Morning Guys! Just jumping on with D4 guy Rory O’Hanlon

0:00The Mario Rose stock podcast. Thanks to Home. Finance made easy when you shop tech, electrical, appliances, kitchens, and much more. Flexible Europe limited trading is home is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Coming up on this episode of the Mario Rosenstock podcast. I spend a lot of time, right? In urban airports. Traveling, right? And urban airports is a nightmare. That terminal won. I call it the I-Lax Center, terminal. Judo name, man. But I put up a video going, guys, we need to get a different airport here. This is a disaster. I did it. It's just like, I just as a person from Dublin for. OK. So yeah, I just put out a video going, I'm heading away, golfing. I mean, I'm in terminal one, places disaster, need to sort it out, ASAP. I'm taking cherrywood. Judo name? Yeah. So put that out. I'm that luck on a 100,000 views. OK. OK.

1:00OK. OK. OK. Mario Hanlon had spent over 20 years doing stand-up in clubs, open mic nights, corporate gigs, anywhere there was an audience that was into comedy. And his comedy. And he was doing pretty well. Shogging along, says you. But then he started to record short pieces to camera in the character of a close-of-stereotypical Dublin foreguy, very confident, mad into rugby and golf. No clue about GAA and obsessed with what school you went to. Was schooled you go to? And very quickly, Rory's comedy career took off like a rocket. That video he recorded in the airport got 100,000 views. Next one he did got a million. Rory now has over 150,000 followers on Instagram and 1.3 million likes on TikTok. And his viral videos led to his first Irish and UK tour last year. He's also performed sold out shows at Dublin's Three Olympia, the GAA and Ambassador theatres and performed solo at the Edinburgh Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne comedy festivals.

2:02So Rory, aka D4 Guy, joined me in the go-loud studio for a great chat about the many years he spent learning his craft, dealing with rejection and keeping on grafting. Uncle Ping's really hit the big time for him. And of course, he takes us deep inside the world of the aforementioned D4 Guy, private schools. Lensdor and Irish rugby, property, finance, SUVs, networking and an apparent unshakable sense that life is going pretty well. Morning guys, it's a quick one. I wanted to jump on. That came from I can't get over the confidence of people on Instagram. Guys, this is the out of the day. I just don't care, it's what you're wearing. And every Irish influencer, they're all wearing the same clothes. It's like my shoes are River Island, my jeans are River Island, and my bag is Arab. I saw a thing saying that Ireland was in. I think it was like second in education in Europe. So I said that and I said, obviously, it's cause of Mary's Michael's turn in her Black Rock Lungos.

3:02And I put that out. Now I get, I put people from Gonzaga, like DM me, go and I love yourself, but seriously, it's like a hasp in the top five. I was listening to a rugby podcast that were talking to this ex rugby player. I just like, he's just sitting there, he's just, he's retired. He's like 33 years of his. The guy who's interviewed with ex monster and the guy being introduced, ex-lancer. And it's just like, these two lads are so different. They were talking about something and the lancer guy got, yeah, but that's just Nugget. Nugget's like that. And I just thought, that is just gold. Rory will be taking D4 Guy around Ireland over the next few months, but it's not just D4 Guy he does. He has a whole set that he does, observational comedy. So check out Roryohanlon.co.uk find out where you can catch him live. But you can catch him here in conversation with me in around three minutes time, right after we head to county Claire, where Trump has just touched down. But before Trump touched down, there was huge, huge trepitation about how the government would deal with him. And more especially how Catherine Connolly might deal with him

4:05in her expected meeting with Donald Trump this weekend. We joined Mehal and Willio D. We're waiting to see Catherine. Adora's Anukteron. Willie, I'm extremely concerned going forward. The both president Connolly meeting Trump. I know. She's a loose cannon. President Connolly will be with you in a moment. Thank you. He makes one far smooth and Trump quits and then the bombers. Sorry. Next thing you know, Kark is leveled. Kark. Why that? Limriky. Why would you call him Limriky? Are you a detachee? Uctoron, Naheren. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, president Connolly here. Majin Wahoo, Tishok. President Connolly, head of the president Trump, the visit. Sure. We just wanted to walk through some tactics that make sure you don't say anything that could that. That could work. Well, that could get in trouble, so to speak. Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. Trip Lloyd. Ah, but it's a courtesy call. You understand that we have to be careful at what you talk about. What would you like me to talk to President Trump about Tishok?

5:06Every day, banter, like on forward. Like, for example, the weather. Ciaf's galore. Climate change. What Trump has done? No, it's outrageous. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not climate change. Whatever you do, Jesus, not climate change. Not climate change. Look, look, look, look, present Connolly, we thought we might have a little... Yeah. ...or a horse, eh, before President Trump arrives. How can we rehearse when the man himself is not even here? Ah, will you see it going forward? Eh, will you, or D here? Eh, eh, eh, it does a great, a president Trump, don't you, will you? Make America great again. It's a menu. It's uncanny, isn't it? It looks nothing like him. It's the kind of wig, will you? I look show over with the wig. It's the kind of wig, will you? Okay, Catherine, let's just try and get through a simple conversation. All right, Liv, I shall do my best. Okay, go ahead. President Connolly, your country, great country, great country, great country, Lara Welta. Welta, you say? Well, there is also a great amount of wealth in the quality. It's exemplified by your horrific system of capital. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Hold the horses, Catherine.

6:06You only lasted four seconds, they are gone for a minute. I'm not going to lie to the president of the election state. You don't have to lie. You just have to temporarily misplace the truth. You can't do that. Oh, fine, I've been doing it for over a hundred years, Catherine. I'm sorry, I have to take this call. Sure. President Connolly, Michael T. Higgins. Take him into. Viva Cuba. Viva Cuba. I see you are meeting Trump on Saturday. Do you want me to come along for moral support? No, there's one necessary, very soon. I give you both parents. Do you remember how I took no truck from Trump? I told you to call. I told him to shove at you big orange box. Sorry, I have to, I will you hold the line, please. Yes. Okay, Catherine, let's try rehearsal number two, going forward. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this situation. I'm okay. I wish to speak my truth. I've not been muscled by a monster. No, hold on, Catherine. Oh, oh, Jesus. What is it, Mio? It's Trump on FaceTime. Oh, Jesus. Can't take this. I can't take it. You have to take it, Mio. I can't take this. I'm just getting a mushroom cloud all over Kong.

7:08Hello, President Trump. I was just... I'm looking forward to visiting your great country, Michael. It's me, Albert. I love Ireland. God, that's a huge relief. But Ireland's been ripping us off for years. It's time to make some changes for the weekend. Ah, no, I'm sorry. This weekend, the clips of Bohr will be henceforth re-named as the clips of Megah. And now hold on. In again, Plaza will become Trump Plaza. No, no, no, it's Plaza. It's Plaza, like China. No, no, it's Plaza. And that's the end of Dublin. What are you talking about? The giant prick. There's a few of them. No, the big pointy needle thing. Oh, the spire, the spire. From now on, it will be known as Trump prick. Now hold on, Mr. President. And I will be meeting your disaster of a President, Jesus' disaster, Catherine Communist. You can cover her mouth. Jesus, I'm radical, I'm gluted in a whack job. Ah, Jesus, be harsh, you pick me.

8:09Give me the phone. No. This is President Catherine Coddellick. Catherine, please, though you listen here, you blot it, but phone. And you fake-tanned fascist felon. Oh, Jesus. Ireland will knock bow down to the imbecilic backings of a tin-potting tater. We're finished. I like her. She's frisky, very strongly hostile. Great television, Catherine. We're going to have a tremendous meeting. She's fantastic. Can we do it live? Oh, gone forward. Yes indeed. But we'll quit that. And that sketch was recorded just a couple of days ago with the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show on today, FM. And I really like those sketches. They're a bit like a farce, a bit like a kind of a faulty towers, a sort of farce situation. And I enjoy doing those to take ages to write them. OK, before we get into today's show, first of all, you can contact me directly. MarioRose and socketgmail.com. If you want to get in touch with me about anything,

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11:11So it's time to say morning guys and jump on to my chat, jump on to my chat with Rory O'Hanlon, aka D4 guy. I kicked off by telling Rory how I first came across this comedy in the first place. Your work came to my attention through my son, Dash. And he is now 19. And when he was about 17, he went, Dad, you gotta get this, get a load of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Dash with no loads of kids from, so, what's good to go to? Yeah, well, I won't say that now. So we would put you on and we would slap. The thing about it is you'd come up with a new one like every day, so it was like, you were just coming in and out, you were everywhere. And you were really viral and are really viral. But so that's how I first came to know you. But then I found out about you a little bit. And obviously that, like it turns out that, you know, you've been around a long time. Yeah, yeah. As a comedian. Yeah. And so after a number of years, 20 years, you're an overnight success. Oh, there's some. Over night, two videos.

12:12I'm only jumping with God. No, no, no, no, no, like, I know it's funny because, you know, people will say that, you're like, oh, just you did a couple of videos in blah, blah, blah. But I was in the, in the trenches for like 20 years, like, you know, but I, I love doing stand-ups. So I didn't really, I didn't, I didn't, I only got into this really edit, edit like, because as a stand-up, you work nights, do you know what I mean? Obviously, you work nights, and I'm big into sports. And so I was just, you just hear, you'd hear people commenting on Irish rugby in blah, blah, blah, and I just thought, and then I was watching the Six Nations, and I just kind of, I'd be listening to a couple of podcasts, and I'd hear what they, like, the rugby, the rugby pundits are brutal. And as in like, they're very direct. They're very like, they take the players down, very harshly and stuff like that, you know what I mean? So I just, I just, I, you know what I did? I just kind of counteracted the grief that the lense their players were getting, if you know what I mean. And I would kind of make them better, if you know what I'm talking about? Go on.

13:12As if I'd say, like, yeah, I would be very pro, the players from, from, from say Dublin four, just four, because it's a more, your character would be, are you? Yeah, the character would be, you know what I mean? And then it kind of just, it just escalated from that, like I'd even kind of go like, it was great game, like, yeah, even the monster guys jipped in, you know what I mean? And you could just kind of, you know, from there on it like, Well, let's talk about D4Guyin as later. Yeah, yeah, you know where it's, but it's, it's, it's you I'm interested in at the start, because so I'm watching this creation, and you're producing lots of videos, and Dash is showing that to me my son as well, and we're laughing at them. And we kind of, part of the, part of the fun is you kind of know, you kind of know who you are. Yeah, yeah, you know what you're gonna get. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you look forward to it anyway. Yeah, it's gas like, yeah, yeah. There's two types of, in a way, there's two types of jokes in the world. Yeah. The joke that surprises you, and the jokes that you go, you know what it's going to be, but you'd like to get in there. It's gas, isn't it? I was in, I was in London recently, and I met this guy, and he just came up to me, and he goes, oh, you're the, the D4 guy.

14:13I said, yeah, yeah, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's gone blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm just chatting away. And it was kind of like, he actually said to me, he goes, I know, it's the same thing every time, but it doesn't get boring. Yeah, I mean, I just thought like, that's kind of like the ultimate compliment, isn't it really like, it's the same thing every time, but it doesn't get boring, but like, part of that is the fact that the D4 guy's character in itself is relentless. Yeah. He's always going to be the same. Oh, 100%. He's going to treat everybody else the same. Everybody the same way, he's going to say, what school did you go to all the time? Why would you change? Yeah, totally, it works. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It works for you as a median, but it also works for D4 guy. It's always worked for him. Absolutely, yeah, yeah. Was there in that world, like, do you know that? There in that world for everything was, but anyway, again, so for 20, so what were you doing before it? Yes. Do you know what, I think the last job it had, I know the last job it had, I was working as a van driver, career. For DHL.

15:13Okay. So just doing deliveries, deliveries all around secondhand development. And that is a South County Dublin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that means of course you see a lot of people, meet a lot of people. Yeah, yeah, well, I was, I had been, and the actual, the area that I was covering was like, Kleini, Dorky, Shank Hill. Yeah. So I was different to, I was actually, I delivered stuff to like, to Bono, like, do you know what I mean? Go away. Yeah, I met the edge. Was the edge in Bono's house? No, no, no, he was in his own gap. He's only two doors down the road from Bono in, in Kleini. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. You were the edge because he was the only, the edge on the road, like, do you know what I mean? Obviously, yeah. Not many, the edges, not many edges around there, like so. So did the edge come, it did, yeah. And like, buckle to completely like, and was seawaring his, he was came in with the guitar, singing it in the streets, was he wearing, was he wearing his beanie? I think he was, yeah, I think the beanie comes with the edge. It does does not. Yeah, yeah. I think that gets up at a bed first. Yeah, man, he, I assume when he's in bed, the beanie is just on like, a head beside the bed, and gets up and lashes on on and hits the road.

16:14Oh, totally, yeah. So, yeah. So, that's what I had been doing. Yeah. And what else did you do? As in, jobs. Oh, yeah. I wasn't great in school. So, yeah, I was, but you went to, I was in Taren, you're a college student. One of the top five. Yeah, no, no, no, no. One of the big five. One of the big five, which is, is completely, completely of my making. Yes. This, I don't know how true, this isn't even true. I just saw, I saw a thing saying that Ireland was in, I think it was like second in education in Europe. Yes. So, I said that and I said, obviously it's cause of Mary's Michael's turn in her Black Rock Longos. Yeah. And I put that out and then that kind of got traction, do you know what I mean? But now I get, I think people, surely Gonzaga are in that. I think that's, I think for being absolutely, yeah, maybe it is. I think Gonzaga have a fair shot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That being, the only problem is tearing your, are better of rugby. Well, this is it. Generally. And that's, that's what I would be, that would be my emphasis is on sporsh.

17:14Yeah, but then if you start going down the rugby thing, you'll love new bridges, new bridges to top five and then I go there. Oh, these, no, you can't go there like so. So, like, I would have had like, you do have people from Gonzaga like DM me. Absolutely. I love your stuff, but seriously. Yeah. Gonzaga has to be in the top five. Yeah, I totally have. The big five and I was like, and well, they feed have to, the law, the law law law. Oh, yeah, well, all the doctors, all the doctors, yeah. Personal works in the beacon, I think went to Gonzaga. Yeah, that's right. All the lawyers are all, yeah, Gonzaga. So they're the brains of the operation. They are, yeah. Bellevue is in there as you said. It's on the north side, it can't be. Yeah, okay. Bellevue is on the north side, but it's very much like the Vatican. Yeah. With its own state on the north side. Yeah, exactly. It's a mini little independent Republic. Yeah, it's, it blew my mind when I first, some people don't, it's still, don't know. That was in the north side. I know. So when did comedy come? When the comedy started, I tell you a funny story. It was always in the back of my mind that I wanted to do stand up or I wanted to be, I wanted to act or something along the lines of laughter.

18:15Do you know, make people laugh? Because there's a kid I could always make people laugh as a, you know, in school or whatever. Were you, were you funny in school? Oh, yeah. I was funny everywhere. Like, do you know what I mean? And were you funny at, what kind of funny? Were you funny at slagging? Are we? Yeah. You've got red hair in Ireland. You have to be good at slagging. Yeah, for a fight back. People are gonna come at you. Yeah. You come back at them and so yeah. Not just be quick, quick, quick, quick, smarts. Sort of known in the class, let's say, is a little bit of a smart art. But I think all the class, the class I was in pretty much everybody was like that, you know what I mean? Right. So with the teacher, we're going all handling things. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But like back in the day, man, like if you have, if teachers looking out and they see like 20 kids, they're always going to remember the red head of the kid who you're not in. Okay. So I always thought I could do something along the lines and that, but I wasn't too sure. So basically what happened was I was driving the van one day and I was doing a delivery into a place in Khandoken. And I just heard an ad in the radio. I think it was on New South actually. They're saying there was a guy doing a comedy workshop in Dublin in Doyle's and College Green.

19:15So I said, I do that and I rang him and I signed up for that and I did that. And it was like five Mondays in a row or something in Doyle's and you'd go in and you'd workshop material, you do, you do like kind of stuff for, it was like they would give you ideas of how to work on confidence of how to, you know, how to write, how to perform, how to get it from your head onto paper. How to, that got my foot in the door as such, like, do you know what I mean? So at the end of that, you do like a gig. Like it was like a graduation type thing. So I think there was like 50 people there, like, do you know what I mean? Okay, well that's, the 50 people is a nice crowd, but not easy. Not at all. I'm one thing that one thing that about, my experience of standup is there's always certain people are really good from the get go. Do you know what I mean? Some people are just bummed they pick it up. They may be telling stories that they've always told and they'll transfer that into their standup. So there was a couple of people on that were really good. But I wasn't, I was kind of like, I felt it difficult to transfer the laughter.

20:16What I thought was funny into a performance like, do you know what I mean? So the first gig I did wasn't great, like, I was like, it was just like, okay, I did that anyway. And that was good fun. Yeah. And that was fine. Do you know what I mean? I need to do, I need to do a better gig. I need to get another shot on it. You showed some, obviously, inner resilience in yourself. You did. You were obviously able to give yourself some form of pep talk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that was fine. You've got over it. Let's keep going. But other people might have gone, oh my god, that scared me. I don't want to do that again. I would have always had the kind of mindset of going, you can do this. You can get relaxed now. Just sort of, get on my, to trust yourself, trust your, your confidence in walking. I was always kind of like, even as a kid, like, I'd always go, it would take me a while to kind of be confident. Yes. But I always knew that I could be confident. So after that first gig, what happened? Yeah. That was November. What happened was, Kiran gave us a load of contacts in Dublin. And I texted Tony Ferns who used to run the botly acts in the Hapenny Bridge in on a Tuesday night.

21:17So I did my first gig in November and my second gig was January. So it texted Tony, he gone, who I am, but I kind of do a spot at the gig and he goes, yeah, we'll put you down for whatever, like January 8th, whatever it was, like, and it's like a seven minute spot. So I went into the dash. I think I did, like, I'd say I did four minutes, but it was good four minutes. Good. So I'm not up to a compliment. I'm not always like, all right, we're in here, like, you know what I mean? So yeah, yeah. And I just kind of, I just really got into it like, you know what I mean? I haven't been working as a comedian until the point where this kind of phenomenon of D4 guys. But the D14, when he's happened, like, probably a year ago, a year and a half ago or something. That's right. How long? So 20 years? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I wasn't like, hang on, let's get to Antibus. Yeah, it's tax here. So 20 years working as a comedian full time. What, probably, I'd say maybe five years of that, I wasn't full time, like, you know what I mean? Okay. Were you earning a living as a comedian? Ah, yeah, you'd be, no.

22:18You're earning a living. I don't, I don't drink, I don't smoke. I don't smoke. Yeah. So in other words, you're fairly, fairly frugal. Fairly frugal. But I was surviving, like, you know what I mean? So yeah. Living in Dublin. Yeah. I just live in my mom's house, yeah. Okay. But still, and do you mind me asking, like, you're a comedian, living at home at mom, you are actually good at what you do. Yeah, you're hungry for more work. You're trying. Yeah. It is a lucky game as well. A hundred percent. It's a lot of life is about look. You know, everybody knows that. Yeah, yeah. I get the more I believe it. Oh, yeah. Some people get it really early. Some people get it. Yeah. Some people don't get it. And if you keep knocking on the door, you have a better chance of getting it. It's a mathematical thing. Yeah. But like, what did your mum feel? She was grand, like, yeah, no, she was good. Like, my mum passed away about four years. No, she's passed away, like, but, uh, she was grand. I remember, it was great. Like, so yeah, my mum was very funny. Like, I'd always have a laugh on my mother. Like, you know what I mean? She was funny. Gas crack. How about you, Dad? Yeah. I was obviously, cause he had four kids and he was trying to...

23:19Okay. But like, yeah, my mum would, I would have been very much kind of like always, not jazz hands, but always be having the crack like, what I mean. So, yeah. We very, like, very, like, like, each other a lot. Oh, yeah. That was loved each other. Of course, like, yeah. See, my dad passed away, like, my dad passed away over 20 years ago, like, so yeah. Okay. So you were able to actually have the crack with your mum? Oh, yeah, yeah. In other words, she believed in your spirit. Yeah. Like, my mum, there was like, my, she, like, she wasn't saying to you. You're quarreling. No, no, no. I wish to head now. You need to get a fucking job. No, no, no, she'd never be like that. Like, you know, it's weird though. I would be very much, if I get any bit of encouragement, I'll go and it liked, you know what I mean? I would just kind of like, if I hear something that I think that I go, that's that's that's positivity. That's something that I should listen to and I should do. Like, you know what I mean? Like I remember doing a new axe competition in Dublin years, like years ago. And I think I got to the semi-finalism like that. And I was like, I was pretty, I was only starting out.

24:22So you're pretty new like, you know what I mean? But I remember where they're going to be. And I didn't go true to the, to the final or whatever. I remember, I remember more than I got you. Well, you're not going to give up now. Like, you're not going to, you're not going to stop now. And I was just going, I wasn't anyway. Do you know what I mean? But it's, it's, it's even the small things that someone would say to you that you'd go, well, I'm not definitely not going to know. Okay. I mean, so you can just keep good, keep moving on like so. Right. And so then you're making a living. Yeah. You're happy enough. You're low-comedy. You don't drink or smoke. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're committed to this art. You are craftsman. This is it. You are in your craft. Yeah, yeah. You're studying other people who are good at their craft. Yeah, yeah. Are you ever in your own mind going, I mean, presumably you like your material. Yeah. Presumably you see that your material is getting good reactions to the crowds, albeit small crowds, you're playing to, mainly. Yeah, yeah. And do you ever go then, do you ever have a thought in your mind going, okay, how do I, what are they doing that I'm not doing? Or is it just look? Were you able to talk to yourself in that way?

25:23Or did you go, I'm just, I just haven't had that moment yet where I've been able to get lucky. Yeah, I tell you, I guess so. But I think, I don't really know actually, I was just always going and going and going like, do you know what I mean? I was never kind of like, I was just always trying to do more stuff. I was trying to put more stuff out, work, write, gig. Do you know what I mean? So I was kind of just concentrating on what I was doing like, do you know what I mean? Obviously, you see other people getting, people get successful very quick or people, you know, everyone gets different sort of avenues of which way they go. Would you ever feel like, so for example, comedy is, is, is, albeit, it kind of an art or a quakey art. It's also a very competitive environment. Oh, it is, yeah. Would you ever feel like, how the fuck did that go? Oh, yeah. I mean, I think it's a human nature, isn't it? Of course. Yeah, yeah. And I'm every bit as good as that person. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. But I think like, I think if, so if you see somebody who has gone, so they just got a break, do you know what I mean?

26:24Like they might be good, they could be as good as you are better than you, but literally they just got a break. What does that mean? They got a break. Or they got an opportunity, like, do you know what I mean? But I think, you know, you keep, especially now in, in, in what social media and stuff like that. You need to keep, you need to keep producing stuff. You need to keep working. You need to put stuff out there, like, do you know what I mean? So in a way, we'll get to this in a second, the social media in a way suited you because you are already working very a lot. Absolutely. Yeah, it was perfect. Okay. You know what I mean? And it's sort of, there's no gay keeper, there's no one going, we don't want that, we don't, you, just stuff you're doing doesn't really suit Instagram. You know what I mean? When did it first occur to you to pick up your phone and do a social media video? Yeah. I don't know. I had a YouTube channel for ages, I mean, it like started to stand up, I was putting out videos now on YouTube and stuff like that. And there were videos of you as well. You just stand up, yeah, yeah, just to stand up. And then I was kind of like, I think the phenomenon took off really, didn't of people, it did, during lockdown in particular, people doing camera, face to camera, talking about

27:28anything, anything that's gone on their lives. Like, if someone, you know, I know Lads that were, some guy was talking about his, his daughter's eyebrows and a blue up generally. Yeah. You know what I mean? So, so are you just sort of, so then I was just kind of going, okay, that's quite interesting. Then I would just talk about like the hotels I'll be staying and stuff like that. Like you'd be staying in pretty grim hotels like the camera. Oh yeah. I do a video about the travel, I just something like that. You know what I mean? And they kind of started getting a bit of, you know, they, they got a bit of traction. Then maybe what else would I be talking? Yeah, I did some stuff like, I did videos about just like voice notes, people leaving me voice notes. Yeah. And then I got one viral, that one super viral. Oh did it, yeah. Yeah, just the, just don't, I don't know why anyone would leave anyone with a voice note. No, there is a lot of humor in that idea. Yeah, like, you know what I mean? Like, it's like, I said it was like, like, it's like ringing someone at, it's like sending someone attacks and they turn up at their house like, you're just going. But it's also, like now that I think of it, it's also extremely passive aggressive. Oh, it's incredible. It's also expecting a one way conversation that nobody else can speak back to. Yeah.

28:29I'm just going to keep speaking to you and you are going to keep listening. And I've heard people send me voice notes that I'm not even that texting relationship with, like, do you know what I mean? I'm not even, I don't even have you, like, because with Instagram people can't send you voice notes. I was just going, is this person for real? Do you honestly think I'm going to go? This, I've never met this person and it's a 90 second voice note. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I'm going to go, hold on a minute now. I think we could get to know each other here, like, you know what I mean? Yeah. So like, I was going to repost the video that I did about voice notes. I put it on my page, go, listen, if you send me a voice note, it's not happening, like, okay. So that's my, that's my, yeah, my, my, my, my, my border like, yeah. So that was, then you talking about different, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, but I used to talk a lot about, about, kind of like in an ironic way, about sport, about, I remember doing a video about, I think Australia won the Ashers and they did something, but they did it kind of like, I think they, they cheated, I think they did something. And I was putting the video on her chair, they'd do that. Yeah. That's a disgrace.

29:29Yeah. Or seeing English people would never do that. Yeah. That got a better traction as well, like, you know what I mean? Yeah. So you were, you were taking the character of an English person. Yeah. I wasn't, I wasn't taking a voice. It was just, I was being pro English and being in an ironic way. Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. Which not everybody gets like, you know what I mean? Yeah. If you start doing videos about, I did a video about a football team before I took it down like the soccer, I wouldn't go down that route like that's, they cut my, had your heart like, the tribalism. Yeah. Yeah. But, um, and then it was, I think I just started doing stuff about the six nations. And I did celebrate the six nations about the games itself. And I was very pro, Lensster. Mm-hmm. And sort of like, I'd be take, take the piss out of the monster. Do you know what I mean? The default guy started as a Lensster supporter. 100% like, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was just kind of like, yeah. And then with the schools rugby as well, I'd be kind of, I'm aware of that as well. Obviously, because I went to Tanya College. Yes. And it's huge. I don't know. School rugby is massive. Oh, I understand.

30:30So I was just doing, you know, videos about that. And then it just kind of went from there like, you know what I mean? Yeah. There was a period of time that was, there was so much going on. I think like, you had to like the six nations, you had the, you had the schools rugby. There was a whole lot of, I'm, when did Lensster, when did Lensster guy become D4 guy? Yeah. And there were a couple of videos that, that kind of jumped, jumped. Yeah. Do you know what, do you know what, I spent a lot of time, right? Double n' airport traveling, right? And double n' airports is a nightmare. That terminal one, I call it the ILAC center, terminal. Yeah. You don't have any man. I put up a video guy, guys, we need to get a different airport here. This is a disaster. I did it. It's just like, I just, as a person from Dublin for. Okay. So yeah, I just put out a video going, I'm heading away golfing. I mean, I'm in terminal, I'm terminal one, places disaster, need to sort it out. I'm taking cherrywood. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. So put that out.

31:31And that went, that like, on a hundred thousand viewers. Yes. But there was one video that I did of, I was an Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Friends, right? I was staying in student accommodation. Yeah. And it was just a throwaway video like it was overguy meeting another guy from Dublin for. Yeah. So this guy is like, I'm the Dublin, you're the, the ultimate, you know, I said, wait, where are you from? And you guys like, you know, from Tabla, really? Yeah, what's the old you at it? And then, and were you playing both characters? I was playing both characters as if I'm answering the question, the guy, and did you even change your shirt? No, no, no, there's only me in the video. Yeah. So what you're playing too? Yeah, but I'm answering a question, not, there's no talking. Do you know what I mean? So I'm going, oh, so you're talking to a non-existent person? Yeah, yeah. So I'm going to his office camera. I'm saying like, oh, you're from, you're from Dublin, what part is your name from? And, oh, you're from Tabla, what's the noise? Upcoming in area. And tell me this much, what's good, what you get? And he was like, oh, I went to Mary's, this is not about school. I was like, I'm like, rock, are we? You know what I mean? Yes. And I put that out, I'm like, I got like a million views. Yeah. So I don't know what to cry.

32:31I was literally, I'm, can you tell why? No, I do. It's very hard. You don't know, and you know what's really funny as well as that? I was coming back to Dublin, I'm always coming back to Dublin, doing games and stuff like that. And people were coming to me, I love your, your D4 videos. And I was like, oh, thanks very much. Like, and then when around the, around the rugby, around the six nations and stuff like that, I put eight videos. And I was very nonchalant about, I was very, very like, I'd put it out, but I wasn't kind of like, I wasn't paying much attention to really. And then I just looked at the kind of shares and stuff like that. And I was going, well, this is getting, this is getting a lot of, you know, people are watching these videos. So once you can, once that would happen, you'd kind of go, all right, well, like, it's, yeah, you could sort of do more of those, like, do you know what I mean? So yeah. Can I tell you what I think about, like, I'm sure, I don't know how much you've thought about it, but I've tried to do, especially in thinking about talking to you. I've tried to think of what appealed to people. And there's, there's a positivity about, about D4 guys. Yeah, yeah. All right. Now, not all of it.

33:32So I'm not, I'm not sure, I'm not sure the viewer is, how, how, how genuine his positivity is, but he's positive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's nice. Yeah. So he kind of, he introduces himself to whoever he is in a very kind of, I'm up for you way. You don't mind. He's going this character is a scope. Yeah, I don't know if it's going, but he's being really nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little patronising. Oh, yeah. It's still a hundred percent patronised. It is, but it's still nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And even I've, I've had a few opportunity, not opportunities. People have asked me to do certain things, and their idea would, would, would try to make a fool of the D4 character. I, I'd always go, no, because I, I thought, you know what I mean? I'm not, I'm not purposely trying to annoy people as that character, but I wouldn't say, I'm gonna try and make me look like an idiot and I was like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Great guy. Let's say you're doing a video from the airport and you're calling it the I-Lac Center and your bike likes. Did you then start going, okay, I'm gonna do more of him because a little more of him because he's coming as popular, I'm gonna share. But did you then, when did you think of coming up

34:34for let's say a body, a character history for him? I mean like, oh yeah, yeah. I don't know, like I just think it kind of, yeah, it evolved. It just developed like, do you know what I mean? I'm, do you know what? I listened to, I was listening to a rugby podcast. I don't know what even China was on but there were talk to this ex rugby player. I was like, he's just singing there, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's retired. I was like 33 years old, isn't it? And he's chatting away to it. He was chatting with, the guy who's interviewed was ex-monster and the guy being interviewed was ex-lensor and it's just like, these two lads are so different, like, you know what I mean? And they were talking about something and the, the, the lensor guy goes, yeah, but that's just, no good, no good, like that. And I just thought that is just gold. Okay. I just thought that, I just the name, Nogas. I just think it's so funny like, you don't even know. Oh yeah. And then like, rockers like, ex-black rock, you squirm on, the wickets, the sounds of everything. Yeah. And it's just, it's just, and then there's Hendo. Hendo, yeah, yeah. And that, I don't know, I, I most of, Hendo is, I always,

35:35I always, I use the sort of the play I'm were. I think Hendo is just a great name for a dub and four guy. And then there's Podge. Podge. Yeah, that, yeah, Podge, just like, Podge is unusual. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because if he's a guy, he's, I always, I think I said his dad's a culture. Yeah. But what he's not, he's, he's, he's ex-black rock like. Yeah. And it's the whole crew were there. Full team. Full squad. Full squad. Yeah, yeah. But you can do it, because you always hear like, any of the rugby, they have like the captains were on the Friday, and it's like full squad like, you know, yeah. Yeah. Now, D4 guy is not a liar. Hmm. Is he? Like, he's truthful. Oh, yeah. So therefore, from based on what I've seen, he is extremely wealthy. Oh, yeah. It's not just a put on. No, no, no, no. I mean, we're talking about possible generation of wealthy. Now, this is 20 million though. Yeah, he would have to be like, yeah. Like, I would say like, this isn't iron 300 grand. No, no, no. This is generational wealth. I wouldn't get out of bed. We put the guys some,

36:36even sir, it on 300k. Oh, yeah. Ah. You coming at Michael's, you don't want to go to college, we'll give you 300k. Exactly. It's not, it's not crazy money. Yeah, so he is big money. Has to be. He has a lot of property. Yeah, yeah. Does he work? Yeah. I haven't kind of said what he does. Yeah. But I would have said like, the character, the hando character, I said back in the day, he inherits it. Like, hando's self made. Besides the 95% of stuff he inherits it. Yeah, it's exactly. His auntie else, he had a 5%. But I said he inherits 15 car parks. Okay. And he hates parking. Okay, it's parking. Big money in car parks. Yeah, yeah. And it's just kind of like, yeah, I, the hando's family came from car park. Yeah, yeah. Poges. Anything there? I think Poges dad is a builder. I think he builds carlo. Hando. Hando is, is, is old school family money like, yeah. Ain't no good. Well, no good. I don't know. I haven't good. That's fine. Triple H is Hando's brother. And he's not money or anything. He's worth like 15, man. He's no interest in money. And you don't have a name. No.

37:36There's no name on it like. Have you thought about that? Yeah, yeah. Cause I have, I've had, I've had like a lot of opportunities for two stuff, but there's no name on the character like. So I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Sometimes he doesn't even need a name like because it's just, yeah, it's fine like, you know. So, um, you also do this kind of, uh, little bit of an intention. Sorry for being so specific about. No worries. This is what people are, this is what people are picking up on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. So you do this thing of, um, just want to jump on. Yeah. How do you say it? Uh, morning guys. Just, just want to jump on. Yeah, but you do a sign if you change. You change. Yeah. Morning guys. I wanted to jump on. Yeah, there you are. And that came from honestly, I can't get over the confidence of people on Instagram. Agreed. I can't get people in their own, the workiness of it. What they're wearing. Yeah. Like, I don't understand that at all. Like, guys, this is the out of the day. I just, no one cares what you're wearing. Honestly, like this, I always feel sorry for the boyfriend cause there's always the idiot that's filming this. Yeah.

38:36I can't, Karen, what are you wearing? Well, at every Irish influencer, they're all wearing the same clothes. Like, my shoes are River Islands, my jeans are River Islands, and my bag is ara. And that's what it is. And they think it's just totally ritual. Oh, my mark. Amazing. Yeah. But the morning guys jumping on was, was from people saying, I'm just jumping on. Yeah. All the finance people going, hey guys, because a lot of people on Instagram, like, self-help gurus and blah, blah, blah. And they always go, hey guys, just a quick one. I want to just jump on. Yeah. And I always found that. Mind boggling the hell you would think somebody wants to listen to you. Jump on. You know what I mean? Totally agree. Like, honestly, I like, obviously we all look at people. But we are all broadcasters. Yeah. We are all celebrities. And everybody, like you have, we've talked about this a lot in the last ten, fifteen years about how people are, if you like, celebrities in their own. Absolutely. In their own right. And you go, well, who are they? Yeah. And then you go, it's not about who are they. They've got 500 followers.

39:36And within that 500 followers. Yeah. They're a rock star. Absolutely. In their own group. But I saw someone's, once I saw some, some mad, like some mad popular Instagram person saying, and he was going, okay, go on viral is great. You see, you go viral, you get a video and it goes viral. Three million views, blah, blah, blah. But if you can get a video to do ten thousand, fifteen thousand, these people are interested in what you're doing, like, do you? Okay. So if you just do a video about, like, the video about, like, voice notes, I don't think you, I'm going to get more chat with that, like, generally, I'm not going to have like a voice note, meet up group or something. Whereas if you can get people into what you're doing, then that can be more kind of like, productive for you, generally, rather than, yeah, so. Okay. Brilliant. Now so apart from everything, I don't think it has. D4 guy opened a lot of doors for you. 100%. Tell us how that happened. Well, what started happening. What started happening was I had, first, what was it? Yeah, it was kind of strange, actually.

40:36You know what? I had always, I'd never really put on shows in Dublin, right? I've done, I've played all the clubs everywhere, blah, blah, blah. But I always, I just, I just, comedy can be quite hard as in, as in, like, if you're going to put on a show, you want people to be there, do you know, that's how I'd be away. So I, what, what, what I wanted to put on shows, I wanted to have people with an interest and come in to see it, like, do you know, that's how I'm going. I've done smaller shows in Dublin before, but I was kind of just, I was just tipping away, doing my gigs, on the circuit in London, doing all comedy, blah, blah, blah. And then, someone who contacted me, a promoter contacted me in Dublin, we'd love you to put on some shows. So I put on like, MCD. Yeah, yeah, MCD contacted me and I put on like six shows in wheelings in the small venue. Yeah. It's all out like by 11 o'clock that day. So they were, they were gone, like, was that a big feeling for you? Oh, great. I was delighted. I was like, this is, this is great, like, we are on a total level. Oh, yeah, it was class, I was running out of, hello. I've made it. But not only that. Yeah, so then.

41:36I know, you're, you're, you're, you're a good worker. Yeah. You're diligent. Yeah. Don't drink. Yeah. You've just sold out six nights in wheelings. Yeah. Your brain is immediately going, if I sold out six nights in wheelings, I can go somewhere else. So we put on the ambassador. Yeah. And that's all now. And that was like 600 people. That's the biggest gig I've done, like, for, for me, like, as in, like, people come to see me. I've performed in bigger venues, but I've never had 600 people play. To see you. Yes. To see me. And honestly, that was, that was one that was a great show. Oh. Everything was brilliant. And it's so different. It's so different from, like, if you're doing like 20 minutes set in, in comedy store or something like that, you'll have a great time, you'll rip it, you'll have a good fun. It'll be a great gig. Yeah. But these gigs are completely different levels, like, you know what I mean? Well, they're not you. Comedy store. Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying. So these comedy store are people who enjoy comedy. Yeah. Appreciating you. Appreciating eight other people. Absolutely. But when you do, when you do, like, I remember doing the ambassador girl, this is, this is ridiculous carry on. That the audience. Do you know what I mean?

42:36Yeah. It was cow. Come on. It was a thing. You know, there was just such a laugh, like, and when you, of course they were there to see you. Absolutely. Yes, it was great. So, um, when you do, when you did the ambassador, for example, they're all 600 of your little fans. Um, how long was your show? An hour. An hour. I would have been opening actors. Some of those people would have arrived going, I love D4 guy, but they would have done the maths as well. Yeah, yeah. Going, he can't do an hour of D4 guy. Can you? Oh, no, yeah. That was, that was, um, that was kind of my biggest, not my biggest fear, but it was just like I had a bit of a negative undertone of my brain going. Do you know the way, what if they don't like my brain? Yeah, yeah, whatever. Do you know the way sometimes it's just you're the way the brain works that you're trying to go out? And then I was just kind of just, you know, relax, you know? Relax because you had had 20 years. And I did six shows in wheelings, right? Yeah. And that really set me up. That was class. Like they were, like the shows are good fun, but it was very much working out what I was going to do, how I could.

43:37I didn't realize that people are so investors. That's another thing that I didn't realize. If you know what I mean, like I was doing, like I said, like the word rocker in wheelings and people are like, oh, wow. An hour. It's amazing. So, I didn't realize people were so invested in the kind of thing. Like the character, right? So, and even when I was doing the ambassador, right? And remember you said to me initially when I said to you, very good. I kind of like, when I asked you a question and you said, I said, I said, I said, very good. You said you're slipping into that character. Yeah. But my voice is not, my persona is not a million miles away. Obviously, it's ramped up. But when I was in the ambassador, I was chatting to someone and I said, very good. And the place is going crackers, right? And then I just, I said, I go, I throw in it. Hey, what's the age of getting it? And the place went bananas, like, you know, do you? So, yeah. You're catchphrase. Absolutely. Like, and there was, there was people coming in dressed up in G-Lays as well. Oh, fantastic. Yeah. There was a guy in the front row, low for his no socks. It is the forearm. Like, do you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Straight off the mat like. See the way he said, how's the forearm? Yeah. That communicates again the sort of, um, the positivity of the character.

44:40Yeah, yeah. What the character is a bit laughable. Oh, yeah. They're also positive and offer us. Yeah, yeah. And they're very, they're very kind of like, they're kind of, they're invested in their own characters. They're great. So, they're not negative people. They're not like, I mean, so for example, you could have gone down another road going, yeah, it's these scoops. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. And those kind of, those kind of real downers. Never do that like. Exactly. But what's cute about this character is they're kind of hopeful, optimistic. They kind of want the best for people. Yeah, including the gap people and the country people. I've had such an incredible response from the gala. He's likable as well, I'm saying. There's a likability. Yeah, like I was asked by, I was invited to the, the herding. Really final? Yeah, herding. The herding. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, I was invited to the, the incropa. Did you say herly deliberately there? No, the herling. The herling. No, but did you say herly deliberately? No. That's how I say it. I, I, I, I, you say herly. Yeah, I've been picked up napped before. Okay, okay. So, okay. Herling. Yeah.

45:40But I went to the herling final incropa. Yeah. And the response was fantastic. Like outside people coming up to me. I know. Snaps, blah, blah, blah. I've had emails. I've been offered like so many gigs. That I could or couldn't do whatever. Like so the response, like, Brilliant. Lads coming up to me who were playing for Gawi. We're at the, the, the Limerick final. Yeah. Limerick, um, who, Limerick, Cork was at Limerick? Yeah. Limerick Gawi. Yeah. And there was lads who had been playing football for Gawi. Yeah. Okay, look football, blah, blah, blah. And there come up to me going, yeah. So it's been, it's been great like so, yeah. And even like, yeah, just some, some very sort of meaningful emails as well. Like from people going like this, this is, I love this stuff. Oh, yeah. True, blah, blah, blah. Making people happy is not. Absolutely. There's nothing no better gift in life than making it. So yeah, it's, it's only, and it's like, it doesn't take much like, for as far as I would be concerned. It's only like, I played golf a couple of years, you're half ago or something with my producer down in the breakfast show. He's a good golfer. Yeah, I do. Okay, so he's, um, so he'd be like single figures.

46:40Yeah. Decent. And he's a good golfer. And I'm sort of more 15, six. Yeah, yeah. But I can get it around. Yeah, yeah. We signed up for a morning play in a power score. Wow. And, but you would be put on a list and you'd meet two strangers. Oh, wow. So they were two members. Oh, nice. And we were just chucking in. But the two lads we met were young lads, like 30. Yeah. And, um, and they were real South County, don't you, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, but that's, so it's me and Charlie meeting the two lads. And so we are all playing golf and you get the, you get the dynamic. So we just kind of shake hands and say hello. Yeah. And we're just going to play as a force them. They'll probably walk together. Yeah. And Charlie will walk together. And see how we go. Yeah, yeah. You know, so for the first five holes anyway, we say nothing. Yeah. And, but still very friendly, like, you know, and the odd shot or whatever. Yeah. And, um, I remember just over here in the lads though. And they reminded me a little bit of morning guys. Yeah. Because their conversation with Jovs, so Vicente, um, did you get the wedding invite? Yeah.

47:40Oh, yeah, absolutely. Vicente, Vicente, all out. And Rebecca's coming. Tony's coming. And they're getting, they're getting, one of them is getting married. So they're getting the wedding. Wedding's now or like. Yeah. Wedding invites. This is what they're talking about. Regis. Yeah. And, uh, so they're, they're, they're kind of guys in the beginning of the cost of the future. Yeah. And they're obviously seemingly good jobs. Yeah, of course. It, it lots to be happy about. Yeah. And they work well presentable guys and all that. And then I think, um, at about nine toll, um, Charlie let it hit a drive. Real strong. Yeah. And the last obviously felt comfortable and just, just, Charlie, but, uh, yeah, ball in the air and just the ball in the air, your man came up and went, strike, yeah. I just thought we'd boke, we bokelled over laughing. Yeah, yeah. What did you say? A laughing. Yeah. And even strike, yeah. And then we laughed at the strike, you know, we became friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then about four holes later, I let one go to the left totally, right? Yeah. And your man went, slice it. And then we, somebody stopped the ball on the green in a really nice, and then we went

48:45spinach. Spinach, yeah. So that we had this itch thing going, it's, and it was really good. Sandwich. Yeah, yeah, all of that sort of stuff. Yeah. But it was, it was just so, you know, the way they use language. Oh, it's really good. Yeah. Yeah. I did it. I did a gig in BlackRock rugby. Oh boy. BlackRock rugby. Stride bally. Yeah, strats, uh, strats, strats, strats, uh, uh, stradbrock. Stadbrock. And, uh, it was gas, like, you know, great rig out here. You're the hometown here. Great rig. Great rig. The clothes you're at. Great rig. I, I, I, we were talking about, um, I just talked into this guy. You must have stormed it in that. Oh, yeah, it was great crack. It was, there were thrown loafers in the air and everything that was outrageous, like, but I was talking to a guy and he goes, uh, we're, I, I, I, I, I, says, you're from Black. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm living a BlackRock originally from tarf. Clantarf. That's classic. Tarf. So yeah, it's, it's hilarious. And of course, it was from tarf. Yeah, but yeah, yeah, yeah. Went to school in BlackRock. Yeah, he's like, uh, he's the, I guess he's the, he's the, he's the poster boy for Black

49:47Rock. Well, he is. He's the paint would say. Oh, come on, like, gentlemen, I mean, not Bob Geldoff. No, but Brian, or Driscoff. Yeah, but yeah, and, yeah, and it's, uh, two very different people. Absolutely. For both incredible. Yeah, yeah, no, incredible. Yeah. And so, um, I love that. Like, some people used to throw their nickers, uh, uh, Dicky Rock. Yeah. Or Ted, or Tom Jones. And they throw their loafers at you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the fact that they threaten me. Are they send one loafer in the post? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. But although guys are furious, they send one loafer in the post. And I, you know, um, Paul Howard. Yeah, where are you, Carl Kelly used to, Paul Howard used to say that when he came up with Ross O'Carolle many years ago, um, which I presume you're aware of. And, and like, I mean, he's, ah, it's a class like a genius stuff. Yeah, yeah. Paul used to say that when he became a little bit well-known, and he'd walked down Grafton Street, and the odd guy would recognize him, and he'd come up and he'd high five, and we'd go, oh man, absolutely deadly. He'd come up with those edges, he'd come up with those guys.

50:48Do you understand that? Oh yeah. Literally looking at what? Where'd you come up with the character? And he doesn't see it himself? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've had, I've had, I've had, I was in the airport. The airport is a great place to meet people. You'll always meet people in the airport. This family came up to me. I think they're from Malaheid, you know? And they're going, we really love your stuff. And the sun is like 14. Milo loves it. Milo's on, I'm Klongaes. Milo's like 14. Really? Klongaes, I'm a fair play Milo. And I was gone back to London. So where are you guys going? Yeah, we're going to go to Mara Bay. We need some, we need some. Have you seen the weather? We need sun and Milo's on it. Milo's on his midterms and stuff like that. Then he goes, by the way, how do you come up with these characters? No. I was like, I used to, you just look around and see can you pick up and stuff, but it doesn't, big fan. And then they had a lot of like, I know. Yeah, and people just don't. Yeah, yeah, which is good as well, but the honest to God like,

51:49like my, my, my, my audience has changed so much. Yeah. And we were doing Jamie who works for MCD. He's a great lad. He was, we were doing one of the shows in Whelence. And he said he's done, we were looking at the window and we're going, we know he's coming into this room. Janonnamene, it's Gile. Right. Polo top. Baseball, yeah. It's, jump wherever the shoulders. Yeah, it's just everybody was just coming in. And, and usually when you go to like an event and you're coming in, and there's a person there with the, you know, the, with the names on the thing of who can come in, who can come in, you know what I mean? The tickets, who are you? And Jamie just, the people are just going, Doyle four and just walking straight in. Or I leave five and just straight in. And they know like, yeah, is that okay? Or blah, blah, blah. Have you been to any Irish rugby matches? I have, that would be it. Yeah, yeah. I have, yeah, I'm actually, I'm going into, to meet the, the, the squad, the Irish rugby team in November,

52:50actually, they, they reached out to me saying, that's lovely. Would you like to come in? That's absolutely. Yeah, be good. So yeah, I'm doing that in, in Carlton Hayes, which would be nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's in November. So yeah, I was, I was, I was, I've been invited to a few things that I just didn't, I couldn't go out and stuff like that. But I have had like a good fugue. So I like, yeah, nice. People reach in and stuff like that. So yeah, that's good. You know what I mean? But I'd love sport as well. So I wouldn't be kind of like, I'd not sort of, out of my depth as in like, I'd know what the, what's going on. You would, you'd know what the deal is. Yeah, I have a knowledge of it as well. Is it rugby golf football? Soccer. Liverpool. Manianitis. Manianitis. Yeah, there you go. You're a Liverpool football. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you're, yeah, well, Manianitis are like, I don't know what they're like, they're out of the picture, so way out of the picture. And I don't like it. Well, it's been a long time, isn't it? 13 years. 2013, it's not. Yeah, there's no harm in not having the same team winning the league every year. But there's also, you know, you want to be competitive with them, just all over the golf. So yeah, I was actually asked to go, I was invited to go and see Manianitis and Leeds

53:51in Crow Park, August. But I was at the Edinburgh Friends, so yeah. Yeah, okay. What you have? So you're doing Olympia in? Yeah, I'm doing the Olympia October the 12th, which is sold out. Hey, great. Happy days. I don't have to sell it. You have to sell it, but I'm also doing the Gadi, which I've sold out one show on the Gadi, but I've another show on the Gadi on, I think it's the 20th of October. So that's, that's on sale. Excellent. So you've got a show, when is the first show on the Gadi? I'm doing one on the 12th, and then it's like, I think it's the 19th and 20th of October, the first one sold out. And the other way is nearly sold out like so. I think there's a couple of hundred tickets left for the second brilliant show, but I'm all, that's a 1200 cedar. So yeah, yeah. So I'm also going to, uh, cork, can you carry the set theater? Yeah. Limerick, uh, Dolan's and Limerick. I'm going to Belfast, the Mac in Belfast. Uh, where, so I've got cork, and I think that's it, like, and do you ever go to yourself now like, I was doing this for years. Yeah, I loved it. I still love it. Yeah, yeah. But now I'm getting big, huge crowds.

54:53Yeah, it's great. Life is good. Yeah, it's great. I would have a set like this. You couldn't, you couldn't not, but appreciate it like, you know what I mean? Yeah, I'm delighted for your success. And particularly in the manner that it's happened. Thank you. What you are is a demonstration that you showed a love of what you do. And that eventually the love of what you do started paying off in bigger spades than it already was, which was already making you have a way. Oh, yeah, it was cool like, yeah, yeah. But, but, but somebody shined down and you and went, nah, it's time for you now. Thanks very much. So well done. Thanks for having me, man. Thanks for having me. Nice place here. No bother. Lovely. Cheers. And my thanks to Rorio Hanlon for that very enjoyable chat. And lovely to meet him. That was my first time meeting him. My thanks, of course, to Hum Finan for getting involved in the Mario Rosa stuff podcast. And he's such a great partner all this year so far. And my special thanks to you. The reason we do it is to try and give you

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