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September 9, 2025 101 mins
Welcome back, dear listeners!

This week’s episode is a jalapeño popper of a show — simmered over two and a half weeks, a true procrastinator’s Matterhorn. But hey, I made it in the end.

Expect the usual mix of "Bitter" rants, reflections on the inevitability of ageing, and some unapologetic crap TV takes.

We’ll also dive into:
  • A layman’s guide to the smiting of Sodom and Gomorrah
  • That time I met Basshunter at a comedy club in Stockholm
  • Irish talent managers versus hungry, drunk exes
  • And why “worldwide woke” might be over — with its former disciples reinventing themselves as edge-lords, hoping to cash in on Newton’s third law before the ladder gets pulled up.
Champions League tier waffle, that'll gently tickle your cerebellum.
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome back to the Hardy Books Podcast. I know it's
been a while, lads. I know it's been a while, ladies.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Is there a ladies listen to this?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
How are you ladies? Any crack no camure? If there
was ladies listening to this, send it on to other ladies. Ladies,
man refer to you. You're great. Had thrown wedge behind things,
creamy solid wedge. Just look a mighty boosh. Man When
what's his name? The laught in the British Bakoff nord

(00:55):
fielding he was talking about cute shit like Nikki Clark
fucking hair straighteners and and then people go to their
gigs and they be like, ah cool, lovely, oh short it.
I need that to get the women in on this
as well. Man, I'll dedicate like a women's corner or
talk about literature and I don't fucking know. I just

(01:16):
don't know. Man, Taylor Swift bollocks, I'm generalizing. I'm sorry, ladies,
I see this is why, this is why I'm just
I just need to get like, no, I don't need
to do anything. I'm gonna stick to them, stick to the
essence of the Hardy Books Podcast, which is me talking
shy by myself, lonely man against the world. The fuck

(01:40):
am I talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
So far?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
After a strong start, lads, it's just lads, and now
is it? Cheers for that? I'm glad you stuck around
to listen to this. Okay, let me breathe and start again.
Welcome to the podcast. I haven't done one of these
since I believe the twenty eighth of April. A fair
bit has happened, and I'm actually than to this through
an old pair of app Yeah, that's I'm actually getting

(02:04):
electrocuted in my ear drum because I was using an
old pair of iPhone headphones and the sheath to protect
your ear from being bashed by the coil inside the
headphone piece has been bashing against my ear drum. I
thought it was an electronic shock. Well, I can't listen
to this with headphones. Nothing works anymore. Oh god, man,

(02:27):
Why am I afflicted with such boomer tech shite? I
don't know, man, I've got a pair of headphones somewhere.
I'm just gonna go off the dome and try and
locate where they have gone. So in recent months I
have been busy on the road doing things like touring
of Canada, and we were in Boston and New York.

(02:48):
Great crack man. The first time is ever in Boston. Boshton,
I really like Boshton and the band Bushedon are bad
either more than a feeling. Apparently, according to Andy Wallace,
a good personal friend of mine and Dyta Banderaz, he
said that the lad from Boston, he just was living
in a van and he had some sort of high tech,

(03:10):
self engineered setup and he just made the album in
the back of the van and he'd take it into
the A and R men and they'd be like, wow,
have you How the fuck who are the lads you
got playing this? And he's like, did it on myself, man,
in the back of the van in Boston. Right with
that in mind, Boston was a great place. Enjoy Boston,

(03:33):
New York, Man. Every time I go to New York,
it's getting even bigger. And I even noticed that fucking
Jersey the espin head New Jersey looks pretty high faluting too,
like it's two sides of the of the Bay Man.
And yeah, just that's some observations.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
New York.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's a young man's game, man, it's a young man's game.
First time I went there. It's twenty two, I mean
twenty third birthday there, and that's nearly twenty years. So
I've seen a lot of changes, man, I'll see a
lot of changes in the war, but it is always
pretty cool to go to Manhattan and be in the
mix there in the Hatton of man Apparently the Dutch

(04:15):
sold that to the English back in the olden days. Man,
for like a dollar. What's the deal with that, man,
I don't understand. Why would you sell a massive piece
of land like that? Like apparently that's what our rush
is sold Alaska to USA for a dollar as well.
And in the words of that lad from RoboCop one,

(04:35):
I'll buy that for a dollar, right, So welcome, We're
in the mix now. We're finally picking up a bit
of momentum on this. It's been a while, man, it's been,
like you know, I've often said before, like the fat
lad from Stained, like he's sung, it's been a while.
So in terms of nineties nostalgia and rock and roll,

(04:58):
I see Oasis how been really hitting the ground running
with a blistering pace, and it is indeed rejuvenated that
sense of nineties rebellion and optimism.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Cons never did from me.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Dash encapsulated the britpop scene. I seen they played the
crow Park there at the weekend and they did a
double gig fucking gut it, gut it. I couldn't go
to that man, gut.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
It console never even listened to them, went to that
gig man conch that never even listened to them, went
to that gig tell you the kind of console, went
to that gig man constant that would be in the
pub of a night some more down and tullemore going

(05:50):
play wonderful, No man, I.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Want to play fucking classical gas.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
No play wonderful that it's gonna be a.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Concert.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Never knew the sound of you know what I mean, the.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
A chord on the pianot cots. But I've seen a
Dave McSavage video up there on Instagram where they had
the afters there in O'dona Hughes in Dublin O'donahue's Pub.
I've seen Bonehead, Andy Bell, Noel, a couple of other

(06:32):
boys going in there, and a whole load of luminaries
from the up and coming world of Instagram fame and
people who were familiar with MCD such as Juan McNally
Joan McNally. She used to be co presenting the Republic
of Telly there in its final stages with Kevin McGahern,

(06:55):
also known as Simcard. And I don't know what the
fuck how she's just like, I don't know much about
the girl.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Is she related to.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Big Mick McNally is in the uncle figure from Hardy Bucks,
the smash hit low budget comedy franchise. I don't know, man,
But is she all for the big end of town?
You can imagine how she probably got in there with
mcd They were like, I know where the afterparty's gonna be.
I can get you in there, but fair PLAYO she
got in but McSavage he's shown Emmelda may salted the

(07:28):
or Tamelda, Yeah, you get me started off like a rockabilly,
very good, very haughty, and did away with that. And
she was singing the Old Triangle And there were people
standing around in the beer garden just looking at them
doing that, man. And I was there watching from the
shadows of the internet, being like crushed, crushed. So it's

(07:56):
late August here in Sweden and the autumns come early,
kids are back in school. I still always say to myself,
why do the kids have to go back to school
on the nineteenth of August. Man, that's you know what
that is. It's unconstitutional, it's cruel and unusual. But at
the very same time, the shite weather came in and

(08:18):
I was like, maybe the Swedes have it fucking in
tune with the fact that they're so far up north
in Europe and the summer just turns to shit all
of a sudden. Though last year we did have a
nice Indian summer that lasted deep into September, so who knows. Man,
I'm hoping that the old sunshine comes back and we

(08:41):
can slow it right down. But kids are back to school,
you know what. Like, even though I've been out of
school for twenty five years now, thanks Peter God, I
still get post traumatic stress whenever I see anything to
do with back to school, where places like Asda and
Tesco and Pennies or whatnot, they'll have commercials for kids

(09:05):
going back to school, where they would then use the
number two as if to say back to school, like
as if to say, kids are that fucking stupid that
they'd throw in the numerical figure too as a replacement
for the two letter word too. I remember my mother

(09:26):
just get me gray school pants and like that was it.
Then you get you get the jumpers then from the
school or shop dedicated in the local vicinity of catering
towards the local school. Remember back in my old man
used to wear these jumpers, a maroon jumper and fucking

(09:47):
gray shirt pants and the name on the jumper the
label said Deer Park had like a deer on it. Yeah,
so that was that. Wearing blaze is really that stuff,
like you know, Harry Potter jobs, talking Harry Potter, man,
Harry fucking Potter Potter aroun fucking wizards and shit. I

(10:12):
don't know what I'm going off on one man. You know,
you can see how my seeing the synapses in my
brain just went talking shy about Harry Potter because of
the school uniforms. But I'll tell you one thing about
the school uniform is there any parents out there that
live in the States or Sweden will attest school uniforms
as depressing and uniform as they are when you're wearing

(10:32):
them as a child. It does make sense from a
parental point of view, because I'll tell you one thing, man,
here in Sweden, every fucking morning is like a fashion
contest and puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on the kids,
whereas like back in the day when I was in school,
you just like throw on the uniform on a Monday,
fucked it off, then into the wash for the old

(10:55):
ladies to the weekend and then you work. You know,
you'd have days where you'd be allowed to wear your
own clothes into school, and they were brilliant days. Man,
when you were a kid and it's like day bring
your own clothes in day, that was brilliant.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Man.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
You felt like you were just living on a different planet. Man,
you were inside school but wearing your own clubber that
you'd wear at home or to the park. Just they
were great days of you. I mean, there are the
simple things that as a kid used to used to
find great novelty in. Do you know what I mean? Like,
I often think about the age I am now man

(11:34):
forty two years old, and I think about the last
twenty years. I'm like, those twenty years just flew by
like a pizza delivery driver to James Cordon's lair, do
you know what I mean? Like they just zoomed past,
and I was like, I think back to the days
where I had like long, cool hair, and about my

(11:56):
seventy five percent of my personality was held in that hair.
And I just walk into a place young women had
just throw themselves at me because I had cool, long
hair like Samson in the Bible and read it. If
you're not into reading, just fucking listen to it on
the YouTube. Job listen, man, I'm gonna endorse this lesser

(12:20):
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whatever the fuck, some family, find some dude downtown.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Just take fucking pills. Take some pills, sit around and.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Have a great chat with your nearest and dearest by
fuck man, chat great form for the rest of your days.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
They used to tell us in school, don't take pills.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Man.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Some owld fucking ball.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Lad came into school once when it was a about sixteen.
You're saying, ah, pills, man, scramble up the fucking mesosphere.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
In your brain box.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
And I was like, how do you know, man, You're
just some.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Old dude, gray hair and fucking shirt and tie in
a soup jacket.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
He was trying to tell us not to take them.
But I'm telling you now, man, on.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
The record, I don't give a fuck what you're saying, yes,
do it in the Best Nights of your life?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
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Speaker 1 (13:31):
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Speaker 2 (13:41):
Body, get on the fucking pills. Now, what are you
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Speaker 1 (13:48):
But then some baddies came along Delilah and then they
cut off Samson's hair. Then was worth wank. But then
later on also the Samson option. Apparently Israel have this thing,
the Samson option, where shit goes down. They're just nuke everywhere,
and that comes from the parable in the Bible of Samson.

(14:08):
He's caught by some baddies, yeah, and he just goes
They blinded him and he was stuck between these two
pillars and next thing he goes, fuck this shit man
and just pulls down the twin towers on top of
himself and then everyone dies, including himself. So in his

(14:31):
final moments he was like, you know what.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Man from Folking going down and bringing me cons down
with me, mom, And no Folker is going to stop me.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
More.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
But I was looking. Recently, there was a video on
tiki talkie right, some fella don't know his name, but
it got some serious hits man, serious hits talking like
six hundred and twenty five thousand heartsman. He was talking
about they found a pillar somewhere at the southeast of
the Sea of Galilee. Worry about that there, dear listeners.

(15:17):
I had a business call. A man was calling me
involving some business in the realms of playing music and
entertaining counts. Now back to where I was talking. Yeah,
I was talking about the Sea of Galilee and this
pillar they found. Now you might be thinking, what are

(15:38):
you talking about, your mad ginger bassada, And I'm like,
I'm gonna get wrong to it, right, so they reckon? Yeah?
Did you ever hear that story from the Bible? Is
in the super olden days there was two cities called
Sodom and Gomorrah, and these cities apparently were recklessly, recklessly debauched.

(16:01):
So I don't know what the crack was there, and
I'll have to allowed to do a bit of googling
on what was going on in Sodom and Gomorrah. Apparently
there was bad shit happened.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
The man what.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Happened in Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible. All right,
I'm just gonna give you a little. In the Abrahamic religion,
Sodom and Gomorah were two cities destroyed by God for
their wickedness. Their story parallels the Genesis flood narrative in
its theme of God's anger provoked by man's sain right,

(16:35):
if someone could put that into more layman's terms, layman's terms,
because you know, get if the layman like layman's turned
the cities of God. Because Sodom Gomora were destroyed by
God because of their extreme wickedness, including rampant sexual immorality,
well as sounds like modern day fucking the world as

(16:56):
a demonstration of divine punishment for rebellious people. Story focused
on God's decision to wipe out the shape of Lot
and his family with the help of the angels, and
his wife's tragic fate becoming a pillar of salt for
looking back at destructure. All right, story wickedness soldom going
on on for their great wickedness and self interest with
people engaging in shameless sins, adultery and lies. Alright, this

(17:21):
is where I'm gonna go into it, right from my knowledge.
So apparently God was like, all right, these two cities.
There's mad, bad shit going on in these cities nonsense
and everything man bad stuff. So the next thing, God
is like, look, I'm gonna send to me angels down
there to find if there's anyone worth saving, then they'll

(17:45):
spare the cities. So the angels go down disguised as men,
and as soon as they get down to Sodom a
gang of feral men. They say like, basically, the angels
go and in the middle of this metropolis of degeneracy
there's they find this fella Lot and he sound him

(18:08):
and his family there sound like there are a bunch
of sound skins living in a town full of rampant
head cases. So the angel, the two angels are being
chased down the streets by these men. Yeah, and these
men want to bum the angels. That's what I gathered, right,
So they go inside, they meet they meet Lot, and

(18:29):
they go inside the gaff and he's like, look, I'll
keep fucking sketch here, man, come in here, lay the
head down, get some respite. And next thing, the boys
they come outside the door and they're knocking the door down.
They're like, let those lads out here so we may
know them. And to know in the biblical sense means

(18:50):
to have sex with them. And I guess in many
ways the Adam and Eve story of the serpent tempting
them with the apple of knowledge, you break that down
in an entomological vibe no ledge, So I guess knowledge
is in carnel knowledge, Colonel Sin knowledge to no means

(19:14):
shagging basically. So in the Bible, these bad boys wanted
to bumb the angels, but Lot said no, no, there's
no angels in here. There's no lads in here.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Leave me be.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
So later on, under the under the cover of night,
the uh the angels and lost in his family. They go,
all right, man out of here. Now, God's not happy
and he's going to rain down destruction on the on
the two cities. So as they were making a run
for the Gath, God just goes takes out the two cities.

(19:50):
And they said, whatever you do, tell the wife not
to look back lest she be turned into a pillar
of salt. Of course, she looked back and was turned
into a pillar of salt. Now apparently in this video, yeah,
they found a random pillar on top of this area.

(20:12):
And it's quite interesting because this area so they say, anyway, man,
there's loads of like balls of sulfur that are kind
of ninety five or seventy percent, Who the fuck knows, Man,
we can pick up these balls of random sulfur and
light them on fire. And a lot of the geological
aspects of the area looked like scorched rock. And I

(20:36):
don't know, but I just found that interesting. I don't
know why I bought that up. But at the end
of the day, a bunch of mad lads tried to
bum some angels and there wasn't enough to spare the
cities from destruction. But lot he was sound, his family
was sound. But unfortunately the wife, she looked back at

(20:58):
the burning city and a pair of salt, And I
suppose that served as a warning against dissibeying God's commands.
So it says here the significance. The story of Sadom
Goemore is a prominent example in the Bible of God's
wrath against unrepentan sin and demonstration of his justice. It's
used as a warning in the New Testament about divine
judgment and the importance of righteous living. Right, it's all

(21:20):
well and good man, yeah, but if you've been raised
like we have with TV and late night sexy stuff
on Channel four and BBC, two as a young fella,
and that was us, man, Like, I remember talking to
fucking Cowboy Lavin at school because he had the Internet
and a computer in his house in the nineties, and
that was a big deal back then. Man, that was

(21:41):
a big deal back then. And I remember like seeing
pictures of porn on this thing called Attila Vista. I
think that was actually the server. It's called low Liter
or something that was about sixteen Garcine ship Man Jpeggs
and Cowboy was then like, oh man, if you checked

(22:02):
out Thumbzilla, And we laughed about it in school because
we thought.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
We're being edgy.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
But imagine now there's kids growing up with all sorts
of fucking shit on their phones. I mean, what chance
did these poor bastards have to live a normal life.
I mean, back in the day, man, the only bit
of pornography you'd ever see was like a jazz mag
rolled up and stuffed in a bush by someone who

(22:28):
didn't want it in the house because they had post
nut clarity after blowing the beans. So they were like, nah, man,
I'm gonna fuck this this ole pornomag into a bush.
But they didn't get they didn't get rid of it.
They didn't put it in the bin. They put it
in the bush because they knew, man, that when the

(22:50):
dander was back up, that they could just go out
and take the dog for a walk and be like, oh,
might just retrieve that magazine and cycle would continue again
until someone noticed the curled up magazine poking out of
a hedge and they were like, what was this?

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Man?

Speaker 1 (23:10):
I remember finding magazine called belly Busters. There's a lot
of fat dolls.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Man.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Some of the biggest whales I've ever seen were in
lingerie and there was like a group scene going on.
I think it was in Germany or something, man, but
there was a lot of like saggy, middle aged dudes
just knocking on these books and queens. But we were young, man,
We've seen this, and we were like cool. A lot

(23:41):
of those women look like teachers we had in school
or antis, but still at that age we were like look, man,
tits and stockings. So that's a I guess I don't
know what the fuck that's got to do with it.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
But if you think.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
About like the way the world is going now, man,
if indeed it is true in the biblical sense, better
get repentant. I suppose I mean, I don't know what
to say, man, turn into a theological discussion fairly rapid.
But segueing from that video that i'd seen on Tiki

(24:24):
Taki to were my notes. I made notes this time,
but I don't stick to them, man, Right, I finished
school twenty five years ago. I covered that. Yeah, going
back to school now. Fucking school, man, It's just a
relic from the Industrial Revolution. I believe that the educational

(24:48):
system that we have come to know is basically designed
from the Industrial Revolution in order to make kids sit
still all day and work in depressing factories when they
grow up and leave school, unless you had like top
dollar to send your wiens off to fancy private schools
like you often see in America, Like you know, like

(25:08):
set her child to the private school down the road
costs sixty thousand dollars a year, and you think, just
have what are they fucking teaching? Because you know, if
you look at some American people, there's videos like where
they point to a map and they're like, can you
point to Belgium on the map, And you know, they're

(25:31):
pointing to somewhere in Southeast Asia And a lot of
them don't know anything other than I mean, it makes me,
it makes me mod what the fuck are they teaching
kids in school? And is it deliberate? Because I remember
hearing a thing This guy what was his name again?
He used to be the Alex Russell used to be
the governor of Nevada, and he got pretty friendly with

(25:55):
the Rockefellers as in Standard Oil and then went on
to Exon Mobile, and they were saying, like, at a
dinner party one night, it was like, why do you
think we gave women the vote? And Russell was like, well,
you know, it's just the right thing to do. It's
the equality. And no, that's not why we did it,

(26:15):
the Rockefeller guys said. He said, what we wanted to
do is put both parents into work, tax both of them.
They put their kids in the educational system, so then
we can teach the kids what we want them to learn.
And that's what I think. Public school education in the
States at least is about who fucking knows. Man. But
I'll tell you one thing, I just don't fucking norm

(26:41):
even if my parents were loaded and I could have
gone to one of them fancy private schools, would I
have still thought maths was born? I suppose it depends
on the teacher. Like a passionate and dedicated teacher would
they know how to make the subject matter fun and interesting.
But instead, like what I remember is just sitting in
a class thro all day, having to do sums out

(27:01):
of the textbook and always being the last one there.
Like you know, I mean, I think children the better
off playing outside and learning, you know, through practical fun ways,
and then you can slip in the education without realizing
it was schoolwork. But what do I know, man, Just
a middle aged header from Mayo time is rolling on,

(27:24):
man and getting gray. And as you get older, some
cases your hair starts migrating to other places. You lose
it from cool places like the front of your head,
and then it just migrates to random unnecessary places like
your ear or the tip of your nose or your shoulders.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
It's like, what the.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Fuck good is that to me?

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Man?

Speaker 1 (27:46):
What the fuck good is that to me?

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Man?

Speaker 1 (27:53):
You know the uncles and the elbook they also have
hairs coming out at the end of the nose. And
I think maybe the way cats have whiskers to stop
them from getting stuck in tight spaces, and the way
that your nose doesn't stop growing until you die, a
bit like crocodiles or big red kangaroos in Australia. Maybe

(28:14):
it's a way of stopping us from getting our noses
stuck in pine glasses. I just don't know, man, there
has to be some reason for it. I remember the
days man just cruising around on skateboards, listen to Alison Chains,
thinking I'm gonna be free to do whatever I want.
I'm going to be in the next biggest fucking band, man,

(28:35):
even though A I wasn't even in a band, and
B my music skills were average at best, just hitting
the pentatonic scale like a madman. But I look to
young people now, man, you know, in the eyes of
Generation Z or Z, I'm just a fucking old dude

(28:57):
man talking shite. And I used to be like that myself. Man,
I used to be like that myself. Man. See Jim
Morrison would say, when you wrapped up in the wooly
cotton brains of infancy, you're ignorant to the world around you.
I was up in Umi h recently. I was looking

(29:17):
out of a window the nightclub's clothes. There was one
lone figure, a young book, maybe about twenty one. He
hadn't met a woman for the night, but he was
still walking down the street, all confident, running his fingers
through his hair, being like, look at me, man, I've

(29:38):
got a cool hairstyle from the nineties, the kind of
hairstyle that I would have had myself back in the nineties.
Find it weird the way you look at people nowadays
wearing stuff that I used to wear, my friends used
to wear back in the day, And you're like, the
fock's going on, man, the fock's going on, man, the

(30:00):
fuck's going on. You know, young books now don't even
know how easy to have it, walking around with lush bounces,
living wild and free. It's all ahead of you, man,
like the fucking wheelbarrow. So I met bass Hunter last night.

(30:21):
I'm back doing stand up comedy over in Sweden at
the Big Ben, and I remember going there ten years
ago and trying to do comedy and I would have
had bigger laughs at funerals, like the crowd was shite and.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
I gave up.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
I was like, you know, and I'm not taking time
off with young kids in the middle of the week
to go and do this for free. Fuck it off.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
But I have to say no, it's the crowd that
who's ringing me? Now?

Speaker 1 (30:52):
One second?

Speaker 2 (30:55):
One second right.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
I had a conversation there with Marie, old friend of mine,
sound doll. I think she's on the market, lads. I
think she's on the market, lads. But yeah, So last
night met bass hunter sound fella. Apparently he said that
he's off to Limerick today to go and hang out
with the two Johnny's two Erotic Jonathan's. Those boys man

(31:26):
are making good fucking wedge. See they stuck together man
like shit to a blanket, same way the fucking rubber
bandits did. But they both have something in common both
those acts. They're managed by Joe Clark. Joe Clark is
a songman. Hey a song from Limerick. I used to

(31:49):
be pretty close for Joe back in the day, man,
and I'm not talking about Nile McGarry's Joe dot I
E and Joe dot I E. While I'm on it.
He used to be all edgy saying it's man stuff.
It was like the internet website equivalent to the Yorky
Chocolate Bar or McCoy's crisps. But something happened with Joe

(32:11):
do I E. Man, something happened. It became full of
fucking bespectacled, skinny lads who were always on the fucking
big end of town or don't know, man, it just
became soft. Supposed to be a fucking magazine for ladmen,

(32:32):
such as lad Bible, a bible about lad culture. What
is a lad? I know that the penis has the
euphemistic name a lad Zin. We've got to get a Laddin.
But I digress. But Joe Clark Man back to him,

(32:55):
the manager of the Two Johnny's and formerly the Rubber Bandits,
got on very well with you. I like Joe and
he's a fucking great promoter, great manager, great businessman. But
I remember my ex. I kind of didn't really see
much of Joe. After a secret gig back in twenty
ten that the Rubber Bandits were having on the border
of Tipperary and Limerick. The night was going brilliantly. Hotels

(33:19):
were put up for us for the night, grey crack
free drink. But my ex, now, problem is my ex
she was a quite small, slight build and when she
gets hungry, she turns into a fucking tyrant man, like
a bit like those videos Snickers Bars where she turns

(33:39):
into a diva Now, if you're throwing alcohol on top
of an empty stomach, it's like fucking throwing petrol on
top of a load of Christmas trees. And we were
down there enjoying the festivities laid out at this Christmas
period in twenty ten, and I remember Joe had a
lot going on. He had live acts, he had backline,

(34:02):
he had musicians, he had the rubber bandits do in
the set. He had to make sure the bar was
serving the right drink. He had a lot on, man
a lot on. But my ex wasn't happy about that,
and she said, what is my fucking vegetarian hot dog?
And he's like, look, come here, like, I'm doing my best.

(34:22):
I've got a lot on, but I'll make sure I'll get.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
You some food. Okay.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
So the time passed and she got more and more outraged,
and he comes over later on to make some you know,
he said, I mean there's there's no vegetarian food. He
didn't have any time.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
I've got so much on. She was like, oh the
fucking car.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
And I was like, please, can you he's doing his best.
We can maybe get some veggie burger shipped in from
Limerick or something. Someone might come through and he tried
to make loads of He tried to he tried his
best to appeal to her virtues and be paid with
him on that night, and that didn't really work and

(35:06):
she ended up fucking having the hump with both him
and me for bringing to a place that didn't serve
gluten free bread and vegetarian alternatives to burgers and stuff.
So but fair player, Joe Clark and the two Johnny's
and the bandits, you've done well. That's you've done well

(35:26):
and based on to is off now at this festival.
I remember he was in a big celebrity Big Brother
in twenty ten, but he was a sound man, you know,
like the Swedes there there there are a reclusive bunch
unless they managed to get out of Sweden and make
big money in the world of show business, which he did.

(35:47):
And then he got out of Sweden and he was
telling me he was living in Dubai and now Amsterdam.
But for a Swedish lad, he is rather juicy in
his behavior. And I remember reading on or before he
was on Big Brother in twenty ten, incidentally the same
year as the Hungry X and the Rubber Banded Secret Gig.

(36:09):
That's when he was on the celebrity Big Brother and
it mentioned that he has turets, which I found quite
interesting because he was a great man for going into
impressions a bit like myself and I would do that.
Sorry about that. I would also say I have some
degree of turets to a certain extent.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
You fuck might not think.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
It, but it happens sometimes. Man, It happened sometimes by
down you. But yeah, that's about it more. I hope
you do listen like listening to this. I'm back after

(36:50):
a fair couple of couple of moons have passed since
the last podcast. Look, man, I'm I'm just so fucking
easily distracted by life and then you know, having to
set up the computer and then relearn how to edit.
God almighty, if I just fucking had someone who did
this for me, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Paid yet fucking few? Bob.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Does anyone out there who wants to help me with
my workload, who understands the fine art of cutting around
my waffle to generate a certain juna sequa, then hit
me up on the web pages. You know where to
find me, man, you know where to fucking find me.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
So there was some sad news. We lost a few
people this year. I just want to attribute to Johnny Sideways,
Charlie Sleaven and my father in law of the said
ex ulf. He was a absolute wild man in his youth,
but a very sensitive soul underneath it all. And it

(37:57):
was with a deep sadness to to have to announce
the news of the passing of of my friends. Also
a couple of months back, Ali Carter, who played Scorpio,
a good friend of ours. Yeah, there was a lot

(38:17):
of speculation there in the papers that that about is
called pause of death, which I will say that man
was an absolute legend and a true son of Swinford,
a ka castletown. He was a credit to his family
and his family are a credit to the town. And

(38:38):
he will be missed and fucked up grudges, and that
man's legacy will be remembered for the the joy, the
laughter and the pleasant atmosphere that he brought to the town.
And so I wish his family all the very best. Now,

(38:58):
that was a bit of serious notes, But such as life,
life has a light and shade to it. But there's
no put in hide and with but either I find
Sweden and funeral culture is a funny old spot. Like
back in Ireland, you know, we have wakes and since
we're young, we're acquainted with the finalogy and the mystery

(39:21):
of passing on to the the other side, so to speak.
But here's Sweden they have it's very don't talk about this,
it's depressing and uh. And the thing is, I think
the fact that the Irish and.

Speaker 6 (39:38):
The Superano you know that it didn't have a cursure
really and make the film.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
But I think I think in Catholicism in general, there's
a great emphasis on the on the how we recognize
death of loved ones. And grown up in a small
town in the west of Ireland or anywhere in Ireland
really and you have a kind of a funeral culture.

(40:07):
The old lady would be listening to the death notices
on Midwest, as I've covered before, and I'll have to
go to that upon tonight. I have to go to
that one tonight. I got to that one tonight. But
that's about as far as I'm going to take that
topic of conversation.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
What else have I got in my notes?

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Uh, Bess Hunter, Yeah, to do easy? Yeah, I mentioned
them folking boys. Yeah, they a big party tonight there hey,
big party tonight. Oh yeah, in uh pop cultural news,
I see those Triggerometry boys have had an interview with
bb NO to Yahoo and those lads they came a

(40:55):
couple of years ago because they named themselves trigger Nometry,
as if to say the content in which they speak
of would easily trigger blue haired fat ees and the
walk mob. To put it in brackets. Now, I've noticed
something very fucking strange in recent times that a lot

(41:16):
of this, let's say, between the years of twenty fifteen
and this year, all that kind of walk stuff seems
to have just disappeared. Like remember Disney movies, and there
was a partitioning of the cultural side of things where

(41:38):
everyone was, oh, you're either on this side or you're
on that side, and there was nowhere really in the middle.
But what I've noticed is a lot of these Charlie
Kirk trigonometry kind of people that would have been all like,
you know, fucking Matt Walsh and all that. They're all

(42:00):
for the big end of tone when it comes to
the conflict and what's happening now geopolitically, and I often
think was it all one big fucking ruse? Was it
all the political fucking game? Show, political reality TV show
where they manufactured consent by dividing people over weird Tavistock

(42:25):
Institute kind of folly. I don't know, man, but they
had that.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Those lads.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
One of them looks like he could be the teapot
out of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. He's supposed to
be a comedian. That's Stephen Foster lad Man. And the
other guy. I mean, you got to think to yourself,
they're probably like, oh, yeah, it was so edgy and
we're against all of these woke people. But it's not

(42:56):
a good look. Lads, it's not a good look. But
I guess the fucking the boat is the boat has
said long ago. There's this other fellow who I seen
on Twitter some fucking Egypt by the name Charlie something.
He goes round Manchester antagonizing people to the point where
they can no longer stand how fucking much of a

(43:19):
twat he is, and then he kicks them and puts
video compilations of him up on Twitter kicking people and
basically having to go people for Palestine support. Very fucking
strange times. We're living in ladies and gentlemen, you know.

(43:41):
And and there was a big meeting there between Putin
or is what's his name? Fucking Peers, the glassy eyed,
dour faced, fucking our soul that is Peers Morgan Peutin.
What do you think of Putin? I don't know what
the fuck happened with that meeting. I didn't follow us.
What's what's the deal now?

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Is is the war over?

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Are they going to finally end that fucking shit that's
been going on way too long? Because look, I'm for
the fucking middle of the road in the town, and
uh be like me man, a nice sound skin that
wants peace for our fellow brothers and sisters here on
the planet. You might be like, really shut up to fuck,

(44:23):
I don't want to hear it. As John Lennon would say,
if you were money for people with Man' said, hey,
all I can tell you is, brother, you have to wait.
God's got a big all right. And look what they
did to him. Was it alone gunman in the form
of Mark Chapman, or was it some sort of fucking
mind control job that wad kill Johnny Lennon, Jimmy Hendrix?

(44:45):
Was he bumped off? Because if you listen to Jimmy
Hendrix's machine gun makes a fucking wonder man. There was war.
It's a big business, a lot of people getting paid
ridiculous amount of money for that ship. So make of
that what you want. But I just think that's all.
Just try and help each other out the best we can.

(45:06):
Watch out for wolves in sheep's clothing and false profits
and always go with your good instinct, man, and put
no faith in people, because yeah, who fucking knows, man?

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Who knows?

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Well, that's about as far as a team of products
any cut. You know, I was, I was on from
segueing from one thing to another.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Team MoU ads.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
You know, I was looking at elix your strings for
guitar and I was like, e lixier strings on team
they have to be fake. And sure enough there's a
Reddit post about t MO guitar strings being fake. Now look,
elix your guitar strings. If you're playing acoustic, I think
they're the best ones you can get. And team mos stuff.

(45:55):
Has anyone got any If you listen to this on Spotify,
put your put your comment in the comments section so
I can read your feedback. Yeah, timu, you know you
see like, oh look at this, there's a fucking motorbike
you can buy it for like seventy quid. I'm being
a bit of repose or exaggerating that, but like, what's

(46:17):
the story? Many? Are they good products? Are we just
being shafted by ridiculous marking up of electrical goods that
we buy from the high street retailers? I don't know, man,
I don't know. Man. Is it dodgy to give them
your details?

Speaker 2 (46:32):
What are they gonna do with it?

Speaker 1 (46:33):
I know that China they're leading in Ai, man Ai?
What's the deal there? Make your fucking wonder? Man, Make
your fucking wonder?

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Man?

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Is black Mirror by Charlie what's his name? From screenwipe?
Is it pre programming? Who knows?

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Man?

Speaker 1 (46:51):
You know you've got that fucking episode with Ron Howard's
daughter with the old five star review job? Is that
pre programming just to soften the minds of that count
who watch TV? I don't watch TV anymore, man, Like
I've said many times before.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
The only bit of TV I'll.

Speaker 6 (47:06):
Watch it's then, I guess really Buco, But I might
go back.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
To watching the Wire after that. I seen this fucking
thing yesterday on X Western US. It was like eight
years ago. This scene changed our lives.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Soft losers wearing stuff from pennies.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Whenever you see a TV franchise being sold in bulk
and clothes shops, you know what's over. Pull the fucking nose.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Up quick, get out.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
There's a bunch of lads carrying chains out of a
lake frozen over. But the big dragon coming out? Did
that really change people's lives? Did it?

Speaker 2 (47:48):
If so, what were these people doing with their lives
other than watching HBO TV like I do with sopranos.
But that's different. Fucking hey, hey.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
I'm not ashamed to say it, like, how did it
change their lives? A fucking made up out of dragon
coming out of a fucking lake. Man, I want to
find out who has that Twitter account? And I just
want to t bag them in front.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Of their mother and father. Look what you made me do?

Speaker 1 (48:21):
You made me place my ballocks on your offspring's face.
Fucking dragons, fucking made up out of shit.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
But I won't have a bad word said about Lord
of the Rings.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Funny enough, No, The next thing, cookies, man, does anyone
have a way of getting around cookies? Do you know
what the Sun newspaper right?

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Sub human scam?

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Not that I'd be going on that, but sometimes someone
will send you a link.

Speaker 7 (48:53):
Never forget what those Lyon bastards said about the ninety
six dead Liverpool fan when they said Liverpool fans were
going in Robin wallats from the pockets of the dead,
when an actual fact, they were trying to find out
who they were. That's why no one buys the fucking
Sun around.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
Liverpool, including Everton supporters, because what they did was beyond
the fucking pale, you lion cun And it says either
accept the cookies or pay, And I had to fucking
accept cookies for those baths. Do you know what I like?
Making fucking thick. I guess it's to be expected from

(49:37):
companies that are happy to invade privacy, exploit people publicly
and smeared them ruined lives, profit, fucking murder concern. Anyway,
That's about as far as I'll go there. Simon Cow
would say about fis gonna go with heart Louis yes
or no? No, absolutely not. Was in Canada there recently
with the boys. We were in Edmonton when we were

(50:00):
at a karaoke place, go crack. But some of the singers,
I have to say, objectively speaking, they were shit and
I thought to myself, imagine if I just started doing
Simon Cowell impressions during these karaoke nights, such as honestly Sweetheart,
I mean that was terrible. I mean, no, I'm going

(50:24):
off on it. But that'll do me Now for this
episode of the Hardy Books Eddie's Chat pot Pod. Hope
he enjoyed it and hopefully be back on the regular
now that I have taken the laptop out and set
the microphone up. But that'll do. Pig, as they say
in that film, Babe the Sheep, Pig, barn you, barn

(50:49):
you your fleece, you breathe.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
It can be true. Yeah, bom.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
While I'm on the subject TV, I mean, how can
you let that shit into your house? It's like opening
It's like having a sewage pipe pouring out of the
television and into your living room and you're covered in
corporate shite. Saw an advert there a couple of months
back about like a man and his wife with his

(51:19):
two kids in the back of a car right with
a balloon in the background that said eightieth birthday party,
and they didn't go. They weren't at the party. Apparently
they were all stuck at the side of the road.
But the conceitedness. What you know, if I ever got
ahold of the COUNTRMTS adverts, look a tractor all it is? Man?

(51:45):
First Dates? You know that First Dates with that French
fellow with the fucking tight eyes. He's got eyes like
one of them dogs. That's a mixture between a Staffy
and a Labrador. Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (51:58):
He's just there going vie come here.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Yes, I'm a pursuitaal and I'm looking for some one
whose equally as fucking inbred as me. First Dates Channel
four Channel fuck used to have edgy stuff on Channel
four and I will not stop shitting upon what you
make now fucking television. Do you know what I woke

(52:25):
up when I was back in the homeland.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Up the fucking raw. I was back.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
I was back in the homeland watching the shite spewing
out of the one eyed monster there in the corner right,
And I thought himself, why am I forced to watch
adverts and shy TV shows flicking from one to the other,
one to the other. And it's just there's no there's
no let up, man, do you know what I mean?
It's just it's just patronizing I watched this thing recently.

(52:54):
It was called married at First Sight Australia. First of all,
what kind of a death for fucking dickhead goes on
television to get married to a complete stranger? There is
your that in itself is the measure of the arseholes
that would go on TV. So you can imagine the

(53:14):
caliber of fucking header. It's basically it's like Love Island
for people over thirty five. And then this ausy guy, Yeah,
he was a hard gazer. He was like, if someone
about tomorrow wife like that, man, God help them.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
And there was some woman with a it.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Looks like it looked her face was so tight it
looked like you got cling film and wrapped it round
a miter ultramax football. And she's thinking it's exploitative, sleazy shit.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Man.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
Reality TV is the fucking scourge of television. And I
woke up the next morning thinking to myself, I was
I was worried because people aren't as enlightened as me.
I'm on another fucking level and you might have your
fucking average mouth breathing neckbeard.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Well, actually, merchant, go.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
What does he know? He hasn't a fucking clue? I do, man,
I do fucking work in the industry.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
I've had.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
From base with it and getting your information from TV,
you're basically letting someone else do the thinking for you.
You're letting someone shape your opinion. It's a bit like
this podcast only shit, But you get what. I'm only
looking out for you. I'm only looking out for you.
Like my parents, especially my mother was always like, that's

(54:39):
whon the TV came into the house. It ruined communities.
And I was like, what's your problem with TV? Man,
It's just a couple of cartoons and some soap operas
and then maybe some films from the USA that had
boobs in it, you know. And I was like, I
don't get it. But it's only when you look back
later on, man, Only when you look back later on.

(55:02):
Do you know what I find funny? As well? There's
over here in Sweden there's a band. Yeah, they're called
Hoover and their genre is pop rap hip hop, and
these lads are probably in their early twenties, but they
rhyme about a sentimentality from the mindset of someone who

(55:29):
holds the wisdom of a sixty seven year old granddad
of nine that's seen some shit, like I was saying
earlier on about the lad who's going around rubbing his
fingers through his hair with the confidence. Look, I used
to be like that myself when I was young, man, Like,
when you're young, you have that confidence of I can

(55:52):
do and say whatever I like because I'm young and cool.
But it's just because you don't realize the amount of
crazy fucking shit that goes on in the world, or
how easily manipulated we are. And this is the ignorance
of youth. I used to just when I was, when
I was in my early twenties, man, I used to
just walk around with like endless confidence for no good reason.

(56:16):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (56:16):
I'd be like, I'm class man. Look at me. I'm
at the forefront of youth culture.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
I wear a pair of cool vans and I smoke
weed splits in a shed down town. Do you know
what I mean?

Speaker 2 (56:31):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
I'm not shipped on young people, man, I think they're
young People's opinions are as important as anyone else. It's
more so the mechanisms in which the minds of young
people are captured and their collective attention diverted into.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Like, Look, I was there, I was there.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Man the nineties, the naughties, everything was all fucking American
pie dismiss and all these MTV fucking bro frat party shows.
And you know, it would always the idea of being married,
like the member those T shirts, there's a picture of

(57:15):
a man and woman getting married. Game over in many respects.
The fucking game is over with shenanigans and daft behavior
like but you know, the end of the day, you
want to have, You want to procreate, you know, and
never mind all that fucking ballocks of finite resources and
all that. That's just because there's a bunch of mad, bastard, maniacal,

(57:37):
greedy cunts running the whole world and making artificial shortages
and howking up the fucking prices of everything for their
own personal material game. If you want an insight into that,
watch Superman three or Trading Places. I know it's fiction,
but look at that fiction is drawn from something mon

(58:01):
a mean mon. I leave it there anyway, just went
on a fucking rent about TV. Hope you enjoyed that.
I hope that resonated and resolved a chord withinside yourself.
Another thing before I go, this is just me venon
now there's those stupid fucking AI voices are like YouTube

(58:22):
reels have ruined YouTube. Anytime you going to YouTube now,
it's like this man met an octopus for their first time.
He was a good octopus. Octopuses are very intelligent creatures.
Look how the octopus opens this bottle. There's another one

(58:44):
that kind of sounds a little bit like John Goodman.
Huh have you ever seen the cocky fighter who got
punched when he squared?

Speaker 2 (58:52):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (58:53):
I think you're all cunts and you're in it for
the big end of towne making money off daft scenes
sans from movies right. One scene seen one today of
Keanu Reeves. The movie was called Street Kings. He said,
can eat you out to a bunch of Korean hard men,
ends up getting.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Into a fight. But the way they put different music.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
Behind that, then then they'll claim, Oh they'll claim the
fucking ad revenue.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
The little bastards.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Do you know what, man, I've ever got my strong,
oversized hands around them. I take them to a dark room,
just slap them, slap them up real nice counts. There
was some other fucking clown there. While I'm in the
thread of giving out, I was on the Alan Clark
podcast recently checking out man wasn't a better old chat

(59:44):
couple of about a month and a half ago, and
people were fucking shocked. They heard me real accents and
they were shocked. Mice, I don't even talk like this,
you know what I mean? But some lad don't even
remember his name man. But he had a bald head
and in his in his bio, he had he him
in his pronouns and I felt like saying to him,

(01:00:05):
you know, here's the thing I was gonna say to him,
Oh relax, man, your fucking pronouns are shown now, he said.
He said about me, you know, being an immigrant twice
while you know, moving back from Ireland, even though yes
I am fucking Irish genetically culturally, but that doesn't stop

(01:00:25):
fucking assholes going, oh my Childho's ruined. I'm like, fucking
get over it. Just soft cons. I sound like this, Yeah,
this is my voice. This is how I sound. Do
you know what I mean? Fucking get over it. And
another thing while I'm in my own voice is this,
I did such a fucking great job of being a
top actor that I got blackballed in the world of

(01:00:47):
Irish fucking celebratariism that no one wanted to touch me
for serious acting roles because they thought that I was
a one trick ginger pony. So all all, you can
shove up your fucking ass. Same with Lisa Richards. Fuck
you as well. You never gave me the time of day.

(01:01:08):
And I'll tell you one thing. You shot on the
fucking agent that I got in London, didn't you twelve
years ago?

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Yeah? Up the fucking IRA.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Now where was I? Yeah, this fucking asshole on Instagram?
He was like, still didn't stop you from attacking migrants?
What fucking migrants you're talking about, your fucking dickhead. I
think you might be mixing that up with the other
lad I know who does be talking a lot about migration.
And another thing, right, while we're on the fucking hot

(01:01:39):
button topic of migration, what is it about fucking Irish leftoids?
And I'm saying this as a classically fucking working.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Class, classic liberal fighting for your freedom, man.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
The sacred cow is immigration.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Don't go there, man.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
Anyone who fucking has any bit of lively discussion regarding
any aspect of immigration for some reason, it's the It's
like fucking enriched uranium you can't go near it, man.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Because people ship the bed.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
What's the big fucking deal how I view it? Because
I'm very fucking smart, and all people might think I'm
a self, a grandizing wanker.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
A legend in his own lunchtime.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Look other realms, I'm a daf bastard, such as missing
my fucking dental appointment yesterday. That's another story. Let's have
sex with the migrants, this new wave of mass migration, right,
It's not like migration is a natural phenomena.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
People move from.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
One place to the other.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
They're going from one place to the other Titanic ship
of dreams. Job, we need more.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
They get fucking bored, maybe that the place they're living
in has has been run by despot fucking tinpot dictators
and people want to.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Leave baddens bad bastards.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Look at the island of Ireland. It's small, tiny place
with small spot man with limited opportunities for those that
want to go and make the big books, entrepreneurial types,
fucking high falutin big end of town notions of grandeur merchants.
It's not gonna happen because there's a limited amount of space,

(01:03:19):
both figuratively and literally, there's only so much opportunity to
be got in certain aspects of careers, so.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
People will migrate.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
But from what I can see that swept across Europe
is very wealthy mercantile businessmen, merchants that are buying up hotels.
Our greazers, man gum beans, big shots, wankers, scummer cruilers, fumbling.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
In a greasy tail.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
Not for the fucking decency of taking care of people
who are in desperate need of.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Asylum, political amnesties.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Or political escape, or you know, for the the myriad
of reasons why someone would want to leave their native
homeland Croydon. But what's happened is you have these greedy,
fucking SIV bastards, entrepreneurs who get together with seminars and
they're like, hey, if you fucking buy this place tax
free and you'll be getting three hundred and fifty euro

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per person.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Per day, capitalists.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
This is the fucking thing that most people aren't against
the individuals. I don't blame people for moving from one
place to another to build.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
A better life. Lads on Reddit think you're Mussolini junior.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
What I do find repugnance fancy the fact that there
are people out there that are making big money off
sexy white collar human trafficking. That's what that's what's happening.
It's white collar human trafficking for profits. And the funny
thing is about like these, this particular fucking gang of
people in Ireland. They mean, well, they're on the same

(01:04:55):
team as the lads who are making money at their expense,
prospective sulat and prospect bastards. Somewhere along the line, their
altruism has been diverted. So let me just get that
one thing, fucking straight, gang of salad tossers, man, tell
you another thing, man, Yeah, go on telling you another thing?

(01:05:17):
What makes me even more so qualified in this realm
being an immigrant twice as some people fucking let me know, Yeah,
well it's only an immigrant bastard. He's a fucking make
paddy tan bastard Swedish square head. Pray Yeah, yeado goonga.
Fact this your tallest fence caroxo. Oh yeah, uh the

(01:05:45):
spelling a role, you know what I mean? Yeah, an
immigrant twice immigrant parents from Ireland, man, my parents.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Your parents are potato people, were.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
Born in Ireland in Mayo. My grandparents, my great grandparents,
who the fuck knows man. Sister did a DNA test.
Apparently I'm twenty percent Scandinavian, which means I have fucking
Viking blood, you know what I mean. I'm fucking handy
with the steel Kant.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
The language on the Hardy Books podcast is unacceptable.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
Had an audition for a new Vikings thing during the week,
but we'll see if that goes. All these auditions, men,
they were a fucking pain in the hole speaking of TV.
But yeah, so over here in Sweden they have a
thing called sfe Svenska for invander, which basically translates to

(01:06:45):
Swedish for immigrants.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
And one unique.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Aspect about the two years that I spent going there
was that I learned a lot about other cultures. I thought,
for one, it was a great scheme. Not only did
you learn things about the host nation of Sweden, you
learned about other cultures such as Chilean culture, Cuban culture,

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Iranian culture, Bulgarian.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Culture, Latvian culture.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
Malaysian, Sri Lankan, Indian, Pakistani, Russian, so on, so forth.
I learned in that space of that two years a
hell of a lot about other religions and ethnicities and cultures.
So much so that when I was in the first class,

(01:07:33):
I was in with strictly Iraqis and Palestinians and Egyptians,
people from Jordan Somalia. I was in with the native
Arabic speaking people, right sound lads. So much so that
when I spoke Swedish to my ex girlfriend Sarah Bratt,

(01:07:56):
when I went back to the house, she was like, so,
what have you learned in Swedish, say some Swedish shy
at the martin You're coming from hereland, she says, what
the fuck? Why do you sound like an Arab? That
was the extent a lot of my friends, many many
of my friends are from diverse regions of the world.

(01:08:21):
So before anyone comes at me, go immigrants, I like,
I guarantee you you know fuck all people from about
your hang around in your fucking white bread world. And
you're living in the big end of town, and you
went to college and now you work in some fucking
shite office job where this weird walk bollocks hr human

(01:08:46):
resources made your dual course on pronouns, and you work
in some aspect of the fucking tech industry. And what
you say, but they tell these constat jump in, tell them.

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Yeah, I'm black and we bum each other.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
We do.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
So there you go. So, you know, so like before
people start fucking jumping down, I mean, obviously most people
who listen to this podcast are pretty fucking sound anyway,
You're great guys. But in case it gets the wind
of some fucking like some wanker out there like waiting
on the fucking spider's web, going, oh who can I.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
It's over, man, It's over.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Finally, the age of all this fucking PC bollocks is over.
Now we're going into the for as Newton would say,
for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction.
And I guarantee you all these fucking.

Speaker 5 (01:09:46):
Kiss harus teacher's pets, prefects, politically correct zelots of the
past ten years, they're gonna jump ship and then join
whatever is popular.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Yeah, man, you know, like I was always do like edgy, risky.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
Stuff, and you know, I just at the time had
to keep my head down because everyone around me was
being like really sorious. I was like always an advocate
for racy, edgy comedy and you know, the pronoun stuff
and just be very.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
With it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
Yes, it was all of a sad Oh totally, you're
a regular Tony Hinchcliffe, And I tell you something, I
for one, am very pleased the fact that we're doing
this open obnoxious workshop the weekend where it actually teaches
you how to be really obnoxious and roots and make

(01:10:45):
fun of them physically and ever else. And I think
it's a great turning point for humanity. I love how
racy you become.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
Yeah, I mean, like my.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
LinkedIn profile, it used to say like he him, but
nowadays it's just go fuck yourself and your mom.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
I love that for you. You're a cool guy man.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
Yeah, you know, I had read a subrededit there where
I was talking about, like you know, I was basically
going hard and heavy after people that went against the
narrative at the time.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
But that was only a joke.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
I mean I was just basically compiling osier like I
find retards on X so I could then use it
against them in this changing time of edginess. You've got
to be rude to people these days. Absolutely, And if
you look at what I'm saying doing online.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
You will see.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
You know, you were talking early on about I find
retards on sex.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Well, I use the word retard all the time. Oh yeah, man,
I love using that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Word I mean, like my mine, like LinkedIn just says
like totally retarded in the workspace. You know, I really
do love the fact that that word is back. Yeah
the bang baby, and I use it all the time.
So another one that I like to use is fake
and gay gay.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
I think it's awesome that the word fake and gay
is back.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
Fake and gays back, And much like the word retard,
I use fake and gay all the time. That's how
I evolve.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
Fake and.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
You know, you could call me a rack on tour,
absolutely a renaissance man, so edgy, a mysterious heartbringer of
the consensus.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
Of the modern day zeit, guys, unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
But with these words that were reboting for quite a
while taking it back, I have brought them back.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
And with that, this new movement we're all a part of.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
Now growing places as rude, so good, as provocative as
we can do what they tell.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
Us so good. We are the future.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
We are coming up and people are gonna say, so good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
You guys are the pathfinders.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
And nobody, and I mean nobody has done what you
guys have done.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Well done, guys, edge.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
Lords of freedom, television, film culture, so good. It was
all these positions were filled with devoutest disciples that we
repeat what they're told in the HR world, and that's
how they have to put their fucking pronouns in the
bios and they have to sign off on their work

(01:13:32):
emails with with conformist language. Look and for if you want,
if you want to know where I stand politically, I'm
a political I'm politically homeless. I'm a fucking man trying
to figure out what the fuck is going on in
the world. And people are like, they can't conceive that
there are organs of power out there that are very,

(01:13:53):
very influential. They are extremely rich, extremely powerful, have their
tentacles of fucking every and now on top of that,
they have access to AI. First of all, it was
algorithms and data collections. They have godlike powers. Now the
likes of Peter Thiel and Palanteer things are going to

(01:14:14):
go in the opposite direction, and the general consensus is
going to be one of overt obnoxiousness, where we've had
ten years of pussy futting around, erotic furries, a lot
of fucking odd behavior, and people are having to watch
out for other people being offended. You know, Opinions like ourshols, man,

(01:14:38):
But fundamentally it's Newtonian law human being and your sound.
Then we're gonna get on.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
You're gonna get your hands your illness.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Where we're living very complex times. And I really like
in terms of we're talking and discussing youth culture early on,
I really do feel bad for kids in so some
ways they have an advantage because they have information at
their fingertips.

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
It's a wanker's paradise these days, man.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
But on the other hand, if they can slip up
and do something embarrassing like we do in youth, it's
there on the internet.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
So crenge cree, go back to.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
Television television previously as fucking as many of the opinions
that any of us said after a certain age would
have had. Because you talk about we had six to
seven eight Max terrestrial TV channels growing up, we.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
Were all brainwashed from the same hymn sheet.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
There would have been room and space for things that
would have been more avant garde or left field, shall
we say. And nowadays, people who have an interest in
broadcasting themselves they.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Can do well without the middlemen. Good for them, That's
what I say.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
You don't need any executives breathing over your shoulder, saying
you gotta put an advert break in here. You have
to can't say that because it's gonna piss off this person.
So you know, the Internet is the double edged sword.
Man's double edged sword. It was for the Internet, I
don't think I would have ever got into.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
The world, the precarious, vapid.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
World of show business, the fickle hand of fame. One
minute you're up, next minute you're down, then.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
You back up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Like I said before, it's like a cloud and everyone's
trying to stay in the cloud. But if you're not
fucking carrying your weight, man, you'll be precipitated and pissed
down out of the cloud.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Hoping for that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
Re evaporation job. A saga that brings spondulies and fail
holds my firm. But it's it's a weird industry, man.
It's an industry where when you're making people money and
you're in the spotlight, people come out the woodwork and
you're like, oh, I've always been big fan, man, But
then when the shit hits the fan, where are you?

(01:17:16):
They've gone on to Johnny Kim Lately.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
You get in town.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
Everybody loves him.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
Don't let me down.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
But that's just the way it is.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
Man. You enter the world of fame.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
And you're putting yourself out there, your head is above
the parapet the likes of your tabloids. Then for some reason,
I don't know, it's ruper Murdoch kind of thing where
it's like, these people live a very.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Privileged life, unwashed masses.

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
Now we have carte blanche to rummage through their bins
and disseminate their most fucking secret events and gossip. And
that's you know, that's if someone does something that's bad
and public interest, then yeah, fair enough write about it.

(01:18:10):
But like it's the whole fucking reason. Well, you think
about it like news. If you look at like tabloid journalism,
it's all about fucking pop stars. So it's like it's
clearly about seventy five percent public relations. Then some scandals
and in sports and some other bullshit that the government
wants to, you know, paint a certain country out to

(01:18:32):
be problematic, human rights violations in Libya. Send our boys
in there, that'll help. Yeah, look at fucking Libya now, man,
cheers NATO and all those cocksuckers that were called themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
NAFO on X where are you now?

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
CONTs amount of grifters man lads who were just in
sheds pretending to be out on the front getting donations
from well wishers. You know what I mean. There's a
lot of well intended people out there, but their ignorance
and lack of doing any fucking prior research or in
depth research or something that will then change their perceived

(01:19:15):
grasp on reality.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
It's too it's too much for them.

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
I don't know. Look, you might be listening to this.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Going, oh, RuSHA, Rushia RuSHA. Look, Russia or dodgy.

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
China's dodgy, The US is dodgy, UK is dodgy, Ireland
is dodgy. You know, it's in terms of the people
who run our nations are basically middle management for a
higher tier of shadowy bastards we don't even know about. Man,
So what's that got to do with this podcast? Fuck knows?

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
Man. Go and watch Tim Dillon if you want to
hear better man.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
He wears polo stuff, preppy style, eighty style baseball caps
with Brett the hit Man heard style sunglasses. He's doing
very well, man. You see, you can get away with
that kind of talk. In the US, but if you
start going off the reservation in Ireland, it's like, oh,
this priors gone wrong. Get on the subreddit quick, we

(01:20:12):
need more rediits down there. Oh you man who plays
any Dirk. And it's such a melt. He's a melt,
like a tuner and cheese melt. And especially if you've
gone the distance and you've mixed a little bit of cane,
pepper and mayonnaise together with.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
The tune and the geese.

Speaker 1 (01:20:32):
And you just melted in one of those fucking Russell
hobb jobs. Yeah, what can you do? Like I said,
opinions like airsoles.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
I did modules in college. I never questioned what I
was taught, but I know everything.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
How's it going? You thought it was over bush and
as well consolidate the other week. I was in the
middle of doing the podcast there last Friday, and then
time slipped away, man, slipped away, like the sands of time.
Whatever the sands of time are. I'm guessing that's one
of them hour glass jobs, an egg timer, one of

(01:21:12):
those big lads that you get in mysterious fucking movies
where it's like, yes, you must do this before the
hour class fades away and the mission is failed like
some bad bastard.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Man, bad bastard.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
I was playing musical all weekend, and you know what
I mean, plans it was.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Good old crack now.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
So it was good old crack Friday night. The weather
broke over here in Stockholm. Shite weather man. The weather
has been shye now.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Last couple of days.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
It's been bench about nineteen degrees.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
But that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
The for all intents and purposes, the summer is over.
And it went by like wank in the night.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
I mean to be fair, I had a good old
run of it this year. I was in you know,
New Zealand and Australia early on, but apparely to buy,
so I kind of I got some. I got some
sunshine earlier on in the year, pulling summertime Canada. Good weather.
Actually it was a good fucking too hot when we

(01:22:15):
may start from the boys were coming off at Toronto,
it felt like someone was blowing my legs with a
heat gun, and I was like, what's going on here, man,
what's going on here?

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
What's going on here? Man? Boring?

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
Yeah, well, there's a bit of a chip lately, but
today the sun is shining and I thought i'd wrap
this up again with a bit of an update for
the weekend. And I love the way I just start
this without actually having a plan.

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
So I'm just currently trying to get my.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
Autumn schedule together with work and whatnot. There's a balancing that, man,
pure balancing act. The fun I'm talking about. You know
what I get annoyed with looking at these these Instagram adverts.
I've seen one for like a game Boy kind of

(01:23:15):
thing with an emulator with a load of old consoles,
and it's like chair the forward PlayStation five.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
By this, I'm like, I.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
Have a PlayStation five and I barely play that. And
I'll tell you one thing that fucking annoys me about
the PlayStation five is this the fact that you know,
up to the PlayStation three, you put the game in
and now and again.

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
You'd have an update, a bit of a patch.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
But now it's update the system, update, the game update.
I've got time to be sitting around waiting for updates, man,
you know it's I just find it fucking lazy on
the on the behalf of the game developers like sometimes
all right, an expansion pack or someone has put a
few more ease in, do you know what I mean.

(01:24:01):
But generally.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
You can't.

Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
You know, you have to put the game. You have
to install the game, install microwave avans onto the PlayStation,
whereas in the old days, I mean, you still need
to have the disk in.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
It's like, why can't you just I mean, maybe the
data is too I don't fucking know, man, But why
is that? Can someone ask me?

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:24:27):
Why is it that you can't? Is it because of
the act the amount of data that is on the
disc isn't enough and then you have to rely on
some sort of cloud storage to download it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:39):
I don't know, man.

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
This was supposed to be a nice little addendum to
the end of this yere podcast. Supposed to do it
the other day, but didn't. Obviously I said that before
because I was doing gigs, and then Sunday was write
off and then just day to day. Man, it's now Thursday,
so it's nearly a week later. What has been happening
in this week?

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
It's some pieces.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
Yeah, I missed the fucking dentist today. This is the
second time I'm supposed to go to the dentist. I
supposed to go a couple of weeks ago and rang
the wrong dentist. It was the same company but a
different location. So I went to my dentist and they said, oh,
you're not booked in. So then I rang the dentist
back and I said, I'm supposed to be booked in.
But then I go I'm on the way to the

(01:25:24):
other dentist and they're like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
It's too late.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
Now we're gonna it's gonna cost you forty quid. And
I was like, forty fucking quid. Man, ask me, ask
yourself this, Why would I be going to a new
dentist when they have all my records at the other
dentist and I'm going to get a crown fixed. That
they did and I evaded being charged the forty quid.

(01:25:49):
I'll fast forward to today where my fucking stupid ADHD
brain coupled with just being distracted with watching fucking Gerald
Cialente videos on YouTube, I was like, maybe I should
get a move on. I should check when that new
dentist appointment was. I was convinced it was twenty past two.

(01:26:11):
It wasn't. It was twenty two too, So then I
jumped in the car as fast as I could ended
up with the phone on top of the dashboard in
this little rubber holder thing went round the corner so
fast it flew out and went on the back seat
of the passenger seat.

Speaker 2 (01:26:28):
And I get there and.

Speaker 1 (01:26:29):
They've already tried to call me, but obviously the phone
is behind the back seat, so I couldn't answer. I
get in. That'll be forty quid please for the mist appointment.
So then I had a big hoof and she said, oh,
you can pay next week. I said, just not fucking
pay now, man, I'll pay now for that. Thanks for nothing.
But then the thing is, it was, as Robert Plant

(01:26:50):
would say in led Zeppelin's song.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
Nobody's fault. But Ma, that's the worst.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
Thing when you do something that's your own fault and
you go looking for someone to blame and there's no
one to blame apart from yourself. So I blame myself,
and what I did when I got home started to
punching myself in the mirror, going look at you. You're
a disgrace to your fucking house, family, friends. The podcast

(01:27:20):
listeners that listen to this podcast should be shamed yourself. Man,
the fuck is wrong with you.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
I have indeed spent the last few evenings watching the
Sopranos as usual.

Speaker 6 (01:27:33):
I'm up to series fav of Sopranos, you know, the
one with Tony Blantanoo is now out of the jail
and they did the hit on Lorraine were Steed the
Malio play by Frankie Valley. I love how mesa it
is because Tony goes up to the casino in the reservation.

(01:27:58):
You know they will fucking hold me down. The only
reason he brought me up there is they wanted to
get Frankie Velly and then Frankie Valley, isn't it later.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
On Funny Thing is about Frankie Velly. Man is about
twenty year ago old friend of mine, Justin mad Justin
his ex girlfriend Michelle was obsessed with the Jersey Boys,
a Broadway show about Frankie Valley. And this was around

(01:28:25):
the time they were filming series I no Series six
of Sopranos and Justin's ex good Luck and doll Man
and I can testify that she was working in she
was working in scores. I think Howard fucking Stern, the
smot peddler, owned the place. And needless to say, I

(01:28:48):
got free lap dances. I wouldn't be big into the
old lap dance crack. Now myself never really saw the
point of it, like you go there. I mean, to
be fair, some of these ladies are very talented in
terms of bending the laws of physics and the application
of athleticism. Other than that, like, you know, you're paying money,

(01:29:12):
especially in the States, like paying big money to women
to show like their naked body while doing things on
a pole. And I never really fucking saw the point
of it, man, I mean, the pleasure to cash ratio
is fucking was waste of money. Man, it's a waste

(01:29:34):
of money.

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
But I leave it there. I'll leave it there.

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
Fucking But his girlfriend then started dating Frankie Valley, who
must have been in this late sixties early seventies at
the time. And when when Justin found out she was
dating them, he said.

Speaker 2 (01:29:54):
You're dating the fucking cripkeeper. He wasn't too, he wasn't
best pleased.

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
And then she's said, Frankie knows some seriously hard guys, mobsters,
if you know what I mean. And at the time
I was like, what the cast of sopranos. But actually,
now with the with the experience of twenty years later,
of course he would have known some fucking shady characters.

Speaker 6 (01:30:19):
Being that he was from Jersey and it was connected
a lot of the guys that would have had him
performed with their functions, it would have been he would
have been in with these guys.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
But yes, Soprano's great old show. It's it's very rewatchable,
very watchable, especially when you get into series five by
our fat with Steve Bushemy, Steve Amy, I find looks
like a Chihuahua. He's like a human chuahua. I've seen
something there on the internet once that he'd been punched

(01:30:54):
by some nutter on the subway in New York. And
he used to be a fireman and apparently went down
to a volunteer at grown zero after some bad boys
did some bad shit. I'm not gonna go into that
one man. I'm not gonna go into that one man,
but you will know the fucking crack man.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
Here's some fucking Sopranos quotes, just to.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
Lighten the lord for you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:25):
The fundamental question is will I be as effective as
a boss as my dad was? And I will be
even more so, But until I am, it's gonna be
hard to verify that I'll be more effective. What ra
else slept with Jinny? No, I'm talking about my honor here.

(01:31:47):
I'll tax him, I'll crack him good, two hundred grand.

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
What's next he gets the fucker for a million?

Speaker 1 (01:31:58):
Some of my favorite Johnny Sacramore when he courts their
fear And here's a bit of fucking Philly a tird or.
My estimation to Johnny Sacremony as a man just fucking plummeted.
And I'm not ashamed to say so.

Speaker 6 (01:32:13):
It's emotional day. I've seen tought of pricks and Johnny
Seck cry and has done his wedding.

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
To cry like a fucking woman. If they can make
him cry over this, what else are they gonna make him?

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
Say?

Speaker 1 (01:32:29):
I agree with phil Tony, only you don't, do you?
But our conspiracy theory is they're no longer They're no
longer any fun because everyone else has now jumped on them.
I mean, it was fun back in the day when
I was there ruining dinner parties, telling people about who
was responsible for all the bad shit, and like now

(01:32:51):
everyone's talking about it. I'm like, as well, fucking give
it up, And uh so I don't really, I mean,
my new sweed is just fucking conspiracy stuff anyway, and
has been for the past ten years. And normanis be like,
he's mental. He believes the moon is made of cheese, man,

(01:33:11):
And nowadays everyone else is just fucking casually talking about
it all day every day, And I'm like, the novelty
is gone, man, the novelty has gone, and we just
need to accept that we live in a fucked up
world where money talks and bullshit walks other things off
my dome to talk about. I've been doing a lot

(01:33:32):
of stand up comedy here in Sweden and it's not
as bad as it used to be. Used to be
fucking terrible, so much so that I just knocked it
on the head. But it's the Swedes are actually more
receptacle or reciprocal to the fun of stand up comedy.
And I might actually go this evening if I have time,

(01:33:52):
do a bitter comedy and see what the crack is.
But I am hoping to get this done and dusted
that little bit of extra time. There was there much.
I mean, I'm kind of looking back at this whole
podcast to me like was there anything worthwhile? But I
would say that because I'm a self critical, fucking nuts job,
and what do you expect, man, it's off the dome,

(01:34:13):
right off the fucking cheese rolls. I don't know. I
remember one time man years ago Buzz McDonald won't mention
her real name, having a great fucking night of it

(01:34:34):
in Galway, took a few Jack and Jill's And at
the time he was working for Timlin Construction and he
was in the euphoric state he was at the time.
His job was to hold a stop and go sign
down outside Jeury's Hotel, and this was what he was
doing at that time in two thousand and seven, and

(01:34:55):
in the middle of the night, while about actually six
in the Morne, so it was bright. He goes home,
changes into a Hawaiian shirt and goes down to juries
and holds up an imaginary stop go sign and he's
beckoning traffic and traffic, the traffic. The funny thing is

(01:35:16):
about that story was the people driving the cars actually
acquiesced to his instructions. He then goes into an internet
cafe and asks this good looking Russian doll who used
to work there on a date. She says yes, And
later on he just went home and criddled himself in

(01:35:38):
the comedown. Never found out if he ever did take
that one on a date. But I remember she was nice, man,
she was a bit like you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
On slat Lana with one leg.

Speaker 1 (01:35:51):
This is my cousin Branca. Obviously, I'm talking about the
Peranos again in terms of fucking world new who's haven't
really been following us, which is probably a good thing.
That's it, ladies and gentlemen. We love you and leave you,
and I'll try and get this up now and then

(01:36:11):
do a fresh one that I will hopefully have new insights.
But good luck to you. You like this Hardy Books
on Patreon. No one is digest at PayPal. If you
want to throw a few fucking quid, you're very welcome anyway.
I hope you enjoy your weekend or wherever the fuck
you are or whatever time you listen to this at

(01:36:33):
and I'll leave you be glads.

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
Or will I.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
Me again? Man, it's me again. So today is Tuesday,
in the ninth of September. So this is indeed nearly
span three weeks. The procrastination has been off the charts.

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
I've been playing live music.

Speaker 1 (01:37:00):
I am a live music man. He might have noticed
that I play live music when I'm doing the podcast.
Sometimes I've just ripped off this Miles Davis. So what
so what about it?

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
You know gonna, I just took it out. I took
that out because I google it and it's be on
the safe side. Fucking took it out. But here's the
rest of that segment. Shut up, shut up. That's enough.
I said, quite enough.

Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
But we'll see, we'll see. The old algorithms might be
like fucking cheeky bass. It's using Miles Davis, the jazz
man of trumpetee Ring. Whoa, oh mama, So what day
is it now? It is Tuesday the ninth, two days
before the twenty fourth anniversary of the a life changeing

(01:37:57):
event for the people who live across the entire world,
especially those across the Middle East and the USA and
the coalition forces of the US. I'm certainly not fucking
going into that one, mom, But whatever way you slice that,

(01:38:19):
spicy pie, a lot of people have been killed since,
which is not cool.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
Boredum.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
Yeah, I'm fucking why is it I always go into
serious mode? Man, I'm sorry, I'm fucking sorry about that.
I just wanted to do a bit of an update.
I'm gonna try and get a new episode out each week.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
It is difficult.

Speaker 1 (01:38:45):
It is difficult. It's it's hard to kind of just
once I get into a floor, I uh, I can't stop.
But once I get interrupted, it's hard to stop against
that addicted to the shin big But yeah, if you
like this, share it with your nearest and dearest. Probably

(01:39:07):
not a lot of people who would be like, that's
a fucking great podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:39:10):
Yes, it's very very.

Speaker 1 (01:39:11):
Balanced and detailed and produced a one man operation. But
there's a lot of themes in there that would ruffle feathers,
especially of the average television regarder. I mentioned that earlier on.
I shall not cover that, but I just want to
say to all of you that listen regularly and enjoy

(01:39:34):
this podcast, you are in the note point one percent
of the population, and I.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
Would rather have a.

Speaker 1 (01:39:45):
Small number of people who really do enjoy listening to
this versus a very large audience that consume it like
chewing gum, as some sort of screensaver for the brain.
I'm not going to change the way it is.

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
It's the way it is.

Speaker 1 (01:40:04):
It's the way it's gonna be. Baper ah, yeah right,
I'm just talking now. Good luck to you if you
like this. If you want to contribute this, if you
think you know what, man, I see you there toiling
away at all hours and no one's asked you to
do it, apart from the odd person who says when's

(01:40:26):
the next podcast coming out?

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
But if you.

Speaker 1 (01:40:28):
Appreciate this, and you're like, you know what, here's a
fucking bung, here's the price of an old gold a pint,
a couple of pints, or whatever the fuck, man, I
will I will gladly take your donations at Hardy Books
at Patreon or Maloney's Digest at PayPal dot com. It
is appreciated, and I know there are people out there going,

(01:40:54):
do you know what that's It's pretty common, man, it's
pretty common. And there's a podcast a lot bigger than
that accept donations. Look, I'm gonna go because I'm just
talking shit. But if you like this, do shares, throw
off your bob if you want, and enjoy yourselves wherever

(01:41:15):
you are, especially if you're on the road having the
road trip, and you're like true slapman, fucking short in
the road.

Speaker 8 (01:41:22):
Nicely, go on, keep talking shit. But other people are like, god, man,
it's too long, you know what I mean? Trying to
live me life the way I want to go. Look
and God blessed.

Speaker 1 (01:41:33):
Look after yourself, Get fit, get healthy, get out of debt.
Gotta luck. M.
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