B: SO IT'S KIND OF A SCAM BECAUSE LIKE I DID ALL THE WORK AND THEN NOBODY TOOK PART IN MY STUDY UM BUT YEAH MY FAULT I GUESS BUT UM YEAH LIKE LIKE BUT WHEN THEY WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR A STUDY AND THEN SEND YOU MUCH INFORMATION SAYING LIKE YOUR YOUR CODE WILL BE THIS AND LIKE DON'T USE YOUR NAME WHILE YOU'RE IN THE STUDY AND STUFF AND LIKE IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO KEEP PRIVACY AND STUFF AND DON'T DISCLOSE INFORMATION AND STUFF AND THEN I I REMEMBER GOING TO ONE STUDY ONCE AND THEN LIKE I'D LIKE KNOCK ON THE DOOR AND THEN THE PERSON THAT'S THERE WAS LIKE OH HEY IS THIS AND THEN SHE JUST SAYS MY NAME LIKE I HAD HAD LIKE MY CODE WRITTEN DOWN ON MY ARM AND STUFF SAYING LIKE DON'T UH DON'T UH TELL THEM MAKE MAKE SURE AND IDENTIFY YOURSELF BY THE CODE AND NOT YOUR ACTUAL NAME BUT THEN THEY WERE LIKE KNEW EXACTLY WHO I WAS AND STUFF AND SO THAT WAS KINDA LIKE

A: WHOA

B: A BAD START JUST TO THE STUDY BUT

A: UH HUH

B: WELL LIKE I I I I IT ACTUALLY TURNED OUT IT WASN'T AN ISSUE UH IT WAS JUST LIKE A FORMALITY BUT UH IT WAS PRETTY FUNNY UM

A: OH MAYBE THE WHOLE NAME THING AND THIS THING IS A BIT OF A FORMALITY ARE WE BREAKING THE FORT WALL BY DOING THIS STUFF I THINK WE ARE

B: I HOPE IT'S NOT TOO WEIRD FOR THE PEOPLE <LAUGH> ON UPWORKCOM

A: WHERE WE CAN SEE YOU

B: UM

B: AND ANOTHER OH YEAH OH YEAH IT SAYS THAT WE HAVE OUR NAMES ON ZOOM AS WELL BUT UM AND SO WE HAVE SOME QUESTIONS THAT TO GO THROUGH UM

A: WELL I I DON'T HAVE MY NAME I HAVE MY MOM'S NAME SO APPARENTLY I'M STILL LOGGED IN AS HER SO <LAUGH>

B: UM SO THE GAMES WHEN YOU WERE A KID WHAT KIND OF GAMES DID YOU USED TO PLAY AND IS THERE ONE THAT YOU REMEMBER WELL

A: FOOTBALL

B: YOU'RE SAYING FOOTBALL YEAH

A: YEAH UH WHAT ELSE DID I USE TO DO <BREATH> WHAT ELSE DID ME AND THE LADS USE TO DO PLAYED A LOT OF UH CALL OF DUTY

B: OH DO YOU NICE

A: FIFA OBVIOUSLY I DON'T KNOW

B: SO IT KIND OF JUST VARIOUS DIFFERENT FORMS OF FOOTBALL

A: ONE OF MY MATES LIKE HE LOST HIS SHIT ONLINE PLAYING FIFA ONCE BECAUSE DO YOU KNOW THE WAY YOU CAN BUY LIKE ALL THOSE MICROTRANSACTION STUFF

B: OH YEAH

A: HE SPENT SOMETHING LIKE OH HE MUST HAVE SPENT OVER FIVE HUNDRED SIX HUNDRED QUID CLOSE TO A GRAND I'D SAY <DTMF> AND LIKE I CAME UP TO HIS HOUSE ONE DAY AND HE WAS LIKE OH UH I WAS LIKE GEEZ CONNOR YOU'RE TEAM'S LIKE REALLY GOOD BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE WAY YOU BUILD LIKE YOUR OWN TEAM AND IT'S I WAS LIKE YOU'VE GOT A REALLY GOOD TEAM DO YOU EVER SPEND MONEY ON THIS AND HE GOES NAH NAH NOT AT ALL MAN AND I LOOK OVER IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM AND HE'S GOT LIKE A MASSIVE STACK OF ALL THESE THINGS THAT HE USED TO BUY AND IT'S LIKE BASICALLY IN LIKE A GAME CASE BUT THEY'RE ALL TWENTY EURO EACH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND HE HAD AT LEAST LIKE FIFTY TO SIXTY OF THESE THINGS I WAS A OH MY GOD

B: YEAH I I REMEMBER HEARING BEFORE THEY UH AND YEAH THOSE GAMES ARE LIKE THE MICROTRANSACTIONS AND STUFF THAT ARE FREE APPARENTLY

A: YEAH

B: THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY OFF LIKE ONE PERCENT OF THE PLAYER BASE WHICH IS KINDA LIKE DEPRESSING LIKE IT'S LIKE IS IT IS IT ONE IN A TEN A HUNDRED PEOPLE THAT'S KINDA JUST SUPER ADDICTED TO BUYING STUFF AND THEN THEY SPEND SO MUCH MONEY THAT IT PAYS FOR THEIR MEETING NINETY PEOPLE WHICH IS KINDA LIKE CRAZY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT LIKE IT'S LIKE THEY'RE SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY THAT LIKE THEY ONLY NEED ONE OUT OF A HUNDRED PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY PAY MONEY WHICH IS SORT OF LIKE A ALMOST EXPLOITATIVE BUT YEAH KIND OF FUNNY AS WELL

A: WHE WHEN I WAS WORKING IN WOODIE'S LIKE UM THIS GUY WHO WAS WORKING AT HE WAS LIKE OH JAMES UH I'M NOT IN A GOOD MOOD AND I'D SAY OH WHY WHAT'S WRONG AND HE WAS LIKE UM MY GIRLFRIEND'S AFTER SPENDING LIKE OVER A GRAND ON CANDY CRUSH

B: DAMN YEAH YEAH

A: OH MY AND THIS GUY WAS MAKING MINIMUM WAGE AND HE HAD LIKE THREE KIDS TO PROVIDE AND STUFF LIKE THAT AND HE WAS SAVING UP FOR HIS UH MOTORBIKE LICENSE OR SOMETHING I WAS OH MY GOD AND SHE WAS HE WAS LIKE YEAH I ONLY FOUND OUT LAST NIGHT I WAS LIKE OH

B: IT'S SUCH A WEIRD ONE JUST TO BE INTO AS WELL CANDY CRUSH

A: YEAH YEAH

B: BUT BUT APPARENTLY THAT THAT'S LIKE A BIG PROBLEM THAT PEOPLE LIKE BURN THROUGH THEIR INHERITAN B B BURN THROUGH THEIR LIKE CHILDREN'S INHERITANCE BY PLAYING CANDY CRUSH

A: THAT'S PRETTY BADASS THOUGH FAIRPLAY TO THEM

B: THAT'S PRETTY BADASS YEAH THAT'S WHAT I WANNA BE LIKE WHEN I'M OLD UM OLD AND FRAIL

A: CAN YOU WIN MONEY ON CANDY CRUSH THOUGH SURELY NOT

B: I'M NOT SURE I THINK YOU CAN SCORE EXTRA POINTS AND STUFF BUT YEAH IT'S DO YOU MAKE YOUR MONEY BACK OFF OF IT I DON'T THINK SO BECAUSE LIKE I THINK THAT CHILDREN PLAY IT AS WELL SO LIKE IT'S HARDLY GAMBLING UM

A: MM

B: HERE'S AN IDEA THOUGH IS LIKE A CASINO FOR CHILDREN

A: OH YEAH I LIKE THAT

B: YEAH NEW BUSINESS IDEA

A: WELL YOU COULD LEISUREPLEX IS BASICALLY LIKE THAT THOUGH ISN'T IT

B: IT'S KINDA IT'S ACTUALLY WHAT IT IS ACTUALLY WHAT IT IS

A: ISN'T IT BECAUSE BASICALLY LIKE NOT ONLY THAT THEY JUST WIN SHITTER PRIZES AS WELL

B: YEAH LIKE IT'S NEVER ABOUT THE MONEY EVER

A: YEAH IT'S JUST LIKE OH WELL DONE YOU'VE WON A STUFFED TEDDY UH YOU'VE AFTER PAYING SIX HUNDRED EUROS FOR THAT

B: YEAH YOU'VE WON A DISEASED STUFFED TEDDY

A: WELL DONE <CLICK> YEAH THAT WILL GO IN THE BACK OF YOUR CUPBOARD IN A WEEK'S TIME

B: I STILL REMEMBER I WAS GOING THERE ONCE WITH A OUR FRIEND WHO WORKS AT PFIZER UH I THINK WE WERE WALKING IT WAS LIKE WELL IT WAS LIKE LATE AT WE WERE WAS IT WORTH BRINGING YOU OWN BEER BUILDING AND I REMEMBER WALKING IN LIKE GETTING MY ID READY AND THEN THEN THE BOUNCER WAS LIKE OH GO ON AHEAD UH I DO DON'T NEED TO SEE YOUR ID SO I WAS LIKE WALKING ALONG AND THEN LIKE YOUR MAN TRIES TO COME WITH ME THEN HE LIKE BLOCKS HIM WITH HIS ARM AND SAYS LIKE YOU CAN'T COME IN

A: WHOA WHOA

B: HE'S HE'S LIKE <DTMF> HE'S HE'S LIKE SHOW ME YOUR ID BUT LIKE 'CAUSE LIKE YEAH HE OBVIOUSLY THOUGHT I I LOOKED OLD ENOUGH TO NOT NOT TO HAVE AN ID BUT HE THOUGHT THAT YOUR MAN DIDN'T SO HE LIKE WELL HE PROPER PUT HIS ARM OUT AND STOPPED HIM LIKE UH

A: WHOA WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A BOUNCER

B: I DON'T THINK I'D BE GOOD AT IT I FEEL LIKE I'D BE TOO LIKE FIRST OF ALL TOO WEAK BUT ALSO TOO LIKE UH

A: NOT

B: TOO ETHICALLY CHALLENGED I GUESS IF SOMEBODY WAS LIKE I HAVE TO CONSIDER THE PROS AND CONS OF BEATING SOMEBODY UP UM BEFORE I WOULD DO IT

A: YOU HAVE TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT MORE BADASSED I THINK YOU GOTTA YOU GOTTA REMOVE ONE OF YOUR EYES AND GET LIKE DO YOU KNOW THE WAY THOSE GUYS WILL LIKE MAKE THEIR TEETH SHARPER LIKE MAKE YOU KNOW LITTLE LIKE FANGS OR SOMETHING

B: KINDA LIKE FILING YOUR TEETH

A: TO MAKE YOU LOOK A LITTLE MORE YEAH YOU LOOK A LITTLE BIT MORE SCARY THEN

B: MM THERE USED TO BE A BOUNCER WHO WORKED IN THE ACADEMY AND SHE WAS LIKE AN OLD LADY UH BUT LIKE SHE WAS LIKE PROPER LIKE STERN LIKE SHE WOULD BE SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE A GOOD SCHOOL TEACHER YOU KNOW THOSE KINDA LIKE SCARY OLD CATHOLIC LADIES WHO ARE LIKE UM YOU KNOW LIKE JUST DO THE THEY'RE LIKE THEY'RE JUST TERRIFYING AND I DON'T KNOW IT IT'D GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF BUT LIKE SHE WAS LIKE A BOUNCER IN THE ACADEMY AND LIKE SHE USED TO BE PROPER LIKE CERTAIN PEOPLE ARE LIKE UM

A: I I THINK THAT'S THE ONE PERSON YOU REALLY DO NOT WANNA MESS WITH

B: YEAH IT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN THE WORLD IS LIKE OLD VICIOUS UM LADIES UH BUT YOU KNOW THE BIG BOUNCERS ARE FUNNY LIKE UH AND THE PEOPLE I'VE HEARD OF WHO'VE GOTTEN LIKE BEATEN UP BY BOUNCERS FOR NO REASON <LAUGH> UH BUT THEY ALWAYS SAY IT'S FOR NO REASON BUT THEN CAN YOU TRUST THEM

A: I WONDER IF THAT'S JUST AN IRISH THING OR IS IT LIKE EVERYWHERE

B: YEAH I DON'T KNOW

A: YEAH LIKE I UM MY LECTURER WAS TELLING ME ONCE THAT HIS MATE WAS A BOUNCER AND UH ONE DAY HE WAS WORKING THERE AND UH SOME LAD WAS LIKE TRYNA GET IN AND HE WAS LIKE OH SORRY BRO BUT YOU CAN'T BE DOING THAT UH BECAUSE I FORGET WHAT YOUR MAN WAS DOING I THINK HE WAS JUST SPITTING ON THE BOUNCER OR SOMETHING AND ANYWAY HE GOES BACK IN WITH THE BOUNCER INSIDE THE DOOR FOR A SEC AND AS HE COMES BACK OUT THERE'S THE LAD COMES BACK WITH A FUCKING SHOTGUN