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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the banana and Robbie.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Are we still friends? Are we?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
And?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Are we still friends?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm not sure what happened, protection.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I know the general populace would be going. These two
are like a baby's art. You don't know what way
they're going to go. Apologies for two things. For apologies
for this disgusting sound that you hear coming out of
my face right now, but blow my voice out doing
a stand up and have a bit of a cold
as well. But it's not right. We didn't have a
fallen out. Last week was just bananas, So and the bananas.
(00:39):
It was crazy last week, so trying to actually link
up became an impossibility. Well, we had to make it
happen this either, we had to make it happen. And
we're back on track. And and as over there, you finished,
what's the jelly situation? Like I've never asked you that
the jelly situation? Like in France?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's okay? Do you know what out of m okay?
So the trio is, you know, jellies, I e. Sweets
and tatoes, sorry, sweets, christs and chocolate.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
That's your three.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
And between the three of them, I don't know which
one I give up like I honestly I wouldn't survive
without If one of them had to go, then I'm
gone as well.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Like that's it. I can't choose one.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
So the jellies is good, but only kind of packet jellies.
Like they're not into pick and mix that much. That's
kind of hard to come across. The chocolate situation is poor,
is it compared to Ireland?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yes? Do you know what they don't have? And this
is obviously an eu thing like goodies around the checkout.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
They tried to do away with that all together in
some shops in Ireland, and I think Tescos were the
first to do it. But like if you go to
any of the rest of them, they all have goodies galore,
you know, I mean just looking at you going go
on out of that, going out of that.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, but the crisps are the variety is not good,
but some of the crisps they have are very good.
So in general, the snackage is not as good as
at home. You know, the only place I've ever been
where I found that, like treats and goodies were as
good as at home.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Go on New Zealand, right, Jesse. That's a long way
to have to go, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I know, yeah, but I cann't believe how good the
sweeties and goodies and things were there. I was like, whoa,
because nowhere is good as as home. Really, you never
find things as good as at home.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
No. I was in a scandal situation about an hour ago.
I had to pop in about myself a laminator which
I've been threatened by for ages. And the only best
place in Ireland to get shipped like that is mister Price,
where everything is half nothing. They're sweety, are absolutely fucking
scandalous though. It's like stop, I'm going to die of
gout walking down here. This is so good. I was
(03:09):
at a birthday party at a twelve year old. I
wouldn't rock up. It was somebody who's my niece's birthday
party at the weekend and dead squishies, all the different
flavors of squishes, and I this will tell you how
when I know I have a problem. I was eating
a burger because they were grilling grilling down the beach.
They're very fancy people. I was eating a burger and
(03:30):
ate a squishy at the same time.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I thought you were going to say you were fighting
off twelve year olds to get to the squishies.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
No, they're all kind of a healthy.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
God.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
They all had one and walked away. I'm like, what
kind of willpower have you children got? Mother? God? I
wanted to eat the plastic and everything that they came in.
But welcome everybody to the podcast. This is actually generally
the go things we do get into the rugby at
some stage. But if this is your first time listening
and you're going what has happened with You're all very
(04:02):
welcome to our world. Jellies play a big part in
our world. Not gonna lie, not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Jelly's is a big part of my life here in Ourchelle.
Was I talking you about this before? I'm not sure
if I mentioned this on.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
We pretty much talked every facet and corner and direction
and dimension of jelly there is. But if there's more
to be said, I'm down.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, I think I was telling you this that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I bring so the French don't eat like you know,
we'd have jaffa cakes and jellies before a match.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That'd be kind of a done thing at home. They
don't do that here.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I always they fags, fags and wine. Right table of
fags and wine, cheese and sargines. No, but there actually
are snacks for us in the dressing room all the time,
so that is really impressive.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Now, Like I will say, there's a little kind.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Of so basically I bring jellies before every match, and
they don't do that here in France. They were also
very like so two seasons beginning of two seasons ago,
teaching me all the bad French words, you know, like
for Willy and Fanny and things. One of the words
for Fanny is neck lash neck, and I was trying
(05:22):
to think of ways to remember all the different words.
So I was like, that sounds a little bit like
you know when you have a schneck, you know, like
you have like I'd love a little schneck there now,
you know. And that's and I was like, they were
like what does that mean? And I was like, oh,
it's just like a little thing that you eat, and
they were like, yeah, well here too, and it's.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So right.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm literally looking at it up here. The girls made
sashes for everyone last week. I'm now miss Schnick because
I bring jellies for everyone before every game. Fucking cost
you have four fifty every weekend and there's a big
there's a big saying. It's like have you seen the
Moana pacifica drummond on the on.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
The bin and I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That's that's kind of like what we do. And this
is how it goes right. This will make no sense
to you, but look, this is just how it happens.
I we started a drum roll before the match, and
I'm like, it's time, it's time for shnake and actually
what we're shouting is fanny, time for our fanny, and
(06:32):
so it's the little horrible crocodiles and done with them.
I buy one packet of non sour and one sour,
and so I put I have the fannies that are
sour and the fannies that are not sour. And the
fannies from Toulon, for example, we say with which other
(06:54):
team we were playing against? Are the fannies that smells?
So yeah, that's a direct translation. It doesn't sound that weird.
I think in French.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You know what for anybody thinking of you know, maybe
you know it might have my young my daughter grow
up joining a rugby team and maturity would be yeah,
I can't guarantee, you know what, you know, stay as
young as you can, for as long as you can't
do and shit like that. It's absolutely perfect, Like I
(07:31):
can't judge you in any way. You want to hear
my new show. It's the most silly shit I've ever said,
and right, great, it's so much fun. I opened the
show in Cork, that not last weekend. Last weekend I
was in Vicker Street with Neil Delamare and you know
you're in a swanky joint. They put Dubai chocolate out
(07:52):
for us in the green room and stuff like that,
which is only fucking Midland. I'm just going to say it.
I'm gonna come out and say it Middland at best.
But the week previous I was in Cork and they
were I mean, Cork is just glorious anyway, but the silliness,
it was that level of silly the whole way through.
Like now, okay, things would make you the things I'm
(08:16):
saying now because I'm pushing the boat a small bit
like initially would make it kind of puck her up
a bit and go, oh jesus, he's gone on to
this subject. Okay, is the door nobody's looking the doors closed? Okay,
off you go down. But it's all from a funny, silly,
self deprecating place like but just like that, for as
long as you can stay silly, they have advice for anybody,
(08:37):
just stay absolutely silly, keep banging on the wheel bin
offering snakes to everybody, one hundred percent. I love that fact,
fact and funny.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, that's what I was eating there now because I
bought some extra ones because we're playing a semi final
this weekend and obviously can't play and my head like
is still still not better. So I just opened one
of the bags there and took a handful out because
I need to just so. Yeah, I've had a handful
(09:14):
of fannies there now, so.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, there is nothing that would make me laugh continuously
then toilet humor, you know what I mean, Like genial humor,
Like there's nothing like never the most listen to the
most intricately well woven, fucking you know, comedy specials. But
as soon as anybody does poop talk or willies or fannies,
(09:40):
it's just like Hiley and there's nobody unless you're an
absolute snob, there's nobody can go. I don't know about
that now. It's still hilarious and.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What I love and we can talk about rugby then.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
But just if people need a good a good like
trick to get more silliness in your life. You know,
when you play categories, you know, if you're playing kings
or something. Names for willies, names for fannies, and names
for titties are the.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Funniest category for me.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I actually think that a lot of people don't find
it as funny as me. But I always pick it
anyway because I either be laugh and at the names.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
People, who'se it's so good?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You should? I don't know. Have you ever listened to
the song the singer Wheeler Walker Junior.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
No, but you spoke about him for I think.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, he's ridiculous. He's really like, he's vile. Don't play
it out loud on your disco bike. I will tell
you that now. But it's all the dirty words, but
very funny, many many silly names for for all body parts.
It's yeah, you'll enjoy it. Do you know what? It's
(10:50):
the sort of it's the sort of music you would
play for the girls in the dressing room. You know,
it's so it's so wild and stupid. But the shit
he's coming out with, You're like, yeah, do you know
what this makes us all weirdos for liking this, but
we're all in it together, you know. It's it's bonding music.
It's so fucked up. Anyway, you come to us before
(11:13):
my voice completely falls out the back of my neck.
And I do have two shows this weekend Tomorrow night
and dun Garvin and Tipperary Zone. Do you know I
give you as much as I possibly have in the tank.
You arrived even as EF a wafer.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah yet again, says you that I come to you
with my EF awayfer cape on. Because the woman has
just gone and won Guinness.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Women's six Nations Player of the Tournament.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Okay, and she didn't even play that last game, so
it goes to show the impact she's having. Like and
the other thing, which is just for today, she's just
signed for Queen's.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah you're all club.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, so I'm delighted with that news. Like how epic,
like just epic for her that was announced on Monday.
I was having a bad day Monday, I was telling
you about that, so I actually didn't get to enjoy
the announcement that much because I had my head wrapped
and other things. But like, how amazing for her, like
(12:18):
so deserved onwards and upwards. Now I hope she just
I hope there's just no into the height set that
she can reach because I'm sorry, a couple of years ago,
we didn't even know who he fe away for.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Was Yeah, that's what's cool. Yeah, do you know what
else is cool? As I just opened up on Instagram
just to see because she actually thanked us because we
we had messaged each other and I think we might
might both have reposted it. But you're two, ye are
beside each other in my message box. But that's cool.
But I just said, she said, thanks very much, I
(12:51):
said myself and I literally just messaged each other. The
news is fantastic, well deserved, because that's guess I'd say.
Enna's buzzing still in told Shock Tanks a millionto the two.
How cool is that? I said, if there was a
w Lions, your your be first name on the on
the team. She just really appreciate that. I'm still a
lot to learn, Like who the fuck am I? And
(13:13):
the world player that you know, the tournament fucking winner
is messaging me back about our lovely podcast being an
absolute fucking ledge bag, Like you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So funny she's like, I have a lot to learn.
I almost feel like center don't bother learning it. Everyone
else is full of ship.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, forget it, forget block. No, that's it now, put
a full stop on everything. Now keep doing exactly what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Absolutely Now she's allowed to make mistakes as well, Like
that's that's uh, you know, I don't He's definitely she's
definitely normal, do you know what She's just like Ah,
it's just so exciting for her and like that.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Now I hope that, like you.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Know, going to Queens and I know it's not the
easiest thing as an Irish player to decide to go
over to the prem I hope that's being managed well
and whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I just hope that now going into.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
The Premiership side, she's just given license to get game
time and have the crack and just play play play.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I don't know what the layout of the PREMI.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Is now next season because it'll be after the World
Cup obviously, So the World Cup is on in August
and September and then Primal starts, so she won't be
over there now for a while.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So that's very exciting. I'm hugely excited for her and
probably see your over there.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
How class would that be? Actually have Enna and Eva
Jesus Christ, that'll be like the fact that the two
that is written in the start of the fact that
the two you ended up. Of all the messages and
stuff I've been, you know, posting what the ears in
the message box at beside each other and plus cool
as a just the cool, cool person you know, to
no doubt, there's a million messages to be sending on
(14:52):
that particular day, and here's me going.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Hope you're holding her.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I was not trying to pat I had actually I
hadn't tagged her in anything. I think I just shared
possibly a post that she was collaborative in, do you
know that kind of way? And I'm guessing she saw
Tomo Manny shade up shared a post and just said
thank you. And I was like, yeah, you don't have
to say thank you, you're busy, but super cool that
you did. But yeah, I wanted to back away quickly,
(15:22):
go I don't want to be a total fucking pothole.
But anyway, very very cool.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So far, she's done a better job than Mackanson has
done a living up two hours, but Alan Bear's Rugby
pod Player of.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
The Year oh Jesus Christ, you could take it again,
like not about that Mac isn't even in the run
and like he's been do you.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Know Billy Barry is chasting it for way for down.
I'd say, we'll see how big, Well, see how Billy
Barry does this weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Billy Barry's outeous, he's outrageous.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Anyway, we don't have time to talk about him tonight.
We will talk about final next week. I can't wait
for it. But you know what, I can't watch it
because where we were playing our final at five o'clock,
so what the.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Balls of course? Time course? Yeah, couldn't give a shit
they don't. I'll be watching it. I'll be watching. I'll
catch that. I'll catch the start of it, all right, No,
I'll catch most of it actually before the show and tip.
But yes, moving quickly on to how you feel about
that fucking insanity of the seven's been fucking dropped, no
sense being made of it at all at all.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's actually awful, It's actually awful.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I remember I followed the seventh Circuit for years and
like not just you know, here and there, dipping in
and out. I used to get up at like six
in the morning and watch it all day Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And those days when I used to be like really
really into it and had time to be more into it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
There was no Irish men's sight for years.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
They were resisting it and resisting, resisting it, and then
to have achieved what they did, like some of the
so Terry Kennedy has won, like what are the awards
he's won? He think he got Men's Player of the
Year for the series. Jordan Conroy, like Harry mcnology, like
(17:18):
absolute Legends of the World series, like to come from nothing.
They had to come from the bottom up and to
achieve what they've done, and just to have the plug
pulled is so awful. I feel so sorry for them.
I feel so deceived. The biggest disappointment for me is
that the last regime was very hard on the women's side,
(17:42):
and like it's been such a nice kind of thought
and feeling to be like, Okay, things are changing, things
are looking up, and then to see like to be
you know, if the decision has to be made, that's fine,
but it wasn't transparent enough for it to make enough
sense to everybody. That's the most hurtful thing I find
(18:03):
is that like it feels like, you know, there's more
another kind of regime that's letting people down after the
last one, like and it's you know, they've kept the
women's development side, but it's not fair on the men.
It's not fair on Irish sport and Irish Olympic sport.
We have an actual chance at winning a medal, and
(18:25):
an Olympic medal in Ireland, Like you know that there
are people who win Olympic medals in England and people
don't even know about them. When you win an Olympic
medal in Ireland, the whole country knows who you are.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We know all about you. The whole city turns out
like Kelly Harrington transformed the city, like Portland Row, like.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
The way an Irish Olympic medal can impact an entire
society in comparison with other with other countries. We have
a very special relationship that we're very high achieving. But
the medals we win, it's kind of like the medals
they win in Fiji, for example, where they you know,
they don't have the same access to sport as as
(19:11):
we have.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You know, it's but it has the same.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Effect Apparently the backer, even whoever was backing it, wasn't
made aware. Do you know what I mean? The financial
backing company behind it on it's actually.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Not even up to I r F you. Why couldn't
they if they can ward, why couldn't they just hand
it over?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
That's exactly what what seems to be said. Look, why
not hand it over? What the action like? It's to say,
like I guarantee, like if you're a big enough company,
a sporting body, especially like at that level, it would
be agreeable because the sevens, isn't it. You know, it's
not like you're going to make up all the money
out of it. But what you can do is you
(19:54):
can actually, as a tax right off fucking throw any
amount of money at things. I know guys who sponsor
like motorbikes teams in Mandela just to get rid of
tax money, do you know what I mean? So that's
most likely what it was, and you're kind to go,
what the fuck? This doesn't make any sense whatsoever? Is
to cut this thing because players come out of that
(20:15):
Hugo Keen and Shane Day. Do you know, like these
rockets have come out of the out of the gain
and it's one of the most entertaining things you can watch.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Like, I think that point has been made about Look,
it's not producing.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Enough, you know, fifteens great players.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I'm sorry, it's giving another chance to male athletes to
represent your country number one and to win a fucking
Olympic medal. It's not all about the fifteen's production line.
And sorry, do we not have enough produced for the
fifteens production line? Like can this not be the surplus
of the players? That not that they wouldn't make it
(20:51):
in fifteens, but just another like different opportunity for the
player who wants to play seven's on the World series.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And it's a different sport. That's the thing is like
why why would you burn a sport? It's like just going, well,
that's it, we're not having hockey anymore, cancel all the hockey.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's not fair exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
And it's being used at this kind of like pump
for it's such as that's such a slap in the
face to the other teams on the on the series
as well, who are all disgusted by this, by the way,
Like I play with one of the French sevens girls
and I was chatting to her about it. And she
was just like shocked, like it was just such a
slap in the face for them, as if like, sorry,
(21:34):
we're out because we don't value this enough when people
are literally spending time away from their families, their kids,
spending a life on the road, the referees, amount of
time and everything that goes into it, and then.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
It's do you know what it's like? Do you know what?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Sorry, this is what it has just reminded me of,
as if we've committed brexit.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, yeah, nobody can make any sense of it.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I hate Britain for break break sage, so I think
people should hate us.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah yeah, I mean David Lucifora fucking shot fucking fire
outic going what because it was kind of his baby,
all right? But I mean if if like you look
how important it is when Antoine DuPont was allowed to
go play for the French team, you know, Hugo Kino
was allowed to go play for the Irish team. It's
very fucking important, do you know what I mean? It's
it's a few team things with a chance of making
(22:28):
a meddling at Yeah, yes, and just dumped it. So
I don't know, are they going to rekindle it. I
fucking I can't understand.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't know, is there any way to reverse this decision?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Like it doesn't look like it like I would have
felt like with the backlash obviously waiting for the backlash
to calm down, for people to just like move on,
but there was so much backlash, I thought that there
might be some kind of statement saying we will reconsider.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
But there's been nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
No, no, even if there was, you know, was mooted,
you know, like there was there was talks of of
of vanishing connuct, you know, extinguishing conduct, and it was
like protests and every fucking thing gone now, but at
least give the public something to shout about. Instead, they
just dropped this bomb on a Monday morning on oh yeah,
(23:17):
with a chat there that's gone, Like what the what
the fuck? Yeah when the backer, the financial backer, didn't
even know it was common mm hmm insanity. Moving swiftly along,
we have a Thursday speaking of weird ship at Thursday
(23:39):
game for the opening of the Six Nations for Ireland.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Like I feel like there's a is there a clip
of Homer Simpson driving over his own hand or something?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Well, I'll tell you what what it's spoiled. What has
come down to is being pure French and green the bastards.
So the French television company that have the Six Nations,
they also have the Winter Olympics, ye, which kicks off
on the Friday. You're like iron, Yeah, Jesus Christ, lets
you couldn't put it up the road, you know, on
(24:16):
the following day, you know, on Saturday, Like no, no, no, no,
we would put it on Thursday. Like that's going to
fuck it, Like for just fucking that's gonna absolutely make
like no Irish people are going to be at it
because you have to take two days off now Thursday
and Friday to get to it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah. Yeah, the one day was baden off. The Friday
night was bad enough for people.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But now you're looking at a Thursday that's gonna be
fucking weird.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
What is that type I'm thinking of?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Like literally Roby is like, okay, we need to find
a way to keep people engaged.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Who was in these meetings, Like who's coming up with
I know, I know, I know. Thursday. Hear me out,
Thursday is a great day. Doesn't have a.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Tapping her chinle on Thursday. I do like the sound
of it. Thus, Judy, You weird bastards. Friends, what are
you doing putting it on a Thursday, for the love
of folk? Like there's do you know, there's Saturday and
Sunday as well, Like nothing's on Sundays, you know, nothing,
(25:32):
there's not on Sunday. No, no rugby on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Oh, but that's because of I don't know, I don't know,
But that's because of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Now, but there's no rugby at all on Sunday. The
opening up the Winter Olympics is Friday. This rugby is
on Saturday. There's two games on Saturday. Then there's nothing.
In funny news, in interesting news, the Babas have been
(26:05):
announced the upcoming Babas. And did you see Peter o'many
and Connor Murray are going to play him along with
Sam Kane.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Probably put him in the same room.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh brilliant, brilliant. Do you know what? They'd probably end
up being really good friends. Anyway, it's perfect Babas. You know,
o'manny doesn't strike me as a typical Babas player, but
then then who are we to say, like, you know
what I mean? Though, it was very funny after the
when they be Bennett on it the weekend, which they
made quite a freaking job of. It was an interesting
(26:36):
chat with They meant that they went, they flew it
in the second half. They look great in the second half.
Jack Crowley's people were going, oh, Jack Crowley's bottled the kicks.
Jack Crowley had a mummified leg starting the game. He
was wincing every time he kicked it in any direction.
Although his crossfield kicks are outrageously cool. He's got him
perfect at the minute. But Craig Casey just adding to
(26:59):
many things that he's been pulling off awesome in the
last couple of weeks. He started kicking touch touch, fucking
conversions like God, okay, what his fucking weird gammy left leg?
Geek naylan, you know, but o'manny in the after I
don't know did you get to see any of the clips,
But he was very honest. He went so he went
(27:20):
in it down at halftime and what was said that,
you know, you came out and absolutely rattled him in
the second half because yeah, we just stopped feeling sorry
for versus. To be honest with you, we thought the
whole world was against us. Everything was against us, and
we were just kind of went, what do we don't
stop feeling sorry for versus? It was a great phrase,
like to say, yeah, stop being babies, Come on, you
don't You're not owed anything like. And just while he
(27:43):
was talking and he was getting all serious in rugby,
he looked up and the camera panned his mother holding
a sign going I'm Peter Oman's mother and I've I'm
retiring from cutting the lawn. Genuine embarrassment came over his
face went on area went, oh, Jesus wept, looked away.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's very funny.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
She's proud as points stand there with this big this
big placard, like a zero placard, and he's like, Jesus wept.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
My do you know my favorite video, one of my
favorite video clips smart rugby is you know, Peter Manny
and walking up from the beach I Philly realms there
trying to take.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And get away.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
He can't, he can't do. They're one of my favorite ones.
And this is turned into even more of Petermanny love off,
but is still when John hadn't it.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh you'll see, I know the one he puts his
head in his hands.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
There's a Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Very good, very good. I will miss small.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Time, we will, we will. So yeah, the Lions, the
Lions met up, they met up. There seem to be
a lot of photage of them meeting up and you're like, okay.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
God, yeah it's funny now with like with you know, all.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
The social media, extra extra extra content all the time,
you're fucking fed with content like the I feel like
the Lions tour is ages away the.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Match watching all a bunch of players standing around drinking
coffee outside. Yes, exactly, give us a bit more than
that now, or don't be bothered up. But then you
just got to keep throwing stuff at the wall. But
what's interesting? Do we talk about it? But if Leedster
make it to the URC final there to be playing
the Lions, that playing Argentina six days later. Oh yeah,
(29:41):
so I reckon there's going to be and it's going
to get really weird. There's going to be a load
of lads drafted in for that match who aren't actually
going to go on the tour. That's apparently the chat.
How how much of a stinger is that? Do you
give the jersey back and all the track suits and stuff.
You know, you're like, we would have had you, but look,
we need you for this whole Argentina match because we're
(30:02):
missing twelve.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
People would take it even though it is a bit
of a stinger because it's like a Lion's eight team almost.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, but it is. Yeah, you would. You'd still take
it because obviously you got to put your hand up
for fear as an injury. Like but you know it's
you can only kind of laugh at it, really go
all right, fuck it, I'll get you know, I'll get
the jersey any out of it.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
But actually a ship.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I'm sorry now, but players get no time off, like
just leave the players alone.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I'm sorry. Season.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
The seasons are way too long, like how ridiculous, Like.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's hard being a fan.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, there's no let up, like imagine if you're you know,
I don't know, too long anyway, leave to live.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Just leave the players alone.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Well, I mean there's those are two things we just
talked about, like that are going to overrun each other
with scheduling, Like do you know from the French weird
those with their Thursday to now the Lions tour is
going to run into the URC final. Oh, here's the thing.
There might be no worries at all. They might make
it into the URC final. But it's been very presumptuive.
Be presumptuous, I should say I invented a new word there.
(31:15):
I don't know if anybody who recognized that. But the
most important thing is Munster, unbelievably or off down to
South Africa. They're going to play the Hollywood BT Sharks,
who they could actually beat. They could beat.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Them h Durbin.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah they're off the Durbin and yeah, hey they didn't
they didn't just two years ago, you know. Yeah, yeah,
so they that is two weeks time. I think it's
it's the thirtieth. I think it's the thirtieth. They yeah,
they claim they'll be I mean they much like Munster.
(31:55):
The Sharks have blown for gold this this year, even
though they are full of you know, it's bits and
all these fellas and whatnot like. But to be fucking
guess it, wouldn't it be a guess if they went
I went on another run, Yeah you would.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
That would be guests. Have you been watching any Lurchelle.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Only only extended the extended highlights on TikTok, where they
give a lovely nine minute video.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Oh yeah, they're doing well by there. Yeah, there was
a moment.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Fucking Dylan Leeds, who's my my, my body from Barbarians.
He's playing so well in Social Firm, He's just playing
so well and he did that unbelievable She's there what
you call it?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Flick pass out of the back pass?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I couldn't look at it twice I'd
scan back to it and that is the most French
thing I'm looking at this. Fuck the Top fourteen, even
in the highlights, they make the best highlight reels because
it's just end to end. Even the tournament itself is
fucking brilliant. Nothing as it's any given Sunday. Shit, isn't
it like it's.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
All the time?
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Ever? It is?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It isn't. But I do agree. I do agree with you.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
It's it produces unbelievable stuff. But I have a theory
behind that as well that I'm not going to get
into tonight because the finals of Top fourteen is coming up,
so we'll have time to talk about that as well,
maybe another another night, but it's coming to the end
of the regular season. But last weekend they were who
were they playing Montpellier, and there was a runaway try,
(33:36):
some kind of error, some knock on didn't legs like,
picks it up, runs the field and that the stadium's
going off, and I was like fuck. I was like,
do you know what, Larache could actually win the top fourteen?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And I was sitting with that field for a while.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Next thing that the try gets called back just allowed
someone Thomas Levo lifted a leg in a line out
or in a mall one hundred meters down. The picture
was like, oh fuck it, I was like, And then
the feeling was gone, and then they finished with another
try and a bonus point. I was like, let's see.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It'd be so French would just not to attack, you know.
I played like maggots all year and then just gone, yeah,
let's do it. And they.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Almost serves you better. That's a monster year you were.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
They lost their first six matches, which you know, and
and I played hot and cold shite for a lot
of the season and then just went on a run
of six games and ended up winning it.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
But what.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I had to ask you was that from last year,
that picture that I tagged you in and I sent
you of Roger sitting on the bus or was that
recent times?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
No, I think I think that's well I only heard
it from you. I didn't hear this anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Yeah, I was kind of thinking. So it must have
popped up from last year when he was you know,
had a touch a touch line band or whatever he
had faced on him, like, and it was very funny
for just people who went to the right memes underneath it,
like but he.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Have the comments, but he has a band now. Oh yeah,
he's been banned until the end of the season.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Jesus Christ. But we got a new boss, a new boss.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
A new boss is a new trouble decker boss. I'll
send you a picture for it, but I don't I
know if the women will be allowed on it. But
we've get to the final first aneway, so we'll see.
But thatbby Klass they gave us the boss.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You would drive a bus, not a bother to you?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
No, not a bother. I could drive us boss.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I've got a well a light goods vehicle.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
The thing is, if you bring a bus to a final,
it's a party boss on the way home. So they
got this new stunning boss. If anyone hasn't seen it
up Lar's page, new double decker like pig Pure Top
fourteen like stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Showed off like yeah, yeah, yeah, why would you go handy?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Like yeah, so the Yeah, who was he staged in
the protest sitting in the bus.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I don't know. Probably maybe he just loves the Boss.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Maybe that's what I was thinking. I was like, sure,
it's the new Boss, Like why wouldn't he saying it? Yeah,
so let's know about the book.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
I was talking to Jonathan Dante and he was like, Oh,
how's it going. I was like, yeah, we qualified for
semi final. I was like, we're playing that stad Marcella Flawn.
He was like, oh yeah, that's because we didn't qualify
for the world for the heidekn Cop and I was like,
your bollocks.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Steal your thunder straight away. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I was like, well, we want to him playing there anyway,
because this again, we'll be in the finals.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
So I wouldn't have. But he was like, oh, the.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Only reason you're playing in the stadium is because we're
not qualified.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Excuse you.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
And then I was like you should come, like you
have to come and watch. He was like, oh no, no,
we have the weekend off, so we're going away.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
On two fronts. I'm going to tell you how I'm
gonna put you in your place, and I know no,
It's just like when you borrow a siblings jacket. You're like, hey,
look I'm have to get the I'm gonna wear this jacket. Yeah,
I sure. I only let you have it because I
want it. Here. You go, yeah, hey, do you want
to come look at me in the jacket? Not dull
(37:37):
on the weekend? Off could be looking at you for
the last thing I want to look at it now
was jackets go aha to fuck.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
It's like the time my sister took my bag and
like I spent my whole life stealing stuff from my
sister's and I turned around.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I was like, that's my bag. She was like, you're lucky.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I took tickets like a three month on banana.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
You and then bananas.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I'm gonna wait to Canada for the summer. Like left
banana and the bag.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Just a little superprise for whoever was stealing her. Is
that what you do? You just little booby traps. Just
leave bananas stucked and stuck in shoes, bananas stuck in
your laptop to make sure nobody uses it. Trademark, right,
That was it. That was it. That was a heart
warming podcast. We didn't rip into anybody, thankfully too much
bear the seven side of things. But I'm going to
(38:30):
go drinking milk and benesia, or do something for my
throat here now at the minute, or sickingly get myself
in some sort of order till next week. You go
ahead and mind the rucks.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Oh you too, mind them rocks, the Banana and
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Robb
It's the banana and Robbie.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Are we still friends? Are we?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
And?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Are we still friends?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm not sure what happened, protection.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I know the general populace would be going. These two
are like a baby's art. You don't know what way
they're going to go. Apologies for two things. For apologies
for this disgusting sound that you hear coming out of
my face right now, but blow my voice out doing
a stand up and have a bit of a cold
as well. But it's not right. We didn't have a
fallen out. Last week was just bananas, So and the bananas.
(00:39):
It was crazy last week, so trying to actually link
up became an impossibility. Well, we had to make it
happen this either, we had to make it happen. And
we're back on track. And and as over there, you finished,
what's the jelly situation? Like I've never asked you that
the jelly situation? Like in France?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's okay? Do you know what out of m okay?
So the trio is, you know, jellies, I e. Sweets
and tatoes, sorry, sweets, christs and chocolate.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
That's your three.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
And between the three of them, I don't know which
one I give up like I honestly I wouldn't survive
without If one of them had to go, then I'm
gone as well.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Like that's it. I can't choose one.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
So the jellies is good, but only kind of packet jellies.
Like they're not into pick and mix that much. That's
kind of hard to come across. The chocolate situation is poor,
is it compared to Ireland?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yes? Do you know what they don't have? And this
is obviously an eu thing like goodies around the checkout.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
They tried to do away with that all together in
some shops in Ireland, and I think Tescos were the
first to do it. But like if you go to
any of the rest of them, they all have goodies galore,
you know, I mean just looking at you going go
on out of that, going out of that.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, but the crisps are the variety is not good,
but some of the crisps they have are very good.
So in general, the snackage is not as good as
at home. You know, the only place I've ever been
where I found that, like treats and goodies were as
good as at home.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Go on New Zealand, right, Jesse. That's a long way
to have to go, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I know, yeah, but I cann't believe how good the
sweeties and goodies and things were there. I was like, whoa,
because nowhere is good as as home. Really, you never
find things as good as at home.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
No. I was in a scandal situation about an hour ago.
I had to pop in about myself a laminator which
I've been threatened by for ages. And the only best
place in Ireland to get shipped like that is mister Price,
where everything is half nothing. They're sweety, are absolutely fucking
scandalous though. It's like stop, I'm going to die of
gout walking down here. This is so good. I was
(03:09):
at a birthday party at a twelve year old. I
wouldn't rock up. It was somebody who's my niece's birthday
party at the weekend and dead squishies, all the different
flavors of squishes, and I this will tell you how
when I know I have a problem. I was eating
a burger because they were grilling grilling down the beach.
They're very fancy people. I was eating a burger and
(03:30):
ate a squishy at the same time.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I thought you were going to say you were fighting
off twelve year olds to get to the squishies.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
No, they're all kind of a healthy.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
God.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
They all had one and walked away. I'm like, what
kind of willpower have you children got? Mother? God? I
wanted to eat the plastic and everything that they came in.
But welcome everybody to the podcast. This is actually generally
the go things we do get into the rugby at
some stage. But if this is your first time listening
and you're going what has happened with You're all very
(04:02):
welcome to our world. Jellies play a big part in
our world. Not gonna lie, not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Jelly's is a big part of my life here in Ourchelle.
Was I talking you about this before? I'm not sure
if I mentioned this on.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
We pretty much talked every facet and corner and direction
and dimension of jelly there is. But if there's more
to be said, I'm down.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, I think I was telling you this that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I bring so the French don't eat like you know,
we'd have jaffa cakes and jellies before a match.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That'd be kind of a done thing at home. They
don't do that here.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I always they fags, fags and wine. Right table of
fags and wine, cheese and sargines. No, but there actually
are snacks for us in the dressing room all the time,
so that is really impressive.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Now, Like I will say, there's a little kind.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Of so basically I bring jellies before every match, and
they don't do that here in France. They were also
very like so two seasons beginning of two seasons ago,
teaching me all the bad French words, you know, like
for Willy and Fanny and things. One of the words
for Fanny is neck lash neck, and I was trying
(05:22):
to think of ways to remember all the different words.
So I was like, that sounds a little bit like
you know when you have a schneck, you know, like
you have like I'd love a little schneck there now,
you know. And that's and I was like, they were
like what does that mean? And I was like, oh,
it's just like a little thing that you eat, and
they were like, yeah, well here too, and it's.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So right.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm literally looking at it up here. The girls made
sashes for everyone last week. I'm now miss Schnick because
I bring jellies for everyone before every game. Fucking cost
you have four fifty every weekend and there's a big
there's a big saying. It's like have you seen the
Moana pacifica drummond on the on.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
The bin and I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That's that's kind of like what we do. And this
is how it goes right. This will make no sense
to you, but look, this is just how it happens.
I we started a drum roll before the match, and
I'm like, it's time, it's time for shnake and actually
what we're shouting is fanny, time for our fanny, and
(06:32):
so it's the little horrible crocodiles and done with them.
I buy one packet of non sour and one sour,
and so I put I have the fannies that are
sour and the fannies that are not sour. And the
fannies from Toulon, for example, we say with which other
(06:54):
team we were playing against? Are the fannies that smells?
So yeah, that's a direct translation. It doesn't sound that weird.
I think in French.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You know what for anybody thinking of you know, maybe
you know it might have my young my daughter grow
up joining a rugby team and maturity would be yeah,
I can't guarantee, you know what, you know, stay as
young as you can, for as long as you can't
do and shit like that. It's absolutely perfect, Like I
(07:31):
can't judge you in any way. You want to hear
my new show. It's the most silly shit I've ever said,
and right, great, it's so much fun. I opened the
show in Cork, that not last weekend. Last weekend I
was in Vicker Street with Neil Delamare and you know
you're in a swanky joint. They put Dubai chocolate out
(07:52):
for us in the green room and stuff like that,
which is only fucking Midland. I'm just going to say it.
I'm gonna come out and say it Middland at best.
But the week previous I was in Cork and they
were I mean, Cork is just glorious anyway, but the silliness,
it was that level of silly the whole way through.
Like now, okay, things would make you the things I'm
(08:16):
saying now because I'm pushing the boat a small bit
like initially would make it kind of puck her up
a bit and go, oh jesus, he's gone on to
this subject. Okay, is the door nobody's looking the doors closed? Okay,
off you go down. But it's all from a funny, silly,
self deprecating place like but just like that, for as
long as you can stay silly, they have advice for anybody,
(08:37):
just stay absolutely silly, keep banging on the wheel bin
offering snakes to everybody, one hundred percent. I love that fact,
fact and funny.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, that's what I was eating there now because I
bought some extra ones because we're playing a semi final
this weekend and obviously can't play and my head like
is still still not better. So I just opened one
of the bags there and took a handful out because
I need to just so. Yeah, I've had a handful
(09:14):
of fannies there now, so.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, there is nothing that would make me laugh continuously
then toilet humor, you know what I mean, Like genial humor,
Like there's nothing like never the most listen to the
most intricately well woven, fucking you know, comedy specials. But
as soon as anybody does poop talk or willies or fannies,
(09:40):
it's just like Hiley and there's nobody unless you're an
absolute snob, there's nobody can go. I don't know about
that now. It's still hilarious and.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What I love and we can talk about rugby then.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
But just if people need a good a good like
trick to get more silliness in your life. You know,
when you play categories, you know, if you're playing kings
or something. Names for willies, names for fannies, and names
for titties are the.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Funniest category for me.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I actually think that a lot of people don't find
it as funny as me. But I always pick it
anyway because I either be laugh and at the names.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
People, who'se it's so good?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You should? I don't know. Have you ever listened to
the song the singer Wheeler Walker Junior.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
No, but you spoke about him for I think.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, he's ridiculous. He's really like, he's vile. Don't play
it out loud on your disco bike. I will tell
you that now. But it's all the dirty words, but
very funny, many many silly names for for all body parts.
It's yeah, you'll enjoy it. Do you know what? It's
(10:50):
the sort of it's the sort of music you would
play for the girls in the dressing room. You know,
it's so it's so wild and stupid. But the shit
he's coming out with, You're like, yeah, do you know
what this makes us all weirdos for liking this, but
we're all in it together, you know. It's it's bonding music.
It's so fucked up. Anyway, you come to us before
(11:13):
my voice completely falls out the back of my neck.
And I do have two shows this weekend Tomorrow night
and dun Garvin and Tipperary Zone. Do you know I
give you as much as I possibly have in the tank.
You arrived even as EF a wafer.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah yet again, says you that I come to you
with my EF awayfer cape on. Because the woman has
just gone and won Guinness.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Women's six Nations Player of the Tournament.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Okay, and she didn't even play that last game, so
it goes to show the impact she's having. Like and
the other thing, which is just for today, she's just
signed for Queen's.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah you're all club.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, so I'm delighted with that news. Like how epic,
like just epic for her that was announced on Monday.
I was having a bad day Monday, I was telling
you about that, so I actually didn't get to enjoy
the announcement that much because I had my head wrapped
and other things. But like, how amazing for her, like
(12:18):
so deserved onwards and upwards. Now I hope she just
I hope there's just no into the height set that
she can reach because I'm sorry, a couple of years ago,
we didn't even know who he fe away for.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Was Yeah, that's what's cool. Yeah, do you know what
else is cool? As I just opened up on Instagram
just to see because she actually thanked us because we
we had messaged each other and I think we might
might both have reposted it. But you're two, ye are
beside each other in my message box. But that's cool.
But I just said, she said, thanks very much, I
(12:51):
said myself and I literally just messaged each other. The
news is fantastic, well deserved, because that's guess I'd say.
Enna's buzzing still in told Shock Tanks a millionto the two.
How cool is that? I said, if there was a
w Lions, your your be first name on the on
the team. She just really appreciate that. I'm still a
lot to learn, Like who the fuck am I? And
(13:13):
the world player that you know, the tournament fucking winner
is messaging me back about our lovely podcast being an
absolute fucking ledge bag, Like you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So funny she's like, I have a lot to learn.
I almost feel like center don't bother learning it. Everyone
else is full of ship.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, forget it, forget block. No, that's it now, put
a full stop on everything. Now keep doing exactly what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Absolutely Now she's allowed to make mistakes as well, Like
that's that's uh, you know, I don't He's definitely she's
definitely normal, do you know what She's just like Ah,
it's just so exciting for her and like that.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Now I hope that, like you.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Know, going to Queens and I know it's not the
easiest thing as an Irish player to decide to go
over to the prem I hope that's being managed well
and whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I just hope that now going into.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
The Premiership side, she's just given license to get game
time and have the crack and just play play play.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I don't know what the layout of the PREMI.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Is now next season because it'll be after the World
Cup obviously, So the World Cup is on in August
and September and then Primal starts, so she won't be
over there now for a while.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
So that's very exciting. I'm hugely excited for her and
probably see your over there.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
How class would that be? Actually have Enna and Eva
Jesus Christ, that'll be like the fact that the two
that is written in the start of the fact that
the two you ended up. Of all the messages and
stuff I've been, you know, posting what the ears in
the message box at beside each other and plus cool
as a just the cool, cool person you know, to
no doubt, there's a million messages to be sending on
(14:52):
that particular day, and here's me going.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Hope you're holding her.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I was not trying to pat I had actually I
hadn't tagged her in anything. I think I just shared
possibly a post that she was collaborative in, do you
know that kind of way? And I'm guessing she saw
Tomo Manny shade up shared a post and just said
thank you. And I was like, yeah, you don't have
to say thank you, you're busy, but super cool that
you did. But yeah, I wanted to back away quickly,
(15:22):
go I don't want to be a total fucking pothole.
But anyway, very very cool.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So far, she's done a better job than Mackanson has
done a living up two hours, but Alan Bear's Rugby
pod Player of.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
The Year oh Jesus Christ, you could take it again,
like not about that Mac isn't even in the run
and like he's been do you.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Know Billy Barry is chasting it for way for down.
I'd say, we'll see how big, Well, see how Billy
Barry does this weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Billy Barry's outeous, he's outrageous.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Anyway, we don't have time to talk about him tonight.
We will talk about final next week. I can't wait
for it. But you know what, I can't watch it
because where we were playing our final at five o'clock,
so what the.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Balls of course? Time course? Yeah, couldn't give a shit
they don't. I'll be watching it. I'll be watching. I'll
catch that. I'll catch the start of it, all right, No,
I'll catch most of it actually before the show and tip.
But yes, moving quickly on to how you feel about
that fucking insanity of the seven's been fucking dropped, no
sense being made of it at all at all.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's actually awful, It's actually awful.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I remember I followed the seventh Circuit for years and
like not just you know, here and there, dipping in
and out. I used to get up at like six
in the morning and watch it all day Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And those days when I used to be like really
really into it and had time to be more into it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
There was no Irish men's sight for years.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
They were resisting it and resisting, resisting it, and then
to have achieved what they did, like some of the
so Terry Kennedy has won, like what are the awards
he's won? He think he got Men's Player of the
Year for the series. Jordan Conroy, like Harry mcnology, like
(17:18):
absolute Legends of the World series, like to come from nothing.
They had to come from the bottom up and to
achieve what they've done, and just to have the plug
pulled is so awful. I feel so sorry for them.
I feel so deceived. The biggest disappointment for me is
that the last regime was very hard on the women's side,
(17:42):
and like it's been such a nice kind of thought
and feeling to be like, Okay, things are changing, things
are looking up, and then to see like to be
you know, if the decision has to be made, that's fine,
but it wasn't transparent enough for it to make enough
sense to everybody. That's the most hurtful thing I find
(18:03):
is that like it feels like, you know, there's more
another kind of regime that's letting people down after the
last one, like and it's you know, they've kept the
women's development side, but it's not fair on the men.
It's not fair on Irish sport and Irish Olympic sport.
We have an actual chance at winning a medal, and
(18:25):
an Olympic medal in Ireland, Like you know that there
are people who win Olympic medals in England and people
don't even know about them. When you win an Olympic
medal in Ireland, the whole country knows who you are.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We know all about you. The whole city turns out
like Kelly Harrington transformed the city, like Portland Row, like.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
The way an Irish Olympic medal can impact an entire
society in comparison with other with other countries. We have
a very special relationship that we're very high achieving. But
the medals we win, it's kind of like the medals
they win in Fiji, for example, where they you know,
they don't have the same access to sport as as
(19:11):
we have.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You know, it's but it has the same.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Effect Apparently the backer, even whoever was backing it, wasn't
made aware. Do you know what I mean? The financial
backing company behind it on it's actually.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Not even up to I r F you. Why couldn't
they if they can ward, why couldn't they just hand
it over?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
That's exactly what what seems to be said. Look, why
not hand it over? What the action like? It's to say,
like I guarantee, like if you're a big enough company,
a sporting body, especially like at that level, it would
be agreeable because the sevens, isn't it. You know, it's
not like you're going to make up all the money
out of it. But what you can do is you
(19:54):
can actually, as a tax right off fucking throw any
amount of money at things. I know guys who sponsor
like motorbikes teams in Mandela just to get rid of
tax money, do you know what I mean? So that's
most likely what it was, and you're kind to go,
what the fuck? This doesn't make any sense whatsoever? Is
to cut this thing because players come out of that
(20:15):
Hugo Keen and Shane Day. Do you know, like these
rockets have come out of the out of the gain
and it's one of the most entertaining things you can watch.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Like, I think that point has been made about Look,
it's not producing.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Enough, you know, fifteens great players.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I'm sorry, it's giving another chance to male athletes to
represent your country number one and to win a fucking
Olympic medal. It's not all about the fifteen's production line.
And sorry, do we not have enough produced for the
fifteens production line? Like can this not be the surplus
of the players? That not that they wouldn't make it
(20:51):
in fifteens, but just another like different opportunity for the
player who wants to play seven's on the World series.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And it's a different sport. That's the thing is like
why why would you burn a sport? It's like just going, well,
that's it, we're not having hockey anymore, cancel all the hockey.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's not fair exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
And it's being used at this kind of like pump
for it's such as that's such a slap in the
face to the other teams on the on the series
as well, who are all disgusted by this, by the way,
Like I play with one of the French sevens girls
and I was chatting to her about it. And she
was just like shocked, like it was just such a
slap in the face for them, as if like, sorry,
(21:34):
we're out because we don't value this enough when people
are literally spending time away from their families, their kids,
spending a life on the road, the referees, amount of
time and everything that goes into it, and then.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
It's do you know what it's like? Do you know what?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Sorry, this is what it has just reminded me of,
as if we've committed brexit.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, yeah, nobody can make any sense of it.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I hate Britain for break break sage, so I think
people should hate us.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah yeah, I mean David Lucifora fucking shot fucking fire
outic going what because it was kind of his baby,
all right? But I mean if if like you look
how important it is when Antoine DuPont was allowed to
go play for the French team, you know, Hugo Kino
was allowed to go play for the Irish team. It's
very fucking important, do you know what I mean? It's
it's a few team things with a chance of making
(22:28):
a meddling at Yeah, yes, and just dumped it. So
I don't know, are they going to rekindle it. I
fucking I can't understand.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't know, is there any way to reverse this decision?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Like it doesn't look like it like I would have
felt like with the backlash obviously waiting for the backlash
to calm down, for people to just like move on,
but there was so much backlash, I thought that there
might be some kind of statement saying we will reconsider.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
But there's been nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
No, no, even if there was, you know, was mooted,
you know, like there was there was talks of of
of vanishing connuct, you know, extinguishing conduct, and it was
like protests and every fucking thing gone now, but at
least give the public something to shout about. Instead, they
just dropped this bomb on a Monday morning on oh yeah,
(23:17):
with a chat there that's gone, Like what the what
the fuck? Yeah when the backer, the financial backer, didn't
even know it was common mm hmm insanity. Moving swiftly along,
we have a Thursday speaking of weird ship at Thursday
(23:39):
game for the opening of the Six Nations for Ireland.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Like I feel like there's a is there a clip
of Homer Simpson driving over his own hand or something?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Well, I'll tell you what what it's spoiled. What has
come down to is being pure French and green the bastards.
So the French television company that have the Six Nations,
they also have the Winter Olympics, ye, which kicks off
on the Friday. You're like iron, Yeah, Jesus Christ, lets
you couldn't put it up the road, you know, on
(24:16):
the following day, you know, on Saturday, Like no, no, no, no,
we would put it on Thursday. Like that's going to
fuck it, Like for just fucking that's gonna absolutely make
like no Irish people are going to be at it
because you have to take two days off now Thursday
and Friday to get to it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah. Yeah, the one day was baden off. The Friday
night was bad enough for people.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But now you're looking at a Thursday that's gonna be
fucking weird.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
What is that type I'm thinking of?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Like literally Roby is like, okay, we need to find
a way to keep people engaged.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Who was in these meetings, Like who's coming up with
I know, I know, I know. Thursday. Hear me out,
Thursday is a great day. Doesn't have a.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Tapping her chinle on Thursday. I do like the sound
of it. Thus, Judy, You weird bastards. Friends, what are
you doing putting it on a Thursday, for the love
of folk? Like there's do you know, there's Saturday and
Sunday as well, Like nothing's on Sundays, you know, nothing,
(25:32):
there's not on Sunday. No, no rugby on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Oh, but that's because of I don't know, I don't know,
But that's because of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Now, but there's no rugby at all on Sunday. The
opening up the Winter Olympics is Friday. This rugby is
on Saturday. There's two games on Saturday. Then there's nothing.
In funny news, in interesting news, the Babas have been
(26:05):
announced the upcoming Babas. And did you see Peter o'many
and Connor Murray are going to play him along with
Sam Kane.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Probably put him in the same room.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh brilliant, brilliant. Do you know what? They'd probably end
up being really good friends. Anyway, it's perfect Babas. You know,
o'manny doesn't strike me as a typical Babas player, but
then then who are we to say, like, you know
what I mean? Though, it was very funny after the
when they be Bennett on it the weekend, which they
made quite a freaking job of. It was an interesting
(26:36):
chat with They meant that they went, they flew it
in the second half. They look great in the second half.
Jack Crowley's people were going, oh, Jack Crowley's bottled the kicks.
Jack Crowley had a mummified leg starting the game. He
was wincing every time he kicked it in any direction.
Although his crossfield kicks are outrageously cool. He's got him
perfect at the minute. But Craig Casey just adding to
(26:59):
many things that he's been pulling off awesome in the
last couple of weeks. He started kicking touch touch, fucking
conversions like God, okay, what his fucking weird gammy left leg?
Geek naylan, you know, but o'manny in the after I
don't know did you get to see any of the clips,
But he was very honest. He went so he went
(27:20):
in it down at halftime and what was said that,
you know, you came out and absolutely rattled him in
the second half because yeah, we just stopped feeling sorry
for versus. To be honest with you, we thought the
whole world was against us. Everything was against us, and
we were just kind of went, what do we don't
stop feeling sorry for versus? It was a great phrase,
like to say, yeah, stop being babies, Come on, you
don't You're not owed anything like. And just while he
(27:43):
was talking and he was getting all serious in rugby,
he looked up and the camera panned his mother holding
a sign going I'm Peter Oman's mother and I've I'm
retiring from cutting the lawn. Genuine embarrassment came over his
face went on area went, oh, Jesus wept, looked away.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's very funny.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
She's proud as points stand there with this big this
big placard, like a zero placard, and he's like, Jesus wept.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
My do you know my favorite video, one of my
favorite video clips smart rugby is you know, Peter Manny
and walking up from the beach I Philly realms there
trying to take.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And get away.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
He can't, he can't do. They're one of my favorite ones.
And this is turned into even more of Petermanny love off,
but is still when John hadn't it.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh you'll see, I know the one he puts his
head in his hands.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
There's a Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Very good, very good. I will miss small.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Time, we will, we will. So yeah, the Lions, the
Lions met up, they met up. There seem to be
a lot of photage of them meeting up and you're like, okay.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
God, yeah it's funny now with like with you know, all.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
The social media, extra extra extra content all the time,
you're fucking fed with content like the I feel like
the Lions tour is ages away the.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Match watching all a bunch of players standing around drinking
coffee outside. Yes, exactly, give us a bit more than
that now, or don't be bothered up. But then you
just got to keep throwing stuff at the wall. But
what's interesting? Do we talk about it? But if Leedster
make it to the URC final there to be playing
the Lions, that playing Argentina six days later. Oh yeah,
(29:41):
so I reckon there's going to be and it's going
to get really weird. There's going to be a load
of lads drafted in for that match who aren't actually
going to go on the tour. That's apparently the chat.
How how much of a stinger is that? Do you
give the jersey back and all the track suits and stuff.
You know, you're like, we would have had you, but look,
we need you for this whole Argentina match because we're
(30:02):
missing twelve.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
People would take it even though it is a bit
of a stinger because it's like a Lion's eight team almost.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, but it is. Yeah, you would. You'd still take
it because obviously you got to put your hand up
for fear as an injury. Like but you know it's
you can only kind of laugh at it, really go
all right, fuck it, I'll get you know, I'll get
the jersey any out of it.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
But actually a ship.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I'm sorry now, but players get no time off, like
just leave the players alone.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I'm sorry. Season.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
The seasons are way too long, like how ridiculous, Like.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's hard being a fan.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, there's no let up, like imagine if you're you know,
I don't know, too long anyway, leave to live.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Just leave the players alone.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Well, I mean there's those are two things we just
talked about, like that are going to overrun each other
with scheduling, Like do you know from the French weird
those with their Thursday to now the Lions tour is
going to run into the URC final. Oh, here's the thing.
There might be no worries at all. They might make
it into the URC final. But it's been very presumptuive.
Be presumptuous, I should say I invented a new word there.
(31:15):
I don't know if anybody who recognized that. But the
most important thing is Munster, unbelievably or off down to
South Africa. They're going to play the Hollywood BT Sharks,
who they could actually beat. They could beat.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Them h Durbin.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah they're off the Durbin and yeah, hey they didn't
they didn't just two years ago, you know. Yeah, yeah,
so they that is two weeks time. I think it's
it's the thirtieth. I think it's the thirtieth. They yeah,
they claim they'll be I mean they much like Munster.
(31:55):
The Sharks have blown for gold this this year, even
though they are full of you know, it's bits and
all these fellas and whatnot like. But to be fucking
guess it, wouldn't it be a guess if they went
I went on another run, Yeah you would.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
That would be guests. Have you been watching any Lurchelle.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Only only extended the extended highlights on TikTok, where they
give a lovely nine minute video.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Oh yeah, they're doing well by there. Yeah, there was
a moment.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Fucking Dylan Leeds, who's my my, my body from Barbarians.
He's playing so well in Social Firm, He's just playing
so well and he did that unbelievable She's there what
you call it?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Flick pass out of the back pass?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I couldn't look at it twice I'd
scan back to it and that is the most French
thing I'm looking at this. Fuck the Top fourteen, even
in the highlights, they make the best highlight reels because
it's just end to end. Even the tournament itself is
fucking brilliant. Nothing as it's any given Sunday. Shit, isn't
it like it's.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
All the time?
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Ever? It is?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It isn't. But I do agree. I do agree with you.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
It's it produces unbelievable stuff. But I have a theory
behind that as well that I'm not going to get
into tonight because the finals of Top fourteen is coming up,
so we'll have time to talk about that as well,
maybe another another night, but it's coming to the end
of the regular season. But last weekend they were who
were they playing Montpellier, and there was a runaway try,
(33:36):
some kind of error, some knock on didn't legs like,
picks it up, runs the field and that the stadium's
going off, and I was like fuck. I was like,
do you know what, Larache could actually win the top fourteen?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And I was sitting with that field for a while.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Next thing that the try gets called back just allowed
someone Thomas Levo lifted a leg in a line out
or in a mall one hundred meters down. The picture
was like, oh fuck it, I was like, And then
the feeling was gone, and then they finished with another
try and a bonus point. I was like, let's see.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It'd be so French would just not to attack, you know.
I played like maggots all year and then just gone, yeah,
let's do it. And they.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Almost serves you better. That's a monster year you were.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
They lost their first six matches, which you know, and
and I played hot and cold shite for a lot
of the season and then just went on a run
of six games and ended up winning it.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
But what.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I had to ask you was that from last year,
that picture that I tagged you in and I sent
you of Roger sitting on the bus or was that
recent times?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
No, I think I think that's well I only heard
it from you. I didn't hear this anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Yeah, I was kind of thinking. So it must have
popped up from last year when he was you know,
had a touch a touch line band or whatever he
had faced on him, like, and it was very funny
for just people who went to the right memes underneath it,
like but he.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Have the comments, but he has a band now. Oh yeah,
he's been banned until the end of the season.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Jesus Christ. But we got a new boss, a new boss.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
A new boss is a new trouble decker boss. I'll
send you a picture for it, but I don't I
know if the women will be allowed on it. But
we've get to the final first aneway, so we'll see.
But thatbby Klass they gave us the boss.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You would drive a bus, not a bother to you?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
No, not a bother. I could drive us boss.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I've got a well a light goods vehicle.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
The thing is, if you bring a bus to a final,
it's a party boss on the way home. So they
got this new stunning boss. If anyone hasn't seen it
up Lar's page, new double decker like pig Pure Top
fourteen like stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Showed off like yeah, yeah, yeah, why would you go handy?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Like yeah, so the Yeah, who was he staged in
the protest sitting in the bus.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I don't know. Probably maybe he just loves the Boss.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Maybe that's what I was thinking. I was like, sure,
it's the new Boss, Like why wouldn't he saying it? Yeah,
so let's know about the book.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
I was talking to Jonathan Dante and he was like, Oh,
how's it going. I was like, yeah, we qualified for
semi final. I was like, we're playing that stad Marcella Flawn.
He was like, oh yeah, that's because we didn't qualify
for the world for the heidekn Cop and I was like,
your bollocks.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Steal your thunder straight away. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I was like, well, we want to him playing there anyway,
because this again, we'll be in the finals.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
So I wouldn't have. But he was like, oh, the.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Only reason you're playing in the stadium is because we're
not qualified.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Excuse you.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
And then I was like you should come, like you
have to come and watch. He was like, oh no, no,
we have the weekend off, so we're going away.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
On two fronts. I'm going to tell you how I'm
gonna put you in your place, and I know no,
It's just like when you borrow a siblings jacket. You're like, hey,
look I'm have to get the I'm gonna wear this jacket. Yeah,
I sure. I only let you have it because I
want it. Here. You go, yeah, hey, do you want
to come look at me in the jacket? Not dull
(37:37):
on the weekend? Off could be looking at you for
the last thing I want to look at it now
was jackets go aha to fuck.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
It's like the time my sister took my bag and
like I spent my whole life stealing stuff from my
sister's and I turned around.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I was like, that's my bag. She was like, you're lucky.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I took tickets like a three month on banana.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
You and then bananas.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I'm gonna wait to Canada for the summer. Like left
banana and the bag.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Just a little superprise for whoever was stealing her. Is
that what you do? You just little booby traps. Just
leave bananas stucked and stuck in shoes, bananas stuck in
your laptop to make sure nobody uses it. Trademark, right,
That was it. That was it. That was a heart
warming podcast. We didn't rip into anybody, thankfully too much
bear the seven side of things. But I'm going to
(38:30):
go drinking milk and benesia, or do something for my
throat here now at the minute, or sickingly get myself
in some sort of order till next week. You go
ahead and mind the rucks.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Oh you too, mind them rocks, the Banana and
Speaker 2 (38:45):
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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.