276 - Amy Walsh

Possibly one of the most swear-filled episodes I've done in a while. This was outrageously good craic with Vancouver-based Galway comedian Amy Walsh.
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moving on to today's guest, abrilliant comedian, and I do you know
what? I knew she was fromgod Away, and yet for some reason
I explained myself in it as towhy, for a moment I thought she
had started to come from Cavin,because the combo of our accent, now
the vancouveryan one, is starting tokind of elongate it and drag her up

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to cabin this moment. But infairness, we got it back down.
We got it back down. Iwill warn you if you are soft in
the ears, which is perfect forthis, there you'll see the explicit.
I don't think I did more swearingin the podcast ever, but the two
of us just went off on onebrilliantly. I think we may have renamed
her podcast, but I think forboth, For definitely for Amy, I

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think she was getting a lot ofbad language out of our system, given
that she's based in Vancouver. Butlook at jesus with some crack, it's
the mighty Amy Walsh. I likeyour little set up there. It's not
you wish. I'll show you nowquickly so I sound proof. It's pameron
rain outside. It's messy as fuckat the minute. But I built.

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I built this, like we movedback down to the country, like and
we have a small little at theminute, we're building a house up the
road. But I was a smalllittle log cabin. But sure you that
you couldn't, like not with theyoung lad, like you couldn't do anything,
you know. Yeah, And itwas Jordan Lockdown. I was doing
a load of kind of like we'retalking about like zoom. It wasn't zoom
comedy, it was kind of itwas more kind of kind of taking the

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piss out of people before an hourlike but yeah, and I went,
well, Jesus, I better,I'll buy a garden shed, That's what
I'll do. I went to lookon they'd gone bananas, like fifteen quid.
This is the thing that you couldpoke your finger through. And I
just waked up how much timber isin it? And I went, okay,
So eight hundred quid of far superiorstuff, insulation everything. Yes,

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And I brought out a carpenter forone day because I had an idea how
it wants to go. But youknow yourself when you see somebody in action
who knows who's at it every day. I brought him up for one long
day, paid him for the onelong day, and I went, I
was paid by numbers. Now he'smade the frame for me. I can
just fill in the gifts, youknow, Okay, right, yeah,
so he did the kind of thefirst bit, then you just made the

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rest. Yeah, yeah, likehe did the hard stuff, like he
did the kind of get a realsquare and getting a fucking but like like
I said, there's a storm howlingoutside now and you won't hear it,
like because of the sound proof andstuff like that. Yeah, Jesus that
it's I swear to God, I'llkeep I was just somebody offered me going
way more than that for it,because we're like, no, that's exactly

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what I need because it's fully wiredand everything. And I have a big
green screen wall there as well,and that's glass. But I was like,
yeah, right, have to goand fucking build another one, like
you know what I mean. AndI we're now getting into the business and
building podcast studios for people. Isthat my job now? Like, which
wouldn't be a bad fucking job,but it wouldn't be the worst. Yeah,

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you know, it was like itjust it makes it work kind of,
you know, when you need tobe righting or doing ending. If
you're all you're doing is going downthe room, it's hard, do you
know. But if you have aplace of work to go and actually have
to put on shoes, that's Ithink that's the That's the isn't that it?
If you've had a pair of fuckingshoes, then you're going to work.
Like But if that's what one ofmy friends says to me, He

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goes, like, put on yourshoes, even if you're just in the
house, He's like, put onyour shoes, then it'll help you,
like concentrate. But if you actuallyhave to walk somewhere, that makes the
world of a difference. Yeah,and it's only it's only like twenty meters,
like, but it's yeah, it'sout to do a bit of work.
Like, you know, you cannotobviously ours around, but at least

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you're in I don't sleep in herelike it's yeah yet anyway, but it's
some it's it's only when you're bold, do you know, I don't I
I don't know. Somebody said that, you know, you run into people.
They had these what would you callit, I suppose passive aggressive statements
that seemed to be except Chris Kentdoes a great bit about it. But

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some elderly lady going, oh,you have him well trained, and he
does a whole long I'm not bornin a bit on him. Now he's
done it. But it's a bunchof times, but it's essentially about the
well trained husband Olympics, like youknow, like it's fucking brilliant. And
somebody said something like that to me, Oh yeah, well now you know
when you be sleeping on the couchand I'm like, no, we can

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still have a row. We canstill have a row, and the plenty
of flywood line around we can putit between us. I'm sleeping in that
fucking bed like you know what whereabouts? Where do you that we moved back?
We were we were in Dublin forynks like twelve years and then we
were out and is scary and itwas an attached It was from that neckative

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woods like she was like townking placeand bullshit, it's middle lockdown like rendy.
Then they're naurs and just went,I really really want to move to
where you're from in Tipperary. Celtiberary'slike yeah, she always loved it here,
like she'd like yeah, yeah,and the thing is it's accessible like

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you'd be in Dublin and forty five. Do you know Cork and forty five?
Yes, yeah, it's actually agood spot like geographically, yeah,
it's very it's it suits me downto the ground and you can actually you
can actually do something here in away. Yeah, you know. And
nobody not everybody, nobody's looking toomuch, you know what I mean.
Yeah, Like the day it camewas we were dealing with a neighbor who

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was I don't know, they dugup some of their fucking internet or something
something to build her next to it, and like the war that was about
to break, I could just seeit, like these posh people just haven't
fucking war with each other, andI'm looking, gone, this doesn't I
don't. I can't align with thesepeople because you should be able to go
I'll get it fixed. No,I wasn't good enough. They were both

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gone, well I mean it,and whereas around here you might burn somebody's
fucking shed down, would you go, I mean do another shed? Oh
yeah, you know, yeah yeaha solution, yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
It just doesn't seem to be thatlevel of fucking like anybody who has
moved in around here from like citiesand stuff like that, and they're on

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that vibe. They're on that vibefrom all of about three minutes and they
get brought down fairly quickly. It'slike community out in the country. Yeah,
where you are you louder cavn am? I told you five minutes and
I beg your pardon. Sorry,do you know what's happened? Though,

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I'm listening to you and this happened. I get mistaken a goal or male
all the time, right because Ipronounced my t hs. Yeah I thought
in friend as, I thought youwere male. But every like and that's
that's the only thing, because that'sso accents don't change that much. I'm
convinced around Ireland they just slight theinflections. So the male accent is actually

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the Tipperary accent with t hs becausearound here the eighteens and debt Yeah,
that's actually a big conversation I hadwith my Canadian friends recently, the fact
that I pronounced my t h's Becauseit started off I said Thailand and they
were like, what are you saying? And then they were saying it's Thailand
and I was like, but likewhat And then we have a huge conversation

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about how Yeah, we'd say likeThomas and Thomas and like all that or
whatever. And then I was like, oh, wait, a lot of
Ireland don't say their ths, no, and yeah. Still it was just
yeah, mind buggling. I waslike, oh my god. Actually it's
only a small few counties that actuallydo. But what I've noticed is seen
you on TikTok and Instagram. That'swhy I knew i'd feel out west,

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but I didn't want to jump toconclusions. But then when what's happening is
your influence of Canada has elongated someof your vowels so they get a bit
more. And I'm going, wait, one fucking second, I didn't I
think she was eat the eastern sideof the country at all, let alone.
No, so you saying I havea Canadian accent? Now, no,
you're turning to a person from areyou getting maner with money as well,

(10:24):
just from no. The worst islike when I came home. I
came I've been home a couple oftimes now since I moved out, and
people are like, oh, youraccent now, you're you sound Canadian.
I don't. And then I comeback here and they're like, you're so
iris I can't understand you. I'mlike, which is it? Like,
I don't, Yeah, you're nevergoing to wait, but yeah, one

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tiny change at all, it's like, oh well, clearly, clearly yeah,
she's And heaven forbid North Americans thatyou'd say something in an accent that
they don't know because you'll attested thislike what oh what wild And it's so
funny when they're like, oh,you know, you have an accent,
and I'm like, you have anaccent as well, you know, like

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we we all have accent. Thehen walking up the road there has a
fucking accent when it when it,you know, oh god, And it's
so annoying, like there's so manywords that like, it's like you in
the context, they could probably guesswhat I'm trying to say, you know,
but they are just like, oh, well, I don't know what
you're saying. It's like I'm askingfor water. I'm in a restaurant.

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I'm sitting down. You're a server. I just said some water. That's
big, the biggest one, becauseI have to go down water. And
it's like, for fox sake,and that's that's America too. That's like
if the D You're like, no, no, but you you're saying it
wrong. I'm saying it right.So like there's no D in water,
there's no D. No, No, exactly, I've I've ran this one

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into the ground many times. ButI'm moren't happy to say, like I
spent seven and a half minutes orderingone cup of tea of a woman in
Vegas one time, and I wasthe only person there, me and her,
but she was a signaled as afucking pig the same wat choice you
know yourself. No, she tobe fair, she had no time for
that job either, like you know, and she just said no. She
didn't care that she couldn't she thatI was off her train track was running

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one way and if I was slightlyto the left of that not happening.
Tea and I get a cup oftea, tea any former t tea,
any I tell you now, Idon't care if it's dandelione, t T.
Just give me tea hot stuff.Sorry, honey, I just I'm
not I'm not picking up any ofthis. Oh man alive? How did

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I get us? How did thisend? I'm more or less reaching over
the counter. Then she was callingsecurity to pick up the tea bag.
They were there in a little boxslide and I pointed that the fucking like
but she do you know it wouldhave been fucking hilarious if it was a
prank, if there was a prankvideo, Yeah, because they were went,
you fucking bollocks. She went sevenand a half minutes, still trying
to order to you of the womanshe took, she like she made some

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ballocks of me, Like, howwould they say? They say tea?
Oh because I didn't say breakfast tea? Oh fat my life? Yeah yeah,
yeah, yeah, because I didn't. You didn't put a word in.
For jesus, I didn't specify thatit was breakfast tea. But sure,
why would I say breakfast at fouro'clock in the afternoon, like when

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it says when it says English breakfastday. I'm like, no, it's
just a bit of tea and itdidn't come out of England either, so
relaxed. No, they didn't.Former colony of England perhaps, but not
fucking England. So are you inVancouver is it? Yeah? Yeah,
in Vancouver now for the last twoyears, just over two years. What

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was the did you do a bitof a tour round or were you like,
did you know somebody over there?How did you exit? Stage left?
Extreme left? Yeah, And actuallyi'd never been here, I'd never
been to Canada, and I hadwanted to move over. I was kind
of between Australia and Canada just becausethat seems to be the only option for
Irish people. Of course, couldyou possibly go anywhere? It is what

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it is, tom My forefathers havedone it for as many as a year.
In fact, you know, theGalwegians built Canada. That's that's what
you need to know. And I'mworking on the railroads now, it's you're
working in the build Oh well,I nearly was. I nearly was working
at the buildings. So basically Iwanted to I wanted to leave Ireland for

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a bit. I was like,I just want to move and live somewhere
else, and then I was thinkingabout it, and then I met a
fella, and then I put iton the back burner for a bit,
and then COVID happened, so Iwas like, fck okay, I can't
go anywhere. And then as soonas the visa's opened then for Canada,
I was like, right, I'mgoing there. And I chose Vancouver because,

(14:58):
honestly, because there had been somany there was people putting up Instagrams
and Facebook and I was like thatlooks class. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was like, oh, youcan go up skiing and snowboarding,
neither of which I had ever done. Ah, don't you mean to say
skiing? Come on you? Snowboardingwith alfish stick. And then and then

(15:18):
in the summers, the beaches andall the camp and and everything it looked
class. So I was like,beck it, I'll give it a go.
And I knew a couple of peopleout here, and then yeah,
I made the decision. I cameout and I moved Vancouver. I heard
the comedy was all right here aswell, so I was like, all
right, let's we'll give it ago. And I was in yeah,
long distance relationship then for a bit, and then he didn't want to move

(15:41):
here. I didn't want to movehome, so I, uh, we
broke up then, and I waslike, right, I'm staying for a
bit longer. So yeah, Ijust that's how I ended up here.
So technically, like if the Instagramin Ross Common was unbelievable, you would
have made dared telling me you're justa sucker for a good story. The
are amazing, like it's if they'rea good TikTok on battle there. Like

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genuinely, I was like, Iknow so many people ask me, They're
like, did you visit beforehand orwhatever. I was like, I hadn't
step foot in Canada, Like Iwas just, so, what did you
tell VISA you were going doing?So you don't so in normal times you
don't need to have a job sorted, but during COVID you had to have

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a letter of proof of employment.And there was this company, construction company
called a few good Lads and Irishthat's the most Galway sounded fucking thing I've
ever heard in my life. Wild, absolutely wild. A few good lads

(16:51):
course to her, a few goodlads and they they basically were like this
construction company. They were like,right, we'll give you this letter.
Used to come work with those Ican't remember now, was it? They
said, I guarantee like four weeksyou have to come work with us or
whatever. My friends got it throughthem and they came ahead of me,
and they were like, oh,you don't have to work with them at
all. If you don't want that, you just get into the country.

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They that's it. And I waslike, all right, okay, And
I was like, I might getlike a few stories out of it if
I work in construction. So Ihave the hard hat and the fucking the
hive vision in the cupboard, stillclean as a whistle. Because how it
worked was like you apply for shiftsand then they'll accept you if they want

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you, right, and I justI didn't get accepted for any of the
shifts. Would they want a smallwoman with no construction experience? Oh,
you've none at all? Like youwere just going a bit. I never
stepped up in a construction site.Literally, they were giving it to everyone.
It was great. It was raining, so I got into but I

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didn't. I didn't get any constructionoff. My dig have been landscape,
so I was doing have been landscapingthrough them for a bit, which loved.
Yeah, but I didn't need thehard hat. Or the I visit
all a few good lads, Ifucking yeah, wild and like they're a
proper like work in construction company aswell. Like I don't know how I

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think they just were like, fuckit will do our best to get Irish
people in. Like we had azoom eeting before I moved over as the
training and there was about got fortypeople on it, I'd say, and
that was like just one training session. And then they were just yeah,
so many people here. They're like, when I moved over, We're like
to come over with a few goodlads. Yea mad, absolutely mad,

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an Irish fer over there. Mmhmmm, of course lads. What am
I saying? Like, of courseexactly. There's like there's I can't I
can't explain to you how many Irishpeople are in Vancouver. Like it's honestly,
I people had told me before Icame, and then once I actually
was here and I saw all ofthe fucking jerseys and the fades haircut like

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you, like, I'd go,I can't go a week without without seeing
Irish people, like really mad.They're everywhere, absolutely everywhere, like and
they'd often be in the in thecrowds for for comedy as well. What's
it like, is there any Ialways imagine people to go to Canada.

(19:26):
Less headers go to Canada, thenwe'll go to Australia. Australia, do
you know, like fucking head bangersgo to I'm sure there's lots of nice
people go to Australia, but anyof the fucking head bangers I knew if
they were going abroad, it wasalways Australia they went. Now, they
might mature there after a while,but you knew there were a fighting every
Saturday night, Like you just knewthere were fucking lunatics. Like I think,

(19:49):
yeah, I think they're definitely,maybe not as much as because I
remember years ago as what it wasthe same thing for like when we'd see
people like form my school and willbe absolute lunatics on Australia. But I
think it's kind of evened out abit now. But yeah, it's it's
a lot more kind of chill andrelaxed here, like the life is very

(20:11):
kind of everyone's yeah, very chilledout. And then Australia. I think
it's going to change though now becausethere's so many people I know who aren't
Headers that are are in Australia aswell. But fucking I don't know how
there's any young people left in Irelandand Australia or sorry in Ireland the amount
that are in Australia and Canada nowat the moment, I shoot, you
can't. You can't talk to anybodyhere who's in management in any kind of

(20:34):
place, and you can't get workers. You can't get them, can't get
yeah, Irish workers, but anybodygoing them at all, they are gone,
you know, you know, inthe in their twenties when you can
work, when they can work,work and you're in your twenties, you
know what I mean, you canyou could fucking be session in five nights
a week and fucking still work likean animal. Yeah you know, but
no, can't be got. Andif they can, so don't want to

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get. Like my sister was talkingabout the crowd she's work for, like
you nearly want to shoot some toget fired, like and it's a high
end place like yeah yeah yeah,like you can't, like like there isn't
that desperate for workers. You can't. You can't keep this and stuff.
Product needs to be turned out herein Ireland because you know, there's strong
it's there's a strong amount of companiesthere, but they can't because they're all

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gone era she will fuck up,will be like, yeah, you know
that's the thing. Everyone's just like, nah, I'm gonna go over there,
and you know, there's more formingover there. And even when it's
really expensive here, they're like,I'd rather be here than at home,
which is mad. Yeah, Isuppose it'd be another thing if you were
I suppose you like you. It'snot like you moved to you know,

(21:42):
type a you know what I mean. You moved to a place where people
kind of sound like you have asimilar sent to humor. You know,
you can find your own tribe,like in a place like Vancouver, as
you said, there's fucking Irish headseverywhere. If you want them, you
can go hang out with them too, to talk about the county championships or
whatever. But it is it's it'snot a home away from home, but

(22:03):
it's a kind of good breakaway.Like isn't this like one hundred you know,
this is the thing. Yeah.Like it was even talking to my
friends in Australia and they said theamount of people they bumped into over like
the Christmas period, the last fewdays that we were in secondary school with.
They were like it was absolutely fuckingmad, But it was also kind
of nice in a sense of likethere is still that bit of home,

(22:25):
like massive at home, you know, you're and I think there's a comfort
in that because at first I waskind of like, oh fuck that,
like I'm not not going to Canadato hang out with of course all Irish
people, you know. And thenI got here and I have a bunch
of Canadian friends, but I havea bunch of my Irish friends as well,
because like it's nice to not haveto explain yourself or like like I

(22:49):
have a podcast myself with two comedianshere and what it is. It is
call soft soft for Us, Yeah, after us for Us? Is that
so? Because did you name it? The three of us kind of named
it? Yeah, it's nearly likeyou know, a week for me,
like kind of it's it's a reallycork phrase, like it's kind of an
Irishy thing like soft for it,like you know what I mean, Oh

(23:12):
there just sounded like an Irish Iwant did you even name that? Like
no, it was it was kindof like the three of us kind of
I don't even know how we cameabout trying to name it was impossible,
and then just because we were like, oh, soft for us in a
way of like, uh soft forus? Did it? I'm like,

(23:33):
did I have any part in this? Like I don't remember. No,
It's kind of like when we're whenwe want people to be like nice to
us as well, but also kindof soft for us in the kind of
like uh not being kind of abit well, because that's as soon as

(23:56):
soon as I saw the name first, because I'm not joking, I wrote
down one or two things so Icould remember Vancouver. I could remember because
I just I didn't know what partI've written aliens in there, because I
just have a feeling at some pointwe're gonna end up talking about aliens.
I don't know why, I justbut I wrote down the Canadian comedy scene
because I wanted to ask you aboutthat. But I wrote, are they

(24:17):
soft CONTs? I genuinely wrote that, And then I went a podcast one
second Stop she knows all about thesoft CONTs. She even fucking named the
podcast about calling out soft cons.Ah for Fox say She's gonna be p
Yeah, we couldn't. We justcouldn't stay couns like the name. That's
why it wouldn't be an amazing nameof a podcast. Soft counts. I
love that that Yes, half guns, that's now you're going with, that's

(24:45):
your goal with yeslf counsyet I that'sthat's another word like now they find cunts
a bit offensive open here as well, not as much as America, but
but I try here two like JesusChrist, they've got a bit fucking so
yeah, like and it's it's onlytis only off the fucking ground. They

(25:07):
lickd it like because you're going tocome here. It's our heritage to say
that word on the daily basis todescribe loads. It doesn't mean like we
say a nice way yeah somewhere.It could be a big compliment as well,
commends on the context. I wasjust like, oh, he is
the best count. He's on't goingto drink stuff, oh maddoute. But

(25:33):
then if you do mean it aslike an insult, then like it's still
not like oh my god, likemy ears are bleeding, you know,
oh you can't you know, butuh yeah, that's something that I still
like the girls, like we talkevery day or whatever, me and the
girls on the podcast. And thenI'd say once or twice a week,
I'll say something and they're like aturn a phrase or a word, and

(25:56):
they'll be like, what are yousaying? Really? Oh? Constantly like
I stuff that I wouldn't even likethink about, just random phrases. Like
even the last day, I waslike, oh, I was trying to
what should I say. I'm tryingto not let you rise me. And
one of them was like, noidea what you're saying. And I was

(26:18):
like, get a rise out ofsomeone, and she was like, oh
okay, but just like the formationof the word, it's funny. I
don't know what you're saying. Yeah, it is, it's mad. I
think we're probably more open because we'vegone everywhere as Irish people. I'd say
we're probably more Our brain is workinga bit harder, I think because we're
just you have to. I don't. I'm not sure why. Is it

(26:38):
because we we are attached to Europetechnically, and we have had to go
all over the world for one reasonor another, so different influences have come
back. But I know, likeI said, the tea thing and you
I won't let you rise me.It's just one step away from getting a
rise out of me. And nowJesus could I can't. I can't make
out what you're saying at all.I know, you know, it's weird

(27:00):
because like I yeah, like that, I'd be I'd try and at least
get the context of what they're tryingto say. You know, before i'd
be like what just or you know, just trying to figure it out a
bait. But they're just instantly likeI don't know what you're saying. It's
like, just use your brain fora second. I don't think they ever
had to, you see, becausefor the longest time, shuretters just you

(27:23):
know, you're just I supposed tobe like meeting somebody in South Krey who
never had to leave South Carey.I never met anybody from that wasn't from
South Kirey. They just don't haveto. You're like, you know,
just don't have to. Fucky,you came here, you came here,
you change your shit, which isbad one way. That sounds like someone
from Kerry, all right, Ithink maybe as well, Like I don't

(27:48):
know, I worked in I workedin a cafe and go all away from
there like sixteen to twenty, like, so we like always had tourists coming
in and everything, So it wasalways like trying to figure out what the
other person was said. So mabe, I don't know. I've the patients
surved as well, but I Idon't know. But what it is,
yeah, yeah, I I've askedpeople this before. Nobody can ever get

(28:11):
to the bottom. I don't know. It's a big Maybe a lot to
do with the fact that Telly toowas from everywhere, well, Britain,
North America. I guess, youknow, to a degree you'd have you
know, I mean, Jesus Christ. You listen to some youngsters now and
this here a sound American because theydon't leave the fucking outse like, you
know, because it's just the Telly. Do you know. Also, there
was a big thing I remember afew years ago that a lot of kids

(28:33):
started talking like pepper Pig because they'reBritish. Yeah I know, Oh no,
he looks like you're about to getsick. I swear to god,
it came up in my throat therea small but yeah, it's just And
I've loads of British friends and followers, but they know full well they don't

(28:55):
want to act themselves. They're like, we're sorry, do you know what
I think? The British accent isthe best thing about them sometimes, I
do, you know what I Ido take a I do. I think
when people think of the general Britishaccent, like they think, you know,
Mary Poppins, We're about to conqueryou do you know, that's what

(29:15):
they're thinking of. But like there'sloads of England and Britain that doesn't have
that accent. Like so like thenorthern accent in England cracks me up,
do you know, Yeah, Iaccent. I love the Northern like English
people as well, like, oh, there's definitely a connection. And with
myself and and Jeremy Bryden, withthed Tom and Jerry show, we find

(29:38):
numerous ways of ending up talking aboutfamous people, well not famous but kind
of sub famous people like like fromthe north of England, and we all
end up doing the accent and weas we've had people make connection with us,
going oh, we're connect more connectedto you than we would feel it
in London, if you know whatI mean. It's like what the fucking

(29:59):
lom than focum you know, wella bit you know, so it's like,
yeah that there was an awful lotof Irish immigrants as well, off
the north as well. That's probablyyeah. Actually, speaking of Irish immigrants,
I was over in Newfoundland. Doyou know about Newfoundland? It's that
where the maddest accent, Like theyhave an Irish accent like that. Yeah,

(30:22):
yeah, yeah, yeah. Soit's it's the most easterly point of
North America and it's this island offCanada. And it's so since the seventeen
hundreds, Irish people have been goingthere for like the fishing industry and all
of this, and then obviously duringthe famine then mass exodus as well.
But so they have this mental accent, so it's Canadian but mixed with Irish.

(30:48):
So they say, like they'll betalking in Canadian accent and then they'll
be like the car on the bar, like it's wild, absolutely wild.
And I had heard about this placeand I was like dying to go.
And then one of my friends hewas gigging out there during the year and
he came back and he was like, they would love you out there,
They would fucking love you, AndI was like, grand I want to

(31:08):
go. Like, so a coupleof weeks ago I went out and I
did a gig there and honestly,like being Irish and like going into I
went into a souvenir shop and thewoman, Jesus, it was like the
biggest celebrity had come in. Likeyou were like a souvenir. Yeah,
I was like it was wild.I ended up chatting to her for like

(31:29):
twenty minutes. She came out frombehind the counter, give me a big
hug, give me like a littlebit of art and everything, like when
she heard my accident, she waslike, oh are you Irish? And
then like it was mad. It'shonestly speaking about a home away from home.
It truly is. Walking down thestreets. The sound of the music
is all the same, so it'sall like trad music. They're even singing
like Irish songs and everything I wasit was like I was in Disneyland.

(31:53):
I couldn't stop smiling. I waslike, this is the closest thing I
can get to home that isn't home. It was mad. I suppose put
in a nearly in a more attractiveway rather because when you're home, it's
home, and there's responsibilities in beingat home, and you're not specially at
all, there's just another cunt.But at least there you're like she is

(32:14):
our savior. You're like a child, a talking child of prag. Yeah,
gone down, the child to prag. That's the biggest compliment I've ever
gotten. Jesus, Well, youknow what your next Salloween costume is going
to be now, I know,don't little child to prag? Put me
outside the house and hope for thesun. Oh yeah, it was.

(32:37):
It was brilliant though they were.And also they're like the crack was ninety
like they were unreal like they theyjust had the same sense of humor as
us. The best crack, LikeI was, someone was a friend's dad
and he was like like, oh, I was chatting or whatever, and
he goes, where are you're from? And I was like, oh,

(32:58):
Ireland And he was like, wellI can tell that much. I was
like, I like you. Therewas no compliment there is like yeah,
you can't come on now tell mewhere from specifically English? But yeah,
it was just the same same senseto humor, just like as soon as
you meet someone, they're pulling thepace out of you. You know,
that kind of sarcastic which I misshere, Like they're they're lovely and all,

(33:22):
but the sarcasm wouldn't beat their bag. Now, yeah, I noticed
that, and you wouldn't realize youmiss it. Like I lived in in
Boston for a few months, andthen I lived Florida for another few months.
I say, I don't remember muchof that three month period. It's
all all of Florida. Was itthe J one J one and fucking J

(33:44):
one and a half? I'd sayI was. I should have gone home
a long time ago, but Tommydragged it out of it, you know,
Oh Jesus, Like that was theone thing I missed because especially coming
from here, like I just findthat's why I kind of get on with
Westerners too. There tends to bekind of a geezu. You get caught
off at the knees, like,you know, if you get above your

(34:06):
station at Hall, which I fuckinglove that because that's my favorite. Oh
fucking hell, anybody pat me onthe back? I hate, like even
like comedy club here now, likeand people, the owners of the bar
like, it's a fucking amazing room, right, And yeah, while I
want to tell them it's an amazingroom, we all know it's an amazing

(34:27):
room, but we can't say itto each other. They're very happy with
the sold out nights every single month. Yeah, but they will never say
it to me, and I don'twant them to say it to me because
we would end we'd all be inthis weird triangle of fucking niceness that no
timporary person has ever been comfortable withyou. I don't even want to fucking
shake hands. I just want togo, come on sound I want that.

(34:52):
People go oh no, But doyou not want to tear down those
walls of im No? Because ifI did that, I would fall into
a being a portal of ship andgood for nothing on a daily basis.
That is the foundation and structure myskeleton. I cannot fucking give away that
level of fucking I'll die in myfifties now for sure? Would that keeping

(35:12):
all that inside? Tip men giveneach other compliments. I've never heard about
it, no way, no,no, no, no, no,
it's no is it? Is itin in Tip? You do a monthly
show? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah. So it's in a town called care
which is I mean, ironically coincidentally, I suppose it's it's a very touristy
town, but we know we don'tdeal with the tourist trade at all.

(35:34):
Like it's got a giant fucking castle. This ridicuously gorgeous castle in the middle
of it, like it is thatspelled c A h I R. Yes,
yeah, everybody to be fair,to be fair. But see what
your brain did there. Your brainwent, I'm here and I definitely called
that CAHR. But you went,I'm gonna exactly. You can figure it
out. You figured it out.The two Johnny's have their podcasts and they

(35:59):
run the radio show from there aswell. Okay, yes, yeah,
yeah, yeah, I knew theywere doing it from Tip as well.
All right, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah. So it's it's I
mean, I don't know if sleepis coming up, Yeah, it's it's
And I mean there's what's interesting isthere was no form of theater culture there

(36:19):
whatsoever. It's just kind of musicI guess was big. But sports number
one, sports out and out sportslike huge, like no theater to speak
of, like within fifty kilometers,like nothing that people in the first couple
of months, first month or two, like you know, people are coming
but their arms folded kind of goingthrough. But by now, you know,

(36:40):
you're getting people coming in and fuckingfun shorts, you know, having
a great idea. Yeah, they'retelling me about they're telling about comedy specials
that they watched them, like,ah, right, so your comedy people
now, yeah, yeah, it'scool, it's cool to see what's Yeah,
it's that's really good at the rosslevel. Because these people that would

(37:00):
have no more considered stand up comedy, they would have known of the three
or four famous stand up comedians inIreland and facts eight, I didn't even
consider where they started. Just allright, they must have been the center.
They just grew out of the groundin Yeah, like a guy described
as me one night at it wasa show just out the road, which
is kind of the nexus of theidea of starting a comedy club, but

(37:22):
in a more role of place.And this old guy just kind of I
say, old maybe fifty five sixteen, you went, I thought of stand
up comedy or comedians in the waysame way I thought about astronauts, in
that I didn't fucking think about himat all, But I just just the
way he described it, I lovethat so funny, and I'm kind of

(37:42):
going, oh, you're you're aligningme with an astronaut. Okay, all
right, but he wasn't. Itwas just just never in his sixty years
on the planet, he considered pointA to point B. Just they were
always at B in his head.Do you know you didn't you don't consider
Buss altering as a youngster, doyou know what I mean? How he
got the way he was Yeah,you know, like so and for him,
like he was going seeing this inthe earliest you had an opening act

(38:06):
who's obviously newish enough, and thenyou had you and I've never heard of
you, but I enjoyed it.And now I know that I can enjoy
stand up comedy without haven't fucking seenten specials of theirs, you know.
So absolutely, it's very very coolto see that the base base level of
it now and a year later,people kind of becoming comedy people. It's
their jamming, unbelievable. It's reallyopening them up to it. Yeah.

(38:28):
Yeah, and they see it.Oh there's other yeah, things that can
go and enjoy it. Yeah,so other than just the one person.
Yeah, like people have said,we went to a comedy club up the
country. We weren't cheating on yourI'm like, no, go go see
more than shit, like you knowwhat I mean. It's yeah, life
comedy that's on brain. Yeah,it's like getting it at that level as
well. Yeah, And these arepeople like from the age of twenty,

(38:50):
maybe eighteen even I guess it's eighteento fucking seventy, do you know who?
And they're all on the set withthe one plane. They never,
never, once, didn't know.They just makeup of a joke, didn't
know the night of a comedy,a comedy what it was, nothing,
nothing at all. So it's coolin that sense, you know what I
mean. That's very cool. Yeah, but still I can't. I can't
in no way comfortable with people goingthank you, like it's been said to

(39:14):
me a couple of times, thankyou so much for that, and like,
get the fuck out, don't getyou bought to fucking take it.
OK, just stop working with theemotions. I can't fucking deal with.
It's gassed a lit when people arelike they yeah, when they thank you
and you're like, yeah, yes, god, it doesn't matter. I
didn't like it's fine. Yeah,I run a run a dog friendly comedy

(39:37):
show over here. Is that yours? I saw you, like putting up
funny videos about it. I waslike, I didn't really, I just
thought you were on that's yours,brilliant, Yeah, that's mine. Yeah,
So it's normal comedy, but youcan just bring your dogs. She
grabbed my arm and she was comingout one day and she was like,
thank you so much for doing this. I was like what she was like,

(39:59):
I just I we need more stuffthat we can bring our dogs to,
and I just thank you so much. This is incredible, all right,
Jess, I don't know you're welcome. I was like what to say.
Honestly, the way she was sayingthe thank you made for doing I
was like, yeah, this isyep sound the dogs place puts a fiber
in your hand. Thank you somuch? Yeah, yeah, I don't

(40:28):
think they grasp. Uh, theygrasp that it's enough. It's enough.
You showed up and he didn't complain. As long as he didn't complain,
we noticed exactly, do you know. Yeah, and sure come back.
That's enough. Yeah, yeah,don't be overreggin to putting down ruin it
for everybody. That's it's command now, Jesus Christ, what's the CRST?
So is it is it an afternoonsomewhere in a cafe or where are you
going with the dogs? So it'sit's this venue that my friend runs and

(40:53):
it's a podcast where we do thepodcast. Actually, right, podcast studio.
Uh, it's comedy venue and there'sa tattoo artist a bit in the
back as well, so it's abit of a mad mad out spot.
And I just said to him lastyear, yeah, a year and a
half go now, I was like, come here to me, what would

(41:14):
you say about having dogs in thein the venue? And he was like,
let's fucking try it. Let's seewhat happens. So the first show
we did, it was it wasa play on the you know, no
blacksmore dogs, no Irish, butit was more Irish, more blacksmore dogs
because they bring pocket. It wasa funny one because I just wanted to

(41:37):
do that the once off, justbecause I wanted dogs in the in the
audience. And it went like,this would be a good play on it.
But so many people here don't knowabout that sign, so they thought
that it was a racist show.Like it was really good. Honestly,

(42:00):
it's great, but I love thatthey immediately ah, it's like literally,
so I had Irish, Irish andblack performers only on it, and then
one girl with her dog. Butit was one of the lads ol and
he's he's a black lad and oneof his a couple of his friends wrote

(42:20):
to him and we're like, whyare you doing this racist show? Like
what are you doing? And hewas like, I was like, what
might be doing it if it wasracist? He was like no, no,
no, and he was explaining,and I was like, Okay,
I need to change the name becauseI'm not like I can't. Well,
number one, it can't be explainingand it's not racist the whole time.
And then number two, there's notenough black and Irish performers here in Vancouver.

(42:40):
I was like, we're gonna haveto, So yeah, I had
to. I changed the name thatthen to Big Dog Energy, so yeah,
we just have like and the wayI also thought of it was so
basically I was I love dogs andI was minding dogs over here, and
loads of couples were saying to me. They were like, oh, you

(43:01):
know, we can't we can't goout on the date night and everything because
the dog has anxiety and we can'tleave for Sloan And I was like,
right, okay, in Ireland,the dog's in the house for hours by
itself. But yeah, they werelike, excuse me, and they were
like, oh, yeah, no, we can't leave the dog on its
own and I was like, Iwant to see more dogs. So I

(43:24):
was like, why don't I tryand make put this together? And that's
how I thought of it. AndI was like, right, so people
are just bringing me their dogs now, so it's yeah, it's it's so
lout every month. Now. Ididn't do the during the summer because when
it gets hot here, it's roastingand everyone's on the beach. So I
was like, I can't can't bebothered to be trying to get people inside

(43:45):
the dark room. So yeah,we do it once a month and then
in February it's part of the Justfor Laughs Vancouver festival. So brilliant,
big big deal. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm absolutely delighted. So yeah,
me and myself, my show,and Bill Barr are on the same
on the same life. Yeah,yeah, there you go. Yeah,

(44:06):
yeah, it's been great, crack. Yeah. Was it purely your your
opportunity to get to dogs because youdon't do not have a dog yet.
No, I don't have a doghere now. I I just just with
the gigging and everything and I know, you know, the commitment and well
also my my apartment is is youcan't have pets. But I mean if

(44:27):
I was like Chances trying to getaround it, but no, I'm with
the commitment. I couldn't be,so I just mind other people's dogs and
then I have the dog show monthlyto get my dog fixed. I totally
get that, but do you knowwhat, I don't know why more places
like that was the one thing thatblew me away when I was in Belgium.
I was gigging in Belgium a coupleof times, and Natasha's brother lived
there as well for a while,so we're over. I was there a
good few times, but what Inoticed was there's no restrictions in dogs.

(44:50):
Fucking bring dog into mass if youwant it, bring dog, dogs sitting
up at the pub, like sittingup at the bar dogs and all loads
of restaurants like there was yeah,like one fancish enough. They kind of
had a kind of if you imagine, kind of like just like pens,
but there were cage pens that thedog could see, and they had about

(45:12):
twenty of them up along the wayand people could just let their dogs into
them. But at the same time, in the same restaurant we were in,
there was a fellow sitting across thetable or sitting across the restaurant from
us on a two person table,small little table, and it is fucking
big. It was a big fuckingFrench bulldog sitting up and they caught up
the steak for him the whole lothe sat up. The dog wasn't fuck

(45:32):
acting around now and all fairs.This dog knew what it was doing,
you know what I mean, Itwasn't if he was. This wasn't his
first fucking rodeo like or its forcedrabbi like it was sitting up there,
it knew he knew him by name, if you know what I mean,
he know my name inside there likehe was, Yeah, your man caught
this fucking rabbi off. It wasoff the a tomahawk like off the fucking
bone in front of the dog.The dog waited, had it cut up
in front of him and would eata bit. He already sit back in

(45:55):
conversationally like. It was amazing towatch it. But I loved that.
There's only one place. Yeah,it was very few in Dublin. Even
I remember because we did our dog, we Schnauzer like, and she's good
enough in around people like, butnow there's a dog that we like.
She does have what you what youcall it anxiety or she separate in anxiety
because we ruined her like it.It was great because we got that out

(46:19):
of the way before having a child, you see, and we got we
could stand back and assess what wedid. We went, ah, well
we won't do with the child,and we haven't. We haven't. It's
the most outgoing, easy good fellowyou've ever met. Med Well, that's
my advice to people before having achild. Have a fucking dog and get
all your bed. Yeah what didyou what? What? What did you
learn from the dog that you didn't? Then we were like, oh,

(46:40):
we better not do that now completelyover mammy the dog, completely over mammy
the dog. Yeah, completely likethe dog into the bed, the whole
lot, like just no, no, but the child isn't. Yeah,
well no not anymore. The dognow had to and the dog dog and
him actually teamed up a small biton fairness, like but he no,

(47:02):
but he's at like he's he wouldhave never wanted. He wouldn't want to
know. He'd be like, no, yeah, do they want to lie
in there? You best the twoyou fucking kick me? No. No.
The handful of times has ever attemptedit even he agreed as a fucking
disaster because he just four year oldspin around in a circle and kick you
in the face. So it's afucking disaster. So we all agreed,

(47:22):
no fucking terrible idea. So heno, no, we just and this
is why I say, get allyour bad habits out on the fucking dog.
And yes you will have a youknow, mentally unstable dog, but
at least the child would be someonepeople jump in board feet without ever having
a pet, you know, andnot thinking about it all. Yeah,

(47:44):
Jesus, I know a few peoplethat I finely should no no, no,
no, no, no no.There's fucking hell to night and people
wouldn't why my but you hear itlike this, you know of her.
I I'd never heard the children havelike tiny children have an anxiety. I'm
like, did they have with no, you know, no physical condition,
but they're just the poor hors arewracked with anxiety. And then you meet

(48:06):
the parents, and the parents likeJesus Christ, what about I'm like,
fucking hell tonight, Yeah, exactly, when that passes down. Yeah,
you see a lot of with parentsor like when kids are afraid made of
like dogs, and stuff and nothingbad has ever happened though, and you're
like, what happen It's like,oh no, And then you see mamammy,
it's like, oh, you've justpassed down In the tiniest tiniest things.

(48:30):
A friend of mine, he's acomic. I won't name him.
Maybe it doesn't want to said,I don't know, but he told me
that they went six or seven yearstrying their best to steer away from horror
fear of cats. The cats.I think cats doing their fucking best.
You know, she'd see a catand she'd be like, oh, it's
a lovely cat while dying inside.Right, But lo and behold, he

(48:54):
whatever subconscious thing picked up on itand he has a fear of cats now,
Like no, they're like Jesus Christcould so he wouldn't be right,
But he just picked up on it, the tiniest tiniest thing, like yeah,
mad, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean it just shows you
as well, it's you kind ofneed. But with animals, I mean,

(49:16):
our fellow is probably too fucking comfortablewith dogs and fucking everything, like
he's he'd be up on the backof a goat in two seconds. Like
no, But because that's the Wejust let him at it. And so
if you've got a poke, hegot a puck like you know, do
you know, very few dogs aregoing to attack. But and if it
looks like a dog, you know, when you've been around dogs as much
as dog people, you fucking knowa dog that's aheader like you know yeah,

(49:38):
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So we're
probably gonna be too hard, justlike Jesus back, like he's going to
overtaken it. Hey, I'll holdyour dog for you if you know Jesus
Christ, because some people he's forgoing on forty like, yeah, you
know that that we had, that'swhy we move to the country, because

(49:59):
he I knew there was a wildnessin him that wouldn't fit in up there
at all. That's just just naturallywouldn't fit in up there like a country
boy, just as a big asthat big outstride to walk like, and
fucking just started walking in six months. When that happened, we went because
yeah, they're not supposed to walkinto there after a year apparently, and

(50:21):
this lad's thrown around at six months. The image I have in my head
now is a tiny little farmer strolledaround so we just we figured we had
better, we had better get out. But so what's the what's the deal?
Like, because I'm watching some ofyour stand up you're putting up and
going, oh, that's not abit soft because I've gotten, I've gotten.

(50:45):
I've got messages of people like whoare in Canada and I don't know.
Canada is so colossal it could havebeen in any side of it,
Like, but the ship that wascoming out of fucking this fucking oh you
can't choose it. And there wasliterally like there were signs up on comedy
clubs going like that, this isa safe space. This won't be spoken
about, that won't be spoken aboutat all if you do you get over

(51:08):
here. No, I've never andI would love to. I would love
to just I could be a bitroll, Like that's the only thing they
got to send him back, sendhim back to Yeah, there there is
Like I definitely when I came overfirst, and I had stories about like

(51:29):
about my dad and stuff and justlike a typical Irish angry father, you
know. But the way it wasbeing received was this as if I had
been abused my whole life. SoI had to kind of yeah, I
had to stop doing doing those bitsover here for sure, and just kind
of like, yeah, there's Iwould say, it's very like you can't

(51:51):
say whatever and like because I'd belike, you've seen some of myself like
this on the dirty side, youknow, and it's it's grand like it's
right. You just like, well, I'm getting on all right anyway.
But I yeah, with some ofthe stuff and the sarcasm, definitely I
had to. I had to kindof alter a bit. But I think,

(52:12):
yeah, there's yeah, there's signsand that you can't be racist and
all that kind of stuff there inI think only one of the clubs here
actually, but yeah, why wherewere you getting messages? It was people
messaging like the podcasting what is itlike has? I think it was it
was kind of the upswing around whenthe world all went met for a few

(52:34):
years, you know, like jorand covid this, and it was like
everybody was becoming hyper sensitive to things, and I did it never seemed I
never came across it in the realworld. In the de cyber world,
of course, of course, everybodyeverybody's fucking a bleeding heart life. But
in the actual real world, wereyou people in the audience who pay mortgages
and have real worries do you knowwhat I mean? Like gouty and fucking

(52:58):
anxiety ryal does? Do you knowwhat I mean? Like you could you
say whatever Once it's fucking funny andin tune with the room, then that's
all that mattered. You know,you're saying you have to cut your cloth
for Canadians because if not the samesense humor, same as if you went
to fucking Japan, you wouldn't befucking going. Let's who knows about travelers,

(53:19):
you know what I mean? You'renot? Is this like you just
have to alter yourself. I feellike you kind of because I've now gigged
in Like uh, I've gigged allover Canada now and like, yeah,
it's just change it slightly, butwithin the room. But like I'd be
doing that in Ireland as well,Like just change it ever so slightly.
I'd look at who's in the audience, you know, and I'd say okay,

(53:40):
like maybe like I wouldn't you know, I would just rewire what material
I would be doing, you knowthat kind of way. Yeah, I
don't think I feel like this wholething of like you can't you can't say
Anthon anymore. But it's like,if it's clever and it's funny, you
can say whatever you want. Youknow, if it's kind, it's titcoon

(54:00):
can't get it, then you can'tyou know what I mean. You can
do nothing for that, do youknow exactly? Yeah? Absolutely, Like
I definitely think that there's people sayingshite for the sake of saying it just
to get like a reaction, youknow, that kind of way. But
it's like generally what they're these people, what they're saying, it's not actually
clever, it's not actually funny.It's just like a shock factor or whatever.

(54:21):
But yeah, I mean I definitelycould have reworked that bit about my
dad and stuff. It was whenI first came over, but I was
just like, I can't be sayingthat they're not find of funny. I'll
stop doing it. Whereas now I'mlike, oh, I can definitely figure
my way around. Yeah, becauseit's it's really like gig in here has
really taught me a lot as well, like just kind of I don't know,

(54:44):
thinking about things a bit more critically, like my own stuff as well.
I think I suppose yeah, it'syou're all the time getting better,
and now you're in an environment thatyou probably have to work the brain a
bit harder too, because you're like, oh, I can't fucking ease back
into this because mostly probably couldn't pickfuck out on the map let alone,

(55:05):
you know know where to what thefuck I'm saying. So you have to
work for you have to work formy accent and now you know so also,
yeah, I'm gonna have to fuckingtailor this a small bit for you.
Like so you can't you can throwa blanket over and going, let's
and start talking about me all Martin, Like there's no, yeah, that's
the thing as well. It's like, uh, you know yourself, Like

(55:27):
a lot of our vocabulary is slang, so like I would just naturally say,
you know, crack all the timeor random things or even just saying
the word comes just like randomly,and like there was a lot of slang
words that I really have to retrainmy brain to stop saying it just naturally,

(55:47):
you know, and just take itout. And like I was like,
I have a little bit about explainingIrish slang words and stuff like that,
but which is which is grand?But you know, it's Yeah,
I really had to work on retrainingwhat I say when I'm nervous as well,
yea, and also the speed atwhich I talk. There was one

(56:07):
point at the start when I startedgigging here and I listened back to the
recording and I was like, Idon't even know what I'm saying, so
they didn't have a chance. Soand like, yeah, just kind of
changing, just slowing myself down.And then I was kind of changing words
a bit for a while, likehow I said it, and I was
like absolutely, fuck this, Likeno, I'm just going to slow it

(56:28):
down rather than change the actual pronunciationof it, you know. So that's
been Yeah, that's definitely had thebrain working a bit harder because when I
came home, I was home foran electric Picnica that I did a few
gigs in Dublin and and the EdinburghFringe, and I was like, oh,
fuck, I forgot that Like whenI'm gigging to people, you know

(56:51):
that my people, I don't haveto have that part of my brain switched
on. Oh they're not going tounderstand me or whatever. And I was
like, oh, yeah, thisis this feels a lot differently. So
that's funny. Yeah, Oh thankgod, Oka God just just say the
word thirty times in the opening.Sorry, I just had to get I
had to get that out. Ilive in Canada. Off my chest,

(57:17):
the I won't keep it for toomuch longer. What time of the day
is it? You're behind it?By what? We're eight hours behind?
Yeah, the I've often I've neverreally gotten to ask anybody this because obviously
your comedian, you make jokes aboutit and it's it's it's a currency.
But like you're out, like yourrelations back home, do they follow your

(57:42):
TikTok? Because there's a lot ofyou know about like relationship advice and dating
advice and things like that. Who'swatching that? It's like it's all for
the better, Like it's all forour humor, it's all for our entertainment.
Yeah, Like the real side ofit is like, is anti fucking
Mary got cheats you? Hey?Have we? Yeah? We get ned

(58:02):
dd up for her in the iarlandzone see if we get it or men
with a bit of lend that is. That is something that some of my
content. Yeah, I do geta bit nervous about like my family members
or whatever seeing it. And butthen I'm like every time that happens,
I'm like, well, you knowwhat, I want to make a career

(58:22):
out of this, and it's notthem that's going to make me a career
out of this. And this iswhat I'm finding funny, this is what
people are finding funny. So I'mlike, fuck it, Like if they
have an issue with it, justdon't follow me or mute me, block
me as my family members or whateverlike whatever. But I did, like
say, my podcast, like wedo talk an awful lot about sex and
relationships and stuff like that, andI just kind of assumed no one,

(58:45):
none of my family listened to it. I warned my brother not to listen
to it anyway. But then myaunt I got a Christmas card there in
the post the other day and itwas like, oh whatever for my aunt
and she was like, oh lovethe podcast. That was like what they
just try and like I just tryand switch my brain off of thinking about

(59:07):
them listening to it or because evenYeah, my brother came over and he
came to one of my gigs andafterwards he was like I've never heard just
say the words orgasm. And Iwas like, shut the fuck up,
like what are you doing? Andhe was like you're the one who said
it on stage, and I waslike, that's a different means, like,
yeah, different version. I don'twant to have this conversation that the

(59:29):
stage, Amy, I don't wantto talk to you crawling even at that
that situation, it's like kind ofJesus Christ. I was like stop,
but yeah, I know. Itry and I try and not think about
them watching it. That was mylike I'm enjoying. But then it's my
initial thought because we were going tobe talking. I'm like, oh,

(59:52):
because you know, when the courseof your phone knows you're going to be
talking with Amy Walsch, it tellsyou. It brings up everything Amy Watch
has ever done, because that's whywe've allowed our phones to dow. I
woke up this moment a tattoo ofyour name. I don't know who did
it. I don't know who didit, but it's probably my fucking phone.
But it started to come up,and that was my idea. I
went because like the fucked up shipI've said on stage, and the only

(01:00:15):
read the mother would never go toyou know, she wouldn't be watching anything
rish she gets fierce nerves. Theycame to a show recently I did a
tour show in Temporary Town in thetheater there, and I don't know why
she came. She was wracked withnerves up the back. I'm like,
but it's sold out, it's okay, it's not going to be It's okay.
It sold well, like but shementioned nothing about and there was stuff

(01:00:38):
in there, like about them andstuff, but they said nothing. There's
very good. It's very good nowpeople, And I think all they wanted
to see was were I think theythought I was. I think to this
day they still think I'm going tobe booed off stage from the second I
walk out, even though people havebought tickets, like just so well,

(01:00:58):
yeah, there's that, there's stilla course in their head, like they
don't want to hear any sex storiesand that kind of stuff. Yeah,
absolutely, I feel like as well, being from from Ireland as well,
and sex. I know it's notas much of a taboo and stuff anymore,
but like oh Jesus Christ and thaton stage, Like yeah, my
mom and dad have been to seeme loads of times, but they never

(01:01:20):
never bring up specific things like aboutthat kind of stuff. And that's the
way I like it. Just silentin the back of the car driving home.
Anyone want chips? We've stopped forchips. Great, great job,
great job. Yeah that was lovely. What time we need? What time
we get you up from s We'redoing happy and we'll do taf ten as
well. Over to the house afterwards. You need to do the roadary.

(01:01:47):
We didn't send her turn off maskswhen she was younger. So what is
the actual name of podcast? Notsoft count, which might be Actually I
want you to bring that up withthe girls and go listen to myself and
the chap. I know what,I've come up with a new name for
the podcast or maybe the the afterhours version, the interest that the patreons
can get Patreon Yeah, yeah,yes, soft count and actually name your

(01:02:08):
patreons that soft cons. And youhave to say in that actually you have
to see it. Yeah, softcon, pure goal. Yeah, it's
it's called it's called soft for us, soft for for Yeah. At the
very least if they maybe can seeto just a small section of the show

(01:02:30):
of the show, I know youhave a bit you're softy of the week,
like somebody who has been a bitof a bit of an outstop.
But you could change that to softcont I think it totally fits, like
it's the same sentiment. It isthe same sentiment because you're talking about was
it Joe Jonas or something you broughtup? You're like, yeah, I

(01:02:51):
mean that's a soft cont if everythat's exactly what a man Joe Jonas pures
of Counture. I'll just be classicand we can talk about it once we're
more smartly. Okay, wait,what's what's your opinion on it? The
run the way? Oh geez,they're on the way, they are on

(01:03:15):
the way there. Oh well,it has to be the next thing because
apparently they're well Jesus, I mean, they're supposed to be here this long
time. They're they're all and they'reall going to come out in ross Common.
I'm convinced of it, come outover ros Common and go into Roscne
because if they land in ros Common, they see what's going on, they'll
be right back up in that fuckingspace. You haven't ever won the football?

(01:03:37):
What cheers? We won it,just we nearly won the football as
much as fucks lovely people though verynicely people love their football. Robert Shadow.
Oh no, correct, I wasup at uh Mayo because I actually
support Mayo but I'm sure who doesn'tfor Fox, we all love the green

(01:03:59):
rate of MAO. But sure,come there wore bridesmaid dresses inside that fucking
couvert. Buck's sake, we're up. It was a semi final. It
was ross Common and may, oh, jesus, I know what, you're
twenty seventeen or something. Maybe Icould be wrong, but I was locked
at the sucking match and I justkept shouting Rossi's or sheep shaggers, and

(01:04:20):
it was funny at first. Itwas not funny after a while, but
I couldn't stop myself. No,I couldn't stop. But they're lovely people.
You're just being a guest count.That's the dour, just being a
guess count, as a male supportersitting there there, she's a guest count.
But on the Rossie side, you'regone, oh, she's a count,
and there's a very different meaning.Very yeah, just a bean,

(01:04:43):
just a cont just very cod,very different meanings. I tell you,
if anybody listens to this and youdidn't know it about cons beforehand, you
fucking do now. Amy was justbeen fucking brilliant. So it has been
great, Crack, thanks so muchfor having me. I gotta put I
put your witch de what's you moreprevalent on as an instagrammer or TikTok.
I'll put either link in the shownotes. They're both called the same Amy

(01:05:06):
Welsh Comedy so whichever. Yeah,Instagram, TikTok the same name. Perfect
perfect stuff. Thanks Avillion, CAavillion, Thanks so much, Warngey,
I warned you there was going tobe explicit language. Root that definitely I
think, yeah, for sure.Whoever has listened to that entirely would be

(01:05:29):
will be Courson for the rest ofthe weekend. Thank you very much.
Amy to do follow Amy Walsh,Amy Why Amy? Why? Amy?
I would nearly spelled itself, doesn'tit, Amy Walsh. You'll find her.
She's brilliant. That was powerful crackjeez. I'd love to do something
with the dogs in the Comedy Club. I would like, I said at
the top of the show, ifyou're going jone, I'd love to hear

(01:05:50):
more of this. Fil is myfirst time. Go back and listen to
the very beginning of this. Ittells you everywhere you can find me on
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(01:06:11):
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(01:06:33):
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and goes wild as you fucking likeit's damn near twenty twenty four, and
fuck knows if we're going to seeanother fucking year out of Atlants, because
Jesus, I'd say we might beall living under rocks and podcasting into two

(01:06:53):
fucking ferns by the end of thisGnnecka Bliss