268 - Dan & Maria The DJ's - The Tom O Mahony Show

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Well, what's the crack? Everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Tom
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shop keeping done, housekeeping done,whatever you're supposed to call it. Moving
on to today's guests. I've knownthese two for youngs, but we haven't
actually seen each other in ages,so this was a ridiculously good catch up.
We went for ages. We couldhave done a five hour podcast.
They are brilliant, the two ofthem, ma'am. What a joy there

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are. Of course, both DJs. We got to the bottom of what
an actual DJ is and now Iknow, like I could probably take it
up myself. That's a lie tolie. I'm happy to leave that to
the professionals. I had an absoluteball with the fantastic then Duffy and Maria
Lohler. I could just hear likeI was like, Jeeves, what's after
going on? And I ran outand they're chasing a baby fox around and
the poor thing was freaking out.But I'd say these two were like our

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cousins over guy chasing around. Iwas like, get in because whatever about
Quinn. Quinn's the big dream,She's fine. Denny is a cocktail sausage
like, he's a tiny sausage dog. He wouldn't even be so far.
I was like, if the mancomes down, you're done for a battle.
And he definitely looked at her beinglike yeah, I could take her

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right. Oh yeah, we've recorded. Hey, how's it going. Welcome,
Welcome to the podcast. Yes,she's a good thing. We didn't
get into the racist stuff right thenthat we got that that's only for the
Patreons and scribe perfect perfect. Thatwas one thing that strikes me about done
because still friends get you know,they hear a fox screeching here and now

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in the countryside because there's no aresounds around. I recorded it the other
night actually just it was like,I mean, bellowing this screech, and
it's everywhere because there's no there's nosound travels everywhere, so it sounded like
a dying fucking bandshee of some sortlike and a few of my American friends
like sweet Severing Christ, what thefuck is that? I was like,

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No, you'll hear this in Dublin. Actually, there's way more foxes in
Dublin than there is than there isn'tin out the countryside. They're just the
foxes. The next door neighbor hasthe there's a lot of bushes and hedges
like right alongside their next next doorand every time we pull in from work
late at night, you'll see twofoxes in our front garden. They run

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across and jump over the same littlepart of the wall where there's bushes next
door. So I reckon they mighthave nested in the bushes literally right at
their driveway. Um, so they'revery close. D'artain foxes. They're different
vibe to them, like that they'rein the boys band now and everything like
that. So welcome Danadar with apologies. You know, I love a good

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role and start, do you know, because you're you're an alternative. This
is the first time I've had anactual couple. I think, I think,
yeah it is. I know JulieJay stuck her head at a few
times, but didn't specifically sit ina duo podcast. This is a fucking
class You're I like Pocasta, butthey're like that. I feel there'sn't much

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I could say to you that wouldthrow E sideways because you are all You're
alt is the wrong word, becauseyou're not going around, you know,
licking wallpaper like that. But whatI'm saying is like you could turn up.
Your photographs are some of the mostjoyous things, especially around Christmas time
or around Halloween. Oh yeah,you go point hard. I actually invented
Halloween. I'm the founder and itwas me. That is where Maria sound

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is full full title. But andthat was before I properly met Dan and
I knew. We'll get back tothe photographs in a minute, because I
want to ask you something about someof your classiest because I will tell direct
people to hear your Instagram and everythingat the end. But the first we
all technically work together with Bingo Loco. That's where I met G But I

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met Maria first. You were upstairs, you know, stamping hands and stuff
and I just didn't know what tobe doing myself. Sure, I was
like, well, I don't knowwhat I'm supposed to do. I don't
really have an actual talent or skillor whatever to be doing here. But
but it was puns immediately because instantlythey had they had a habit of hiring,
hiring, you know, they'd havedancers or whatever, but dancers,

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and for an awful part of wouldn'thave an awful lot of cracking them.
They would have maybe three conversations,and I wouldn't have I wouldn't have the
toolbox to deal with any of them, if you know. To me,
I would be like all that andthat and that. Oh, I'd say
we should just walk away from eachother here because there no benefit to each

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other. But at least when Imet Maria, she started straight into the
pun. Oh yeah, a disease, I exclusively thinking puns. The funny
part about it is there is anactual disease. We say the German word
vitzil sucked um. It's a setof pure and rare neurological symptoms characterized by

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a tendency to make puns or tellinappropriate jokes or pointless stories, and random
occasions that's my personality. I mean, everybody's supposed to have like a crutch
nowadays, aren't they. I mean, could you get first onto a plane
for having an awful dose? Sorry, excuse me, if anybody would,
if anybody would fish in requirements,excuse me, I can't the service dog.

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But even Denny's, the whole existenceis based around the pun because it's
also ny. Because obviously and evenQuinn, we we go. We kind
of happened upon Quinn. She wasshe was unplanned and her friend's mother had
to give her up, and Chris, guys, we love her, but
we love her just the same.And she yeah, she came upon us

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and they were like, oh,she's she's still young enough, like you
can give her a name if youwant. And because she was originally Judy
and she just she's not not ajud wasn't she She's judgmental, but she's
not a Judie. But she becauseI was like, well, I can't
give her an outright thoughtage pun name, like I can't call her Charizza because

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people will be like, okay,whatever, So we called her Quinn because
she's super wow is two steps away. That's and that is that is meta
and It's not only meta, itis nostalgia too. I mean, I
tell you, if you if youcould have gone deeper and called her Musgraves
because that group have owned both whatsuper Value and super Quinna? Would it?

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Oh my god. Originally, originallywe wanted one of the we wanted
one of the boy reason. Thenwe decided, you know what, we're
not going to take any good pupsones enough, We'll leave it at that.
And then she was the last oneand they needed at home first,
and they were like, look,will you take her? So we took
her or whatever. But the wholeplan was we'd get a boy and we'd
call him Brennan and they'd be thesausage sandwich, Brennan's bread because they do

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look like loves of bread. Wow, wow, super green as well.
We landed it, and yeah,that's the way we are now. I
think that's why acous he knows hiswhole life is based around just being a
punch line. Yeah we I mean, well, like fairness, you're never
going to eat him. I mean, we did have a we did have
a lamb that was known as Mintsauce Um that I find funny. She's

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horrid. She loves you love thevalue in the content, okay, the
fact that that sheep got killed,okay, and it tasted delicious. We
all cried, honestly for a goodthree seconds. Here's a joy. It
was. No, it was sadmoment. And I mean by a moment,

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literally a moment that was it.But I mean, did she like?
We had pigs tune. They werecalled rasher and sausage, because you
know it's that means. I'll tellyou. I'll tell you story I grew
up. I moved a lot asa kid. But where I lived Green
Oak, just outside Ashburn's between andSwords is where he lived. And we

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lived near Jim Draper, the famousjockey, and he we had a load
of land out the back of gardenand he used to have his horses under
backed. Arkell was actually born inthe field what apparently mc grand Dunstone,
but Arkell was apparently born in thestables behind house. But my uncle,

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he was a bit of a fuckingjack the lad when he was kind of
my age and when he was livingin the house or whatever, and he
just decided there was all the landout back and house buying two cows so
you bought take out and we calledhim Tea and Tamarrow because I used I
used to love sister. So wehad Tea and Tomorrow. They were brown,

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they were brown, But don't youdo that Tea and Tomorrow. And
I'll never ever as long as Ilive, forget today where dementia saw the
family didn't try and sugar at all. It just told me exactly where they
were going. And I, asa kid, loved the fucking steak.

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I love the steak. I stillknew this day. I love the stake,
and they that I was just besidemyself, like I couldn't get over
the fact that poor Tea and tomorrowwe're going off to be murdered. And
I think it was the next dayat dinner, we were having a shake
and the uncle goes, there's Teanow on the bakebed and finished the steak.
You see, all good series cometo an end too, like you

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know what I mean, saved bythe bill defending of sister. Sister.
I love that obscure. I mean, that's that's that's a cool like we
just for like like German kind ofaristocracy. When we just looked at our
dog because she was just show they'reGerman and she had. She just looked

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at it like she oh, likeI know, dogs look like they owned
the place with This dog had thosewizard eyebrows and was furrowing at Meg.
Yeah. But Regal, from anot a fluffy standpoint, immediately was like,
so we went with Baroness because beinga German, he just stood she
stood square. I was like,okay, that that's that's that's what we

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should call the dog for. Youknow, obviously you don't call her baroness
when they're called her because the entirelybaroness, entirely baroness. I was defiant.
My my uncle was like, he'sfrom Wicklow and he's fucking dogs.
Yes, they're start the place wherethey shoot dogs. Do you know they're
still in nineteen they're still in nineteeneighty. Nobody's putting jackets on dogs in

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this part of the Weeklow, youknow that kind of way dogs are for
foking. No wouldn't catch, youknow, so like he couldn't grasp how
he would give like there's you know, damn, there are three syllables in
the middle of you know there's becauseyou can't. It's just there has to
be a fast or the dog won'tgrasp it and out of pure pig ignorance,
I was like, no, no, I'm not shortening it. I'm

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not changing it to anything. Andeven even are now a three year old.
Like he started off with, hewas calling her bad bat and she
came to that and that worked fora while. But then you know,
once his vocab kicked in around one, I'm like, okay, now we
need to knock this shit in thehead. The dog is called baroness,
and but it's it's it's it's theludicrous looks you get from people and walking

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into park. That's just it.Like for the longest time, attaches like
we should rubbly change the short Helooked like mentalers that goes, this is
exactly what I want. It isbaroness, Baroness, Like this is the
thing dogs are typically called rex orjack or something like that. It's to

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call the dog baroness. It isa notions thing, I know, but
it's out of it was the dogjust when you kind of see her straight
like she's a nice dog and all. As soon as you look at her
directly straight on, you're like,oh, I kind of get it,
I kind of get it. Yeah, it's yeah, it was the German
thing. We just and do youknow what just actually what popped into my
head before it falls back out ofmy head showed up the other day because

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it took a modification was a toy. One of my son's first walking toys
was plap Plap the frog. Iwas fucking terrorized that poor dog with plap
plap. It got him walking.Two things he started walking at six right.

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One because the dog was kind oflike, well, come on,
like so he would kind of justhang onto the dog. But then he
discovered he does have an evil streak, much like me. He doesn't like
Attash is a very nice person.She doesn't have an even but I do,
and he has. Yeah, youget it, you get it,
you get it. And there's nothingfunnier as a one year old or six
month old than watching a dog shittheir bed when they see a frog flapping

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up the fuck off the kitchen athim to explain it to people. It
was this timber frog with these brilliantthe wheels on a put two big rubbery
flaps for legs, and he hada long stick and when you pushed him
along, he literally made a soundthat went and it was there was no
other name to give it if youcan imagine, like we were coming home

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from Munich and I think we've onlygone for the weekends. We only had
small bags with us and we wereat the Christmas markets and I saw it
and I said I need to bringthem home for Tom because that private joke
about pop pop and I choke itlike on the plane through security in my
hands. I was s sorry,this is a person the money to take
this with me. It was basedoff of visual. It was based off

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a visual cartoon. Wasn't that itdoes it? It was like imagining a
frog running away from something on twolegs, yeah, instead of hopping.
Yeah. And it was the notionof a running across the tiled floor like
and it was plap plap. Hasbeen modified since he now can terrify many

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people quite quickly. He scuba diversflippers on him or watch with Yeah.
I had to upgrade the feat becausethey won't take what's happening right now.
So Fiuns godfather, who is hisbrother, is a lunatic and be prior
to him being born, he boughthim a land Rover Defender one for a

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seven year old and when he nowdrives it like he learned to drive as
a country thing, learned to driveearly. But he thought running flap plap
along beside him with one hand outout the door down the tarmac was a
great plan. Lap plap wasn't upfor the plaps. I'm sorry. The
plants did not last. He lappedhis last PLoP he did until I must

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actually should get fine find him becauseyou know, well, I got to.
He's over at the grandparents' house becauseJesus Christ is going to kill somebody
here at the minute. I needhim to actually forget about it for about
another year because he is. Butwe plap plap got. I had to
modify and put it on the front. He actually plap plaps on the front
bumper of the lantern over now,so you drive along. He's got two
proper I got proper rubber. Itwas like an entire insert and he's got

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proper black. He looks pretty mean, actually pretty bad. He's kind of
gone post apocalyptic, if you knowwhat I mean, Like I need to
get an attention to draw evil eyeson him or something. Lean machine.
But he yeah, he's on.He's he's more or less strapped to the
front bumper and he claps claps along. It's the most terrifying fucking sound you'll
ever hear. Now as he comestearing, very ominous. You put an

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eighty bold battery into the into theroom. Yeah, yeah, road battery
put in it it. See.I mean we thought he was insane at
the time, but it does seemto kind of fit the fit the landscape
ever so slightly. It's yeah,and if it fitted in, but yeah,
they and then then you were DJingwith being a local, but you

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were like you. I only evermet you a handful of times doing it.
We only did a couple of showstogether. And what was funny was
I remember doing the first showed youbecause my whole job was always I was
the day that did everyone's first show. They've been there the longest, and
I could I could do I hadworked at all the host so I could
do show to get someone through andif they didn't know it, I don't
remember stealing that You've a new hoston was like grant and you were ucked

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through the door. And fucking threeweeks previous I'd seen you in the Laughter
Lenge. You were doing basic cultsand I was just enthralled by the whole
thing. I remember I was like, this is amazing and you rocked through
the door. I was like,so I used to love. I used
to love doing the show down thecountry with you because they just they into

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you something serious that it was alwaysthey were always great crackling. Was that
upstairs in a restaurant or am Iimagining that stairs in a restaurants in the
Hawk? No, the first onewasn't in rat Farnham, not rat Farnum.
It was somewhere like it was.Yeah, it was outwards Dundrome.
We did a call Um. Wedid a corporate for some real estate company.

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Oh. They were absolute guys andthey were walk wild. Yeah,
they were the absolute guys, aren'tthey. Yeah, but they were they
were mental and they're not. They'renot great crack out of us. I
think I think I was Steven leavingthe place afterwards. I think they ended
up leaving that gig and going intotown into corporated. You can see that
happening though on all Ferns because Ikind of just bowled. That's why I

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would always purpose even though at thetime we're only living in that rat farm,
I would purposely drive because I wentthis fucking you can get caught up
in the whole thing going yeah,and before you know it, you're off
fucking stopping pines and it's literally ajob you could get fucking hammered at.
Yeah, it's encouraged. It's like, oh yeah, years off my life.

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I'm twenty seven. I look thirtyseven and I feel forty seven.
It's awful, but like it's it'sgreat crack all the same, isn't it.
That's it's just I've even noticed nowlike as we're getting getting older again,
I say him getting older twenty seven. I shouldn't be saying it like
that, but it is like youdo have to kind of take the take

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the foot off the gas a littlebit with that stuff because you get swept
up in it. And like Igig Monday night Wednesday or Monday nights,
alternate Tuesday nights, every Wednesday night, alternate Thursday nights, every Friday night,
every Saturday night, and then itwas a Sunday off. And when
it's like that, you find yourselfon a Tuesday, like the last Tuesday
has gone. I went in andI just got kiddie and I had three

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beers and six secking Jefferson Gingers andI left the place absolutely round the bend
and then went back to one ofthe girls houses with Maria and her fell.
We all went back and we wereabsolutely like sitting there skull and bottles
of wine at the six o'clock themorning. We woke up the Wednesday morning.
Oh we're not We're not able forit anymore. Like I call myself
Christian your light because after Ani outof have to have a Dior light before

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and after on sherry discipline. Youcome in from a brunch there two weeks
ago, hammered, going, doyou want to go out? And I
was like, no, I've beensitting on the couch all day. And
she went into the fridge, openedup a bottle of pino grazier, brought
herself a glass and also made adoor light on the side and was chasing
her Dior light was not gonna looklike that. I don't think it works

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like this. She's like grand fortyfive minutes later, passed out with sleeping
the couch, gone, I'm awoman in stem What can I say?
It's you know what, It's exactlywhat. I would never forget that there
was a turning point. You're almostthere. What did you Maria, you're
twenty five. I missed you there? What was that? What did do
you? Hey? Twenty eight?Yes, right in pharisee. You look

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fresher than down, you do.I tell everyone that she gets like if
she gets idd somewhere, I'd belooking at her. She is getting then
the other way around them, theid of me. I'm like, well,
when she shaved off them as thatshe said, yeah, I was

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twenty, I was twenty eight.I was at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and
this is this this point, well, well you've already reached it. But
sometimes the society can absolutely tell youthat, oh no, oh no,
you're by other people, like byan eighteen year old standards. You're fucking
out now. I'm a pensioner,do you know what I mean? Like
this is and these increments will comealong and this was one of the biggest.

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It was like a wet cloth tothe face. And I was after
doing my show and it was amazing, amazing group of lads came in that
it could you could kind of tellsome of the rage and there was It
was a fucking great show. Andit was late. It was a late
one in the in the pear Treein Edinburgh was fucking fit, not finished,
like half eleven or whatever, andto the point where I came outside
and most of the audience was waitingoutside the venue and gave me as a

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round of applause when I walked out. It was like my irishness couldn't deal
with that level of Oh, Icouldn't. That was just a I would
just stop. But then they agang of the gang of posh English lads
that where they were all attending theuniversity in Edinburgh, and they were like,
hey, the college ball, universityball, you want to go?
I went, fuck, do youknow what, There's a quiet street.

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I'll have a couple of Yeah,a couple of pints to be lovely class,
let's do that. And we're overthere, and I swear to god,
I was drinking a pint right,And they were all just fucking hammering
shots and everything. And one ofthem he said like, I can't remember
what he said, but it wasenough for me to go, am I
to be too old to me inaround this place? And genuinely, like

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the nicety of another person would goraff would just shut up to fuck.
He genuinely looked at me, wentand wanted to answer me honestly went yeah,
yeah, it was just true.It was and it was probably only
eight years between us, but heknew what I was seeing. I was
looking around, going, oh,I've no fucking business been in around this
carry on at all too, Thisis this is not I like, but

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like twenty three would have been oldto him, but twenty eight, Ye,
what the fuck are you talking about? I've gotten checked a few times
now because obviously I used to bea primary school teacher. Yes, this
DJing because now I'm full time DJing, and I did Longitude a few weeks
ago and I realized, now,so I did five years is teaching the

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kids who would have been in fifthand sixth class when I started out,
can go to Longitude? I wasbreaking out. I was like, if
someone comes down the front and it'slike, I'm out, We're going back
to the permanent and pensionable job.Yeah, I hope I get those moments.
A lot of the festivals are whenwhen it tends to like in the

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clubs not so much like I playin the Academy in Dublin and it's a
really young crowd, but they kindof look at me like they don't really
look at me like some creepy outletup and yeah, I know you're not
there yet, Like well, thefestivals are my my go to. It's
not like people look at you andgo Jesus that feel it is a bit
too old to be here. Atthe festivals, they look at you and
go guarda. Yeah. Yeah,every festival, I'll because I'm usually DJ,

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and I'll love me a backpack withme because I love my laptop for
my headphones, USB's all kinds,so I'll have a backpack on me,
usually with one of the other lads. About my age. I've got the
shitty facial hair, I've got sunglasseson or whatever, and I dress appropriate
for the weather, so I wearjeans. I've been nice. Back on
me, and I'll tell you that. You go into the middle of a
crowd, and I love I lovehip hip hop, R and B dance

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music, techno. There's a lotof drugs around those those type of things.
Soon as you walk into that crowd, no matter how busy it is,
you are going to have a bitof five foot radius around you.
You will be no matter where yougo because the guarda guarda and they'll run
away it's brilliant. But like everyevery festival we go to, like we
were done at Life Festival there inMay. I mean we're down over one
of the lads thirty its every timeI went into the toilet, Um,

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lads were just clear. I nevercued once. Yeah, I was going
into one of the acts on oneof the fell in. Next we went
ten four ye here like he's agarden I'm looking to I'm cool, I'm
a DJA. I swear it wouldbe a great cover. It'd be great,

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wouldn't to be fair? Though?You look around then at Life and
you're like, how do they thinkwe're the undercovers, because then you see
the actual undercovers and you're like,come on, he's wearing a GA top.
Yeah, yeah, it's super dry, he's super dry. Hoodie is
giving it away big style, likeit's wrap around the Oakley polar eyed.

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They do have yeah, they dohave a hint of it all right now
before we get onto djen and youexplained to me what the fuck is going
on? Because literally I just thinkit's magical. But um, barbecuing is
that's an age appropriate thing? Dan? I don't know if you know that,
but it's an age appropriate thing.Like Murray has sent me videos of

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you standing with an umbrella, whichis we're only talking about and that's that's
that's a guy. That's something atwenty year old would never do, standing
the pistons of rain with you know, a webber and just trying to cook
something. Because they're not just gonnago, guys, we just go to
fucking fuck this, just go towherever the fuck. There's a bit of

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boating us. To be fair,we're delivery fiends where because we're just on
the go so much. Yeah,it's just much easier just to go.
I'll lie on the couch until thevery last second and then you'll order something,
getting the shower come down. It'sthere for you eat that you run
so you eat like absolute shit.But no, to be fair, when

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when barbecue season it's on, it'son, um the umbrella with the with
the spatchcock check in there and tryingtrying to get the breeze right, it's
raining, the smoke is coming thisway and first then it's coming away,
burning the eyes off yourself and pickingfull of smoke and the fire alarm.
What are they doing do you know? Just sucking d do it in the

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open or whatever. They're like,oh no, it's it's worth, It's
it's all worth the smoky tapes.Isn't it three hours in the garden,
It's all worth? But do youknow what like it's it's like at least
you took it to a relatively normallevel. Like I don't know what happened
when I started barbecue with I guesspeople that listen to the podcast started asking

(28:37):
me questions. And then for somereason, I don't know more than anybody
that knows a lot about barbecue,but for some reason, loads of Irish
lads would just message me and like, I don't know what I was,
So I started making I made videosfor of them like just here you go,
and I would Carson swearing the thingslike it was just but it was

(28:59):
fucking lads to go to another levellike ruined it, like Anarax's ruined fucking
everything. They ruin everything. Doyou know there's good crack barbecue and then
there's like Era, for Jay's's sake, you don't have to be soaking it
for a month. Fucking come on, now, come on now, it's
these the injectors where they're injecting applejuice and apples eider. You're like,
come on, now, that's allseeping out of a jured cooking tis a

(29:21):
court I did that. I triedit once and it was like, oh,
yeah, this has made no effectat all, and I've got carpeting
tunnel syndrome now from yeah, it'swe admittedly haven't gotten the web I say
we, I haven't been um motivatedenough this summer. Shall we say to

(29:45):
get out and dust off the webberand give it a good hose down because
it needs a good hose down.I left it out over the winter like
the Muppet, and then there's afew bits of a gun rusty now and
I need to give it a goodcleaning. But I've kind of look it's
sitting at the garage every time wewent to the garage, is looking at
me. Come take me out down. I'm going o next week, next
week trying to clean the I'm thesame. To be fair, I'm like,
please check it for a woman's goingto brunch getting langers by herself in

(30:11):
the afternoon. For Christ's sake,which are we talking about again? The
barbecue? Or me? Where didhey, where where did you meet?
I know this sounds like the frontrow of a comedy geek. But because
you don't know, but I mean, we haven't had a proper sit down.
This is why I wanted to dothis, and that's well, let's

(30:32):
record it for posterity as well.Yeah, Bengo Loco was it Bingo Loco.
She was a she was a punterand I and I was a big
fan of the old Bengo Loco.To be fair, you can decide yourself.
Watch mega this. This is atthe time where there was like maybe
one a month, and if therewas a regular customer, you'd noticed them.

(30:52):
Particularly I was. I was,Yeah, notice I gave my best
Tom, We've already hit our firstliven It certainly wasn't one a month because
you were at two shows that I'vedone in the space of four days.
That was an exception anyway, Soanyway, you can decide who made the

(31:14):
first move here. So Dan hadfollowed me on Instagram. This is the
most twenty first century story ever aswell, like, but we're telling our
grandkids, they're gonna be so confused. It's the most millennial shit about us.
Yeah, and so he had followedme on Instagram because he had seen
me on at the shows or whatever. He knew me as the girl who
always comes to bring locos? Didyou track her down? So one of

(31:38):
the boys, I'm only asked themwhat everybody else is thinking right now.
One of the boys that used tohost had said, one of the boys
that you used to host, youmight need to edit this bit, you
know what I mean? Right?Yeah, the host that had said,
like, I've you seen this girland I saw talking to her. Oh
this girl, and I found herbecause he showed me your Instagram and then

(32:00):
I found me Instagram. Oh thisone. Oh, don't don't don't follow
her, don't follow when I anddid it to wind him up like I
had a girlfriend at the time,Like I was just doing it to wind
him up. Um, that wasthe October, and I just I never
really thought much. We had goneto university together as well, like the
twos in we're in DCU together atthe same time. Oh right, very

(32:21):
much. Pat's loyal. Fucking dieon that hill and tell him my guy.
Yeah. So he had followed meon Instagram, and I took that
as a first move as far asI was conce and we were we were
out at the gig and before hecorrected me. Yes, I was there

(32:42):
on the New Year's Eve, andI tagged him in my story because I
said, oh, that's the guywho follows me, the slammer I had
broken up with the girlfriend that Iwas with. That was you'll find no
gentleman here. You'll find it's asafe place. Crossover don't work. I
tagged him in my story and heblanked me on that occasion, but I

(33:06):
went back four days later. Kindof cool. You gotta give him that.
That's kind of cool. Hew meon Instagram just saying he even on
the lurk for a while. Evenwhen he said, well we went to
college together, I was like,yeah, never heard or anybody listened to
the audio. I hope you canpick up on how or face just looked

(33:28):
Yeah, story bro, and theonly reason she ran for elections. No,
we don't talk about it. We'rescrap on this. We have like
Vanessa Wilder here. We decided.Well anyway, say four days after New

(33:49):
Year's we went again. We gotlast night of tickets and Dan was DJ
again, so I tagged him inmy story again and he I was I
was so ill at night. I'dlike, you know, you know when
you go through the run of Christmasshows, and we were on the road
NonStop. I think I had donelike thirty seven shows or something in the
month. I was absolutely rolled offand I had lost hearing in my right

(34:12):
ear. I had like a badsignus thing and I couldn't hear an owt
to me right here, which isa nightmare during the show because the hostess
to my right. So every timehe spoke to me, I was just
kind of guessing what he was tryingto say that yeah, cool, we'll
try that one. And he'd goplay, say leave, and I'd be
in the middle play and Saturday nightor whatever. It was just the show
was all over the places. Iwas someone well and I left the show.
Then afterwards she had tagged me inmy story again and I had left

(34:32):
the show. My home was lightup on the couch and get a bit
better, and I saw that sheatacked me again, and I was like
the second time, respond this timeand respond at that time. Anyway,
we got chatting, by which stageMaria was in Coppers. Yes, she

(34:53):
was around the bend and she keptdown. He cooked to Coppers and meet
me and with the girls, andI was like, no, not well,
you know the book, enjoyed therest year right the river and we
got chatting. But she was hada few beers. Now when she was
getting a bit mouty, she thoughtshe wasn't brave. I don know where
the came from. I have noidea. And then even after coppers,

(35:14):
I was in say tunes getting akebab obviously part of the intrinsic part of
the night. And even I senthim, I was like yeah, I
mean, I mean stay tunes nowand he was saying he was like,
oh yeah, when he bring meback a kebab, and I was like,
I am not that kind of girl. You'll take me for a brunch
tomorrow. And then I will say, now that I obviously know Dan quite

(35:36):
well. I know for a factI would have brought him back at Cabab
and he will have take taken itand been like cool, thanks see after
by close the door. She thoughtthat thought that she thought it was a
sneaky boy for me to bring itback at Gabab and we'll see what happens.
It was not. I was like, I'm hungry, I'm about to
order one and delivery. You'll saveme the delivery. Be like your wife

(35:58):
both. Yeah. I was verybrave. I said. I was like,
you'll bring me for brunch tomorrow.I want a real date whatever,
all of my high horse and thenthe fear the next day and I actually
I want to print out and usthe WhatsApp messages on our like wedding invite.
I was like, I was like, oh my god, no,
girls, I was checking, justjust turning inwards here. As a result

(36:21):
of this, my favorite one wasthey were like, well, it'd be
cute, and I was like,kind of, thanks six out of ten.
I'll take it. Your your natall day long to meet the all
day long. Thank you. Butafter that then she decided to just swerve

(36:43):
me for a bit of a month. After that. Isn't the fear,
So I kept trying it. Ikept trying to get her out, like
oh, we'll go for a drink, or we'll go into this now.
I was very I was just ina relationship, so I was very keeping
a cash, you know, tryingto be The boys were out in town,
like do you want to come outand meet us. We're in this
bay, we'll get a bottle ofwine or come up and meet the lad
And I was trying to keep itvery very cash as we were starting,

(37:05):
and she just kept saying, no, that's not a real date, and
I'm worth the effort. Obviously,I know that she said, we'll trying
to bring him out to coffers thewhole day, but now we know we
eventually, so we did the stupidthing as well. Of Our first official
date was February thirteenth, HM obviouslymathematics, the day before Valentine's Day.

(37:35):
Talking for a while, and wehad met through because the same day that
we started talking being a loco alsooffered me a job. Right, Dan
had just said he was like,do you know what, I have a
roll I'll never get with someone Iwork with, and then they turned him
one. We just hired Maria's damnagedThanks guys. So we'd been talking,
we'd we'd think we'd met each other, whatever, We've decided on having an

(37:58):
official date, whatever, and shethinks the christis sounds like a business decision,
back and forth, like it's areal PLC. Now at this point
we're running but no, we uhwas that we went on our first date
and I didn't know what to dobecause it was the day before Valentine's Day

(38:19):
and I really didn't want to getcaught out. I was like, what
if he's done something, or whatif he's organized something? And so instead
of doing like a Valentine's Day card, do you have it there? So
instead of doing a proper card,I made him what I called a swerve
card. So it's like a littleloyalty card. Because I turned him down
about nine times and then eventually Isaid, yes, sounds like for every

(38:42):
nine swerves you get a date.So I made it, laminated it and
everything a little like loyalty card.It was graphic design is my passion.
It was quite good and still inthe wallet. Note to the second or
the first iteration of it is shegave me one, but she accidentally laminated
a bit of her hair in it. She was like, no, he'll
think of a psychopath. So itwas like yeah, wow. So but

(39:05):
then I had lost He writes deadinto her arm with a fucking come on
too strong. I lost my walletdown in October and then looky you know
she she that was one of hismost raging It wasn't the cards or at
her end of the minute. Itwas he was like, oh well here's
the first iteration. Yeah, Ihave that one, which is almost funnier,
to be fair. But then obviouslywe had that date, and then

(39:29):
the next day was Valentine's Day.I had given him my loyalty card and
he didn't have anything for me inreturn. He didn't because it wasn't time
any thing. They need to goon like. But I had gone into
school because I was still teaching atthe time, and I'd gone into school

(39:49):
and I was telling them all atthe staff for him, you know,
thank God Jesus for a second okayclass story children mentioned like me or not?
Those children still mention Marie and Terrapy, well no they So I was
telling all the staff obviously about ourdate. And we'd actually gotten tin whistles

(40:12):
that week in school, and I'dlearned how to play baby Shark. And
now, to be fair, wewent to a casual dining spot and I
did without the tin whistle on ourfirst day, because again start doesn't mean
to go on like you know onshow on Camden Streets. Yes, neon
the High restaurant that's right next toit's all real super casual dining scatol and

(40:34):
boards. I remember getting tick insidethere one the exact Yeah, man,
your man comes up to me.This is and you can pull your own
ice cream at the end, soyou'll pull my fucking ice cream. I
didn't want a fucking job in here. Do I get a discount out for
for an hour working? Right?You whipped out the tin whistle inside and
neon it was cool baby baby Sharks. She's like, I just learned this

(40:58):
watch played it at that point.I should have known it known she had
ADHD like that red flag not redflag number one, but it was definitely
time she had at this point.But she played baby Shark. And then
not only did she play baby Shark, she then went that kind of sounds
like the Titanic. She hit anote that sounded like Titanic and then started
to figure out by ear how tothe Titanic. In the middle of the

(41:22):
restaurant, everyone was like, didbaby Shark? Everyone's like, guess,
And then next two or three minutesshe was trying to figure out by so
everyone was kinda like, yes,okay, all right, it's gone.
But anyway, I was telling mystaff this the next day and they were
saying, do you not want tosee him again? And that was that

(41:43):
like a ploy, like do youhate him? Do you want to sectually
date. I think it worked reallywell. And then immediately we went into
we had a staff meeting after schooland my school at the time was broken
up into prefabs and we all werein the one prefab looking out the main
route and this white van, notgreat classically turns up to the school and

(42:10):
I we were just about to startthe meeting and my phone rings, and
I just knew. I was like, oh God, he's going to do
something. And now in its infairness to him, this wasn't meant to
be a the ten things I Hateabout you moment. He didn't realize that
all of the staff were going tobe there and all in one room few

(42:30):
about him. Now that all hadjust heard about this, he rocks up,
comes out of the van with thebig bouquet of flowers. Obviously,
all the staff the school are lookingout the window being like, whoa,
this is a bit much. Ourfriend Pete, who who brought down in
his van, starts blaring Bruno Marsjust the way you are the window.

(42:50):
There's still children around at this pointas well, like it was a lot
and this was after our first date, so I've actually kept him around out
of pure sound an embarrassment, becausehow embarrassing will be if we didn't go
on a second day after? Sohere we are to be five minutes such
most of the podcast now this dayfair? I do. Yeah, I
was wanting because I could see thereas a point where Dan was talking quite

(43:13):
a bit earlier in the podcast,and I could see Maria was just kind
of gone, now you can shutthe fuck up now one second, as
soon as I get the fuck assoon as the gate opens them off.
I know that every bit fast ofthat story needs to be told. I
mean, you know, could havebeen could have been done quickly. But
I do. I do like thefact that you didn't pick up on Dan's
absolutely, like how early in yourrelationship, even prior to your relationship,

(43:34):
you were still thinking that men thinklike women Like like that's that's the number
one rule I give to any anywoman early doors in her dating career.
I will say, never once fora moment think he can think like a
woman, and vice versa. Iwill say, I was raised by a
single mother in a house with mygrandparents and four aunts or three ants of

(44:00):
them. We're trying to date you? Then, no, but no,
But I understand how women worked alittle bit more than than the average gentleman.
I was grown up in a housefull of estrogen. Mean, so
I always say I know a littlebit more than some of my mates would.
Oh yeah, yeah, in fairness, but yeah, I mean you
definitely avoided the whole I didn't haveanything prepared for Valentine's Day after the first

(44:20):
date. But to be fair,to be fair, it wasn't Valentine's Day
like from that and also like thewhole idea of say tune, I totally
I was actually in Dan's head theregone here. He wouldn't drop us up
enough because that right then I wasthinking she'said murder or a tune all the
same. It wouldn't have even crossedmy mind that you were going to come

(44:42):
up for anything. Oh you're stickingaround? Are you a tea bag somewhere?
If you want the cup of tea? It's uh oh no. Yeah.
So that that was yeah, thatwas that was awesome. Um,
that's all. Yeah, And DJand DJ and then for so when did

(45:02):
the school and going DJ in fulltime? Like what was the becau is
my first year of it? Okay, actually around this time last year where
the conversation was happening those do Igive it up or not? Because I
learned the d thing over lockdown auditof pure nosiness. I just I was

(45:22):
like, how does that work?And how does that work? I'm such
a teacher. I need to knowhow everything works, and asked a million
questions standing with a stick reach.But I was like, I'd always watched
him, and I like, Ialways loved music, and I'd turned him.
I'd say play this song. He'slike, where did you come up
with that? And like yeah,but like where are we after pulling that

(45:44):
from? Do you know? Sohe knew I had the knowledge. I
never did music writing in school,and I never thought I was in any
way musically creatives. Creatives are creativesregardless. It doesn't matter if somebody hands
you hammer and chisel. Yeah,end up in there somewhere, you know
what I mean. You say that, but if you're having a fucking payperrush,
I do a stick man and it'dbe awful good. Yeah, But

(46:07):
it's because you know you've absolutely nointerest in it. But at some stage,
like if Maria was a you know, an artistic bricklayer, at some
stage you're coming on to work withher, going, oh, no,
oh true gets to go that gusto that thing. You know you would
and you you wouldn't make an orthropolicsbecause you're when you're creating, you have

(46:27):
to do you know what I meanLike this, so I can see how
the tin whistle baby shark went togive me a go that there only training
I needed. But I think Idid it half and half as Also I
did it at the weekends while stillteaching, and I just found myself wrecked
and I was like, it's notfair, Like it's I can't do both

(46:50):
of them justice, yeah, becauseyou don't get arrest. And I loved
them both equally. Like I wasn'tlike I was taking teaching or anything,
um, but I just kind ofsaid, I was like, if I
don't take the opportunities and getting now, they'll just go to someone else,
so they'll be gone. Like ifit's one of those things we're in the
right place at the right time andthings are aligning, you have to kind
of go for it. And tobe fair, like my school we're so

(47:10):
sound about they were always like,you know, you'll always have a job
here, and to be fair,at the moment everywhere's crying out for teachers.
We're all too busy going off beingDJs. Unfortunately, you know the
classic case, that's the real problem. It's a tale as old as time.
All my primary school teachers buck.We couldn't get them out of the
clubs. It was just it wasthe original Handam Montanna story. You know,

(47:38):
we always laugh about that, thatHandam Montanna story. There a longitude.
She played on the Coca Cola stage. They were on the Sunday Yes,
and she got we were for her, said me and all the boys
we were there, and we're like, we down, we'll check out brea
sets. We're all the sun aroundmakes listening to play backed out and she's
on the microphone and I here,chet cheat do cheat the intro to it.

(48:02):
I was like, is that songcoming in? And then she gets
on the wikephone. She was like, I'm gonna try something here and if
it doesn't work, it's gonna terrifyme, and I'm not gonna be happy
about it, but I'm signing itanyway. And everyone was like, what
the fuck? And then you getthe best of both worlds and played the
Hannah Montana theme song and we wererolling around the place as it lifted the

(48:23):
crowd like all the all the crowdsang every word of it. It was
hilarious. I was so worried becauseact to do the quick math in my
head and I was thinking, right, okay, age, I'm sixteen,
which means they were born and ohgod no like which yeah, I had
to take a real punt. Iwas like, are they are they old
enough to get Hannah Montana? Isthat vintage? Now? Like it's that

(48:45):
beyond their time? It really frkedme out. But they did get it,
so it's fine. It was fine, but I would have had an
extent of crisis. Have they notgotten this? Because you gotta follow true,
don't you. There's no because differenttimes where I played know Cheryl Cole
or Girls Aloud, We're like Belcher'sgreat songs, and they look at me
like I ten heads and I feellike I have to sit down with them

(49:07):
and be like, okay, soNadine Coyle, so what it all scarred
but sport, I'll do the fullorigin story. I'm gonna turn off the
music now. I'm an educator andthrough what can I say? But no,
I do I miss the kids,But I do love being I love

(49:28):
where we're at. Now I thinkI'd made the right choice. It was
just terrible, of course, ofcourse, Jesus Christ. I went from
being a fucking civil engineer to beinga stand up comedian. It's like,
yeah, yeah, when you tellpeople that you've done that, it's like,
oh, there's something wrong with you. Yeah, pretty something a little
bit, particularly in Ireland half ofus to do. Yeah. I think

(49:51):
as a country we're very much likeI'm just gonna be paying well yeah,
yeah, you know, just giveme the money and all. You know,
we're very like skeptical when it comesto any creative blind of work because
you're like, yeah, g mustbe a madman for not just taking away
to being happy working somewhere, like, you know, isn't it interesting?
Yeah that that in the country,that's I mean, they spend this bullshit

(50:13):
line that you know, we're theyou know, artists and scholars and poets
and all the rest of it,and they're not there. They're pretty quick
to turn their arts on anything todo creatively at all, unless you're you're
doing some abstract I know, Iknow, I'll tell you some stories off
there about even the Patreon. ThePatreons, no actually know that the stage

(50:37):
and then when was it straight outof school going and fucking DJ djan true
school was the one you one ofthem kids who was making a fortune,
Steve taking money off youngsters. Wish, my god, I wish would have
been things a lot easier. Umno, my uncle, my uncle,
my grand uncle, my granddaughter.Yes right, okay, yeah, I

(50:59):
wish stands baby. Um no,my my my grand uncle. He'll kill
me if you ever heard of me, slay that. But my grand uncle
was if you were, if we'reBritish, would call him, you're a
great uncle, great great uncle.Yeah sorry great, Um yeah, he's
only grand you know, he's great. But he was always DJing and and

(51:22):
when I was I was always fascinatedby it. But my moment I was
always going to get us send adextra Christmas because I make enough noise as
it is. Yeah, um playerin the music because it is so she
didn't want to give you another reasonto be to be doing it, so
it kind of it was always kindof buy one side. And then when
I was seventeen eighteen and getting readyto go to university, Um, you

(51:42):
know I went to DCU and thesociety is there, there was you know,
you could join speach and drama,or you could join for an archery
or Young Fiend of Fall or allkinds of man shit, like Young Thing
of All being the most mat ofthem all. But the the Djai Society
was one that was there, andI just said, that's what I want
to do. Remember got into thatwas twenty thirteen. When I when I

(52:05):
started in college, it was eighteenand I went into they used to do
tutorials and I went in the firstthing that was but fifty people there,
and I was like one of thelands who was actually a really made of
mind now was teaching the class andhe was kind of going, yeah,
everyone could up and do a bithere in front of everyroom. I'm not
getting up in front of fifty peoplein this small room now making show me
to. So I left it andthen it just so happened. It was

(52:27):
lucky. I was living on campusat DCU at the time, and the
way the society's work was you hadto lock away all your equipment at night,
but the d then you can't belocking the way night because that's what
we needed. So we needed somewhereto put the gear. And I was
like, sure, I do likethem on campus, so I took Oh
you're crafty, fucking will hunting,fucking who are Yeah? Yeah. So
I came home. I was backin the equation of the greatest dance song

(52:51):
every has been really so yeah.I went up, went back to the
back to the apartment, set upthe decks and left them there for for
six months, and I never wentto another orial. I just locked myself
in my room for six months andjust taught me. I taught myself to
do it and went back to oneof these sutorials then and they were like,
want to jump on the decks there, and they we haven't seen you.
Sure you were just looking after thedecks and I got on and I
didn't. They were like, ohshit, you've actually learned something. And

(53:12):
then sure they kind of just tookoff from there. So what were what
were you doing to teach us?You plugged the thing in well, like
have you have you all your musiclinked up to on a laptop? It
was I get downloaded all stuff offfucking dodgy you shoot, of course,
yea, not a single song waspaid for and download the music video and
yeah, there's accidentally people talking atthe start of them. But yeah,

(53:39):
I just download music and just tryingto figure it out as you go.
And then even I say that alot of people could have come to me
and go, would you teach meto do it? And I'll always help
people go and do it yourself,because well, the way I'll tell you
how to do it might be contraryto how you need to be told to
do. It's something you just needto do and figure out as you go.

(54:00):
Um, and that's how you kindof get better on it. So
even like with Maria, everyone kindof says, oh, you taught Maria,
and I didn't teach Maria. Ijust I facilitated it rather than I
plugged it in. I plugged itin that cable goes there, that cable
goes there. To be fair,you never also taught me like as a
career, like you know, hewas never like and if you do this,
you did this, you do this. It was more just lousiness than

(54:22):
I wanted to learn how to do. And then when he realized I was
actually all right, and he waslike, oh, this is an option.
You know, we never did this. I could never get covered running
m gigs. So I said,right, well, if I can't find
cover and just make cover, Somake cover. Yeah, exactly. Denny
isn't He's not. He's too he'stoo short to get up to the decks
as well. He's not very dicksedor so outstanding. I love that.

(54:45):
That's very nice. We just putI'm just going to put a mark under
that there on the recording on Audacityfantastic, go ahead. Sorry, yeah,
there's your sound boy for the start. There is that little what's that
mean? On? So I wason Instagram see a little dat and on
the decks Yeah yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, it wasn't Yeah,

(55:06):
that wouldn't be done. He'd bescream at the decks. Yeah. But
yeah, that's that's how wenton yearstrying to get gigs and couldn't get gigs
when it was through university and stufflike that. I was working as a
fireman through university and couldn't get gigsanywhere, and trying to do dance music
because everyone wants to play dance music. I wants to do the big rooms.
And I got tick and so there'sno hip hop DJ. So I

(55:27):
locked myself in my room again foranother two months and taught myself at a
play hip hop and then came backout so I can play hip hop and
got all my gigs as a hiphop DJ, and I became known as
hip hop DJ. And now Idon't have a single hip hop gig,
play dance music. And then everyyear now long at you the biggest hip
hop festival in the country, comeback and go you're the hip hop DJ.
You'll you'll do hip hop. Andtwo months before the gig at Afric,

(55:47):
sit down and go right, let'stry and learn hip hop over the
last year and a half. Well, the kids Internet, do you like
Cypress Hill? Anyone anyone likes letand Cyprus Ellen, nursing Holmes, like
over the Hill? Now I leftit there for you. I left it
there that gate was bringing open.I'm so glad. I'm so glad.

(56:13):
Yeah, so in in in lateright, in Layman's terms, I won't
and like this is like how doyou write a joke? I fucking hate
this, but literally I want Iwant people because you're visually like you're you're
not talking people through what you're physicallydoing. We can't see your magic hands
behind, so we see a dick. What would have been once upon a
town where two records were They hadno place with two I guess digital replacements,

(56:36):
but they still do the same thing, don't they. And then you
can slow down the music. Youcan blend one in over the other,
and what I'm trying to do,you can you can loop them for a
certain amount of time. Yeah,right, more and you can get a
lot more creative with the with thenew gear that's out there. Yeah,
you can still do the wake awakeat which is what most people ask the
weaker Weakeut, this is what Iwant. I know what I'm and also

(56:57):
what I'm trying to do is toexplain for somebody who has no idea that
from the wedding DJ, who wouldliterally has just plugged in the laptop and
just stands back with pre made music, Like is there when you go off?
I have to and you get upand you actually record something. But
this has to you know, you'rebringing because quite often you'll see DJs,
you know, like I've always hada fantasy, like I always love dance

(57:20):
music, but I'd always notions aregoing to Tomorrowland never came about because work,
say, yeah, work, youknow what I mean. There was
a notion when back when I wasdoing a show called Damon Iver where we're
all going to go and we're therewas This will give you an instant slight
insight into artied. We were goingto charter a plane. This is the
kind of carry on that what's goingon at the time, Right, that's
where things things were good, Thingswere good. Never happened. But when

(57:46):
you see, like you'll watch Tomorrowlandand for a hell of a lot of
what the DJ's doing, he's upon the fucking he's or he or she
are miles away from the decks andyou're kind of going. But there's definitely
something happening there. You didn't justpress play on a stock song? Do
you know what I mean? Didyou have you done it? Have you
prepared some of the set? Canthat be? Like? Is that something

(58:08):
that people do? Or what amI saying? You can prep it in
You can prep a general direction,right, I'll tell you. Even even
last night it was I was playingin Dawson Street, thirty different Street.
Yes, I'll go in and like, what might work this Wednesday will not
work next Wednesday? Right, theymight just want the crowd that's there that

(58:30):
night. We'll want to load adance music and obviously thirty seven dowars three
versus Tomorrowland main Stage, two verydifferent gigs. Yeah, yeah, you
know you can. If you're onTomorrowland main stage, they can make a
couple of very cool pre mixed youknow, fifteen minute blends or whatever.
That gives you time to stand upon the decks and get on the microphone
and tell people to relax their anus, as one DJ did on the main

(58:51):
Sta No need, no need.Everybody has quite a lot of drugs on
board. Everybody's anis is really relaxed. I can guarantee you there's But yeah,
you like you can go to youcan go that direction. But like
for your everyday leader who's in thepubs and the clubs and the bars and
the venues in in Ireland, you'regoing in and you're going right. This
happened on Wednesday, and this workedwell. But Jesus fucking it's absolutely bombing

(59:13):
from me here tonight. Now whatdo we do? So I might go
hip hop direction one week, orI might have to go dance music direction
one week, or just like classicrock and ballads and you kind of have
to just ebb and flow with whateverpeople are giving you. And even there
the other nice choose the nicest woman. It's the hardest part of the zeal
with the public. I was goingto that was going to be I was
going to ask the difference between somebodyasking Maria and asking Dan for something like

(59:36):
what she has patients like zero butthere and choose it. Woman came up
to me and she's always in realglamorous look at a woman, and she's
she's Latina. And she comes upand she's like, are you going to
play in Latino music? And Iwas like, no, we don't usually
play that here in this venue.Oh well, the guy that's here on

(59:57):
Saturday usually does. And I'm like, oh, that's funny because I the
guy who's usually and I was kindof sitting there. I was like,
look, I'm not gonna players.I don't think it's going that direction now
it's whatever. So that was bad. That was about half twelves. I'm
playing on until a bit of quarterof the three, and it's a long
space of time, and you know, if you're doing dance music for that
long, people can kind of geta bit fed up of it and go

(01:00:19):
vibe or the energy. And Isaid, I I'll throw on a bit
of Beyonce and kind of hip hopdirection, I move that way, and
then I played Shakira and Sergio Mendezwith the Black Eyed Peas Mashanada, two
Latin songs, and this woman underenough. Why did you tell me you
weren't going to play it? Whenyou do? And I was like,

(01:00:40):
excuse me, Well, you saidyou weren't going to play it and then
you played it, So why didyou tell me no when you were going
to it? And I was like, okay, I didn't really think I
was going to, but just ithappened, that's it. And I was
like, I'm a little bit confusedas to why you're angry with me.
You are angry that I've played yoursong, but just that I heard year
told you that I wasn't going todo it and you weren't prepared to hear

(01:01:02):
or what's going on? And shejust she Then, as I was saying
it back to her, was gettingconfused as to why she was angry at
me as well, but she justkept doubling down, going of course,
She's like, this isn't right andyou should be telling you know, you
should have told me you just playit later. And I was like,
okay, I've played should have masteredfor her email address thee I would have

(01:01:25):
doubled down on the satirical dickhead.I went, oh my, oh my,
oh my, oh my good god. Oh I'm so I went looking
for what you were you in thebathroom because I swear to God, can
I have your email address? Becausenext Saturday I will email you my entire
settlist. I swear, I genuinely. So You're lucky. You're one of
those quick guys. I'm one ofthose guys that stands there and shocking the

(01:01:46):
moment and then they walk away,and then I go, it fucking happened.
And then I sit there and thinkof all the smart, clever things
I should like. And then shesaid this, but when I should have
thought right here. Yeah, butthere's a there's a danger in in and
my method too, because when you'vepulled the trigger too quick, sometimes you're

(01:02:07):
driving home going oh, maybe Ishouldn't have said that. Yeah. The
Lands the other day, I'm I'mwhat some Lands can say. I know,
I definitely can't say, like,there's there's one of the best here.
And we got when when queenn Windid the heat, we got a
can of bitch spray and it's fortrying to keep it. When you bring
her on a walk, try tokeep I don't want attention away. I

(01:02:28):
shoulder one of the lands. Willyou please bring that into the venue that
we've made, Please bring it in. But whenever someone went and just whip
everyone off, show the bitchy andI mean, it's a pretty good gag,
you know what I mean, that'sa pretty fucking good gag. But
I think if I'm to do it, like if he was to do it,
they look him in the face andwalk off. Mine to do it,

(01:02:49):
I think swinging at meat, they'recalling the manager. Yeah, have
that bravado where they can get awaywith that stuff. I'm not one of
those guys that get away with that. Genuinely. Even as you're saying it,
then I can imagine you holding upgoing er this, I'm making a
joke here, you know I can. Yeah, you're you're too nice.
It's the guard look too like,it's the you know, it's it's peaceful

(01:03:14):
kind of guy. Yeah, butlike to be to be fair, I
mean no, no, let's let'sbe honest. Let's say what everyone's really
thinking. People are looking at me, going I can take him, They're
not looking at him they're not lookingat me, going he's a peaceful kind
of guy. They're looking going,I can definitely slap him around. You
See, it's all it's all perceptiontoo, like if like if you here's
a thing and this is a realdangerous experiment. I mean, thankfully you

(01:03:37):
do have a woman, because thiswill could right shave off the chin,
smake and shave your mustache into thisjust here and hold up whatever the fuck
you want. For the patreons,you can guess they've never seen it.
But for the audio listens, youget some mustache. I'm talking about.
Nobody's nobody's quizzing that guy. Nobody'spissing that guy. I'm not claiming that

(01:04:00):
as one of my costumes because you'remind at some point, because you have
I guarantee you's not praying, Harry, I have best. I do have
my Lizabeth Arden cream thought an alltime, so to be fair, I
have he has the best Halloween costumepotential and he won't use it right here.

(01:04:23):
Yeah, okay, So who heis as a person right If he
carries around head and shoulders a fewwhite flakes on the shoulder, he's not
Dan Duffy. He's Dan Duffy Ribers. You can see, Yeah, you
can imagine Tom's reaction there on hisface. I think his eyes are is
the that's the podcast over, guys, we are done. Thank you very

(01:04:45):
much everybody for coming. Thank youvery much for Marianne Dan. No more
to be said after that, becausewe will not outdo that. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. That is so deepto the core that is able to
stop and corrigion her because every yearI'm like, no, because I love
it. I just I'd be thatguy walking around the nightclub on Halloween with
a bottle of shampoo. It's oneof those costumes you have to go up

(01:05:08):
and ask about and you have toexplain and then they kind of go if
any, if anything, should bethe driving force behind you to become super
successful, that it's so that youget to a point where you don't you
don't even you know, like ifTiesto is walking around and they've done a
play on his name and it's like, I don't know, I covid Tiesto

(01:05:28):
or I don't know right, butit's shit. It was off the coff
I'd have to work shop at theSpit bottled around small. But what I'm
saying is if anything, do weall find have to find our mus somewhere,
Like if any driving factor, it'sto get to a point where you
go out walk into any nightclub inDublin and they'll go that's and just do

(01:05:51):
the facial expression I just did,turning. Yeah. Yeah, we met.
I might pronounce lasting wrong. MaverickSaber Saber, Mabrick Saber. Yeah.
Yeah. The other day and oneof my friends, she's my hype
woman, and as soon as shemeets people, she's like, this is
Maria. Here's her Instagram. Lookat what she does. She'll always advertising.

(01:06:13):
But she was showing him my Halloweencostumes and he was like, well,
what would you do for me?And I said, I was like
easy, light bulb lightsaber next,Yeah, yeah, I mean you've got
You've got. He's got two names, he's got Maverick. You can stop
there, stop there. Do youknow what I mean? I always go

(01:06:34):
an extra lay when you'd have tohave an actual goose againder on his shoulder.
You know what I mean? AsMaverick, and you know what I
mean not to be so on thenotes because as you know, with your
with your pun costumes, you can'tbe their own. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, it's so talk us throughsome of your I sound now like something
my fucking Virgin Morning TV. SoMaria took us through sex lug show.

(01:07:00):
Please talk us through your process.Some of the costumes are because what I
fucking love is that you don't getit on the surface straight away. You
go and it just on folds andon folds like oh honestly, yeah,
you can't wear them out is thething I've discovered, because it is a
case if you have to stop peopleand go, well, actually it's funny,

(01:07:23):
because if you have to explain,it's not funny. So it's one
of those it has to be apicture where the caps also the case you
can't wear them out because three orfour man team trying to hold up.
That is also true the dress andthe makeup of the lightning and the camera
quite the process. And you wereyou were who were oh god long pony
tail coffee coffee who oh Arianna Grandey Yeah, pet I did to be

(01:07:48):
fair walk around coppers in with thelife size, well human size coffee cup
that was all around me, andit was it was a Halloween night.
It was quite a busy night.And I still managed to get myself around,
and I think there's a video ofme doing like the Saturday night dance.
I still maneuvered it. I wasvery proud of myself if she went

(01:08:08):
around hustling all the nightclubs that night, because she won one best dress and
then went I a trying me armin another place, went to three different
venues and one best dress in threedifferent she went home with six. Richard,
We see that's what you do,isn't it. That's it's all worthwhile.
That's capitalism, It's shamelessness. That'show that's how you're gonna end up

(01:08:30):
with a millionaire wife. You knowwhat I mean? This is you don't
fucking you gotta You don't worry aboutpeople's emotions or demorality of situations. You
just got smash. There was abunch of people tried their hardest. Well
whatever shit they've slapt on them thatnight, I will say no one else
tried. I was looking around andI was like signment class. That's what
made me think. I was like, I can I can do the round
there. But now like you caneven see in some of one of my

(01:08:57):
costumes from last year, I wasMolly May from Love Island, but as
Molly Maylone and as and tremendous.I made a cart from scratch and now
it is hard, right, Butif you can just see the video here,
oh my god. So the cartis actually the top of a table,

(01:09:19):
so it's a wooden like slab typething, and I've Dan standing here
trying to hold it up and balanceit. That wheel is not a real
wheel, it's just it's just apiece of cardboard on the front. So
the pair of us, I'm lookinglike I'm actually leaning on it. I'm
holding it up. Dan's on theother side and Jadell's They're trying to get
my angle and I'm like, turnthe flash on. It was a very

(01:09:40):
stressful job. There's a multi facetI'll tell you, Halloween. I both
love and hate it because I loveit because it's Greg Brack and it was
about the place, and it's alwaysfunny seeing like different same media outlets will
pick it up and if I wantto horror share this or the Q one
or two, I've done next wineand then it's gassed. But I I
can tell you three weeks like leadingup to it, and like all the

(01:10:01):
packages are right at the door isthat that's my drindle and I'm like what
and you're Jewish? Now what that'sin there? Oh? Sorry? Yeah,
because I was like, it's forChristmas. Sorry, I always get
it wrong, but just the amountof stuff is kind. And she won't

(01:10:21):
she won't tell me any of them. She don't tell me any of the
gust ships. Even I'm left inthe dark until he comes down the stair
Blue, So she st she wassitting there, like I come up to
the back room. She's got ashe's got a ball cap on, painting
herself blue. There's like paint marksall over the wooden floor downstairs. And
she comes down and I'm like,right, I'm the Waken Way to the

(01:10:44):
West. I'm like what. Andthen I see it all put together and
I'm like, oh, grant.And she keeps them all completely secret from
me all year, which yeah,Blue, Oh yeah, I was trying.
I remember. It was absolutely tremendously. We would I would put both
your instagrams in at that in theshow notes because it will do the world
of there's like, it's a lothave you been have you been tempted?

(01:11:08):
Because obviously being creative and stuff,because it's a fucking lot to do and
the impact is good, but doyou like throughout the year, then how
do you keep that like for wantof a better phrase, and you will
appreciate this that freak inside you andnot say listen, not gonna make gift
cards or something to get this shitout? Do you know what I mean?
Because I think the gift cards thatis brilliant, like instead of a

(01:11:29):
little let's see shop and work withor even prints like because we've we've she's
the creative artistically in the house,so like the big graphic wall the whole
way up the house and it's justone of the hundreds of prints, like
where it's like I kind of cluborange but instead of clubs as coach like
not sure if you say that wordon the oh god, you can't.
Yeah, I literally if if Ido, I've framed it and I've moved

(01:11:53):
it because I've read one the officehere. If you do, Lee actually
gave me or one of our firstprints of You'll be grand your med count.
It's like like she's one of myShe's actually the most returning podcast actually
listened to any episodes if you goback and listen to any episode, everyone
between her catching her tip in theback of a chair and stuff like,
they're just stories. Would like ifyou want to find one percent genuine person

(01:12:17):
who will give you the the roadmapas to even starting out small, Like
god her, she used to comeme, she used to stand up.
I forget her name. She wasan amazing she She was so up your
street when it came to obscure satire. Who's the doodles? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, she she had she wouldlike. Her actual stand up was

(01:12:40):
some of the most genius dark shit. I wish she kept it up,
but I don't think she was gettingthe you know they they hit the the
you know the hit that she wasgetting from from her drawings. But that's
the thing. You have to dosomething like you have to. I mean,
yes, you had djan as akind of creator out like, but
the yeah, mad shit packing itall into one night. I mean that's

(01:13:03):
sandy stuff and sandy short of shitgoes mental well. As I know friends
all the year preparing for Christmas,I am the same we already have,
Like I'm already on deepop. Itry to be sustainable about it because a
lot of stuff I buy, I'mlike, I'm not buying a brand new
oh there are porpoises dying just asas a result of your Amazon I actually

(01:13:30):
talk the name just one tier runningdown her cheek. It's just to be
clear. I try to use asmany recycles good as possible. But now
we m saying the work your workshopping them, Yes, I workshop them

(01:13:53):
throughund here. So because a lotof the stuff I look for is very
specific. So I have a lotof niche would be the word. Yeah,
Like I have a lot of alerts, you know, like the Facebook
marketplace and stuff being like I needa virgin Mary costumes, daff I'm like
waiting until all the Nativity plays foradults over just you know, they only

(01:14:15):
they only happened very not very there. We stuff like I remember one year
she got a wig made for thedog, like made for the dog.
He be refused to wear it.I was very upset about it, and
I still think there's a huge amountof potential for that costume, but I
just don't think he's going to getinto it. So I had a wig

(01:14:36):
made from black hair. I didit up in a bun I had a
little champagne glass to stick on hisball. Oh my god, we're going
to be Kim hear dash sound.He's just not a cooperating dog. We
need him. We did in aminute silence there for that one night.
Drop a tea on the ground thereout of appreciation for that one. That's

(01:14:58):
Jesus Christ, don't mind. Wejust broke the fucking internet with that one.
That's oh my good god, thatis fucking tremendous. It was also
the day he got his vaccinating sorryfor himself, and I was trying to
wrestle him into a fucking into abin bag and trying to sell the tape
a champagne flew to his arse.I actually had to make an emergency costume

(01:15:26):
that night because I didn't have his, and like, people got quite upset
if they're like eight o'clock. Ohyeah, Like as soon as October hits,
I got multiple messages being like,it's the month, are you ready?
You should? I mean, realistically, it would be smart for for
charities to get him behind because it'sgathered serious fucking snow now at this stage.
Because that's the thing I used tolike, I used to be advertising

(01:15:49):
myself, Like you know, theway when you're a teacher, you're meant
to have everything on private and youwant to you change your name to Irish
or whatever. I used to havemine as mazer by Jan because everyone's coming
mass like, yeah you had allthe like things. And now I'm like,
oh, actually I'm a DJ now, so yeah, everyone ever listens
to my Spotify best someone someone bookme for your wedding. So it's great.

(01:16:15):
Now I can I actually have somethingto advertise. Until then I was
like, look at it, butI look too far. But people do,
like people can't help, but theylike to just jump on it because
it's just an easy, fast memeto share. In that you become the
meme. Like remember the lads thatdid they all dressed up as a selection
box. Yeah, yeah, youknow what I mean. And that's got
shared high up and low down likeand it was you know, simplistic and

(01:16:36):
what it was like. But it'sstill in my memory. Do you know
what I mean? I don't knowany of these people, but yeah,
I think it would be it wouldbe remiss of you. There's do you
know if you had a if you'rea marketing manager standing over you right now,
they go, my manager, Yeahyou're that's my job now is And
you know I was only saying thisthe other day, like you need to

(01:16:59):
go your danger. Oh my god, you're two friends. But now that
like that was my job, andlike now that she's my project with the
d D and where I can gosee all the shit that I was too
nervous to say when I was startingout. I'm telling her exactly what say
the stuff I didn't perfect. Igo, no, you should be saying
this, no one I fall Well, when I had that opportunity, I

(01:17:21):
was like, I don't know,but she says it and then it works,
and I'm like, he's almost nobodygets that opportunity to have somebody who's
running the road before you, likeand if they have the well, I
don't know what the DJ world's lippen. In the stand up comedy world,
there's nobody looking back over their shoulderto tell you I can tell you that
much. Nobody is like, yeah, but no they with the with the

(01:17:42):
Halloween costumes. Where where I saywe, I say we. She is
she's concept in a charity idea.We're trying to we're trying to figure out
the mechanics of it, how wouldwork, and we want to try and
make a big night of it.I'm I'm not sure if you want to
go into it, but no,no, until you finalize it. Phenomenal

(01:18:04):
pun in the name, I'm sureit's purely just to tell you the name.
It's mainly the name. I comeup with names of stuff and then
I come up with the theory behindit afterwards, Like I've done this with
multiple like even DJing. I'm like, so we call it this, and
then they're like, Okay, whathappens. I'm like, I'll flesh that
it later. Yeah. Yeah,you'll always find the road back, just

(01:18:25):
you know the destination. You'll alwaysfind the road back. Jesus. The
same with joke writing. You knowwhere you want to get go, and
you're just trying to draw the roadback and not get canceled in between,
Like you know what I mean.Yeah, but you probably have as well
that like the more you think aboutsomething, the more you sit down to
go I need to think of ajoke, the harder it is to do
that. Whereas like that's why thingscome to me randomly throughout the year.

(01:18:46):
But if I were to sit downand say, okay, I need one
more costume, you come out withsome crap. I was under pressure last
year because I tried to do anextra costume, and I did dress up
and those photos will never reservice becauseit's the worst thing ever was Marlin Monrone
and teasing. Do you know what? Sometimes you're saying that yourself because you
said yourself quite a high standard.But you can if you could find an

(01:19:10):
alternative, because everybody needs an asideand the b side, like, if
you could find an alternative, liketrust me, there's jokes I've dumped and
I've said them to people like I'vegot my fucking god low hanging fruit.
If ever, that's notice craft,that's that's beneath my craft, And I'll
mention it to, you know,to somebody who doesn't know fuck all about
writing material or structuring an hour,And I go, Jesus Christ, I

(01:19:33):
fucking love to see that. Andyou're like, ah, I'm wrong about
because sometimes you can fucking you canwrite for the gallery. You know,
you gotta think about create for themasses to a small bit like they go,
you know, they're literally sitting onthe toilet. Most people are sitting
on the toilet when they're appreciating yourwork, and they're going swipe. Actually

(01:19:55):
I'm gonna swipe back. I'm gonnasend that to somebody, that's Exacinitely,
I'm looking to us cooperative. ButI did that that day that he didn't
get to dress up in his costume. I had to make a makeshift one.
I just came to me because Ibought a load of paper and I
was folding it into fans. SoI created this dress out if you nobody

(01:20:17):
folded paper back and for whatever,I made a dress entirely out of fans
and I was wore it only fans. Amazing. And then I went back
into school and was after I leftthe school. Now most of the parents
knew I was doing the DJing whatever, but like obviously the school had to
inform them that I was leaving foranother career to pursue something new. And

(01:20:38):
I at this point, my allmy profiles are public. And the kids
I thought, are like they're they'reold enough to understand how Instagram works,
and they were having a little luckand one of them announced to the class.
I didn't correct her at the time. I absolutely should. She announced
to the class she said, Iwas and I was looking at all your
costumes nothing. She was like,yeah, I was on I was on

(01:21:00):
her Instagram that I also saw youronly fans picture to the class and then
only afterwards. I was thinking,I was like, you're taking off wrong
kids, like a home be likewe're called in today. She's cheaping only
fans. I heard another career path, another career path drove in a brand

(01:21:20):
new murk. Oh, she lefther dignity at the gate, but she
came in the brand new. I'mlike, listen, respect to anyone who
does it. I just, Ijust I was like, no, woman,
taj, I'm sorry. Oh geez, they listen, probably clarify that

(01:21:41):
one. Yeah, to walk outof yeah, to walk out of teaching,
I guess is there's there's going tobe a trail left behind you innocence.
It's like when you imagine teachers justcome out from behind the cabbage and
they go back behind that cabbage inthe evening time. They don't have lives.
It's like you know, when you'reyou're kid, you you've the kid
out or whatever. Even when youwere a kid and you'd see your teacher

(01:22:02):
in the supermarkets and legging, ohyou've blown. And then you said one
of the money fans or your dadsees one of the most stuff. Yeah,
I won't sorry already, No,we we veered away from that,

(01:22:27):
from the concept of the the charity, like I purely even if it doesn't
win into the podcast, I justwant her to tell you. I'm allowed
to hear the name. Okay,prepare yourself people, bleep sides, okay,
and if anyone wants to sponsor this, you'll get it on bleeps so
someone can get it off the groundfrom the BP. Just can't go for

(01:22:50):
bleep um, so I will.I have this idea where people dress up
and they do like a kind ofhave you ever seen RuPaul's drag race,
yes, or like her you knowthe concept whatever. I'm not fully built
for that show. It's a lotfor me, but you know the whole
idea of whatever. So people onHalloween you create costumes that you've made in

(01:23:16):
a sustainable fashion so from you know, different charity shops, whatever, and
they do like a runaway competition,prize for best dress whatever. And we're
going to call it Saint Vincent rupaulseDrug Rays. Oh my god, that's
very proud of That's the thing.I came up with the name and I

(01:23:42):
was like, now, what canwe do with this? I ran it
past my my guy my local guyclub, at home. My mom was
the bob with them and she rangme. Look. Stephen from the club
was exacting about events they're trying todo fundraisers, and I was like,
oh, somebody like run this byhim and see what you know, get
all the lads to dress up anddrag or whatever and do do a drag

(01:24:03):
show. We gas people buy ticketsand you know, go to the fun
race. When I said, Iwas like, right, so it's demitted
Rupau's drag race. You get allthe girlfriends to dress the boyfriends up as
lads and they all go out onthe stage and they perform a drag and
that's in your cell tickets Happy Days. And he was like, oh,
like sounds very good. Yeah,justin he was like, doesn't like in

(01:24:23):
the in the Black Arts of Nowhereand County Me. They just can't imagine
they'd be like, let's try thatone. It's getting the right, it's
getting do you know what. It'sfunny you say it because the same room
and why I took on the comedyclub in the Hill where I am in
the same room. The guy whobrought who asked me, he years years
and years ago I hosted. That'swhy I said that was a nice room.

(01:24:45):
Actually I hosted a Lovely Girls competitionalternative Lovely Girls, and I mean
the people here are big, likeI forget in cities people get small like
they do you know what people becauseyou don't need all you don't need that
much back and on pure Wexford briefdo you know what? You don't need

(01:25:06):
all that? Men get fucking massivelike I mean, even small people are
massive here. It was. Itwas honestly one of the funniest to see
lads who who just went you knewin the heart sould this was so far
beyond anything they've never done anything likeand they've put the joy that they had

(01:25:30):
and the crack in it and thesilliness and had there been a blueprint I
e. RuPaul's drag race where youdo this slot drop and it's yas Queen
or all that ship lads. WhatI don't know. I think I think
I think that I think like forgoat clubs and stuff like that. I
think they'd absolutely get into that,they'd love to get into it. And

(01:25:51):
I think it's it's if you havea couple of characters in the dressing room,
like that's properly lean into it nowthat it's one of those things you
need to lean into. It wouldbe funny. Oh well, now,
I mean you could you could approachone of the longstanding actual charities, you
know what I mean, I don'tknow what's saying. Vincity, the Pole
themsel you know, they might getsued by Dragon after me the crossover episode,

(01:26:15):
no one is expecting to be oldOne's clothes bought on the same Vincit
de paul I love what you're wearingis uh? Is this is it human?
I don't know. Thanks, it'svintage. So what's coming up next?

(01:26:38):
So you're you have your I sayrecurring, you have a residency in
the Academy then yeah, so I'mShe's it's kind of gone a bit mental
for me now recently, thankfully withthe state that dublin them with a lot
of menuses of closing. Thankfully,it's going to be a direction for me
now, mondays, I mean Ryotbarr on the keys there it's on Monday,

(01:27:00):
every second Tuesday and thirty seven DoszarStreets every Wednesday and thirty seven Dossar
Streets every Thursday. I believe I'mstarting in a new spot in town that's
aboutally announced next month. Every Fridayin the Academy and every Saturday. I
could be anywhere. Um, Icould be anywhere from Cashell to Bettlefast.
To be honest, I kind ofjust slowed around differ venues. We've missed
each other at a few venues.I think the Limelight was the last one.

(01:27:23):
I think, Yeah, you weredoing a couple of shows in the
Limelight two and we had we hadjust been up to see Kevin Hart when
Kevinhart was here, Yeah, doingthe few shows as well. I think
you were kind of just in aroundthat time. It was around April time
as well, when you were inUM. But we yeah, we've we've
followed it. We've seen a ourachother's names on posters when when we're in
different venues already like, oh thosetwo guys hate each other, great,

(01:27:45):
let's put them on. Yeah,brilliant. And the coming at it from
a like it would have been primarilyI suppose for the longest time it would
have been a male dominated kind ofyou know, it really was, But
I suppose the door is opening.You know, it's not like you have
to do a monstrous amount of blowkey lifting. It's not block laying you
know what I mean? So itmakes damn you know, it makes sense

(01:28:08):
that. But it also makes sensetoo from you know, a female point
of view, like it's the musiclike have you you obviously do have different
taste to degree like, but isthere a feminine touch to it? To
a really good ear? I wouldn'tknow what I'm listened to. I just
like good tunes. But do youknow what I mean? Could you go?
Or is it just fucking hard hardregardless? Maria started in a new

(01:28:30):
bar Doll Society, and it's justit's painted pink. Imagine Barbie in a
bar section of my brain. It'slike I was, literally I was gonna
say, Maria, did you actuallyjust open a fucking bar? Thanks so
much for opening this bar for mespecifically, really appreciate she needed to cover
there last week. And it's alllike Beyonce Brunches and Taylor Swift and all

(01:28:51):
that kind of stuff need to coverlast week. And I was taking a
week off after Longitude. She wassetting some of the come me on Friday,
and I was like, Ware's like, I wish I really had someone
who could government, and She's like, look, really, just fucking do
it it's a right ground. Iwent in and textually going out you getting

(01:29:11):
on, and I was like,the only way I can describe this is
um a straight white man attempting tofigure out what women want and really poorly.
It was just like a straight mangoing women like this and playing they're
gonna look at me like, okay, we might have liked this in nineteen
eighty nine, you know, playinggirls just want to have fun Sidney lobbery.
You all love that, don't you. But then she goes in and

(01:29:32):
plays mad obscureshion like fucking stuff offthe High School Musical two soundtrack, and
then they'll go mad for it.So she has a better idea. There's
a great Paris Hilt in me whereshe's d jaying and she's like, I
love djaying. I just play musicthat I like to listen to. The
people happen to like it, Iget paid for it. It's great.

(01:29:53):
I'll just play what I like tolisten to, and if they happen to
like it, that's that's a bounus. But it's mainly just major music and
have a good time. That's thething. Like Natasha will come out with
obscure fucking like choruses the songs ofNo, what is Sweet Suffering Jesus that
like every word barf bar Yeah,yeah, I've never heard that song on

(01:30:15):
my life. And you it feelslike you have the lyrics tattooed on you
somewhere, like you know, what'sthat extend I was? I had left
the laptop open and stand up tendsto come up an awful that on all
my fucking everything, you know,and I'm a jelly, you know,
I'm at the Jalli. He's theIranian English, fucking amazing, and he
did he has a bit and itis definitely a bit where he would seem

(01:30:39):
that people have left him a noteat the at the door and it gets
panted up to him at the endof the show and he reads him out.
Nobody's doing that. It's absolutely fuckingbit like these. But he does
this bit about or he picks itup and he had sang blue on a
TV something by Blue well, sohe not Blue dabb which, by the

(01:30:59):
way, I have a brief storyto tell you a word. Sometimes music
does not translate back and forth betweengenres. But you know, and he
did this unbelievable like how he kepthe kept on saying, I fucking hate
Blue, and he just burst,incredible singer burst into a Blue song and
I look up and I'm just playingwith a look up, and Natasha has
every fucking word and she's off.She's gone every world on Blue. I'm

(01:31:23):
like the obscurity of knowing every butoh, by the way, that's that
this is perfectly and Maria, becauseyou love you're you're properly weird, like
there's no two ways about it.Like she is like when I again,
like yourself down I worked in thebar in college and stuff like that down
in Limerick, but it was sometimesI just I used to get a great

(01:31:45):
gig working in there, not inthe bar. If we setting out chairs
and tables and stuff like that inthe function rooms, it's like, this
is great. I just suck off. And I that our house was straight
across the way, so I'd bringthe lads to come over, and how
he had a deal work. IfI feel finished these rooms to can I
get paid for six out gone?Yeah, but it's going to take you
six or seven hours? Yeah,Okay, I'm just saying that if I
get them all done, can IAnd I'd opened the door let in six

(01:32:06):
lads put them all out. Itwas one particular night and how things can
sometimes go wrong, so you'll besaying you're safe bed for anything, because
you can play what's in front ofyou. Right. They had booked for
this Girl's twenty first a band andthe band were a middle to late aged
couple and one was on the guitarand one was on the piano. Fine

(01:32:30):
singers, the two of them.But what they tried to do, rather
than just hitting the classics just doElton john to stuff, you know,
they tried to vocalize what was mostdefinitely dance tunes of the nineties and it
was some of the greatest moments inmy life to watch fifty twenty to twenty
one year olds crying to because itwas so bad and blue was the one

(01:32:56):
where the your man, where thegirl had her father go up and just
pull the plug and that's it.And I'm watching from the back with all
my online housemates gone, this mightbe the greatest moment of our lives,
and this guy up there gone.Everybody knows this one. And they went
hard. They didn't they didn't goI don't know how they into this.

(01:33:18):
I mean, they did it likethey were playing fucking slain like he was
going yeah, but I mean comment, oh he was so it was.
It was he went all the waythrough. Now imagine this on an acoustic
guitar and a keyboard. Um blue, but come on, I was.

(01:33:43):
It makes my tones curl still tothis day. But it was still one
of the greatest musical moments I've everseen in my entire life. You're going
alongside like there's no Spotify will savethis scenario, Like nothing else going to
get him out of this whole,Like, um, so and so you
have a residency is adult's house?You have a residency. Sorry, there's
a fox going ninety The fox isthe dreaming out of the streets. And

(01:34:10):
we heard, we viewed the microphonestraightway he's going to go there is there's
nobody has to wonder what the foxsays. Basically, it's there. It
is. It's being a bastard outsidethe door. You know what he says
back to the fox anyways, Iknow what it is. But it's screeching
fairly loud from ituside that window aswe had to mute the microphone there as
you're telling that story, we're likeshouting the dog yeah only only that I've

(01:34:32):
soundproofed this pretty well. I builtthis bloudy thinking that soundproofed pretty well.
But if I crack open that door, there's a farmer has put a load
of sheep into the field next door, and it's just it's horrendous. It's
absolutely horrific. But um, youyou have. Residency is adult's house.
It is called where's it probriety inFrances straight, Okay, gorgeous, big

(01:34:54):
fan. I'm in those different spots. I'm there. I'm in there a
good bit now because only after openingand some kind of help setting up everything
and establishing our music policy and everything. Basically, whatever is in my brain
at the time, whatever obscure MileyCyrus or high musical song I think of,
it gets played down. Baby.I've lad a large group of gals

(01:35:17):
in the Hodown throw Down and itwas quite fulfilling. Great. So I'm
there. I'm in loads of differentspots, like I'm in Riot, I
do thirty seven Dolphinstra, I doa few other spots. I do loads
of kind of events and stuff.Looks like I'm flat out all week.
You do as as you were saying, you know that it is the male

(01:35:38):
dominated industry and Royce has been andthe door is kind of slightly open and
now but now I suppose one thing, I'm lucky to be able to have
a front row seat to Maria justkicking the absolute shit off that door.
That door is getting kicks completely cleanedoff. The fucking hinges with this one.
It's not even you know she shestarted, she's at a full time
of year now. The growth thatshe's had been incredible. But it's great

(01:36:00):
that you can you can, likeliterally you can feed yourself, so you
know you're doing something right, youknow what I mean exactly, Yeah,
there's a roof over the head andwe can give two dogs to feed there.
Put it. But it's it's greatto see like that. Um,
you know, even stuff as simpleas like you look at some corporate shit.
Yeah, I'm like, for years, makeup brands will do a store

(01:36:23):
launch and that's just some ugly mugraph. Makes no sense to have some fucking
here you blow, you get,you get someone with like a personality that
pops at you straight away. Althoughit's saying that the brand and straight end
and it's saying that now we cannotif you want to identifies whatever you want
to identify and still have your beardand put some makeup on. You're still
allowed, okay, because things canswing back pretty quickly too. But you're

(01:36:45):
right, what the fuck would yoube doing putting the likes of imagine a
head like me? Well, howare the girls from mech you enjoying yourselves?
Right here? This one now comingup next from this about the world
and let me off by Dicklin learninghere we go. Don't you back that
man hugged me? I heard thaton the Frame Cut podcast. No,
I heard, No, I know, I'm not. It's just the first

(01:37:08):
one that came to mind. Itwas still day. I will take that
to my I mean, there weresome great days of my life, marriage,
you know, having a kid,but getting home by declan Ernie at
the three Arena, like there wasforearms. I believe that's strong strong.
He grabbed my ass like so itwas like there was too much going on,
but by a lot of people's standards, not mine, not mine.
I was okay. I've had I'vehad a couple of brushes with country music

(01:37:30):
stars. Nathan Carter smells amazing.You couldn't see that. You can see
that dot No smells Immaci incredible,truly breathtaking. Do you know what you
can't typically transcend you know, televisionor whatnot, but dimensionally I can actually

(01:37:51):
see his smell is stunning. Yeah, he spares no expense on his fragrance,
but at amagine he'd never you know, go into a darkening room just
put on his headphones and turn Panteraup to the fucking last, you know
what I mean, in its underpants. At the same time, where is
it. I like to think thatthere's a potential of that between the kind
of people I like, like youtwo, I could see that happening at

(01:38:13):
any point, Like we just gotto need to and I need sepulture or
something, just just to blow myfucking brains out for the big just funny,
and we talk about it all thetime. And like the industry that
we're in, and obviously the industrythat you're in is much the same.
Where you come across these people whoare considered celebrities and they're massive public figures
and stuff like that, and it'sjust so mental to me to see them
sometimes, like say backstage somewhere andthey're just doing really just regular human shit

(01:38:38):
and you're like, yeah, fuck, he does that too. That's why
it's like the teacher and the supermarketagain, like exactly, yeah, like
it pulls back the curtain. You'regoing, oh, Storms, he loves
a cup of tea, Like,I can't damn if you don't do it.
I was going to pause this textit and go fucking do it.
I can't have to do you dothat. It was that one of them.

(01:39:01):
It was like do it, doit, do even if it's even
saying storm as you better be readyfor this next bit, next bit.
Yeah, it's just like when you'rein that kind of industry, it's just
mad seeing it like they they heardholding back on some of the mad stuff
like it's a yeah it is.But also then you in a moment like

(01:39:21):
that where um say, like withthe two Johnnies, like it's insane to
see the level of still normal youknow, van driving blokes like and you
can still put them in a tenthousand seater. It's like, well,
and it's put the transcends. AndI think people like the day of not
not not putting the down right,but the day of she either needs to

(01:39:46):
do no, I know, holdyours, I'm ready. She either needs
to do what she's doing if youget me like on Omegascale, million dancers
foking super and going, I thinkI'm looking at this is actually I think
I might be looking into the insidethe mind of a fucking something crazy because
this looks so incredible, Like butit's no good for Beyondest to come all
out and herself like I'm still likea deal. For me, I'm like,

(01:40:10):
she's doing just the right thing,comes out again. Oh yeah,
fucking my fingers smell like fallouts.You know, he was a lot being
up in the antas and then thingsunbelievable. But for me, Nathan Carter,
God bless him, but I can'tI can't buy not not the country
music. But that's you better bedoing something fucking unbelievable or you better be

(01:40:30):
come across really normal one or theother. You give me this middle space
has been this amazing fucking I'm asuper celebrity. But you're going, you're
you can put the John in thethree r in the thirteen thousand people,
but then you'll see them playing Juniorbeing next week. Literally literally that's what
it's like, you know, Andactually did the friend of ours actually got
on got engaged at the two Johnniesin a finis the the thing that they

(01:40:56):
did the most great park and court, the kind of festival think that the
Two Johnnies did. Our Mace DJFlip was on the line up and he
proposed to his girlfriend on stage atthe at the Two Johnies gig in front
of whatever many people was in there. Shit, I wish I did this
episode because I was on there.I did. I filled in for Smax
yesterday. Yeah. Yeah, butas you say that, somebody Neil,

(01:41:17):
you know Neil to be out kindof producing as well outside and he was
going He's mentioned about somebody else gettingengaged at at a different gig again.
Yeah, but like like the ladswould nearly hold the mess free as well.
Like, you know, there's allabout our celebrities though, like I'm
fairly I think I'm fairly cool andchill with Like We've met some pretty decent

(01:41:40):
celebrities before, and I've been reallygrand with them, you know, chataway
to anyone who know me. Butlike we were where where were we on
Patti's Day the food festival both PlayerMarkets in smith Fields and Fast and Ope's
Maria literally grabbed my arm with likefucking superhuman strength. Doyle in front of

(01:42:04):
Doyle and and Doyle Herder and lookedat him like kind of freaked, and
Doyle out a little bit. Butthen she's been around the mega stars at
all these festivals and stuff like that, huge artists and musicians, and then
has just been totally normal with them. But and Doyle was the one that
got the heart racing. I'll tellyou now, I get I absolutely gut
it. I get it because there'sa nostalgia in it, right. And

(01:42:26):
two times I've ever been well,one absolutely awestruck was me hallam or heartick
down and Dingle, Yeah, svedhim. I served him in a hotel.
I worked him before, and likethat just jaw on the because like
legendary status struck years ago, youknow what I mean. Like and but
also cool as like walking around shakingeach other, shaking everybody's hand like he
sent It's like, oh my.And then one other time was and I

(01:42:50):
ended up I was actually friends withthe chat before I realized who his dad
was and he was producing for hewas actually I think he was. He
was stood in as head of TGCarr and Richie Conroy is his name,
and we're chatting away and they seesocial Yeah, it was like, my
he were talking about contract would youbelieve were working as contractors are direct for

(01:43:11):
RTI at the time, because hewas oh god, no, what Always
my dad always told me that.I was like, oh, did your
dad work for RTI? Oh withthe susy contractor back in the day.
You know, you would have youwould have seen him probably at some stage,
and I'm thinking, how could itbe he's done? Conroy, I'm
like, oh, shut the frontdoor, your dad has done. I
said, I've known you six monthsand you never once brought it up.
But I'm gonna have called him downbefore. I mean, yeah, there's

(01:43:33):
loads of dons. You can't justthink you were a super like godfather fan.
So that owl over there, that'syou goes, Oh, that's a
done, that's a don. Yeah. I think my my like, I
have a notion of myself that Ithink that I could sit and have cocktails
Beyonce. I think I actually coulddo it well if you put me in

(01:43:54):
a room with Daniel o'dohnald. Ever, I don't know what's gonna happen.
If you want at the door.Oh no, oh jesus, oh just
lovely, lovely, I saying,I don't know what it is. I

(01:44:14):
again connected to Halloween. Have youseen my Daniel o'donald pumpkin? I want
carve face onto a pumpkin. Igot myself a treat I like to buy
myself and gifts when I'm drunk formyself in the future. And this this
one that came from China, shockingly, and but it took about a monster

(01:44:36):
eyes let. This is a bullsized and blanket please blanket with Daniel o'donald
really well printed in like this isquite a soft blanket, really good college.
I love the fact someone in Chinaprinted, gone, I have enough.

(01:45:01):
Maybe this is it was writing madelike it was the custom print or
anything. It was. It wasavailable to buy. They had them at
Stockler, but of course, obviously, after buying one for herself, she
then decided, you know what,I'm gonna buy one for mam and not
say anything and not saying it's fromme. I'll just buy it, get
it sent there and say nothing.As soon as they landed, the mother

(01:45:25):
ranks right, aw, what theto buy that for? Straight away?
That yeah, yeah, no,I get it, I absolutely get it.
Listen to Jesus Christ, I couldtalk talk to you all night.
No, not at all, Jesusjob trying to edit this down. No,
no, let me no editre meknow it. If you dry out
shouts, that have to do somethingabout it. And fairness has been continuously

(01:45:47):
good. Crack guys, really reallyto let anyway back to you and this,
um god, so long since we'veseen you fer this is this is
the thing. We're actually friends andpeople are just listening in. This is.
This is not an interview at all. It's just people listening in,
like you know, So that's thekind of beauty of it. And when
it rolls an hour roads two hoursand so don't matter. I know,

(01:46:12):
I know, I know. Tisnot to worry, not to worry.
There's um worse things happened to seelisten, where's so what? Surely festivals
coming up before between? Have youEP? Are you playing EP? Maria
Mura is confirmed. I'm currently negotiating. Hi. They need a fucking you
need an R and B fucking hiphop. That's the guy. He's literally

(01:46:34):
the guy. Thankfully, now we'rein we're in the right circles with the
right people. Yeah, that's appreciateour work. So it's more just a
matter of finger cross touch wood.They don't want to think. It's more
a matter of when I'm not soI hear, I'll be okllect baby on
the Friday at the Calcutta stage frommidnight two am. So it'll be just
when all the main acts, themain stage and stuff closes, you know,

(01:46:56):
when people are wandering up for somethingto do, so pop by and
plastage. She'd be the one dressedas possibly a hybrid between the tractor and
a plant. Got it would behidden, meaning somewhere in it. Have
you not saying every time I DJfor Coca Cola, I have an item
of Coca Cola brand clothing that Ifound on eBay or something. I have

(01:47:16):
ears. Oh I know, Iknow, mom again, I had like
Coca Cola botow earrings I had,I have a jacket I had. My
favorite one was I had this diamontein crusted bag that looked like a can
of diet Coke. I saw that, I saw your pictures that I was
fully sharp. Was like, Wown'tthey have kidded her out? This is

(01:47:42):
oh wow, See that's that's acompany woman. That's a company birthday basis
with her with her DPD fast way, all those person. Nay basis all
the presidents the so is their website. So what it is as well to
just put your your your Instagrams becauseyou're very active. Yeah, we're Instagram's
the best place. Yeah, she'sat Maria Lalza M A M A or

(01:48:05):
I A L O L. Iread it. Do you know what I
still read? You know when youread things and you've read it again,
you go, I'm enjoyed reading itdifferently the first time. Do you ever
get that? You're like, I'mgonna still kick. I read Maria Paluza.
I like that that's the festival namethat's coming up next year. Yeah,
I don't. I just and Ithen I'm sure down the lineament,

(01:48:27):
Oh that's not what it says.No, I prefer that. I prefer
getting the round. One of myfriends she was like, she's like,
did you see that meme on herjody. I was like, well say
it again her doughty. That waslike her dot I e because they haven't
written as doot. Yeah, butthat's gonna be adorable. That's like something

(01:48:48):
Na would say. Call it herdough If you see that thing, we
really get it. Um. Butyeah, she's at Maria Lalza. I'm
at DOFI the first grant. Iwill put actual links below in the show
notes. Two four beautiful, fourbeautiful people between the dogs and yourselves and

(01:49:09):
outside. Thank you. I apologiesto anyone who was listening to headphones or
in the car. I was feelinga little bit, you know, let
Hardick going to work with Morton orJenny. Just go in the middle of
it. Definitely wake you up.One well, thanks brilliant, thanks the
video gang you very much, Maria. And then how class, how class

(01:49:33):
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on their Instagram again. I'll putit down below in the show notes so
you can just click on through.But as Stan Duffy and real all or
you'll find them. You'll know knowhim the second you'll find them. Thank
you very very much. Powerful right, become patreons. Become patreons, get

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