Episode 17 - "Michael D-pont"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the bananas Rubbie pod.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
It is true. The voiceover thing. I have heard it.
And because I know a woman during the early two thousands,
she got every down to like she was the Caramel Bunny.
She was the the talking clock. When you ring the
talking clock should be the time is twenty past seven,
like she got every gig going like it bought her

(00:30):
a house. Do you know what I mean? So that's why.
Oh hello, everybody, welcome to the podcast. This is how
we start.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
We started rolling. Yeah, I hit record. I figured, you know,
let's let's just do it. Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well, we all we decided that we always record the
best off before we press record. So sorry to the listeners,
you're missing the best off every week.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
And I came up with the she just linked to
her AirPods to her phone and now she just got
some American board talking in her ear and when you
hit record on zoom, it says, what's this say? I
don't hear it all the time this meeting.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
So it comes out on my set. Were recording in progress.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
And we figured that you figured the too, our cousins the.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
One who says connected. I was like, it's not exactly
the same voice. But I was like, maybe they're cousins.
And if the whole voice voice over industry is all
sewn up like the Jesuits.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Did you know? Did you know? Did you know?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
For years, I don't know if it still goes on,
but for years there was huge suites of companies were
having their you know, their health desk when you ring it,
like different American companies and stuff have or had it
done in kil Oregland and Kerry because they reckoned that
their accent was so disarming, especially to Americans that would

(01:59):
ring it because you know, you ring rage and that
you're You're.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Like, it's not true.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I swear to God it is true. I swear to
God that they were just so disarming with their accent
in the same way. Often you'd get somebody, you know,
you ring, you ring a helpline and you know it's
bangledpore and I was like, you know, I'm just here
in Portland, Oregon. You're like to You're not. You're absolutely not.
It's like, okay, tell you the truth. I mean, you know,

(02:26):
but yeah, they figured that a bunch of different companies
or set up shopping Colagan. Yeah, because they got tax
breaks and and they carry accent. Do you imagine you know,
you ring it up both you.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Know, we actually we have listeners down that direction so
you can confirm her. And I like this this activity.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Like they will back me to the hint one of this.
It was definitely a thing because I met people I
gigged down there and I asked because I didn't fully
believe it, and I asked it and people were like yeah, yeah, yeah,
and they didn't really It would seem though that there
was call centers, but it was like they didn't know
why they were there. They were like, yeah, they just
you know, it to be just great people to talk

(03:15):
down here for whatever reason. But it was the disarmy
apparently it was the deserve sound of their voice. Will
just come on before, I bet you they don't even
say the company's name. Do you know, it's just a
dickie here.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh well, very very fascinating. I'm I'm sad that I
never spoke to someone from Clordland and the call center.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I do find very West of Ireland people. I do
like their voices when they speak and they say things
like yeah you know, and they go skiing with their
shelfy shtick. Do you know they put me at ease
those people. Anybody else absolutely not. We had at an
American in the club at the weekend and Jesus, Mary

(04:04):
and Joseph. She let herself known, you know, every opportunity
whoa America. I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ, a light.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
I don't think that's appropriate to be shouting right now.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Oh I brought I drew that down. I was like,
you know, nobody is, You're not popular anymore. You stop
being popular at the second Home alone, Jesus Christ, this
is embarrassing. I love Roland. It's just so green. Oh Jesus.
I think that she was hamming it up because all
of our Irish friends were gone, you're some dickhead, You're

(04:40):
some dickhead. Shut up with it.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
But that is that is kind of funny, like if
you're American, like play the role.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I think, yeah, I think she was, And it actually
like she was saying the things that you know, like
America and stuff like. I don't think she was that
sort of a portant person. And every one of the
people that were with were sound, funny Irish people, so
I would be surprised if they would put up with
that ship. You know. Oh, my god. You guys have
electricity a fuck, you know, so I would imagine she

(05:11):
was hamming it up, But she hammed it up at
all the right places and picked all the right boxes
for me to fucking hacker.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Let's be honest. You hired her.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Do you know what? It made about three minutes the
top quality material to be fair, that was. She just
kept on setting them up and I kept them knocking
them down. It was perfect. It would be. It'd be
a plant does what they call them putting a plant
in the audience? But thankfully, no, she wasn't. She was, Yeah,
she was.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Can I be a plant? Can I be a plant
someday for.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Your that'd be great? But I don't even want to
know what you're going to come at me with with,
do you know? But ok, yeah, I don't even want
to know. You Just throw it at me and see
what I can do, fake name, you know, put on
a mustash, whatever you're gonna do, just to not look
to you know that, and just hit me whatever and

(06:02):
I'll see, I'll roll it and see what we can
do with it. But I'm going to say some hurtful things,
but they won't be real because it'll be about your
fake life.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Okay, Okay, I might still get sad anyway. Okay, that's
another plan in the works. Anyway, Will we talk about someone.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Some We'll just keep talking about ourselves. Sure what else
to answer? How you feel that way? Are you feeling
a bit better? Are you as the cog move forward
with us all bit?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
I don't know, because it goes forwards and backwards and
up and down. So it's I, you know, yes I'm better,
but I you know, if you were only better by
a point zero one of a percent, is that actually
being better or not? I don't know. So I'm not wonderful,

(06:54):
and the end of the season feels very very close,
and I'm just worried every day that I'm not going
to make it. So yeah, we'll see, obviously, have I'm
going to Italy this again, obviously if I feel well
enough to go, because actually I got a bit worried
because the weekend wasn't great. I went out to watch

(07:18):
the match. I was feeling dizzy. It was a real
step backwards. This weekend just fell of dizziness, which I'm
obviously being careful about. I hadn't thought fully about going
on a flight, and then when I started to feel
bad again. I was like, shit, is that a bad idea?
But I'm feeling better again. Not out of the woods,
but I'm wondering is bad enough to not take a flight?

(07:40):
M sure? So I have to wait and see to
see if I'm well enough later in the week to
go to Italy. Not like it matters anymore because there's
no groundslam.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Have you been needing any questants just to get you over?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
I haven't because I'm I'm waiting for the governate.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Of course, I totally for God. You're yes, you're you're starving, Yeah,
you're damn nearing. You're abstaining, Yeah, just wearing the.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Stretch in true Catholic fashion. Before I had to see Papa,
who thankfully.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
He's doing better. He's out of But you see these
fucking journalists keep on writing. They're trying to be really
smart and how they're writing, like their headlines, Like.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
The headlines is, did you see past peaceful knight? J
Paul what's yeah, Frankenstein Pape Frank has passed a peaceful knight?
And you're like, gee, people do that about David Attenberg
as well. I mean, it's one thing to do with
the Pope. But I'm sorry now misleading headlines about David

(08:51):
Attenberg like you should actually go to hell for that, but.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's actually it's like it's bad English anyway, say even
writing like that, like he passed, he passed, like what
he passed the fucking gallstone? What are you talking like?

Speaker 1 (09:04):
What?

Speaker 2 (09:05):
But yeah, I was. My first thought was ship and
it has Haslympic has tickets booked for that. So for
the for the well, I mean look at two for
you get a two for you get the match and
you get the Pope sooner. But you know, you wouldn't
know if the match would go ahead or would be
absolutely bedlam, try and get there because il Papa or
ill Papa or whatever whatever it isn't in them.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
I never looked up what the phrase was when they
send the smoke up. There's a phrase.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
There's a there's some great you know what my memory
has but as is shot. But I've read one or
two books on the whole kind of because just you know,
the conspiracy theory stuff, but also like the just the
interesting ceremony that has to go on, like apparently now
I don't know if it's true. Apparently if a fellows
right on you know, the cliff edge and he's about

(09:56):
to go when he's suffering or whatever. Apparently there they're
like this could be from a movie too. By the way,
I will accept people taking the piss out of me
over this. But apparently like there's a ceremonial hammer to
just crack him over the head and finish him off.
Like I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
The Da Vinci code.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
It it might be just for his Easter eggs. I
don't know for cracking move. I don't know that both.
It might be the the Da Vinci code, all right,
but yeah, my thoughts. My thoughts were like Friendie pulled
through because then it needs she needs a holiday.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, that's true. I could have done with now, we
could have done all ceremonial hammer on.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
God, we were into it.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
I actually think we got We were on the receiving
end of the ceremonial hammer on.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
We were.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, how what how was your weekend? And then it
never got around to you first before we get into that.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Very good, great weekend Weavin. I was in Navin Friday night.
What a lovely, lovely audience. Navin is a fine town,
and I stopped at a little on the way home
because it was still open at ten o'clock. I didn't notice,
and I ran in for some iced coffee and some
crips for the drive, because you know yourself, they have

(11:26):
interesting crips in places like that, and our peanuts and stuff,
and just because I know I've got a two hour
drive ahead of me, and lo and behold, I bought
a chainsaw. And I think that's the most little thing
that could.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Possibly Between the rocking chainsaw and the ceremonial hammer, we
might have had so many chance in the French.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, hey, if they brought the pack of peanuts to
the boat on somebody might have had an allergy, hopefully
and fallen over. But yeah, and then what flavor?

Speaker 1 (12:07):
What flavor peanuts?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Or the crips I went for were where they sea
salt and side of apple cider vinegar, very stingy, fear stinging,
a right good kick off them now And I accidentally
picked up ones they were before one time, and they
were like ready salted. I'm like, who, what kind of

(12:31):
absolute philistine with these ready salted crisps?

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Only when you're on holidays and there's nothing else when
you're in Spain.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Now, you said that when there's nothing else, those lily livered,
weak spined Spaniards having their own they put all their
effort into their ham on and their you know, their
cured meat, and then they completely forget that there's good
crisps to made. They have no idea what they're doing.
But the peanuts I went for them were very interesting.

(13:01):
They were glazed in honey and some other crispy thing,
and they were stupendous. They went great with chainsaw. I
have to say.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Was that the title of them honey and some other
crispy thing.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, that would be I do you know what if
that's what it said on the front. No, it probably
most likely said Schnitzel Loudenfrau, because you know, they haven't
section that's kind of I suppose not ethnic is the
wrong word, but it's kind of a section where anything
could be there. They could have like, oh I know
of that section. Yeah, they could have like Greek anchovies

(13:37):
and they could have So I just picked up a
thing that had it looked German, you know, and I
just was delighted with that they would look like shiny,
shiny little peanuts on the front of the ork. Was like,
that'll do. I am done. And then the chainsaw under
my arm and my two iced coffees and I was
out the gap. Thank you very Muchavin. I'll see you

(13:57):
again on Sunday night, which I did, and I told
them on so what a great little they have, And
yeah it was another another one, and I skipped right
over Saturday. Did nothing. Didn't see anything on Saturday at all,
just one for a wonder. No, I was texting you

(14:17):
from home from home, I was, I did, I watched
the match. And I'll tell you the truth. I did.
I watch the match.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
I am on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
I was so sure. I was so chirpy driving I'm
just I'm back and backtracking about twelve or thirteen hours.
I was so chirpy driving home on Friday after a
lovely gig, got me changed, so got me peanuts and
crisps and eyes. Had my whole day lined up the
following day night, even steaks out of it. We'd steaks
lined up out of the freezer, going to be a

(14:47):
great day. Chop some timber, do some other little things.
Put it be. Watching the match for like quarter Pass
two going to be a win Class Crew one. Everything
else fell into place. Everything else fell perfectly into place,
except for that two hour period there in the middle

(15:08):
of the day where it all went to shit and
we were texting each other kind of perplex We didn't
really know what to say to each other back and
forth was like Jesus, So it's the day started off
odd with a mixed emotions. James logoes off with a
back spasm in the warm up. But backspasm, they said, yeah,

(15:31):
and it couldn't shake it. I could not shake it.
I mean he might what was.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
The clip with him going over on his knee.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Or maybe so somebody they just wrote about, Yeah, it
looked I don't know, maybe hit a backspasm and then
went over.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
I couldn't. I couldn't hear because it was I was
watching it in a hob and it was in French.
But I actually think at that stage it was like
the first thing when they put on the big screen.
It was just a slow more James low getting caught
in a team so I didn't fully understand it. But
like wherever whoever was reporting on backspasm, whether that's a

(16:11):
result of this or what, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
I don't know either way. Anyway, he was off and
Calvin Nash brought on rightfully, so but like you know,
Nash should have been the replacement of Mackenson anyway, do
you know what I mean? He's a rocket of a winger.
He should have been the replacement. But and then we
looked at we were texting at early Doors, and it

(16:34):
was twenty minutes of Ireland slapping on the door with
a big ignorant hammer. But sure the door was made
a steal with absolutely no invention and no edge on
a like completely blunt like killing themselves, like tell me
this and tell me any more. I'll ask you where

(16:54):
you watched the stuff first. But at any point we're
you screaming at the telegone, would you drop back into
the can just knock over three fucking points? Please, thank you,
thank you and good night? Like what are we doing here?
We're down here for twenty minutes, seventy percent possession in
the first twenty minutes, and at no point somebody said,
you know, we better get some points out of this.

(17:16):
Didn't drop back in just to bowld this out. It
just go for fox taking me about bank. Come on, start,
let's go again now with three points?

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Come on to fuck I yeah, settle the nerves maybe
and just again will at least we have something in
the bag. It's a good point. I actually I didn't
even think of that. I was getting such sorry to
mention this. I think the listeners will be like and
I need to get over that. But I got such
water final tbgb's I know. It was like the last

(17:46):
twenty minutes of the quarter final. That's what it was
like the first twenty minutes. The static ness, the like
literally the lack of creativity, the fucking going backwards like
the big cheer and the French pub every time there
was a kind of an offensive tackle. There was so
many offensive tackle moments for France and Ireland, just like swimming.

(18:08):
And it's so funny like reading people like oh low
one hands and no one Hanson. You know there's two
huge losses for sure. I'm sorry now whatever was going
on like in all across the park that alone, like
the staticness, like if your out half is being static, like,

(18:29):
at least the forwards need to try and create something.
If the forwards are lacking, like, at least the backs
can try and get it away from them and launch something.
That was just no spark on anywhere, so like given
out that our two wingers weren't there like that doesn't
make a difference, Like we didn't do enough to get
the ball to them anyway, exactly, that didn't earn any

(18:49):
right to get them the ball anyway.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
That's exactly like you could add, you know two John A.
Lomo was out in the wings, it wouldn't made a
blind bit of difference because what were they going to
do from when you couldn't make an inch forward? I
mean Osborne did look at their place like he did,
but and I mean could probably do a fine job
against most teams France wor class to give them their

(19:13):
credit like they were class like they were hitting everything
that moved. I just saw a stat and it was
one hundred and twenty rucks aren't hit they hit sixty eight.
That's some difference. And they had an average out post
contact two and a half meters on average, So after
the tackle they were still going forward another two point

(19:36):
five meters. That's killing. That's absolutely killing, And I mean
all the best backs in the world you can do
nothing with that. If if you're stepping, if you're walking
backwards as your you know, as your your teammates are
getting smashed, there's not a lot you can do. I mean,
I know, I couldn't work out. I couldn't work out

(19:58):
why why Prentter Gass wasn't because he's an inventive sort
of fella. Like now I know they hit. They were
absolutely crowded, and he would have never had fellas breathing
on his neck like that before. But I would have
thought he would have given himself an extra meter and go,
I'll just go back here to fuck and let's just
bust it. And now he he did put one into
the corner, all right, and they gotta been you know,

(20:20):
they got it. It seemed like they were getting a bit
of action out of it. I just don't maybe he
was just being told just to You're told, we're gonna
bluntly go at these one out, one out, one out
for twenty minutes. Will break him, will break them, all right,
And you know, it nearly looked like it in the
opening of the second half, was like, all right, we're
holding it together. And then you know, Dan Sheehan goes

(20:40):
over in the corner. It's like, all right, we're back.
But my god, when we lost one player, Calvin ash like,
we lost one player and they just let us up.
They absolutely like to their credit. They absolutely for let
us up like there was there was no answer on
what they were doing, Like you know what I mean.
It was arnor Cup had run out of ideas at

(21:02):
that stage, and I was do you know what, I
couldn't even though Ireland, even though we were after that,
the way that next try was scored, it was like,
oh Jesus, we can't do that at all. We have
nobody to do that, you know, Oh Louis out and
the wing there like Jesus, you like, I know, DuPont

(21:23):
went off, but you'd pay to see that lad run man.
He's he's electric. And at first I was like, oh shit,
we have nobody can do that. We have to work
so hard for our trice and again I'll tell you
why you got the quarterfinal. He be gbs fucking hell.
How many times do we get held up in a
match over the line?

Speaker 1 (21:43):
So that's stupid?

Speaker 2 (21:45):
How are we doing it? Like twice? Was it twice
in that game? We got held up again?

Speaker 1 (21:52):
It's good training by by France because they if they
see you going for it, all they know that all
they have to do is get under even if you're
not close to the line, and they'll drag you over
the line and they'll get under it.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the right technique.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, so any carry around the line there, you know,
it's obviously it looks like that's what they're working on
in training. Don't go for the legs, go in high
and just fall backwards over the line like because up
till now, if you go high like around the ball,

(22:27):
more than likely even if you do hold it up,
you're still giving them a scrump, which is like your
fox then anyway, so you have to chop the legs.
There's actually no point chopping anymore. Go high, get around
the ball and just stick yourself to the ball and
it went. Once you fall, you've won the ball back. Yeah,
So it's fucking easy. It's easy defend it, like if

(22:49):
you can just going high and keep them up and
then you can just fall over. So the way, there's
no mall thing, there's no challenge to it. You just
fall backwards like they literally I was just sure, up,
why the fuck Ireland advancing close to the line when
it's so obvious that they're going to get held up,
But they weren't advancing frands for pulling them backwards it's good,

(23:10):
good tact chicking, one that I enjoy doing myself.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
But it's very naive though of Ireland. It's very naive
of a top end team like Ireland to go, oh,
we get held up all the time for whatever reason.
We put all this work in and then we how
is it always just like and described somebody's just lacking,
latching onto the ball like a newborn child under their

(23:34):
mother and just falling backwards. And nothing you can do
because they can roll with you, they can roll forward.
Nothing you can do can shake them off. They're like
a tick at that stage and they've locked onto the
ball and their body is under it, so there's nothing
you can do. It was god, I mean, it was
interesting to see the non fallout and the online fallout

(23:57):
was blazing up for all. Sam Brenda Gast like it
was Sethn Crowley were actually well and I was. I
felt bad. It was like he didn't like it wasn't
all on him, that's for sure. The forwards were going
fucking backwards and not many out habs can look class
in that moment, you know what I mean, You're not
going to look class, but the kid's lack of invention

(24:19):
is like his his I suppose now usually is I've
used that word already. His infancy showed, do you know
what I mean? He had no plan to sort it out.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Like I I, I'm I'm frustrated by this, and I
I said it wouldn't because I felt like, you know,
this is all going towards the greater good. But on
Saturday I just had a thought kind of come to
me that that has has made me feel a little
bit frustrated about this whole situation. You know, at the

(24:51):
beginning with the competition, where we're like, look, whoever they choose,
like will we'll we'll back them because what we thought
was there's not much difference between the two. They're both
very very good options and they're both producing like fine rugby,
So do you know what, We'll back whoever shows. And
it goes on, it goes on, and pron Gas make
mistakes and we were kind of like, surely now, crowdly

(25:13):
get a run. Oh look he's not, he's not going
to run. He's not going to run. And then they're
keeping Prondo Gaston to try and close out games. Now,
if we think back to our luck and our great
like history with Tens, we've been so comfortable with having
like world class tens for the last however many years, decades,
and none of those was handed a jersey like Sam

(25:38):
Parente Gas being handled in jersey. Johnny Sexton had to
fight tooth tooth and fucking nail and it brought the
best out in ron m Garrett Ronald like we were
the product like Ireland's. That was kind of a lot
of start of the movement of success of rugby in Ireland,
Like that was because of the fucking Battle of ten

(25:59):
because Roger didn't want to give up his fucking jersey.
Johnny Sex would have done anything, And it focuses your
mind as a young player like that, Instead of being
given a whole match to start, run and close out,
you're being given twenty minutes at the end. Just make
it sure you've watched the game, You've done your bit
of homework. Coller there on the bench, you have a
clear fucking idea and you would do anything to perform.

(26:24):
Not once was either of them said, look, sure, we'll
give you a go today with the other led restler. No,
we're going to give him a go. Imagine handing Johnny
Sex in his jersey all those times like that, would
have never worked. Why is Christiano Ronaldo the best football
player in the world because of Lionel Messi? And why
is Lionel Messi the best footballer in the world because
of Christiano Ronaldo? So why the fuck are we letting

(26:46):
someone be absolutely hammered around a comment today being like
this will be good for him, This is not and
we like our last two three out hasts will are
proof to this that you had to fight too and
fucking nail for your jersey. And it's not like the
sixth and situation where we weren't sure if sex would

(27:08):
be healthy enough for a World Cup. So you're not
you know, you're you're stopping a young fella from coming through.
They're both young for us. Let fuck and Crowley have it, like,
let them battle it out. But what's happening is Brendrack
Gastin handed the jersey, literally being handed the jersey. So
your mentality and the way you approach the game is
completely different than if you're actually trying to fight tooth

(27:32):
and nail to get into it. So I feel frustrated
by the situation and I feel just absolutely got it
for Jack Crowley.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
I think what the reading of it in the way
some journalists have described it as. The plan was to
have two top end out halves, and the way that
they decided to do this was too absolutely not just
to blood Sam Brenda. Guess which is the thing that
has been done? And you've the justice described since time

(28:04):
in the memorial in sports. You don't give him the
full keys to the castle because he'll run him up,
or he'll shitt in his pens and he won't know
what to do in the castle. He this is apparently,
and now they're delighted that they've blooded. You know, the
the vibe is not that they have two quality out
habs vying for position. It's like, what the fuck planet

(28:26):
have he all dropped in from? This is never the
way you do it. I said this right at the
beginning of the Six Nations. If anybody wants to go back.
Sexton had to learn his trade from his master. Crowley
had to learn his trade from the master. And then
all of a sudden, Crowley's up and running and they
bring in this kid that has never played international rugby

(28:48):
last November, and let's be honest, Ireland has not been
good since last November. We scraped, we squeaked through, we
squeaked past fucking whales. The right was on the wall,
there were he can pass wales, do you know what
I mean? Italy after beating bitter shit out of whales.
So things haven't been great since then. They're still going no, no, no,
put he needs full rather than as you said, let

(29:12):
him watch because crowdly is class. That's proven. They won
the six nations last year with him.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (29:18):
He's class? Why wouldn't you be having him running the
show and the other kid absolutely chomping at his heels
you know what I mean, sweating blood to get to
get a chance in the jersey instead you know yourself.
You know, it's like the rich kids. We all went
to school with rich kids or went to college and
they just got handed everything. They were dead inside. They
were just like, yeah, well you know it is what

(29:39):
it is like you didn't work for any of this year.
But no, that's me being flipping. I'm not saying Sam
Brenda Gas didn't work for this. But as you said,
Rinaldo and MESSI like, if you have to break yourself
in the hope of even getting a sniff of the jersey,
but if you're if you're just you're still only learned,

(30:00):
but they've absolutely given you the front row seat and
the tickets to the you know, the keys to the kingdom. Now,
how much better can the kid get? Like, who's he
going to learn off of? Like, do you know other
than you know, I know Johnny Sexton is in kind
of the coaching role at the minute light, but Jesus Christ.
And then you couple that with the fact that Crowdly
came on in an outer position and I know they

(30:25):
said Buntie was carrying something, he went off whatever put
him in out of position, and he's still like he
he just showed how like he showed something that nobad
could do on that he just seem he seemhen he
held him, held him man up for a penalty, more
caught him fucking put him up in his hip and
walked him. And then even at the very end, like

(30:45):
give that little jink just to give the pass to
Jack Crone. You know, he was trying to invent fucking
something like there was you know, there was still a
ferocious wanting him like and I see this evening now
it's obviously I'm guessing this is just before we just
before we went to hear an, I got I see
they were. Somebody's have to posting that Lester are super interested,

(31:08):
willing to pay big money for Jack Crowley. I'm guessing yeah,
I'm guessing his agent is playing, come on, come on,
come on, give baby Babby his pay due. Come on now,
we need some we need some of that. I'm guessing
that's what the agent is up to. But Lester have
expressed huge interest and are willing to bust up the

(31:31):
check book because they're losing Andrea Pollard, who would have
been on serious WANGA again. I can't see him as
the start not have for monster, you know, heading off
spitting his eyes out of this, because he doesn't seem
like the sort that would. I mean, I don't know
what will come this week. I mean, are they going

(31:52):
to triple down or quadruple down and put Brenda Gast
starting against fucking Italy? Are they going to give it
to Crowley to go all right, do what you want
to do.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
It's almost be an insult to Crowley to let him
start this again.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
That's that's the very weird dimension we find ourselves in,
isn't it that we're kind of gone stick with your
you know, he nearly goes fucking stick what you're doing,
Do what you're doing, keep doing.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Because it doesn't matter what Crowley produces against you. It's Italy,
so it's just going to be oh yeah, well that
so I'm I'm just I'm got it for him because
going through that and finally having your time but having
good of being moved away from you is just is awful.

(32:35):
That's the thing about sports is that someone else all
this holds the keys to your success. And he's you know,
he paid his paid his dues and just hasn't you
know he won the he won the the Ross Byrne
Jack Crowley battle. Do you know he won that?

Speaker 2 (32:55):
I think yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, even the battle was
you know was as.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Well, yeah as well, and there was a lot of
them there and he he came out on top and
like comes into Joe all this. You know, I've got
to give some proagains this game time. What about Jeff
Browley's game time? Yes, and yeah given it to him.
Now against Italy is like, ah, could, I don't know,

(33:22):
Let's let's see. Like I said, I I hope in
every way on eating all these words because I said
like I said, and I still stand by it. I'll
give it all up for a World Cup final. But
I just feel like our World Cup final. It's so
funny how one eighteen minutes and and this is just

(33:43):
total proof in all of the media. I've seen the
difference in last week and this week's media. How last
week Gualty is a fool, this week Guilty is a genius.
Last week Caylen dars is Lions captain. This week he
might not even make the tour. Yeah, yeah, it's just

(34:07):
like but it's still the same people, it's still the
same player. It's just results are such a dictating force
in in so many things. Sorry results and performances obviously,
but it is the result as well which changes people's
opinions massively. And it's just crazy how it all can

(34:27):
just go tits up and literally they're thinking last week
and last week's podcast, I was saying, I give it
all up for a World Cup final. This week, I'm
like World Cup final.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
But you know what, it's you wonder too like to
give friends their due. Jesus Christ. They were good and
they were fuck me, were they up for? They were
up for everything. They were doing what other people describe
Ireland doing to them flying in over rooks. Do you
know what I mean? They were illegal? Like the there

(35:00):
was six penalties in that twenty minute period against France
and Gardner didn't once mention a yellow fucking card like
it was all in their red zone or at least
inside their twenty two and six penalties.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
I'm gonna have to stop you there. I cannot listen
to any more ref talk ref bashing because.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Oh no, I'm not in fairness, I'm not going to
bash him, but I was like, no, yeah, I know
you couldn't could in that zone. You could have laid
on a marker.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Dude, Come on, I just like the way people go
for the rest and I don't know that's what That's
not what you're doing now, But just to give you
like a snapsack, like, yeah, it's been like here, like
on every single post, both teams are saying that the
ref was on the other team's side, like blatantly, how
much more could the ref do for Ireland? How much

(35:50):
more could the ref do for France? Like clearly you're wrong,
Clearly you're wrong, and what you're saying clearly he has
to make a decision in some stage.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Now.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
I do think he's a mouthy ref and doesn't always
get it right. But at the end of the day,
we can't fucking played the game if he's not there.
So I'm just the amount of ref bashing i've heard
now to be fair, Well, I presume we're coming to Antoine,
don't pant?

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's two. There's two. I'm gonna draw
down with you about that is one of them, just
to see where you stand.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Are you ready to talk about it? I I didn't
see what happened, and next thing, people are coming for
me inside of the fucking pub, like literally, as if
I was responsible for injuring Anton DuPont, like literally like
he died, like attacking me for Tiger Burne, apparently diving

(36:48):
over a rock. And I didn't see it, and I
was like what they were like he did? And he did?
He did? Oh for God's sake, like the Irish cheating again.
I was like, excuse me talking about people common for me?
And then I saw the replay and I was like,
hang on a fucking second, like how like what is

(37:10):
he supposed to do? Like honestly, and.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Before you before you're going for I'm going to preface
this for everybody fucking listening. Ann As currently plays rugby.
She knows the speed and ferocity that happens in those
close up quarter You slowing that ship down and putting
it on a big screen. Of course it's going to
look a bit malicious, but you put that at real speed.
And this is what Anna's talking about. There is noubt

(37:36):
you can do in at that point. There's nothing you
can do. When a nineteen stone bullock beside you drives
into the back, you have no hope of stopping where
you're about to go.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
You know, they come down, you can't. I know, I
always found this so hard. And when RESK became really
strict around going off your fees around the rock, remember
struggling so much of it because you can't, like you
cannot stay in your feet at the rock. You you
have to fall into the rock, like you can't only

(38:09):
in like I don't know, like ten percent of cases
may be able to drive through a rock, drive upwards
and the person stays on their feet, Like the idea
is to take people off their feet, Like you have
to go in low and you're you're going to fall,
And like the people were comparing it to what happened

(38:30):
in the World Cup with with oh Sam Kine dropping,
like the difference between what type Burned did and and
Sam kin there is a difference there. I mean we
said at the time it only felt sorry for Sam
Kine anyway, and in that situation, but there's a difference
between dropping carelessly and literally just falling, because a rock

(38:51):
is a rock and rugby is rugby. And there was
a lot of talk then as well about well DuPont
was in an awkward It was in an oppos DuPont foot.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
He can't do anything.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
He didn't he can't do anything about that either. It's
not anyone's fault, like this is what happens, like injuries
happen all the time. And I was I was like
really refreshed because I had a few of the girls
over and we didn't talk about the match at all,
and then we mentioned as we're hitting off, I mentioned

(39:23):
they were DuPont and I was like, oh, like that's awful,
you know, like his a cl And I was worried
because I thought they were going to come for me,
like they came for me in the pub and they
were like, oh, for God's sake, to be honest, like
DuPont spending more time in America brushing shoulders with celebs.
You think you take more care of his body. He
went away to the World Cup or to the after

(39:45):
like playing the longest season out of most players in
the world. He went off like and played in the Olympics,
wanna gold medal, didn't take any time off as always
around like fucking schmoozing, slips and he's just not looking
at himself. And I was like, Jesus, that was a
different take that it didn't tear down in the pub.
Actually probably not far from the truthy either.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Of him, Like you know, just in random TV situations
like he's on a stage doing a choreographed dance with
this huge.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Like what what anymore? He's not good at it?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
No, he's terrible. He's a terrible dancer.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
The last thing I want to say about the point
is he made he has made more mistakes in the
Six Nations than I think he has made in his
whole life.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, on.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
The on the rugby field, yeah, he's like it's been strange.
And someone made a sad point to the day saying like,
oh my god, have we seen have we seen the
best of him? And is that it now for him.
Will he ever come back to his best? But I reckon,
I reckon he will come back to as good as
he used to be, because I think he'll be really

(40:59):
driven by the fact that he's got injured when he
wasn't at his best. So I think he's gonna be like,
I can't wait to go out and put right what
I did wrong. Well, you know, if he was, if
he was going out at the peak, he'd been so
much regret, so much like, oh my god, I've lost
myself at my peak. But he actually he was on

(41:21):
a slippery slope there. He hasn't actually been playing that well,
So I think he will come back to his full strip.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Da and Luku came on and has one of the
best box kicks I've ever seen, touch finding box kicks
in world rugby. Have you seen it? Like he's getting
forty fucking meters with a creat a kick right up
right over the skimming over the heads of his forwards,
none of this big high rubbish up into the air
and hitting rose ight. But you've only made ten meters.
This guy's making forty meters with this bicycle kick out

(41:52):
of hand like he was a class act and then
they put like a number seven into the fucking Oh
Jesus Christ put a number seven in the that that
into the center and he's going to run Melton lads
as well like they were on Now. I will put
its say one thing that I was delighted we saw
a bitter DuPont because did you see the backwards pass

(42:12):
he through? It was bouncing out of touch everybody And
next thing he reaches out no. Look, that will tell
you how confident how much faith did the rest of
his teammates back line at least having him that that
ball was going out. He had his back to them
was a good twenty or twenty five meters away, and

(42:34):
they were still ready for fear. Some fucking magic was
going to come from this guy. And he did. He
they did. They fucked it up? Then, yeah, yeah, they
fucked it up. Then the bolics is like, you'd be
raging if you threw that pass. You're like, what that
if that wasn't the start of a world. He try,
I don't know what is and you made a bollox
of it? But but yeah, did the it? I mean,

(42:58):
the guy we can't say, we can't even comprehend that. Well,
you probably can better because you're in France. The level
of king that he you know, the level of god
he is right now. He you know, he's the greatest
that when you know we'd still leave leave him have it.
But did you hear the story like to give you
in the context of how big shot he is now?

(43:20):
Brian Driskell was telling U about how he I have
to know it could be wrong, but I think Louis
Vutan wanted a photo shoot with him, and they wanted
it in the morning, and he was like that fuck
up train. He went to his coach. He was like, listen, man,
Louis Vutan wanted to do a photo shoot me. Can
I push? Can we push train? In an hour? He said,
You'll have to ask the boys, because you know I'm

(43:43):
grand with it, but you'll have to ask the lads.
And you can you imagine this like you're going into
the you know, have a photo shoot there and be
told to go away and fuck off, do you know,
no matter who.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
But they did.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
They went, Okay, if you want to push an hour
a bit, that's that's no problem. Man. Yet you go
to your photo two or whatever and we'll hang around
and wait for you. I mean not a fucking prayer.
But he has that kind of power that the rest
of the team will went well. Even if I do
have a problem with it, I'm sure should not saying it,
you know, because this guy is so big now, so

(44:18):
it's a pity to see yeah, to not see him,
but then looks like they lacking in classicm halves immediately
after the guy, and of course they went for seven
to one bit the Old Rising Special and it worked
a treat by all from what we could see. But
I feel sorry, Yeah, poor old Calvin Ash Can you
imagine being Calvin? And that was unavoidable, Like, but you

(44:41):
know what they're saying, he could have been a bit lower.
Your man dipped down into him, Like there's not much
lower he could have gotten, you know, in that blink
of an eye moment. But the law is the law.
But can you imagine looking on what is the twenty
four points or something score while he was off? Oh lord,
like you're going the clock must have been slow for him.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yeah, it was a tough film because, like we were
saying that, he didn't get much to launch off either,
so and we were so excited for him. I was
so excited for for Cabin Naturalists tournament. So yeah, I'm
just pointing from now with that that worked out the
way he did. But like, ah, yeah, you would have

(45:22):
backed Ireland with fourteen men like you know, think of
like it was in Marseille last year.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
But here's here's my my takeaway. And I'm a big believer,
and they were like they're all his fitses each other.
Even Ireland are probably even fitter, you know, on on
a general day. I bet you if they looked at
our stats and certain players were still had class games
like Hugo keenan class game, Philly Melham class. You know,
some lads had good games.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Like is class.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
He is class. Nobody ever talks about him and he
could start for the Lions, no bother. He's class. He's
a light lad gets savage, but he does savage work,
great taclor, bravest fuck underneath the ball and can carve
it up too when he gets going. I'd be trying
to introduce him more into the line just to see
what he can do because he's class, he's set, he's

(46:07):
X sevens. So I mean we have no exciting exciting
rockets trow We don't since Keith Earls. We have no
real Oh Jesus, because and I'm referring to somebody like
you know, uh louis there on the wing belly Berry
or and that lad. I would pay to see him

(46:30):
just alone the way the after burners just kicking, and
he's like, there you can get a fat paper between
those two lads. I'm going to go, and off he goes.
And he's so fast that you cannot tackle him. You
just can't tackle him when he runs like that.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
And we've nobody, nobody, no, we don't can ask you.
Where did you watch dataly match? What kind of commentations
where you're listening to? Oh?

Speaker 2 (46:55):
I was watching here Irish ones artie who was comment
I only got I didn't see. I wouldn't watch the
ponditary but I think was it Lennon? No, I can't
remember that.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Was commentating for the main commentary?

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Was probably no Ryan Luden doesn't do the art stuff anymore.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Okay, okay, no, sorry, you've gone down this catsu.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Yeah, I keep on saying the two apologies. No it's not.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
The English commentators were driving me fucking mad.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Makes no sound Japanese.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
When this young lad came on the scene, there was
he and he scored that unbelievable try for Italy versus Wales.
Oh sorry, he didn't actually score the try. He he
set up the try, didn't.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
He for Wales?

Speaker 1 (47:53):
For Wales? For yeah, against Wales and won the game.
And he like the Italian commentary was I iconic. It
was like we must have heard all I heard a
couple of times. Maybe English people don't bother listening to
things like this, but I'm like, where the fuck are

(48:13):
you getting kapu watsu from? When? And you're obviously picking
it up commentarys heard the Italian commentators say it correctly, listen.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
They still can't. They still can't say. They still can't
say Peter o'mony. They can't say O'Mahony correctly. And it's like, yeah, okay,
that's absolutely not how to say it. That is, you know,
and he's playing games he's played internationally fourteen years, Like
you know what I mean? But I apologize.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Colonizer behavior, so down with your shit?

Speaker 2 (48:48):
I apologize, yeah, because I just know having his engine
the phone. That's true, you have you switched microphones first?

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Why what happened?

Speaker 2 (49:03):
For a split second you sounded like you were really
inside my head? Do you know what I mean. I
don't know what. Maybe there was we just hit a
high level because you were furious.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
At I touched my earphones and the beat.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Okay, yeah you went. You sound really good there for
a second, anyway, Not that you don't sound good the
best of the time. Maybe maybe your head trauma has
made you telepathic. Do we even have a podcast? Is
this zoom? Are we just talking to each other?

Speaker 1 (49:32):
You know this is my funeral, you know it.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
Want to be way better than this, way better.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
I got before we finish up, and I want to
let you go eat your prepare to one finger push
ups for you know, just to free up as many
calories before the weekend and whatnot. We need to talk
about the French crowd and the Aviva crowd. I know
it gets talked to dead, but I wanted I need
to talk to you about it.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Yeah, let's talk about it needs to be talking about.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Yeah, that now is the biggest. Like I could deal
with our team getting beaten right because it's out of
here and it's dam near out of our hands. They
got caught by the throat early doors and just shook
like a fucking cat. Do you know what I mean
and that was just a stupid you know, Joe, the
stupid move, not really thinking outside the box. Okay, it
can happens in games. Games happened. We weren't. We hadn't

(50:25):
a great day at the office. But as Irish people,
we have a role to play when we go to
a match. You have a role to play. You have
a role to play as a panto audience, you have
a role to play as a comedy club audience. You've
a road to play, even even in golf now, especially

(50:46):
in golf these days, golf audiences are some of the
best in the world, or some crack the darts. The
darts the best audiences in the world now. Whether it
helps the sports stars or not, probably does a bit
when they get into the group in a sport where
there's not much hanging around and you need you need

(51:07):
that juice behind you and you look up and all
you can hear is the Marcies bowman in Dublin. For
for the entire game, I was utterly ashamed of the audience.
I was like, you're allowing yourself to get this shit
kicked out of you. You are allowing some onion loving

(51:31):
garlic's leathern frog's leg eaten. And these are some terrible
stereotypes that are probably going to be they'll probably nail
them on the door of the dressing room next year.
But I'm just saying, he allowed them to beat the
fuck out of you and wedgy all around the stadium.
Everybody that wouldn't pipe up to go against that, like

(51:54):
what they like? They that's tribal, like that should be
warfare for the audience, and that say and fight them,
have a hog and shake hands and have a drink afterwards.
But they want you to come at me, bro come at.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Me completely and complete.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
You're sitting there in your red trousers, do you know
what I mean? With a hip flask?

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Fucking facts on the red trousers.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Like these motherfuckers are clogging up the fucking laneway for
people who would really have loved to gone to that match.
I would have loved me at that match, only had
a show that night, I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
But you say that now, I I have to say.
In Marseille last year, the Irish crowd completely different.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Like I do feel like a traveling Irish crowd. There's
kind of a joint, there's some kind of companionship there
where you've all traveled, you're all in the same kind
of experience. They're all there together on the weekend. That
bonds people and makes people easier to Like, if I
start singing, people joining a bit easier. I saw a
clip of a fellow after the match giving out about this,

(53:01):
and he was saying he kept trying to start a song,
and I actually felt sorry for him because I could
just I could just absolutely picture everyone around him being
like this, this fucking needa. Will he ever shut up?
Like Irish people are awful for judging others in general,
and like too embarrassed to kind of get on board

(53:24):
until one or two or three more people get on board,
and then they're like, oh, yeah, I had a great time.
I was singing along, but you wouldn't have actually done it.
People won't put themselves out there. They're far too self
conscious because people are such dickheads to each other, like,
oh listening to him singing like, oh a fool oh a.
Like Irish people find it way easier to bond over

(53:46):
being like a dickhead when you're not. When you don't
have something else to bond over.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
You see, I wonder I don't know our people. For
the longest time, I thought it was a burgudgery thing,
and it's very easy to say to dig thing of Irish.
But because I performed to so many people live in
so many various scenarios, whether it's a corporate or a
designated comedy venue, which is always super easy because people

(54:13):
are tuned in for that and stuff like that. But
what I think it is is what you originally said.
It's a deeper embarrassment grounded in not a lot like
maybe as chi children. But rarely do I find that
the entire rest of the group are absolute dickheads, gone,
what the fuck is this guy doing enjoying himself?

Speaker 1 (54:35):
I do think initial reaction maybe then that's the one
that carries over. Maybe, and like people don't want to
go against that initial reaction and because of the embarrassment
you're talking about, Okay.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Well I have an idea. I have an idea. Okay,
So I host lots and lots of these things where
people are coy. They're not expecting to enjoy a good time.
They're not thinking that this is going to be fun.
They just want to stay quiet and not be involved
and hope that the even passes away. But instead my

(55:09):
job is to earwig my way into their life. And
much like a tapeworm, I infect them with humor, and
I soften the blow and make them much more cheery.
And I reckon I could do that even better, even
to fifty thousand people. If I had you in partnership,
I reckon, you would be like an amplifier to my

(55:32):
You know, to my good vibes. You'd be like I
see your good vibes, Tom, and I ten times I
extend those good vibes. I reckon, if they gave us
fifteen minutes, a fifteen minute never mind Keen the Crow,
God bless me. He's a fine singer, but never mind
some fucking fellow balling into the mic, singing out songs

(55:54):
that nobody's listening to. Let's be honest. Sure he gets
loads of airtime from the water will call it. But
why not give us a couple of radio mics. Let
us down into the into the pitch. We give us
a fifteen minute open spot. We'll do the first one
for half nothing. I'm not saying nothing nothing, but we
need mileage, I'm just saying, and we need copious amounts
of grub afterwards, give us the four open of fifteen minutes,

(56:17):
and I mean just before we introduced the teams and
Michael d and then we do, and I'm guarantee you
we'll have the whole plays bouncing. They won't even sit
down for the entire game. The bar will sell nothing
because they'll be glued to it from the way we'd
have the piping and absolutely flying. What do you think? Okay,

(56:39):
you're thinking about it a lot there. You're a great Jesus.
This might be the greatest idea you've ever had.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
I literally here picturing like the people down the front road,
be like, should up your bullets? Who the fuck is
this one? Like? That'll have to be it. That's until
until you find people. You know, all you need is
one or two to join in, and then we're flying.
So if we if we put a few plants in,

(57:11):
we need some plants.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
That's all we need. We get you a couple of
your teammates and stuff like that, A couple of my friends.
We got them around. We put the two of us
on two segways, right with two segues with two ludicrous
huge flag sticking off the back of them. We go
full belt around the stadium, getting Exican waves going, getting
the place, pumping tunes, banging light show. I tell a

(57:35):
couple of funnies we have. We talked to some big,
rich and famous people. We bring a couple of very
fit you know. We have Michael Fassbender out there. We
get Killian Murphy out, have a bit of a chit chat,
high five, few cartwheels. Maybe you ramp over me at
some point with your segue on fire. I'm just talking
about getting the blood something. Just get the fucking blood up,

(57:56):
do you know what I mean? Let's go, let's let's
what you know, it's easy to get the blowed up
in a place like Cardiff. They got the roof closed.
They're all amazing singers, do you know what I mean?
Some people have tattoos on their face. It's worth it's
worth the ticket alone.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
You know.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
It's going back to going back to the Roy Keane
phrase from years ago. They're all up there with the
pron Samich just crowt It's literally that they've knocked the
crack out of it. You know, the companies, the financial
handling companies that all get the tickets, they you know,
they did it to the Comedy Festival in Dublin as well,
like there was a whole VIP section that was for

(58:32):
just the comedians. You go in there now it's like
all the staff from the names with acronyms and you know,
two surnames these KPMG, PwC, fucking whatever, per right microtone.
You know, it's like Jesus and none of them like themselves,

(58:52):
you know what I mean. But they're aren't in a fortune.
And I've done gigs to these people and because you
have the microphone, you can absolutely smash them. And the
thing is they kind of enjoy that. But aside from
all that, I think to put the two of us
on two segways, getting the place pumped up like it's
a monster truck shoulder're about to see. That's I think

(59:13):
what we need to do. And get people's blowed up,
you know what I mean. You're getting all one swinging
their top in the air. There's lads with their hip
flask and red trousers pulled off. They're like I Am
sucking down.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
And run naked, just run naked through the pitch. Get
people going, do you know what something something?

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (59:33):
And that and boots scor Gavin boots running completely naked. Honestly,
if if that doesn't get people fuck like, because streakers

(59:58):
are so funny and signs. Again, it's like it's against
the spirit of the game. But actually I think it's
very much in the spirit. Streakers are in the spirit
the game. Yes, kitchen invaders. Kitchen Invaders aren't in the
spirits game, but streakers are. Like, it's actually just such
a rugby thing. I'll all seen streakers. Seeing someone think
white are taking off, are like, what what's going on? Like,

(01:00:20):
I've never had a streaker like when I've been playing,
and it's been a real, real shame. I always wanted
to know how it would feel. Would you be able
to just continue to concentrate at the game, or are
you like, look at the big white ars. Oh yeah,
Oh we've got a few ideas there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Look, it might be the precursor to a live show
immediately afterwards. You know, we're doing just across the city,
just get it going for for whatever. We need to
get this thing off the ground because it's dying on
the vine. It is zero crack. It seemed like zero
crack for and you know, if you drop one hundred
and twenty hundred and forty good for a ticket, which
is what they seem to be. But you were one

(01:01:02):
of them, you know, a good crack merchant. But you're
looking around trying to like that chap just he was
fit to cry, like he was like I tried to
start and sing song a couple of times, and the
people just looking at mehim, like can you imagine staying
a fella and you're at a match, like and he's
singing at his match, and you're like, if it's mess
I understand the traffic lights, I understand a library, even

(01:01:25):
at coffee shop. You're like, fucking wind your neck game
with you. But this is a match from the Six
Nations where we're getting this ship beaten out of us
by the oppositions crowd who were singing their little fuck
wrongy heads off and you try to counteract that and
your your your comrades are looking at you like a

(01:01:45):
shut the fuck up, please shut the fuck up. That's
my most disappointing thing from that game is that the
audience didn't barrow up, you know what I mean? They
got beaten up badly embarrassing, like you know, watching your
dad getting punched outside of it are for a rowd
that you started. Do you know what I mean? It's
like Jesus, no, oh no, but yeah, I can only

(01:02:11):
hope that we probably won't, but we completely run roughshod
over Italy. I don't think it's gonna paper over the
cracks because we are not as healthy as I think
we thought we were. Do you know what I mean?
I agree all all is not.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
Actually can't I can't wait to meet the pigeons, famous pigeons,
the pigeons that all us around, the pigeons that are
always on the pigeon run. Get me a ticket.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
You know what you need to do. You need to
get You need to get a pocket full of toast
right now, right crumble it up into the next nothing.
Fill up your pockets with toast. And when you do
get a ticket to the match, I need to just
walk down along as if you're just well, it's my
friend Tina over there, and just start flicking it over
over your shoulder like Steve McQueen from the Great Escape,
and millions of crumbs and you'll just try. If I

(01:03:08):
see like a gazillion pigeons all in one corner of
the bitch, I know, and it has been there. That's
how you know you're.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
Calling would be like Brenda Frickers.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Depends in the audience. Is that former international that's international
rugby player and a cap, but why is she covering shite?

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
This is strange that this is the second home alone
too reference in this podcast before we before we finished,
I just want to say a heart felt sloan while yeah,
sloan before to Magildy Higgins because that's his last this

(01:03:49):
is his last game as well, which I didn't realize.
I was nearly in tears watching him pouring around, smiling
and everyone and the effort to talk and like fairly
I could delayed or to eating and delayed because there
has to be an ad before the kickoff and there
was a bit of a delay. Oh, the anthems were
played faster because of mggle d going over time. Did

(01:04:15):
you realize that you didn't?

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
I didn't. I know, I didn't copt it all because
I just liked looking at Michael D. Higgins of me too.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
I wanted to cry. I'm going to miss him so much.
I love him so much. You've never heard by miggle
the impression.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
No, what in the honor of the great men, would
you mind?

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
No? No, I won't because I haven't done it in
a while, but I will, I will. I used to
be like, I do you know what it was? Michael
D Higgins miggle d came in to present us with
our jerseys during the World Cup.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
That's so cool.

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
I couldn't stop impersonating him afterwards, like my thoughts and
my own mind were in his voice, like I was.
I was in bed that night saying good night Anna
to myself because.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Tall launch camels to spare. Oh god, you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Literally like I'd be spewing off, spelling off like Irish
and then be like, oh yeah, because that's what he said.
He said, He's spewed off something in Irish and he
said this translates as and he gave like a translation
in English, and this is what it means, and he

(01:05:38):
gave another meaning in English, and what the fuck is
he talking about? Like exactly like those grammels are spare,
which translates as there is a beautiful way of life,
which actually means get the fuck up off your earth

(01:05:58):
and get out.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
I love I love that. I love that so many we're.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
Not looking at each other and I could stop doing it.
I literally was like I couldn't stop speaking about it
to myself so I love them so much. I was
honestly I needed to be around Irish people. I'm sorry
that I didn't go to technologies because I might have
found other people to cry with, because I was like,

(01:06:27):
i'll go watch it in the French pubble. That was
a mistake on many on many terms, especially because I
didn't realize I could find someone to cry with.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
Middlety over Las Big Law, which translates as.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
There will be more.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
Opportunities, which actually means you're a fucking agiou and you
took the wrong decision this time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
And that beautiful note We'll catch you after Italy.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
Good Night. Thomas Binds Binds the rocks in the Bananas
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