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the Bill Moran Podcast. Well, hello and welcome. Thanks for getting your
pot on. Thanks for telling a friend. That's how we spread the word
about the pirate ship. I'm so excited today, so excited from the European
continent. We go over to Ireland. Darren Wynn who everybody fell in love
with Darren. Everybody fell in love with Darren after he was on the Saint
Patrick's Date podcast over at Multconnery's. Yeah, that was quite fun. Hello
everyone. Everyone was saying to me, you got to get him back.
Man, he's hilarious. He is so funny. This is crazy. But
Darren was a professional soccer player as we call it in the United States football
or in the rest of the world where you know, we always think we're
right. In America we're very myopic. Well, the way I look at
a bill is you know, football, if you kind of break those two
syllables up, foot, yeah, ball, Yes, it only makes sense,
it does. Where you know, the American game is more like haunt
egg. Yes, yes it is. But you know what, I don't
understand it. Where did the term soccer come from? I have no clue.
Yeah, I don't either whatsoever. But Darren was a goalkeeper, yeah,
professional, Yeah, over in Ireland. Yeah, played in Ireland with
Slugger Rovers home Farm, and then I was alone in Eurytown in Northern Ireland
as well before I went to England and then I was playing how was it
with in Northern Ireland. You're from Southern Ireland. Is there still a little
bit of animosity there? Yeah, there's always but most definitely you probably had
another accent there, Bill, Yes they did. That's one of my players,
Robbie. Robbie from Glasgow, Glasgow at which my parents have been in
love. They raved about Scotland. Scotland, especially Edenburgh is great for tourists.
Yeah, it was a nice place. Glasgow's more for the night life.
Yeah, and to get in your back pocket rubbed. Is there a
lot of like crime over there? No, just pick pockets, a lot
of pick pockets and stuff, but there's not too much training. There's a
lot more than London and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, but I think like
kind of more of the the argumentative. SOI gone back into the football is
a good and that's why I brought Robbie here today because Robbie's a Rangers fun
and I'm a Celtic fund So it's kind of like the Pots and the Bills,
I gotcha hate each other, but it's more kind of religious over there.
Yeah, go back to the Northern Island, I think, just for
a brief moment. Because I come from a predominantly Irish Catholic background. My
parents switched to Protestantism when I was seven. Gotcha. My grandfather would not
talk to his daughter, my mother, for a year. He was so
upset over this. And then the term carbomb, which is a very popular
drink over here. My grandmother used to get very upset and would say to
me, no, you can have it, but please call it something else
because people died and we don't, you know, over here. It's like
and let me tell you a story, Bill. Yeah. So I was
actually dating a girl from Buffalo back in two thousand and four, and actually
was actually earlier and that was two thousand and two, and she came out
to visit me in Ireland and she went to Courtland State as a student and
she I think she studied psychology. But we were in a bar in Ireland
and she was like, hey, bartender, can I get five car bombs?
And everybody just turned around and looked at her. I was like,
what, Like, it's you don't ask for that, especially in Ireland and
in Northern Ireland in Glasgow, Yeah, you probably would, would you do?
You know? Even what that is? Okay? Well, it was
before your time. But I mean I also think it's something that is it's
an insensitivity that you don't think about it, think about it yet, which
is which is wrong and of itself because people this was awful. And then
are you familiar with the Westies? The Westies were an Irish gang in New
York City. They were really in Hell's Kitchen. They were supposed to be
one of the baddest groups of people ever. They would like kill somebody,
cut off their hand, keeping it in the freezer, and the next crime
committed they would take the hand out the freezer and wrapping around the gods so
they had the dead man. I would tell you ozas are very intuiove.
Yes, I think, so that's very good. So here's what I You
are the head coach of the Bobcats, but it's the Brian and Stratton,
which is amazing to me because I never thought of Brian and Stratton as anything
other than the college that was sort of a two year school. They advertised
on TV and it was almost like if you couldn't get anywhere else, you
went there. Well, here's kind of like how I feel. You know,
there's a stigma around bryanon Stratton. So obviously, like you know,
people go to work and at an early age, like I was the same
way when I when I was living in Ireland pool over here. If you
don't kind of do well in a normal four year setting, have a tendency
or to go back to an mcc yes or bryanon Stratton. A lot of
we have a lot of the kind of older you know, twenty two,
twenty three, twenty fours that maybe are kind of reshifting in a career to
be able to kind of go back to school to make a better lay for
themselves. We kind of use athletics from the standpoint of building athletic program and
not only building the athletic program, but also bringing young kids to the country
from out of Like we have three or four chairman's coming in, we have
a Swedish kid coming in. So here's what's fascinating me. At first of
all, I didn't know Brian and Stratton had athletics, right, So then
it's division two. So we're Division one usc AA, which we're allowed to
give scholarships out. So we're kind of on the same lines of NCAA Division
two. Okay, So if we were to say jump into NCAA two.
We would probably play like against Roberts. There's a conference there robert S,
Damon Baville, Thomas Aquinas and then there's a few teams down down there downstate
as well. Okay, how did you hook up with them to become right?
So I actually saw the adverts and apploied for it and got it and
talked to the previous athletic director who's non. Are you the athletic director as
well? So you're over every sport they have? Yes, we have,
Yes, I am a busy man. So we have men's soccer, and
we also have men's basketball, and we have esports, so we are in
sports. Yeah so gaming, yeah, yeah, no, that's becoming a
thing. Yes it is. Yes. So now we're bringing on women's soccer
in the fall and bringing back women's basketball, and we're also looking to add
next year for twenty twenty five women's volleyball and men's and women's college. So
where does the round and field and rugby? We're really yeah? Okay,
uh, my son loves the sport. I mean, will you watch guys
stream on kicking different things all the time who are just playing the sports stuff?
But where does the money come from all for for all that, because
that's it's a lot of undertaking. So we have a budget. From the
budget, we also walk on the side of like players coming in they don't
qualify for the normal title for like funding like top pal and student loans,
where they actually come in and actually pay. We give them a scholarship and
they paid the difference of the scholarship. Will you so will do the college
expand? Yeah, Well, we're always trying to expand, right, It's
the biggest thing, like a growth mindset for me is always trying to be
able to develop the program that I'm working on. So we started our man
soccer program in twenty twenty one with fifteen players. We then last the twenty
twenty two we had twenty five players, and then last year we finished with
forty three. So how do you find guys like Robbie? Right, how
do you find guys like Robbie? There? So this young MONTOI left is
Robbie Mackenzie. Say hello, Robbie, Hello, Hello. Robbie actually was
at another college at Campbellsville University down in Kentucky and didn't wow, didn't like
it, didn't like it. We're in Kentucky. Tell your story, Robbie.
So it was an hour away from Louisville, Okay, but no,
I enjoyed my time there as a whole in terms of college life, but
in terms of soccer, I kind of I lost my love of it.
Really didn't get as much game time as a bit of liked. And I
was looking out for new places, new options, and I wasn't too sure,
Like I didn't really have a place I wanted to go. There was
a college I was talking to near Alabama, and there's a few places.
But for Coach, like he managed to I sent him an email. That's
what it was. I just did it all through myself. I created highlight
clips of all my own stuff and emailed numbers of colleges, lots of them,
and got in touch with coach and he got back to me, and
just they went from there. We got on a phone call and actually,
funny thing about our first phone call. I don't know if you remember this,
me and Coach. He's set up this meeting time and whatever, and
it's a Saturday morning at eleven o'clock and I've missed our meeting time. Text
me. He text me and was like, no, you just ruined my
day. We're not going to talking about this again. And I thought that's
the deal done. I'm never getting But you were with another agency, GSR,
out of the UK, and they had actually kind of pre kind of
introduced us as well from that some point, so you were able to get
my information from them. So yeah, So, like there's a lot of
agencies around Europe, mainland Europe and also in English. Are you one of
the only ones in the area recruiting from Europe? I think GCC is as
well, we do. Yeah, so they have an Irish coach there Ken
Okay, but does it take someone like that to be aware? I think
so. Yeah. Like previously, like when I was growing up, there
was a lot of like a lot of players going to America to get like
full scholarships or what not. I actually turned down one in Arkansas just to
play pro football. I actually didn't want to go to school. It was
not great at school. It actually took me about sixteen years to get three
point six GPA when I went back to school. Like that was one of
the things, like I just want mature enough in that sense, and I
just kind of wanted to play pro football. So you wanted to play program.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was kind of my dream, like
my passion. It was just like watching everybody on TV that I looked up
to as a kind of a role model as a player and a goalkeeper and
whatnot, and I just wanted to play. What was your So you played
professionally in Ireland? How do you feel like coming here? You you waited
for your career to end and then you came here in your late twenties.
Yeah. I Actually it was funny because I actually came here in twenty twenty
five to Syracuse, as I talked about on the last one on Saint Patrick's
Day, and a friend of mine was there and I ended up playing in
a game and the guy owned the soccer center Pete. He was like,
where are you from? And I was like, oh, from Ireland and
he goes where what position do you play? And I was like guess and
he was like center mid And I was like, that's how good it was,
Robbie center mid and he goes I was like now, and he goes
right back now, center back now, And so he couldn't believe that it
was a goalkeeper after I told him. So it's kind of funny, but
like I always thought myself that I would actually end up in a a I
just didn't know what kind of when it was. Yeah, did you always
want to end up in America? Yeah, I think because like it influenced,
like American kind of culture is very much influenced through TV back in Ireland
and England, so we see a lot of the American programs, shows,
movies and everything else. So like that was kind of one of the things
for me getting to the US. Yeah, so it was. I was
on vacation, got offered a job, went back home, then came back
in legally like like on a visa so he could work and whatnot, and
then that was it. Eighteen years later, Robbie, did you always want
to come to the United States as well? Yeah, I always, Like
you said, we always see it through TV shows and movies and stuff like
high school musical all these things. Yeah, sure, yeah, that's very
cringe worthy, high skill musical, fantastic movie. I'm not going to hear
any slander, So you obviously always see it through that. And that was
that was a life I wanted to love obviously, not that way. You
don't get up in the cafeteria and start saying now, but his brothers are
about a little bit older than you. Once twenty two and once twenty three,
so high school musical. I remember watching with them. I've never seen
a fantastic fantastic would you write in on IMDb? Oh, one hundred percent?
So yeah, that was that was what I think. I always just
wanted to have an experience of it. I didn't think I would be here
for a scholarship that only came around when I was around sixteen seventeen. Yeah,
and it just went from there. Yeah, did you ever want to
play professional? I think there was levels that I realize I can get to.
And when I was back home, if I wanted to play as much
football as I am now at college, I would not have been able to
have a work balance. I would be able to play and work at the
same time. So this opportunity out here was perfect for me because I was
able to get a degree at Branton Strack in college and also play play under
coach here. Yeah, what is the what position? And do you play
left back? Okay? And you do you want to? I looked at
your ship, Wait, what do you want to do? Like? Would
you stay here when you graduate? Or well, I've got my girlfriend right
now. She's from Dublin, Ireland. So me and Horror working things out
because I'm a senior now coming up, so I'm not too sure what I
wanted to do yet. To be honest, I think my family would like
me to come back home. Obviously I was only seventeen when I left for
America. He's actually the baby face of the whole team. Yeah, I
was going to say, he looks he actually looks older. Yeah, you
know, he's fourteen, he just turned fourteen. He'll be thankful. I'll
be thankful in twenty years time. I can tell you, well it,
Yeah, you will be. That's absolutely true. You have you you will
be. How hard was it and what was the adjustment like coming to America
because we think you know that they're going where you don't have. I want
to say, the language, but there is language a little bit barrier,
right, a little bit of a transition. English American slang is something to
pick up on. Yeah, we just talked about that on the way over,
did you. Yeah, so, coach like, obviously it takes a
while to get used to and for me, I think I've changed my accent,
especially for right, now on the podcast, I'm changing my accent a
little more than what I would usually speak like at training. Yeah, what
do you speak like? What would it be training? I don't know that,
you know. I mean, I don't have a bit of that,
and it sounds very it doesn't sound very good. I'm proud of it because
that's where I'm from. Yeah, but for the sake of a podcast,
it's hard for you, very hard for people to understand. Do we speak
slower here? We do? We do because there's a lot of times you
go to certain parts of the world that go you speak so fast, especially
in the Northeast, even in America, you go down. I've actually had
to slow down my accent a lot. Well, it's I know that Damien
has gone home, yeah, to Ireland and people say to him, you
sound American. I've actually had that so real. Yeah, I went I
went back actually for a point, so I didn't just go back for one
point. Had many points back in Ireland, but I went back for I
think it was I want to say it was my in twenty eleven recruiting when
I was at another college and my mom turned around and said to me,
like, all the boys are down and Downy's Pub should go down and have
a point. And I was like, you know what, I'll get down
and see them all went down and they were like, oh, you know
the American prodigal son returns kind of thing. And they were like, do
you want to point? I was like, I'm looking forward to a point
aguinness. So they poured the point a guinness. They handed it to me
and I took a big mouthful and I was like oh, and they were
like, what's that taste like? And I said awesome and they were like
get out right away. I was like no, no, no, I
mean it's deadly. It tastes deadly. It tastes deadly, because deadly in
Ireland means like it's amazing. Yeah, you know, but like when you
come here, I was always saying. They were like what what I'd say
deadly you're like and then but when I was talking to them, they would
say the same they were like what, sorry, could you repeat that?
And I've had to know. I actually noticed that I had to slow down
for kids to even understand me. Yeah. Yeah. So like I was
coaching this team this year nine team and I was like, can you grab
your footballs? And they were like, you mean the soccer balls, coach.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you just grabbed the soccer
balls. So yeah, when I got home they said to me, yeah,
you've got an American accent. Yeah. How did you meet the girl
from Dublin? Actually we met each other in Portugal. I was on vacation
for a for a my team Rangers for the Europa League Final, and we
were out on the strip as you call it, like at the nightclub area
and Portugal and talking about member. You were talking about religion earlier and like
the Protestants and Catholic whole thing. Well, she's an Irish Catholic, like
like what you were saying, and predominantly what are you, Rubbie, I'm
nothing, but predominantly our fan base is Protestant. And she went on this
girl's trip without knowing that Rangers fans are going to be there at the same
time, and they're all out and they're nice, like green dresses and everything
and like holding photos up with the Pope, and there's ten thousand Rangers fans
there thinking about how they hate the pope and heye Irish people. So it
was I just kind of came up to her and protected a liter Yeah,
you know, somehow, somehow that story has been changed. Like have did
your family come over to see you? Is it not yet? Know?
But they're coming out for my graduation. They will come for graduating, messing
me. Yes, it'll be June time. Yeah, June time. Okay,
you graduate and then uh and then from there you don't know, it's
next you and I'm going back oh next year? Yeah, so sorry?
So because he because he transferred, like you know, obviously all colleges don't
accept one of their transfer credits. So he's finishing. He's actually going to
graduate with his associates first and then next seat. Next year he'll graduate with
his Bacheler's awesome because all those credits that he's taken previously will go as electives
into his program for business. Yeah, that's great. What do you want
to do when you grow up? Shave? Plan out the shave. I'm
sure everybody can see this on the YouTube, but Robbie has like the smoothest
skin. If we're a twenty year old, shaves for the face cloth.
Can I see the tattoo? You ever? Hear? Okay, So that's
my grandfather there. He's the guy that got me into football from the beginning,
so he did, so I should have recruited him. But that's what
elements side that's as actually America or like this is a crazy idea my friend
drew, but this is America on a hot air blown on a boat.
So it's all about traveling around the world basically, and then that's a head
full of dreams because the world. I'm not going to hit out with any
cringey quotes here, so that's fine, but but I that these are my
nice tattoos I've got. What was the hardest part for you to get used
to when you came was there was there something that was stilled at as the
most difficult was the food was significantly different? Was there? I don't know
if I had to say it, but the guns Kentucky? Yeah, that
was. I don't want to get into the politics or anything, but that
was That was the biggest shock to me because I went from like having nothing,
like I never even had the pocket knife in Scotland coming out to Kentucky
where they're very obviously there's a lot of let rednecks and stuff there, and
it was they were just hunting about with guns on their side. I was
like, this is crazy to me. That took me months to get used
to. Really, I think it's a big I think it's a big culture
shock. Even the Irish police they don't have guns over them, like no,
So the normal Irish police that actually just go out and say with England
as well, that go out and just like walk the bee like you know,
like b cops, like dressed up in the uniform. They don't have
guns. So it's just like a truncheon or like an extendable like you know,
baton thing whatever it's called. But then nothing now. But then there's
another branch of of that police force. It's called the Special Branch. How
weird they came over with that name a special another branch call it the Special
Branch. So they actually they actually are the ones that are more like kind
of like they're more responsive if if anything was like a bank was getting robbed,
they would be there in their jackets and their guns. They're the only
ones that actually are allowed carry guns. Yeah, they're like detectives if you
want to kind of compare it. But like the normal police just just have
like handkoffs. Some of them have forty handcuffs and then that yeah, yeah,
it's funny because I never had guns in my house. My father didn't
have any guns. I don't know if that's an Irish influence handed down.
I don't think anybody in my family had guns. There was one who was
a police officer. He may have had guns. I have shot guns recently
with him. It's fun for target practice and stuff like that. But ever,
but I just had a Pelagon. Yeah, I had a Pelican gun.
Things about like the studies of that that cabin of there's massive. We
had a we shot an M four was sorry, yeah, which I mean
as you were like before in Alabama, I saw yeah, let's see.
But none of that stuff was ever in my nothing in my scope at all
when I first moved to Alabama, and we'd go to Walmart or twice daily,
which is like their version of seven eleven or Circle. Okay, that's
they'll have like holsters everybody, even cashiers. But here, like nobody walks
around with a gun on their hid. Well, they only kind of changed
the concealed carry right in New York State recently, probably like the last two
years. Yeah, they'll just have it right out like just on shell.
So kind of like Clint, you probably don't know who Clint Eastwood is.
Oh you know, good lad he sho keep him but yeah, he just
have the saying like make my day, you know, so like you know,
pull out the gun and what not. That's uh, it's funny because
I'm not very familiar with the South. And then when they moved there,
it was because his mom and I separated and she wanted to be near her
family. Her brother had been in the army and then retired there government all
in Chicago. Yeah, so would you would you have noticed the culture shock
as well? Like I think I think it would have because I never saw
it. I never saw people carrying around when I was a kid. I
mean I grew up in a very rural town away from here, about four
or five hours away, and there were people that hunted and stuff. Certainly
maybe some kids had shotguns that want to go hunting after school, but I
don't I don't remember anybody carrying, you know. So that's you're right that
that would be a fit culture show. Not only the culture show, but
the police don't carry it. I mean I had no idea like even like
I have to say, when I came to Ireland in twenty twenty three,
I think it was. I was stopped at Newark. Now I had a
shaved head, right, like shaved head and a little kind of go tea
like I actually look medic I actually looked like Middle Eastern. Okay, so
they actually stopped me. They did and said where are you from? And
I was like, Ireland, No, you're know. I was like Jesus
Christ, yes I am, you know, like, I was like,
yes, it's me. I'm from Ireland. They were like, but you
look like Middle Eastern and I'm like never thought of it that way. Wow,
they said that to you. Yeah, they actually had to, Like
they don't. They actually took me to another room and asked me questions,
what are you down here? This is a mo vacation. Yeah, and
they were like he's like, where's your family from? I'm like Ireland.
Yeah, so they didn't blame me. Was this like the early two thousands,
Yeah, it was just probably just after nine to eleven, like you
know, because nine eleven was what twenty twenty one? Yeah, two thousand,
Yeah, sorry, two thousand and one, but it was like two
thousand and three. I think it's in New Work. Yeah, people in
New Jersey. I think the other thing about culture would be Like my friends
from like Kentucky. I invited them over to Scotland last summer. So I
had like eight people staying in my house and it was the best time ever.
I was their tour guide for a whole week. But like when I
told the girl Killyan from her dad's was in the army, He's got loads
of guns in his house, et cetera. And I said to Killying,
like, when you come over here, you're not allowed, like to even
carry a poke at knife, paper spray all these things. She's like,
no way, I can't come out. How am I meant to protect myself
all this stuff? I was actually a really good American accident. That's uh.
That says a lot right about not feeling safe or what I think.
It's clearly a learned thing in a sense of paranoia for sure, because I
never I gotta tell you, I always say I must live in a bubble.
I don't ever feel like I'm not safe. I don't. I just
feel like everything's okay. I like, like the Europeans are very carefree though,
you know, like we like what you were saying when you met your
your girlfriend in Portugal. We go to like on holidays to like Spain,
like Greece. You know, it's that's a normal tray for us. Sure,
you guys go to Florida, well, and it's almost the same distance.
But we work free, care free, but like we don't care,
like if something's happening, we're gonna go there, yes, like regardless really
phase us. Yeah, Like I think I've more of a like kind of
like a definitely a care free attitude like regarding a lot of things. But
if there's something going on where you know, does like a war or people
have going I don't like, oh here's a going so well. Yeah,
like I don't care, Like if you're your numbers up, your numbers up.
That's how he kind of feel. It's an interesting concept. I I
the way you think. I wonder because I was trying to think of this.
There was a guy I follow on TikTok who lives in Argentina. Now
he's a young guy, traveled the world talking about Argentina and how he goes,
if you're a morning person, this is not the city for you,
he goes, We don't go to beddle three o'clock in the morning. People
don't go out until eleven o'clock at night dinner, isn't it right? So
we live this way Argentina already, but we live in this in America,
we live in a man What are you doing today? Grind it out,
move it you know that that sort of thing. And I'm not saying the
rest of the world doesn't, but I feel like listening to you guys.
And I had neighbors when when we were growing up, the boys were growing
up that were from Finland and Sweden and Little Finland. Yeah, And I
said to her once, they said, how many languages do you speak?
Now? Do you both speak more than just? No? Nothing? Okay?
So I speak broken English. I speak Scottish and English. Yeah,
yeah, is there a Scottish language that as a Gaelic Gaelic it's kind of
like the same as Orist's kind of that Celtic. Brother studies it a lot
because he's been to Ireland a few times. Yeah, that's that's weird because
there's only like one hundred thousand people in like Scotland and Ireland and Scotland.
So one of the kids that were recruiting tig that's an Irish name and it's
spelled really weird. Yet it's th h sorry t a d h g t
a d hg. Yes, that's tig tig. Yeah. So he actually
went to an Irish speaking school. Okay, so his speaking school, like
even when they were teaching math, they would speak Gaelic. Yeah. So
he, like the motor asked me the other day, he goes, well,
look at you know, he's gone to a like a like an Irish
school, like and they teach everything in Irish. Do you think he's going
to have an issue with speaking in English? And I says, well,
you're speaking in English, and you speak in English at home, Like my
two sons have an American accent, right because they go to school. Yes,
and they're in school like influenced nine hours a day, and then they
come home and hear me, go clean your realm. It's just kind of
water off for ducks back. Yeah. So I wonder if that'd be the
same there. Yeah, Because but my point was when you go on vacation,
you're going to another country. Yeah, right, And so she said
to me, because they spoke four five languages, we had to if we
wanted to see a desert, we got to go to a different country.
If we wanted you know here it's all within the borders of the United States.
Yeah, yeah, and I'll tell you I was in Finland last year
and I had an amazing time. Yeah, it was. It was like,
it's it's the weirdest kind of feel because you like, twelve o'clock at
night, it's still bright. Yeah, and then it gets to one o'clock
and it's kind of dusk. By quarter past four, it's bright again.
Was this around June? It was July. It was actually the time when
it was around July fourth. Actually, our president was actually in Helsinki at
the time, so everything had to get shut down and we had to walk
around this way and games got pushed back for game times. It was a
soccer tournament. Though. I was a ah, yeah, look at this.
Yeah, it's very strange the uh you know listening, I wish we
took a more relaxed approach. I'm finding that it doesn't help this idea of
grind grind. It's an ugly mentality. As you're talking about this young lady
who's fearful to walk around. What am I going to do without at least
pepper spray? How am I going to protect myself? And the thing is
that if you feel like you're always under attack, that that's a shitty life.
Yeah, that's a shitty life. And I don't know if I again,
like I go, do I live in a bubble? I never felt
that way ever at all in my life. Did I ever feel like you
know? I mean, I've had moments where I better get out of here.
I can feel the mood changing. That's different than feeling like I got
to carry a gun to protect myself. I think the only time of fail
that sort of because I'm usually faking. I'm quite relaxed with things. And
the only time I thought I've ever felt in danger was when I was in
Cancun for spring break. That was the only time, because there's obviously just
so many America like the cartails and stuff there as well, you know the
cartails. You are from Scotland, No, so it was probably the cartails,
and it was just the you've heard so many stories about like they corrupt,
the corruption and the police that it was just very very scary like walking
around to be honest, because you just didn't want to do one thing wrong
or you thought you were going to get handcuffed, so you had to be
very careful times. You're a young guy, be old enough to vote if
you were a US citizen, uh, not old enough to drink? What
in your mind is the perception of America beyond our borders? How are we
seeing in the world by you, like in your mind? I think a
lot of it for people that I can just say for people my age,
Yeah, I mean, you're the future leaders of the planet. So how
do we perceive America? How do we think of America back home? I
think with a lot of it is just from movies, That's what I mean.
A lot of people don't experience, like don't fly all the way.
They go to Orlando because they want to go to Disney World and reversal.
Yeah, so they see the Magical Palace and everything, like politically speaking and
all that. Yeah, you don't know, crazy absolutely crazy country because I
don't. I don't like to get involved in it all. I just think
there's there's so much opinions. Like you go to one state, it's obviously
all states. Yeah, so you go to Kentucky and there's Trump twenty twenty
four flags everywhere. Yeah, And you go somewhere else and there's like that's
just state by state. Well, it's become very divided. In this gestory,
I think social media has certainly helped people find their tribe. And what
I always worry about with social media, and I don't know if it's the
same in Ireland or Scotland, but we only just got social media last year.
But the way it's used here is almost as though I found my people
right. So now I'm right and we the definition And I say this a
lot in the podcast of an opinion is it's halfway between fact and fiction.
But all of a sudden it doesn't become opinion because I'm I'm right, and
I always think that you know, you're not just wrong, you're dead fucking
wrong, and you're dead to me. And it becomes but it doesn't help
anything. And so we have what I think is a very very ugly time
in our country's history as that's going on. I'm not saying one way or
the other on both sides. You know, we certainly, I mean,
we go too far in one direction or too far in the other direction.
And I always say, come to the middle. It's nice and warm,
we can have a dialogue, and we don't seem to have that that here.
It's TWENTNY in twenty twenty six sorry, in twenty sixteen when President TRUMPB
actually got elected. Yeah, I actually stayed up. I was very fascinated
with the whole kind of who was gonna win kind of thing. Sure,
and I actually stayed up the whole night and watched it, so that that
was the only team, that was the only time of an interesting and it
was few you stayed Yeah, yeah, why why what was the interest for
you? I think it was just like it was the first time there's a
bad excitement like Trump was it was Trump we're talking about. Yeah, that
was Trump was involved in that one. So I always liked Trump obviously from
being a successful businessman. I don't mean now, but I mean when I
was younger, I used to see obviously it was a successful apprentice that was
getting shown all over Ireland and England and Europe alone. Yes, yes,
yes, so there was obviously an interest. Not only that, like in
Scotland they have Trump golf courses in Ireland they have and then also with the
Trump buildings, it was more of a like what you were saying earlier own
when people go to Orlando, that magical feel of you know, having the
oh this is like the American dream kind of thing, and that's kind of
the top picture of it. But it was funny. Go ahead, you
finish and then I'll talk about I just love the like how much of a
sales when the guy is like that because he comes to Scotland and he talked
abou how much he loves it, Like he has his own course Trump Tumbrady
as coach mentioned there and he has like snipers in the roof everywhere all around
it, like see around the course when he's when he's there, Lands Secret
Services service all round the course in Scotland. Is the only person to have
that in Scotland. Not our prime minister in England doesn't. Our prime minister
doesn't have that, you know what I mean. It's a sling shot in
a rock like our political party leader, the one when Trump was in Scotland
before Nicolas Sturgeon, which is the political party leader for Scotland, and she
he was making his opinions about her when it's not even his country. So
I love it he was getting involved with our politics. Yeah, it makes
no difference to him. So a lot of my friends actually text me like
when when he actually got in because it was very very early in the morning
in Ireland and England. They were like, what have you guys gone?
And I was like, I don't know. I didn't vote. I'm not
an American citizen yet, so actually this is now my first time it is
being an American citizen being able to vote. But to be honest, like
I look at it from like kind of like taking a step back and talking
about like the country, like what what people do for the country. I
thought he actually brought a lot more jobs to back to the US, and
I thought the business side of it helped him run the country. Now,
if we could have just like cut off his thumbs and keep him away from
social media, I agree with you. Well, here here's the way I
saw it. He changed the game of politics. And why I think there's
parts of the country yeah right, you know, but that is exactly what
it is. Because he went on the debate stage and I remember going,
there's no way he's gonna win. I just stuff, there's no waycause he
had said things and had a passed and we knew, you know, there
were people who were very well qualified to run our country who were up ended
by scandals. He came out and he was Teflon, and he started on
the debate stage, calling people names and and and and taking shots. And
I think that people saw this and went, yeah, you're fucking right,
You're fucking right, and I'm sick of this and I'm sick of hearing these
people. And I think there was a whole ground swell and that nobody cared
about what was ever in his past, but what it was in this moment
was somebody standing up and calling bullshit on a lot of stuff, at least
in their opinion. And I think you saw pockets of this country rise up
and go, I'm tired of feeling as though I'm less than I'm tired of
this far left, you know, I'm tired of the middle part of our
country being run by the hosts. Ye is basically like someone literally died for
something, he said, Like it's crazy, like they literally died over him.
Yeah, it's weird, Like during the Capitol raid someone got shot.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean it's so
I don't know, I don't know what will happen this time. I was
worried about what it would happen on a global scale, because there were times,
you know, I would hear things again, I always say this,
He's done a great job. And even we question everything. Now fake news.
The notice said fake news before this, right because we went along with
it. Well we went along. It was like it was like fed.
But but there's a but. I hate to say this, but he's got
a point, right, And that's why on this podcast always say, well,
wait a second, I'm not sure about this because I I don't know.
So my example here is there are people who will say that they were
in the cabinet as to how dumb he was, like he didn't know certain
things in terms of global pop politics, historical things. Just thinks you should
know where things are. It's kind of like you got a bunch of people
who do asking your son James to come and coach moy soccer team. Yeah,
you wouldn't know how to actually go ahead and do that. Well,
on the same side of it, you're asking someone that is a businessman to
run a country and be politically correct. Yes, and he wasn't. No,
and that and that's the difference. And I think that so but to
those points, look, if any CEO who's worth their salt will tell you,
I hire people who are smarter than me frcked, so they can do
things that I can't do. So I always take everything with a bit of
a grain of salt, not just for but everything because I don't know.
I don't know, and I'm not in there. But it bothers me as
to how divisive all this has become. I know when any of the presidents
came to Ireland, and Ireland has a strictly like you're not allowed to carry
you going if you're not an ursitizen and a part of the Irish Army or
the Special Branch through a Gardish yacona which is the guarded association kind of thing,
and their their secret service. Like one or two of them got arrested
because they actually had a gun on them. Oh really just when they were
off duty, No, no, when they were actually protecting the present,
they weren't allowed carry guns, and the Irish government were like, you can't,
like they put they were in every like they went through Ireland with a
fine two come like three four weeks prior, in like drains anywhere, like
they were like climbing true drains and keeping people there just in case anything was
actually gonna happen to one of the presidents that was there. It was it
was like fascinating to read about it, like they were but they weren't allowed
carry guns like that was the only thing. I don't even know whether if
Ireland allowed them after that. That's something that I have to look at.
Yeah, in terms of now, I have a question from like an American
viewing into the UK. Why does it always like wet, Like it's always
rain and wet. There's a big thing called the Atlantic No I know,
but it's just like it's always weather that's feel bad. It's actually it does
us good because that's how Ireland is so great green. Yeah, because like
obviously the weather pattern comes across, like like we get storms here in New
York that affects storms in Ireland and in Scotland and in England because of it.
It comes across because of the Atlantic Drift, you know. So it's
really it's a good question. But it's always rain. And if you look
at like the west coast of Ireland, you could have snow, sleek,
hail, sun, cloud, rain, wind all in one day. I
love it though, because see, like you're saying, the weather shaite like
seeing your seeing summer. Me and my friends always look forward to especially when
I was back in school and no one had jobs, right, it was
amazing that you'll look forward to literally the two days that you knew were going
to be like two day literally the two days of summer. What would it
be fourteen degree? I don't know. Oh, in Dublin you could get
up to like twenty two twenty three, but to be raining, and then
you would have to jump into a store and wait for the round to stop,
and then you would run out and then be piping hot. And then
but you get to the top of the corner to turn around, you have
a jacket on because it's cold, and then you go into another store that
are you going to a bar to have a point, because it's usually the
case in Ireland. And then from there you come back out and it's like
snowing and you're going, like what what what's going on the line the witch
in the ward. As soon as it's over, like fourteen degrees sess like
everyone's got their tops off. Yeah, you just walk around the street.
Everyone's got a bottle of wine in their hand. It's like, honestly,
especially like anywhere around Collins Street or like even Stevens Green, it's a beautiful
part like where the sun comes out. Everybody takes their lunch and just goes
out onto Stephen's Green and from there just goes out in like sunbaits and they
will be getting beers. Like I remember when I was working for this company
back in Ireland. My boss was like, all right, we're gonna go
for lunch and I'm like, all right, cool. There was nine of
us. We stayed there for three hours and we drank on our lunch break.
I went back to walk and anybody getting worked done. We actually talked
about like we're there so but he was like, all right, don't worry
about what good went back two hours and then we left. That's that's that's
productive. Keeps it keeps the team happening, to keep the morality of the
table. So is there a part of Ireland that I was always told the
jet stream hits probably like go away around there? Well? Is there now?
I was told, I don't know if this exists or not. Palm
trees on a beach in some part of Ireland where it gets very very warm,
and it's more because like the jet stream in the ocean kind of comes
up or whatever that stream would be. I mean you have the wrong one.
But like there's warm and there's just just one beach in this one part
and there's I don't know, I've this is what I've been told and I've
never looked it up. I've just only been told about it, so I
always go, I don't know if it's true. Pause please, yes,
I'll be there in thirty seconds. Okay, they're actually saying, yet there
is palm trees in Irelands. I've never seen that. I've never heard of
that. Life on the West Shores golf stream. Yeah, wow, the
golf stream, I'm saying jet stream, the same thing in the water once
in the air, but yeah, but way off. But yes, the
golf stream hits up on that on the west coast of Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, that's that's I never knew that, something knew everything. Look at
that now, that's where you need to go in the summer. Yeah,
there we go, me and my girlfriend that ended up going there. But
lottle budget that's summer though. You don't I don't any money, you're not
getting to the Europa League finals. It is there a favorite part of Europe
for you? Did you like to go? I would say for me Spain,
I was lucky. I was lucky enough. My mom and dad have
always had an apartment and Spain since I since I was about three years old.
Yeah, so it's always it's been on my second home. They go
a lot of times during the year. You don't speak Spanish. I know,
it's terrible. No, I think you do finding that, No,
I can, I can see like like, but do most people speak English
around the world now? Used to be French was the international language. I
feel like English is English is day the national It's like I mean, especially
in our area, it's a lot of retired English people. We love in
expos getting out of the getting out of the wet and running away from the
snubirds, snowbirds. Where where is this? Because I went to Coasta del
Soul many years ago, right, Is that what it is? Am I
saying? Yeah, I was there in nineteen eighty nine. I was seventeen
and I walked into a McDonald's and got a beer and I was so fun.
I was there for and I was so happy to do that, and
then I un was the other thing that I fel Yeah, I have a
some cousins from Spain, you know. Mike so her Son used to travel
around the world and met a woman from Spain and had kids and they all
like lived in Norwegian like yeah, Norway and other places like that in Spain.
Yea, Spain's great. My brother has a bar in the Canario and
it's just off the coast of Morocco. Wow, we gotta go do a
podcast. Awesome, Yeah, can we spen. It's there's got to be
no women's volleyboat rugby. That's amazing what you've built it at Brydon's. So
they've had two basketball going straight off topic again, but we had two basketball
teams and then we added soccer. But they had two basketball teams prior to
me getting there. But now with the house, soccer is doing so winning
the national championship in November, which Robbie was a part of. Gratulations,
thank you and so like from there, like the growth of that is just
coming off the back of it. So we're probably going to be bringing in
another like, uh, we'll probably have about forty four forty five kids again
for the soccer teams really for both the first team and the reserves, and
then women's soccer, and then obviously the dorms. Yes, where we use
a dorm company. Yeah okay, yeah, where where is the camp?
I don't even know, so you know where the tops Tully's uh yeah,
just at the back of that. It's been there as long as I can
remember, because I took it over in Henrietta. Yeah okay, yeah,
and then we have another place over in Greece as well. And so where
do you practicing? We practice up on John Street. So this college is
in Rochester. Yeah wow, Yeah, it's right. We actually get a
chance to win. Well we didn't, we actually won, but we actually
have a ring that we're actually going to be getting this year. So it's
it's actually quite of kind of unique that we're actually getting this ring. And
I've never like I've only seen it like on like Super Bowl, like you
know, people were having these massive rings that are like ginormous in size,
and now we actually get a chance to actually wear one. This is what
you look forward to see, like and you're asking what one did, Like
why did you want to come to America? It's these rights you see them
in the movies. That's what I wanted the whole time in America. Look
at that. That's impressive. Yeah, So like I now have to actually
have my own Secret Service when I'm walking, just to make sure don't get
go, especially if I go to Glasgow. There going in the night out
with them all as soon as we get them. So I remember being over
in Madrid and the kids asking me a guy he might have been from England
saying, is America like what we see in the movies? Are the houses
that big? Are the you know we were only talking about that. Yes,
Thomas Long, one of our goalkeepers, actually dislocated this finger. Yes,
stay in gokeeper training and he was like, he says, what what's
the houses like over here? Coach. I says, oh, yeah,
you haven't been in my house. It says like, well we had,
we just bought a new house and now the house of Market is like kind
of really high. Yeah, and it's like four bedrooms, like finished basement
that have me a radio studio. Then yeah, yeah, and then from
there it was just like, you know, it's they're a lot bigger.
Like even when I moved into twenty twenty one and one of the lads said
to me, you know, like, how how much was his house?
And I told him He's like, oh, this would be more like five
six hundred thousand over and over in England, like in Great Britain pounds which
is in London. Yeah, yeah, massive London house. Yeah. Put
the traffic in London. If you ever got to London, don't don't rent
the car, don't rend the car. I went for the Bills game.
Yeah. War. It was the worst experience driving around there. It was
awful. Like it was like even driving in New York City wasn't that bad?
But you actually get taxed for driving into the city. Yes, And
we didn't know that and we never were told. So we had like a
four hundred dollars four hundred pounds bill with my wife is like what, I'm
not paying this and then we're like we have to pay. Well, this
has been fascinating. I think it's great. Congratulations on the championship, Thank
you very much. Yeah, and one more year, one more year as
a student athlete. Yeah, the years a should athlete and then I'll be
kicked out of the country and it looks like we should have done that.
Line I one more year and then that's me. I need to worry about
what I'm going to do with the rest of my life. I might I
might be going back and doing a postgraduate degree in Scotland. I'm always still
wanting to play football though, just unsure what level that is yet, but
I'm always wanting to play football. Yeah. My brother studied over in Canterbury
and has a friend a Scottish Sea and he's got he stayed in touch with
this Australian kid and a Scottish kid Ausy maybe Ozzy Steve and scottis Steve Guys
Steve. We actually have two scott two Ossie's coming in tours this year.
We have a couple of English, a couple of Irish and Swedish, and
a couple of Germans. And the German kid that we have coming in is
six foot eight wow to center forward. Really yeah, but I don't think
I've ever seen a soccer player that tall. You don't have the day practice,
yeah, yea ya, Well good luck with all that. I think
what you've done here is really impressive. We'll see how impressive it is next
November. We'll come back and another show. We'll keep you updated. You
come to a game, watch a game, and do a podcast at the
game. I will come to a game and I'd love to have you back
just to hang out and shoot the ship. So yeah, for sure,
that's great. It was nice to meet you and always good to see Thanks
for having close it out here. This will drop right after Easter, so
the Monday after half a Fool's Day April Fool's Day? Is that a big
deal anywhere other than America? For Darren, for Robbie, for Jamison,
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