The amount of publicity see the amount of people just send me
pictures of the the bought the bottom top of a because of the
podcast. Have a present for you?
Have a few. Presents for you should do it
well. I'll give you a first one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love being generous.
I love giving presents. I love 10 people.
Compliments, yes, You know, because it just gets me going.
Yeah. Well, I just got my haircut
yesterday. Would you like what do you think
of that cut? Is it a skin fade at the side?
No, no, no, no. I see.
I have. I have some issues with older
guys. I believe I'm on a bit of a
mission. Yeah, but I'm not an older.
Guy, no older. Not you per SE, but older, you
know, 30s, you know? Yeah.
You. What did you say you were?
3737? I maybe 40s.
Guys in their 40s with skin fades.
So you have three years. I'm not.
But a lot of time, I think that's because they're worried
about the greys. But you see, the more you get
caught. Sick the chest.
The more that those greys and I like.
I haven't had my heart cut in a wee while, but I think you
should guys should express themselves and let you know and.
If you lose, you're getting skin fate or race.
You're gonna skin fate. All right, I'll go for that.
Well, you actually. That's how confident I am.
Do you swear? As long as you do it in an Irish
League game at halftime. No, not at no.
Like you. Also imagine Ballymena are
losing that much the crowd will be will be not like and that'll
be like glad you'll be talking to players through what
stretches that he do not reason a 37 year old.
What have you got? You know, ye speaking in front
the thousands of people. You have a great person.
In front of them, I'm sure I. Will let it, will let it
similar. Well, let's him, will you?
Close your. Eyes.
Yeah, yeah. Well then, walk over.
Yeah. Yes, yes.
Now I want to know, have you had this made?
Yes. They didn't send you this?
I got it done in snappy snap or snippy snaps in Ballymena, but
the amount of people have said to me, Glenn, we're like when
we're going to get a fast T-shirt.
I love this. I absolutely love this.
Or maybe we're on our live stream podcast we're going to do
after lunch. But it was great.
That was just so when I come on here, I thought, you know, we
were going to do a rehearsal and, you know, go, you know, it
was just like straight in and that's that's.
That's. The way it is.
But if you like in 2026, do you think you'll be will you be
eating more fudge and you didn't 2025?
I do eat a lot of fudge, yeah. To be honest, I eat.
There's the big, big fudge at night and I would have that.
And so yes, I like Fudge. Yeah.
Do you get emotional? I was just thinking because did
you see the girl from She's downside somewhere?
Kelly Trap did the lip sync of our she's done that with a few
of our clips before. Has she been on the podcast
before this year? Yes, she was.
That was amazing. Oh.
Brilliant on this. I think that probably got more
views. Than our original.
I think it got on on my thing in the Barber.
It was 2.2 million views, which is a lot of folks watching.
But I can't believe five haven't reached out.
We company down the country and some who do their own type of
natural yoghurt and they they reached out, but I didn't really
have the same appeal. I can't remember what it was.
I was hoping that Faij, you never know.
I think to be mad not to like because I think you've got, I
think people at the minute are eating FAJ and thinking of you.
Like and. I think you've got people on to
it as well. So you have never eaten FAJ in
their lives? Just decided when they heard us
talking about it, they went tonight.
I'm going out. You ready?
Yeah. Pardon.
If you didn't watch the first one, you wouldn't know.
We'll do one for one here, yes. You close your eyes there, OK?
Do you are smaller or large or medium or larger?
And it depends. Sometimes large boys makes your
your biceps think bigger. If my hands are yeah, can I
open? Yeah.
Get ready for Sunday vibes this week.
I yes, I love this, that that'll be Sunday vibing and that no
worries. Do you have any?
Do you have purple trousers? I mean, silly question.
I think I do. Actually, yeah, I think you do.
I do. I love that look at the pipe and
everything. Yeah, yeah.
Thank you very much. No, probably kind to you.
No problem. That's awesome.
I'll definitely get that on on Sunday.
I've got more gifts for you here as well.
In fact, you know, I'll just pass this.
I have a few here deli lights. They're good, good, good sponsor
of ours. I know the guy with another
team. Hi.
Hey, hey. Just for the way home.
That'll be that'll be for take on the way home.
Brilliant. Love it.
Do you fudge in the car? I.
Believe Spain for the fudge once we got here.
Don't let the place here. Oh, lovely.
That's AT with me, mug. I like the week.
So we would say look like Harry key in and not.
Me better for resemblance. Will I give you one in return?
Oh yes please. Maybe it is a chance like I'd
love to come to one of your shows.
Shows. You know what I was thinking?
Come to the SSE Arena show you and Joey.
I'd love that in April. That would be amazing because I
did. Ballymena over three weeks ago,
4 weeks ago and I was like why didn't I just say the glare?
And ballot. In the Bridge and can I tell you
something I love? There's a thing of, I don't know
whether we talked about this last time we were podcasting,
but there's been a thing, I'd say the last 10 years where
local comics can. A lot of guys would have friends
of mine like would have it in their head.
The Ballymena is a really difficult place to play.
I think Colin Murphy was chatting or not.
He did it recently. He was chatting to the audience
and the same thing I'm about to say and I just don't.
I think people just overthink it in their heads.
There's just feeling that you got to be careful what you say
in Ballymena because, you know, it's more more of a religious
play, you know. Yeah, especially people that
come to the show. Yeah.
And guys almost have in their heads.
I think we're when they do play it, they're almost like either
really on the back foot about that or really in the front.
Yeah, whatever I did the town hall couple weeks was I think it
was 400 people at it. So unbelievable.
It's one of the best show I. Didn't even know you were there.
I know I should have said yeah. And then I remember because
you'd done, you did a fashion show in it a couple of months
before. Gillian and Rebecca are good,
good friends, and she really promotes, you know, different
towns and everything. So they asked me to do like, a
catwalk thing. There must have been about 400
women, my daddy would say, and me, well, Gillian, she was doing
it, so it wasn't, too. And my daughters were there.
They were backstage helping out. So I had to wear clothes from
Ballymena Rebecca. She struggled away, but it
wasn't really my my sort of normal attire.
But it was good fun. It was good fun.
It wasn't your normal tyre because it was like proper
jumpers, like after the neck jumpers.
And all there's some night, I have to say there's some night
shops in Ballymena, you know, but it was, it was good fun.
So I just had to walk up and and walk down and had the same.
Sometimes when I'm in Ballymena or people would be kind and they
say. It's a lovely day in Ballymena.
So and I do this little thing on a, on a Saturday when we're
playing a game, if we're playing Portadown, if we're playing, you
know, in Bangor, it's a lovely day in Portadown.
And but that leads me to my necks.
You see what it did there? I just went there.
Segway, I asked you following the leagues?
Oh yes, yes, excellent. So.
The lovely damn Ballamine hoodie.
I'm I am delighted. With it, I have a few of those,
but I'll be honest, I feel Wick weren't it because it was my
daughter, my youngest daughter, Ruby says.
Daddy, why are you walking around with a picture of
yourself on your T-shirt? That's embarrassing.
I had to leave in official 2026 she and talk calendars and do a
shot. I saw that.
Like I couldn't have done that a year ago or something.
I'd be feel weird about that. And I go, do you know what?
Why we would not just do this? I love this.
I'll wear this sort of show. Please do.
I love that. Thank you.
Tag me in, I'll had to. You get to do some really nice
things on the back of this. And I got to give a lady, I
think she'd been going through quite a lot of stuff and I was a
Secret Santa. So I had to go in and there's
like maybe 40 girls having their Christmas dinner and she would
watch my stuff, you know, and, and the girls sort of knew that,
you know, Anyway, so I went in and I gave her a wee hug and
everything and it was lovely, you know, and I get lots of
opportunities to go into schools and do different things.
You. Know, I know a friend of my wife
runs youth club somewhere and asked you to go down and you
went and I remember it was, but you went and spoke to people
there. It's great.
It's great to make somebody's day OK, and it takes very little
to do. It's, you know, you do the same,
you know, just pen. Even if we stop and chat.
And exactly, you know, umm, sometimes people would say we J
you know, give me we shout out, let's say listen, no worries,
it's a lovely day and have a great day, you know, Yeah, yeah,
like a year ago that would I was just graphing away.
Not that I'm saying she and I'm hang, Yeah, no pants, you know,
but. You can see now you've been
doing well, what you do, you've been doing, you're doing
something right because people are now coming up and obviously
saying to you, but. And it is nice.
It is lovely. I remember a wee while ago when
it sort of started off and forgive me, I'm not trying to be
big time Charlie, by the way, guy says there's your man,
there's your man from TikTok, kind of take a photo.
And I said a kid, why you don't want to take my ways up, you
know? And I went away and I felt I
felt terrible. And I said to myself, like, I'm
never gonna do that again, you know?
And it was a big, you know, and, but.
It's also a completely unnatural position to be in when someone
first time whatever people are like.
Can I take your vote? You don't.
There's not a natural reaction that it takes a while to get
comfortable with that and realise, oh, this is the
etiquette of that. Yeah, because it's such a
bizarre thing that somebody would want to come and take a
photo with you. Yeah, you know, I sort of say
now listen, thank you. Thank you.
So thank you so much for for wanting, you know, like, like I
could be in a picture with you. Yeah.
You know, and like, it's. Yeah.
Because it's, it's just amazing. I've got some other things
involved. Great.
Oh, what's this? That's the calendar.
That's that's the official calendar.
That's the official She and Todd calendar.
Is that why you shave? Some of them are a bit cheeky
but there. But yeah, that I need that up in
the gym. I like that.
I'll put that in my gym. Yeah, OK.
I love that. I was taking a Barcelona, that
one there. Lots of Peyton you don't know
about the shell suit, and that's an older one, is it?
Yeah, the reason you don't like shell suits is to cover so much
of the body. That's yeah, I've got some.
Is this for sale or is this for IS?
For sale in Born and bred in Belfast, Pacificoria Square.
Right, I've got a load. I'll give you another one.
Oh, thank you. So these ones that I would
encourage you to wear at night before you go to bed, that's the
the red light ones. Thank you very much.
You're very welcome. I I have heard so much about
because I'm now trying to do talk about longevity, like
almost like a bedtime routine of and it's a lot what I'm doing.
I cover my mouth with tape. Yeah, nasal breathing.
I do a nasal strip here. You cover your mouth and your
nose. No.
That's what he said. You don't want to know where to
breathe. I know.
I put a wee nasal strip up here and then I put the mouse tape on
and an eye mask on and I'm sleeping.
Unbelievable. It's good.
But then I've I've also and I read before I go to bed now
sometime, not all time, but I read a bit.
Chapter. 556 pages A. Paragraph, right?
Now the Peppa Pig books, but they're brilliant.
But then people had said about red light before you go to
sleep. Now I have a feeling I'm going
to look great in these. Hey, I'm telling.
You everything's red if. You look, that's a little idea.
It's a red light. But would you what should I wear
these half an hour before bed? Yes, just even watching TV or
reading or. No, I wouldn't be watching TV
half an hour before bed. I would be certain to wind
everything down right And for you know.
So what am I doing? And these just, like, sitting in
the house, yeah. Yeah, just just preparing.
Can I read in these? Yeah, yeah, I like these a lot.
And can you wear them out about? No, well, I made that mistake.
And so I'm allowed to say who supplies them?
Absolutely. So an American brand called
Roka. So they very kindly give give me
my glasses. So I was wearing them around
and, you know, thinking it was, you know, big time Charlie and
the he kindly message me, says Glenn.
They're they're really just for night time these.
Ones here. Yeah, those particular ones, I.
Because I do feel like I feel like dressed like this in these
glasses, I look like I can get you in the nightclub, but it's
not really the sort of nightclub you want to go to.
If a guy like this is trying to get you in the nightclub, don't
go, you know? But I I like those a lot and the
block out certain lights and stuff.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm big fan of those.
Thank you very much. You're.
Very well. Really appreciate it.
I've got a couple of more. Glen, I wish all guests Brock
gifts. You know what?
Hey, you know what's it's Christmas as well, so.
This is something else that we talked about.
This is Shella. Shella just that we talked about
and I've kept saying a bit like these, I kept saying I'm going
to try it I'm going to try it. So thank you very because a
friend of ours who we do another podcast with loves Shella and
always talks about it. So I do.
I put this in the. Hot water you can put I just
naked. I just get it and just my teeth
and everything. Every day.
Every day in the morning. Yeah.
And what's it going to make me do?
Like Well. It's, yeah, there's a lot of one
study that says it's amazing. There's another study and
everyone's an expert, but just talking all of the videos and
the fitness stuff and the longevity stuff, I only talk
about my own experience and what's worked for me.
And I, I don't have any subjective, you know, evidence
And to say that it's my testosterone has gone from here
to here. Have you had your testosterone
measured? I did it so round docs down the
road. Do I do this thing every year?
It's called the every month thing and you basically get
everything checked. My testosterone, I wasn't
expecting a lot. My testosterone is great.
What was it you know? The I actually could.
I could actually tell you. See, can I also say Shane on my
longevity programme ran docs, you will be able to do that,
that I'm going to do a collaboration with them that you
can get a test as well on the longevity programme.
So they're they were very kind. Mine was because it goes like
red, amber, green and mine was way in the green.
Mine was good because I, I, you always hear like, oh, guys who
if you can't go facial, you don't have a lot of
testosterone. And I really, that really got my
hair, but I'm, I'm pumped up like on testosterone.
I'm red bloodedly. Well, there's a couple of
different scales. There's like an American scale
and there's a European scale and it's based on you get a score.
Do they have less testosterone? Well, a lot of.
Food. Their food isn't as better, you
know the quality compared to ours.
You may do your food shop in Ballymena if you're living out
there. But the thing about the TRT, the
wave is coming, you know, in America, they're all on a lot of
people are on it. And listen, I, I get accused of
being on TRT, You're on this, you're on that.
That's dead on, mate. But I'm actually posted my my
blood work, you know, so that, you know, I don't have to.
I just got a bit fed up with being accused of it, but it's as
you get older, obviously it is on the wane.
So my whole, my whole sort of ambition is to help guys to
maximise their, their testosterone through through
lifestyle and taking shillage. It might be 1%, it might be 2%,
it might be a placebo. You know, it doesn't really
matter. And so I, I firmly believe that
age, you know, it shouldn't be a barrier to, you know, for you to
do anything and, and life. So and I know I've been sort of
looking after myself since I was young, but it's never too late.
Yep. Can I say I was talking to a guy
called Dave, friend of mine who works Libraries comedy club.
I was getting libraries last night and we're chatting about
the podcast and that sort of thing.
And what's the surname? Harvey and his family are from
Tiger's Bay Shore Rd direction. And I said we'll talk chapter
with the podcast and I said Glen's coming on tomorrow.
And he said my family knew him growing up, know him from what
we're talking about the Grove Leisure Centre days.
And they said that he said that guy has never changed ever.
And his family said that, you know, it was like his parents or
whatever, we're like, we've known him from then.
And they were like exactly the same.
OK, that's that's kind, you know, which is Shore Rd.
I'm born and bred, Yeah. That's my first little bit of
emotion as the my daughters. Can I tell you see him?
I don't know why. I think it's just because it
wasn't well, I was telling you before we did the pod, my son
wasn't well for about yeah, 2-3 weeks and during I do a thing.
I don't know if you do the same, but if my kids aren't well or
whatever, I've no real. I obviously looking after them,
but I don't feel teary. I don't feel anything.
And then when it passes, yeah, I have a delayed time where I'm
like, anything can set me off being emotional.
Yeah. And yesterday the algorithm
knows I'm emotionally vulnerable at the minute and will show me a
montage of kids coming home from Australia to surprise their
parents. Oh.
You're in beds. My phone, my phone was
waterlogged. I had to put my phone in a bag
of rice after because I'm watching that.
And then I'm, I'm upset, like in a happy way, you know, I'm like,
that's a beautiful thing. And then my 5 year old sitting
beside me and I went that that could be him in 1520 years.
I know, you know, and I I just at the meant like I'm, yeah,
I'm, I'm Terry at the minute. I think that's a good thing.
So yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, this masculinity, you
know, there's a couple of buzzwords out there that I get
asked about a lot, you know, masculinity, longevity and all
this sort of stuff. And I think it, it's so
yesterday, no, Wednesday. I train a couple of guys.
I've trained them for 15 years, right?
And we've been trying for 15 years to have a Christmas lunch,
right? And we went in there, we place
in Ballymena and the three of us thought we were the dogs bingos,
but it took us 15 years to organise.
A lot of pressure on the lunch 15 years in the making.
I had scrambled eggs anyway. There wasn't anything on the
menu that I, I anyway. So being, being vulnerable,
like, what's the point in pretending?
Yeah. And you know.
I've got better since I became a DAR Yeah.
I think I way more like happier to show my emotions.
Yeah. And that cuts across everything,
even like talking about stand up.
Like I recorded a video just before you came in about the my
tour that's coming up on was basically talking about the
shows that are not selling well in some place, like mental
places like sure, record Lisbon or whatever.
But before I would have been like, no, you got to make sure
to come across like everything's about to sell it.
Yeah. But I'm just way more
comfortable now being exact genuine.
I just completely been. And I think that helps people,
you know, like you connect with people better.
Yeah, I think when you are more. When you're authentic, you know,
you can't really learn authenticity.
You know, it's a bit like when I do my videos, if I get it, if I
muck it up, I normally spell something wrong or, you know,
but just just being real, you know, just guys and especially
in the, in the, in the environment that I work in, you
know, professional footballers and young boys and the, the
group of lads. I'll get emotional again here.
I had a real connection with the guys at Larne when I was there
for two years. And the guys at Ballymena are
that there's some lovely guys from Derry, guys from Dublin,
not too many from, from local, but with a new, new gaffer
coming in as well and the whole new staff.
And I just try to just, I know it's a bit cliche and it's a
bit, you know, I just try to show love she and, you know,
just kindness, you know? And if you notice the difference
in the time you've been involved from like say, say when you
started with Lauren, obviously you were involved with football
as a young guy. We talked about that loads on
the last part. But when you went in to work at
Lauren, say until not or even going back, have you noticed a
difference in young guys in general, like the young guys you
come across from like 10 years ago?
Do you notice more? There, there is some barriers
there, you know, I don't know how normally you'd walk down the
corridor and you OK. Oh, OK.
All good. Everyone's good, everyone.
'S good. You know, scratch the surface,
you know, are you really? And I think just trust, you
know, trust and being consistent.
You know, I think I did a wee video the other day about it's
and in my life, it's the stuff that people don't see that
they're more important to me. You know that how you how you
treat people like for me to come on here for the second time, the
first time was unbelievable. And we were delighted to.
And I said, Jillian, she has asked me to come on again.
I was like, amazing now. By the way, the third time,
Jillian's coming on too. Jillian's great, great.
No. She's she.
I told you about that. When we go away to hotels and
things. Yeah.
And she bangs the doors and runs.
She's naughty. But in, in, in, in a way that
it's just really. Indeed.
Hold on, hold on. We didn't talk about that last
time. Do not.
Did she only do Rabidor and run? Yeah, Yep.
And she I know. She's isn't.
This isn't good. Like I know and there may be 10
doors and we're at the bottom one and it's OK when you're
going out, but when you're going in because there's.
Got to be a quick wacky card. And she's she's she's naughty.
And one of the daughters probably takes after Grace,
takes after Jillian. And my youngest probably takes
after me. Then I have Ross, who's 23.
He's he's my stepson, right? But and he's a he's a he's a
Herogy. And he's talking about family.
Yeah, great kid, you know. And he comes the Ballymena
matches with me and I'd be doing the thing on the pitch and he'd
be there with his friends and it just see just a wee, a wee look
up. Yes, Yep, right, Dad.
Or Yep Yep, and I love sometimes my girls call me dad, which is
fine and Ruby calls me father. Just the waned me.
Very Victorian. She should wind up merchant.
But you see, when like I still call, I'm very blessed still to
have my daddy. And I would, I would.
My daddy was in my mum and dad bring me soup on a on a
Wednesday. Oh I forgot burls biscuits.
That's right, get them next time.
Maybe it's presumptuous, so I would give my daddy a hug and
say Daddy. I love you, I love you.
Too, you know, and I think as man we, we need to I'm not
saying that you need to do this, Sir, but I think it's it's it's
good, you know, to show your emotion and.
Yeah, my dad kissed. Just a hug, I would say to the
player. I would.
I would kiss my daddy on the cheeks.
Yeah, same. My daddy's old scoots.
Now see, because we're being competitive but the wrong, I
feel like I'm gonna have to be competitive here next time I see
my Dang kissing the letters. Throw a tongue in.
I shouldn't say that, but just even at the football club, I
bring it in. Yeah.
And, you know, it's the it's the top one.
You know, if I was to give you a hug, Yeah, I would be hugging
you. Shane.
Yes. Yep.
You see that? You know, you tap your cat.
Yes, yes, yes. Or the one the one hand and hug
no good. Or the wet fish handshake.
I'm not really into that as well, but just show and love
being kind and being authentic. You know that that's that's just
what. And can I ask you about say you
were to move to America, because obviously the huge business
opportunity there and you can keep doing what you're doing,
but you can do it there. And I guess there's far bigger
industry for it there. But like in terms of like church
and faith and things like that, is there?
Would you explore somewhere you were going to move first in that
way, you know, make sure that you know there was somewhere
that you could do that? Well, that's how it all came
around that that was the starting point.
My daughters, they, they're great singers.
They're like gospel singers and like talking about emotional
when they, when they sing in church, I'm just all on the
floor. And that's what started this
whole sort of crazy, unachievable, unattainable dream
of going to the states. They they did a college over
there and like for for two weeks and Gillian and I where they're
just, you know, the background supporting them, but they they
do a three-year college sort of scholarship in this place
reading. And I was telling you earlier on
just the the we sort of coincidences that I don't really
believe in coincidences have have helped over, you know, the
last few months just to just to say, yeah, that that is a is a
possibility. So.
Would you see more of that as like a gauge plan kind of thing
I do? Yeah, well, again, with my
faith, you know, I'm so, you know, privileged that you allow
me to talk about it, but I don't want to ram it down people's
throat. I don't think you do.
And I I think to avoid talking about it.
Would there be? No.
Yeah. And I think of all, you know, I
think more and more there's not a thing in the world of people
are completely gobsmacked on someone has a different opinion
on anything to them. Yeah.
And I think the world would be such a boring place if we all
thought the same thing and and that sort of thing.
So I love hearing about like people who have different face
and all that kind of thing because it's it's different to
me. But it's interesting to hear,
you know, when and and yeah, you try and like, respect everybody.
Like when I was driving down from Ballymena today, I was
praying that, you know, that, you know, that God would, would
bless it and bless and bless you and bless the guys and
everything. And I believe that he has a plan
for my life. You know, he has a plan for your
life and everyone's life. And it's not always, you know,
Rosy in the garden. It's, it's not easy sometimes
just to keep that going. But like, I'm not a, I'm not a
preacher. I'm not gonna, you know, you've
got to be this or that. But I just try to like when I go
into schools. It's amazing and I see like
hundreds of we faces and I believe that God's given me
maybe the the purpose of to be an encourager and even that word
encouragement. I I that's my favourite word in
the whole world, you know, because I'm putting courage in
to someone and it's meant I'm meant to do it.
So have have youth. Do you go to church or do you
think or anything? I this is so strange, but like,
because I know a lot of friends of mine or whatever, maybe when
they were younger, they've got like a faith and either they
stick with it or they don't. But I, I because no one in my, I
can't think of anyone on either side of my family be apart from
obviously funerals, weddings, Christians would go to church.
But I and I, but I don't also at the same time, I don't remember
anyone talking badly about it or judging anyone for doing it.
So I was just never brought up with it.
So even from even doing RE in school, I always find it really
interesting. Yeah, but it never, ever
connected with me. So I've never been, I've
obviously I've been to weddings and all that sort of thing, but
I've never just, I've, I've never had a feeling of like that
is for me. Yeah.
Do you know? I think it's just for me, it's
relationship. You know, I'm not, I say I'm not
religious. You know, my knowledge of the
Bible is quite limited. I probably stand on about 10
verses that get get me through life.
But. I read it loads when I was I had
a children's Bible. Right.
When I was a kid. Yet at the same time I do, I
find that the stories extremely interesting.
Yeah. But it was not something then
that I, I, I didn't think anything past that.
These were really interesting stories.
And I don't know how I came into possession of this book, but
when I was your, it was a big book.
And my mom's like, you carry that everywhere to the point
where people thought you were like a child preacher.
Yeah. Because I'd be like, just
standing like how, you know, we were at a shopping centre.
I'm going through the children's Bible and people are like God,
He's he's really into it. And they're like, weirdly, he
just likes the book, you know? And I like you can enjoy the
stories and that sort of thing. Like as a like Jesus, like
whether you believe in him that he was God's son or not, like
some of the things, the love, the way it's like a topsy turvy,
you know, world that he lived in.
You know, the people that, you know, rebuked him and, you know,
were slobbering about him. He he, he just showed them love,
You know, So I just that relation like I, I, I pray the
way I'm talking here and I'm not Oh Lord, heavenly Father, I
says, Lord Jesus, I, I need your help.
You're more meaning with them. Yeah, without being, you know,
disrespectful. Yeah, one thing it does get to
me like I I know you'd you never do this, but when someone says I
Jesus Christ, you know that I think the day and or when that
doesn't, you know, resonate with me because that's like he's done
a lot for me. Yeah, yeah, but you're I love
the way you never do that. But you know, on TV, Jesus
Christ, S&G and that just that can be a way I sometimes say
when people like I'm no prude, like I've been there and done
that and you know, I've got the T-shirt and what's quite funny
if some of the boys, if they're cursing or something around.
Sorry, Glenn. Sorry, Glenn.
Yeah, it's just me that you don't.
Need yeah, I, I, I, I'm sure I have would say that the all tech
like, but then you would be I would be very I would then
whoever I'm with in company, I would make sure to, you know,
there's certain things people wouldn't want to talk about or
whatever. I could say it by mistake and
then I would hopefully be able to go like, oh, sorry, you know.
I normally say that you talk about Jesus a lot.
Do you know him? Yeah, That sort of disarms them.
There's another wee thing. If, if you ever like pray, no
matter what sort of situation someone might might find
themselves in if they're, if their world's about to fall
apart or if they're they're on a, you know, we're being
successful. People don't normally refuse to
pray for you. Yeah, like kind of pray for you.
There might be a wee bit of a shock, but yeah, I'll take it.
Yeah. Oh, I'll take it if it's going.
Yeah. And whether it be a bad
situation or a good situation. So I don't want to come across
as being some religious freak because you can't really be a
religious freak dress like this. Well, I'm, I'm thinking when you
find it, if you move and you find a church in this, in this
place in California, do you go straight in with the Sunday
vibes? Do you show up in in that and
go, this is who I am? Or do you, are you in a suit
with maybe some funky socks on to start it, you know, and then
eventually you bring it in? Over there, Shane, I'm I'm just
normal, right? Just.
Just normal. I have a real sort of
affiliation with Americans. I'm talking to a guy.
A lot of the people who are on my programmes are from the
States and that's why the whole Thunder Brew collaboration came
in. So I've signed to this.
Again, it sounds fancy pants and I suppose it is.
You know, we lad from the Shore Rd who is signed to an American
fitness company, which is like unbelievable.
But I did put the work in. I put the graft in, and you know
that relationship. And there's a guy, Dave Lipson,
he's like 64. Big tattoo.
Oh, my head. Big Mohic.
Yeah, big. What'd you say?
My head. What he's my height then?
Oh, yes, sorry, sorry, yes, and so massive guy.
He obviously says he's on TRT and that's fine.
Then his wife Camille, she won the CrossFit Games.
So he appeals to the American sort of, you know, high 5 and
all. That's not really me.
She appeals to the she's called the alpha babe and I'm the the
sort of longevity advocate who's come in and when we're doing our
videos and our socials and everything that they just want
to say Glenn more Ballymena, come on, we need more balls.
So I can just totally be myself. Yes, and to be to have that
backup. So I've got all this, you know,
knowledge in my head and they can put it on to the app.
And there's my friend Kenny Miller, who's a Netflix star.
I think I said to you, yeah, yeah, he's the CEO and they're
all, I'm on the phone with them all the time.
And what's in your head And I and they can put up the, the IT
skills are, are amazing. So it's great to be, you know,
and that's hopefully that's one of the, the sort of roads into
the States with, you know, with the employment.
Just trying to connect all the all the dots.
I beat all those guys in a race. I've decided to go the other
way. I'm starting to doubt myself.
But see, now after we've been talking for a while, I'm feeling
a little bit fired up and feel like I've had a bit of TRT.
See all those guys you're talking about, all these Thunder
Brooks. No, I'm all that shell just
straight into my eye. I'd be I I'm going to go.
I'm going to go to this, this place where you all are.
OK, just. See reading High Street, cording
it off and I'll just zoom past you all.
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling fast.
Well, I'll hold you that. Remember this conversation lads,
he's feeding fast. I am feeling.
I'm, I'm quiet. I, I'm, I wouldn't be.
Really. Oh, I'm gonna smash you.
You know, I'm just gonna just gonna take my time, right?
Turn up on my short shorts. See, that may put me off a wee
bit as well, but I'm going to go shorter.
I'm going with no shorts. And fudgy smugglers.
No, no, no shorts. We'll do that in our secret.
Why you're shaving the game. Yeah, I mean, I think it'd be be
sad if you're in Ballymena. Well, it has become a home and
as I say, I'm I'm Reggie from from Belfast, but we've been in
Ballymena. I don't think I've got the
accent. Some people say you you're
picking up that we twang that. I don't think so.
When I drive down the M2 in the Belfast, I think it just
switches on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's a lot of folk. Well, that's the Ballymena
thing. A lot of folk shouldn't really
say that. A lot of people that go away on,
you know, that work for six months or something, they're
coming back and they're talking with a different accent.
I can't be coping with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We just stick stick their roots. You think you you won't pick up
an American accent, but all. Way I go, the other way I become
more broader. All right, mate.
I because then you'll be starting all your video.
It's a lovely day in Reading. Well, I have done that, but I
said it's a lovely day in Southern N Northern California.
It's a lovely day in Northern California.
Do you know what I got asked sometimes that my voice and
because I'm quite sort of, you know, monotoned and you have a
voice that would put you to sleep.
Some guys say stories. Yeah, you could.
Do you know maybe? On that calm up, I used to do
that right. I didn't listen to it.
So on the calm up, you can do like a there's free stories on
it, and it's some celebrities reading you things to send you
out to sleep. And one was Stephen Fry, right,
talking about the lavender fields in France.
Oh, I never got through 10 seconds that I've gone right.
I do this thing at Ballymena every other, maybe every 3rd
Thursday when we do relaxation and we'll go up into the, into
the Dez Allen suite and the guys get their mats and the lay down
and guys have been working maybe on a side or, you know, driving
or what at an office. And we do like 10 minutes of
total relaxation. You know that nasal breathing.
Yeah, we can actually do it. And then I I I bring down the
right the tone of my voice. Here's what we'll do right to
end the pod. You relax me because I'm I'm
fired up. I'm thinking about our race.
OK. I'm, I'm, I'm GD up.
I'm ready to go. I'd I'd race you now I'm amped
up. OK, I'm hyper.
I've had a couple of coffees. First of all, before we do the
relaxation, I want to fight because we'll end on this.
I want to again, thank you so much for coming on.
Thank you for having me, Shannon.
It's an absolute privilege. No, I love it.
It's a blessing and. I'm going to get back on the
grindstone horse because I loved it.
I really loved it. And I was texting you during
that Salem, which was enjoying it and I felt the progress and I
just need, I need to get back on there.
But I'm ready to. I'm ready to relax.
And we'll put links to all your stuff in the description of the
episode, of course, as well. I just want to remind people I'm
on terrorsheand.comedy.com all over.
So close your eyes. Relax.
Sorry. I want you to feel the tips.
Pardon. So I'm going to feel this on
your men's head, right? Where am I going to?
Feel the top of your head relax. Breathe in through your nose.
Breathe out through your nose. Slow your breathing.
Clear your mind it. Was already pretty clear before
we started on. The top of your head to the
soles of your feet. Relax.
Are you going to bottle it? Are you going to push through
the line? Push through the line.
Hear the crowd. I don't want there to be a
crowd. And we're back in the room.