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conrad what it's a, high holy day get right on
the mic kind.
Speaker 3: Of holy day but they got all the Snakes, out of,
ireland you know so and then we. Came over here it's.
Speaker 2: Kind of bullshit tell me about what what was it
like Growing?
Speaker 3: Up, in ireland well it growed up In Ironand Is
saint patrick's day? Basically over? There is that, It's it.
Was it's tradition it's, like over here it's like we,
love going, there you know the kids go up, with
the parents, swatch the praise the same. Kind of, thing
over here it's Just a, different.
Speaker 1: Well here over here it's just a drink and, it's
a debauchery. Which is great yeah me, as, a baron yes.
As A farmer but i was thinking like over there
it was a, little, more, religious yes yeah a little more.
Speaker 2: Religious behind it but where did where are You?
Speaker 3: From in Ireland, i'm from cork the Reready, South, OF ireland.
Speaker 1: Okay i have a lot of A lot of moran. Family, from,
there yeah yeah or more and as they, say, OVER
there yeah i don't call you, More on no but what.
Speaker 2: Is it like Growing?
Speaker 1: Up in CORK and then i just the whole adventure. Of,
Coming here, Well, I'm here.
Speaker 3: Jesus i'm here half my life twenty three and twenty three, years,
over HERE right So i. Spent i'm here i'm actually
here LONGER now than i Was. Back in Ireland, Back,
in ireland yeah did you do you miss?
Speaker 2: IT at all i.
Speaker 3: Miss me parents and a couple, of THEIR friends and i.
Like to visit i'll go back once a. YEAR to
visit covid kind of messings up so we couldn't go
back for a. Couple of, YEARS but. Uh, I do
yeah i missed the traditions and stuff that you have
for your family and friends and. Stuff like THAT so
but i do love. It, Over here also so.
Speaker 1: What brought You To? The UNITED states AND i think i,
know the story but what?
Speaker 3: Is the? Story gay porn well.
Speaker 2: That's always a good way to make a lot of a.
LOT of money. I, do.
Speaker 3: That really it was MY calling and i went. Right,
AFTER it no, i came, here and honestly my plan was,
three months Here twelve months australia and Then. Back TO
ireland and i just fell In Love With new york city.
Speaker 1: And every state but you were, supposed to go weren't
you going to be.
Speaker 2: An, APPRENTICE somewhere.
Speaker 3: No i was an apprentice Mechanic, Back, in IRELAND yes
and i. Served my time how?
Speaker 2: Did that go?
Speaker 3: Not so good but my dad had a Big. Job
in ford It was, a ford Dealership so basely i'd
probably had a red carpet rolled out. BACK and forth
i getting in trouble with, the BOSS'S office but i
still managed to keep me job, for some reason maybe my,
Dad helped, out but.
Speaker 2: No what was what was Going on?
Speaker 1: In australia then if that was, the final destination it
just it was a big.
Speaker 3: Thing back home and, at the time everyone wants To,
go to australia so basically had to have a thousand
dollars in your. Pocket prove funds and it was a
twelve month holiday working Holiday. Visa for australia so plan was,
Here three months australia for twelve and Then. Back TO
ireland and I, never SAW australia so i took a
thousand bucks that, Came here instead and so far it's
it's multiplied. A few times so you just stayed here your.
Speaker 1: FIRST time, here i mean what was the one thing
that Stood out about america that maybe, you didn't know
prior to coming It.
Speaker 3: WASN'T like BAYWATCH i think i went to the wrong.
Speaker 2: Ron Coast, to GET yeah.
Speaker 3: BECAUSE i came I came, here november, sixteenth ninety nine
and Growing, up like, baywatch incredible health, good his stuff
so surf. ALL o, STUFF i said i want to.
Try THAT out and I Went to new york and
it was probably the coldest adventure river.
Speaker 2: Had, me life yeah because you got There, One in
NOVEMBER november.
Speaker 3: AND i went i went remember trying to go To
see the intrepid and there was. TWO avenues away i
could see THE boat, and i, SAID fuck, THIS internal
said i.
Speaker 2: Can't make it, it's Still cold.
Speaker 3: And i'm like who lives in? Weather like this and
then the summer comes around it's. Even worse again you,
take a shower but then you go to work. You're sweating,
AGAIN it's, discussed i said who? Lives? Like this well
what is It?
Speaker 2: Like In, Ireland In? Cork, southern?
Speaker 1: Ireland dreary, Dreary, but outside yeah but usually what temperature
between what fifty? And, seventy five.
Speaker 3: No seventy, five is, lucky you, know you're like thirty,
is forty, fifties you know. Lately summer summer it's been getting,
better of late but it's it's still it's it's still not,
like seventy five eighties or. Nothing, like that actually or,
ON the left, i, like, SUNSHINE yes well, i, like, today,
today today right and he have. A boom yes so.
Speaker 1: Then of course people want to know about The Relationship.
With jimmy fallon but that kind of came out of
the fact that you had no idea.
Speaker 2: Who, HE was.
Speaker 3: No, I DIDN'T yeah so i was here like maybe
like THREE months when i, came Here first and i'd
work in the bar Called the gaff on forty eight,
to NINETEEN ten and i didn't Know what the, saturday
life was didn't. Know about it twenty three young buck
off the Boat And so, Thursday friday started it's Be Busy.
Nights sunday monday i'd wrote, those shifts too but they're,
like graveyard shifts and, they're bout open, like four o'clock
and it just this bar just opened and all, of
a sudden about three months in not even this guy
would show Up on The sunday every sunday and we
PLAYED darts because i thought they wanted to Put, up
a darport and we started practicing for, the first time
and he'd Come in every sunday and we played there
the same, time every week and we just a, two
of us and about four or five weeks later. Started getting, busier.
I'm like, fuck he. Goes what's wrong he goes that
chick over here Is. Taking picture jim. He goes, yeah,
he goes YEAH what's? WHAT i said i? Might be illegal, He,
goes illegal. YEAH my visa i might. Be getting. Deported he,
goes he goes. MAYBE it's, me i said. Maybe it's you?
Whis it, you, HE goes well i do. STAND up,
comic i, said where Brother he goes saturday lives it never?
Speaker 2: Heard of it?
Speaker 3: Where is that he goes over Here By a rockefeller
center and it's a club, over. HE said, Jeesus i
said i'll come shake. Check out sometimes he's what It's,
live every saturday whenever you. WANT to, go, I, SAID
ah saturday i. Can't do that that's. My money night
but if every, Getting night off i'll. Come see YOU
and then i, started getting busier and, then people said
you know who? You're OUT with, and i said you
know who he's? Hanging OUT with and i went from
there and here. We are today but that.
Speaker 1: Is PRETTY funny but i think that's part of the
reason that he probably appreciated the hell.
Speaker 2: Out.
Speaker 3: Of, here yeah. YEAH he's cool i was just With.
Him for thanksgiving. It, was great yeah but, It's, genuine there.
No he is he's A. He's salted york he's a
just what who YOU. See on tv he's a. Genuine
heartfelt guy he's one of my CLOSEST friends and i love.
Him the.
Speaker 2: Bits, he's fantastic well you've been very, good to.
Speaker 1: EVERYBODY you KNOW i mean i remember when one of
my kids was hurt and we were going into the
store and, we're walking out and you knew he had food,
allergies and stuff so you took him in and you
bought them all the ice cream wanted and. All This
shit like you've always just, been that guy very very
giving and and and.
Speaker 2: Loving to people and then we even have our own SONG,
You and i, oh my god.
Speaker 3: We're doing this now you, Close THE curtains, but i
mean so heart?
Speaker 1: You, come here yeah then how does all the all,
OF a, sudden i mean Here comes mult connery's has
become sort. Of the staple it was a destination for
people Right In the. GREATER rochester, area i mean you
brought a lot. Of fun there but how did all
that opening up a business right with no in a
country that.
Speaker 2: You that you're.
Speaker 3: NOT native, to, i go no not native AND that
when I Lived in new xtually for five years and so,
moving up here it's like, it WAS scary like i
never do any of the food industry and. Stuff like
that so but noway can they get? The liquor license
these days you had to have? Food AND stuff so i.
WENT one further i bought a building and knocked it
down and already. Built the, scratch she? Said why? Not
and uh and then. Here we are how many? Years
stuff later, fifteen years later, Fifteen twenty fourth april twenty
fourth will Be. Fifteen. Years yeah wow so it's been.
A good run and only thanks for this. One over
here she's actually the original staff member that hasn't. Left
me YET so and i get to be the man
of hand, BECAUSE of her. I get downtiged she does
a lot, She does there she does do a.
Speaker 1: Lot OVER there but i mean owning and running a
business if when you're Not From, the united states.
Speaker 3: Well most of you people Aren't From. The, united states,
well that's. True that's true go check. Your, GENE pool
no i know.
Speaker 2: The Gene pool, but, i'm saying like Have you Watched?
Speaker 3: Cowboys in INDIANS i'm but i.
Speaker 1: Was born here do You know? What, i'm saying like
it just makes it. A LITTLE easier and i WOULD
think that i understand you. SPEAK the language i know you,
know this stuff but you gotta have some balls to
kind of do.
Speaker 2: All, of this.
Speaker 3: Yeah DON'T you think? I, DON'T know no, i just, well,
i'd said look, Luck, and balls yeah. Maybe some, BALLS so.
Speaker 2: YEAH i think i think balls would be. Absolutely the
thin yeah. You, know what no it was young and
he like had a dream and.
Speaker 1: Everything LIKE that so i mean just personality, and, CURTISMON
stuff right i mean that that's what it all is,
to sell it to. Make it work didn't You?
Speaker 3: Work?
Speaker 2: AT donaldy's, Yes, I did okay.
Speaker 3: I worked there how did?
Speaker 1: That go over what all of a, sudden, You say
hey i've opened it up a place like. Three doors down.
Speaker 3: It was okay initially and then they said this is. My,
last DAY WELL because i i, bought, the BUILDING yeah
and i level it. And rebuilt it, so so. Yeah
he was He was a. Scott school. GUY you know
i also got to get his, side of it but
he he he kept me. On after fact but he
also knew at the SAME time when i came up
HERE first that i had a plant to open. My
OWN place so i was gonna Do Something In new York,
CITY because mercy i was, from up there THIS area
that i, moved up here and so my plan was
to open The Place In. New york city but things change,
move up here, and you know everything happens. For a
reason so it's been a good. Run UP here so,
i worked there found the location, down the street and
basically ended up open. My own place scott was very
supportive because he knew in SELF initially that i was
gonna that's my plan to do. My own, thing give
me give, Me a challenge. I'll take, IT but.
Speaker 1: Well i always think, to you know a rising tide. Floats,
ALL boats, yes i mean and so you've brought in
a lot of people to an area that may not.
Even have, KNOWN donald's.
Speaker 3: Absolutely i think we've fed, off, Each other said i'm
sure he's probably had, felt about it, but you know in,
THE long run i think. That the more the more,
you give people the more, THEY you know i open
a place. NEXT to me. I don't, care you know
look what's happened to this village in the. LAST few
years i, Look What's Growing, like tommy burnett you. Know
im smoke you've got tin can? Or tin cup what's it?
Called tin cup you got tin? Cup over there you
got it's just all these.
Speaker 2: Smoking hot chicks and all these Places that, are for
years people just knew about tea.
Speaker 3: Fuds and.
Speaker 2: Shorts that's it YOU'RE street all.
Speaker 3: I even existed, people also said who's this crazy iky,
moving to town, binding the? Building knock down we building
it and putting it Down. On MAIN street but.
Speaker 1: I mean you kind of made. It a DESTINATION do
you've i don't know if this, may be, overstatement THAT
overstatement but i mean a lot of times You and
then tommy have become kind of anchors in this town
that have. Brought, everything else look there's. A brewery open
this is turning Into. A little nashville you can, walk
AROUND here and i.
Speaker 3: Love, all, THAT yeah honestly. I welcome MORE i don't
i don't classify as competition drawing more. To this area.
It's great foot it's got, a great, Community you know
prenty support here ALL around and. I love it and the,
MORE you bring i think the more we, can feed
up the.
Speaker 1: Will there'll Be Expansion With, mount, connery's no no not.
In this town not.
Speaker 2: Some more warmer maybe destination down.
Speaker 3: Down the road maybe they watch a little bay watch.
Speaker 2: Down the road what has there been?
Speaker 1: ANYTHING that, that i mean it seems like everything has
gone exceed mean exceedingly well for you from the. TIME
you've come, i don't know it just. Feels THAT way like,
i WATCH you and i always think that, they most
people right you have a overall positive attitude and that seems.
Speaker 2: To really help like there doesn't.
Speaker 1: Seem it does it does seem like things on the
outside looking in now like everybody's got to want. To
TAKE it, but i mean on THE outside Looks i believe.
Speaker 2: I've been around. I've seen it. I've seen it. I'VE
seen it i would love to tell a. Story right now?
Speaker 1: What a story but You, Mean, and steph well, we
were out. SHE got upset i thought. She walked back
we get in the car and all of a sudden
she's in. THE back seat i practically fucking jumped out
of the.
Speaker 2: CART the car. I did know we Went.
Speaker 3: To, iron smoke yes she got annoyed and she got
butt her to, something over there and we tell. We
lost her and then we came back and she was
in the Back of, The Carra, said jesus christ you
put up.
Speaker 2: With a lot but it. WASN'T my fault i don't
know who.
Speaker 1: FAULT it was i thought you were walking and it's
like up sting GO by. That i was and then
all of a sudden we GET in and i and we're, talking,
about HER right and, i said. Something it's nice what did? You,
BRING mangers no i don't try. To do that, Yes,
for you, no it's delicious.
Speaker 2: IT'S very nice i have a fridge. Full, of, guinness no, Good,
thank you no give me the.
Speaker 3: Ships it.
Speaker 2: Does, IT'S good yes, i love it a.
Speaker 3: FEW of them i know you. LIKE your.
Speaker 2: GUINNESS i do i. Love the, guinness so overall.
Speaker 1: Start to finish what's the end Result For, FOR damian montconnery, i, Don't,
know buddy no, Just keep living.
Speaker 3: Just keep one day. AT a time i can't tell
you what tomorrow is a great, run, so far Well
your brother peter.
Speaker 2: Came over here was it? BECAUSE of you.
Speaker 3: I don't know i got to ask. Him that question
that's a different podcast for. A, Different.
Speaker 2: DAYS no, no I know BUT i mean i just you
you kind of like. Laid, the tracks yeah.
Speaker 3: He came over he's he's a lot, younger than, me
but yeah he came over years later and He Worked.
IN new xtity i was up here and then. Moving up,
here so yeah he's he's pretty well for himself as
well anything.
Speaker 1: That has, gone you know when you from the time
he came over to, where you are do you ever
think this would be the where you would be in
terms of success and business.
Speaker 2: And, all that no, Not, at, all NO no but.
Speaker 1: I love it what was the picture To Be In
new york city and stay there and On a bar
that was.
Speaker 3: An initial but maybe not long term because it's not,
for raising, Family, you know yeah you know when you, Come,
there first yeah but then you raised because you've got.
Three beautiful daughters this is definitely a better place for
them to be raised. Than down there so they're they're
my heart and. Soul right there so IT'S it's like
i love. IT up here i, love THE community and
i love them being. Around this area So Being In
new york, CITY with them i don't think that would
have been. A, good move no what's kind of. A Pricey.
Speaker 2: One pricey jesus and.
Speaker 3: It's just that the education is so much, different up
here and stuff overall.
Speaker 1: You, can't, afford yeah well, it's it's amazing like where
we are in, terms of education it's some of the best.
In the country you go fifteen minutes in the other
direction and it's some. Of the, worst it's, crazy it's
crazy but it's a great to. Raise a family that's
a great area to live and as things are expanding
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today so How americanized is ironman or How influenced?
Speaker 2: BY american ironment.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know I, Live IN america.
Speaker 2: No i know, but growing up was there a?
Speaker 1: Lot of influence did you see A lot, of, tv
shows movies A.
Speaker 3: LOT of tv a, lot of THAT Like THE a
team i. Grew up too uh. That's, mister ed yeah,
the incatible hook all. Those cool things and then, As,
you said baywatch that was a really motivator to come
over here and got to the wrong part of The World,
in new York. Is said, california, but yeah uh THEY
all love.
Speaker 1: Jfk, back there yeah Because. He, was irish yeah he's. Like,
A legend well i was a legend. In my house
my grandfather had a Picture of THE pope and jfk.
Speaker 2: Over his bar that.
Speaker 1: Was the TWO and, when jfk died he took my
mother and my uncle to watch the funeral procession right
down IN. D, c r yeah that was. A.
Speaker 3: Big, deal, yeah, no, no no yeah IT'S it's a
i always wanted To come to. America growing UP but
and i played for the citizenship a, couple of times
or just to take him over here and, live over here,
but you know just a lottery to get us basically
to try and become a. Citizen OVER here so i
played front a bunch OF times and i, didn't get
IT and then i just CAME here and i hollereday and.
Didn't GO home, so, i said well if you won't give,
It to me. I'm taking it.
Speaker 1: That's how the That's how the. Vikings did, It they
indeed ireland they took.
Speaker 3: It that one, TO this day, I always said america
the best Fucking. COUNTRY in ireland i. Love, this place
well a.
Speaker 2: Lot of My.
Speaker 1: Family's from CORK but then i told you that that
some of my family and my son went over to
see some real we still have right on my Mom's.
Side in, schligo, oh, yeah shithold yes you said ship
hold up In the northern.
Speaker 3: It WAS funny WHEN i when, i MOVED here when
i moved here back, in ninety nine and walk into
this Bar and in hell's kitchen that's what he, was
working first called the, Gaff and uh i'm in, There
on this i'm serving the bar and just off the
boat and me my actions are stronger than you used.
To back then and this guy. Comes up, me he, goes,
he Goes oh, YOU'RE irish HERE i. Guess i Am why?
AM irish, too, i said fuck how long you've been.
In the country you've lost your. Accent as well i'm.
NOT from, there, i said well why did You? Say
you're irish, and, he goes well my great great great great.
GREAT great grandfather. I said what, He GOES yeah, And,
I said, jesus i said have? You been, there, he goes,
no NOT Yet but. I irish, roots i. Said that's
amazing so You're, called yourself Irish but Your american Goes.
I'm Not. AMERICAN i'm, irish i, said all, right fair
enough and then it kept going with, other people Goes why?
Am irish marriage you have, never Been there, and, i'm
like fuck if you send all these fuckers back, to
the country you'll sink. The whole thing but it was
it was Awesome that the irish heritage over here and
how much. They'd love it it was amazing TO me and.
I love, It, it's great. Yeah it's great Well.
Speaker 1: That was my Grandfather was always Irish music, on SUNDAY
afternoons and i remember you two, had, come out right
And It was joshua tree was, the EIGHTY seven and
i would always when he, LEFT the backyard i would
pop in my tape. And start, playing he goes what
IS this, and i Said it's. My irish music and He,
wasn't from ireland but his. Mother was right and then
even on, MY father's side i have a great grandmother
that came over at the, age, Of Nine right so
i'm thinking that it was because of the potato famine
that her family sent her out and she was basically
living with another family but had to wash clothes and do,
all that stuff kind, of.
Speaker 2: ALMOST indentured sir i don't. KNOW what, Nine i mean
i've had. Nine year olds they ain't.
Speaker 3: WASHING clothes now i don't know what this nineteen year olds.
Wash TOLLES now but i think that the.
Speaker 1: Thing that's amazing to me is just the desire to
get out of there. And, come here, yeah you know
there's still such an attraction. To this country there's a
lot of. PROBLEMS in it i.
Speaker 3: Know there's a lot of, problem but YES it's like
i always, wanted to move moved as far AS back as,
I can remember i just wanted To. MOVE to marca i,
Don't you know it's just it was ALWAYS a place. I,
went to well.
Speaker 1: When you came, in here, before you KNOW you and
i were talking before, you SAT down, and i said
you've had, a, CHARMED life, right i mean do you
REALIZE how, LIKE i mean i look AT you And I,
go jesus christ it's like the sun shines everywhere.
Speaker 2: You walk that little more. Like the leprechot You know.
Speaker 3: What i'm saying are? You, Calling me.
Speaker 2: No i'm not, i'm, JUST saying.
Speaker 1: Like i mean you have a very successful Business. Here
in Fairport, that's because.
Speaker 3: Yeah, by the way you can squeesh all the rumors
about mcconnie's. Being for sale no more people asking if
mulconnie's is? Not for sale? Who said that it's going
around town and the people, are calling me are? You
for sale? You for sale multconnie's is not for sale
unless you want to give me. Five million dollars.
Speaker 1: It's YOUR on but i, said last night after you
weren't here on the episode, THAT'S running, today i, said
you know any, city planning board anybody who's uh doing
zoning would tell you Don't have two irish bars on.
Speaker 2: The same street, and to me you have raised the.
Speaker 1: Bar for that you've built a nice walkway that people
can just walk down on from.
Speaker 3: Bar to bar the second where's where's the? Second Marriage.
Family it's Nelly's it's. An ITALIAN restaurant what i mean
if you want to hear a funny, story ABOUT that.
Speaker 2: YES i. Do.
Speaker 3: I do so they were in an ice hockey. Tournament
Over here the blue sponsored it right on the canal
and the CANAL and uh i just opened and people
butcher my name when They, mentioned What conny what gannery
is or m crony or they can't. MAKE it, up
i said it's great for dB ice where Your, Last
the dana's so it's a it was it Was hard
and danny's is. Easy to pronounce so we're both sponsors
of This Slapt back. Blue light TOURNAMENT and And i
remember scott got. Really pissed off we were only talking.
AT the times i just opened, up THE place and
i think He took blue light out for for a long.
Period of time but it was on the radio, and,
he goes oh well you're, telling about tonight make sure
you Go to mont connery's and and then DON'T forget the. Onwn.
The road, thennelly's i'm like, oh my god the guy,
in the radio and?
Speaker 2: Who's the guy me some.
Speaker 3: Other radio clown so Instead, the same, Donald's he said
donnelly's and these pension. WELL economies, perfectly I, said oh.
Jesus that's great so ever, since they said, DOESN'T he
one i. Was prib here dannelly's is. Down the Street
that's the italian giants. In the, past but yeah but
you've got in there before with. All of us you
took a bunch of.
Speaker 2: Us, DOWN there.
Speaker 3: Yeah I good do i, support you, KNOW you know
i don't hold. Rudgers, that OFTEN yeah maybe i do
a little bit depending on, Who you, ARE but no.
I support, LOCAL you know I. Like T j ryan's,
timmy over. There he's awesome you know you. Have shorts
Harder You got donaldi's Scott And, TIN can uh i
don't know, who they are, and then uh yeah as,
A tin cup i Think. It's, TINK cup yeah i.
Think can better, and then Uh you got kendy from
the village. And you know so, it's it's, LIKE you
KNOW i get i think.
Speaker 2: You're, like the mayor the unelected mayor, OF this, right
i mean. That's it was.
Speaker 1: It always like this for you. Your entire life but what
do you mean what but.
Speaker 2: Like, the pied piper and people just. Flock to you
it's they want to, be with you they want to be.
In your wake they like. BEING around you.
Speaker 3: I also, crave the attention YOU know. What i mean
it's like in. The same way YOU know. WHAT i
mean i guess you know what. Fills my book it's.
Making people happy so. People are, happy i'm happy YOU know.
What i mean so it's all That solves. What i've,
BEEN you know i like to. Make people happy and,
If you're, happy i'm happy YOU know. What i mean
so it's actually it's you guys for my.
Speaker 1: BOOK is, WELL i mean i love hanging, out WITH
you but i always try to give you a little
bit OF space because i also WOULD think that, I
know me i Need time where. I'M just alone i.
JUST need, downtime, I don't. RIGHT i can't i can't
be running all the, time with. That ESPECIALLY anymore, but i,
mean you're, like you know it's it's a three ring fucking.
Speaker 2: Circus.
Speaker 3: Over, there man, yeah no ship.
Speaker 1: But it's, fun and, Here You know. SAINT patrick's day i,
mean to me you're the destination.
Speaker 3: To go to well good you, Know, your money yeah,
bring your. Mind let's go I'm on. Singing lincoln though
the more you. Bring, the better yes well So. Reports
sing lincoln i'll give You a. Single lincoln.
Speaker 1: Discounts, I'm dueling come i'm just sharing Some of, MY
oh yeah i.
Speaker 2: Gotta share money that's the lovely. Part of.
Speaker 1: It oh congratulations what was the hardest part of making
The transition from Ireland to hear?
Speaker 3: Was, there any, yes missing, Friends missing family. That was it.
THAT was it i Didn't really miss IRELAND much when i,
came HERE first but. I definitely did i did, miss
the family missed the friendships and stuff for, that back
home and that was harder spread, other than. That you
know and it took A bit because i Came, here
IN november so i Did my first, christmas over here
and those bets on back in the local backcomb that
he won't, last a. Week two weeks he's. A mammy's
boy there's no way he lasts As. Far as christmas
and twenty, Three years later. I'm, Still here.
Speaker 2: Yeah so why would you have the reputation of being?
A mommy's boy were you closer to your? Mom? Like, that,
NO yeah yeah i mean. Your mom's lovely i't time.
Speaker 3: She. Comes, over yeah YEAH it's just, u you know
it's it's, like they said, there's no way because it's
just it was a big move For me because i'd
halt only group of friends and, family BACK home and
i just decided to get up and go off and Go. Off.
To america yeah and it was a friend of, mine
over Here My. Buddy brian watch she left like a
month before me because we both said. We'd go together
but he. Couldn't wait. Longer he left he actual passed
away a couple. Of years, ago but yeah it's.
Speaker 2: A it.
Speaker 3: Was it was it, was lonely, initially you know and
it's It's it's because i'm breaking into the. Scene over
here i'm trying to get a job, as A bartender
and i had a, job lined up But it wasn't
it's just there was so, much going on and it's
in this, crazy new world like and. You're looking up.
EVERYTHING'S a skyscraper i may walllep. Your back pocket, some
guy goes don't put your wall in, your back pocket
put in. Your FRONT pocket and i just Get To
The new york city and SOME guy walked i just
see off THE news and i walked into this bar
looking for the job that there's this guy walking stabbing people.
IN times, scare i said where THE fuck did? I
move to and this this guy GOING around and, I coaly.
Said i'm looking i'm looking, up with skyscapers wallet in,
my back POCKET and. Then i alsoden they went from
back packeting their front pocket looking down, and then uh
looking for stabbing people everywhere going to come out. And
Get me, so i'm, like it was. It was crazy
it was it was new to. Me And scary it's
i'm sure the start AND now but, i was. LIKE
it's nothing.
Speaker 1: I love it the accent, has, to, HELP yes RIGHT
i mean, i had to like in terms of you
stand out and then with that big, personality, you know
yeah it's.
Speaker 2: The greatest, combination, go.
Speaker 3: Yeah NO yeah so i remember one of the, Guys
On There. Kieran saint leger he was on the one
of the bosses that the bar used. To work about
and my Buddy me and. Bran new passed we're in there, and,
he goes hey you got to read this book to
it when you're. To work here? Said was, THIS he
goes i forget. What it, was he goes how to
get ahead in life and use your, personality to learn
learn how to. Have a personality so He goes and
i'll quiz you guys, in the weekness it's. Already working there.
He'sn't working one they're. The same owners and A week
later i come back in, and he goes did you?
READ that book, i said no because where is it?
IN the, GARBAGE i said i don't need. To be taught,
he all right well. You can stay how. ABOUT your
brandy i. Didn't read, either, HE goes well, i can't read,
but he could But it's like i've been blessed, with
my personality YOU know. What i mean you can't. Teach
This right and i've been lucky enough, to have it
YOU know. What i mean And and and i'm blessed,
to have it YOU know. What I mean and i. Mean
that's sincerely i'm lucky to BE who what i Was
given and i'd love to use it to. Make people
happy and they.
Speaker 1: Mean, that sinceerious yeah but why nothing bigger like you look?
THERE to me, a while back there was who's doing
a late Night? Show from Scotland.
Speaker 3: Craig Fergus.
Speaker 2: Yes craig ferguson You're Funnier.
Speaker 1: THAN craig FERGUSON i thought i looked, Like, him too,
yeah well yeah. And better looking and My Mother. Loved craig,
ferguson she. Does, she does especially THAT'S lots.
Speaker 2: OF i called.
Speaker 1: I answered The phone with damien, in the car both
my parents are. In the car, daviian calls Me. It's
rhetoric christmas we're.
Speaker 2: Driving down to. See my sister and he opens it,
UP and says i want to. Fuck your face and
my mother THOUGHT he said i want to. Fuck your.
Speaker 1: Mother, she, did Yeah, oh my god and he goes don't,
don't you know DON'T answer.
Speaker 3: What i call don't answer for your muther, and fodder
again don't put me. On speakerphon You It's. Like damiens
cohen that's. The unwritten rule. Do not answer if you
have family, in the?
Speaker 1: Camera why why but why not that why YOU could
have i mean you certainly had the connections to go and.
Speaker 2: Do something like that or. Get in there is?
Speaker 1: It, TWO days no i don't. BELIEVE it is i
don't believe. IT ever was i don't think it's what.
YOU really want i don't think you. LIKE that attention
i think.
Speaker 2: You like. It it's smaller i'd like.
Speaker 3: It smaller docues I'm happy. Where, i'm at, Yeah, you know.
Yeah WHO knows if i had a green card, At
the time jimmie foun might own this, place up there
he'd Be backtend and i'd be making. OUT his money excep.
DEFINITELY more chairman i MIGHT use the f, bomb too
much but. Script that, House, but yeah.
Speaker 2: Well there's always been this story that you went down
there and were in.
Speaker 1: The, audience once yeah and something might have happened while
they were setting up a band. Or Doing something so
jimmy's kind of doing some crowd work and he knew,
you were there AND then you I had. Dueling irish,
accents yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And he brought me. Up on stage oh he did, It,
was like chris what's what that Freaking, comedian, christ no no,
not the, Comedian, The Magician.
Speaker 2: Chris, chris angel.
Speaker 3: Yeah so he, was on it, and Uh so so
I'm in the i'm in The audience and i've. Done
To myself so i'm in the audience AND jim knew,
i was there, And, he goes okay let's get a
member from the audience and, and he, goes he goes get.
That guy there so he left and even Know me,
AND i'm like i didn't. Know You're doing said. I'm
gonna owe marcy, WAS there, Actually i said i'm gonna
Be on. The tonight show. This IS awesome so. I
COME down but i. WAS coming down i knew a
couple of the writers, that Were there and i'm high
five and? WHAT'S going on, I go up. I'm on
stage I'm There with chris. Angel and fallon we're on
the stage and he did his part where he actually,
swallowed a frog putting his belt and came back up
in Our air, and, i'm like, JEEZ that's, amazing I
said but i know. Where it, is he goes it's
over there. In your. Hand he, was Jim's LIKE what
so i actually we left at night and uh went
To it was aaron that night and whenever you, watch
the show because, on t day, but we said We're,
in the sidebarry so we. Gotta watch it i'm. On
the show i'm on the show and, on the show
and then. It never ends blanked me out.
Speaker 2: With the fucker.
Speaker 3: That's my big. MOVE to it i was totally. TAKING
your job i went to. A different script. That's very
funny that.
Speaker 1: Is very funny damien has been so kind as to
have MY son and i down to. HIS lake, house
i mean you're very. Generous WITH everything if, i have
it you. Have, MY friend well i Mean that that's you've.
Always been that while it's it's.
Speaker 3: Just the way, it was, raised you, Know, it was,
yeah you know my parents. Are very generous it's just
IT'S if if i HAVE it and i can give
it and help, someone else out then. You have it that's. How, baways, been,
YEAH yeah no.
Speaker 1: I see That i just it's amazing to me because
it seems to. Like in, that you know it's almost
like that law. Of attraction thing the more, you give out.
Speaker 2: The more that.
Speaker 3: COMES back in i came into a thousand bucks, in my,
pocket AND yeah if i leave, it at that. Wasn't
as bad, it doesn't matter. You know what it's, it's life,
short you know and if you can make a difference
so out, OF people's life i. Care.
Speaker 2: About THAT yeah so i don't think people knew. THAT
about you i think. THEY see you i think they see.
Speaker 1: THE big personality i think there's some people that are
intimidated by you because of, your BIG personality and i
THINK they.
Speaker 2: GET i do i don't think they know that. Part,
of you well see that we
Speaker 1: Expose the, whole thing Here don't do it's gonna, ruin my, Reputation,
all right well Happy to say patrick, to my friend
love you blooms having