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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M M A crypt and this is a scriptor I
wanted to quit against my enemies. Yeah, so you wanted
to say you and then a little little.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Raision, but I forget your from the wielding. Hello everyone,
what is up? I am Rob? This is Monster Fholls Okay,
(00:35):
Mini Fuzz sitting on me on again. Emine is still abroad.
I don't know where he is now at the time
of the release of this episode. He could actually be
in Portugal. He's like fucking basketball the Gamma or Ferdinand
Magellan bouncing between Portugal and South Africa. South America not
South Africa.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Where was that Magellan? Maybe maybe it was who knows,
But yeah, I hope you're having a good day wherever
you may be. I'm having an okay day. It's a
middling day. Had a big day yesterday, which we'll talk
about towards the end of this episode. But yeah, before
we get into it, i'd like to remind everyone we
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and support this podcast, it would mean a lot. It's
also currently proceedure going towards getting a proper camera set
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on over and drop a donation, that would be really appreciated.
Links are in the description here and as well, I
would like to I'm going to just drop a treat here.
I'm going to do a pledge, a commitment if you
will that I am going to do one to two
of these solo ambling rob shall we say episodes for
(02:02):
patrons every month, so we will up the episode, the
exclusive episode of amounts to probably like three per month
he'll be getting. And that's just an incentive for you
guys to head on over and check out Patreon. I
enjoy doing these actually on my own. It's nice. It's
kind of you just sit there tame. It's a bit
of fun, something different. So I think in that format
(02:25):
it would work well over on Patreon, you know. And
today we have questions from you guys, and I'll also
chat about a couple of things that I have gone
on myself, and yeah, I think that will be today's episode. Yeah, yeah,
So to get straight into it, I suppose we'll just
answer Metal Ghost here, he asked, do we have any
(02:46):
Halloween pod plans? Yeah, I'd imagine it'll be much the
same as usual. We'll have our yearly Tim and Alison episode.
I'll try and push for a lot more guests, maybe
in the lead up, so hopefully we can make that happen.
So it's tricky. I've talked about it before, trying to
(03:06):
sort out guests when it's just me and Aim, and
it can be it can be tough. But I'll try
and get some guests, some old faces and maybe some new.
We'll see if we can do that. That'll go crack.
So yeah, usual kind of stuff I think, just we'll
try and get We might try and do the seven
Days a simon. I think em and will come back
(03:28):
energized and ready to rock like so if he is,
you know, we'll slop back into it and until by
the way, actually ask the other thing. Until Emen is
actually fully back, I'll be doing the solo. I might
have a guest on or two as well. I'll just
see how things go. And as well, I have good
feedback about these, so that's why we're doing them. So
(03:48):
we'll try and improve the solo pods. And so I'm
going to take the Instagram and answer your questions as
the come in, and I will answer this one first.
This is from Shane Wolf, and Shane Wolf says, what
is your favorite hero or creature from Irish myth and legend?
(04:14):
You know, I really like it's kind of a basic
bitch one, but I do like Coo Colin and his story.
I'm not a huge expert on Irish mythology or folklore
or anything really, to be honest with you, Banchie is
obviously fantastic. I mean, yeah, we did an episode on
Banchee's They're great and I think, yeah the door Koop
(04:38):
was a great one too, but that was just the
for newer listeners. That's the old utter giant utter water
dog type thing that basically the legend had it that
you know, it was attacking people. I think I might
have killed the people. It's a long time since we
did that episode. But what made it really interesting is
it was a legend, but there was also depiction of
(05:00):
it in headstone, a carving in stone, which made it
give a bit more credence to it, made it a
bit more unusual, just give an extra layer to the story.
I suppose that was one of those ones. I actually
I did the notes for Door Coup and that was
one of the first episodes that when I started doing
(05:22):
the notes, I was like, Oh, there's a lot more
to these stories than we think, you know, because our
process was like trying to find out information and stories
and just like articles, and yeah, I was finding them
and I was like, Okay, writers, there's more to this
than I thought. So probably some of them.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I like them.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
There the Sorrows, that's the the Sisters, isn't it, or
something like that. I couldn't tell you. I'm offhand like,
but I just remember loving them, you know that kind
of way. I'm trying to think of any of the others.
I think that's about it. But cool Colon has to
be the favorite share I mean, he's the man, right,
(06:02):
but the cool calling. Deck Cliff asks Deck Cliff Flem
what genre of horror films are your favor and why,
just like that horror was a genre. If I'm to
get more specific, I like, I like all horror, do
you know what I mean? I'm probably leased into just
(06:22):
straight ghost movies. They'd be like, I'm like whatever, I'm
more into like and I'm not so much into like fantasy,
horror or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I like.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Well, and I'm thinking of my favorite horror films and
you can tell you what kind of genre if it
fit into. Like I love Insidious. I class Alien as
a horror film. I love Halloween, I love Try. I
think about other spooky ones I like. I like The Strangers.
I thought that was a really good spooky film. I'm
trying to think of some recently that I thought were good. Alien,
(06:58):
the New Aliens more of an action kind of film. Really,
let's be honest. Yeah, I think, oh yeah, must his
named the dude fucking Midsommer and what's the heretic hereditary?
I don't know what the that was called. That guy
was good. I like this flicks. I preferred Midsummer Now
(07:19):
over the other one. I would always tell that I
had seen. So yeah, I like a bit of everything,
to be honest, if it's done well, do you know
what I mean? I really like that Hill's abies and
shit like that. I like fucking I like the ones
that is just like shit, HiT's the fucking fan. It's
going to get grim and it's fucking scary, like that
(07:41):
scene and Hill's Abyes, where the fucking creepy word or
wordy fuckers get into that sort of caravan camper van
thing and like that is just like one of the
bleakest Like I'm just I'm just remembering it now. I
haven't seen that film, but like, thing there don't that
like set fire to the da on like a crucifix
(08:05):
and then they're trying to bum the daughter while the
dollar's looking at the body on fire or something absolutely
fucking twisted, Like you're like, what the fuck? And that
wasn't like violence for violent Seke. I thought that film
actually executed it quite well, because sometimes you'll come across
these films where it's like just gore porn ers just
(08:27):
trying to fucking do push the envelope as much as
I can. That film, I felt it executed are quite good.
But yeah, that was a creepy fucking film that was
really fucking creepy. That was cool though it's a good film.
I enjoyed that one. I enjoyed zombie films man were
always for me, Like I love zombie films growing up,
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you know, the Dawn of the Dead remake, the ro Mayra.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Of flicks I like. But I feel like I was
probably a bit.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I was a bit too young for the Romera stuff,
so even by the time it came, or sorry, by
the time I could watch it, it was a bit
like you know, if you go from like Donna the
Dead remake, where you know, the special effects is quite
high quality and all that, and then you go watch
the original Dona the Dead. It's still good, still great,
but like you know, you do have to get over
(09:17):
a hurdle of like you had lads have blue face
paint on and it's very kind of basic. You have
to kind of appreciate it for what it was back then,
do you know that kind of way. It's like how
people say, you know, when you're watching like old boxers
or old football games or anything like that, it's like
they wouldn't stack up against modern players. It's that kind
(09:38):
of thing. You're watching it with a lens of appreciation,
but you still do all that.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Things have come.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Along a long way, but it depends. It depends, you know,
Like for example, I'd probably take the old Romero films
over a lot of the more recent zombie stuff. So
make it that you will. Like I haven't watched twenty
eight years later or whatever it's called. I have no
interest in watching that really at all. To be honest,
(10:08):
I even thought twenty eight weeks later, I was like, really,
and I think it's just that he sticks to the
name as well. It's like, yeah, I'm just like, we're
not just coming put a different name instead of I'm
just twenty eighth shit. I'm sure it'll be tidy in
well with the plot and the adiadiada, but like for me,
I'm just like whatever, I'm not really into it. In
(10:29):
the traffic asks what happens if you say Skeleton Scars
Guard street times in the mirror midnight? Well, fucking Scleton
scars Gar shows up, brother shows you what time it is,
you know, and to watch out for that Skeleton Scars
Guard fella. It's actually quite a mouthful out loud. She asks,
I'm in need of a good heckle please and thanks. Well,
I'm not going to heckle you share, but I will heckle.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I tell you it was.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Bugging me lately, So I'll just talk about what's bugging
me that I see quite a bit of lately on YouTube,
and I've thought talked a little bit about it in
the past, but I think it's a source of where
people are getting radicalized a lot, and it's from these
left and right agitators on both sides, and they're paleing
(11:16):
to like left and right extreme brain rot motherfuckers.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And what it.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Is is it's these vlaggers who go around the city
and point out issues and blame it on race or X,
Y and Z. And it's kind of ridiculous when you
think about it, like because I've been watching them and
it's like absurd. I've mentioned in the past that I
(11:42):
watched Billy Moore and I've just kind of he's like
a Liverpool like ex criminal kind of dude. He has
an interesting story and he was just making content going
around shown like urban rot. You know, he was like, heir,
look of fucking Liverpool is a fucking shit all now
check out the skip in the middle of the street,
but fucking shitty and happies everywhere and stuff like that.
But now he's even getting sucked into like let me
(12:06):
go into the into Manchester and video like Antifa protests
and stuff like that, and like when I watch this footage,
I'm just like, fuck made. This is like some kind
of weird to stop being stupidity where every single person there,
not every single person, but like loads of people that
(12:28):
are all have their phone out recording and they're all
recording each other basically trying to agitate each other into
doing something, And like if you didn't see the bigger picture,
or if you were given more edited content or curated
content from that recording, you'd be like, oh, you know,
this guy is like exposing the troupe. But it's like
literally just a bunch of fucking mentally unweld people fucking
(12:53):
arguing and shouting at each other that just don't have
anything better to do. You're just like, what the fuck?
Like I watch all of those, like I've seen all
of those, like the main sort of people on both sides,
and then interviews with people that are in the crowd
and stuff like that, and I'm like, all of those
people like I would not want to sit down and
(13:13):
have a cup of tea with any of those people
and chat about anything, like on both sides, Like they're
all fucking melted brain rot fucking wear those and I
don't know what the fuck they're doing where they can
go out and protest all day every day, Like I
don't know what that's about because I see I see
these guys and like multiple, multiple videos and multiple protests,
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and I'm like, where the fuck are they getting the
time to stand out side places and just protest about
this shit over and over.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And over again.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And there's nothing wrong, do you know what I mean.
You're wanting to you're wanting to protest, protestings, right and
all that, but a lot of this is just fucking pasturing,
do you know what I mean? It's just looking like
this lad's on the right want to do it to
look tough and whether they're you know this and that
we're not taking this and blah blah blah, and then
the people on the left or trying to look like
compassion and oh you know, we're all welcoming. But it's
all virtue signal, that's the right word for it, you
(14:05):
know what I mean. And you're just going like, oh,
my fucking god, Like I've never seen something so fucking
lame as all these motherfuckers pointing cameras at each other
and shouting just to get content, do you know what
I mean? It's such a miserable, grim existence that they
just go out try and instag get trouble and then
upload it and the algorithm pumps them because they know
(14:27):
that again brain rat, people on both sides.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Are going to.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Be like, oh, this is amazing, you know, I can't
believe this is happening, and you're just like.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
What the fuck I seen?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, I just I see so much of that stuff
when I'm like, it's just trying to divide and cause problems,
do you know what I mean? And it's not ever
going to help anything, you know. And as well, it's
very much like Trunt. It's like it's all like plagu
be in fucking bullshit where it's like, why aren't you
talking to the government about this, Like why aren't you
(15:04):
trying to talk to politicians? Why aren't you into politics?
Why aren't you trying to make a difference there? Like
you're not going to get anywhere standing around on a
straight corner with some fucking stupid flag, do you know
what I mean? Or you're not really going to get
anywhere with a video, to be honest, unless you have intelligence, morality, ethics,
(15:25):
a backbone to actually back up what your video and
articulate yourself and say this is why I'm video on
it and it's not it's not good, just video on
and going this is right or this is wrong? And
you need to actually have the ability to articulate yourself,
and most of these people don't. Another really bad offender
is this cart Castella.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I've talked about.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Him on the pod before and he's he's like a
tourist YouTuber shall be said to put up politely and
most of his content he was going to like impoverished
countries for the last couple of years and hanging out
and fuck around whatever whatever. There's been allegations that he
was kind of a sex tourist kind of guy. You know,
(16:06):
you can much just conttp them and take from that
what you will. But like now he has pivoted to
doing like sort of right wing far right dog whistle
kind of like neo Nazi dog whistle shit as well.
There's a lot of like weird stuff going on in
his videos in my opinion. But like he's gone around
Paris now video on the black lads that are selling
fucking Eiffel towers and shit, and he said, look at
(16:28):
how bad fucking Paris has gone.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Look at this shit. Man.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
They've always been there. They've been there, fucking they've been there.
Like there's nothing through with immigration from the recent stuff
going on around, they've been there forever, and black lads
in Europe. Who goes to any city in Europe and
there's African lads selling shit, that's normal shit, Like that's
not the problem. Them lads have always been doing it.
(16:50):
Petty crime in these big cities has always been a thing.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
But that just is what it is.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But like, I was watching one of the videos and
like they're chasing around these rama gypsy chicks, so we're
trying to like scam people into signing up with something,
and your man security guard is kicking the women and shit,
and I'm going like, like they're just going around trying
to instigate trouble for clicks, like do you.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
And the guardless may have been in the wrong, but
I'm like, why are you like trying to just trying
to get farm content? And then of course they get
bankrolled for fucking they get bankrolled then by racis shit
bag fuckers who are like keep making that content, keep dividing.
And it's the same on the other side too, by
the way, So it's just it works both ways. But again,
(17:30):
like it to me, it just seems like when I'm
watching all this type of shit, I'm like, right, so
everyone's fucking annoyed. All of us plubs are annoyed. But like,
is anyone actually going to the government and trying to
articulate and trying to sort this out, or is anyone
on the grassroots level actually trying to make a difference,
because like point a camera, yeah, highlights the issue, but
it's not actually doing anything to fix the problem. So
(17:52):
going around saying look at this, this is bad. Yeah,
I mean I can I can literally walk out my
front door and point out twenty fucking things that are
wrong with the place, but it's not going to do anything.
So yeah, I just all that our brain ratchet and
the funny thing is right, I'm watching it more or
less as thun usual. Everyone who listens to this podcast
(18:13):
knows that we're kind of somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We probably have.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We probably have some views that would be sort of
middle right and then some that would be middle left,
and it just really depends. Maybe we have some things
that will be hard left or hard right.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But like.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It's just you know, you're just looking at it, going
to all that, like, oh, yeah, that's the point I
was trying to make.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Like, after you watch.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
One of those things, you're just put straight down a
rabbit hole. And it's actually really scary and kind of insidious,
Like if you think that, who are the powers that
be that give you this algorithm? And why do they
give it to you? And do them monitor what contents
you get? Or is there any filters? Is there any preferences?
(19:03):
What goes into the selection process on this fifteen year
old boy who watches TikTok videos? Like what do they
deem appropriate to show him? And what's it based on?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Is it just as simple as you clicked curt CAAs video,
Now here's all other stuff like that? Or is there
more to it? I think there's actually more to it.
And then if there's more to it, who's providing that
and who's doing that and why? So that's what That's
how I look at it, I think, because I watch
it as a neutral, and when you watch it like
(19:36):
and next thing you know, you're getting fed all of
this crap. You actually have to consciously resist it. Then
at that point you're like fuck, Like if I keep
fucking consuming all this brain ratchet, like I fucked, you
know what I mean? And that's not to say there's
no problems and sees of course, there's just massive problems
in Dublin. We've talked about it in the past, but
(19:58):
you know, i' I think all his brain rap bullshit
is just not going to help anything. So there's a heckle.
There's a heckle for you. But that's how I feel
on the matter, do you know what I mean? And
I would generally try and speak my mind on these things.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You may agree or.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Disagree, but I think one of the most branded looking
fucking images is like a bunch of dudes standing around
with like go pros or video phone cameras, all video
on each other and like shouting at each.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Other and stuff. When I'm just like Jesus.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Sad, tragic, But anyway, seven Valentine says best band of
seen live and worst bands of seeing Live. I'll say
(20:54):
the worst band of seeing live is probably Lost Profits
because Ian Watkins is a nonce, so he's a port
of Metallica. One year did I see him and he
got bottled off stage and that was before people knew
he was announced. He just had nons energy, I guess,
and everyone was throwing bottles at him.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Like to be fair, it was a.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Slipknot and Metallica gig and they put lost profits and
supporting them too. It's just like bad bad shout that gig.
By the way, I was fucking amazing. I was like sixteen,
and I was big into Slip Not, big into Metallica,
and I had actually missed Metallica the year prior, and
I was fucking itching to see him, like you know,
(21:36):
when you're a teenager, like especially if you're big into music,
like you know the bands that you're into, our everything,
it's like your whole world. And Metallica were definitely one
of my faves, like you know, Mad in the Right
Lining and Justice for All they were my two favorites.
IDEs and I just come back the same Hi Live.
So when Slipnot were announced as well, because slip had
(21:56):
actually been banned from playing in Ireland, would you believe
the Catholic Church? I think it was. It was either
the Catholic Church or some kind of mother's group which
was probably also Catholic charge Back and they actually were
banned on their IOWA thor so. I think this was
their first show in Ireland and it was during.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I think it was.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, I think it would have been IOWA or maybe
the album after that.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
It was.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It was the album after that with I pushed my
favorite girls to that album. Great album as well, Savage
Gig that was that was actually really cool. But I
don't I don't know whether I said that it was
the best life. I've said it before, I'll say it again.
Hip hop artists after like good Shawman put on a
great show because it's a good time. Like I've sayen
(22:46):
Kendrick Kendrick Lamer like I think twice yeah, and both
times I thought like, wow, I'm like, fuck me, he's
had returning into such a shaman. And I think it's
really impressive when you rappers that turn into showman because
like Kendrick grew up in like fucking Compton, in fairly
like lower class conditions, and then when you see him, like,
(23:10):
you know, he didn't grow up in fucking dramas you know,
and he wasn't groomed into doing all this, but yet
he has dancers, he has props, set pieces, the whole
fucking shows going on, and you're like, he just learned
how to do that. So it's really impressive. So I
actually have to remind yourself when you're looking at it
(23:32):
and you're going, oh, he came from nothing, do you
know what I mean? Like he wasn't given paid for
music lessons when he was a kid, you know anything
like that. He just was natural talent, gotten to where
he was, and then he expanded on that natural talent.
So Kendrick was great till we're really good, till we're
very good. I think else was good over the years.
(23:56):
Seeing Magdalena Bear recently, I loved him. They were very
good live. Actually it was great. Just played that new
album true that that was very good. They were very tight.
Remember years ago when I was a teenager I went
to see I really like Franz Ferdinand super tight as
well live, brilliant, fucking gave me like permanent hair.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
And last.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Queens of stoneag is actually really good too. They have
like I've seen them twice one when I was sixteen,
So like fucking twenty one years ago?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Is that right? Yeah? Twenty one years ago? Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I'm trying to remember what fucking edge I am there
for a second. Is it just my brain has gone?
It couldn't possibly be twenty one years ago, but it was.
I think it was actually twenty two, Like, oh yeah,
I thought my brain was glitching out for a second there,
I'm like, no, you really are getting that old. And
(24:50):
the first time I seen him, Nick OLIVERI for anyone
who knows Quinds of Stoneage was still in the band
and it was Songs for the Death around that time,
so it was a fucking great job. But I only
seen him two years ago again, and Josh ham and
the band have just evolved into this like really fucking tight,
you know, well oiled machine that can just like that
(25:11):
really good, Like Josh Hamm has really coming to himself
as a shawman and the whole thing is just class.
So yeah, those those are probably it lost profits for
the nonce factor is definitely one he has been writes
in and she says, if you can have a convo
with anyone in history, who would it be and what
(25:34):
would you ask them? I'm probably going to sound like
really fucking sort of cliched her when I say this,
like and one of them would be or the main
one would be I think, just to fucking answer a
lot of questions, like take a lot of boxes. Was
(25:54):
the historical figure that is known as mister Jesus hege Christ?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You know, up until I was.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
A Sartain age, I didn't actually realize like, okay, so
let me try an articulate this properly. I thought that
like Jesus was like a biblical figure who you either
believed in the Bible or he didn't. And if you
didn't believe in the Bible, there was no Jesus like
he'd like that was a legend essentially. But as I
got older, I realized that Jesus was like he existed
(26:26):
historically whether or not you believe in Christianity or not.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
That's probably the best way an article at it, because
for a time I actually didn't realize do you know
what I mean? Because when I was like an AEDG teenager,
I was like, it's all mail up, do you know
what I mean?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
And and I.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Think I just kind of that sat in my head
for a whole couple of years until I actually went
back and found out information about him as a historical figure.
And so yeah, like I mean, you know a bit
of Jesus like figure out the crack just kind of
that even if you were just to sit down with
him and be like what's the right with your man?
How are you getting on? Like you'd kind of know
(27:05):
wouldn't you really if he was the real deal, Like
you know, you kind of feel like fairly quickly you'd
be like, I have a handle on this dude, Like
do you know what I mean? Because he's either going
to come across like fucking some kind of like Russell
Brand kind of figure, or he's going to be just
like cooler shit, you know what I mean? Because your
(27:28):
bullshit detector would be able to be set off. And
I find it really fascinating. Like I'm not people that
listen to this podcast know very well that we're not
experts in religion by any means, but like, as far
as I'm aware, like most of the New Testament and
all that stuff, like was recorded well after Jesus died,
you know, so you would have to imagine a lot
(27:50):
of the accuracy of those texts is based on.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
A lot of.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Faith again and it being accurate, and you know what
I mean, that what they said was accurate, and also
that these apostles were legit and they weren't trying to
further their own agenda or they weren't trying to do this,
They're trying to do that. That would actually be one
of the big issues that I have with Christianity. I
think it's like tough to sort of get your head around.
(28:21):
So I did actually ask chapt about Jesus as a
historical figure, and.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, they were just saying like that. You know.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
The Gospels was written between seventy and one hundred SEA,
which were several decades after his death. There was Paul there.
These are the earliest Christian documents. Paul never met Jesus personally,
but knew his followers and refers to his crucifixion teachings
and resurrection belief. Like that's a bit mad to me. Like,
(28:54):
so the main interesting moments the non Christian sources. I
always thought that's what I was like, Oh, yeah, that's Jesus.
Was Tacitus, he was a Roman historian. He said Jesus
got executed under conscious pilot Jordan, how Barius is Reignosephus.
He mentions Jesus in the execution and the founder of
a movement. Yeah, and plenty. Pliny the Younger references Christian
(29:19):
worship and Jesus divine.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So I suppose you'd have to.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Wonder, like back then, you know, was he really going
around doing magic like tricks and all? You know what
I mean, touching Lebra's feet and they were fucking growing
back and all that magic whatever he was doing. And
apparently it wasn't an uncommon thing back then for people
to claim that they were a prophet or that they
(29:43):
were trying to be charismatic like leaders in a sense.
And it makes sense when you think back to that time.
You're like, if you can influence people with word, I
suppose it's the same nowadays. You know, he'll get a following.
If you can say cool shit, he'll get follow on.
So like, was Jesus doing the you know, the early
(30:04):
version of a podcast or something, you know, I was
trying to get followers? It's like tweeting, Like was it
was just when you said the coolest ship? Back then,
they were like, yeah, he's class man. He's talking about
like c's being parodied and fucking oh magic man, do
you know what I mean? He said he got about
of the cave there a couple of days ago, you know,
(30:24):
all this kind of stuff you'd wonder like, and yeah,
it's just very strange. I find I find all of
that so strange. And you know why I find it
also strange because you need faith. He need your faith
to believe in it, and for me personally, because of
(30:45):
the gaps in the text, the fact that there was
the different apostles and there was gaps between when they
were writing stuff. I just find the tool issue actually
the hang me hat on. I think, do you know
what I mean? I can't I find it like I
should find that hard. I think I need something more,
you know, And I don't know what that is, but
(31:06):
I think, yeah, sitting there with that fella'd be the
one I wouldn't I really like, because I mean a
lot of wars were a lot of wars were started
in the fella's name, do you know what I mean?
A lot of trouble, a lot of bad and a
lot of good was done in an m of Jesus Christ.
You know, you have wars, But then for everybody, you
have the likes of Brother Richard and the monks, our
(31:28):
characters like that who do lots of good work, do
you know what I mean, in the name of religion,
and that's what carries them to do the good work.
So it's very very intriguing to me. And that could
be as well, partly because I grew up in heavily
Catholic Ireland and you're kind of immersed and steeped in
(31:48):
it no matter what way you look at it. And yeah,
I find that interesting. So I love to know more,
do you know what I mean? And I don't think
we ever will. But isn't it madly?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Isn't it mad to think about? And so I think
that wraps up the questions.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I did have.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
You know, Andrew Karney, one hour a week for a year,
you get the inhabit the body of an animal. The
animal can't die during that year, but you can feel
all its emotions and senses, but within your human mind
at the same time, good question, what animal are you choosing?
So I have its feelings and senses too. So I
(32:35):
don't want to be something too shite because I don't
want to get eaten. Immediately, my mind says, you don't
want to be anything underground unless you're like a fucking elephant.
An elephant to probably be good, or rhino, you know,
like they're big animals, but then you might get poached,
(32:57):
you know what I mean? Imagine that like fucking chase
a lot of black lads in a fucking jeep fire
and tranquilisers and not that you wake up in your
tusks are cut off or something like that, or worse yet,
your trunk. I've seen that as well. It's just disgusting.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Ship.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
So no I would know that. I would an eagle
flying flying high, an eagle to be class. No one's
after an eagle, you know. And if I wanted to
stay out with away of people, they're not going to
catch me. Like, you know, I could just hang out somewhere.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
People.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
If you talk about black lads being pouching, you get
posed by white lads. If you're an eagle, you work
around with over hair in Ireland. If you're a bar
to prey, if you're going to know anyone's pigeons, anyone's
racing pigeons, it's a big thing over here.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You're getting chopped. Basically.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Remember when I was a kid, there was a kestrel,
I think it was a kestrel, and it was nesting
in the church. Was actually up at the top of
the church and the spire, and while it was there,
Like there's a couple of pigeon clubs around town where
people raise pigeons and stuff like that, And of course
the kestrel killed a couple of pigeons, like, but all
the cleats fucking yocles were down trying to shoot the
(34:15):
pigeon or other side of the kestral in the church.
And then I was with my dad as a kid,
Like my dad was big into his birds of prey.
I think he read kes and he thought he was
your man out of Kez. So he was always like
trying to advocate and protecting it, you know, because they
are like endangered in Ireland too, like the very rare
(34:37):
abord of prey. And yeah, not the pigeon men weren't happy.
I don't know if they managed to kill it in
the end, but the pigeon men were not happy with
the crack and they were all like it was literally
like one of those things were all the town yocles
were gathered around with pick axes almost sorry, pitchforks, and yeah,
(34:58):
a lot of them things where you're like, what, so,
probably a castro or an eagle maybe something in the
water too, but I feel like in the water you're
just getting sucked over all the time, Like you know,
you're swallowing fucking plastic, fucking bins and shit, like if
you're a whale, you know, it's fairly dark like, so
(35:20):
I think an eagle is probably the best bet. Like,
they're the descendants of dinosaurs. They're tough motherfuckers. You know,
they've got a good l angevity. The sky is relatively
unmolested by human activity, although we do have a lot
of pollution up there. I think they're able to manage that.
So I go with an eagle because, yeah, a good life,
(35:40):
I said, being an eagle, just fly around where you want,
kill whatever you want, good times. And I will be
also cool because you have the night vision sort of
buzz and yeah, so we're talking about Jesus. I suppose
that kind of ties in well with what's been going
on with me lately. No, I haven't, haven't found christ.
(36:01):
I buried, my sad buried. My grandfather passed away last Thursday,
so it would have been the day last many folds
went out, actually, and I've been dealing with that since then.
We had his cremation ceremony and all that yesterday actually
at the time of recording her, and that was the
(36:24):
same grandad. Actually, we had had the Scaffold Pike trip
planned and he had had a turn and we had
to cancel it. So he passed away peacefully last Thursday.
It was a long road for him, tough. So maybe
I kind of said to myself today, I said, maybe
I'll sit down and I'll share a bit about my
granddad with you, because I think he was.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
He was a good character. He was a good egg,
as to say, And yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
It was one of those things, you know. He was
one of these people that was like a gore, never
stopped doing stuff. He probably had like old school ADHD
where now thatays people have ADHD and they just end
up like wanking too much or fucking you know, I
can't focus on doing fucking Excel spreadsheets or something or
playing too much fucking Xbox. He had like EDDHD where
(37:14):
it's like I need to get up and get out
and graft.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I needed to work, I.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Need to like shovel, I need to dig, I need
to plant, I need to do something. I need to
be involved somehow. But that was him. He only had
really one gear. He liked moving. He was always a
busy man. And this is the first which I believe,
at the ripe old edge of thirty seven, I have
(37:39):
I had all of my grandparents until he passed. I
still have three of them, and.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
So it was. It was hard.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
It was very difficult, actually still going through kind of
all the emotions. And it's the first time I've really
had someone very close to me die. My granddad I
would have considered to be basically a fadder figure. So
it was tricky. It was tough, tough going, and I
was also the one in charge of all of the
funeral stuff and still am and doing all that kind
(38:10):
of stuff. So big boy time. I think we all
have it at some point. I consider myself quite fortunate
that I had them this long and and that I'm
this old dealing with all this for the first time
as well. Like I do, I always kind of said
that they all the grandparents been still alive kind of
(38:30):
kept me and my cousin's young, you know, because you
have all of them to keep me in check, and
you still feel young because none of them have passed,
so you still have those same relationships with your grandparents
that you've had your whole life.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
So yeah, it was, it was tough. It was hard.
We were very close.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I was up there every day with him, and I
went up, to be honest, my initial so it was
his care and really when I first went up there.
Like my logic was, I was like, I'm gonna pay
to learn a little bit of My background was like
my parents separated when I was a teenager, and I
(39:10):
never really learned a lot of this stuff that you
would get from like a dah, Like I didn't have
like anyone like that to show me even kind of
the basic like that kind of stuff, you know. And
so he he would have like so when so when
he asked would I go up, I was like, yeah,
no fucking problem, Like I'll go up. And I just
(39:31):
like I looked at it like yeah, I'm gonna and
I'm gonna learn so much.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
And I did. I did.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I really did with with with things like gardening, putting
your hand to stuff, even little things like just like
I remember I was like doing paving slabs out in
his back and he was showing me how to mix
the cement and ratios and what way the level it
off and all of those things that like you know,
(39:57):
you don't know, and he was showing me all the stuff.
And but he, like I said, he only had one
gear and that was go. I remember when I first
went up there to do the cares with him, like
he was out in the fucking garden with he was
building a gold and he was having he had angina
because he had he had his ticker wasn't the best,
(40:21):
but the fucker was having angina at acts as he
was putting it together, and he had to spray that
the spray under your tongue to stop the angina, and
so he'd spray and then you keep going, and it
was just ridiculous. And I knew then. I was like,
I'm gonna have my heart broken with this fella now
for as long as he's around, because I know that
this fella is just going to push and push and
(40:43):
push all the time, and that he did. But he
was a tough cookie, tough mbre ninety years old, quat yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Cut.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
He had been through a lot. One of my biggest
regrets was that I never actually sat down and recorded him.
I had the equipment here, obviously, I had to set
up for me and Aim, and I always wanted to
sit down with him and record maybe like ten episodes
of just his life and upload as a separate podcast altogether.
Because again, he was born in nineteen thirty five, he
lived through World War Two. He was he remembers the
(41:25):
war ending he remembers the Hitler is dead on the radio.
He remembers, and a lot of our UK listeners that
maybe their grandparents or parents would tell them the same.
He remembers all of the people knocking on each other's
doors that the war's over, the doors over, and they'd
bring out all the tables onto the street and they'd
have like a street party. Everyone would bring out food
(41:45):
and stuff like that. And so he was telling me
all of this stuff all the time, and I loved it.
I was getting all this information from him, and I
was always I always told to myself and I said, Jesus,
you know what, like people that love to hear this
is it's interesting stuff. And he had, like, you know,
a fairly well put together back story, like the history
(42:06):
of the family history, like we know a lot of it.
So I was thinking it would have been good. So
that was a regret of mine. But a lot of
it is in my head as well, so like I
understand it.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
And I got it. But we had a lot of
good times. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
He was a funny dude and a great sense of
humor as well, a wicked sense of humor, Like you
could joke with him about anything really, So it was, Yeah,
it was tough to say.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Go.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Last day I've seen him. He was kind of sitting
because in the last two months he had gone into
a care home because of his needs were just too advanced.
But he was sitting in a wheelchair like, and he
was out in the day room and the sun was
shining on him and he was happy, you know what
I mean. He was in good form. I was showing
the pictures of the garden and he was like, oh,
that's great, that's you know, talking about plants and stuff.
(42:53):
And it was cool to have that with him that
last time to a lot of meaning because he passed
away very quickly and suddenly didn't really have a heads
up to be with them. So I was nice and
the send off. Then it's weird like Ireland versus England
with this, like our English listeners will be surprised to
hear that he's already gone, Like he's already Like in Ireland,
(43:15):
you're if you die on the Thursday or the Friday,
you're buried on the Monday. In England, like, I think
the fucking they're left that long. I think the body
gets up and walks himself into the grave. Good, So
I'm quite ripe. Should I let myself into the grave
because like I've heard the people in the UK like
have UK family and like weeks went to be put
(43:37):
in the ground, Like what are you went for? Get
him in there? So it's the difference between the two.
We don't look around, and I actually prefer that because
it gives you closure and you can start to heal,
you know. I think if someone's in a limbo for
a month or a couple of weeks, you're going Jesus,
like you know, like I'm not getting the closure, you know.
(44:00):
So yeah, that to me, it was always something I
was like, I don't know how the Brits do it.
I remember there was someone I think it was a
family member, Like I think there were six weeks when
to get buried. And I was like, are they literally
went for some kind of like last of us my
celium fungus to grow on the body so that they
gets yourself up and puts itself and takes a long
grave and gets in or something.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
What the fuck? So yeah, so it was all said
and done Monday.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
It is choosday today as I sit down and record
and stuff tough going, like all that stuff I had
never really experienced saw all of the funeral like I
was the main one, and that because I don't know
whether there's much of a difference with the Catholic and
the Protestant stuff. But you know, I was kind of waiting.
Oh that was the big difference, I tell you. The
(44:48):
big difference actually is that the body was whacked out.
And I know the English do not like it. I
think because it's funny. It was just kind of happened
by chance, like, but my dad is English like, and
he would have a few British friends and all of
them are saying to him like what times the coffin clothing?
Speaker 1 (45:07):
What time?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Because I'll call them when the coffin's clothes. I don
want to be around like an open casket. And I
was I only put it together. I was like, oh wait,
they're all British and they're asking that. I'm like, right,
so almost be like a brit tain maybe, like don't
get me wrong, you know it's not exactly the right
crack saying a body, but for whatever reason, we do
it over here, you know, we have the body waked out.
(45:30):
I'm torn on that whether it's a good reading. It's
kind of like it feels like it's a fucking stress
test or something. It's like, get in there and say it,
you know, like because you're just kind of like this
or anything like beneficial open, like what's the fucking point.
(45:52):
But at the same time, I don't know. Some people
like to say goodbye and they but like personally, I
for seeing a body waked out to warn him like
that looks like them and they'll look great. Wow, let
me take a picture, do you know what I mean? Like,
I've never seen that, so you do wonder why that's
(46:13):
the thing? Let me ask, Actually, let's let's ask fucking
chat GBT. We're sitting here one of the one of
your listeners you love your love listeners. I don't have
the name to hand.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
We're saying this.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
All episodes are great, but it's like listening to a
long voice not where you can't respond. So sometimes you
want to respond but you can't. So if I do
ask something like I am now, I'm going to put
it to chat GBT so we actually get an answer
rather than you feeling the need to go, oh, I
can answer that.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Why do.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
People wake out bodies? But there's all sorts of weird
traditions around that, right, chat GBT is like, what do
you mean by waking out bodies at funerals? So I'll
say what I said there. Now, this is the other
thing I'm seeing with chatch GBT, and I'm literally I'm
doing it now. But like I'm seeing a lot of
(47:07):
content creators, a lot of video makers on YouTube like
literally ask CHATCHBT in real time and they're using that
as gospel. A bit worrying.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
This is interesting. Actually, this is fucking interesting. This might
be why the bridge leave it with the coffin.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
Closed, you know.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
So what I say is number one is the confirmation
of death. So before modern medicine, it wasn't always clear
if someone had truly passed away, so keeping visual over
the body for a day or more actually allowed time
to be sure. So maybe the bridge serve is squamished
and you guys are putting the coffin lid on and
you're just leaving them for like two months stop for
the best. It's also apparently for protection of the body,
(47:51):
so in other times people for test of valuables or
even the body itself, so they stayed with the body
when it was waked out. Oh okay, so none of
these are really answering, like, but why does the body
have to be shown? They're saying for respect and honor,
(48:13):
watching over the disease, the scenes about the show reverence,
and then sure they aren't left alone prayers for the soul.
In Christian tradition, especially Catholic, the weakelouse family and friends
to prayer for the person's safe passage into the afterlife.
Support for the family apparently is gathering around the body,
helps the breathed, storytelling and remembrance. And I suppose as well,
(48:35):
you know, you're actually seeing the body so you can
refer to him as a parson. So this is me
kind of filling my like sort of morbid curiosity myself here.
But yeah, you're referencing him, and I think that's nice,
you know. I think having him there as it's like
(48:57):
that last.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Goodbye, you know.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
And yeah, all in all my first experience.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
With all of that sort of stuff, and so it
was bizarre. It was very bizarre and kind of surreal. Both.
I'm glad I went off the wet dige, you know
what I mean. It was good.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
And he was like, like, that's why I'm talking about
him here to you guys.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Is just he was a great man. You know. I
was lucky to have him, very very lucky. He was.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
The way I compare him and the way I was
describing him yesterday, the people was a lot of time
in life you'd feel like you're wobbling on a bike,
you're learning the cycle and you're kind of wobbling and
you're go. But he was like stabilizers, do you know
what I mean? He was always there that if you
had a wobble, he could say, right, I'll help you out,
(49:47):
whether it be sometimes it was financially, sometimes it was
just giving you the backend that you needed to like.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Do anything.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Really he would always try and put his hand to
always trying to help you. So he was Yeah, he
was very good. He was a good man and he
always tried his best. And Frank was his name. But yeah,
and many an interesting story and I'm sure I'll reference
them many more times over the podcast. But one of
the things that I because I was experiencing all this
(50:15):
for the first time, one of the things that really
surprised me. When that surprised me, I suppose, but I
just never experienced it before. It was like, how many
people come forward to like express condolences, to say stuff
on the obituary, to add into it all that kind
of stuff. There's a very irish phenomenon. I don't think this.
(50:37):
I don't know whether this is the thing anywhere else.
But there's a website in Ireland called rip dot Ie,
Rest in Peace do Ie, and it's the death notices
and so you post up your deceased obituary. People comment
on it, expressing their family members or whatever. So it's nice. Actually,
(50:59):
so I'll have and everyone kind of reach out and
express condolences, and you're having a shared experience.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
People are trying to get together to help, to laugh,
to do all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Like we had a good laugh yesterday. It was all
good stories, not many tears. Everyone kind of held it
together and we had a good time, do you know
what I mean? The good send off Roim because Grandad
loved the good time, he loved the parody, he loved
to send laugh. He was a good man. So I
was just wanting to leave that there, I think, and
give him a bit of a send off and talk
(51:32):
a little bit about him. But he was always there
for us and we couldn't have like he was always
present through all of our ears, and we were so
lucky that he got to the edge of ninety to
where we could, you know, really get the full squeeze
out of the man. Do you know what I mean?
He was a very good guy. And there are a
(51:55):
couple more questions. But what I'm going to do is
I'm going to leave that there and I'm going to
come back because we have again another week or two
without aiming, so like we're kind of up in the
air on how the content will text ship. Maybe next
week I might do something a bit more in line
with the subject matter of the podcast. But I'm also
(52:16):
really enjoying the questions, do you know what I mean?
It's good fun. So if anyone listening, like, if you
have a question about anything, you can ask do you
know what I mean? You can stare the way you
want it to stare. Just DM me on Instagram or
write me an email on Masterfuls Podcast at gmail dot com.
I have a lot use have been blinders after a
(52:37):
car stall is out and you sent in a good
few writings, like longer stories, so those will be handled
when am And gets back as well. But in the meantime,
when we're doing rambling rob here, you can send in
whatever you're like, we can sort of chat about that
for the duration of a podcast. You can even pick
(52:59):
like if you would like to just throw a topic
my way, or like something I would like a discussion
about for an episode. That'd be cool too, you know,
because I enjoy I enjoyed just sitting down and chatting
so and as well on the day it's in. It
han't lost ther grandfather. It's actually be guitartic to just
(53:20):
sit down and actually talk about that. So I'm one
of those where those that is why I have a podcast.
I like talking to myself rather than to other people.
I tried to fucking in the chapel arrest. I tried
to get up at the end. I kind of got
caught on the spot. My cousin said a couple of words,
and she was brilliant.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
And then I.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
Realized, because I had sorted out the whole funeral, I
realized I should probably get up and tank people and
say a couple of words like I had nothing prepared,
and I don't know if any of you have done
it before, but I got up and like as soon
as I got up, I was like, oh, this is
going to be difficult, so I kept this short and
sweet them.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'll leave it there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Like I said, if you have got anything he's liked
writing about, feel free to They have got the address you.
I'm also on Discord. They can find me on Instagram.
And yeah, I hope you've enjoyed this little episode. Will
keep you a kind of tipping along until the Red
Menace is back. He's having a great time by the way,
(54:24):
seeing pictures, I'm jealous. He was in a fucking desert
or something yesterday. This fellow, it's going like make cocknall
then the stars video, Like literally two people are going
to know what that is. But anyway, I've been robbed.
This has been monsterfuls. Thanks for listening over and out.
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wanted to quit against my enemies. Yeah, so you wanted
to say you and then a little little.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Raision, but I forget your from the wielding. Hello everyone,
what is up? I am Rob? This is Monster Fholls Okay,
(00:35):
Mini Fuzz sitting on me on again. Emine is still abroad.
I don't know where he is now at the time
of the release of this episode. He could actually be
in Portugal. He's like fucking basketball the Gamma or Ferdinand
Magellan bouncing between Portugal and South Africa. South America not
South Africa.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Where was that Magellan? Maybe maybe it was who knows,
But yeah, I hope you're having a good day wherever
you may be. I'm having an okay day. It's a
middling day. Had a big day yesterday, which we'll talk
about towards the end of this episode. But yeah, before
we get into it, i'd like to remind everyone we
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Links are in the description here and as well, I
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I'm going to do a pledge, a commitment if you
will that I am going to do one to two
of these solo ambling rob shall we say episodes for
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patrons every month, so we will up the episode, the
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he'll be getting. And that's just an incentive for you
guys to head on over and check out Patreon. I
enjoy doing these actually on my own. It's nice. It's
kind of you just sit there tame. It's a bit
of fun, something different. So I think in that format
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it would work well over on Patreon, you know. And
today we have questions from you guys, and I'll also
chat about a couple of things that I have gone
on myself, and yeah, I think that will be today's episode. Yeah, yeah,
So to get straight into it, I suppose we'll just
answer Metal Ghost here, he asked, do we have any
(02:46):
Halloween pod plans? Yeah, I'd imagine it'll be much the
same as usual. We'll have our yearly Tim and Alison episode.
I'll try and push for a lot more guests, maybe
in the lead up, so hopefully we can make that happen.
So it's tricky. I've talked about it before, trying to
(03:06):
sort out guests when it's just me and Aim, and
it can be it can be tough. But I'll try
and get some guests, some old faces and maybe some new.
We'll see if we can do that. That'll go crack.
So yeah, usual kind of stuff I think, just we'll
try and get We might try and do the seven
Days a simon. I think em and will come back
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energized and ready to rock like so if he is,
you know, we'll slop back into it and until by
the way, actually ask the other thing. Until Emen is
actually fully back, I'll be doing the solo. I might
have a guest on or two as well. I'll just
see how things go. And as well, I have good
feedback about these, so that's why we're doing them. So
(03:48):
we'll try and improve the solo pods. And so I'm
going to take the Instagram and answer your questions as
the come in, and I will answer this one first.
This is from Shane Wolf, and Shane Wolf says, what
is your favorite hero or creature from Irish myth and legend?
(04:14):
You know, I really like it's kind of a basic
bitch one, but I do like Coo Colin and his story.
I'm not a huge expert on Irish mythology or folklore
or anything really, to be honest with you, Banchie is
obviously fantastic. I mean, yeah, we did an episode on
Banchee's They're great and I think, yeah the door Koop
(04:38):
was a great one too, but that was just the
for newer listeners. That's the old utter giant utter water
dog type thing that basically the legend had it that
you know, it was attacking people. I think I might
have killed the people. It's a long time since we
did that episode. But what made it really interesting is
it was a legend, but there was also depiction of
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it in headstone, a carving in stone, which made it
give a bit more credence to it, made it a
bit more unusual, just give an extra layer to the story.
I suppose that was one of those ones. I actually
I did the notes for Door Coup and that was
one of the first episodes that when I started doing
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the notes, I was like, Oh, there's a lot more
to these stories than we think, you know, because our
process was like trying to find out information and stories
and just like articles, and yeah, I was finding them
and I was like, Okay, writers, there's more to this
than I thought. So probably some of them.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I like them.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
There the Sorrows, that's the the Sisters, isn't it, or
something like that. I couldn't tell you. I'm offhand like,
but I just remember loving them, you know that kind
of way. I'm trying to think of any of the others.
I think that's about it. But cool Colon has to
be the favorite share I mean, he's the man, right,
(06:02):
but the cool calling. Deck Cliff asks Deck Cliff Flem
what genre of horror films are your favor and why,
just like that horror was a genre. If I'm to
get more specific, I like, I like all horror, do
you know what I mean? I'm probably leased into just
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straight ghost movies. They'd be like, I'm like whatever, I'm
more into like and I'm not so much into like fantasy,
horror or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I like.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Well, and I'm thinking of my favorite horror films and
you can tell you what kind of genre if it
fit into. Like I love Insidious. I class Alien as
a horror film. I love Halloween, I love Try. I
think about other spooky ones I like. I like The Strangers.
I thought that was a really good spooky film. I'm
trying to think of some recently that I thought were good. Alien,
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the New Aliens more of an action kind of film. Really,
let's be honest. Yeah, I think, oh yeah, must his
named the dude fucking Midsommer and what's the heretic hereditary?
I don't know what the that was called. That guy
was good. I like this flicks. I preferred Midsummer Now
(07:19):
over the other one. I would always tell that I
had seen. So yeah, I like a bit of everything,
to be honest, if it's done well, do you know
what I mean? I really like that Hill's abies and
shit like that. I like fucking I like the ones
that is just like shit, HiT's the fucking fan. It's
going to get grim and it's fucking scary, like that
(07:41):
scene and Hill's Abyes, where the fucking creepy word or
wordy fuckers get into that sort of caravan camper van
thing and like that is just like one of the
bleakest Like I'm just I'm just remembering it now. I
haven't seen that film, but like, thing there don't that
like set fire to the da on like a crucifix
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and then they're trying to bum the daughter while the
dollar's looking at the body on fire or something absolutely
fucking twisted, Like you're like, what the fuck? And that
wasn't like violence for violent Seke. I thought that film
actually executed it quite well, because sometimes you'll come across
these films where it's like just gore porn ers just
(08:27):
trying to fucking do push the envelope as much as
I can. That film, I felt it executed are quite good.
But yeah, that was a creepy fucking film that was
really fucking creepy. That was cool though it's a good film.
I enjoyed that one. I enjoyed zombie films man were
always for me, Like I love zombie films growing up,
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you know, the Dawn of the Dead remake, the ro Mayra.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Of flicks I like. But I feel like I was
probably a bit.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I was a bit too young for the Romera stuff,
so even by the time it came, or sorry, by
the time I could watch it, it was a bit
like you know, if you go from like Donna the
Dead remake, where you know, the special effects is quite
high quality and all that, and then you go watch
the original Dona the Dead. It's still good, still great,
but like you know, you do have to get over
(09:17):
a hurdle of like you had lads have blue face
paint on and it's very kind of basic. You have
to kind of appreciate it for what it was back then,
do you know that kind of way. It's like how
people say, you know, when you're watching like old boxers
or old football games or anything like that, it's like
they wouldn't stack up against modern players. It's that kind
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of thing. You're watching it with a lens of appreciation,
but you still do all that.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Things have come.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Along a long way, but it depends. It depends, you know,
Like for example, I'd probably take the old Romero films
over a lot of the more recent zombie stuff. So
make it that you will. Like I haven't watched twenty
eight years later or whatever it's called. I have no
interest in watching that really at all. To be honest,
(10:08):
I even thought twenty eight weeks later, I was like, really,
and I think it's just that he sticks to the
name as well. It's like, yeah, I'm just like, we're
not just coming put a different name instead of I'm
just twenty eighth shit. I'm sure it'll be tidy in
well with the plot and the adiadiada, but like for me,
I'm just like whatever, I'm not really into it. In
(10:29):
the traffic asks what happens if you say Skeleton Scars
Guard street times in the mirror midnight? Well, fucking Scleton
scars Gar shows up, brother shows you what time it is,
you know, and to watch out for that Skeleton Scars
Guard fella. It's actually quite a mouthful out loud. She asks,
I'm in need of a good heckle please and thanks. Well,
I'm not going to heckle you share, but I will heckle.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I tell you it was.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Bugging me lately, So I'll just talk about what's bugging
me that I see quite a bit of lately on YouTube,
and I've thought talked a little bit about it in
the past, but I think it's a source of where
people are getting radicalized a lot, and it's from these
left and right agitators on both sides, and they're paleing
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to like left and right extreme brain rot motherfuckers.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And what it.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Is is it's these vlaggers who go around the city
and point out issues and blame it on race or X,
Y and Z. And it's kind of ridiculous when you
think about it, like because I've been watching them and
it's like absurd. I've mentioned in the past that I
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watched Billy Moore and I've just kind of he's like
a Liverpool like ex criminal kind of dude. He has
an interesting story and he was just making content going
around shown like urban rot. You know, he was like, heir,
look of fucking Liverpool is a fucking shit all now
check out the skip in the middle of the street,
but fucking shitty and happies everywhere and stuff like that.
But now he's even getting sucked into like let me
(12:06):
go into the into Manchester and video like Antifa protests
and stuff like that, and like when I watch this footage,
I'm just like, fuck made. This is like some kind
of weird to stop being stupidity where every single person there,
not every single person, but like loads of people that
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are all have their phone out recording and they're all
recording each other basically trying to agitate each other into
doing something, And like if you didn't see the bigger picture,
or if you were given more edited content or curated
content from that recording, you'd be like, oh, you know,
this guy is like exposing the troupe. But it's like
literally just a bunch of fucking mentally unweld people fucking
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arguing and shouting at each other that just don't have
anything better to do. You're just like, what the fuck?
Like I watch all of those, like I've seen all
of those, like the main sort of people on both sides,
and then interviews with people that are in the crowd
and stuff like that, and I'm like, all of those
people like I would not want to sit down and
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have a cup of tea with any of those people
and chat about anything, like on both sides, Like they're
all fucking melted brain rot fucking wear those and I
don't know what the fuck they're doing where they can
go out and protest all day every day, Like I
don't know what that's about because I see I see
these guys and like multiple, multiple videos and multiple protests,
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and I'm like, where the fuck are they getting the
time to stand out side places and just protest about
this shit over and over.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And over again.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And there's nothing wrong, do you know what I mean.
You're wanting to you're wanting to protest, protestings, right and
all that, but a lot of this is just fucking pasturing,
do you know what I mean? It's just looking like
this lad's on the right want to do it to
look tough and whether they're you know this and that
we're not taking this and blah blah blah, and then
the people on the left or trying to look like
compassion and oh you know, we're all welcoming. But it's
all virtue signal, that's the right word for it, you
(14:05):
know what I mean. And you're just going like, oh,
my fucking god, Like I've never seen something so fucking
lame as all these motherfuckers pointing cameras at each other
and shouting just to get content, do you know what
I mean? It's such a miserable, grim existence that they
just go out try and instag get trouble and then
upload it and the algorithm pumps them because they know
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that again brain rat, people on both sides.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Are going to.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Be like, oh, this is amazing, you know, I can't
believe this is happening, and you're just like.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
What the fuck I seen?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, I just I see so much of that stuff
when I'm like, it's just trying to divide and cause problems,
do you know what I mean? And it's not ever
going to help anything, you know. And as well, it's
very much like Trunt. It's like it's all like plagu
be in fucking bullshit where it's like, why aren't you
talking to the government about this, Like why aren't you
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trying to talk to politicians? Why aren't you into politics?
Why aren't you trying to make a difference there? Like
you're not going to get anywhere standing around on a
straight corner with some fucking stupid flag, do you know
what I mean? Or you're not really going to get
anywhere with a video, to be honest, unless you have intelligence, morality, ethics,
(15:25):
a backbone to actually back up what your video and
articulate yourself and say this is why I'm video on
it and it's not it's not good, just video on
and going this is right or this is wrong? And
you need to actually have the ability to articulate yourself,
and most of these people don't. Another really bad offender
is this cart Castella.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I've talked about.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Him on the pod before and he's he's like a
tourist YouTuber shall be said to put up politely and
most of his content he was going to like impoverished
countries for the last couple of years and hanging out
and fuck around whatever whatever. There's been allegations that he
was kind of a sex tourist kind of guy. You know,
(16:06):
you can much just conttp them and take from that
what you will. But like now he has pivoted to
doing like sort of right wing far right dog whistle
kind of like neo Nazi dog whistle shit as well.
There's a lot of like weird stuff going on in
his videos in my opinion. But like he's gone around
Paris now video on the black lads that are selling
fucking Eiffel towers and shit, and he said, look at
(16:28):
how bad fucking Paris has gone.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Look at this shit. Man.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
They've always been there. They've been there, fucking they've been there.
Like there's nothing through with immigration from the recent stuff
going on around, they've been there forever, and black lads
in Europe. Who goes to any city in Europe and
there's African lads selling shit, that's normal shit, Like that's
not the problem. Them lads have always been doing it.
(16:50):
Petty crime in these big cities has always been a thing.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
But that just is what it is.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But like, I was watching one of the videos and
like they're chasing around these rama gypsy chicks, so we're
trying to like scam people into signing up with something,
and your man security guard is kicking the women and shit,
and I'm going like, like they're just going around trying
to instigate trouble for clicks, like do you.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
And the guardless may have been in the wrong, but
I'm like, why are you like trying to just trying
to get farm content? And then of course they get
bankrolled for fucking they get bankrolled then by racis shit
bag fuckers who are like keep making that content, keep dividing.
And it's the same on the other side too, by
the way, So it's just it works both ways. But again,
(17:30):
like it to me, it just seems like when I'm
watching all this type of shit, I'm like, right, so
everyone's fucking annoyed. All of us plubs are annoyed. But like,
is anyone actually going to the government and trying to
articulate and trying to sort this out, or is anyone
on the grassroots level actually trying to make a difference,
because like point a camera, yeah, highlights the issue, but
it's not actually doing anything to fix the problem. So
(17:52):
going around saying look at this, this is bad. Yeah,
I mean I can I can literally walk out my
front door and point out twenty fucking things that are
wrong with the place, but it's not going to do anything.
So yeah, I just all that our brain ratchet and
the funny thing is right, I'm watching it more or
less as thun usual. Everyone who listens to this podcast
(18:13):
knows that we're kind of somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We probably have.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We probably have some views that would be sort of
middle right and then some that would be middle left,
and it just really depends. Maybe we have some things
that will be hard left or hard right.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But like.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It's just you know, you're just looking at it, going
to all that, like, oh, yeah, that's the point I
was trying to make.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Like, after you watch.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
One of those things, you're just put straight down a
rabbit hole. And it's actually really scary and kind of insidious,
Like if you think that, who are the powers that
be that give you this algorithm? And why do they
give it to you? And do them monitor what contents
you get? Or is there any filters? Is there any preferences?
(19:03):
What goes into the selection process on this fifteen year
old boy who watches TikTok videos? Like what do they
deem appropriate to show him? And what's it based on?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You know?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Is it just as simple as you clicked curt CAAs video,
Now here's all other stuff like that? Or is there
more to it? I think there's actually more to it.
And then if there's more to it, who's providing that
and who's doing that and why? So that's what That's
how I look at it, I think, because I watch
it as a neutral, and when you watch it like
(19:36):
and next thing you know, you're getting fed all of
this crap. You actually have to consciously resist it. Then
at that point you're like fuck, Like if I keep
fucking consuming all this brain ratchet, like I fucked, you
know what I mean? And that's not to say there's
no problems and sees of course, there's just massive problems
in Dublin. We've talked about it in the past, but
(19:58):
you know, i' I think all his brain rap bullshit
is just not going to help anything. So there's a heckle.
There's a heckle for you. But that's how I feel
on the matter, do you know what I mean? And
I would generally try and speak my mind on these things.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You may agree or.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Disagree, but I think one of the most branded looking
fucking images is like a bunch of dudes standing around
with like go pros or video phone cameras, all video
on each other and like shouting at each.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Other and stuff. When I'm just like Jesus.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Sad, tragic, But anyway, seven Valentine says best band of
seen live and worst bands of seeing Live. I'll say
(20:54):
the worst band of seeing live is probably Lost Profits
because Ian Watkins is a nonce, so he's a port
of Metallica. One year did I see him and he
got bottled off stage and that was before people knew
he was announced. He just had nons energy, I guess,
and everyone was throwing bottles at him.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Like to be fair, it was a.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Slipknot and Metallica gig and they put lost profits and
supporting them too. It's just like bad bad shout that gig.
By the way, I was fucking amazing. I was like sixteen,
and I was big into Slip Not, big into Metallica,
and I had actually missed Metallica the year prior, and
I was fucking itching to see him, like you know,
(21:36):
when you're a teenager, like especially if you're big into music,
like you know the bands that you're into, our everything,
it's like your whole world. And Metallica were definitely one
of my faves, like you know, Mad in the Right
Lining and Justice for All they were my two favorites.
IDEs and I just come back the same Hi Live.
So when Slipnot were announced as well, because slip had
(21:56):
actually been banned from playing in Ireland, would you believe
the Catholic Church? I think it was. It was either
the Catholic Church or some kind of mother's group which
was probably also Catholic charge Back and they actually were
banned on their IOWA thor so. I think this was
their first show in Ireland and it was during.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I think it was.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, I think it would have been IOWA or maybe
the album after that.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
It was.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It was the album after that with I pushed my
favorite girls to that album. Great album as well, Savage
Gig that was that was actually really cool. But I
don't I don't know whether I said that it was
the best life. I've said it before, I'll say it again.
Hip hop artists after like good Shawman put on a
great show because it's a good time. Like I've sayen
(22:46):
Kendrick Kendrick Lamer like I think twice yeah, and both
times I thought like, wow, I'm like, fuck me, he's
had returning into such a shaman. And I think it's
really impressive when you rappers that turn into showman because
like Kendrick grew up in like fucking Compton, in fairly
like lower class conditions, and then when you see him, like,
(23:10):
you know, he didn't grow up in fucking dramas you know,
and he wasn't groomed into doing all this, but yet
he has dancers, he has props, set pieces, the whole
fucking shows going on, and you're like, he just learned
how to do that. So it's really impressive. So I
actually have to remind yourself when you're looking at it
(23:32):
and you're going, oh, he came from nothing, do you
know what I mean? Like he wasn't given paid for
music lessons when he was a kid, you know anything
like that. He just was natural talent, gotten to where
he was, and then he expanded on that natural talent.
So Kendrick was great till we're really good, till we're
very good. I think else was good over the years.
(23:56):
Seeing Magdalena Bear recently, I loved him. They were very
good live. Actually it was great. Just played that new
album true that that was very good. They were very tight.
Remember years ago when I was a teenager I went
to see I really like Franz Ferdinand super tight as
well live, brilliant, fucking gave me like permanent hair.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
And last.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Queens of stoneag is actually really good too. They have
like I've seen them twice one when I was sixteen,
So like fucking twenty one years ago?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Is that right? Yeah? Twenty one years ago? Is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I'm trying to remember what fucking edge I am there
for a second. Is it just my brain has gone?
It couldn't possibly be twenty one years ago, but it was.
I think it was actually twenty two, Like, oh yeah,
I thought my brain was glitching out for a second there,
I'm like, no, you really are getting that old. And
(24:50):
the first time I seen him, Nick OLIVERI for anyone
who knows Quinds of Stoneage was still in the band
and it was Songs for the Death around that time,
so it was a fucking great job. But I only
seen him two years ago again, and Josh ham and
the band have just evolved into this like really fucking tight,
you know, well oiled machine that can just like that
(25:11):
really good, Like Josh Hamm has really coming to himself
as a shawman and the whole thing is just class.
So yeah, those those are probably it lost profits for
the nonce factor is definitely one he has been writes
in and she says, if you can have a convo
with anyone in history, who would it be and what
(25:34):
would you ask them? I'm probably going to sound like
really fucking sort of cliched her when I say this,
like and one of them would be or the main
one would be I think, just to fucking answer a
lot of questions, like take a lot of boxes. Was
(25:54):
the historical figure that is known as mister Jesus hege Christ?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You know, up until I was.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
A Sartain age, I didn't actually realize like, okay, so
let me try an articulate this properly. I thought that
like Jesus was like a biblical figure who you either
believed in the Bible or he didn't. And if you
didn't believe in the Bible, there was no Jesus like
he'd like that was a legend essentially. But as I
got older, I realized that Jesus was like he existed
(26:26):
historically whether or not you believe in Christianity or not.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
That's probably the best way an article at it, because
for a time I actually didn't realize do you know
what I mean? Because when I was like an AEDG teenager,
I was like, it's all mail up, do you know
what I mean?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
And and I.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Think I just kind of that sat in my head
for a whole couple of years until I actually went
back and found out information about him as a historical figure.
And so yeah, like I mean, you know a bit
of Jesus like figure out the crack just kind of
that even if you were just to sit down with
him and be like what's the right with your man?
How are you getting on? Like you'd kind of know
(27:05):
wouldn't you really if he was the real deal, Like
you know, you kind of feel like fairly quickly you'd
be like, I have a handle on this dude, Like
do you know what I mean? Because he's either going
to come across like fucking some kind of like Russell
Brand kind of figure, or he's going to be just
like cooler shit, you know what I mean? Because your
(27:28):
bullshit detector would be able to be set off. And
I find it really fascinating. Like I'm not people that
listen to this podcast know very well that we're not
experts in religion by any means, but like, as far
as I'm aware, like most of the New Testament and
all that stuff, like was recorded well after Jesus died,
you know, so you would have to imagine a lot
(27:50):
of the accuracy of those texts is based on.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
A lot of.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Faith again and it being accurate, and you know what
I mean, that what they said was accurate, and also
that these apostles were legit and they weren't trying to
further their own agenda or they weren't trying to do this,
They're trying to do that. That would actually be one
of the big issues that I have with Christianity. I
think it's like tough to sort of get your head around.
(28:21):
So I did actually ask chapt about Jesus as a
historical figure, and.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, they were just saying like that. You know.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
The Gospels was written between seventy and one hundred SEA,
which were several decades after his death. There was Paul there.
These are the earliest Christian documents. Paul never met Jesus personally,
but knew his followers and refers to his crucifixion teachings
and resurrection belief. Like that's a bit mad to me. Like,
(28:54):
so the main interesting moments the non Christian sources. I
always thought that's what I was like, Oh, yeah, that's Jesus.
Was Tacitus, he was a Roman historian. He said Jesus
got executed under conscious pilot Jordan, how Barius is Reignosephus.
He mentions Jesus in the execution and the founder of
a movement. Yeah, and plenty. Pliny the Younger references Christian
(29:19):
worship and Jesus divine.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So I suppose you'd have to.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Wonder, like back then, you know, was he really going
around doing magic like tricks and all? You know what
I mean, touching Lebra's feet and they were fucking growing
back and all that magic whatever he was doing. And
apparently it wasn't an uncommon thing back then for people
to claim that they were a prophet or that they
(29:43):
were trying to be charismatic like leaders in a sense.
And it makes sense when you think back to that time.
You're like, if you can influence people with word, I
suppose it's the same nowadays. You know, he'll get a following.
If you can say cool shit, he'll get follow on.
So like, was Jesus doing the you know, the early
(30:04):
version of a podcast or something, you know, I was
trying to get followers? It's like tweeting, Like was it
was just when you said the coolest ship? Back then,
they were like, yeah, he's class man. He's talking about
like c's being parodied and fucking oh magic man, do
you know what I mean? He said he got about
of the cave there a couple of days ago, you know,
(30:24):
all this kind of stuff you'd wonder like, and yeah,
it's just very strange. I find I find all of
that so strange. And you know why I find it
also strange because you need faith. He need your faith
to believe in it, and for me personally, because of
(30:45):
the gaps in the text, the fact that there was
the different apostles and there was gaps between when they
were writing stuff. I just find the tool issue actually
the hang me hat on. I think, do you know
what I mean? I can't I find it like I
should find that hard. I think I need something more,
you know, And I don't know what that is, but
(31:06):
I think, yeah, sitting there with that fella'd be the
one I wouldn't I really like, because I mean a
lot of wars were a lot of wars were started
in the fella's name, do you know what I mean?
A lot of trouble, a lot of bad and a
lot of good was done in an m of Jesus Christ.
You know, you have wars, But then for everybody, you
have the likes of Brother Richard and the monks, our
(31:28):
characters like that who do lots of good work, do
you know what I mean, in the name of religion,
and that's what carries them to do the good work.
So it's very very intriguing to me. And that could
be as well, partly because I grew up in heavily
Catholic Ireland and you're kind of immersed and steeped in
(31:48):
it no matter what way you look at it. And yeah,
I find that interesting. So I love to know more,
do you know what I mean? And I don't think
we ever will. But isn't it madly?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Isn't it mad to think about? And so I think
that wraps up the questions.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I did have.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
You know, Andrew Karney, one hour a week for a year,
you get the inhabit the body of an animal. The
animal can't die during that year, but you can feel
all its emotions and senses, but within your human mind
at the same time, good question, what animal are you choosing?
So I have its feelings and senses too. So I
(32:35):
don't want to be something too shite because I don't
want to get eaten. Immediately, my mind says, you don't
want to be anything underground unless you're like a fucking elephant.
An elephant to probably be good, or rhino, you know,
like they're big animals, but then you might get poached,
(32:57):
you know what I mean? Imagine that like fucking chase
a lot of black lads in a fucking jeep fire
and tranquilisers and not that you wake up in your
tusks are cut off or something like that, or worse yet,
your trunk. I've seen that as well. It's just disgusting.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Ship.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
So no I would know that. I would an eagle
flying flying high, an eagle to be class. No one's
after an eagle, you know. And if I wanted to
stay out with away of people, they're not going to
catch me. Like, you know, I could just hang out somewhere.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
People.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
If you talk about black lads being pouching, you get
posed by white lads. If you're an eagle, you work
around with over hair in Ireland. If you're a bar
to prey, if you're going to know anyone's pigeons, anyone's
racing pigeons, it's a big thing over here.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You're getting chopped. Basically.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Remember when I was a kid, there was a kestrel,
I think it was a kestrel, and it was nesting
in the church. Was actually up at the top of
the church and the spire, and while it was there,
Like there's a couple of pigeon clubs around town where
people raise pigeons and stuff like that, And of course
the kestrel killed a couple of pigeons, like, but all
the cleats fucking yocles were down trying to shoot the
(34:15):
pigeon or other side of the kestral in the church.
And then I was with my dad as a kid,
Like my dad was big into his birds of prey.
I think he read kes and he thought he was
your man out of Kez. So he was always like
trying to advocate and protecting it, you know, because they
are like endangered in Ireland too, like the very rare
(34:37):
abord of prey. And yeah, not the pigeon men weren't happy.
I don't know if they managed to kill it in
the end, but the pigeon men were not happy with
the crack and they were all like it was literally
like one of those things were all the town yocles
were gathered around with pick axes almost sorry, pitchforks, and yeah,
(34:58):
a lot of them things where you're like, what, so,
probably a castro or an eagle maybe something in the
water too, but I feel like in the water you're
just getting sucked over all the time, Like you know,
you're swallowing fucking plastic, fucking bins and shit, like if
you're a whale, you know, it's fairly dark like, so
(35:20):
I think an eagle is probably the best bet. Like,
they're the descendants of dinosaurs. They're tough motherfuckers. You know,
they've got a good l angevity. The sky is relatively
unmolested by human activity, although we do have a lot
of pollution up there. I think they're able to manage that.
So I go with an eagle because, yeah, a good life,
(35:40):
I said, being an eagle, just fly around where you want,
kill whatever you want, good times. And I will be
also cool because you have the night vision sort of
buzz and yeah, so we're talking about Jesus. I suppose
that kind of ties in well with what's been going
on with me lately. No, I haven't, haven't found christ.
(36:01):
I buried, my sad buried. My grandfather passed away last Thursday,
so it would have been the day last many folds
went out, actually, and I've been dealing with that since then.
We had his cremation ceremony and all that yesterday actually
at the time of recording her, and that was the
(36:24):
same grandad. Actually, we had had the Scaffold Pike trip
planned and he had had a turn and we had
to cancel it. So he passed away peacefully last Thursday.
It was a long road for him, tough. So maybe
I kind of said to myself today, I said, maybe
I'll sit down and I'll share a bit about my
granddad with you, because I think he was.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
He was a good character. He was a good egg,
as to say, And yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
It was one of those things, you know. He was
one of these people that was like a gore, never
stopped doing stuff. He probably had like old school ADHD
where now thatays people have ADHD and they just end
up like wanking too much or fucking you know, I
can't focus on doing fucking Excel spreadsheets or something or
playing too much fucking Xbox. He had like EDDHD where
(37:14):
it's like I need to get up and get out
and graft.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
I needed to work, I.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Need to like shovel, I need to dig, I need
to plant, I need to do something. I need to
be involved somehow. But that was him. He only had
really one gear. He liked moving. He was always a
busy man. And this is the first which I believe,
at the ripe old edge of thirty seven, I have
(37:39):
I had all of my grandparents until he passed. I
still have three of them, and.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
So it was. It was hard.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
It was very difficult, actually still going through kind of
all the emotions. And it's the first time I've really
had someone very close to me die. My granddad I
would have considered to be basically a fadder figure. So
it was tricky. It was tough, tough going, and I
was also the one in charge of all of the
funeral stuff and still am and doing all that kind
(38:10):
of stuff. So big boy time. I think we all
have it at some point. I consider myself quite fortunate
that I had them this long and and that I'm
this old dealing with all this for the first time
as well. Like I do, I always kind of said
that they all the grandparents been still alive kind of
(38:30):
kept me and my cousin's young, you know, because you
have all of them to keep me in check, and
you still feel young because none of them have passed,
so you still have those same relationships with your grandparents
that you've had your whole life.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
So yeah, it was, it was tough. It was hard.
We were very close.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I was up there every day with him, and I
went up, to be honest, my initial so it was
his care and really when I first went up there.
Like my logic was, I was like, I'm gonna pay
to learn a little bit of My background was like
my parents separated when I was a teenager, and I
(39:10):
never really learned a lot of this stuff that you
would get from like a dah, Like I didn't have
like anyone like that to show me even kind of
the basic like that kind of stuff, you know. And
so he he would have like so when so when
he asked would I go up, I was like, yeah,
no fucking problem, Like I'll go up. And I just
(39:31):
like I looked at it like yeah, I'm gonna and
I'm gonna learn so much.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
And I did. I did.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I really did with with with things like gardening, putting
your hand to stuff, even little things like just like
I remember I was like doing paving slabs out in
his back and he was showing me how to mix
the cement and ratios and what way the level it
off and all of those things that like you know,
(39:57):
you don't know, and he was showing me all the stuff.
And but he, like I said, he only had one
gear and that was go. I remember when I first
went up there to do the cares with him, like
he was out in the fucking garden with he was
building a gold and he was having he had angina
because he had he had his ticker wasn't the best,
(40:21):
but the fucker was having angina at acts as he
was putting it together, and he had to spray that
the spray under your tongue to stop the angina, and
so he'd spray and then you keep going, and it
was just ridiculous. And I knew then. I was like,
I'm gonna have my heart broken with this fella now
for as long as he's around, because I know that
this fella is just going to push and push and
(40:43):
push all the time, and that he did. But he
was a tough cookie, tough mbre ninety years old, quat yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Cut.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
He had been through a lot. One of my biggest
regrets was that I never actually sat down and recorded him.
I had the equipment here, obviously, I had to set
up for me and Aim, and I always wanted to
sit down with him and record maybe like ten episodes
of just his life and upload as a separate podcast altogether.
Because again, he was born in nineteen thirty five, he
lived through World War Two. He was he remembers the
(41:25):
war ending he remembers the Hitler is dead on the radio.
He remembers, and a lot of our UK listeners that
maybe their grandparents or parents would tell them the same.
He remembers all of the people knocking on each other's
doors that the war's over, the doors over, and they'd
bring out all the tables onto the street and they'd
have like a street party. Everyone would bring out food
(41:45):
and stuff like that. And so he was telling me
all of this stuff all the time, and I loved it.
I was getting all this information from him, and I
was always I always told to myself and I said, Jesus,
you know what, like people that love to hear this
is it's interesting stuff. And he had, like, you know,
a fairly well put together back story, like the history
(42:06):
of the family history, like we know a lot of it.
So I was thinking it would have been good. So
that was a regret of mine. But a lot of
it is in my head as well, so like I
understand it.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
And I got it. But we had a lot of
good times. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
He was a funny dude and a great sense of
humor as well, a wicked sense of humor, Like you
could joke with him about anything really, So it was, Yeah,
it was tough to say.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Go.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Last day I've seen him. He was kind of sitting
because in the last two months he had gone into
a care home because of his needs were just too advanced.
But he was sitting in a wheelchair like, and he
was out in the day room and the sun was
shining on him and he was happy, you know what
I mean. He was in good form. I was showing
the pictures of the garden and he was like, oh,
that's great, that's you know, talking about plants and stuff.
(42:53):
And it was cool to have that with him that
last time to a lot of meaning because he passed
away very quickly and suddenly didn't really have a heads
up to be with them. So I was nice and
the send off. Then it's weird like Ireland versus England
with this, like our English listeners will be surprised to
hear that he's already gone, Like he's already Like in Ireland,
(43:15):
you're if you die on the Thursday or the Friday,
you're buried on the Monday. In England, like, I think
the fucking they're left that long. I think the body
gets up and walks himself into the grave. Good, So
I'm quite ripe. Should I let myself into the grave
because like I've heard the people in the UK like
have UK family and like weeks went to be put
(43:37):
in the ground, Like what are you went for? Get
him in there? So it's the difference between the two.
We don't look around, and I actually prefer that because
it gives you closure and you can start to heal,
you know. I think if someone's in a limbo for
a month or a couple of weeks, you're going Jesus,
like you know, like I'm not getting the closure, you know.
(44:00):
So yeah, that to me, it was always something I
was like, I don't know how the Brits do it.
I remember there was someone I think it was a
family member, Like I think there were six weeks when
to get buried. And I was like, are they literally
went for some kind of like last of us my
celium fungus to grow on the body so that they
gets yourself up and puts itself and takes a long
grave and gets in or something.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
What the fuck? So yeah, so it was all said
and done Monday.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
It is choosday today as I sit down and record
and stuff tough going, like all that stuff I had
never really experienced saw all of the funeral like I
was the main one, and that because I don't know
whether there's much of a difference with the Catholic and
the Protestant stuff. But you know, I was kind of waiting.
Oh that was the big difference, I tell you. The
(44:48):
big difference actually is that the body was whacked out.
And I know the English do not like it. I
think because it's funny. It was just kind of happened
by chance, like, but my dad is English like, and
he would have a few British friends and all of
them are saying to him like what times the coffin clothing?
Speaker 1 (45:07):
What time?
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Because I'll call them when the coffin's clothes. I don
want to be around like an open casket. And I
was I only put it together. I was like, oh wait,
they're all British and they're asking that. I'm like, right,
so almost be like a brit tain maybe, like don't
get me wrong, you know it's not exactly the right
crack saying a body, but for whatever reason, we do
it over here, you know, we have the body waked out.
(45:30):
I'm torn on that whether it's a good reading. It's
kind of like it feels like it's a fucking stress
test or something. It's like, get in there and say it,
you know, like because you're just kind of like this
or anything like beneficial open, like what's the fucking point.
(45:52):
But at the same time, I don't know. Some people
like to say goodbye and they but like personally, I
for seeing a body waked out to warn him like
that looks like them and they'll look great. Wow, let
me take a picture, do you know what I mean? Like,
I've never seen that, so you do wonder why that's
(46:13):
the thing? Let me ask, Actually, let's let's ask fucking
chat GBT. We're sitting here one of the one of
your listeners you love your love listeners. I don't have
the name to hand.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
We're saying this.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
All episodes are great, but it's like listening to a
long voice not where you can't respond. So sometimes you
want to respond but you can't. So if I do
ask something like I am now, I'm going to put
it to chat GBT so we actually get an answer
rather than you feeling the need to go, oh, I
can answer that.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Why do.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
People wake out bodies? But there's all sorts of weird
traditions around that, right, chat GBT is like, what do
you mean by waking out bodies at funerals? So I'll
say what I said there. Now, this is the other
thing I'm seeing with chatch GBT, and I'm literally I'm
doing it now. But like I'm seeing a lot of
(47:07):
content creators, a lot of video makers on YouTube like
literally ask CHATCHBT in real time and they're using that
as gospel. A bit worrying.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
This is interesting. Actually, this is fucking interesting. This might
be why the bridge leave it with the coffin.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
Closed, you know.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
So what I say is number one is the confirmation
of death. So before modern medicine, it wasn't always clear
if someone had truly passed away, so keeping visual over
the body for a day or more actually allowed time
to be sure. So maybe the bridge serve is squamished
and you guys are putting the coffin lid on and
you're just leaving them for like two months stop for
the best. It's also apparently for protection of the body,
(47:51):
so in other times people for test of valuables or
even the body itself, so they stayed with the body
when it was waked out. Oh okay, so none of
these are really answering, like, but why does the body
have to be shown? They're saying for respect and honor,
(48:13):
watching over the disease, the scenes about the show reverence,
and then sure they aren't left alone prayers for the soul.
In Christian tradition, especially Catholic, the weakelouse family and friends
to prayer for the person's safe passage into the afterlife.
Support for the family apparently is gathering around the body,
helps the breathed, storytelling and remembrance. And I suppose as well,
(48:35):
you know, you're actually seeing the body so you can
refer to him as a parson. So this is me
kind of filling my like sort of morbid curiosity myself here.
But yeah, you're referencing him, and I think that's nice,
you know. I think having him there as it's like
(48:57):
that last.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Goodbye, you know.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
And yeah, all in all my first experience.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
With all of that sort of stuff, and so it
was bizarre. It was very bizarre and kind of surreal. Both.
I'm glad I went off the wet dige, you know
what I mean. It was good.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
And he was like, like, that's why I'm talking about
him here to you guys.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Is just he was a great man. You know. I
was lucky to have him, very very lucky. He was.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
The way I compare him and the way I was
describing him yesterday, the people was a lot of time
in life you'd feel like you're wobbling on a bike,
you're learning the cycle and you're kind of wobbling and
you're go. But he was like stabilizers, do you know
what I mean? He was always there that if you
had a wobble, he could say, right, I'll help you out,
(49:47):
whether it be sometimes it was financially, sometimes it was
just giving you the backend that you needed to like.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Do anything.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Really he would always try and put his hand to
always trying to help you. So he was Yeah, he
was very good. He was a good man and he
always tried his best. And Frank was his name. But yeah,
and many an interesting story and I'm sure I'll reference
them many more times over the podcast. But one of
the things that I because I was experiencing all this
(50:15):
for the first time, one of the things that really
surprised me. When that surprised me, I suppose, but I
just never experienced it before. It was like, how many
people come forward to like express condolences, to say stuff
on the obituary, to add into it all that kind
of stuff. There's a very irish phenomenon. I don't think this.
(50:37):
I don't know whether this is the thing anywhere else.
But there's a website in Ireland called rip dot Ie,
Rest in Peace do Ie, and it's the death notices
and so you post up your deceased obituary. People comment
on it, expressing their family members or whatever. So it's nice. Actually,
(50:59):
so I'll have and everyone kind of reach out and
express condolences, and you're having a shared experience.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
People are trying to get together to help, to laugh,
to do all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Like we had a good laugh yesterday. It was all
good stories, not many tears. Everyone kind of held it
together and we had a good time, do you know
what I mean? The good send off Roim because Grandad
loved the good time, he loved the parody, he loved
to send laugh. He was a good man. So I
was just wanting to leave that there, I think, and
give him a bit of a send off and talk
(51:32):
a little bit about him. But he was always there
for us and we couldn't have like he was always
present through all of our ears, and we were so
lucky that he got to the edge of ninety to
where we could, you know, really get the full squeeze
out of the man. Do you know what I mean?
He was a very good guy. And there are a
(51:55):
couple more questions. But what I'm going to do is
I'm going to leave that there and I'm going to
come back because we have again another week or two
without aiming, so like we're kind of up in the
air on how the content will text ship. Maybe next
week I might do something a bit more in line
with the subject matter of the podcast. But I'm also
(52:16):
really enjoying the questions, do you know what I mean?
It's good fun. So if anyone listening, like, if you
have a question about anything, you can ask do you
know what I mean? You can stare the way you
want it to stare. Just DM me on Instagram or
write me an email on Masterfuls Podcast at gmail dot com.
I have a lot use have been blinders after a
(52:37):
car stall is out and you sent in a good
few writings, like longer stories, so those will be handled
when am And gets back as well. But in the meantime,
when we're doing rambling rob here, you can send in
whatever you're like, we can sort of chat about that
for the duration of a podcast. You can even pick
(52:59):
like if you would like to just throw a topic
my way, or like something I would like a discussion
about for an episode. That'd be cool too, you know,
because I enjoy I enjoyed just sitting down and chatting
so and as well on the day it's in. It
han't lost ther grandfather. It's actually be guitartic to just
(53:20):
sit down and actually talk about that. So I'm one
of those where those that is why I have a podcast.
I like talking to myself rather than to other people.
I tried to fucking in the chapel arrest. I tried
to get up at the end. I kind of got
caught on the spot. My cousin said a couple of words,
and she was brilliant.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
And then I.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
Realized, because I had sorted out the whole funeral, I
realized I should probably get up and tank people and
say a couple of words like I had nothing prepared,
and I don't know if any of you have done
it before, but I got up and like as soon
as I got up, I was like, oh, this is
going to be difficult, so I kept this short and
sweet them.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'll leave it there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Like I said, if you have got anything he's liked
writing about, feel free to They have got the address you.
I'm also on Discord. They can find me on Instagram.
And yeah, I hope you've enjoyed this little episode. Will
keep you a kind of tipping along until the Red
Menace is back. He's having a great time by the way,
(54:24):
seeing pictures, I'm jealous. He was in a fucking desert
or something yesterday. This fellow, it's going like make cocknall
then the stars video, Like literally two people are going
to know what that is. But anyway, I've been robbed.
This has been monsterfuls. Thanks for listening over and out.
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