Irish: (()) recording now so my uh participant number is f c five five dash p two

Irish: um mine is f c five five dash p one

Irish: great uh please call stella ask her to bring these things with her from the store six spoons of fresh snow peas five thick slabs of blue cheese and maybe a snack for her brother bob we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids she can scoop these things into three red bags and we will go meet her wednesday at the train station

Irish: um please call stella ask her to bring these things with her from the store six spoons of fresh snow peas five thick slabs of blue cheese and maybe a snack for her brother bob we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids she can scoop these things into three red bags and we will go meet her wednesday at the train station

Irish: nice

Irish: it does sound like some weird cult stuff though i'm not gonna lie

Irish: like midsummer

Irish: yeah

Irish: this idea reminds me of a i i took part in a study once um i i this is like first year of college and um what's it called uh we were gi we had we have this kind of like online network in ucd where you like you kind of take part in research and then if you get enough credits and you can get people to take part in your your research for you then um

Irish: oh that's kinda cool

Irish: 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

Irish: whoa

Irish: a bad start just to the study but

Irish: uh huh

Irish: 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

Irish: 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

Irish: i hope it's not too weird for the people <laugh> on upworkcom

Irish: where we can see you

Irish: um

Irish: 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

Irish: 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>

Irish: 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

Irish: football

Irish: you're saying football yeah

Irish: 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

Irish: oh do you nice

Irish: fifa obviously i don't know

Irish: so it kind of just various different forms of football

Irish: 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

Irish: oh yeah

Irish: he spent something like oh he must have spent over five hundred six hundred quid close to a grand i'd say (()) 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

Irish: yeah i i remember hearing before they uh and yeah those games are like the microtransactions and stuff that are free apparently

Irish: yeah

Irish: 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

Irish: 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

Irish: damn yeah yeah

Irish: 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

Irish: it's such a weird one just to be into as well candy crush

Irish: yeah yeah

Irish: 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

Irish: that's pretty badass though fairplay to them

Irish: that's pretty badass yeah that's what i wanna be like when i'm old um old and frail

Irish: can you win money on candy crush though surely not

Irish: 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

Irish: mm

Irish: here's an idea though is like a casino for children

Irish: oh yeah i like that

Irish: yeah new business idea

Irish: well you could leisureplex is basically like that though isn't it

Irish: it's kinda it's actually what it is actually what it is

Irish: isn't it because basically like not only that they just win shitter prizes as well

Irish: yeah like it's never about the money ever

Irish: yeah it's just like oh well done you've won a stuffed teddy uh you've after paying six hundred euros for that

Irish: yeah you've won a diseased stuffed teddy

Irish: well done <click> yeah that will go in the back of your cupboard in a week's time

Irish: 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

Irish: whoa whoa

Irish: he's he's like (()) 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

Irish: whoa would you like to be a bouncer

Irish: 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

Irish: not

Irish: 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

Irish: 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

Irish: kinda like filing your teeth

Irish: to make you look a little more yeah you look a little bit more scary then

Irish: 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

Irish: i i think that's the one person you really do not wanna mess with

Irish: 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

Irish: i wonder if that's just an irish thing or is it like everywhere

Irish: yeah i don't know

Irish: 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

Irish: (())

Irish: yeah yeah

Irish: wait is this is this in america or is this or where is it

Irish: no it was in ireland it was in ireland

Irish: oh

Irish: yeah

Irish: (())

Irish: yeah anyway so he gets back inside dives on the ground and your man starts firing shots through the door and then runs off

Irish: damn i so i thought he was tryna like use the shotgun to get into the bar and then he was going there and like stand and get a drink with this this giant gun next to him that would definitely work that would have been the better option i think

Irish: i would've done that

Irish: you would have brought a gun out

Irish: well no it's just you know to have the feel of that power

Irish: that's tru true yeah that's probably the best way to kind of feel like a man

Irish: <laugh>

Irish: carry a weapon around with you um

Irish: no wonder other countries have gun laws in them

Irish: yeah that'll be cool i remember talking to a friend of ours that you can probably guess who by uh that um you were saying how he thinks ireland should legalize guns

Irish: oh yeah i know exactly who you're talking about

Irish: um but uh yeah it was funny it this is years and years ago and i remember like i remember like like this is like you know maybe like fourth or fifth year in school and like uh like he kinda like he had it pretty well thought out and like i remember kind like being like that's a terrible idea and then he was like why and i was like i'm not sure um as you know it was one of those funny things like you know when you like you kinda like know intuitively that you're right but like you can't really the other person clearly knows the case better than you um but anyway that was funny

Irish: maybe you were just caught out connor you could never you know your head just didn't wrap around that you were wrong

Irish: that's true no like kinda like um like i like i and i knew that your man was like had a better case than me but he was also kind of unconvincing like you know the idea of just legalizing guns in ireland <laugh> you known what i mean like with all the problems we have here

Irish: yeah

Irish: maybe it would solve some of them maybe it would like solve like youth delinquency

Irish: i dunno with all all the people i grew up with um i would not want them to have a gun

Irish: i know yeah

Irish: they're the last people i could ever want to have a gun

Irish: yeah

Irish: yeah

Irish: it's kind just like it's not really a problem to me so

Irish: it sounds terrible idea

Irish: like why introduce it as a as a problem yeah (()) like i was saying to you earlier like like all the all my colleagues are over in america for a big conference and like uh they're like in some mad doggy neighborhood in california it was like san francisco but uh apparently like you can't wear red in san in california did you ever hear about that

Irish: what

Irish: like if if you're wearing red outside then you risk being mistaken for a member of the blood gang and people will shoot you yeah

Irish: what no

Irish: 'cause like 'cause like they have these like gang shootings and stuff and like the blood gang always wear red to identify themselves that's why i imagine if you're kind of just like walking around in like a red jumper and then dude's like he's a blood get him and then they shoot you

Irish: oh my god

Irish: i don't know if it's true (()) someone told me that once i don't know if it's true but like it'd be pretty funny if you were just kind of like wearing like if you worked in like xtra vision and you got shot 'cause you were in san francisco

Irish: damn no i'd think i could get away with it no i don't really wear wear red but i think

Irish: what color was y your old supervalu uniform

Irish: oh that was red yeah

Irish: yeah imagine if you were going to work and you just got shot 'cause some dude thought you were like a member of a gang uh <laugh> that's got to got to be embarrassing

Irish: this entire supervalu is run by the bloods <laugh>

Irish: yeah it's it's like a blue one for the crips like a blue supermarket

Irish: tecos versus supervalu <laugh>

Irish: yeah <laugh> turf war but there's a whole thing about aldi versus lidl like apparently they have like a territorial dispute uh

Irish: oh that sounds bad ass

Irish: but yeah yeah it is always like a aldi next to a supervalu to a lidl like uh apparantly do like whenever they open up one in some location then the other supermarket will open up another one in the same location

Irish: that's amazing

Irish: yeah i don't know what the point is but like they kinda just wanna be the number one

Irish: do you think it'll ever be like an all out war

Irish: yeah

Irish: like right now it seems like a standoff you know there's just kind of

Irish: mm

Irish: testing the waters but one day it might like break out

Irish: it'd be cuban missile crisis kind of situation

Irish: yeah yeah sort of like uh oh wait maybe i shouldn't mention that <laugh>

Irish: yeah it's a delicate balance to be maintained for

Irish: yeah i was gonna mention

Irish: i know that

Irish: a certain country but i don't know if i should be allowed do that

Irish: yeah

Irish: maybe there p people running this study i don't know really you know i don't know

Irish: anyway it's the next question

Irish: let's be honest like everything when you were younger was good

Irish: that's true although i mean you know you know what when i was when i was like really young then uh i would never watch things that were live action because i thought that like anything for live action was for uh adults and so i could never watch like uh drake josh or something like that

Irish: oh yeah no i was the same i don't even watch <overlap>

Irish: it had it had to be it had to be a kinda a cartoon or it had to be kinda like yeah cartoon or ani animation in some way and then i was like six it was kind like hold on a second

Irish: it had to be spongebob had to be you know your samurai jack

Irish: fairly oddparents maybe

Irish: yeah you got two right two right

Irish: staring norm mcdonald <laugh> he was a genie that that was it

Irish: no way

Irish: yeah yeah

Irish: was he actually in that

Irish: he he was like a genie who uh i think there was an episode for like timmy like gets rid of his fairy godparents and then he replaces them with a a really sleezy genie he finds and like uh the genie was voiced by norm yeah

Irish: i would just prefer if timmy's wish was to replace his fairy godparents with just norm mcdonald <laugh>

Irish: yeah yeah

Irish: have that for an episode

Irish: that would've been a better system

Irish: i think we should be the writers on that show

Irish: is the show gonna still go ahead i think it's it's probably ended now

Irish: apparently they rebooted it but it's like a girl now or something

Irish: is it in like a gritty realistic remake <laugh> did you see they're making a horror film based on winnie the pooh called blood and honey

Irish: yeah you were showing me

Irish: that's (()) yeah

Irish: wild what the hell he must be in the public domain you can't really like

Irish: yeah

Irish: yeah

Irish: either that or like they're about to get sued into oblivion <laugh>

Irish: i have to piglet

Irish: we should make like a frozen like elsa frozen uh horror movie

Irish: no

Irish: we could go for that

Irish: <laugh> i really do not wanna do that

Irish: well actually that must have been my unconscious mind 'cause there actually was a horror film called frozen where it's six months stuck on ski lift

Irish: oh

Irish: um it was like from like two thousand and nine years like that but i remember being in like xtra vision years and years ago and someone was like exchanging a copy of frozen the horror film for frozen the children's film 'cause they were like told by their like wife to pick up a copy of frozen from the dvd store <laugh> and then she got the wrong one <laugh> it's just the one where it's like someone's stuck in a ski lift in the the storm

Irish: are you sure your kids wanna watch this okay <laugh>

Irish: yeah <laugh> yeah look here's ola <laugh> oh my god <laugh>

Irish: that's brilliant

Irish: yeah

Irish: yeah no honestly if i had a kid like i'd just show them all the greats it doesn't matter what age it is

Irish: mm

Irish: i'd show them django unchained or i'd show them uh godfather and who knows maybe your kid would be cooler for it

Irish: mm

Irish: maybe he'd just be like exactly like vito corleone or something

Irish: he'd like adopt the mannerisms of the characters

Irish: hey ma ma <laugh>

Irish: <laugh>

Irish: just show him all of sopranos

Irish: yeah that's gonna be you when you're older

Irish: that's my fucking boy

Irish: i dunno

Irish: i dunno if you could have any accent what would it be

Irish: any accent ooh

Irish: yeah 'cause they seem

Irish: yeah

Irish: to be really focused on accents here

Irish: yeah i think it is a good a good accent is uh you you know how people when people don't speak english fluently and then they learn they're very into english so that like like people will like i say if you're german you can learn uh english e english british english or american english

Irish: oh yeah yeah

Irish: but you can always tell but um you know i think is a nice accent is people who have uh who have a british a british italian accent so they're from they're from italy but they learn british english if that makes sense and they have kind of like if they have 'cause it sounds kind of like they have like a posh voice but they have a bit of like a mediterranean twang to it

Irish: no i have never heard of this accent what the fuck

Irish: yeah there used to be like a researcher i was working when they had like a proper like uh they were from italy but they had like a proper like posh british accent but like you could tell that they were like also italian it was they were they were strange accents it's hard to it's kinda hard to explain but like um

Irish: that's pretty cool

Irish: how about you what would your accent of choice be

Irish: mm uh scottish maybe

Irish: scottish nice you're appeasing

Irish: it is pretty cool though like

Irish: yeah

Irish: remember there was that little girl in that room she was she had a really thick scottish accent it was pretty funny

Irish: i heard you saying that yeah <overlap>

Irish: she'd knock on the door she's like martha are you coming out to play she be knocking out of like a door and then she look through the letter box an go i know you're in there

Irish: we have you surrounded

Irish: yeah <laugh>

Irish: i know i i i remember <overlap> when i was edinburgh when i was like fourteen with the scouts and like uh there just one dude who like worked in like a newsagent i was saying to you earlier like irn bru was great like i wish you could get it more in ireland but like i remember i wanted to get like a kind of irn bru off this guy and i him for it he was like (()) regular irn bru <laugh> i was like yeah (()) uh like he was proper like deep rural scottish and so like kinda similar to a kinda like if you have like a real like a deep rural irish accent

Irish: oh jeesus <overlap>

Irish: people like outside of ireland can't understand you

Irish: god fekin' look at that

Irish: i always find it funny when you see people like you'll see like a lecturer you see like a a video on youtube of somebody speaking in like a deep irish accent and then everybody in the comments is like can someone annotate this i can't understand it <laugh> like you you you you can kinda get it like you can understand what you're saying but nobody else can 'cause of how deep their accent is

Irish: my um my dad's uncle uh lived in tipperary his whole life in the same house and he feckin' had the thickest accents that i've ever ever heard and not only that he had like one of those old kind of voices that sounds like you know it's kind of dying and it's like this sort of but then he was also like basically deaf as well so he had no idea what he was saying he was like (()) <laugh> and you're like oh yeah oh yeah

Irish: yeah

Irish: do you know that sort of thing when you don't understand something and you just kind of nod your head and go ah yeah i know you what you're doing i know

Irish: yeah i wonder if th that's kinda upsetting for them though 'cause like you know because eventually they're gonna figure out that they're they're not getting through to you

Irish: yeah

Irish: um i don't know it's funny imagine if they're like <overlap> there's there's a fire you gotta go you gotta run for your life there's a fire and you're like yeah

Irish: ah yeah <laugh> i mean you just seem like the most chill dude ever and so <laugh> and it's the most chill bloke in the world <laugh>

Irish: that's like a classic like sitcom scene where like someone's speaking in like a random language and then the other person is gonna pretend to understand it but then they have like subtitles that kind of give us context and it's like

Irish: yeah

Irish: uh that's funny

Irish: i could definitely see that as like a joey from friends thing or something

Irish: they had a scene like that in air in airplane you know the film airplane which is like <overlap>

Irish: oh yeah yeah

Irish: which is like excuse me young sir and stuff <laugh> uh <laugh> um

Irish: is joey still a thing or is that like dead i dunno

Irish: i dunno i dunno much about joey i think i never actually (()) it's jive is their word for cool

Irish: oh is it i thought it was like a whole like might as well just be a dialect it's just like slang that people use

Irish: maybe i don't know much about jive i mean

Irish: i was in anfield once and uh you in the like the shop the gift shop um they have like a little book in there that you can buy and it's all the chants that liverpool use at their games

Irish: nice

Irish: but who in their right mind is taking out that book of going and should we ride a <laugh> should we sing verse five of this book please

Irish: there's like the hyme sheets in mass where they're like you know today we'll be doing hym number two and everyone's like <laugh> (())

Irish: let's get this (())

Irish: do you remember that in uh father ted when they when they have the the book for football for old ladies and like uh mrs mrs doyle and their friends are all reading through it and then they're like they're all standing round the book at the match and then they're going like go on my son

Irish: that's unreal oh i like that

Irish: so where where would you go in the world if you could go anywhere in the world

Irish: um uh

Irish: you know it's it's weird i was i was looking a uh the ryanair uh website today and i kinda realized how cheap flights can be if you book them well in advance i was kinda thinking like i te i technically could go anywhere in the world

Irish: you can do it if it's well in advanced or like the next day (())

Irish: yeah depends yeah it is kinda like i saw a tweet once where somebody was like i can just go like i'm i'm an adult so i can just go to the store and buy a whole cake and eat it all but like every day i don't it's a weird kind of like a self restraint to it

Irish: mm feck it let's go to like in jamaica tomorrow

Irish: yeah <laugh> let's do it where would where would <overlap> would ja jamaica be your your country of choice that to go to or

Irish: no i think i'd go to rwanda

Irish: nice

Irish: because that place is a bit of messed up in the day and i wanna know if it's okay now 'cause you don't hear about it

Irish: you you'd go there to check you wouldn't just google there <laugh>

Irish: you don't hear about it anymore you know

Irish: that's true

Irish: or what about uh do you know i heard uh ethiopia you're not allowed to do journalism there or something

Irish: do journalism

Irish: yeah yeah

Irish: oh that's crazy

Irish: is it ethiopia yeah there was like two guys from i think it was either iceland or finland they're basically the same place but <laugh> okay well probably not but you know they but they went they got kidnapped because they were doing journalism there and they were

Irish: oh really

Irish: yeah

Irish: that's crazy

Irish: they were kidnapped there for a while and like uh they were locked in like different rooms and they'd like tap on the walls to each other and they said like as long as i could hear my mate i knew i was like gonna be okay

Irish: that's nice and they got out in the end of it did they get out in the end

Irish: (()) really

Irish: mm i was watching a a film recently uh the diving bell and the butterfly about about your man who like had locked in syndrome he was like totally paralyzed and like he couldn't do anything except for blink but like apparently like it's a true story like the the film's a true story but it's a true story in the film where he like gave up his seat on an airplane to one of his colleagues who was going on a trip and then the plane was was hijacked by terrorists and then they like took your man hostage uh and so like it was it was kinda like the in the film they kinda had like a whole subtext where like your man was like uh uh your man it was like was held hostage for five years before he was released but like your man visits him in the film and he was like you know like i was kind of like a prisoner too and now you're a prisoner um because he is you know like thi this guy was a prisoner the terrorist and then the other guy was a prisoner in his own body i guess so

Irish: jesus

Irish: <overlap> kinda a few things but that it's interesting like a

Irish: that's like a is it a true story

Irish: yeah i think so like your man in the film like wrote an an a autobiography by blinking so like like his like editor would like read him the alphabet and then he would like blank whenever he got

Irish: jesus

Irish: some letters yeah

Irish: that is so feckin' tedious oh my god

Irish: yeah but you know what it took him three months to write the book which is insane he would do it for three <overlap>

Irish: but most people can't even do that like

Irish: yeah that's the thing like i've been working on articles for for like six months and they're not ready but um

Irish: jesus

Irish: i guess though in a way he hadn't anything else to do all day like you kinda have to focus on that but um

Irish: so you're saying if you were paralyzed you'd be able to write your articles a lot faster

Irish: i mean if i if i had nothing nothing else to do i guess so uh it's <overlap> kind of like like back when i had covid then i you know i got a bunch of work done 'cause i had no nowhere to go

Irish: oh yeah

Irish: trapped in one room all day not that that i'm saying that my struggles with covid were anything like like if you had a a full body paralysis but like

Irish: no i'm pretty sure that's what you're trying to say you're trying to relate to this guy

Irish: it's on the record <overlap> um (()) it it is kinda inspiring though that your man was like able to like have a reasonably kind of and yeah part of the reason why the film was so was so was so inspiring was 'cause like your man's kind of like he's not that likable he's kind of like just constantly complaining and stuff and like but he's it's very kind of human

Irish: yeah

Irish: like you know sometimes they hear about a story's that's an inspirational story but if you kinda like that's just showing off you know but uh like your man in the film like there's like a scene where he is like he's like watching tv and stuff and then someone turns off the tv by by mistake and he kind like caught on maybe to like turn it back on he's kind like oh you goddamn this person that your man in his head uh and like yeah that's that's very kind of humanizing i guess he's like uh yeah

Irish: how can some people have like the most eventful lifes ever i cannot get that like that guy's like life seems pretty eventful

Irish: yeah it's interesting um

Irish: like that's (()) man not that i want something like that in my life but

Irish: yeah who do you think has had the most eventful life

Irish: um i don't think we're meant to mention names but um i don't know maybe uh neil armstrong he seemed a pretty eventful life

Irish: yeah he was actually he was like on the moon and stuff

Irish: yeah

Irish: it's pretty crazy

Irish: yeah he kinda like uh he went far out

Irish: far out dude

Irish: far out dude

Irish: remember like julius cesar though like he was like he like conquered most of the world and then he like tried to be a politician and they killed him there that's gonna <overlap> be pretty (())

Irish: donald trump had a pretty eventful life considering he's been the host of a tv show and then the president so (())

Irish: (()) that's (()) all that you could want from life <laugh>

Irish: what about your man reagan as well wasn't he like a tv star or something

Irish: he was like a movie star yeah he was like in a bunch of cowboy movies

Irish: what the hell that's wild

Irish: yeah he was in the good the bad and the ugly

Irish: no

Irish: no joking

Irish: what the fuck <laugh> well he wishes <overlap> he wishes

Irish: he plays uh <overlap> clint eastwood's character oh

Irish: <overlap> he was a stunt double for clint eastwood <laugh>

Irish: yeah yeah <laugh> there was a picture of him on online of him with a monkey um like a movie he was in 'cause you know like back in like the fifties and like movies would be like the funniest things ever if somebody like

Irish: had a monkey

Irish: had a monkey yeah

Irish: simple times i guess

Irish: yeah

Irish: but uh

Irish: it's planet of the apes

Irish: you know when you think about people and they make mo movies about monkeys and stuff maybe we should go back to that

Irish: yeah mean they had all those new planet of the apes movies where like they had like all the monkeys and stuff they were there speaking english

Irish: yeah but they weren't really

Irish: did the monkeys talking in the old movies i don't remember

Irish: yeah yeah that's all they did they were like much more intelligent at the start

Irish: it's pretty weird how like they kept using english

Irish: yeah you think they'd use something a a bit better

Irish: they'd like figure out some kind of new monkey language or

Irish: yeah

Irish: right

Irish: you know i heard that in some places in africa and i know africa's a big fecking and place but um they use like they only have like a couple of words for like a color

Irish: oh yeah that's crazy isn't it yeah but

Irish: so like green and blue are like the same thing it's just like the one word for like both

Irish: i remember in college there was we watched a video about where there's there's a certain tribe that have seems like six six different words for the color green depending on its shade

Irish: what

Irish: but like it's crazy 'cause you what they can d d they've done studies where they show people and get people to pick out whether two colors are the same or different

Irish: yeah

Irish: and like and by by ma matter of shade i guess like so they did show you like you know dark red versus light red you'd say like different but uh these people from this tribe they have multiple words for green kinda like pick out various little differences in shade o other people can't tell the difference from

Irish: whoa

Irish: which is crazy th they can be like that that one's definitely darker and then they're right and stuff um

Irish: do you think that's because their whole language has enabled them to visualize it better

Irish: i think so that that must be the reason 'cause like they they probably have more reason to pay attention to color differences and so they can kind of pick these things out nicely

Irish: that's pretty wild i don't know maybe we should start doing that

Irish: having more more words for the letter for the color green

Irish: yeah yeah did you ever like make like a secret language with a mate or something

Irish: no i remember there a philosopher ludwig wittgenstein he was talking and he wrote extensively about the problems of a private language um how it's impossible to have a private language but like

Irish: what do you mean

Irish: uh well he thought that like i guess he didn't mean a secret language between you and your friend but he thought that he thought that it was impossible to like have a secret language just for yourself because we need language as like a tool for social referencing and stuff and so and

Irish: okay so just for one person yeah i guess that makes sense

Irish: it's a famously annoying argument to try to like comprehend i i'm still not really great with it but like yeah

Irish: yeah i don't like that kind of like

Irish: you don't like (())

Irish: no no not after you said that i don't know him but i don't like him

Irish: you don't know him personally <laugh> you know uh there's this book that they found like a while ago i don't know when but it was like a really old book and it had like a weird language in it

Irish: nice

Irish: and uh they managed to disipher it and it turns out like it was like a weird coded language for like a cult but there were some

Irish: oh no

Irish: yeah but there were some letters that were like didn't mean anything but they're just thrown in there to throw you off and there's some <overlap> letters yeah and there were some letters where like all vowel like one symbols that looked like a vowel actually only meant like one vowel which is very interesting to me

Irish: that's weird that that's like a that's kind of interesting that they were trying to throw people off but then like

Irish: yeah

Irish: like what was it what were they writing about like

Irish: uh i don't know it was like a the the roles that you have to do for the cult and like what members like what a a member

Irish: i suppose kind of like a a guidebook and stuff

Irish: yeah yeah yeah sort like a scout handbook i guess but like for their weird thing i like uh the most culty thing i've ever seen is when i went to the initiation while in portugal i think that was

Irish: you think that oh yeah yeah

Irish: that was

Irish: (()) could happen there

Irish: but basically it's just like they they don't know but it's basically just like an eight story like tower but inmersed in the ground so instead of like going up the tower you go down into like a ground

Irish: there (()) difference (())

Irish: this doesn't seem right

Irish: it like it's almost they're they're already finished but they're gonna be like hold on a second

Irish: but like the that one was only built like a hundred years ago just before like world war ii but um there's a much older one because at the bottom like you get to like a cave and you go through the cave and then you can find like an even older version so i'm not sure if that was like there before all like the rich portuguese people got there you know like before that that family set up their palace around there

Irish: uh was <overlap> that when you saw like a recreation or something or was it or what like

Irish: uh what do you mean a recreation i don't know i don't know no i i

Irish: uh huh

Irish: uh it's just like two old wells down there but one's even older so i wonder if like that's like the well that they used to use and then they built a newer one so like how old is this cult we don't even know

Irish: (())

Irish: they're not even like a hundred sure if it was for a cult but it looks kinda cultish to me

Irish: yeah 'cause that's when they're using it like when you think about it

Irish: what do they do when they get to the bottom though that's what i wanna know

Irish: yeah and it's a weird one

Irish: mm they probably have you blindfolded and you have to stick something in your mouth or something

Irish: yeah th that's part of their rituals <laugh> maybe as a good dentist office <laugh> that's why you put things in your mouth yeah

Irish: hey yeah that's pretty cool that's like the coolest dentist you could ever go to if you have to go down like a tower like that underground

Irish: yeah that'd be cool like i wonder if there's like a doctor who has like a big castle um

Irish: ooh no that that (())

Irish: and then i would respect it

Irish: that would really scare people from the dentist

Irish: yeah like a giant (()) castle like <overlap>

Irish: i mean i personally i haven't gone to a dentist in like ten years

Irish: oh really you haven't gone for like a checkup or anything

Irish: no no no

Irish: no dude

Irish: uh it's just because <overlap> i'm sort like well i've brushed my teeth you know um i mean they are pretty yellow

Irish: they're not falling out though i guess so

Irish: yeah so you know as long as they're not hurting like it's grand

Irish: yeah that's cool

Irish: no

Irish: i mean

Irish: i mean <overlap>

Irish: it is kind of miserable going but uh i guess it's all in the service of higher values

Irish: everyone tells me i should do otherwise but i think the more people tell me that i should do it the more i don't wanna do just piss them off

Irish: well that's kinda like that those things about celebrities where they're like everybody told me to give up and i kept on going and now look where i am

Irish: yeah

Irish: don't know who you want there when you've no teeth <laugh>

Irish: yeah i dunno i uh yeah i think like there's lots of things i haven't done that lots of people would say like oh you should really do that you know

Irish: like like like go to the dentist kind of things or kinda like you know like watch eurovision kind of things

Irish: um both but i get a lot less suggestions for eurovision because i think most people go this is god awful <laugh>

Irish: that's true yeah

Irish: except for my girlfriend and her sister i ended up watching

Irish: yeah girls love eurovision i feel like particularly

Irish: yeah they love it they love it they love it i dunno i dunno

Irish: everyone i ever talked to was big into eurovision um they all like they're always kinda like either obsessed with it or they they don't watch it at all like

Irish: and you know <lipsmack> my girlfriend she really liked like all the uh the the slow ones you know where they have like a guy being like all professional and stuff but i just like when you've got some crazy fecking shit out there

Irish: yeah yeah people were saying that uh there's like a song called hypa hypa by this band called eskimo callboy they're like a german band it's kinda like there there's this like song where it's like a mixture of like a eighties pop song with like a metal song

Irish: woah

Irish: and then like they did a music video where they like dressed up in like mullets and mustaches and stuff and like proper like eighties kinda like jumpsuits and stuff

Irish: that's (())

Irish: and uh everyone was saying it would be like a gass eurovision song 'cause like it starts off kinda like a pop song and it goes this deep metal section then then back and forth then for the rest of the song

Irish: my favorite one from the eurovision was moldova but mainly just because they decided to go with a violin a guitar rapping and um an accordion <overlap> now what can get better with that

Irish: yeah

Irish: like (())

Irish: i wish more rappers would do that

Irish: sick <laugh> yeah well i was in portugal and um we were in this town called uh cascai or cashcais or something like that but um like they were all doing football volleyball the beach which was pretty badass but just from down from that there was a guy uh who was like playing on an accordion and he was like the best thing i saw all holiday he had like a small little dog like it was only this big and like a small little cat wearing pearls in the buggy beside him it was like what is this this is so wild and random where would you ever see this other than like grafton street

Irish: yeah

Irish: i guess

Irish: yeah we should get into street performing like you know those guys who are like statues but then they kinda like if you give a coin they just do a dance for you

Irish: ooh

Irish: i'll be doing that

Irish: maybe i could be a fire eater that'd be kind of cool

Irish: uh that'd be a good one yeah

Irish: yeah or one of those sword sword swallowers

Irish: yeah there's always a guy on grafton street he was he's (()) he has like a unicicle and he juggles knives <laugh> but like you you never see him do it 'cause he'll spend the whole time there just saying come on now guys come on make some donations there guys come on <laugh> throw some money into my little thing you know

Irish: i swear i'll do it i'll swear i'll do it now

Irish: yeah but then like literally like and he'll like call out people on the street he'd be like you there in the blue hash come over here and check this out now you won't believe what you'll see um but yeah like i i always tend to meet people in town around grafton street and like i like i'll have to start meeting them somewhere else 'cause like your man's always there and he always just annoyed me so much i i was there once and he was setting up and so he hadn't built up a crowd yet and he was literally just there like asking people to come over and stuff i'm like oh man it was so uh so cringe

Irish: yeah but he's doing what he loves you know he's just gotta make the grind

Irish: he's just harassing strangers (())

Irish: yeah fair play to give give them all you know and if he hit if he hits a a stranger with a knife you know look that's a bad day but he's just gotta pick himself up and go go off

Irish: (()) like what what's the law around that can like anyone just go around juggling knives or do you have to have like a permit

Irish: i think you get a permit 'cause me and uh well i can't say his name but me in this one chap would uh he was very he was small and has glasses uh <laugh> we went to uh one of those busking agencies or something like that

Irish: busking which

Irish: like do you know an agency where you get like a busking license

Irish: oh nice yeah

Irish: but uh i i forget where the hell it was but we went in and uh we walked two and a half hours to get there

Irish: oh

Irish: because we walked an hour in the wrong direction <laugh>

Irish: that'll do it it was a half an hour walk

Irish: yeah <laugh> so it was yeah it took a while to get there and we finally got there we sat down they said oh just wait here they will be with you shortly and uh we finally got up to the person and they said oh that's great and all the forms filled out and everything uh we just need to see your passport and he was like

Irish: oh

Irish: <laugh> and he was like my passport they were like yeah yeah your passport he's like uh well i guess i have to come back another day we were like oh my god <laugh>

Irish: i remember we we had to go for a fishing lesson once and they were like oh we have none left but it should be grand anyway just go and do it go fish

Irish: oh was that when was that

Irish: that was two like two summers three summers ago

Irish: were we

Irish: remember we were we were fishing at the (())

Irish: was that the shop at the (())

Irish: yeah we we went down there to get one and then they were like (())

Irish: oh yeah yeah

Irish: they were like you can just fish don't need a license

Irish: yeah that's cool just do it

Irish: yeah (())

Irish: we don't care one time me and uh another mate that you know uh were fishing down at the river there and uh some lad came up to us and he was like do you have your licenses and we were like ah yeah yeah yeah we were like ah yeah yeah we just didn't <laugh> and he was like oh that's good that's good and he didn't even ask for us to show them he just asked if we had it it was so (())

Irish: what was he an inspector or he just kind of random local

Irish: i think he was just like a local fisherman but he was part of like the whole fisherman the community thing

Irish: oh yeah yeah

Irish: he probably would've been like a head honcho there you know

Irish: he was an enforcer

Irish: yeah yeah ah you wouldn't wanna mess with him there you wouldn't you know he was eighty years old but he was packing like serious muscle ı tell you

Irish: you'd end up in the water man

Irish: yeah i know last time i went fishing though i didn't catch anything my dad caught five so it was kind of shite and they were pretty big ones pretty big roach

Irish: yeah

Irish: i'm not gonna lie i was pretty jealous <laugh> it sucks when you're sitting there for five six hours and you don't catch anything but the person which you catches like a shit ton

Irish: yeah

Irish: it's just like ugh what am i doing wrong especially when you're doing like the exact same thing

Irish: did you eat the fish afterwards or did you throw them back

Irish: no we throw them back um

Irish: sure i'm like fishing is kind of a weird thing like you kind like <laugh>

Irish: yeah yeah it is kind weird when you think about it but once you catch a fish that goes right out the window because there's just so much fun <laugh> you just kinda lose all morals really

Irish: i saw some video of some guy who was like doing this bird thing where he would catch birds in nets and then he would like tag them and then check their wings and stuff he's like a biologist but then like somebody was like in the comments they were like imagine being the bird and then like trying to tell your friends afterwards what happened to you and they wouldn't believe you you say you're going around one day and some dude grabs you and puts this t thing on your leg and then like he he he kept on them putting them into like tubs and then weighing them

Irish: that's their version of like being like in a ufo or something you know

Irish: oh for sure yeah yeah that's an interesting hypothesis like maybe there's a people out there who are like doing that to pick humans like there's like some species out there and then they're like no one believes me

Irish: no uh well let's be honest conor we both know that aliens and bigfoot are real so

Irish: yeah we have plenty of evidence but we can't uh disclose it in this current forum <laugh> but it's a we have just uh evidence that's so convincing

Irish: yeah yeah yeah that's what they always kind of do though isn't it it's like no you gotta believe me now i can't show you this 'cause it's classified

Irish: you know (()) you know those scam ads you get where they're like uh they're like telling you today they can make you a bunch of money but then they're like you gotta keep on watching to the end of the video <laugh> they can never give you the good information on (())

Irish: these are the three steps you have to take

Irish: yeah

Irish: but like i'm gonna leave that right to the end

Irish: mm and you know i there have been times where i've watched a whole of video 'cause i i find those kind of scams really amusing and like what they usually always do is they're always like yeah there's three there's thee top tips to making six figures in in a week or whatever then they're like they'll be like keep on watching for you to find out more information then they'll speak for ten minutes then about some random stuff and then they're like now if you wanna find out more information about these three tips they won't tell you the three tips they're like go on my website and like i feel like like obviously i know there's scams but whenever i watch them i always feel in my head that like you've wasted so much time you almost feel like you wanna just go and find out what the three things are but they hyped it up so much and uh so anyway you feel like you feel like getting into your head every time you're like no

Irish: it's kind of like that scientology thing like apparently there's all these different levels to it

Irish: yeah they kind of get you in and they get you bound

Irish: yeah with the more money you spend like the more like uh information they disclose you to but like the religion i don't know it's kind of tricky

Irish: yeah i imagine you like put a bunch of money into it and you realize it was all true you were like damn like it all makes sense even that the fact to get to spend money you're kind of like damn it all makes total sense and like nobody will ever believe me

Irish: ooh yeah what if there's like yeah what if like do you know the whole like 'cause people sort of know the story of it but what if like that's not the actual story what if there there's gotta be a reason why tom cruise is in it you know

Irish: that's true he's known for his reasonable opinions

Irish: yeah he is pretty badass i'll give him that there is a i don't know i i'd uh i wouldn't mind starting a cult one day

Irish: yeah

Irish: yeah but like i'd i'd definitely have one of those coded books like that like that one that we were talking about

Irish: yeah you got you got to (()) it's like it's not even worth doing if there's no coded book

Irish: even not like just for cult if it was just sort of like national treasure or something like that

Irish: yeah kind of like the book of kells and something like that or yeah

Irish: yeah yeah <overlap> yeah they do say that the ark of the covenant is out there somewhere there's like three prime destinations they say it's like this one mountain or under like some muslim temple somewhere in like jerusalem i think is that where it's is that the place that they're always fighting over

Irish: um yeah like israel

Irish: yeah somewhere like that and there's like a there's some other one i keep forgetting what else oh no they say it's uh somewhere in africa there's like this nigerian religion is it nigerian no there's some or was it ethiopia i don't know but they say that there's like a in their like temple they've got the ark of the covenant there but no one's allowed in

Irish: damn

Irish: yeah

Irish: yeah maybe there's like three ark of arks of the covenant and they're all right

Irish: apparently if you're not like oh i saw this somewhere but apparently if you're not a disciple no not a disciple if you're like a saint or something or chosen by god or something and you touch the ark of the covenant you like melt

Irish: kind of like indiana jones

Irish: yeah yeah exactly like indiana jones so maybe that's where i got it from i don't know <laugh>

Irish: maybe that's what happened in the film they had the actual ark of the covenant and all the guys melted

Irish: oh um my girlfriend she was doing her archaeology little dig today and she said she found pottery

Irish: nice

Irish: yeah yeah she said she found

Irish: do do they know what like year it's from

Irish: she said it's the eighteenth century so it's not that old i guess but

Irish: can you still use it

Irish: uh ooh i don't know like they probably wouldn't let you <laugh>

Irish: imagine you went to her house and she's just serving you stuff in like broken bits of glass with dirt on it <laugh>

Irish: i am going there tonight so who knows <laugh> i don't know

Irish: the um vintage materials what time is it there um we've been going for about forty five minutes now so do you want to finish up

Irish: yeah okay did we answer all the questions was there more that we had to

Irish: i don't think the i think the questions we just as a guide um

Irish: okay is there any interesting ones this one (())

Irish: um uh uh the particular food you used to like to eat and how do you how did you know how to make it

Irish: uh i don't know how to cook any so <laugh> no i don't

Irish: you have habit of the the sandwich with the whole packet of cheese in it don't you

Irish: hell yeah twelve slices of cheese massive regret do not melt twelve slices of cheese

Irish: next question is that do you still like eating it now so the answer is no for you

Irish: no god no <laugh> do not do that

Irish: yeah i'm making this public <laugh> i think that that's everything so

Irish: is that all their questions

Irish: i'll stop the recording there

Irish: okay

Irish: um you wanna stop recording uh yes