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the Bill Moran Podcast. Well,
hello and welcome. Thanks for getting your

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friend. That's how we spread the word

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about the pirate ship. I'm so
excited today, so excited from the European

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continent. We go over to Ireland. Darren Wynn who everybody fell in love

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with Darren. Everybody fell in love
with Darren after he was on the Saint

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Patrick's Date podcast over at Multconnery's.
Yeah, that was quite fun. Hello

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everyone. Everyone was saying to me, you got to get him back.

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Man, he's hilarious. He is
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Darren was a professional soccer player as
we call it in the United States football

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or in the rest of the world
where you know, we always think we're

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right. In America we're very myopic. Well, the way I look at

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a bill is you know, football, if you kind of break those two

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syllables up, foot, yeah,
ball, Yes, it only makes sense,

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it does. Where you know,
the American game is more like haunt

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egg. Yes, yes it is. But you know what, I don't

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understand it. Where did the term
soccer come from? I have no clue.

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Yeah, I don't either whatsoever.
But Darren was a goalkeeper, yeah,

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professional, Yeah, over in Ireland. Yeah, played in Ireland with

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Slugger Rovers home Farm, and then
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as well before I went to England
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with in Northern Ireland. You're from
Southern Ireland. Is there still a little

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bit of animosity there? Yeah,
there's always but most definitely you probably had

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another accent there, Bill, Yes
they did. That's one of my players,

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Robbie. Robbie from Glasgow, Glasgow
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love. They raved about Scotland.
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Yeah, it was a nice place. Glasgow's more for the night life.

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Yeah, and to get in your
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lot of like crime over there?
No, just pick pockets, a lot

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of pick pockets and stuff, but
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lot more than London and stuff.
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kind of more of the the argumentative. SOI gone back into the football is

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a good and that's why I brought
Robbie here today because Robbie's a Rangers fun

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and I'm a Celtic fund So it's
kind of like the Pots and the Bills,

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I gotcha hate each other, but
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Yeah, go back to the Northern
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a brief moment. Because I come
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parents switched to Protestantism when I was
seven. Gotcha. My grandfather would not

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talk to his daughter, my mother, for a year. He was so

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upset over this. And then the
term carbomb, which is a very popular

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drink over here. My grandmother used
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me, no, you can have
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because people died and we don't,
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and let me tell you a story, Bill. Yeah. So I was

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actually dating a girl from Buffalo back
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was actually earlier and that was two
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to visit me in Ireland and she
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she I think she studied psychology.
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and she was like, hey,
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what, Like, it's you don't
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in Northern Ireland in Glasgow, Yeah, you probably would, would you do?

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before your time. But I mean
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an insensitivity that you don't think about
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is which is wrong and of itself
because people this was awful. And then

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are you familiar with the Westies?
The Westies were an Irish gang in New

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York City. They were really in
Hell's Kitchen. They were supposed to be

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one of the baddest groups of people
ever. They would like kill somebody,

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cut off their hand, keeping it
in the freezer, and the next crime

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committed they would take the hand out
the freezer and wrapping around the gods so

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they had the dead man. I
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Yes, I think, so that's
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which is amazing to me because I
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other than the college that was sort
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on TV and it was almost like
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went there. Well, here's kind
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there's a stigma around bryanon Stratton.
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people go to work and at an
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way when I when I was living
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don't kind of do well in a
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or to go back to an mcc
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we have a lot of the kind
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twenty three, twenty fours that maybe
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be able to kind of go back
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themselves. We kind of use athletics
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not only building the athletic program,
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from out of Like we have three
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a Swedish kid coming in. So
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all, I didn't know Brian and
Stratton had athletics, right, So then

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it's division two. So we're Division
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give scholarships out. So we're kind
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two. Okay, So if we
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Damon Baville, Thomas Aquinas and then
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as well. Okay, how did
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So I actually saw the adverts and
apploied for it and got it and

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talked to the previous athletic director who's
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well? So you're over every sport
they have? Yes, we have,

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we also have men's basketball, and
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sports. Yeah so gaming, yeah, yeah, no, that's becoming a

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thing. Yes it is. Yes. So now we're bringing on women's soccer

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in the fall and bringing back women's
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next year for twenty twenty five women's
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where does the round and field and
rugby? We're really yeah? Okay,

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uh, my son loves the sport. I mean, will you watch guys

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stream on kicking different things all the
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But where does the money come from
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that's it's a lot of undertaking.
So we have a budget. From the

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budget, we also walk on the
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qualify for the normal title for like
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where they actually come in and actually
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they paid the difference of the scholarship. Will you so will do the college

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expand? Yeah, Well, we're
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the biggest thing, like a growth
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able to develop the program that I'm
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soccer program in twenty twenty one with
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twenty two we had twenty five players, and then last year we finished with

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forty three. So how do you
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do you find guys like Robbie?
There? So this young MONTOI left is

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Robbie Mackenzie. Say hello, Robbie, Hello, Hello. Robbie actually was

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at another college at Campbellsville University down
in Kentucky and didn't wow, didn't like

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it, didn't like it. We're
in Kentucky. Tell your story, Robbie.

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So it was an hour away from
Louisville, Okay, but no,

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I enjoyed my time there as a
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in terms of soccer, I kind
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Really didn't get as much game time
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was looking out for new places,
new options, and I wasn't too sure,

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Like I didn't really have a place
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a college I was talking to near
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But for Coach, like he managed
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what it was. I just did
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clips of all my own stuff and
emailed numbers of colleges, lots of them,

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and got in touch with coach and
he got back to me, and

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just they went from there. We
got on a phone call and actually,

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funny thing about our first phone call. I don't know if you remember this,

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me and Coach. He's set up
this meeting time and whatever, and

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it's a Saturday morning at eleven o'clock
and I've missed our meeting time. Text

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me. He text me and was
like, no, you just ruined my

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day. We're not going to talking
about this again. And I thought that's

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the deal done. I'm never getting
But you were with another agency, GSR,

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out of the UK, and they
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introduced us as well from that some
point, so you were able to get

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my information from them. So yeah, So, like there's a lot of

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agencies around Europe, mainland Europe and
also in English. Are you one of

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the only ones in the area recruiting
from Europe? I think GCC is as

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well, we do. Yeah,
so they have an Irish coach there Ken

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Okay, but does it take someone
like that to be aware? I think

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so. Yeah. Like previously,
like when I was growing up, there

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was a lot of like a lot
of players going to America to get like

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full scholarships or what not. I
actually turned down one in Arkansas just to

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play pro football. I actually didn't
want to go to school. It was

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not great at school. It actually
took me about sixteen years to get three

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point six GPA when I went back
to school. Like that was one of

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the things, like I just want
mature enough in that sense, and I

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just kind of wanted to play pro
football. So you wanted to play program.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that
was kind of my dream, like

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my passion. It was just like
watching everybody on TV that I looked up

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to as a kind of a role
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whatnot, and I just wanted to
play. What was your So you played

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professionally in Ireland? How do you
feel like coming here? You you waited

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for your career to end and then
you came here in your late twenties.

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five to Syracuse, as I talked
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Day, and a friend of mine
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a game and the guy owned the
soccer center Pete. He was like,

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where are you from? And I
was like, oh, from Ireland and

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he goes where what position do you
play? And I was like guess and

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he was like center mid And I
was like, that's how good it was,

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Robbie center mid and he goes I
was like now, and he goes

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right back now, center back now, And so he couldn't believe that it

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was a goalkeeper after I told him. So it's kind of funny, but

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like I always thought myself that I
would actually end up in a a I

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just didn't know what kind of when
it was. Yeah, did you always

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want to end up in America?
Yeah, I think because like it influenced,

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like American kind of culture is very
much influenced through TV back in Ireland

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and England, so we see a
lot of the American programs, shows,

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movies and everything else. So like
that was kind of one of the things

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for me getting to the US.
Yeah, so it was. I was

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on vacation, got offered a job, went back home, then came back

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in legally like like on a visa
so he could work and whatnot, and

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then that was it. Eighteen years
later, Robbie, did you always want

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to come to the United States as
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you said, we always see it
through TV shows and movies and stuff like

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high school musical all these things.
Yeah, sure, yeah, that's very

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cringe worthy, high skill musical,
fantastic movie. I'm not going to hear

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any slander, So you obviously always
see it through that. And that was

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that was a life I wanted to
love obviously, not that way. You

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don't get up in the cafeteria and
start saying now, but his brothers are

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about a little bit older than you. Once twenty two and once twenty three,

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so high school musical. I remember
watching with them. I've never seen

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a fantastic fantastic would you write in
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So yeah, that was that was
what I think. I always just

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wanted to have an experience of it. I didn't think I would be here

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for a scholarship that only came around
when I was around sixteen seventeen. Yeah,

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and it just went from there.
Yeah, did you ever want to

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play professional? I think there was
levels that I realize I can get to.

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And when I was back home,
if I wanted to play as much

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football as I am now at college, I would not have been able to

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have a work balance. I would
be able to play and work at the

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same time. So this opportunity out
here was perfect for me because I was

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able to get a degree at Branton
Strack in college and also play play under

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coach here. Yeah, what is
the what position? And do you play

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left back? Okay? And you
do you want to? I looked at

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your ship, Wait, what do
you want to do? Like? Would

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you stay here when you graduate?
Or well, I've got my girlfriend right

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now. She's from Dublin, Ireland. So me and Horror working things out

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because I'm a senior now coming up, so I'm not too sure what I

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wanted to do yet. To be
honest, I think my family would like

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me to come back home. Obviously
I was only seventeen when I left for

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America. He's actually the baby face
of the whole team. Yeah, I

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was going to say, he looks
he actually looks older. Yeah, you

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know, he's fourteen, he just
turned fourteen. He'll be thankful. I'll

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be thankful in twenty years time.
I can tell you, well it,

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Yeah, you will be. That's
absolutely true. You have you you will

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be. How hard was it and
what was the adjustment like coming to America

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because we think you know that they're
going where you don't have. I want

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to say, the language, but
there is language a little bit barrier,

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right, a little bit of a
transition. English American slang is something to

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pick up on. Yeah, we
just talked about that on the way over,

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did you. Yeah, so,
coach like, obviously it takes a

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while to get used to and for
me, I think I've changed my accent,

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especially for right, now on the
podcast, I'm changing my accent a

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little more than what I would usually
speak like at training. Yeah, what

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do you speak like? What would
it be training? I don't know that,

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you know. I mean, I
don't have a bit of that,

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and it sounds very it doesn't sound
very good. I'm proud of it because

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that's where I'm from. Yeah,
but for the sake of a podcast,

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it's hard for you, very hard
for people to understand. Do we speak

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slower here? We do? We
do because there's a lot of times you

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go to certain parts of the world
that go you speak so fast, especially

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in the Northeast, even in America, you go down. I've actually had

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to slow down my accent a lot. Well, it's I know that Damien

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has gone home, yeah, to
Ireland and people say to him, you

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sound American. I've actually had that
so real. Yeah, I went I

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went back actually for a point,
so I didn't just go back for one

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point. Had many points back in
Ireland, but I went back for I

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think it was I want to say
it was my in twenty eleven recruiting when

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I was at another college and my
mom turned around and said to me,

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like, all the boys are down
and Downy's Pub should go down and have

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a point. And I was like, you know what, I'll get down

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and see them all went down and
they were like, oh, you know

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the American prodigal son returns kind of
thing. And they were like, do

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you want to point? I was
like, I'm looking forward to a point

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aguinness. So they poured the point
a guinness. They handed it to me

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and I took a big mouthful and
I was like oh, and they were

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like, what's that taste like?
And I said awesome and they were like

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get out right away. I was
like no, no, no, I

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mean it's deadly. It tastes deadly. It tastes deadly, because deadly in

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Ireland means like it's amazing. Yeah, you know, but like when you

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come here, I was always saying. They were like what what I'd say

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deadly you're like and then but when
I was talking to them, they would

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say the same they were like what, sorry, could you repeat that?

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And I've had to know. I
actually noticed that I had to slow down

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for kids to even understand me.
Yeah. Yeah. So like I was

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coaching this team this year nine team
and I was like, can you grab

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your footballs? And they were like, you mean the soccer balls, coach.

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I'm like, yeah, yeah,
yeah, you just grabbed the soccer

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balls. So yeah, when I
got home they said to me, yeah,

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you've got an American accent. Yeah. How did you meet the girl

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from Dublin? Actually we met each
other in Portugal. I was on vacation

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for a for a my team Rangers
for the Europa League Final, and we

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were out on the strip as you
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and Portugal and talking about member.
You were talking about religion earlier and like

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the Protestants and Catholic whole thing.
Well, she's an Irish Catholic, like

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like what you were saying, and
predominantly what are you, Rubbie, I'm

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nothing, but predominantly our fan base
is Protestant. And she went on this

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girl's trip without knowing that Rangers fans
are going to be there at the same

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time, and they're all out and
they're nice, like green dresses and everything

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and like holding photos up with the
Pope, and there's ten thousand Rangers fans

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there thinking about how they hate the
pope and heye Irish people. So it

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was I just kind of came up
to her and protected a liter Yeah,

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you know, somehow, somehow that
story has been changed. Like have did

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your family come over to see you? Is it not yet? Know?

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But they're coming out for my graduation. They will come for graduating, messing

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me. Yes, it'll be June
time. Yeah, June time. Okay,

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you graduate and then uh and then
from there you don't know, it's

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next you and I'm going back oh
next year? Yeah, so sorry?

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So because he because he transferred,
like you know, obviously all colleges don't

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accept one of their transfer credits.
So he's finishing. He's actually going to

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graduate with his associates first and then
next seat. Next year he'll graduate with

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his Bacheler's awesome because all those credits
that he's taken previously will go as electives

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into his program for business. Yeah, that's great. What do you want

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to do when you grow up?
Shave? Plan out the shave. I'm

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sure everybody can see this on the
YouTube, but Robbie has like the smoothest

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skin. If we're a twenty year
old, shaves for the face cloth.

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Can I see the tattoo? You
ever? Hear? Okay, So that's

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my grandfather there. He's the guy
that got me into football from the beginning,

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so he did, so I should
have recruited him. But that's what

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elements side that's as actually America or
like this is a crazy idea my friend

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drew, but this is America on
a hot air blown on a boat.

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So it's all about traveling around the
world basically, and then that's a head

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full of dreams because the world.
I'm not going to hit out with any

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cringey quotes here, so that's fine, but but I that these are my

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nice tattoos I've got. What was
the hardest part for you to get used

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to when you came was there was
there something that was stilled at as the

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most difficult was the food was significantly
different? Was there? I don't know

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if I had to say it,
but the guns Kentucky? Yeah, that

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was. I don't want to get
into the politics or anything, but that

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was That was the biggest shock to
me because I went from like having nothing,

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like I never even had the pocket
knife in Scotland coming out to Kentucky

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where they're very obviously there's a lot
of let rednecks and stuff there, and

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it was they were just hunting about
with guns on their side. I was

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like, this is crazy to me. That took me months to get used

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to. Really, I think it's
a big I think it's a big culture

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shock. Even the Irish police they
don't have guns over them, like no,

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So the normal Irish police that actually
just go out and say with England

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as well, that go out and
just like walk the bee like you know,

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like b cops, like dressed up
in the uniform. They don't have

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guns. So it's just like a
truncheon or like an extendable like you know,

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baton thing whatever it's called. But
then nothing now. But then there's

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another branch of of that police force. It's called the Special Branch. How

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weird they came over with that name
a special another branch call it the Special

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Branch. So they actually they actually
are the ones that are more like kind

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of like they're more responsive if if
anything was like a bank was getting robbed,

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they would be there in their jackets
and their guns. They're the only

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ones that actually are allowed carry guns. Yeah, they're like detectives if you

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want to kind of compare it.
But like the normal police just just have

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like handkoffs. Some of them have
forty handcuffs and then that yeah, yeah,

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it's funny because I never had guns
in my house. My father didn't

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have any guns. I don't know
if that's an Irish influence handed down.

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I don't think anybody in my family
had guns. There was one who was

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a police officer. He may have
had guns. I have shot guns recently

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with him. It's fun for target
practice and stuff like that. But ever,

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but I just had a Pelagon.
Yeah, I had a Pelican gun.

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Things about like the studies of that
that cabin of there's massive. We

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had a we shot an M four
was sorry, yeah, which I mean

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as you were like before in Alabama, I saw yeah, let's see.

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But none of that stuff was ever
in my nothing in my scope at all

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when I first moved to Alabama,
and we'd go to Walmart or twice daily,

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which is like their version of seven
eleven or Circle. Okay, that's

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they'll have like holsters everybody, even
cashiers. But here, like nobody walks

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around with a gun on their hid. Well, they only kind of changed

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the concealed carry right in New York
State recently, probably like the last two

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years. Yeah, they'll just have
it right out like just on shell.

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So kind of like Clint, you
probably don't know who Clint Eastwood is.

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Oh you know, good lad he
sho keep him but yeah, he just

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have the saying like make my day, you know, so like you know,

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pull out the gun and what not. That's uh, it's funny because

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I'm not very familiar with the South. And then when they moved there,

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it was because his mom and I
separated and she wanted to be near her

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family. Her brother had been in
the army and then retired there government all

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in Chicago. Yeah, so would
you would you have noticed the culture shock

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as well? Like I think I
think it would have because I never saw

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it. I never saw people carrying
around when I was a kid. I

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mean I grew up in a very
rural town away from here, about four

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or five hours away, and there
were people that hunted and stuff. Certainly

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maybe some kids had shotguns that want
to go hunting after school, but I

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don't I don't remember anybody carrying,
you know. So that's you're right that

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that would be a fit culture show. Not only the culture show, but

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the police don't carry it. I
mean I had no idea like even like

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I have to say, when I
came to Ireland in twenty twenty three,

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I think it was. I was
stopped at Newark. Now I had a

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shaved head, right, like shaved
head and a little kind of go tea

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like I actually look medic I actually
looked like Middle Eastern. Okay, so

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they actually stopped me. They did
and said where are you from? And

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I was like, Ireland, No, you're know. I was like Jesus

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Christ, yes I am, you
know, like, I was like,

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yes, it's me. I'm from
Ireland. They were like, but you

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look like Middle Eastern and I'm like
never thought of it that way. Wow,

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they said that to you. Yeah, they actually had to, Like

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they don't. They actually took me
to another room and asked me questions,

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what are you down here? This
is a mo vacation. Yeah, and

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they were like he's like, where's
your family from? I'm like Ireland.

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Yeah, so they didn't blame me. Was this like the early two thousands,

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Yeah, it was just probably just
after nine to eleven, like you

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know, because nine eleven was what
twenty twenty one? Yeah, two thousand,

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Yeah, sorry, two thousand and
one, but it was like two

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thousand and three. I think it's
in New Work. Yeah, people in

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New Jersey. I think the other
thing about culture would be Like my friends

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from like Kentucky. I invited them
over to Scotland last summer. So I

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had like eight people staying in my
house and it was the best time ever.

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I was their tour guide for a
whole week. But like when I

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told the girl Killyan from her dad's
was in the army, He's got loads

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of guns in his house, et
cetera. And I said to Killying,

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like, when you come over here, you're not allowed, like to even

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carry a poke at knife, paper
spray all these things. She's like,

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no way, I can't come out. How am I meant to protect myself

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all this stuff? I was actually
a really good American accident. That's uh.

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That says a lot right about not
feeling safe or what I think.

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It's clearly a learned thing in a
sense of paranoia for sure, because I

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never I gotta tell you, I
always say I must live in a bubble.

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I don't ever feel like I'm not
safe. I don't. I just

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feel like everything's okay. I like, like the Europeans are very carefree though,

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you know, like we like what
you were saying when you met your

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your girlfriend in Portugal. We go
to like on holidays to like Spain,

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like Greece. You know, it's
that's a normal tray for us. Sure,

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you guys go to Florida, well, and it's almost the same distance.

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But we work free, care free, but like we don't care,

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like if something's happening, we're gonna
go there, yes, like regardless really

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phase us. Yeah, Like I
think I've more of a like kind of

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like a definitely a care free attitude
like regarding a lot of things. But

409
00:28:06,039 --> 00:28:08,440
if there's something going on where you
know, does like a war or people

410
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,079
have going I don't like, oh
here's a going so well. Yeah,

411
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,839
like I don't care, Like if
you're your numbers up, your numbers up.

412
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,839
That's how he kind of feel.
It's an interesting concept. I I

413
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,279
the way you think. I wonder
because I was trying to think of this.

414
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,799
There was a guy I follow on
TikTok who lives in Argentina. Now

415
00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:29,960
he's a young guy, traveled the
world talking about Argentina and how he goes,

416
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,599
if you're a morning person, this
is not the city for you,

417
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:33,880
he goes, We don't go to
beddle three o'clock in the morning. People

418
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,000
don't go out until eleven o'clock at
night dinner, isn't it right? So

419
00:28:37,039 --> 00:28:41,440
we live this way Argentina already,
but we live in this in America,

420
00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:45,319
we live in a man What are
you doing today? Grind it out,

421
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,720
move it you know that that sort
of thing. And I'm not saying the

422
00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:49,599
rest of the world doesn't, but
I feel like listening to you guys.

423
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:55,119
And I had neighbors when when we
were growing up, the boys were growing

424
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,920
up that were from Finland and Sweden
and Little Finland. Yeah, And I

425
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,839
said to her once, they said, how many languages do you speak?

426
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,880
Now? Do you both speak more
than just? No? Nothing? Okay?

427
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,680
So I speak broken English. I
speak Scottish and English. Yeah,

428
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,200
yeah, is there a Scottish language
that as a Gaelic Gaelic it's kind of

429
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,039
like the same as Orist's kind of
that Celtic. Brother studies it a lot

430
00:29:18,039 --> 00:29:22,920
because he's been to Ireland a few
times. Yeah, that's that's weird because

431
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,119
there's only like one hundred thousand people
in like Scotland and Ireland and Scotland.

432
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,720
So one of the kids that were
recruiting tig that's an Irish name and it's

433
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:37,799
spelled really weird. Yet it's th
h sorry t a d h g t

434
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,319
a d hg. Yes, that's
tig tig. Yeah. So he actually

435
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,920
went to an Irish speaking school.
Okay, so his speaking school, like

436
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,160
even when they were teaching math,
they would speak Gaelic. Yeah. So

437
00:29:51,319 --> 00:29:52,799
he, like the motor asked me
the other day, he goes, well,

438
00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:56,920
look at you know, he's gone
to a like a like an Irish

439
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,279
school, like and they teach everything
in Irish. Do you think he's going

440
00:29:59,319 --> 00:30:02,079
to have an issue with speaking in
English? And I says, well,

441
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,039
you're speaking in English, and you
speak in English at home, Like my

442
00:30:04,079 --> 00:30:07,400
two sons have an American accent,
right because they go to school. Yes,

443
00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:11,000
and they're in school like influenced nine
hours a day, and then they

444
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,599
come home and hear me, go
clean your realm. It's just kind of

445
00:30:14,599 --> 00:30:17,720
water off for ducks back. Yeah. So I wonder if that'd be the

446
00:30:17,759 --> 00:30:22,599
same there. Yeah, Because but
my point was when you go on vacation,

447
00:30:22,839 --> 00:30:26,440
you're going to another country. Yeah, right, And so she said

448
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,400
to me, because they spoke four
five languages, we had to if we

449
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:30,839
wanted to see a desert, we
got to go to a different country.

450
00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:34,519
If we wanted you know here it's
all within the borders of the United States.

451
00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:37,200
Yeah, yeah, and I'll tell
you I was in Finland last year

452
00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:41,519
and I had an amazing time.
Yeah, it was. It was like,

453
00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:45,319
it's it's the weirdest kind of feel
because you like, twelve o'clock at

454
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,200
night, it's still bright. Yeah, and then it gets to one o'clock

455
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,160
and it's kind of dusk. By
quarter past four, it's bright again.

456
00:30:52,359 --> 00:30:56,240
Was this around June? It was
July. It was actually the time when

457
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:03,599
it was around July fourth. Actually, our president was actually in Helsinki at

458
00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:06,079
the time, so everything had to
get shut down and we had to walk

459
00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:08,960
around this way and games got pushed
back for game times. It was a

460
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,480
soccer tournament. Though. I was
a ah, yeah, look at this.

461
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:17,559
Yeah, it's very strange the uh
you know listening, I wish we

462
00:31:17,599 --> 00:31:22,039
took a more relaxed approach. I'm
finding that it doesn't help this idea of

463
00:31:22,079 --> 00:31:26,279
grind grind. It's an ugly mentality. As you're talking about this young lady

464
00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:29,559
who's fearful to walk around. What
am I going to do without at least

465
00:31:29,599 --> 00:31:32,559
pepper spray? How am I going
to protect myself? And the thing is

466
00:31:32,599 --> 00:31:36,119
that if you feel like you're always
under attack, that that's a shitty life.

467
00:31:36,319 --> 00:31:37,799
Yeah, that's a shitty life.
And I don't know if I again,

468
00:31:37,839 --> 00:31:40,920
like I go, do I live
in a bubble? I never felt

469
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,319
that way ever at all in my
life. Did I ever feel like you

470
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:45,759
know? I mean, I've had
moments where I better get out of here.

471
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,839
I can feel the mood changing.
That's different than feeling like I got

472
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,759
to carry a gun to protect myself. I think the only time of fail

473
00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:59,000
that sort of because I'm usually faking. I'm quite relaxed with things. And

474
00:31:59,279 --> 00:32:00,880
the only time I thought I've ever
felt in danger was when I was in

475
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,720
Cancun for spring break. That was
the only time, because there's obviously just

476
00:32:05,759 --> 00:32:09,680
so many America like the cartails and
stuff there as well, you know the

477
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:20,000
cartails. You are from Scotland,
No, so it was probably the cartails,

478
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,000
and it was just the you've heard
so many stories about like they corrupt,

479
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:28,319
the corruption and the police that it
was just very very scary like walking

480
00:32:28,319 --> 00:32:30,319
around to be honest, because you
just didn't want to do one thing wrong

481
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,000
or you thought you were going to
get handcuffed, so you had to be

482
00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:37,759
very careful times. You're a young
guy, be old enough to vote if

483
00:32:37,799 --> 00:32:42,359
you were a US citizen, uh, not old enough to drink? What

484
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,319
in your mind is the perception of
America beyond our borders? How are we

485
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:51,359
seeing in the world by you,
like in your mind? I think a

486
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,079
lot of it for people that I
can just say for people my age,

487
00:32:54,240 --> 00:33:00,400
Yeah, I mean, you're the
future leaders of the planet. So how

488
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,680
do we perceive America? How do
we think of America back home? I

489
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,319
think with a lot of it is
just from movies, That's what I mean.

490
00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:10,000
A lot of people don't experience,
like don't fly all the way.

491
00:33:10,079 --> 00:33:14,759
They go to Orlando because they want
to go to Disney World and reversal.

492
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:20,000
Yeah, so they see the Magical
Palace and everything, like politically speaking and

493
00:33:20,039 --> 00:33:23,759
all that. Yeah, you don't
know, crazy absolutely crazy country because I

494
00:33:23,839 --> 00:33:27,200
don't. I don't like to get
involved in it all. I just think

495
00:33:27,319 --> 00:33:30,720
there's there's so much opinions. Like
you go to one state, it's obviously

496
00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:34,880
all states. Yeah, so you
go to Kentucky and there's Trump twenty twenty

497
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,079
four flags everywhere. Yeah, And
you go somewhere else and there's like that's

498
00:33:38,079 --> 00:33:42,200
just state by state. Well,
it's become very divided. In this gestory,

499
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,160
I think social media has certainly helped
people find their tribe. And what

500
00:33:45,279 --> 00:33:47,920
I always worry about with social media, and I don't know if it's the

501
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,079
same in Ireland or Scotland, but
we only just got social media last year.

502
00:33:53,279 --> 00:33:59,839
But the way it's used here is
almost as though I found my people

503
00:34:00,279 --> 00:34:05,200
right. So now I'm right and
we the definition And I say this a

504
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,280
lot in the podcast of an opinion
is it's halfway between fact and fiction.

505
00:34:07,719 --> 00:34:10,920
But all of a sudden it doesn't
become opinion because I'm I'm right, and

506
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:15,159
I always think that you know,
you're not just wrong, you're dead fucking

507
00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:17,440
wrong, and you're dead to me. And it becomes but it doesn't help

508
00:34:17,519 --> 00:34:22,960
anything. And so we have what
I think is a very very ugly time

509
00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:28,360
in our country's history as that's going
on. I'm not saying one way or

510
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,800
the other on both sides. You
know, we certainly, I mean,

511
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,760
we go too far in one direction
or too far in the other direction.

512
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,519
And I always say, come to
the middle. It's nice and warm,

513
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,840
we can have a dialogue, and
we don't seem to have that that here.

514
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:44,840
It's TWENTNY in twenty twenty six sorry, in twenty sixteen when President TRUMPB

515
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,400
actually got elected. Yeah, I
actually stayed up. I was very fascinated

516
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,639
with the whole kind of who was
gonna win kind of thing. Sure,

517
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,960
and I actually stayed up the whole
night and watched it, so that that

518
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,079
was the only team, that was
the only time of an interesting and it

519
00:34:58,119 --> 00:35:00,719
was few you stayed Yeah, yeah, why why what was the interest for

520
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,599
you? I think it was just
like it was the first time there's a

521
00:35:04,599 --> 00:35:07,639
bad excitement like Trump was it was
Trump we're talking about. Yeah, that

522
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,079
was Trump was involved in that one. So I always liked Trump obviously from

523
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:15,239
being a successful businessman. I don't
mean now, but I mean when I

524
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,360
was younger, I used to see
obviously it was a successful apprentice that was

525
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:22,920
getting shown all over Ireland and England
and Europe alone. Yes, yes,

526
00:35:23,159 --> 00:35:28,559
yes, so there was obviously an
interest. Not only that, like in

527
00:35:28,599 --> 00:35:31,400
Scotland they have Trump golf courses in
Ireland they have and then also with the

528
00:35:31,559 --> 00:35:35,800
Trump buildings, it was more of
a like what you were saying earlier own

529
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,719
when people go to Orlando, that
magical feel of you know, having the

530
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,519
oh this is like the American dream
kind of thing, and that's kind of

531
00:35:44,519 --> 00:35:46,280
the top picture of it. But
it was funny. Go ahead, you

532
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:52,199
finish and then I'll talk about I
just love the like how much of a

533
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:57,400
sales when the guy is like that
because he comes to Scotland and he talked

534
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,079
abou how much he loves it,
Like he has his own course Trump Tumbrady

535
00:36:00,199 --> 00:36:07,159
as coach mentioned there and he has
like snipers in the roof everywhere all around

536
00:36:07,159 --> 00:36:12,760
it, like see around the course
when he's when he's there, Lands Secret

537
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,199
Services service all round the course in
Scotland. Is the only person to have

538
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:19,760
that in Scotland. Not our prime
minister in England doesn't. Our prime minister

539
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:30,159
doesn't have that, you know what
I mean. It's a sling shot in

540
00:36:30,199 --> 00:36:37,280
a rock like our political party leader, the one when Trump was in Scotland

541
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:42,360
before Nicolas Sturgeon, which is the
political party leader for Scotland, and she

542
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,960
he was making his opinions about her
when it's not even his country. So

543
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,840
I love it he was getting involved
with our politics. Yeah, it makes

544
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,760
no difference to him. So a
lot of my friends actually text me like

545
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,440
when when he actually got in because
it was very very early in the morning

546
00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:00,000
in Ireland and England. They were
like, what have you guys gone?

547
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,039
And I was like, I don't
know. I didn't vote. I'm not

548
00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:07,960
an American citizen yet, so actually
this is now my first time it is

549
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,679
being an American citizen being able to
vote. But to be honest, like

550
00:37:12,639 --> 00:37:15,920
I look at it from like kind
of like taking a step back and talking

551
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:20,599
about like the country, like what
what people do for the country. I

552
00:37:20,679 --> 00:37:24,679
thought he actually brought a lot more
jobs to back to the US, and

553
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,840
I thought the business side of it
helped him run the country. Now,

554
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,039
if we could have just like cut
off his thumbs and keep him away from

555
00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:43,440
social media, I agree with you. Well, here here's the way I

556
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,519
saw it. He changed the game
of politics. And why I think there's

557
00:37:46,679 --> 00:37:53,159
parts of the country yeah right,
you know, but that is exactly what

558
00:37:53,199 --> 00:37:57,719
it is. Because he went on
the debate stage and I remember going,

559
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,880
there's no way he's gonna win.
I just stuff, there's no waycause he

560
00:38:01,039 --> 00:38:05,599
had said things and had a passed
and we knew, you know, there

561
00:38:05,599 --> 00:38:10,320
were people who were very well qualified
to run our country who were up ended

562
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:15,679
by scandals. He came out and
he was Teflon, and he started on

563
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:22,840
the debate stage, calling people names
and and and and taking shots. And

564
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000
I think that people saw this and
went, yeah, you're fucking right,

565
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,480
You're fucking right, and I'm sick
of this and I'm sick of hearing these

566
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,800
people. And I think there was
a whole ground swell and that nobody cared

567
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,440
about what was ever in his past, but what it was in this moment

568
00:38:37,559 --> 00:38:43,400
was somebody standing up and calling bullshit
on a lot of stuff, at least

569
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,719
in their opinion. And I think
you saw pockets of this country rise up

570
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:52,079
and go, I'm tired of feeling
as though I'm less than I'm tired of

571
00:38:52,119 --> 00:38:58,000
this far left, you know,
I'm tired of the middle part of our

572
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,239
country being run by the hosts.
Ye is basically like someone literally died for

573
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,840
something, he said, Like it's
crazy, like they literally died over him.

574
00:39:07,119 --> 00:39:09,199
Yeah, it's weird, Like during
the Capitol raid someone got shot.

575
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,920
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. I mean it's so

576
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,599
I don't know, I don't know
what will happen this time. I was

577
00:39:16,679 --> 00:39:22,199
worried about what it would happen on
a global scale, because there were times,

578
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,320
you know, I would hear things
again, I always say this,

579
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:30,599
He's done a great job. And
even we question everything. Now fake news.

580
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,360
The notice said fake news before this, right because we went along with

581
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,079
it. Well we went along.
It was like it was like fed.

582
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:40,199
But but there's a but. I
hate to say this, but he's got

583
00:39:40,199 --> 00:39:44,639
a point, right, And that's
why on this podcast always say, well,

584
00:39:44,679 --> 00:39:47,840
wait a second, I'm not sure
about this because I I don't know.

585
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,800
So my example here is there are
people who will say that they were

586
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,639
in the cabinet as to how dumb
he was, like he didn't know certain

587
00:39:55,679 --> 00:40:02,039
things in terms of global pop politics, historical things. Just thinks you should

588
00:40:02,039 --> 00:40:06,159
know where things are. It's kind
of like you got a bunch of people

589
00:40:06,199 --> 00:40:08,679
who do asking your son James to
come and coach moy soccer team. Yeah,

590
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:13,079
you wouldn't know how to actually go
ahead and do that. Well,

591
00:40:13,079 --> 00:40:15,880
on the same side of it,
you're asking someone that is a businessman to

592
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,920
run a country and be politically correct. Yes, and he wasn't. No,

593
00:40:21,159 --> 00:40:25,159
and that and that's the difference.
And I think that so but to

594
00:40:25,199 --> 00:40:30,199
those points, look, if any
CEO who's worth their salt will tell you,

595
00:40:30,679 --> 00:40:34,679
I hire people who are smarter than
me frcked, so they can do

596
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,159
things that I can't do. So
I always take everything with a bit of

597
00:40:38,159 --> 00:40:42,920
a grain of salt, not just
for but everything because I don't know.

598
00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:45,320
I don't know, and I'm not
in there. But it bothers me as

599
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,639
to how divisive all this has become. I know when any of the presidents

600
00:40:49,639 --> 00:40:52,800
came to Ireland, and Ireland has
a strictly like you're not allowed to carry

601
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:57,760
you going if you're not an ursitizen
and a part of the Irish Army or

602
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:02,000
the Special Branch through a Gardish yacona
which is the guarded association kind of thing,

603
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:07,599
and their their secret service. Like
one or two of them got arrested

604
00:41:07,639 --> 00:41:10,920
because they actually had a gun on
them. Oh really just when they were

605
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,719
off duty, No, no,
when they were actually protecting the present,

606
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:20,000
they weren't allowed carry guns, and
the Irish government were like, you can't,

607
00:41:20,159 --> 00:41:23,360
like they put they were in every
like they went through Ireland with a

608
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:29,480
fine two come like three four weeks
prior, in like drains anywhere, like

609
00:41:29,519 --> 00:41:34,440
they were like climbing true drains and
keeping people there just in case anything was

610
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,280
actually gonna happen to one of the
presidents that was there. It was it

611
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,679
was like fascinating to read about it, like they were but they weren't allowed

612
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:45,480
carry guns like that was the only
thing. I don't even know whether if

613
00:41:45,519 --> 00:41:47,760
Ireland allowed them after that. That's
something that I have to look at.

614
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:52,039
Yeah, in terms of now,
I have a question from like an American

615
00:41:52,119 --> 00:41:55,199
viewing into the UK. Why does
it always like wet, Like it's always

616
00:41:55,599 --> 00:42:04,239
rain and wet. There's a big
thing called the Atlantic No I know,

617
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,559
but it's just like it's always weather
that's feel bad. It's actually it does

618
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:12,039
us good because that's how Ireland is
so great green. Yeah, because like

619
00:42:12,079 --> 00:42:15,559
obviously the weather pattern comes across,
like like we get storms here in New

620
00:42:15,639 --> 00:42:21,800
York that affects storms in Ireland and
in Scotland and in England because of it.

621
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,920
It comes across because of the Atlantic
Drift, you know. So it's

622
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:28,119
really it's a good question. But
it's always rain. And if you look

623
00:42:28,159 --> 00:42:30,880
at like the west coast of Ireland, you could have snow, sleek,

624
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:36,960
hail, sun, cloud, rain, wind all in one day. I

625
00:42:37,039 --> 00:42:39,039
love it though, because see,
like you're saying, the weather shaite like

626
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:44,960
seeing your seeing summer. Me and
my friends always look forward to especially when

627
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,079
I was back in school and no
one had jobs, right, it was

628
00:42:46,119 --> 00:42:51,239
amazing that you'll look forward to literally
the two days that you knew were going

629
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,559
to be like two day literally the
two days of summer. What would it

630
00:42:54,599 --> 00:42:58,199
be fourteen degree? I don't know. Oh, in Dublin you could get

631
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,159
up to like twenty two twenty three, but to be raining, and then

632
00:43:00,199 --> 00:43:04,320
you would have to jump into a
store and wait for the round to stop,

633
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,760
and then you would run out and
then be piping hot. And then

634
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,559
but you get to the top of
the corner to turn around, you have

635
00:43:09,559 --> 00:43:13,840
a jacket on because it's cold,
and then you go into another store that

636
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,320
are you going to a bar to
have a point, because it's usually the

637
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:19,880
case in Ireland. And then from
there you come back out and it's like

638
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,840
snowing and you're going, like what
what what's going on the line the witch

639
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:27,159
in the ward. As soon as
it's over, like fourteen degrees sess like

640
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,639
everyone's got their tops off. Yeah, you just walk around the street.

641
00:43:30,639 --> 00:43:34,639
Everyone's got a bottle of wine in
their hand. It's like, honestly,

642
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:42,440
especially like anywhere around Collins Street or
like even Stevens Green, it's a beautiful

643
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,039
part like where the sun comes out. Everybody takes their lunch and just goes

644
00:43:45,119 --> 00:43:50,119
out onto Stephen's Green and from there
just goes out in like sunbaits and they

645
00:43:50,119 --> 00:43:52,960
will be getting beers. Like I
remember when I was working for this company

646
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:54,119
back in Ireland. My boss was
like, all right, we're gonna go

647
00:43:54,159 --> 00:43:57,199
for lunch and I'm like, all
right, cool. There was nine of

648
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,840
us. We stayed there for three
hours and we drank on our lunch break.

649
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:06,960
I went back to walk and anybody
getting worked done. We actually talked

650
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,760
about like we're there so but he
was like, all right, don't worry

651
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:15,239
about what good went back two hours
and then we left. That's that's that's

652
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:20,280
productive. Keeps it keeps the team
happening, to keep the morality of the

653
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,639
table. So is there a part
of Ireland that I was always told the

654
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:30,480
jet stream hits probably like go away
around there? Well? Is there now?

655
00:44:30,519 --> 00:44:32,039
I was told, I don't know
if this exists or not. Palm

656
00:44:32,159 --> 00:44:37,559
trees on a beach in some part
of Ireland where it gets very very warm,

657
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:42,840
and it's more because like the jet
stream in the ocean kind of comes

658
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,440
up or whatever that stream would be. I mean you have the wrong one.

659
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:50,239
But like there's warm and there's just
just one beach in this one part

660
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,920
and there's I don't know, I've
this is what I've been told and I've

661
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,159
never looked it up. I've just
only been told about it, so I

662
00:44:57,159 --> 00:44:59,880
always go, I don't know if
it's true. Pause please, yes,

663
00:45:00,039 --> 00:45:04,199
I'll be there in thirty seconds.
Okay, they're actually saying, yet there

664
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,960
is palm trees in Irelands. I've
never seen that. I've never heard of

665
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,920
that. Life on the West Shores
golf stream. Yeah, wow, the

666
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:15,199
golf stream, I'm saying jet stream, the same thing in the water once

667
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:20,159
in the air, but yeah,
but way off. But yes, the

668
00:45:20,159 --> 00:45:22,559
golf stream hits up on that on
the west coast of Yeah. Yeah,

669
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:28,000
yeah, that's that's I never knew
that, something knew everything. Look at

670
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,280
that now, that's where you need
to go in the summer. Yeah,

671
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,039
there we go, me and my
girlfriend that ended up going there. But

672
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:36,599
lottle budget that's summer though. You
don't I don't any money, you're not

673
00:45:36,639 --> 00:45:40,280
getting to the Europa League finals.
It is there a favorite part of Europe

674
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:44,639
for you? Did you like to
go? I would say for me Spain,

675
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:46,840
I was lucky. I was lucky
enough. My mom and dad have

676
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:52,519
always had an apartment and Spain since
I since I was about three years old.

677
00:45:52,679 --> 00:45:54,639
Yeah, so it's always it's been
on my second home. They go

678
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:58,559
a lot of times during the year. You don't speak Spanish. I know,

679
00:45:58,599 --> 00:46:07,239
it's terrible. No, I think
you do finding that, No,

680
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,840
I can, I can see like
like, but do most people speak English

681
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,440
around the world now? Used to
be French was the international language. I

682
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,880
feel like English is English is day
the national It's like I mean, especially

683
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:23,199
in our area, it's a lot
of retired English people. We love in

684
00:46:23,559 --> 00:46:29,559
expos getting out of the getting out
of the wet and running away from the

685
00:46:29,559 --> 00:46:34,400
snubirds, snowbirds. Where where is
this? Because I went to Coasta del

686
00:46:34,559 --> 00:46:39,360
Soul many years ago, right,
Is that what it is? Am I

687
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:50,320
saying? Yeah, I was there
in nineteen eighty nine. I was seventeen

688
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,480
and I walked into a McDonald's and
got a beer and I was so fun.

689
00:46:52,840 --> 00:47:00,159
I was there for and I was
so happy to do that, and

690
00:47:00,199 --> 00:47:08,679
then I un was the other thing
that I fel Yeah, I have a

691
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:15,760
some cousins from Spain, you know. Mike so her Son used to travel

692
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,079
around the world and met a woman
from Spain and had kids and they all

693
00:47:19,159 --> 00:47:23,920
like lived in Norwegian like yeah,
Norway and other places like that in Spain.

694
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:28,280
Yea, Spain's great. My brother
has a bar in the Canario and

695
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,079
it's just off the coast of Morocco. Wow, we gotta go do a

696
00:47:30,079 --> 00:47:37,800
podcast. Awesome, Yeah, can
we spen. It's there's got to be

697
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:45,519
no women's volleyboat rugby. That's amazing
what you've built it at Brydon's. So

698
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:51,880
they've had two basketball going straight off
topic again, but we had two basketball

699
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,159
teams and then we added soccer.
But they had two basketball teams prior to

700
00:47:55,239 --> 00:48:00,400
me getting there. But now with
the house, soccer is doing so winning

701
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:04,400
the national championship in November, which
Robbie was a part of. Gratulations,

702
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,559
thank you and so like from there, like the growth of that is just

703
00:48:07,679 --> 00:48:10,000
coming off the back of it.
So we're probably going to be bringing in

704
00:48:10,079 --> 00:48:15,079
another like, uh, we'll probably
have about forty four forty five kids again

705
00:48:15,159 --> 00:48:17,960
for the soccer teams really for both
the first team and the reserves, and

706
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,519
then women's soccer, and then obviously
the dorms. Yes, where we use

707
00:48:22,599 --> 00:48:25,559
a dorm company. Yeah okay,
yeah, where where is the camp?

708
00:48:25,679 --> 00:48:30,039
I don't even know, so you
know where the tops Tully's uh yeah,

709
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,639
just at the back of that.
It's been there as long as I can

710
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,519
remember, because I took it over
in Henrietta. Yeah okay, yeah,

711
00:48:37,559 --> 00:48:39,199
and then we have another place over
in Greece as well. And so where

712
00:48:39,199 --> 00:48:43,559
do you practicing? We practice up
on John Street. So this college is

713
00:48:43,599 --> 00:48:46,000
in Rochester. Yeah wow, Yeah, it's right. We actually get a

714
00:48:46,079 --> 00:48:51,039
chance to win. Well we didn't, we actually won, but we actually

715
00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:54,719
have a ring that we're actually going
to be getting this year. So it's

716
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:59,159
it's actually quite of kind of unique
that we're actually getting this ring. And

717
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,239
I've never like I've only seen it
like on like Super Bowl, like you

718
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:08,280
know, people were having these massive
rings that are like ginormous in size,

719
00:49:08,599 --> 00:49:12,760
and now we actually get a chance
to actually wear one. This is what

720
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,119
you look forward to see, like
and you're asking what one did, Like

721
00:49:15,559 --> 00:49:19,440
why did you want to come to
America? It's these rights you see them

722
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:25,840
in the movies. That's what I
wanted the whole time in America. Look

723
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:30,519
at that. That's impressive. Yeah, So like I now have to actually

724
00:49:30,599 --> 00:49:35,719
have my own Secret Service when I'm
walking, just to make sure don't get

725
00:49:36,159 --> 00:49:38,000
go, especially if I go to
Glasgow. There going in the night out

726
00:49:38,039 --> 00:49:44,199
with them all as soon as we
get them. So I remember being over

727
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:49,719
in Madrid and the kids asking me
a guy he might have been from England

728
00:49:50,119 --> 00:49:54,079
saying, is America like what we
see in the movies? Are the houses

729
00:49:54,119 --> 00:49:58,519
that big? Are the you know
we were only talking about that. Yes,

730
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:02,039
Thomas Long, one of our goalkeepers, actually dislocated this finger. Yes,

731
00:50:02,039 --> 00:50:06,440
stay in gokeeper training and he was
like, he says, what what's

732
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:07,920
the houses like over here? Coach. I says, oh, yeah,

733
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,079
you haven't been in my house.
It says like, well we had,

734
00:50:10,159 --> 00:50:14,000
we just bought a new house and
now the house of Market is like kind

735
00:50:14,039 --> 00:50:19,119
of really high. Yeah, and
it's like four bedrooms, like finished basement

736
00:50:19,199 --> 00:50:22,159
that have me a radio studio.
Then yeah, yeah, and then from

737
00:50:22,199 --> 00:50:25,239
there it was just like, you
know, it's they're a lot bigger.

738
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,679
Like even when I moved into twenty
twenty one and one of the lads said

739
00:50:28,679 --> 00:50:30,199
to me, you know, like, how how much was his house?

740
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,119
And I told him He's like,
oh, this would be more like five

741
00:50:32,199 --> 00:50:37,079
six hundred thousand over and over in
England, like in Great Britain pounds which

742
00:50:37,119 --> 00:50:40,880
is in London. Yeah, yeah, massive London house. Yeah. Put

743
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,199
the traffic in London. If you
ever got to London, don't don't rent

744
00:50:44,199 --> 00:50:46,760
the car, don't rend the car. I went for the Bills game.

745
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:52,280
Yeah. War. It was the
worst experience driving around there. It was

746
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:57,880
awful. Like it was like even
driving in New York City wasn't that bad?

747
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,440
But you actually get taxed for driving
into the city. Yes, And

748
00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:05,719
we didn't know that and we never
were told. So we had like a

749
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:10,840
four hundred dollars four hundred pounds bill
with my wife is like what, I'm

750
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:16,400
not paying this and then we're like
we have to pay. Well, this

751
00:51:16,519 --> 00:51:22,320
has been fascinating. I think it's
great. Congratulations on the championship, Thank

752
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,840
you very much. Yeah, and
one more year, one more year as

753
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:29,000
a student athlete. Yeah, the
years a should athlete and then I'll be

754
00:51:29,079 --> 00:51:31,119
kicked out of the country and it
looks like we should have done that.

755
00:51:31,199 --> 00:51:36,480
Line I one more year and then
that's me. I need to worry about

756
00:51:36,559 --> 00:51:37,679
what I'm going to do with the
rest of my life. I might I

757
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:43,480
might be going back and doing a
postgraduate degree in Scotland. I'm always still

758
00:51:43,519 --> 00:51:46,000
wanting to play football though, just
unsure what level that is yet, but

759
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:51,719
I'm always wanting to play football.
Yeah. My brother studied over in Canterbury

760
00:51:52,360 --> 00:52:00,880
and has a friend a Scottish Sea
and he's got he stayed in touch with

761
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:07,239
this Australian kid and a Scottish kid
Ausy maybe Ozzy Steve and scottis Steve Guys

762
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:12,280
Steve. We actually have two scott
two Ossie's coming in tours this year.

763
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:16,760
We have a couple of English,
a couple of Irish and Swedish, and

764
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,880
a couple of Germans. And the
German kid that we have coming in is

765
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,320
six foot eight wow to center forward. Really yeah, but I don't think

766
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:31,440
I've ever seen a soccer player that
tall. You don't have the day practice,

767
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:36,440
yeah, yea ya, Well good
luck with all that. I think

768
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,039
what you've done here is really impressive. We'll see how impressive it is next

769
00:52:39,079 --> 00:52:43,639
November. We'll come back and another
show. We'll keep you updated. You

770
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,880
come to a game, watch a
game, and do a podcast at the

771
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,320
game. I will come to a
game and I'd love to have you back

772
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:52,400
just to hang out and shoot the
ship. So yeah, for sure,

773
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:59,440
that's great. It was nice to
meet you and always good to see Thanks

774
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:05,000
for having close it out here.
This will drop right after Easter, so

775
00:53:05,079 --> 00:53:08,480
the Monday after half a Fool's Day
April Fool's Day? Is that a big

776
00:53:08,559 --> 00:53:16,719
deal anywhere other than America? For
Darren, for Robbie, for Jamison,

777
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:21,920
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778
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:31,719
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779
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,480
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780
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781
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782
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783
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784
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786
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