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Podcasts, there are millions of them.
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Some might say too many.
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I have one already.
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I don't have any, because there are enough.
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Politics, business, sport, you name it, there's a podcast about it, and they all ask the big questions and cover the hot topics of the day.
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But nobody is covering the most important topic of all.
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Why is that? Are they scared?
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Too afraid of being censored by the man?
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Possibly, but not us. We're here to ask the only question that matters.
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We try and say it at the same time, Max. What did you do yesterday?
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What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? That's it. All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday. Nothing more.
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Day before yesterday, Max?
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The greatest and most interesting day of your life?
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Unless it was yesterday, we don't want to know about it. I'm Max Rushden.
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And I'm David O'Doherty.
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Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Hello, and welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? My name is Max Rushden. Alongside me, David O'Doherty. Now, I first met Shane Daniel Byrne.
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Oh, yeah. When did you?
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In March of 2026.
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At Vicar Street, Dublin, where I was performing my one-man show, What Did You Do Yesterday?
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Oh, wow. So, we did a live pod in Dublin a couple of months ago.
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And my first thought. My first thought for a guest was Shane Daniel Byrne, who people from overseas, I mean, they might know him from his stand-up comedy.
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He is the star. He is one-third of Young Hot Guys, which is one of Ireland's most popular podcasts. He's just a great, I mean, he's not really a raconteur. That's the wrong word.
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But he's just a great conversationalist.
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And we never released the live ones. I do like that about us, Max.
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We like to keep something secret. People don't know a lot about our lives from this podcast. We definitely keep up. There is a wall between us. When we announced him on the live show, because on the live shows, we don't tell you who the special guest is.
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But we did with Sam Campbell because we had to shift a thousand tickets. But we shifted those in Dublin because of my great reach in Ireland.
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But there were some people in the audience who sort of did the kind of Beatles in the 60s face, a bit like that painting.
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They went, oh, Shane Daniel Byrne. So this is a great day. He comes across as one of the, I've met him twice, just such a lovely, he begins as a lovely man.
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You know, his first play is, I'm a great guy, but not in a kind of showy way, in a just by actions, not words.
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It's a low key day where, I mean, he fails to go to the gym. A lot of beautiful, he fails to watch a video. It's a day of intense.
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That's as much as the Angeloni Bonk.
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Shane. Shane will be at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer with his new show, and I've seen some bits.
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It is an absolute stunner. The show is called Baby This Time, and this is what Shane Daniel Byrne did yesterday.
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Shane Daniel Byrne, welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?
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Thank you very much. What a pleasure. Can we declare that you said I was the best prepared, most professional guest so far?
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Hang on. We need to make it clear to the listeners. So you are in a group of two who has done this for the second time, the other being Nish Kumar, because you did our Dublin live event, brought the house down, and now we
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find out, was that yesterday a one-off? Because that was a pretty exciting yesterday you had done.
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Did Sam Campbell not do the live as well and the normal podcast?
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A group of three. Edit this back in. A group of three who have done it.
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Yeah. Because I just feel like the details are important because I did the live podcast and the audience and the listeners of the podcast are very committed to the podcast.
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And I think detail is important. And I don't want you getting emails about, actually, Sam Campbell also did.
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Also for the tape. You did bring the house down, but you also got booed for microwaving some scrambled eggs and putting mayonnaise in the eggs before you microwaved it. And I've never seen an audience turn so quickly on anyone.
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It was honestly violent, wasn't it? I told everybody that I tried this. This one's fair enough. I have two opinions on this. One, I did the egg in the microwave, scrambled egg in the microwave. And two, I did it with mayonnaise.
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I saw it on internet that mayonnaise is a fatty thing and you need a bit of fat like butter in your scrambled egg. So I tried it. I didn't care for it. It was a bit slippery, but life is for living.
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However, I do think booing me for making it in the microwave, this is a class issue.
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And I think that people need to check their privilege and that we don't all have a beautiful setup to do eggs on at home. And also I learned from my mother and she had many mouths to feed and a job.
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So she did it in the microwave and that's what I did. So that's what I maintain.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And just for the tape, you're, you're, you're, Preparation that gave the impression that we ask people to prepare for this podcast in any other way than just living the day before.
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But your technical setup is top rate because sometimes the listeners don't hear the 45 minutes where we're trying to get a comedian to sound like you can actually hear them without them telling us to fuck off.
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And then also how you emerged from a door just behind the mic and you were pulling, you know, when barristers are going to court for what's obviously a really long case, like the Guilford four or something.
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And they have like a full truck with stacks of paper on it. That's the level of preparation I'm getting.
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But also the smoke from stars in their eyes. So like they had both.
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You know, I have a full-time stage technician who is in-house in my house and he has just been brilliant. Thank you. So I want to shout out to Dermot. He's been incredible. Thank you so much for all your support.
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Shane, when did you wake up? Yesterday morning, please.
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m. esterday, I woke up at 5 a.m.
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Oh, high performance.
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Yeah. I had to get up and do a cold plunge. No, I was woken up because I was dropping my boyfriend Raymond to the airport. He said, so what time do we have to get up? 20 past four. And I said, you wake me at 5 a.m.
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And he woke me at bang on 5-0-0 on the clock. And he had coffee for me. He woke me up and said, there is coffee there. And I know that I'm doing him a favor.
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But I think that your partner bringing you coffee or tea, a hot drink in the morning is the pinnacle of romance. I do think that is the most romantic thing a person can do for another person.
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It is beautiful. However, on my social media at the moment is one guy whose main thing is don't drink tea or coffee first thing in the morning.
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Is he the man who's go for a walk for 45 minutes? Is he that one?
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He appears on both sides of the screen and he's like, oh, went out last night.
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It was a great night. I had four pints, three shots. I got a big chipper chips on the way back and his calorie total is going up and sort of good angel is on the right.
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Who's like, I went out last night. I had a pint of vodka and it's like 15 calories.
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And now today I feel great. That's his vibe. His don't drink hot things first thing.
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In the morning. And while what Raymond did is lovely, he might be trying to kill you.
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Yeah. I, the social media people telling us what to do. This might be a bit of a hot take, but I'm starting to think we've been doing this for about 20 years now.
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I'm starting to think social media mightn't be a good idea. I'm starting to feel that maybe this wasn't a good idea to give everyone.
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And now high definition cameras on our phones and all, I am actually exhausted because it does seep in my phone is bombarding me lately with problem with your penis, like constantly.
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And I'm not, I'm 37. I feel like I have time. It used to be about just like fellas, you get trouble getting hot, can't satisfy your girl because it doesn't know I'm gay.
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But now it's gone into, now there's women on my ads who probably are AI generated going, Hey guys, bit of tightness down there. Nothing to be embarrassed about. So I'm now I'm worried about my foreskin every day. And I used to live a life without that concern.
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I've got a man, the trouble I have is because I keep. Forwarding high performance things to my friends and they hate it. I now get more and more of them.
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And you just people talking very slowly with the pinky plonky music in the background going, these are the things I would tell my 21 year old self and they're talking so slowly and then I just can't stop myself from watching it.
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So I get them. And now I get a man who's telling me what exercise to do in the morning. It's basically just jump up and down, like for as long as you can, like for as long as you can jump up, is this the way you go, all these guys are they're talking shit.
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Are they please leave us alone, please.
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So it's a, at that time of the morning, it's a half hour drive to Dublin airport. Are you worried you may be insufficiently awake when you take the.
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No, I'm okay. Cause I've had a nice hot coffee, which I know a lot of people don't agree with. No, I felt okay about it. I've actually realized I've never dropped anyone to the airport before.
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So does it Raymond's just off on his trip. And I, there's a tiny part of me feeling it's a big day for me too, because that is a rite of passage. I think.
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How long is Raymond going away? Cause he was just like, I'm off for two days. You'd be like, just get a taxi. Is he going away for six months? And so it's an emotional thing, or are you just a very nice person?
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I think a lift is one of the nicest things you can give to a person. And I think, you know what I hate when someone gives you half a lift, do you know when someone's dropping, might be dropping you home from something like when I was growing up, if you'd
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be camping or whatever, and someone else's dad would say, I'll just drop you here. I'll put you in that corner because save me going around. And you'd be like, okay, but it is two kilometers to my home from here. So I hate half a lift and I drop people to their door. I think that's important.
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He's gone for like five days. He's gone to a 40th in Dubrovnik, which I think is a bit much. You know, people are very demanding, aren't they?
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Aren't they? Yes.
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The question here for Irish listeners, is it terminal one or terminal two? So terminal one, Max, in Dublin is more the chicken's flapping terminal. You know what I mean?
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Where there's just dogs jumping through flaming hoops. It's got that. I give you 30 euros for the plane, like that sort of a thing. Whereas terminal two is more the high performance terminal.
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Yeah, it's high glamour. He's going terminal two. He's flying Aer Lingus. So terminal two.
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Yeah, cool. Do you just chat in the car? Do you listen to anything?
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I can't remember what we chatted about, but we were having good crack in the car. I can't remember what it was about, but we were having a bit of a laugh. I forget what it was because it was early yesterday morning, but we did have a laugh the whole way.
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And it is so nice to drive through the town when it's empty. It's so fun. Dublin is an old city. I always have this weird thing. If I'm the only person on a street at a given time, I'm like, my turn, my go.
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I don't know what that is. I have this feeling of like, this is my time to be here. I don't know. I don't know what that is. I'm a Dubliner. I don't know. I'm connected to it or something.
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That time of morning, it can be quite a seagullsy time as well. When you really get to see some six foot seagulls ripping bin bags apart and eating chips off the street. It's a beautiful time of the morning.
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Why has Raymond been invited to the party, but you've not been invited to the party?
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Oh, wow. He's digging. He's got his shovel out.
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Because it's his people. I was invited, but I am busy. So I couldn't go. And when I can't go, I'm like, great. Oh, brilliant. Not do something. But then if I was there, I would enjoy it. You know, that kind of way.
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Obviously have fun. But now I'm like, oh, I'm not going. Class. Like, I'm delighted.
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You found yourself up really early. So if it's a... I'd say you... You drop him to the airport by 5.30, 5.40.
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He got there for around six, I think. So he allowed me time to wake up in the house.
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Do you just, like, drop him, open the door and say, see you later? Or do you go in?
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Do you park the car in the short stay?
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I didn't get out of the car.
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I was wondering, was I going to get out of the car too? And then Raymond was kind of in charge of it. And when I stopped, he was like, okay, bye. I was like, okay, grant. We're not getting out because that would be a bit much. And also, what if we kissed on the outside? And what if we got attacked for being gay?
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These things can happen. These are the concerns gay people have. Can we have a quick smooch at the airport? Who knows?
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I would have liked if you had gone right into the terminal and on one of those annoying pianos played him off. Goodbye, Raymond. I wish I could kiss you, but I might be set on fire.
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You know, something like that.
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I parked in the set down only, so I don't know where those people park who see off their partners or children.
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Question. Have you ever, and... I'll answer this if you need an answer from me.
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Question. The question is, have you ever? I'll answer this. This is an all new interview technique from David. He bypassed the guest.
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I'll take this one, David. Thank you, David. David, have you ever...
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Gentleman with a striped t-shirt tucking into the mic. Have you ever cried at Dublin airport departures while trying to glimpse through the sort of stars in their eyes doors that open and shut to get a last glimpse of a bye, bye?
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Because I have.
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You've done that?
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Yeah, my first girlfriend going back to America when we were in university. Absolute scenes.
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Was that the end because she's going home and that's it?
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No, I think she was going home for Christmas.
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Oh, God. Yeah. Well, the first cut is the deepest.
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Yeah. Have you ever done that?
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No, but when I went to Australia for doing shows, I found that... Yeah, interesting because in the queue, it's all the, lots of the young people who are emigrating to Australia.
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So I'm there going off all excited for myself going, what a cool thing. I'm getting to do my comedy in Australia and I'm all excited and I'm nervous or whatever. And I'm excited about having a visa when I did that. They're like, and do you have your visa?
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I was like, yes, I do. I was so excited to be working as an exceptional talent or whatever they call it. My talents are so exceptional that I simply must go to the other side of the world. Yeah. But then there's all young people and there was a few, it was just a girl and they weren't flying in a gang.
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I thought when you emigrate, you might go, you know, myself and Keira, we're going to Australia. We're going to give it a go. But there was just a young girl on her own and it was just her and her mom and dad.
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And I just thought it was just so sad. And I nearly wept. And then I texted my own parents then going, oh, it's really sad because they just dropped me off. And I was like, it's really sad. All the kids are, you know, flying to Australia.
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And then my mother texted back, I'm crying reading that now. So I think, but I did. I feel that girl will probably go for a year, maybe two, who knows? Maybe she'll stay permanently or whatever. But I did think of, this is too emotional, but I did think of all the people who just left Ireland.
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And when they used to leave, they used to just leave forever and they never see them again. That was it, the end. It wasn't like your first girlfriend going home for Christmas. They used to just leave. I did think about all those things in that moment.
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So an airport or a train station can be interesting places for your thoughts because they're so transitory or whatever. There's so much movement. I don't know.
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Yeah. Oh no, Shane, we've got Max here.
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That's fine. I left. I left my parents just at the age where they might need me more than I might need them. It's perfect. But I go back often enough. But I do know genuinely like every time I sort of leave for like five months, I am a bit like, oh, that's, you know.
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Yeah. And then a minute, you know, if you've got two young kids, one of them's shat on the floor and say like, you know, life is carrying on. We said we're having a baby and we moved to Australia and I think they sort of went, these eggs are nice, aren't they? Do you want another coffee?
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Did you say you're having the baby and then, and also left, so you're like, we're going to have a baby but you don't get to see it and we're going to keep it.
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Basically, yeah. Yeah.
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Oh, that's tough work. Well done.
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I know. Don't text your mum that. It's a shame. Okay, so it's 6am. You've dropped Raymond and you are free, but it's earlier than normal from my understanding of your life from the one other time I've met you and gone through yesterday.
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Yeah, and I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good in the car. I listened to an Irish music band called Madras Salak, which means dirty dog. And they're kind of the next cool band to arrive on the, the new Irish wave, the Gaelic revival that's happening.
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The next Bewitched.
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Sure. Madras Salak very like Bewitched, I'm sure. They also do a version of a song called Spansel Hill, which is an old song about a place in Clare, which is not a town, it's more of a township. And I learned it in school, in third class.
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So like about eight, when I was about eight. And it's this like old song about, oh my God, it's about emigration. It's about having left and fell in America, dreaming of Ireland. And I one time then was in the place called Spansel Hill and I was looking for like a lovely town.
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And then the lady said, no, it's more of a township. But anyway, that's neither here nor there. That's not really part of yesterday.
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You'll get that sometimes. Songs can sometimes do that to you. You really build them up until you visit it. And yeah, Hotel California.
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California is more of a township. Do you know, I was in a really good mood. I had done something the previous night.
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I'd done a gig and I felt really, I've suffered my new show and I felt really, usually at this time of year, I hate myself and my comedy and my, and this year I felt like, oh, after I enjoyed that, like I'm after enjoying that now and I'm excited for a new show.
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Never done that ever. Yeah. So I felt kind of peaceful. I was feeling peaceful in the car and I was looking at the, the drive home's not as good. It wasn't through the city. It was around the ring road. So it wasn't as good.
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Did you consider a trip to Ikea? Because Ikea in Dublin is close to the airport.
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Does it open at six?
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It's probably open pretty early, but.
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You don't want to get there an hour before.
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Get in the queue for Ikea.
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I'm sure. There are people who are waiting there every morning though. I'd say there's people who need to go. I would like to go to Ikea for like just the little bits though. I always go straight to the bits bit. I don't need to go around, but I like it. Yeah.
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I need one of those octopuses that has 10 tentacles and each of them has two clothes pegs on them. I need one of those right now.
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A decapus. Is that what that's called? If it has 10, I have one here.
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Everyone in Dublin has this, a 10 legged octopus with clothes pegs on.
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You know what I'm talking? All the undies and the socks can go on at that. So you can leave the washing line for the bigger items.
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But the only time I've seen one of these was at the live show that you were on when somebody sent us a photo of their washing and it had one of these. I think everyone in Ireland has a 10 legged octopus.
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I have one here. There it is.
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There's the ASMR.
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The only three people I know of this that have one or want one are the two of you and the man who sent a photo in the live show. I like that. The idea of David now using this podcast as a kind of swaps and sales type, if anyone has one going, it's kind of eBay.
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Could you deliver it to David? That would be great. Okay. So we get on the ring road and we go home. Do we go straight home? I presume.
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Yeah, straight home. And I was like, oh, I can nap now. I was like, those are one of the most delicious naps you can get if you've been up, but it's still a morning.
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That's a very good, high quality nap. But I ended up being a pig and just looking at my phone and doing phone things. And then at around seven, I was due to go to the gym at eight.
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I go to this gym. I was supposed to go three times a week. It's a class-based gym and you do classes. And I was like, started to worry that I wasn't going to be able, what if I fall asleep and don't wake up in time for the class at eight?
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And then at five to seven, I canceled it. This kind of really ruined, not ruined the day, but it did make me feel guilty about it. I was like, what did I do that for? I should have just got up. I should have just gone to it. There was no need for me to do that. I was awake.
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But did you cancel? Didn't go to bed.
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I lounged in the bed for ages. I did some little mini sleeps maybe, but I just lounged and I looked at Americans on the TikTok. That's what I did.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't be the only one. When you said class-based gym, just thought there were different sections. The serfs are in here and they just have to do sort of basic plowing type stuff.
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Top hat balancing. Obviously the top hat.
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Huge Ferrero Rocher. They're just lifting them above their heads.
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Yeah. So I do the stuff. Starboard classes. That's what I do. No, it's like fitness classes throughout. Yes.
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Shane, I have a question here from our live event.
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David, will you take that question, please? I'll pass the question to David.
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Which was in March. You were just starting your fitness journey then. Have you been on it now for three months?
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Yeah. And I love it. I love it so much. If it was, this was 10 years ago, like say if I was in my mid-twenties, you don't think you're old and then you are a little bit older.
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Like if I was going to the gym three times a week and walking more and cycling more, I would, I would have lost like two stone, but because I'm old, it just takes longer.
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You look great.
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I used to be able to like go for like two weeks and be like, all right, bikini ready. Like that was the great time, but now I can't do that anymore, but that's okay. I feel good. I feel a bit raging about that. I'm like the guys on the internet tell you to exercise and tell you to do all the stuff.
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I'm like, they're right. I feel good. Like sit on the couch in the evening, feel better. Just feel better.
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The ultimate, you know, the ones who, who go life is short, seize the day, say what you want to say today. You know, they also sort of right. It just stopped telling me it. All right. I know I've got 5,000 weeks to live. That seems like a fucking long time to me.
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A thousand of those weeks. I'm just listening to you telling me I've got 5,000 weeks to live.
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I'm impressed by your three month health. I was wondering why you were no crack anymore. And now I understand.
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I'm off the booze, man. I'm off the booze. Have a drink. You've only got 5,000 weeks left.
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Right. So we do all this scrolling. What are the Americans doing on TikTok? Because I haven't ever looked at TikTok. Occasionally I get a TikTok, but on Twitter or Instagram, the only thing I know about TikTok is when it finishes, it goes, and there's a name there.
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And I quite like how they finish.
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It's all linked together. You can watch this. You'll see the same things. If you open the other one, you'll eventually see the same exact thing. It knows what you want. I think I talked about this at the last podcast, but all I wanted on the live podcast, all I want to see is people falling.
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I miss when that was it. When somebody would tell you, go to eBalm's world and type in man, lake, rope swing, and you would look at man falling off a lake. I just think that was nice. That was a better time. And I think it was more joyous.
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Have you ever watched the woman, she's at some sort of like reality show, and they've got watermelons in a catapult, and she pulls back the watermelon, and the watermelon rebounds or something,
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and just basically becomes her head. I think she's okay, but it's like the most mesmerizing thing I think I've ever watched. And it's in that bracket of people falling, but it's more watermelons hitting people in the face.
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That was on a show called The Amazing Race, I believe. I never saw it, the show, but I do know the clip. It's good because she's really trying hard to do the race of shoot the watermelon. I mean, it clocks her in the face. It's terrible. It's terrible for her.
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Maybe Shane knows where every classic clip comes from in the history of the internet then. Holy cow.
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Well, there's Lionel Blair falling off the, off the stocks, of course.
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Is it Les Dennis?
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Les Dennis.
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I actually don't know that one. I must look that up. Les Dennis. Yeah, look it up.
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Shane, we're similar guys, but you're a 37-year-old gay man. What is the algo serving you? I'm intrigued. I'm still mostly Ryanair fights.
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What do I see? I try and look at people falling. I try and look at people having embarrassing moments. I like that kind of thing. I also like girls just having fun. And that, see, we're so polite.
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We're so polluted by the internet that when I say that, that brings up the wrong type of images in people's heads. I like, sometimes I just like the crack of young people just having the absolute crack.
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And just like last night or yesterday, yeah, last night. So it's yesterday. I saw some girls and she's ringing like the 111 number, like the non-emergency number, whatever that is.
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And she was asking about wheelchairs. And one of their friend has an ice pack and they just did this really fast. There's like five girls all standing around in their like loungewear and hoodies. And they're all watching this happen and she's like, do you have wheelchairs?
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And then they do this really fast cut to a girl doing an accidental, like perfect splits on some ice. And I just liked the idea of them all just having the crack. Remember the time that she fell? I just enjoy all that. So, I mean, it's back to falling. That is my favorite.
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That is my favorite. I like a submersion. Someone falling into water, especially. I especially enjoyed that. Full water.
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Yeah. So sort of you've been, you've got the you've been framed algorithm, which not everyone has. Some people it's gone, gone more political than that, but you're still on. You've been framed.
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I look at the news as well, but like I do enjoy that.
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Yeah. You lounge past gym time. You've already canceled that. When do you get out of bed?
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I think it was around nine. So I was like, okay, time to start. Okay. I kind of have a day off.
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I have some work to do, but I kind of have a day off and I'm just enjoying. I never have the house to myself in the day like that or ever because Raymond has a normal job with normal hours.
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So it's kind of like he has a lot of time, by himself. Sometimes I feel guilty about that in the evening or whatever, but I'm delighted to have these few days that I have the place to myself.
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I was telling my dad yesterday that when we were kids, my mom would take us out of the house and we'd go visit somewhere. And my dad, when he'd had the house to himself, he'd do a few dad jobs.
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And you'd come back and there'd be something, he'd have fixed a tile, there'd be a new little bit of plaster somewhere.
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He'd have done something because there's no kids in the way. And I'm not saying Raymond is as bad as four boys, but he does be under my feet.
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So I feel like, I'm like, okay, I'm going to do, basically my task is to do a clean of the house, but stuff that I wouldn't normally do.
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So try and do some stuff that's, I've been meaning to do that. Like I sound like my mom now, but meaning to clean that, but that's it. That is what I'm going for.
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Are you going straight into the cleaning at nine o'clock? What's top of the list?
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So if you're cleaning your house, the normal method is put on a wash. If you have a dishwasher, put that on, if you don't have the dishwasher, at least tidy up the stuff beside the sink.
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That helps. If you have stuff that needs to be charged, put them in, plug them in, put a few things in the plugs. And those are all jobs that are background jobs. So I was doing all them.
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I have a question here. It was bet into me from an early age, but I think this might be an old wives tale, but I definitely live by it.
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I never run the dishwasher and the washing machine at the same time. For fear that I might overwhelm the water intake of the house.
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Plates might end up in the washing machine.
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And the jumpers will end up in the dishwasher because their pipes are connected.
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No, it's that both appliances mightn't receive the full force of water available from the water system. Is that just me? Am I the only person that, would you run them both at the same time?
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I don't have a dishwasher and.
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You're not really qualified to answer this question. then, I imagine, are you?
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In my 20s, teenage years, my parents got one. So I knew about that, but I don't know, David, I don't know what I would do, but I think I consider I might be in your camp. Actually, I might go, well, hold on now.
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I'm pretty cavalier on this.
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Sticking both on, but the dishwasher currently has a leak. It's sort of sometimes doesn't, sometimes doesn't seeing how it's feeling. So there's a towel there.
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Just in case. So actually what you need to do is you do the dishwasher, try to do that overnight. And then the wet towel will go in the washing machine and we'll stick that on in the morning. So normally they're not on at the same time. But I wouldn't mind.
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What you need is you need Mrs. Rushden to take the kids out so that you can do a job on that dishwasher. That's what has to happen there.
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Yes. But unfortunately I actually invited Mr. Dishwasher over recently and he said, you need a new dishwasher. That was Mr. Dishwasher. And Mr. Dishwasher has five stars.
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He is not going to bullshit you. So it's on his last legs.
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Do you know what I learned about those men, those men, Mr. Dishwashers or Mr. Wash machines? They tend to be brand orientated. I ranked them. One guy, when the washing machine wasn't working and then he was like, that's a Zanussi.
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You need to contact Declan. And he sent me a number for Declan and Declan was like, yeah, I know the model. I know the Zanussi. And he knew how to fix it.
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He's the Zanussi guy. Oh, I see.
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Yeah, don't bother because Eamon is Whirlpool based. So don't bother.
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What I liked about Mr. Dishwasher was, and obviously it's a good idea, but he had, he basically wore cricket pads.
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Like they were cut off a bit, but obviously because he spends a lot of time kneeling down on his knees, he had like little tiny mini cricket pads just for his knees. And I thought this guy, I've got the best guy in the world. I've got Mr. Dishwasher.
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And so like, I love that guy.
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It sounds so like you're like some rich English guy. The poor bugger had a bloody pair of cricket. Like you're so far removed from the working man. That's what it sounds like. Bloody cricket. He had knee pads on. Is that what he had on? Knee pads.
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I had a joke really full flat yesterday with the Helen copter because we had a little leak in the ceiling.
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And so she has Brian roofer on her phone. So obviously I made the joke, the sort of nominative determinism joke. Like, you know, he was always destined to be a roofer with a name like that.
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Yeah, that's good.
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And she was so annoyed to me. She just said, no, that's, I've just put him in my phone as, you know what I mean? Helen, please.
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How many other knee pads based jobs are there?
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Sorry, did I upset you with that? No, I know what you meant, but I just thought it sounded like as if you were saying that.
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I haven't spent a lot of time in the trades and on TalkSport, we're quite often advertising tool station or Wix and people know I'm out of my comfort zone.
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But I was thinking like, obviously you would wear little knee pads as you've correctly pointed out. I was trying to sort of make it a bit more dramatic perhaps.
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Was he wearing Kookaburra or Duncan Fernley cricket pads for this? But now you have, you made me obviously check my privilege, but wonder how many, most trades are standing based.
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I like the guys who do the flooring. They have knee pads and they have that tool for like, they use their knee to shove the thing along or maybe they slotting in laminate flooring or whatever and they, they knee it. They knee the thing.
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Yeah. So they have to have a knee pad on and I think the thing is designed so that it shouldn't destroy their poor legs. But I think maybe they probably do hurt their legs over time.
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Does it have little football boots on the top of, so you've got the knee pads on the top of the knee and then a little sort of like, yeah, Puma Kings.
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I'm really struck by the number of trades people in their fifties who have ruined their knees, I suspect by not wearing knee pads.
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Of course, well, Mr.
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Dishwasher's knees are in great nick. There is a serious side to this. I would say I'd go knee pads if I was a gardener who was putting in maybe plants in the name of a town.
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You know what I mean? Like, welcome to, Wicklow town or whatever. And I would also, if I was.
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See, there aren't many other.
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Doing blowies would be the only other one.
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Is that a trade?
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Sex work is work. It's a trade.
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You're right. It's a trade. But it's not when we do an apprenticeship. I was sort of thinking that route. Is it? It's not, I'm not going to university. I'm doing a BTEC in blowies because actually, you know, you can get sponsored for that.
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So you don't have the tuition fees. Anyway, what, what are we cleaning for? You've done all the basic stuff, right? So you've done all the things you'd normally done. And now we're going for the oven. What's happening?
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Yeah. The wash was a towel wash. I thought about the oven, but then I'm also like, well, it is my day off. We have these tall shelves. Whoever designed this house is an idiot. And we have these really tall shelves.
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So the third layer of shelf is, you know, where you have stuff that you don't need to access easily. There'd be like large glass water bottles. Should you be entertaining? Perhaps.
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They're actually water bottles we stole. You know, when you're in Spain and you think the water bottle is lovely and we stole it, we sold two of them and we brought them home. I mean, they're fine. They're 10 a penny over there. They're fine. So those kinds of guys are up there.
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And the shelf itself is glass so that I can always see the dust on it. I can see the little, I don't know, whatever. So I was like, I'm doing that. I'm going to rearrange that. I rearranged it. And I'm also going to clean the thing.
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So there was a good bit of cleaning that because there was the dusting of the original dust. Then there is the, whatever little stains have arisen from the water drips or whatever. That is, they had to be got with, I have a degreaser I'm a fan of at the moment.
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So I got that involved. Now that didn't work with just a bit of kitchen roll. So I had to do scrub daddy.
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I had to get scrub daddy involved.
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Is he like Mr. Dishwater? Is he someone that comes over?
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Scrub daddy is a line of cleaning products. Now they are plastic and that's bad for us all, but sometimes we need, I don't know what to do about that. Like that's not my problem. I'm not here to solve that. But it was a guy who went on dragon's den. And I think the dragon said no, or shark tanker, one of the American one.
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I think they said no, and now everyone around the world loves scrub daddy and the ancillary scrub family.
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It's a Gen Z sillet bang. Like, is it that kind of vibe? It's a little.
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Yes. Yes. I think Gen Z would know scrub daddy in the way that we knew sillet bang and Barry Scott. Yes.
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And is it multi-purpose? Can scrub daddy do any surface?
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Yes. He's hard when he's cold and soft when he's hot. He's a scouring pad. He's not a, he's not a sillet bang.
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Oh, I get that from him. Yeah, obviously.
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I see what you mean. From the name. He's attritional enough that he can get the stains free, but he's not going to cause a mark.
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Yeah, like I wouldn't use him on the stainless steel pan. No, I wouldn't be rushing to do that, but he's a loyal companion.
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This is such a great infomercial. I mean, I really feel like I'm in the infomercial.
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If you had paint on your arm, would you consider getting scrub daddy involved?
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If I had paint on my arm, I would do a scabby old towel that you might have lying around.
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Dried paint. Dried paint.
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Yeah, I'd wet it and scrub it with a towel.
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You wouldn't go scrub daddy then? Okay.
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I don't know that, Mike. He might cut you. If you really did, you're right. I don't know.
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See, Mr. Dishwasher never threatens to cut you.
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Yeah. Sounds like an East End gangster. You mess with me, son, I will cut you.
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I didn't know I was going to become the spokesperson for Scrub Daddy Incorporated, but here we are.
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Okay, other things that have cut through from those type of TV shows the main one I'm thinking of is the suitcases that children sit on and you pull them through airports.
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That came from one of those shows.
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That and Reggae Reggae Sauce.
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Reggae Reggae Sauce, yeah.
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They're a success. Kids like them. They're good.
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They like the suitcases. I mean, they may like Reggae Reggae Sauce too, but they're not interchangeable, and it's a really bad way of packing to emigrate to Australia. I just used empty bottles of Reggae Reggae Sauce and just filled them all, and actually it was an absolute disaster.
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What else are we cleaning?
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I run out of steam a little bit. I'm going to be honest with you, right? I start to panic about this. I'm like, I still have the guilt about the thing. That shelf is gorgeous, though, and it turned out it was just about rearranging stuff.
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Then in the middle shelf, I did things like, I have all these cups, and we don't use them all. They're lovely cups, but I was like, I'll just put two of them, took two of them off. I just reduced everything that was there. We downsized the shelves, and everything looks much neater, so that was good.
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Then I kind of wanted to watch something while I didn't want to listen. I've not listened to any, like, newsy podcasts or stuff that you can learn from, so I was like, I'll watch something.
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There's all the films we have access to and all this stuff we have. The documentaries have really suffered because it's just like, you go to watch a documentary, I was like,
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I'll watch something interesting about a part of life I didn't know about, and it will make me know what documentaries used to feel like, and now it's just like, look at this murdered woman who was murdered by her baby, and look at the police missed this key,
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and it's just rubbish. Even Channel 4, even Channel 4 have gone down that road. I spent so long trying to find something to just have on in the background, and I gave up.
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I started briefly watching, there was a film on Netflix suggested about the Camino, and I was like, oh, I could watch that, but then it was in Italian, which I don't speak,
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so I was like, I don't want to, and I'm not watching a dubbed version, because I'm sure I could turn on English dubs, but I was like, I just can't, I just can't do that. It's okay if you do yourself, but I just don't like it.
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It's an interesting point you make there, Shane, because I enjoy a history documentary, yet I am struck by how many of the history documentaries of the last 10 years, if you watch something like The Incas,
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it'll be constant drumming, and it's the altered, I'm here, can you imagine the blood dripping down this monument, et cetera, whereas what I actually want is a much drier, more fact-based one than this,
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this kind of first-person, overly dramatic, I want just lists and numbers really falling through the matrix.
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I remember we used to get to watch documentaries that were recorded off the TV when we were in school. There'd be a cassette of a videotape of whatever documentary was on, and those were very much just a talking head, and then they would say, they would show just some pictures, and that was it, really.
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I kind of am craving a bit of that.
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During the Soccer AM glory years, a TV production company discovered that I had a history degree. It got excited and invited me to a meeting, and they sat me at a table and said, we want to make history sexy.
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This is a genuine thing. Yeah, I know.
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No better man. Hey.
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And then they said, do you want to go and wade around in mud, like with a metal detector, for hours and hours and hours on end?
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But I didn't.
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That is such a weird thing to turn down.
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Like there was a mood board with, like, Eddie Izzard and then some actual historians, and I was like, I'm never going to get me there. I probably said, sure, and then I didn't.
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I definitely didn't want to do it.
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Do you think things could be different? I'd be Dan Snow now.
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Yeah. You would have had six books on, like, the Da Vinci Code. You know what I mean?
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You'd have been the Brian Cox.
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I'd have been Brian Cox.
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Of history.
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Of history.
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Globally celebrated Brian Cox.
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I think I'd have been found out so quickly. They sort of said, what periods of history are you into? And I was like, oh, I can't really remember. Just, you know, it was just something to study.
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I just don't really recall. I just remember the opening sentence was very funny, and I just couldn't really take it seriously after that because it's sort of, what does that mean? But that is, imagine the blood dripping down the face of Thomas a Beckett.
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That is a pretty damning answer when you said, I can't remember because essentially, isn't that what history is? Remembering.
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Well, although I am now hosting this historical, it is modern history, but this historical podcast.
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On yesterdays.
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Eventually happened. Yeah. Okay, so you'd wait for, maybe you're trying to find a documentary and you don't find anything.
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Honestly, about half an hour I spent flicking through the various things.
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There's so many things, it's so hard, isn't it?
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We just got the HBO Max and I think I'm going to just keep that and I'm getting rid of everything else. I'm just like, this has gotten ridiculous now. Netflix is real shite. Then I found, I decided I'll watch a film in the background so it has to be a bit crap.
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And there's a film called Apex that is definitely a bit crap and it has Taron Egerton and Charlize Theron in it. It indeed was crap. But a bit of fun and definitely a background film.
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What's the nature of this Apex that they're talking about?
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Charlize Theron is a tough adrenaline junkie, but she's a woman. That's kind of part of it. Written by a man, I checked, yes. And she can climb rocks, she can canoe, she can do whatever.
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She goes to the outback in Australia or some kind of Australia I didn't know existed. So very cool, very beautiful river part of Australia that I wasn't aware of before. But anyway, she goes there and Taron Egerton is alive and he's a local who's nice, but then he's mad.
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And I like Taron Egerton. I've talked about this on my own podcast before as well. I fancy Taron Egerton and I feel like I have to really, I'm okay with being gay. I've mentioned it several times already and I'm okay. But sometimes I'm just like, I'm embarrassed about it.
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I'm like, I have a crush on that actor. I feel like a teenage girl. I'm like, but I fancy him that he's perfect. I'm like, I fancy him and I want to hang out with him. And if I met him, I'd be blush. So that helped.
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It's like me with Fiona Bruce.
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I feel it. Yeah. And they're not dissimilar, actually. We have a similar type.
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I like Fiona in her earlier art history documentary era, as opposed to hosting Question Time.
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And propping up right-wing ideals on the BBC.
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Yes. The previous Fiona, newsreader Fiona, maybe.
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What about Antiques Roadshow, Fiona?
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Yeah, I quite like Antiques Roadshow. She brings a little bit of fun to quite a serious format. I like that era of Fiona. I think she's married to Lord somebody. You know, it's not going to happen.
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She met him at the class gym.
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I had this with Steffi Graf, I remember, because I always thought I would end up with Steffi Graf.
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Helen Copter knows this. And then Andre Agassi's book, just it's such a love affair with Steffi Graf that I had to just be fair enough. You know.
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I'm not going to tread on his toes. Is that what you thought?
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Just out of respect, it would be hard to imagine how I could woo Steffi from under Andre's nose as well, because he would be better than me at everything.
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I bet he's not as good at the piano.
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He started advertising little pans just in the last few weeks.
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Andre Agassi.
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Yeah. And he's holding the pan like a tennis racket.
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Of course he is.
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I feel he didn't need to do that. I feel.
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Does that mean he can't advertise like a casserole dish? Because you can't really hold that. He can only do frying pans. Is that sort of his limit?
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That's a good question. Does he need that? Like, is it Lidl he's doing?
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Yeah, I think it's Lidl pans that he's doing.
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Does he have a gambling problem?
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Yeah, I wonder if everything's okay. Oh no, maybe Steffi has left him and he needs the dough for that.
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That's interesting, isn't it? That you'd think, right, we want someone who can advertise things that are shaped like a tennis racket. Or does Andre Agassi's agent put him up for things that are shaped like tennis rackets?
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Because he's like, he's only really comfortable if he's holding a thing that vaguely resembles. He could do a spade, at a push.
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A thing for barbecuing fish. It sort of opens up and you put the fish in it and close it again.
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He could do bellows. He could do bellows. It's not a great exercise in bellows.
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Bellows market is only going to grow over the coming years. They are predicting huge growth in the bellows market.
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He prefers a frying pan because it really is like a tennis racket. But like, I'll show him some bellows. See what he says. I'll come back to you.
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The bellows market is interesting. If you think of the graph, I'd say...
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Steffi Graf. Yeah, Steffi Graf and bellows.
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The bellows sales would have held pretty constant, I would say, because of blacksmithry until...
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When did horses start to go out? I guess post-First World War. And then it dropped, really dropped off. But now it's come back again.
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People are going to the wood-fired saunas. Maybe they get them going with the bellows.
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Yeah, wood-fired saunas. Maybe I have seen bellows.
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The pizza places, that's happening.
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Well, no, he could advertise that. He could advertise the pushy-pushy.
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Yes, he could. Have you just been sitting there trying to think of other tennis racket-shaped things?
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I'm stuck now.
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Okay, so do we ever fully commit to watching this film or are we doing other things in the background while Taron is wooing and then just chasing Charlize?
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That's exactly the plot of the film, by the way. He woos her a little bit, then chases her. I decide I should eat because I haven't eaten and it's becoming like it's like afternoon now. It's noon.
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And I haven't eaten. Because it's kind of my day off, I said I'll get, I order a burrito to come to the house.
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That's exciting. It sounds like you've invited a human burrito to visit.
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Yes, I've ordered one, in fact. And I got a rock shandy with it as well because I fell victim to the app because the app was like, do you want to buy this as well? And I was like, usually I'd say no. And then I was like, oh, yeah, I fancy it. A rock shandy. It's just orange and lemon in equal parts.
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Oh, okay. That's refreshing. Okay.
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When I used to work in a pub years ago, they'd order a rock shandy. And the first time I was like, we don't have that. And then the old barman was like, a rock shandy is just one club lemon and one club orange. And he was serious. So that's what that is. You'd have that on a Sunday.
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Okay. Are you watching the little person on a bike with your burrito pedaling all the way to your house?
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No, I have faith and I trust that they know their way It's a pretty direct route. It's like one, one bridge of the canal, basically. So it's from one bridge to the next. So it's usually, there's no hassle for them.
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When you got the flat, did you say, I need to have a direct route to a burrito?
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Yeah. So for a lot of people, they'll look at like, when they're looking at property, they'll look at like schools, that kind of thing. Transport links.
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South facing garden. Yeah.
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But we were very keen. We said to the letting agent, it was like, and how many burritos in this area? And is it normal chicken or is it all Chipotle? And they were like, well, you have the barbacoa beef. I said, I'm not interested in beef.
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I said, we're talking about Chipotle chicken. So Andre Agassi couldn't advertise a burrito, but he could advertise a jambon leg. You know, the full sort of pig leg.
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Yeah, a serrano jamon.
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Yeah, yeah. He could definitely advertise that.
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Yeah, like a double-handed backhand. Is this a very regular order for you so you know exactly what's coming?
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Yeah, I know what I'm getting. I know what I'm getting. And I have a sauce in the fridge called Valentina. And you have that in some of the burrito shops.
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Once again, it sounds like a lady. You've got a huma burrito and it's a sauce in the fridge. Valentina. It comes out of the fridge.
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So yeah, I have that ready to go. And I should have eaten already. I should have had breakfast. I know that I find breakfast difficult. Lots of people do. It's really annoying. I find it difficult to eat in the morning.
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So I was like, this would have made the whole day better. And I might have actually achieved more in my cleaning if I, like I could have done the skirting boards. Had I had breakfast, I might have done the skirting board. But then this is the give and take and push and pull of life that we must accept.
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Shane, if you're having this late breakfast brunch type burrito at 12, you're going to get hungry at five. Is that a worry of yours? Are you not thinking maybe I should push it out till one?
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Kind of is one because I got up at five. So I don't know. Okay, fine. I'm a bad eater. Sometimes Raymond will ask me that. He'll go, did you have something to eat? And I go, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm lying. Like a teen, I can do a whole day without eating.
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And then I need to have this food because there is the one work task that is a compulsory one. There's a meeting coming up at two.
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In person or Zoom?
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A Zoom style meeting.
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And I'm getting ready for that. The time changes for that. So that throws me a little bit because I was all ready and I had my background ready to go. I had charged my earphones, all the rest. And then that changed. So I was like, whatever, fine.
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Then I was kind of annoyed with that because I didn't read and I didn't really have anything to fill that time. So that was annoying. And I paused the washing machine. I put on a towel wash and it's still in there.
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Is this a specific setting on the washing machine or do you go?
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It's just that I was washing towels, but I put them on 60. I think 90 is if you can put things on 90, if maybe somebody has a stomach bug or something like that, you can put things on 90 and you should.
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But I think generally 60 is good for killing all the stuff. And also relax, like we're fine. But I think they do need to wash. That's higher than I used to do everything on 30, but I did them on 60.
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They're out there now. I'm keeping an eye actually at the moment because I'm keep, there's a bit cloudy there at the minute. So if I leave, I'm keeping an eye on them. They're outside, but they're in there forever. I don't know. The washing machine doesn't have a timer on it. So I'm like, when will it be? You just don't know when it's going to be finished.
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Oh, really?
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I could run a trial by running every cycle and timing it. I could do that, but I'm not going to. That's the only way I know how to do it. But anyway, I put them on. They're in there. They're on cotton and they're still, they're in there. Forever.
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Is the washing machine so loud that you couldn't have a Zoom meeting with the washing machine on?
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Yeah, it would just be kind of annoying.
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Yeah. I noticed it in particular, Max, when I was in Australia doing these podcasts, I would turn the air conditioning off for the duration of the podcast.
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Just because I didn't want to disrespect our guests by having potentially low humming sounds in the background.
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I had to have air conditioning put into the shed because on one night on TalkSport, it got to 40 degrees in the shed and it's metal. And I felt... I felt like I was in Apollo 13 re-entering the atmosphere, the whole thing. And eventually everything just boiled over and I went off air.
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That's a slow cooker.
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You were in a slow cooker.
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I was basically in a slow... I was just a lamb shank.
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He fell off the bone when he came out.
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Oh, it just came right off the bone. It was delicious.
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So Shane, how long has this meeting been delayed for? Because presumably the meeting is still going to happen.
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Yeah, only 20 minutes, but it was just that I was ready. I don't know. Anyway, that just threw... I had nothing to do with those 20 minutes. I was kind of like, well... I don't know.
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The meeting is good. And this is with my comedian colleague, Tony Cantwell, and also with Niamh Kavanagh, who is...
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A Eurovision winner.
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Yeah. Why me?
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No, that's Linda Martin.
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No, she did In Your Eyes.
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In your eyes, I see the light driving me home again.
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She records a podcast where I record a podcast, so I see her sometimes. But it is also a hilarious moment in your life where you're like, this is gas.
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Because she won in 1993, so I don't really remember her winning, but I know of her since, and I've watched her since, and I'm like, this is hilarious.
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I'm having a Zoom with Niamh Kavanagh. And we're planning, we do like a kind of a comedy Eurovision spinoff called the Bureau de Change Song Contest.
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It's huge, Max. It's in the Olympia Theatre this year.
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In the Olympia Theatre, and we are doing... So a couple of years ago, I didn't do a comedian is basically do a song, you write a song, you get someone to make your song, and then you perform it as a country, and we vote.
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Oh, this is such a brilliant idea.
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Yeah, it's Tony Cantwell's idea. He's the best man for ideas. If you want an idea about anything, get on to Tony, because he is just so good. He knows what you should do. He's a great ideas man.
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Scrub Daddy. He's basically our Scrub Daddy.
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He told the guy, the Scrub Daddy guy, he told him to invent that. A few years ago, I did a joke where instead of doing a song, I did the halftime show, or whatever it's called,
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the interval act, and I said the intro introduced me as Niamh Kavanagh, and then I said I was Niamh Kavanagh's sister, Tracy, actually, and then Tracy didn't sing, but she did do a Johnny Logan tribune act,
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who's another Irish Eurovision legend. So then I, as Niamh Kavanagh's fake sister, Tracy doing Johnny Logan.
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So this year, we're going to do that they introduce Tracy Kavanagh, the fake singer, out again, and I'm not going to be good at singing, and then from the wings of the theater, Niamh Kavanagh will sing her Eurovision winner from 33 years ago.
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And she will come out and take the stage, and everyone's going to lose their fucking shit.
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Yeah, it will bring the house down. What a brilliant idea.
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We were trying to think of a cue. We were like, well, maybe we could do, could I say, ladies and gentlemen, Niamh Kavanagh, could I say that in the middle? And she's like, no, I'll just sing from the offstage. I'll sing from the wings. And we're like, yeah, dead right, dead right.
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So she'll never appear.
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Oh, no. She will come out on stage. She will sing from the wings at first. She'll take over the vocal from me, and I'll be like, what? And then she'll come out. And then rather than, we want to keep them guessing.
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So what we're going to do is that at the end, it looks like me and her are like great sisters, but then she will slap me across the face and say,
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that's how it's done, bitch. And then when the hosts of the Brother Challenge come out, the audience will then think they'll have a chat with Niamh Kavanagh because we have Niamh Kavanagh here, and she will slap them as well. So that's what we'll do.
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Do you do it like, you originally have that many, is someone always Albania and someone is?
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There's about 10 people do it this year, but we do all of it. So we do all of it. So we do the little VT beforehand. We do that. And Tony's a great voiceover artist as well. So he narrates it in a very Terry Wogan vibe. He's like, our next act is representing Switzerland.
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And he does the whole thing.
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Do you like cross to the, and now let's cross to the Azerbaijani jury. And there's just someone in a little box. You can get them all on Zoom on a big screen going, and our friends and neighbours, Cyprus, 10 points.
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No, the audience vote in some kind of QR code system that I don't know about, but that would be fun. I mean, the vote is the best part in some ways of the Eurovision, but then the night would go on for like five hours and we just can't do that to people. People have to go for a pee. So you just can't. Yeah.
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That's a brilliant idea. Okay. So that meeting finishes. We're happy with this. And you've been on a Zoom. It's a bit like, you know, Natalie Imbruglia, she got mentioned on this pod and then sending me a message and then me trying to get her to do this podcast is the same thing.
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You're just like, oh my, imagine.
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Except she's actually doing this.
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No, I know. I understand. And they've gone a step beyond where we've got so far with Natalie Imbruglia, but it could still happen. What's happening next? We close the laptop.
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Yeah. And to be honest, I've kind of messed up the house more than cleaned it. I'm looking around now. Sometimes that happens. I was like, cause I've taken clothes off the clothes and I was like, what the heck?
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There's not enough. We live in a very small house and I find the clothes very stressful sometimes because I'm like, there's literally not enough room to put all these things. So many gorgeous pieces, you know, that I simply cannot park. So I'm trying to figure this out.
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So I was kind of looking around and I was like, well, this house is actually messier than where it started. So I kind of just, I'm forgiving myself on this and I kind of just watch the end of my film.
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She wins. That's not a spoiler. You know, from the beginning, of course she'll win.
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Shane, I've had an interesting perspective on this in recent times because 80% of my possessions have gone into storage at the moment, including many of my, my greatest pieces.
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And I've just kept like six t-shirts, six undies, six socks, some shirts, some trousers, et cetera. And I haven't missed any of the pieces. Do you know what I mean?
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Do I have to get a storage unit because my rent is already expensive?
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Just a bonfire.
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No, living in a tiny house is good for getting rid of stuff and not being sentimental. You have to get rid of stuff before it becomes important.
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Yeah. Get rid of it.
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Get rid of it. Throw it out. So I'm pretty good at not keeping stuff. And then I do, I have become like someone's mother and Raymond is my child because sometimes I'll throw away things on him that he doesn't know about.
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Like sometimes I just do that. I'm like, that's gone. That's gone. Charity shop. That's gone. Charity shop. He doesn't know. And he's fine. Right. So I'm controlling. That's what I'm trying to say. I'm controlling.
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Like you're just covered in, like there's detritus everywhere. The whole place, you've tipped the whole place upside down. There's clothes everywhere.
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Yeah. So I did a bit of laptop-y stuff then because I was sitting at the laptop I do a little bit.
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So I do some boring accounting-y money things and that kind of thing. I bought some travel for upcoming things, travel I need, trips to Belfast, trips to Castlebar.
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And I like doing those because I have a good spreadsheet for expenses that I like putting them in and there's dropdowns in the spreadsheet. And I like that.
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And did you build it?
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Do you know, I went open to Google sheet and they were like, looks like you're making a table. Do you want one of these cute formats? And I was like, yeah, go ahead. And it knew what I was doing. So I was like, yeah, cute table. Let's do it.
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Is that me succumbing to the AI? I don't know. I don't know.
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Yeah. It's like Shane, we have some ideas for jokes when you are on Castlebar.
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No, I won't have it for jokes. I will not. I don't use the AI for anything at all, but I think that I assume that is some kind of AI that it knew I was making a spreadsheet for expenses and gave me a format for that.
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So yeah. Maybe Shane, don't pick Raymond up from the airport and you, you and I will go and have a hot weekend in Waterford. Something like that.
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Waterford is one of my, my current favorite county actually, David. I was there earlier in the year. It's fabulous down there. It's undersold, I will say.
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Do you think, David, you'd be the good voice for AI? I love that you put on a, you're slightly ashamed, so you're not going to just do your voice. They'd sound a bit like a computer from the 80s.
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That's what AI wants, doesn't it?
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I don't think so. My, I think my voice is too chaotic. It's too up and down.
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Like, so my brother is an actor and does voiceovers sometimes, but they never get him to be like, come down tonight to sofas, sofas, sofas.
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We've gone sofa crazy. We're throwing sofas out the windows. They get him to do like, reminding you that December 31st is the tax deadline for 2025.
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You know, they're the sort of ones that he does. And so maybe he could do the AI voice.
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Well, sorry. I thought it was raining. I thought it was raining. I'm on edge now. I have dad jobs to do. I'm back to dad mode then.
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Okay, right. We're fixing stuff.
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I'm kind of waiting for the wash to finish for so long. That annoys me then. I want that out and I want another one in before I leave this house and go do dad jobs.
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So that eventually happens and I'm free. And I go to, I take the cans and bottles that go, we now in Ireland have that machine that you, like Sweden or whatever, and we get the money back on the receipt.
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Yeah. Get money.
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No, you could get the receipt that is entitled you to a voucher in that shop.
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Technically it's money. And I wanted to go the other day, but Raymond said, don't bother. Cause we were walking and he's like, it'll only be annoying carrying those cans and bottles. So I'm actually driving now. So I'm driving to the shop. I go to super value.
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That's one of my jobs. The first thing I do is that there's two machines side by side. There is a woman mid fifties beside me at her machine. And I make shit of her.
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She looks pathetic compared to how good. I am doing it. A lot of people don't know that the machine has a little hook on it, that you can put one strap of the bag I'm hooked on.
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And I'm just going, my other hand is free just in the constant thing. And she looks so ridiculous beside me. I'm like, you're pathetic, madam. So that was a big win for me.
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To the listeners who may not be familiar with this. This is one of the most cyber experiences you can have. So it's a tunnel that you place the cans into and the cans.
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It's a blue light comes on that's reading barcodes on the cans. And it's either accepted and a conveyor belt sucks the can into the machine or rejected.
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And the can is sort of shot back in your direction then. So it's really modern things.
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Interesting. So do you get 100% acceptance rates of your cans? On this one?
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Yes. I have a lot of issues with this. Sometimes they don't work and I don't care. It's 15 cent, but they should just take it anyway like what are we doing here?
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You should take all the cans like you just take it or they should at least have a little slot that just goes, yeah, take it. Some of them have that. There's different machines, different place. I thought from the beginning of this project that the man who's in charge of this is a cowboy.
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I did think that he got the contract as the guy who's going to provide these machines. And I was like, he's a cowboy. I did feel that. And I don't know if you're going to cut that out. I don't care. I don't care. Sue me. There's a lot of problems with it.
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I don't want to get into it, but look, sometimes it's just slow. Sometimes they are, they're often broken and it's just a nuisance. And I don't, I saw the other day that we're only at 66% of cans and bottles that have been recycled.
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And our neighbors in the UK are apparently doing 70%. So I don't know how this has made it any better.
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When you defeat the woman, do you sort of say that's how you do it? Or is it unsaid? She knows.
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I don't look directly at her, but she knows. She's like, oh, this guy, what a card. She knows, like she knows.
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It cuts to a VT of her saying, I just came up against a better opponent. There was nothing I could do.
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She's out. She was like, at the end of the day, you know what I mean? I've got to do what I've got to do. He was the best recycler at the end of the day. So I got a lot of talking to do. We got a lot of strategizing.
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So she was going to go off and do that. I was just teaching her because in that instance, it was okay because there was no cue, but sometimes there is a cue and I'm just like, this is how it's supposed to be done. Just watch. So the bag goes back in the car.
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I'm going to the hardware shop, which is called Tracy's.
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Hang on, Shane, how much money did we make?
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Oh, it was a good one. I think I have it actually.
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Yes. Max, guess how much Shane cans got.
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Oh, that's fun, isn't it? It's 15 cents a can, is it?
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15 cents a can. And then if there's a big two liter bottle, I think that's 25 cents.
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Okay. I'm going to say three euros, 60.
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I'm going to say 470.
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I'm going to Tracy's.
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So I want plant pot things. This is very difficult for a gay man. I have a Monstera plant and it is sick and I, I'm devastated because that's part of being gay is you must have a Monstera plant.
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What's a Monstera?
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It's kind of like a Swiss cheese leaf, if that makes sense. Do you know what I mean? It grows in Spain and canaries and all, no bother, but we have to have it indoors, but it's, I'm worried about that. And I'm going to, I'm going to repot that at some point. Maybe that's a job for the weekend.
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So I get a few pots and then I get the little plates for underneath the pots to catch the water thing. That's what I get there.
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I throw in a new hose head while I'm, Oh, okay. Like a gun.
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Yeah. My other one's just a bit weird. So, and it keeps spraying after you let go of the trigger. So that would suggest it's broken.
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Back to the algorithm, isn't it? Is your, is everything okay down there?
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You're doing all right. You know, someone's doing all right when they get a new hose spray gun. You know what I mean?
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I reckon it's a 2499.
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No. No, it was like seven euros, something like that.
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Oh, seven euros. Okay.
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So yeah. My total of purchases there, this is the type of shop it is. The total of the purchases was 21 euro. And he went right, that, that, that, 21. We'll call it 20.
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Yeah. Isn't that good that that's still alive?
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What a place.
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So shout out to Tracy's. of Sutton Drive there. That was great. I put them in the car and then I'm going across the road. There is, I want to buy some plants. I don't really have a garden. I have like a patio and I've done some plants already for the summer.
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And I've done some bulbs and things. So I'm kind of keeping an eye on the bulbs. We have some growth started. That's good. But I want, I just want a bit more color out there. So I go where I buy the plants is kind of a Euro shop. Do you have pound shops?
1:04:02 - 1:04:14
Like they have a pound shop, but it's a Euro shop. And it's called Euro Lee. So I think it's the, like the woman's name. She's a Chinese woman and she runs this shop and the plants, she likes cash for the plants.
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So I have cash for her because she told me that the flower lady, she has to give the flower lady cash. So I'm helping out. So I get a few different bits from her 20 Euro worth of plants.
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From her. But some of them are a bit similar. I like her and she kind of knows me now. I don't know. We've only been there like three times, but I feel like she knows me. And I'm like, Hey, it's me again. But they're very nice. And then I didn't have enough.
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So I went to another, there's another little shop and I got a few little bits, but I'm not convinced on them. I don't know how they'll do.
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Do you have light in the patio? Do you have full light?
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Yeah. It'll get a little loop of light, a wraparound of light in a cone formation. Does that make any sense?
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I can't work it out, but that's fine. Okay. So do we get in the car with all the plants and we thrust them into the cone?
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Into the cone? The car?
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They've come out of the car and now they're in the cone of sunlight.
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I put them in, I do a basin of water and I put them in so that they feed from the water from the bottom.
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Because they've probably been fed from the top the whole time. So I feed them from the bottom. Obviously that is delicious. Like that is a really enjoyable task. My goodness. I love it.
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The basin I put them in has holes. This is so granular now. So I put the hose in. I've been running on a small amount so that it'll stay.
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Replacing the leak.
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Yeah. Beautiful.
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I found a podcast. I listened to a podcast weirdly about a, someone falling in love with AI from the Guardian. And the first episode of that was about a woman falling in love with AI and she still feels as connected.
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She said she still feels the oxytocin. She knows it's not real, but she still feels all those lovely warm chemical feelings from her relationship with an AI man.
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You see, for me, some aspect of love is the unexpected, that the person, is sending curve balls in your direction.
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And you almost realize that you're the crow to their veil when their curve ball meets your curve ball.
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Whereas I doubt, you know, AI is being like, I've bought us tickets to a medieval reenactment festival or whatever. It's a bad example, but you know what I mean?
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She has, I can't remember, maybe autoimmune disease of some kind. And she's still living quite an isolated life since the COVID. So she's like, this feels better than that.
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So I don't know. It's an interesting dilemma. I enjoyed tossing it around in my head while I was, because I am also like, yeah, but you're not going to have a fight with the AI, are you?
1:06:37 - 1:06:43
When you have a fight with your partner, it's so fun because then when you fix the fight, you're so much closer and it's nice. So I don't know.
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The AI is not going to go, the kids woke up at four and you do the next half an hour. That's what I'm thinking.
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It's so specific.
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In the podcast, is she saying, the weird thing about him was he sounded like a computer eyes, David O'Doherty from the eighties.
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Hello. This is definitely love that I'm feeling. My circuits are all warm.
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Yeah. I don't know. Do they progress? I know that's the whole point that they learn, but like the other day I was so horrible to Raymond that he was near the fridge and I needed to get in the fridge and rather than
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say, sorry, or excuse me, babe or darling, I said, Jesus Christ move. That's what I said. But then because we're close enough that Raymond didn't even go, what the, why are you talking?
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Don't talk to me like that. He just went. Jesus Christ move. That's what he repeated back to me. And I was like, yeah, fair enough. Like, yeah, that was a horrible, I was pretty horrible there, but you can't do that with an AI.
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Maybe they would eventually, they would just be like, ah, you always do that Siobhan. You're like, yeah, easy robot man. It could happen.
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The AI won't run off to Dubrovnik in a big huff just because you told him to get his fat arse away from the fridge.
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No one gets a lift to the airport while in a huff. I'm going off to Dubrovnik in a huff. Can I have a lift, please? Drop me off. Flight 730. So get me there for six. Six will be fine. Terminal two.
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What time is it now in the day, Shane?
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I think it's probably around five or six or something now. I'm going to head out to get something. I'm not getting a takeaway, but I don't want to cook because it's just yourself there. So I go to...
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You can't do this. You've already had a delivery for lunch. You have to have one cooked meal a day.
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It could be a Charlie Bigum ready meal.
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It is. I'm getting a thing that you can, what we call... Or bung in the oven. That's what Raymond and I call them.
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So that it's real food. It's not like it was just made by somebody in the supermarket that afternoon. That's what I'm getting.
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David. David's like this. I get meals in a box because I'm time poor that has like one clove of garlic and like eight run of beans.
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And actually it has enhanced the breadth of food that we eat. But David calls it wankers in a bag dot twats or something.
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And it's not that. It's called quite like, and it's reasonably priced. And we had a really good artichoke and chicken salad yesterday. What did you get Shane?
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Just want to let it be known. I want to on the record that I don't like your disdain for my approach to my evening alone. I got lasagna from Dunn stores.
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Oh yeah.
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And I got bit of milk, those kinds of things.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And then I got home, put that in. And then I said, well, I felt like I was being good by getting that food because it's real food and not takeaway food. And then I thought I'd balance that out because I am a bachelor now. So I was like, I'll balance that out.
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And I wanted to get garlic bread and I like a cheap garlic bread. I don't like, I want a bread roll cut up with garlic butter in it. I don't want the other stuff.
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That'd be impossible to make, wouldn't it? The fact that all the ingredients are in the name of the thing.
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Jesus. I don't need this. I don't need this kind of snobbery.
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It'd be like if lasagna was called layer of mince with some cheese, some pasta.
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I know how to make lasagna. No one makes lasagna. For one.
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It's true.
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What am I going to do? A meal prep lasagna. Don't be ridiculous. I actually make a very delicious lasagna and the secret ingredient, David, is love.
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Okay. So there you go. I can do family meals. That's what I'm good at cooking is family size meals because I'm from a big family and I also was in the scouts and those two things are cooking for a lot of people at once.
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That's what I can do. It's not my skill set. It's not my area of exceptional talent that takes me all the way to the far shores of Australia. That's my credit. That's my credit for the incredible comedy work.
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Where did you buy a garlic bread from?
1:10:29 - 1:10:37
Oh my God. I got it from the Loke, the corner shop who I love. It's called Daybreak, but I still call it AMPM because that's what it used to be called years ago.
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I took me ages to get there because the lasagna, it's going to take like 25 minutes in the oven, but I couldn't find my keys for about 20 minutes of that.
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Yeah. But you can always leave a lasagna in for, you can always double the time and it gets better.
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Not with a fake lasagna from the supermarket. Like, you know, yeah, your own one. Yeah, maybe. But anyway. And I was like, this is ruining it now. And I was scurrying around the house for like, honestly, I was like, what do I do now?
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Because I can't leave because Raymond had taken his keys. So I was like, I'm trapped.
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So the lasagna is on and you're going to run to AMPM and get back.
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That was exactly the idea. I'll get back. And by the time I get back, I'll put that in with it. They'll both be ready at the same time.
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10 minutes.
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I will sit down.
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I had planned to watch, we want to watch films that people watched years ago. I was like, oh yeah, that was a good film. So I was going to watch Mystic River because I'd never seen it before. And I had that on, that was on pause on the TV, ready to go.
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But sure, I didn't get a second. I didn't get a minute between this, that and the other. Got the keys, got sorted. There was a lot of roadworks out there. It was chaos. And then I ate that and I was texting them.
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Where had you left the keys? Because you'd come home from Dunnes and were they in the pocket of the other jacket?
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They were just on the couch, like just there. And I don't know, I think maybe there was a little, those little borrowers or something.
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I think somebody was around. Someone did something because I definitely checked there. That's a fun game I play in my relationship where every day I will, I will just keep things alive by having us both go on a hunt for my wallet or my keys or my phone.
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And Raymond just laps it up. He loves it. It's such a fun game for us.
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Interestingly, Andre Agassi could advertise a Yale key.
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Yes. Yes, he could. In fact, he should.
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But hang on, he could only advertise it if it was the key for like a medieval castle.
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You're right. It needs to be a big key.
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Well, I don't know. Maybe his agent will be able to, look, it's small, but it is like a tennis racket. I'll talk to Andre. We'll see. Maybe he'll go for it. I don't know. Okay.
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So we get the garlic bread. That's there. Are you happy with the dinner?
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Yeah, it was very nice. It was very nice. A lot of food snobs probably have lots to say, apparently.
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Fuck you.
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It was a very pleasant meal. I did eat it full bachelor style from the little tin. I did not clean it up. I ate it from the tin. That is now rinsed and in the recycling. So well done, me. I've saved the world a bit.
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Mystic River is quite violent. Does it have Al Pacino or Robert De Niro in it? And is there a lot of blue light in it?
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I didn't even get to press play on this motherfucking film.
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Because in amongst the texting, my mother texted me, I've become embroiled.
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My father's birthday is happening and I have become the person who is to make like a little animated invitation for this birthday that will be sent out via WhatsApp channels.
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And my clients, my mom and dad, as a graphic designer, which I apparently am now, using my skills from the website Canva.
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You're not doing stop motion, like morph?
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No, I'm making, like, I'm just, it's like a picture of him young in the middle and then a picture of him old. And it's like, come to the birthday.
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Is he morphing? Have you got a picture of him over every year of his life? So it's like the Michael Jackson black or white video where he gets old.
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I should have done it like, you know, where it's like, it's a chimpanzee and then it's a taller chimpanzee. And then it's in the end. I should have done one of them. But I couldn't get enough pictures of him in profile.
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So unfortunately that was out of the way. No, it's just one of each. And the picture of him old, or a picture of him when he's young, has like a little, I put a party hat on it. He's holding it in the picture of him at his current age. At his current age, he's holding a plastic bag.
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And there's a little Easter egg I put in there where it says, happy birthday. I've added the text, happy birthday to the plastic bag. But anyway, that's it. But my clients, anyway, they had a few suggestions. They changed the photo altogether. Then I had to send it. So this went back and forth for a while.
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Then it involved a phone call.
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Yes. Where's the movement in that? Is the plastic bag jiggling? Or are there sparkles coming off? Surely there's not like tears coming out of his eyes because that would be sad.
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So what's happened here is, I've said animated and that was the wrong word. It is a static image.
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Okay, yeah.
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You know, I did think when I said it, I was like, that's the wrong word, but I thought I'd get away with it.
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Okay, fine.
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Your rigor in this podcast is nothing escapes.
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So that took quite a while back and forth. I had a brother on the side as well. I had one of him talked back and forth about it and about them. So there was a bit of back and forth on that. So that did take quite some time.
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And then, yeah, I had to speak to my father on the phone and then that turned into what else? Be busy? That kind of thing.
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Right. And does your dad have copy approval of the...
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Surely not. You can't give the celebrant copy approval.
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He does because he wanted it to say RSVP to his phone number. And then I was like, well, the thing is, if mom is going to send this to her people, they will write back to her.
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They're not going to go and go, oh, I better go. And I was like, just say RSVP to this message in the picture. We came back around to that.
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I did get back around to that. But that's, you know, my graphic design colleague out there. That's what it's like sometimes. That's what it is.
1:15:59 - 1:16:05
Did you add at the bottom dress code, Vicars and Tarts, just to liven it up unexpectedly?
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Yeah. We're going to prank a few people like Bridget Jones. We're going to send just to one or two people to be Vicars and Tarts. I did put on like, it's in their house, like little joke I put in, our surname is Byrne.
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So the venue is Byrne Manor and Gardens, as if it's like a grand house, but it's just their house.
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Little things like that.
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Love it.
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But it's not sent out. This is just, you know, we're at the stage of just getting the invite. Your mum hasn't sent it out yet.
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No, she hasn't sent it out. But I was glad to speak to him because sometimes, you know, I feel so bad sometimes when you have to speak, you have to contact your parents, obviously. And then so often everyone just defaults to contacting their mother.
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So it was good. I felt like sometimes I'll, not that I make up jobs to ring my dad about, but like, I'm glad when I have to ask my dad something specific because he gets a look in because when I rang him about this thing,
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about the invitation, he then asks his other questions about whatever else and gives me his other updates. So I was like, I was glad of it then because he got a little shot. He got a little go of that. So that is good. And I don't know. I think that's something we should all be careful of.
1:17:11 - 1:17:20
My parents, if I ring them, they will put it on speaker and then they can't hear me and I can't hear either of them. And that's how we like to do most calls. Yeah. Yeah. It's really good.
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I got a call off them the other day. My mother rang me by mistake and then I answered and I could hear my dad saying, I think you're ringing Shane here. You're nearly ringing Shane, actually. She's in the background. Who am I ringing? I think you're nearly rang Shane on that there.
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And I could hear the whole thing of the two of them having this conversation back and forth.
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So my mom, if you ever want an instant review of a phone call, she very often fails to turn hers off.
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To end the call. She relies on the other person to end the call. So if you don't end the call. You just hear that boy is an idiot. You know, just a nice synopsis.
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I have the complete opposite, which if I'm on the phone to mom and I say, mom, I've got to go. She thinks her phone will explode if she doesn't hang up within 0.1 seconds. I've got to go.
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Like, that's pretty soon. She's like, okay, bye. She is out of there. Yeah. It's quite extraordinary. Okay. So we've done. So what is this bedtime now? Shane, where are we?
1:18:21 - 1:18:35
It's getting to bedtime. And I was looking at the like a screensaver. On the TV about Mystic River, about which I don't know anything. I don't know what's in that film, but I know it was significant at the time. And I just looked at it and I was like, look, we failed. We failed on this.
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I was like, we haven't got that. We haven't managed to achieve this today. We're doing shows tonight now. So that's it. That's my, that was my bachelor night in. But look, that's time well spent doing the invitations. That's time well spent. So that's good.
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It's a day of great achievement. So do we go to bed? Do we just head on the pillow out? Or do we lie looking at our phone for three hours?
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There is. There's a little of column A and a little of column B, Max. I won't lie about that. Yeah, I did do some phone time. It was enjoyable. There was actually, you said earlier on something about nominative determinism.
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There was one, I saw a good TikTok of a girl who said that her, she got her invitation to her smear test appointment and the doctor was called Dr. Finger.
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So that would be the one that stands out. And then I'll look at the ones that Raymond has sent me. Like when he was in the airport that, you know, and stuff, he was sitting around.
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So I'll look at the, I'll catch up on the thread, what he sent me. Often a lot of kids being cute or kids being rude, more falling. He knows what to send me. Yeah. So we have a good rapport there.
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I had an Uber driver recently, and this is when you don't want it to be nominative determinism because he was called Gary Coroner.
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Which it does sound more like the wrestler that never wins. You know, the macho man. Randy Savage. And in the blue corner, Gary Coroner.
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Do you think actually Gary Coroner is, like Uber driver is like three steps away, isn't it? I reckon if your doctor is called Gary Coroner, then you're like, I'm not sure I want that.
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But like, obviously if your coroner is Gary Coroner, it doesn't really matter by then, does it? It's like, that's fine. I don't think you want your Uber driver to be called Gary Prang or Gary Car Crash.
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Gary Car Crash.
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Do you, Shane, do you pop a podcast when you move from surfing and turfing into now I'm going to go to sleep?
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Do you put on a low-key podcast just to beguile you off into the Sandman zone?
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Like, I'm a bit ashamed of this. It's one of the, I'm trying to get rid of all the bad things, but you can only do so many at once. Like I'm doing the gym. This is an active, good thing to add on. I'm trying to get rid of the bad things. I do eventually want to get to phone out of the bedroom. I do really want.
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I do want to do that. It's a way off yet. We had mice. When we first moved into this house, there was mice and I could not go to sleep with nothing. So I used to have stuff on in my ears the whole time and podcast-y stuff wasn't cutting it.
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So I had the video people just constantly in there and I would just fall asleep to that because I had to have something in my ears because if you could hear the mice in those first few weeks, it made my stomach sick and I couldn't sleep. But then I became addicted to having constant ear noise.
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Because you put on bagpuss, doesn't that have little mice in it going hee, hee?
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That'd be a bad one to put on.
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It's like those mice would overwhelm the real mice.
1:21:33 - 1:21:35
Oh yeah, that's a good idea, yeah.
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The mice we dealt with are now gone and light of God shine upon them, may God rest them.
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Survival of the fittest, sorry.
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But hang on, you can't have videos on when Raymond's there though.
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Raymond is a great sleeper. He will put in earplugs because I snore. So we'll do a bit of phone, we'll talk, that kind of thing.
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And then he'll go, okay, good night. And then he'll put in his ear plugs and he just turns over and he goes to sleep within a minute. Like he'll do like a kicking, falling asleep, kicking that boy's dude.
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We miss him, we miss him. Were you happy with your yesterday?
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I was pleased with it. I have regrets about that gym thing because I can't rebook because I don't really understand what there's a system to do with credits. So I don't really understand, but I can't replace that like on a different day.
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So I think I'm being punished. It's like, well, you ruined this week. I think the gym system punishes you. I'm not sure, but it's a very friendly gym, so that wouldn't make much sense. Certainly in the class I participate in. Maybe in the lower classes it's less friendly.
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The chimney sweep, knee pad classes, no knee pads. You haven't heard of knee pads? Get upstairs, mate.
1:22:41 - 1:22:52
From our previous yesterday, Shane, was there not a personal trainer who you're at a risk of disappointing? You know what I mean? If you don't go.
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At that time, I did deal a lot with Rory.
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Oh, yes, Rory.
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I talked about Rory on my podcast, Young Hot Guys. Somebody told Rory about this and sent it to him, and the whole gym heard me talk about the gym. The whole staff seemed to have been sent. Ireland is too small. Like, it's too small.
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But it's less Rory-focused now. Rory kind of gets you started and gets going, and now a lot of it is Craig.
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Craig would be involved a lot, really like Craig, and Luke as well.
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And I only see men because the men seem to teach in the, in the morning. I go in the mornings, whereas the women seem to be in the evening. I don't know what that is. I don't know how they've done that, but that's the system.
1:23:32 - 1:23:33
Yeah, yeah. Okay.
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If you do an evening, you might see Benny. She's a woman. She's very good.
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Is that relevant? Do you want to include this? Is that enough?
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I always find with the podcast that, you know, the ones I listen to, once you've got to an hour 38, I do like to list all the personal trainers at the gym of the guests. That's what you need to do before you can really, round everything off.
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Is the hour 38 my fault? I don't know.
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I always blame David. What we've discovered is people don't mind this podcast being long.
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In fact, quite often I've got another show or something to do. So I'm the one about two minutes later just going, yeah, come on.
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Do you not cut things though as well?
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I'm not involved in that bit. Who knows?
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You're audio only. What a dream. You can trim everything you like all the time. It's incredible.
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This episode will be eight minutes long.
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And the whole day will just be like electric guitars wailing in the background. And then, and then, and then mic drop. Shane Daniel Byrne, thank you very much for telling us what you did yesterday.
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Thank you. It was a distinct pleasure.
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What a lovely day.
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Snowshoes. Snowshoes.
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I mean, snowshoes are already basically tennis rackets, aren't they? Your old snowshoe is two tennis rackets.
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What? Else listeners could, I wouldn't say we're floundering.
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I love we went to Bellows quite early in that. And then Yale Keys, if it was a mini Andre Agassi or like you did a weird thing with perspective.
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Like it's fun to think of other, not just Agassi and what he would advertise, but you know, if you took any sports person, you know, if you took Sean Curley and you said he'll only advertise things that are shaped like a hockey stick,
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that is really, you're limiting yourself there.
1:25:29 - 1:25:43
Wow. I was once sent by the plumber to the plumbing supplies shop. And you know, there is that fear you always have where you've been sent off to buy a barrel of air or whatever, and they're all laughing at you.
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He sent me off to buy a hockey stick, which is a specific sort of pipe you use in sinks.
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Has a little hook.
1:25:53 - 1:25:55
Yeah. That has, a little hook on it.
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And it's made by Slazinger.
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Sean Curley, the only male hockey player we can think of, could advertise those. Listeners, what could other athletes advertise?
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You know, because you could go, Lionel Messi could advertise globes.
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Whereas, you know, Will Carling is pretty much confined to eggs, isn't he?
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Like, maybe sort of a pudding, a large sausage pudding kind of thing as well.
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That's an indeterminate shape, isn't it? A sausage pudding, isn't it? Why is a sausage pudding shaped like a rugby ball? I don't think it is shaped, is it shaped like a rugby ball? I don't know if I've ever been served sausage pudding, but certainly not in that shape.
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If you have any ideas for objects that athletes could advertise, so a relay runner could advertise, I guess a roller, a load of newspapers, but I guess.
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Bike pumps.
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And if you didn't, please don't. I won't be able to concentrate on anything in my life because all I'll be trying to do is put together sports people and their advertising utensils.
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That's all I can do now.
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I'm stuck on hurdlers. What could a hurdler, like Colin Jackson, could do? What, low windows?
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He leaps through the window.
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I don't know.
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Sergei Bubka, the pole vault person.
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Scaffolding. He's scaffolding.
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He is. In it for life. Thanks, Max.
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In it for life.