Brian and James Fuck Each Other - Episode 191 : Paul Marsh Part One
Episode Date: April 5, 2023Check out Paul Marsh on Instagram for all his gigs and his book....
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Are you done stuffing your fat face, your little pig?
Hello and welcome to the show.
I swallowed it very quick because Paul's here.
And I got you your diet.
Oh, I forgot, wait, no, I got you your Diet Coke right there.
Yeah, almost forgot.
Had a baby a senior moment there a minute ago.
I went to the shop and didn't buy anything and just walked out.
Yeah.
I just got distracted about the lights and colours.
Somebody text you and you came away.
I'm 50 and I don't fucking do that.
I'm surprised, yeah, you must have got some looks.
And this is around the time that the schools are letting out.
so that just doesn't look good for you
at all. I'm wearing a Wutang t-shirt, they know
I'm cool. Hey kids
remember Wutang from like 30
years ago? ODB, click the dole, come on.
We're here with Paul Marsh, Paul.
How are you doing? Thanks for having me.
I never knew, I've heard about your house and I'll never know where you live
and I'm not going to give that in a way, but
I know loads of firemen that live around this
area. I'm just kind of picturing that all these,
they're all going to be going, that fucking weird fella
that comes into the shop and doesn't buy anything.
And then I just saw up
Paul Marsh going
to his
house.
They'll think
you're pretty
cool.
Yeah.
When they know
what I'm doing
here,
you wouldn't even
James has even
have stuff
I'm doing here
now.
I'm doing some
weird stuff
and we're going
to get even
weirder
because Paul
just bought me
a Dublin
Fire Brigade
T-shirt.
Yeah.
Now I can
role plays as a
fireman.
And I can
get what you know
you're involved
in the fire services
Paul.
That's right.
You know,
you get away
with some murder
I imagine.
The F-bomb,
we used to call
when we started
years ago we would call it the F-bomb that
you know if you were talking to someone and you
got in well I'm a fireman
now I never to be honest with you I never did much
of that but those T-shirts like there are work T-shirts
but imagine like wearing your
work T-shirt out on a night out fellas used
to do that like yeah
would they ever like
wear the full thing the full regalia with the hat
and the big nose well if
on Paddy's Day and if you're going away to
America on trips and stuff like that
and it's fucking
post 9-11 holy shit man
don't buy a
point. It's just brilliant.
Man, actually, before
we get on too much there, have you ever watched
Rescue Me? Yeah. Do you mean? Watching
Rescue Me in the house recently?
That seems pretty cool. See, I've a love
hate type thing because all the lads keep going on about
rescue me, but the thing is
Dennis Leary is a joke to him.
And he fucking...
Oh, you play like Bill Hicks, don't you? I love Bill Hicks.
How many people do he save in the fire?
But Dennis Leary
is just like, when you read
Bill Hicks' biography, Dennis Leary
was like the Montreal Comedy Festival
playing to 2,000 people
and Bill Hicks was at the room
next door, playing to 500.
He basically had our career, Brian.
But with the same material,
like, it's fucking ridiculous.
We're also true tellers.
Yeah.
Like, if you imagine, I'm in the fucking Hapenny
and I'm going, so I'm Mr. Dead Sound,
and then there's someone over in the laughter lounge
going, so I'm Mr. Dead Sound, you know what I mean?
That'd be so funny if like Tick Natarro's doing a big show
there, is stealing your set
about being a fireman.
We're like, wait, that doesn't track,
but actually's lovable, isn't she?
Yeah, so I couldn't, I know how the last used to be all I was on about it, but, um, well, they've been watching, I don't know, I've just been going in and out while they're watching it, you know?
Yeah.
There's a bit where a guy gets raped.
A guy gets raped?
Yeah, yeah.
By another man.
Yeah, by another man.
Okay.
So this woman, this probably happened to you, Paul.
So this guy meets this hot girl.
Yeah.
She's like, come here.
Well, let me tie you up.
He's like, oh, sweet.
Yeah.
But then her boyfriend jumps out.
Like, surprise.
Oh.
Wee.
You know, like, whey, we're like, whey, whey.
you know like go
yeah
it goes hamming them
now it's suggested
we don't actually see
penetration or anything
and it's played off
for laughs
where it's like
you get up with your
silly scrapes
don't you
oh really
Dennis theory is like
yeah
I bet you loved it
didn't you
oh my god
that's amazing
that was like the late
90s when that came out
it's after 9-11
after it's so like 2004
I think is when it started
yeah
I think it's pretty soon
after 9-11
a bad gets raped
and it's played for laughs
yeah that happened
all the time
comedy used to be great
didn't it
to tell you, we used to have something special.
We used to have some fun.
You're going to kill me. Can I pause?
Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we just ended with
with like all comedies.
Hang on real quick. Why is, what did he want?
Is some man came to the door with a child?
It's like, I hear to fix boiler.
Boyle of for you. A nice child.
I love the way he was just leaned up against the door.
It was very chill and casual.
It was very casual when you opened me out.
Fuck off, would you?
Yeah, listen, man.
A kid should be in school.
Yeah, so you missed it there.
We were recording.
It was all going well.
And this man just showed up with a child.
I thought you'd order something special.
You looked over at me as like, come on, Cadden.
At least wait till the end of the show.
I'm like, ah, alright.
It's the big surprise there.
Like you said, we got to all sorts.
A child was meant to be inside a cake.
Excuse me.
What is going on here?
This is outrageous.
No, it's like a sexy thing now.
Instead of in a cake, it's in a boiler, you know?
It's like, uh, hello, child.
boiler strippers. A little child pops out of a boiler. It's like, oh, this is for your big
retirement do, Nigel. Many happy returns. I meant to mention at the start of the show I was
going to say, I have this idea that if anyone is ever out to get me, they'd be like, oh, he's too
fucking nice. We can't get him. He's a fucker. And then, oh, he's doing Brian and James's
podcast. Oh, he's playing into our hands here. This will be your downfall. This is it.
So if ever I was going to, so I wrote, I actually have a notebook here. Well, this is cool now.
so let me tell you
just so you know
we can go through
your ideas
and I got something
extra spicy
no no I just
had one idea
and I was going to
hold that up
to just say
don't get me cancelled
whenever you say
okay
well he's already
talking about
child sex
boiler
strippers
well I had the whole
boiler angle
so it's playful
you know
it's not weird
and insidious
it's fun
and written down the bottom
was like
get James to do
his soprano's impression
my soprano's impression
which one's that
he's the generic gambler christopher
oh yeah
think about it
he's not a clapping seal
yeah exactly yeah yeah
this is my christopher impression
or my tony oppression
because they're both bad
by the way can i say i am a big fan of the podcast
i know we've gone straight in here talking about everything
but you know i am a big fan of the podcast
you you were here
before we start recording and you're making references
the podcast and i was in my head was like
there's no way you know that
yeah how do you know oh yeah listen to it yeah
There's been a couple of different things.
Two things that stuck out.
Like, I've talked to you before, but I go trying to do a bit of walking and trying to lose weight.
So I listen to the two of you.
And then go around the park and laugh out loud and people are kind of looking at you, kind of wondering.
Especially I've come up behind three women.
I did that one time, fight the shit out of the dream.
And I just, I forget, Ross, they were walking and slowly, and I'm just, you know, you're in a world of your own.
And I'm mixing you said something on a big roar of a laugh.
And they all just stopped and looked around.
And I just pulled my earplugs out and go, sorry, sorry, I'm just listening to podcast.
Yeah.
He was doing Christopher.
I like how I'm freaking women out
and I don't have to be there
just hearing my voice women are terrified
it's a domino effect
I like that power that I have
I can't remember what I was laughing at
but the one that a couple of things
that made me laugh out loud
you had Mark Malone
is it Mark Maloney is that he's name
Mark Maloney yeah so he was given this
heartfelt thing about how he had split up with his
girlfriend and hold on and you said
Brian said you
oh I saw is that the one I met you in a comedy club with
I knew there was something wrong.
I was like, that's a real comedian's thing to say, like, just so good.
And there was like a fraction of a second.
And the other one then was when you were talking about the whale
and you described your man's pulley system as something out of Wallace and Gromwellis.
And he loves cheese.
It's because James, I know, like, I love, listen to James and going off on a rant
and his impressions and holla.
But I have a kind of a love-hate relationship with you.
Oh, you're not the first one to say that.
So I will laugh out loud mostly at the same.
stuff that you say
and different stuff
and then I'll get fucking
really annoyed with you
sometimes
especially about movie reviews
oh this is a long time
comic
do you remember you did
the live show
and I was
I was one of the guests
and I was like
and it was a real
I have to say
I'll be totally honest
with you know
the fact that you pronounce
what's his name
again?
What ledger for is it
which the ledge of the fort
yeah
we just have to trust him
that's the right way
yeah but I don't know
it's how you say his name
in my head I was like
I remember when I did
that in my head, I was like, fuck, that was going to be
great. That's because, do you remember in Guardians
of the Galaxy when the man goes, what are they in their
harbourattery batteries or something?
Never seen it. No way.
Yeah, I never say it. You give me shit, Paul.
This is the other thing you see. You were
taking his word for fucking great movies.
Like, a couple of weeks ago there was runaway
jury and in my head I was like, don't fucking say
that's a brilliant, don't say it. Bad about that fucking
movie. Brian, don't you
fucking dare. Like, because you could have had, like,
Brian could have gone, oh, it's a fucking most stupid movie.
It's as if like, yeah, this is you to
I'd be listening to go shut Brian
That's a fucking great movie
You don't fucking know
Well I'll be honest with you
A lot of these movies I barely watch
He watches 12 minutes of it
While he's on his phone
And then he comes in
He's like
Yes the direction was very underdeveloped
I didn't care for it
The movie I watched recently
And like I went to take a shower during it
And I didn't pause it
But you could like
You focus in on the weirdest thing
About the movie
You might watch The Godfather
I don't even mention
That Halpecino was in it
you were like oh yeah it was a fucking but you know
that kind of
yeah I focus on the important stuff you know
like is there tits in it or not
like Sonny's big cock
which was omitted
actually that's usually James's
input is to it was there was there
well I'm playing a character
of a disgusting misogynist big
I was telling you earlier on about we watch movies
and work every now and again and before anyone thinks
that we were you know quite stationed that you can
kind of fucking do that we would watch them in three or four
settings but always the movies
have to have there's one guy that just goes
What's the movie? Are you watching, you know, watching the movies?
You know, loads of killing. That's all he ever says.
Loads of killing. Oh, yeah, there's loads of killing.
Deadly.
These are the people we're trusting to save us in times of crisis.
No, that's just this one guy.
That's all he ever says to me.
Loads of killing.
Yeah.
I'll watch it.
No, but that's better.
I wish I had that ability to just be like, just enjoy something and be like,
oh, look, he shot the gun.
Yeah, fucking class, you know.
But I'm too much like, oh, the me's on scenes.
This is not Wes Anderson's best work.
You know, I'm all talking shite like that.
And then you'll,
there was one movie I remember
you were talking about some
one who was making love to a car
and all I was like where the fuck do you get
oh what was that one yeah
I forget what it's called now
it had some kind of generic name like
like steel
yeah but she like gave birth to a car
yeah and I was like where the fuck do you
she's a fireman
yeah she her um there's a fire station
involved were like yeah that was it there was
there was a man that's it
she wears like cuts her hair short
yeah and um
wears like a thing
binds her tits titties right yeah yeah and she listens to the joe rogan podcast that's the
best way if you any ladies out there want to come behind enemy lines just start talking about
alpha brain and dm t's like hey this dude's pretty cool i like him so then she tricks them and
thinking she's a man fireman yeah turns out she's a woman fireman and she's been having sex with
cars and then she gives birth to a car at the end i wish it's french so a lot of times you're watching
foreign films you're like this might seem odd to us when they're
culture that might seem like
but I remember
I remember when you were doing that
and I was like
you were really selling
that gun on a bit
is the greatest movie
and then I was like
this is the same man
who said that
Forrest Gump was shit
and the big libid
In fact actually
I said Forrest Gump was shit
It was James
who said that
Yeah that's true
I remember yeah
I was annoyed at that
I remember that's okay
I've annoyed a lot of people
with that one
so you're not alone
I was like
French car sex
You're a big fan of Gump
aren't you a gumpi
Oh yeah
I think that's that's
I don't like
you talk a lot
about horrors and stuff
I like a, I think
what we do as comedians
is kind of like a form of storytelling
and so's poetry and so as books
and obviously everything
but movies is the ultimate
Yes
If you're going to tell a story
Tell a nice story
You know have a big happy ending
Would you be telling bad stories
Be swept away with the
The magic of movies
Yeah the magic exactly
What fucking Brian's over here watching
What is that one with Ray or Winston
Bang and his daughter
What was that called?
Oh yeah that was called
Something like Danger zone
Or the Warzone
Warzone
That was it yeah
It was directed by Tim Roth.
But there's other thing as well.
So the other thing I was going to mention is that obviously I'm 50.
Just interrupt you one second.
The movie is called Taitain.
Tai Taitain.
It was directed by Julia Dr.
Julia Dr. Rannu.
Twidgelladj, LaForgia.
We'll take your word for it.
So before he interrupted you with his mispronunciation, Paul, what were you saying?
No, I was going to say the other thing obviously is that I'm 50.
I'd say I'm one of your oldest listeners, I'd say.
Probably.
Probably, yeah.
but the thing is regularly I hear something
and I will stop as I'm walking around the park
put it in my phone
then go Google it
and then come into the lads
and work at the fire station to go
so I was listening to Brian James
and there's this thing
so the lads and work all know
that I listen to the podcast called Brianne James
whether I don't even have got
they're worried
yeah but everything is all
mad stuff that you've
you know so it's basically like
the way I look at the podcast is that I've
It's like I've hired someone
to go through all the mad shit
on the internet and report back to me.
That's how I feel like sometimes
because I'll be going on to stuff
I don't like at all.
Yes.
It's a job, you know?
Yeah.
It changes you.
You're like Louis Theroux, you know?
Much like being a fireman.
I'm going into the danger zone, you know?
I'm going into the war zone.
Yes.
It's going deep into the internet to find the...
Because the one thing that I remember
that stuck out, I remember coming in
and we're having...
Because one of the last said,
Marci, we're having a fucking breakfast here.
You've gone on about some girls
who, um...
They get ejaculation on their face
and then just walk around town
Oh yes
Oh what was that called again
Oh God I forget
But it does happen
Strutting or something
It's called like come walk
That's it
Come walk
It's happening in Dublin right now
No way
Yeah
Like there's girls
Yeah
Remember with that kid
Came to the door Brian
It's like
Yeah enjoy your come walk
You little prick
Well I'll be back
To put in boiler
Next week
Please don't come on child's face
You're going to get Paul cancelled
I'm sorry
but my point was like
yeah it's a thing that's being very popular now
they love the kind of
never seen it
the degradation of the whole thing
like they're really kind of like scar letter
it's like you know
the walking whore
you know they like that
I don't think it's meant as a humiliation
I think it's like I'm proud
I'm sex positive
well it can be both
yeah so walk around with visible
come under face
that was I remember
I went into work that
remember the next morning
and tell the lads
and one of the lads was like
we're trying to have breakfast here
where the fuck do you get this stuff
they're just eating their egg
and I just show me hands on
it's Brian and James
just they're just saying
oh I went very down
internet rabbit hole there recently
so this is going to sound
like a big thing
but let me just take you
through a little story for a second
right so I'm listening
to a podcast recently
and they mentioned thing
called gone wild parties
now gone wild parties
are orgies
but for the common man
the other way like most orgies
are like, you know, for models.
They have them at Tipperary.
Yeah.
That's another thing, by the way.
Whenever you use a reference
to real culture, backward place,
you always fucking say Tipperary.
I'm pointing at James, by the way.
And you're from Monaghan.
I have to, yeah, yeah.
I don't know, that's like colorism right there, you know?
That's like the dark skin,
making fun, the light skin.
I don't, I probably the only reason I say Tipperary
is I'm thinking, oh, Marsh has listened to this.
Yeah, yeah.
I'll slag off Tipperary.
Oh, actually, another thing I want to talk about
Is you ever hear Bridget Cleary from Tipperary?
No.
Oh, she was a witch.
We'll get to that in the second.
Oh, right, okay.
So I'm just saying, the point is,
I heard about these things called gone wild parties.
And the whole point is it's orgies for ugly people.
That's the worst.
If you're fat, if you're ugly, smelly,
if you love Power Rangers, this is for you, all right?
So I was like, oh, cool, let me look up in Ireland.
There's any Gone Wild parties in Dublin, let's say.
Yeah.
So I looked it up, and I didn't see that,
but I saw a thing called Ireland Gone Wild,
and it's sexy Irish.
girls. And I was like, oh, let me look at that for a second. I click onto it. The first
girl I see, I'm like, my man, do I know her? That's a bit funny. She kind of looks like a girl
I know. Ah, well, you know, I'll move on, okay? Yeah. And I'm going to work and all in work,
I'm like, it couldn't have been her. No, no, no, no, it couldn't. It couldn't. It couldn't.
No, no. And then I get home, and I start going, like, researching where I'm looking at an Instagram
with the girl I know, and the picture of this, I'm like, it's so weird. It kind of got the same
kind of face, but it can't possibly
and I see the same picture matches
up as a girl I do know.
I know this girl and she's got nude picture
on the internet. It turns out she's got an
only fan that she keeps quiet, all right?
And I'm like, oh my God, I've got to get on this.
So I'm on my phone trying to get my only fans
all right. But because I'm typing,
I'm going too hard, right? It's taken
too long to load. So then I get my laptop
up and I'm trying to access it from two points.
And only fans have been
see, it's not even being that slow. It's taking
a few seconds, but my head's taking half an hour.
I'm like, fucking couldn't, fucking co.
Like that, I finally got a work in there.
So, and then I went on to it.
And then, like, the thing that only fans is, you kind of go
onto it, you pay your, you know, eight euro,
whatever that. And right after, it's like,
well, yeah.
I could just see tits normally.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's almost like you have a sort of addictive,
compulsion, this sexual depravity.
But you want to see the tits of somebody you know.
That's the thing. I would have taught the only fans thing
would be that it's someone you know.
Now, wait, did she show her face?
Yeah.
That's a rookie mistake.
she's showing every bond of things she's showing her face as well like right but you wouldn't know
follow her regular instagram that she's doing this now you know her from back home is it or uh no she's
actually friends with a girl that we both know actually oh from from college let's say that yeah oh but you
wouldn't know this girl well i'll be surprised who i know brian oh oh yeah but it's just kind
interesting if does anyone out there on only fans just you know give us a shout here on the show
no just you know you'll share your only fans yeah you will do that you're an advertising
And by that, I mean, put a butt plug in your asshole.
Oh, so back to this other thing, so Tipperary, you're from Tipperary.
I was wondering if, so, Bridget Cleary, I was wondering if it's like an urban legend that everyone knew in Tiberi.
Cleary's a big name down there, yeah.
So Cleary, okay, so this is like 1806 or something like that, right?
So let me set the table.
Bridget Cleary is a young woman, she's very good in knitting.
She's like class-sacked and knitting.
She has a family, and she ports the whole family by knitting.
you know so like
the mother and father
don't have to
they can retire basically
off her knitting
right
she meets the guy
who works
at the barrel factory
handsome guy
okay
forget his name
it's called him
brock
right
right so
it meets Brock
and
Brock from Tipper area
yeah exactly
and they get together
to get married
it's all going well
so you know
he's making money
she's making money
they're doing
for 1806
forever the fuck
they're doing okay
you know
they can actually
she doesn't need
an only
no she can afford
a cottage
you know
this is back
when women actually worked
you know
but like so like it's all going well
but then she gets a cold disease
so she's cold all the time
right and the husband's like
that's a bit odd and then her
uncle shows up as like I tell you what's happened here
that's not your wife
anymore that's a changeling
that's a fairy
oh like a demonic possession
yeah it's a fairy right there it's replaced your wife
yeah yeah they're like you know what
fairies love fresh milk
so we're going to get loads of sour milk
and make her drink it
so they give her
loads of loads of sour milk
they hold her down
and it's funny that it's like
her uncle and the husband
I think the fad
are holding her down
but go on
come on you Philly
come on drink it
so they make her drink
all the sour milk
and she's like
and they're like
oh that's a sign
of being a fairy right there
you know
why didn't they give her
fresh milk
to say if she'd enjoy it
I know she'd love it too much
and then they shove
some bread down her mouth
and it's still not working
so they put her head in the fire
okay
because it
Fairies hate fire. Oh, where did you see this?
It was on YouTube there.
But then it's still not working. So they cover her with
lamp oil and set her in fire.
Yeah. And then she dies.
You're not gold anymore, you stupid bitch.
Yeah, fuck it out.
So it's set her on fire, right? And she dies, obviously.
Yeah. And they bury her in a bog
because you're like, oh shit, this is a bit bad, isn't it?
Yeah. But then he tells a priest,
the husband does Brock.
And the priest is a little snitch, and he tells
the guards. Then he gets arrested.
And he goes to jail. And the whole
time in jail, he's like, you know what?
No guilt at all. I don't feel guilty for
killing a fairy. Yeah. Yeah.
For a change thing. Yep. And then apparently
the guy on YouTube was saying that, to this
day, children Tipperary, still
saying, you know, are you fairy,
are you Bridget Clary? But obviously
that bad on YouTube. Well, I'm
down, sorry, I'm opening the can of coke here.
I'm down south, so I've never heard that, but
there is a mill in my
village, and there was a guy years ago,
they made up a guy, and they call
him Paddy Cones. Okay.
And they had like a paycheck thing for him.
So they came up with this system in the middle
where you just clicked in the thing.
And they met up a fake one.
And for years and years, this guy was just,
there was, and they would clock him in more
and clock him out and even.
And then when he got a paycheck every Friday,
they would take that paycheck
and they'd all go to the pub
and they'd all get drinks.
Oh, nice.
Paddy's buying this one.
Yeah.
So now if anyone says anything,
that's like back in the 1940s, 30s and 40s.
But now still, if anyone in my village,
you know, if you're down the pub,
you might say something like,
I'd say something like that.
Oh, did you hear about that?
Some of the ago.
Who told you that?
Paddy Cones.
You know what I mean?
I like the little urban myths and stuff
in little small towns.
I like that's dying off a bit.
There's loads of little stuff like that around my area that of, um,
there's a one Petty Coat Loose.
Do you ever notice?
There's a big lake up just above us.
You know the V?
Have you heard of the V?
No.
The highest road in Ireland.
And it comes up to a point and then it just turns back in itself.
So that's what they call it the V.
But up there there's a big lake called Baylock.
And I remember, it was just stuck with me when I was a child.
There was this woman called Petty Cote Lewis,
and she had a deal with the devil.
And he said, if you can empty Baylock with a timble,
you can have your soul back.
You know what I mean?
You saw this as a young fellow, like,
but these are just stories.
But when you're like fucking seven,
you're like, oh my God, poor woman.
But come here, can I just go back?
Remember you said about an orgy?
So I used to DJ years ago, right?
I used to DJ.
And you have these lads to be, you know,
they'd be DJ in in different towns or whatever.
and they ring me up
and they're really stuck.
So this fellow rang me up one time
and he goes,
I believe you're a friend
and such as I have a gig for you.
And at the time,
this was like early two,
early 2000s to say about
2,000 and four or five.
And he goes,
it's 400 pounds.
The going rate was like 200 pounds.
It was double money.
I was like, you joke at me?
And he goes, yeah,
400 quid.
They only wanted to play for three hours.
It was 8 to 11 or whatever.
And it's a party and
but he was really specific
about how to get there
and it was a big house.
It was like a function.
And to go around.
the back and bring in your gear you just come in the door on the right-hand side there's
plug set up the gear play a bit of background music if anyone has for requests you know
so into this place and of course me being me i just fucking had a walk around and they had a roulette
table in another room and all this and there was loads of cheer and log on this so they were all
playing but there was all kind of money being put down they'd all had chips and there was this
but they're all going around in um uh uh like tuxedos and the women are all dressed up to the
night really and the men seemed to be way older than the women there was a lot of young
Okay, I like this.
Right, yeah, so.
And I kind of didn't realize what was kind of going on until really late in the night.
Yeah.
And as I was, a couple of girls came in and they were dancing, but they were only dancing.
The dance floor was just full of about 10 or 12 women.
Right.
All say in their 30s and 40s.
And then a bunch of outfits came in and started dancing with, when they were grabbing them with the arces and the whole lot.
They're all laughing.
I was like, oh, hang on a second here.
So the next thing, this fella come up who was like security and goes, you're finishing 11, yeah?
And I said, yeah, yeah.
He goes, just get your gear.
and out the door.
And I said, all right,
yeah, no problem.
And then he came back to me
and he goes back and he goes,
we're actually,
things are starting to kick off here.
He didn't say kick off.
He said something.
Things are moving on here,
so we're going to get you to finish early.
Just finish.
That's your last song.
And he goes, okay.
And he,
like he handed me my money.
And I finished a quarter of 11
and just packed up.
And the whole time he's watching me and watching me.
And at this stage,
there's people chasing each other around the fucking place.
What the fuck?
So, um, the fellow who gave me the gig, I rang him up then the next day.
It says, uh, thanks to me for that gig last night.
He goes, yeah, you had to go, okay.
I was fucking, you know, I want to make sure because that's, that's a good earner for me.
So if you ever need me again, no, no, it's only because I was on holidays.
I'll be doing them.
Oh, Jesus.
And I said, can I ask you something.
Was that, yeah, no, I can't tell you anything.
Wow.
That's fucking eyes wide shut, man.
That's exactly what I fucking thought.
Well, there are any faces you recognize.
And this was a house, right?
And this was a house that was, no, there was none of them.
I didn't recognize it.
No, like Fine Gael politicians.
No.
You didn't see End of Kenny or anyone.
Ben Bertie or her in there.
I would say all in all there was probably only...
I'd say there was probably only 40 or 50 people there.
But there's a fucking massive big house in the middle of like you drove down for about two miles to get to this thing.
Would you believe these were prostitutes or just women that were going along for like the money?
I would say going along for the money.
Yeah, it's a rich guy I'll go with whatever like...
You could tell they were...
You could tell that the lads that had the tuxedos on didn't fucking just.
rent them off you know of you know they were their tuxedos you know and there was and they're all
drinking champagne and they're all you know there's fucking class there was actually kids there to
start a night but they disappeared they disappeared they yeah there was two kids obviously
oh holy fuck yeah yeah i should probably shouldn't have mentioned that part but anyway
this is interesting i took me 400 quitted left it there's been down 30 years i when i was
DJing you see some mad shit yeah there was mad party and there was a couple of different
GDPR now i can't be saying too much but house parties
or you know in certain posh areas
like right just all that
oh because they have like
it they'll always apply to them you know
they have this sense
they can do what they want
yeah and they just
if we kill a butler it's it's a bit of a laugh
yeah yeah or a DJ
but like you would go
DJ you're like DJ in a hallway
you're just but I mean I've gone to parties
and kids parties and all where
in posh places where like
no one's come near me
and they played fucking 300 quid or something to have me there
yeah but they have a bouncy castle
and they've a clown and they're a magician and they're fucking everything
all the parents are in the jacks doing
sniffs
yeah and it's just like
filthy but you know
there's a very
I really want to investigate more
there's a whole kind of like
rich side of Ireland
that we don't really see
see see I'm that's the part
I remember going out to
I'm out in the station
out in Dunleary now
we're going around Dawkey one time
and I was only just kind of
moved to the station
and one of the lads
I said the lads
who lives in there
there's a big massive house
whose house is that
and he said you need to stop
associating wealth with fame
the people that are out here
nobody knows who the fuck they are
exactly their families have been filthy
they buy and sell Bono for fucking
old money and nobody knows who they are
and that's the way they fucking like yeah man
so there's a whole area
are they Irish you think oh yeah yeah
that's thing so like at least in London it's like
oh Saudis yeah but this is like
these old families that again
no one knows what they do
if you look up like rich people in Ireland
you never heard of most of it kind of goes back to like
sort of the Anglo fucking
Anglo-Celtic
sort of English landlords
in Ireland or Irish landlords
with British connections
like that's where the real
like all the real old old money
like you can draw a line
it all goes back to England
but some of these
I know one of them got in trouble there
and it was one of the biggest houses
and it's only done because he was on the newspaper
that kind of knew who he was
but he was a judge
right so
but I think it's all that kind of stuff
you know it's all barristers
and what's that one you know where you're a
accountant but you're more than an accountant.
Solicitor. Actuary or something?
Oh, actuary. So it is a.
Well, there's that thing of like old, so like old wealthy families, they're sort of,
they would raise a number of like sons as like one son goes into politics, one goes into law,
one becomes a priest. So it's like, you always, so like the kind of powerful, the institutions
of power, we, that family will always have a certain amount of influence over them.
They have their finger in each point.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They kept their options open, basically.
One's a guard as well.
You notice, like, none of them ever said,
okay, and now you become a comedian
and you become a DJ, you know, it's like, yeah.
Because I always tell people that when we put fires out there,
we put it out with sparkling water.
It's that kind of an area.
But, no, it's funny.
I was trying to think of something there recently
that in any other country in the world,
like, if your son was, like, said to you,
like, I have a son who's seven.
You know, and if you were in American,
and I said, Dad, I'd like to be president.
You'd be like, you could be president, Randy.
You could be whatever you want.
If my son genuinely said to me, I want to be T-Shuck,
I'd be like, what the fuck?
What?
Why would you want?
Get in politics.
You're fucking joking me.
Get to fucking...
He's already too late, you know?
Yeah.
Unless you yourself were like a very prominent,
like, a phenofal or fial politician.
Yeah.
It's not going to happen.
It's never going to happen.
And the only way in it is to go in one of these parties like the...
Yeah.
Excuse me.
What's your man, something, Murphy?
What's his name?
I asked it wrong pal here.
I wouldn't know anything about politics
One of the first times I was out there actually
I'm like commoner
I was about to tell a story there
and I can't GDPR again
I was something to do with Fire Brigade
but yeah the same is the Patreon
yeah I'll tell you
I'll tell you that story
in the Patreon because
there's a lot going on at the moment
about evictions and the whole lot
and you're like for fuck's sake
you know because I think that
you know
again I'll talk you in the
I've noticed they're making the big push
for guards recently
a lot of the podcasts and like
in the radio is a lot of ads to be like
being a guard's great
but did you hear that ad on the
for the guard so it's a
like if anyone ask me about the fireby
I'll say it's oh it's fucking great
you get to spray water everywhere
and you've got to drive through traffic
with the sirens going to spray
and then they go yeah but you see
we must see some terrible stuff
every now and again but no
mainly you spray water you know what I mean
you gotta sell the fucking job
the guard's ad at the moment
is something like I'm a guard
and she's got a kind of a norther next
I'm a guard for a long time
and I remember I'd only started as a guard
and we got this young boy
who the family had only moved
and he
sudden death and
and then on his birthday
every year now I send a card and oh I love
doing my job and like okay what's
whose plan was that like that you're going to be
sitting at home going the ads even worse
dead kids that's the job for me
the ad's even worse basically it's like oh we found
this kid his parents had died in some
big accident yeah he was very sad
but like then a year later
we had the cars drive past his house
and uh that's the
knee no knee and the kid probably loved it
yeah
If anything, it covered up the sound of him crying for a few minutes.
Because, oh, what a whingy week.
And I was like, how the fuck are you, how was anyone going to listen to that and go?
Yep, that's the job for me.
My cousin just became a guard.
She's, like, younger than me.
And, like, she's a guard.
She was doing law.
Now she's a guard.
So it's like, it obviously is appealing to people on some level.
The shift work is great, I have to say, because obviously, I wouldn't be here doing this
show, if I had, if I actually had a 9-to-5 job.
And the other thing then was the pension, but the pension is gone now as well.
So that's another.
Is it gone?
Yeah, it's.
Don't mention that on the ad.
It's, you know, it's only a fraction.
I don't want to comfort a small child.
Jesus.
It actually went, they started to kind of claw waited when I had just joined the job.
So I'm not on, I'll retire in about five years' time and I wouldn't be, I can retire
five years time.
Yeah, yeah.
And I wouldn't be on the same pension as fellas who came in like two years before me.
Are you going to go wild when you retire, man?
No, I will, I'll be really, I'll have to be penny pension and fucking doing comedy gigs.
I'll be ringing up people, go on, give us a gig, give us a gig, come on.
No, just purge it all.
Well, you're too warm, actually is it.
Brian at James podcast, so you're not allowed to do this.
You were cancelled back in 2003.
No, I, and you're still doing the same material for 30 years.
Hey, nobody gets mad at Seinfeld when he's doing it.
Seinfeld can do all the material and bang the teenagers and nobody gets mad at him.
At the height of the show being on air, he was going out with a 17-year-old.
That's how you know a show is popular, my friend.
Do you know, material, I did The Crunch last night.
There was a guy in the corner from Kilkenny.
be nice yeah and there was a guy in the corner
someday maybe someday
no but there was a guy in the corner from Kilkenny
and I just made a joke about Hurling
and fucking talk about just like
arms folded stared me out of the rest of the gig
and then at the end of the night
and the guy the barman is from Kilkenny
and I was telling him afterwards and he was like
some fellas Kilkenny they're just unbelievable
like they just take it so serious
I just made a joke about Tipperary
I just, there was a bunch of Americans
and said, have you heard of Superary?
Well, our national sport is hurling
and we are the best
county in Ireland that hurling by far.
And I looked over to me and isn't that right
in your mouth?
I was like, no!
And I was like, all right, chill out you, fucking, you know.
And then I said, your man's from Kilkenny.
I said, there are our rivals.
I'm surprised you're not wearing your jersey.
You always get that, don't you?
And I turn to the career, you always get that, don't you?
People wearing Kilkenny jerseys
at fucking Slane or the RDS at a concert or something.
There's always two or three lads wearing it.
Oh, I'm going up to the big smoke.
I'll throw on me,
Kenny, Jersey, everyone will know where I'm from.
And I said, we already know where you're from
by the fucking head on you.
And I looked at how much amount, he's bull and Steve
coming out of his ears, and he was fucking bullock.
It's funny how, like, some people, like,
everyone's got a little thing where, like,
oh, laugh, sighting me, fucking snowflakes.
Don't make fun of hurling.
He didn't get it out of your Israel, Palestine jokes,
but, oh, the hurling, that...
I have a bad reputation in the crunch for trying out
stuff that didn't go well.
I remember I had a joke one time.
actually I'll tell you what it was.
I tried this joke when I started out doing comedy
and then had forgotten about it and I saw the notebook
and I went, that's a great joke.
Why don't I do that joke?
And then went into The Crunch one night.
Everything going well and I always drove
and trying something new, I put it in the middle.
Yeah, yeah.
And so I put, and it was, I was watching the quiz show today
and the host asked the guy,
what football team had their home ground
in the stadium of light.
And he said, oh, Jesus.
My father is going to be at home now shouting at the television.
And the host said, oh, is he a football fan?
He said, no, he's got dementia.
That's great.
It's a good joke.
Total silence.
And one guy down the back went, ha!
And I would totally have a joke, especially for that guy down the back down.
No, that's a joke.
You've got to keep doing it.
And, you know, people who don't laugh at it, you know, you got to, like, is really punch them.
Follow them home and keep saying into those.
That's one of those key words that you see, all anyone hears is dementia.
Because I had another one that said, I think it was, oh, 2008.
was a big year for me
I turned 45
I just beat cancer
it was big cheer
and I was like
yeah
because my birthday's
on 24 to June
so I'm a Gemini
and then
they're like
oh you know
so you can't
fucking
there's certain words
there's certain words
yeah
that you can't really
no no you can
like I think
just keep saying it
it's funny
it just never stop
so that's advice
from Brian
see
it's funny
I found
the N word
will be funny
again Paul
I guarantee it
mark my words
The N-Words going to have a big glow-up, I promise.
I'd be cancer, because I'm a...
I'm always, as I mentioned DJ,
where I always approached comedy the same as DJ.
So if I was there and I was thinking,
I want to play some wham because I'm doing some 80s.
My favorite wham song is I'm your man.
But not many people know that,
whereas everyone knows wake me up before you go-go.
I'll play it safe and I'll play wake me up before you go-go.
And that's the same kind of approach I've had to comedy.
Yeah, yeah.
Go for the people-pleasing.
Yeah, I think it's the...
I don't know.
I keep telling myself, right,
I'm going to actually, like,
sit down and try and write some real,
like, crowd-pleasing jokes that everyone can like
and get away from the material
that makes people sick,
which is apparently all I deal.
It was quite funny.
You've told me this before.
I can't do it.
And then you get upstairs.
I can't think of it.
You told me this coming back in the car from Galway.
I can't think of anything.
You ever fuck a corpse so hard.
It goes back to life.
Come on.
And then you kill it again.
Because I could.
only get hard when it's dead
we were in Galway and I remember the first thing
you went up the first
your first joke there was someone in I think it was
Danny O'Brien's aunt and uncle or something
and you went up to stage and he goes
how are you I'm from Monaghan and when I was four years
old a cow shitting me mouth yes
and Daniel Brines
his aunt looked at his uncle and went
like raise their eyebrows and went oh okay
that's that's playful
I think that's playful
it's also a true story I'm living
my truth calm down games sorry
we tapped it in something
that is
out of my set
I think that's like
playful
it's like oh this will ease
them in
say a car shitting
in my infant mouth
but like
yeah
you need a little bit
of like
this is me giving advice
this is a lost cause
right now
but like
yourself
like you need a little bit
of like
oh I like my cat
does something funny
yeah
it's a little bit
like just like
so you don't go
from like necrophilia to
paedophilia to necrophilia
a little bit of like
my cat acts funny when the vacuum
cleaners go won't you
I know
I understand like a lot of people have
kind of tuck me not taking me aside it's like
maybe try and come up with some
also you're screaming their face
like Johnny Vegas
they used to be a fellow years ago
you stood out in if somebody didn't laugh he goes
that was fucking funny you need pointed people
and shout in the face
all right because you tell the audience that then
that's what you want to do.
I mean, in fairness, I do get laughs.
I'm not going up there and bombing every time.
I know that.
No, no.
Yeah, that particular one in Godwin, I'm talking about you.
It was great.
It was, but I always remember them looking at each other.
They were all necrophilias.
It was also three in the afternoon.
And oh my God, I was so hung over.
Like, I sweat a lot when I'm on stage.
This was the sweatiest I had ever been.
I was just dripping.
It was disgusting.
Were you supposed to come out that night or something?
You texted me said, no, I'm in bits of something.
Yeah, yeah.
Pussy.
Yeah, I just went really hard
The night before
And I just had to
Because then I had to wake up
And just start pounding Bulmers
Because I was so broke
I couldn't buy beer
But Bulmers was the sponsor
So there was free Bulmers ever
So I'm just like guzzling Bulmers
Which I hate
But I'm trying to get rid of the hangover
I love Bulmers
Sweating profusely
It's just disgusting
That's it there
Talk about sweating
That makes you likeable
Yeah
You know
People like that
You know when you're fucking
A corpse
And you sweat all over
a news with me.
But, like, you're very good
of being self-deprecating.
Oh, too much, to be honest.
You're self-deprecating all the time.
But, like, a little bit more of that,
I'm just like, you know, oh, you know, such and such.
You ever, like, oh, I can't think of it now.
Like, you know, I was on a date and I was sweating.
And, you know, she thought it was raining.
Yeah.
You know, something like that.
I sweat so much that the fire began
get me to run through house fires.
Yeah, well, I like this.
This is brainstorming right now.
She gets disgusted by my sweating.
like, well, if you don't want me
getting wet, maybe you would be getting wet
and then I stick a bottle in her face.
What about that? Is that
what we think there?
I'm a couple of leaders off being a superhero.
All right.
You see, we just caught you there.
You went all defensive.
I did.
I did.
I want a bottle of woman.
It's my defense mechanism.
Bottling women is how
I shield myself from the pain.
Where's that book where I said,
don't get me canceled.
I'm sorry.
I'm a joke
I'm a money joke
I'm a joke
Yeah
But no
I think
yourself
now you've got
a great set
and just a little
bit of like
This is turned
into like a
self help
thing
just call me a
retort
I'll talk
about my set
I think I need
a bit more
that as well
like
I did a set
recently
I was like
this is all
sexual stuff
yeah
I have non-sexual
stuff
but I just
I like doing
the sexual stuff
is just very shocking
you know
going back to
what stuff
that you've done
the podcast
the thing
about
the steam room
thing
the boiler house
the steam room
Again, that's something I actually have a little bit
I'm working on the moment about that.
I think that's such a great
because you did the two stories within
and there was the lap dance and lap thing
and then the steam room.
I just thought the comparison of the fucking two.
It was like...
Yeah, that's definitely something, but like at the moment
I'm trying to move way because I have like
sexual things, sexual thing, sexual thing.
All about Steam route.
Like it's just a bit too much.
Again, like yourself, I need a bit more of like...
So I'm doing more stuff at the moment.
This is getting too serious now, but...
It is.
More stuff about my mad and stuff like that.
Just to seem a bit more human.
I'll tell a dad joke.
yeah yeah wait hang on now you've got a lady and it's so you're in a normal relationship now how do she
i'm trying tell you that now it's on the razor's edge does she live does she listen to the podcast
yeah do she know about your boiler house experiences oh she does yeah oh this a cool lady yeah she says
she said she thinks you know what you know what i'm i'm not trying to mean here oh here we go
i like you that go on i said this before like so i like this girl right yeah and there's a while
ago you made a joke about having sex with her and i honestly felt so
sick. I don't
be that a bad way. That's a good sign
though, that's. The idea of
you sweating on her.
And I will too. I sweat all over
Brian. Oh, I'd be like waterboarding
man. I'll go fucking
Guantanamo Bay on that bitch.
That's a good sign if you're getting it. Yeah.
I wasn't like, stay away from her.
That's my beautiful baby girl.
I wasn't like, hey, you stay away for my steady gal
or I'll sock you right in the nose.
I just talked about that. I was like, I would really feel
I would be very depressed if James
fucked her. Of course that would never happen
for multiple of reasons. If James was
sexually gratified by her, I would not, I would be
miffed. Yeah, okay. Well, I promise
not to do that now.
He says it now.
See, my last girlfriend, yeah?
And the one before, and the one before that.
You always bringing that up. I'm telling you,
it's like a, you know, it's a test.
I'm putting their faith to the death.
But, like, it's going well. We got a little trip
for Derry booked, which is going
I'm having an awful time trying to buy tickets for fucking Derry FC.
There are a bunch of cunts, by the way.
Like, you think he's going to the website and buy the tickets.
It's basically like a drug deal where, like, you can't just buy it.
Like, they send you a thing where it's like,
you have to sign up for this and wait for a send out a link.
And you have to go there and then we'll send you another link.
It's like a whole complex thing.
Yeah.
No, I literally a click, like the shit, yeah.
Yeah, it should just be tickets there you go like.
And it's like, also, the only released it, like,
I was waiting for them to release the link, okay?
I was waiting for ages and I just left
and I came back then
it would have been up for like three hours
and I was like oh fuck I missed it
and I'm signing up for the link now
I'm trying to call them they won't answer me
it's like
she's gonna leave me
I don't know much about League of Ireland football
but are Derry one of the
they're number two at the moment
they're very good
yeah who are they behind the doc
no bo's actually good
but they would have a big following
so it's obviously to protect it
I was saying like season ticket holders
and also they tell you like straight up
like Rose was like you know
j to whatever like
they're going to be very loud
and you're probably
you're probably too sissy
to be there
is there a sectarian angle
do they have to divide
the Catholics and the prods
I'm not too sure about that
okay make sure you ask though
I'll go I'm trying
even trying to get to draw that
so it's draw there versus dairy
it's not it's not like the biggest game
I was in dairy recently
I was saying you this
and you're talking to some very big
hot titted woman over there
yeah there was loads of them
they were all so friendly
you know what I mean
And there was like, like overly, like to the point
to the talk, went into Starbucks and I said
to your one guy, she goes, hey, honey, you're
going to as large cappuccino. And what's your name?
I said, Paul. She said, Graham, do you know like you do
at Starbucks? And then I stepped on to the next and
you wanted the barista one was looking and she goes.
And she looks up to me and she goes, are you Paul?
And I goes, yeah, I'm going to have you
a large cappuccino now in a minute.
I was like, oh, thanks.
I was like, am I on fucking television here?
Because you know, like the customer service around Dublin is just
fucking terrible. Oh, yeah, man. It's all like
skinny, depressed teenagers, things?
Yeah, I don't want to be here.
Here's your coffee.
And then you want to throw it in their face.
Then you go cry in the bathroom and film out.
We had a shop.
We had a shopping temporary, so I grew up in a shop
and my parents were all on about customer service.
It's your bread butter.
And then my first jobs, I was in the airport
and I was in Guinnesses and the whole lot.
And you were in customer service.
Wait, wait back there.
What were you in the airport first?
I was in the airport police for a year.
Whoa.
So you have power.
The airport police.
Yeah, you had actually,
you had unbelievable power
because there was a thing called Section 33
of the Air Navigation and Transport Act
which was like this fallback thing
that you could use
and basically it's
to sum it up it was
if I didn't like the look of a fellow
I could lock him up for 48 hours
Oh that's great
Oh I want that power right now
Now it was never really never really used
I had nine arrests there
I was there
I think I had nine arrests me for six months
I just kept fucking coming up
across the wrong stuff
I was just misfortune
And there was ladies lads there 20 years
Never arrested anyone
Like I'll give you an example
I was on Friskin
one day and there was a guy who would do the breaks but he got held up because the brakeman
has to open gates that wouldn't normally be open so he'd open this gate out on one of the ramps
to fucking lay in some construction workers so the sergeant came up and he said the breakman
has held up with you take a half an hour there with you yeah I said yeah no problem I stepped
out of the friskin area walking across and this girl rooms with me she goes there's a guy robbing
our shop and I look in and there's this fucking this scumbag fucking looking fellow just grabbing stuff
and putting him into his pocket.
I was off for fuck's sake.
And then I went over and I went here buddy
and the minute he saw me he made him run for it
and I grabbed them and the two of us
are falling around the ground
and I managed to get his hands behind his back
and handcuffed him and then got on the radio
and said I need assistance
I'm outside Hughes and he was in the main area
of rest here blah blah blah
and the sergeant turned to all the guys
on Frisco and went I told him to go in a fucking break
because he was disgusted
that I was fucking you know after arresting some fucking guy
so then like this is like
oh more fucking work you know this kind of
But I was, yeah, it was a hectic year that I was there,
but I got to fire brigade and the end, so I didn't, I went to the library.
What year was that?
That was 96.
Okay, right, right, right.
I collected uniforms.
I was in Guinnesses.
I was in Guinness to security and, uh...
Now, Guinness is, that's not Guinness, the brewery, yeah, yeah.
Oh, really?
But everything went contracts, so I went in a contract.
They used to say to get a job in Guinnesses,
you need a reference from two living popes.
That's how hard it was a fucking get in there.
But we, they started turning everything contract,
and one of the things that it was, uh, the security.
And I did a security and safety course,
and when I did, I got offered nine jobs
and went and did nine interviews
and was part of the thing and I got all nine
because there were guys used to be slagging me
going what the fuck are you saying in those interviews
and uh but your man
the crowd federal said to me that we're hoping
to take over the fire service and I wanted to get into
double fire brigade so I thought that's going to be good for me
CV yeah I'll go with them
so for about two years
two and a half years I was going around
the pissings rain clock and keys you know and fucking all this
and then the fire brigade
they took over from so I was in the
fire brigade there and uh
it was it wasn't it was
again it was great for the CV
and then I got the airport police
and I fucked off to that
and then I got double fire brigades
but when we just put fires out in Guinness
as we would have to put them out with water first
and then wait a minute
and then top them off at full
no but it was good like they have their own
like there's an ammonia plant of nitrogen
planted a CO2 plant so there's enough
you're an industrial firefighter
you have to learn all about that shrike
right right yeah there's obviously
so much that goes into it that
the common man wouldn't even realize
yeah there's a lot of extra kind of stuff
Can I ask, will you sign up to be a fireman?
How rigorous is the training and has it got more rigorous?
You think he could make it?
It's got more.
I think they only recruited recently.
Does it involve street smarts?
Does my knowledge of Wu-Tang?
Will that help?
They usually know you kind of have to have a background that you're kind of in the civil
offence or your first aid or something about.
I remember when I joined, they took on guys that had just come out of college that were
engineers and a three of them left in the first two weeks.
they're like fuck this
yeah you know
the training for the first two weeks
is the hardest right
it's real like big heavy hoses
because you know and you you run with them
you roll them out yeah
like going up ladders with
yeah and all that kind of stuff
so there was all that kind of stuff for the first two weeks
and that's a real like make or break stuff
and literally broke like three glass
but I lost I was there for six months in time
I think I lost like two and a half stone
really just yeah just small because it was so full
because I had a year before that
in the airport just driving around the car
and there was a thing out
out in the ramp
that if you're on the car
they had a big
canteen
Aer Lingus had a canteen
and it was
30 cents a sausage
20 cents
hash brown
you know this kind of thing
so you and him
and you've got a big foam
thing
it was like something
out of America
and you got these
fucking breakfast
that were just unbelievable
for like two euros
so I was just
you know
so yeah
so I was so unfit
when I got the farbie get
but I got through it anyway
yeah yeah
well like I imagine
you know during you know when
you go out in a call there's probably
a certain amount of adrenaline that kicks in
and keeps you sort of going right most of your job
you'll do it all within the first
five minutes of getting there you know what I mean like if you get to house
fire and there someone in there whatever you'll have your
BA set on and you'll run in and you'll try
and grab the person and get them out or whatever and then
it'll be done in the first five minutes and then
it's a kind of a system where
you'd rather too many people
be there than not enough so whenever there's
like a house fire there's there's three
fire engines going there's
12 lads when you know realistically there's probably only two or four need to be there
but you just you have loads of extra lads one of the hardest things is to be at something
and not get involved if you go to a road traffic accident or something like that and you can
see that every job is being done to actually stand there and doing nothing as the hardest part
yeah yeah well i've got better at that as the years go on i'd be very good at that now
i bring a little game boy with me oh you know do you know the one thing i remember because i'm from
the small village in the tipper area and rarely would anyone like come to Dublin or whatever
and there was a big
there was a car
went in underneath a truck
on the M50
and your man was grand
you should have seen this
it's like a fucking accordion
it was folded up
but we cut him out of it
anyway but I was driving that day
so when you drive
you're the pump operator
so you come around
to the back of the pump
right
and if you're
so if you were at a fire
being a pump operator
is a tough job
if there's a lot of hoses
like I was at a big fire
in Sandy Ford there recently
and I had six hoses on to go
the whole time
and you're the whole time
watching the pressure
and the whole lot
you know
Jesus yes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But in this particular one, we had two hoses out either side for fear that some part of the car went up in fire and that they were able to...
So I had to make sure that the pressure was so I was standing there.
So then my sister was down the local pub and she overheard this one going, I was stuck in traffic on the M50.
There was a fucking major crash.
And who's there only, your man, Paul Marrish?
And as all the rest of him were doing all the work, he's standing at the back of the fire engine doing fuck all.
Holy fuck.
And I was like, fuck that.
annoyed the shit out of me
so the next time I was down
I made sure to get chatting to her
I was like oh here he is
she goes I saw you
oh yeah yeah
because I was the pump operator
but it's cast to me
that was her perception
yeah he's just standing there
and fuck all
what a fucking
yeah
yeah what could
but just
that wasn't your sister
who said it was somebody else
someone else said it
yeah
along for a free ride
probably
yeah
it was like
couldn't wait
to go back
and tell that
to the business
is like you're out there
like you're out there
like you're helping
somebody who crash
car's like
oh what a lady
conjure
you know he probably
he took that job from a underprivileged
immigrant who needs it, you know.
Typical white man
standing there. That's just so typical Ireland, though.
It's fucking discussed.
I was going to ask something now, and you
might not have a good answer for this, but...
Right. So, when you're watching any kind of TV show
or movie featuring Firemen...
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Is there anything you look
in being, like, that's so inaccurate.
Oh, that's so annoying. Because you said to me before about
backdraft, that is the most
ridiculous movie. Like, there's so much wrong with it.
And do you know the lads in work take the piss out of it so much?
we went to
fire alarm
there recently
the shopping center
in Dunleary
and I pull up
aside
I'm like
I'm driving
I'm like half asleep
they all went in
Met Security went in
and next thing
you hear it is
hey sway Zach
get them
I was like
what the fuck
on the radio
I thought there was something
on
and then they're fucking
quoting
backdrop the pricks
they have to fucking
fighting the shit
out of me
I thought
with something
but um
no there's loads
of stuff
like but obviously
like
because it's a movie
and they pay
a big money
to an actor
that's the biggest
is you don't go anywhere
you haven't gone anywhere
for the last
20 years
without a breeding apparatus set on your face.
It's kind of like you own Spider-Man movies.
Did he take the Spider-Man mask off so you can see Tom Holland?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there's no like that, and that's the biggest thing.
These lads just waltzing in.
And the other thing is where there's loads and loads of flames but no smoke.
That's another like, you know.
I've only ever seen that once because there was a shopping center and Taladowing up and fire.
But there was a hole in the roof that made a perfect chimney.
So the smoke was just bellowing out.
So we can see that everything was on fire, but there was no smoke.
And the fellow's with me goes, this is like a fucking movie.
you know that you can
because normally you can't see your hand
at front of your face
that's the thing yeah
so that's why there's no smoke in the movies
because then you wouldn't be able to see anything
but there's loads of different stuff like that
or dirty thing from a paramedic point of view
you know in Baywatch where someone
fucking drowns and they just do like
two goes to CPR
and a person spit some water out and they're ground again
that doesn't fucking happen even
they get up straight away and they're not very very sexy
but I
we've defibrillators now
and we're having a good record with them
you know and they're everywhere nowadays
they're great fucking
They just installed them
where I work
We were doing a bit
at that as well
to tell you about
Little Annie,
the little
prostitute
no
I thought you
because the doll
we use
is called Little Annie as well
That's it
That's what I'm talking
about
Yeah, you know
her story
The Lanny's
Oh yeah
I heard this before
that there was
Yeah
yeah
I think I told you
before James
So basically
there was a little
French prostitute
back in the day
Like way years
and years ago
Like you know
And she got
murdered
And the guy
who found her
like the mortician was like
Jesus she looks great now
I'm going to take a mold of her
because she looks perfect
and then use her as a dummy
and that's how the land
it's Rissussi Ann is her name
Rissusianne Jesus
So that's what we were doing that
We were doing a little bit of a
And they wear a track suit
One of the lads I remember years ago
When he was small
Because we all fairly big when you join
The Farby Gade but when I joined in 1997
They got rid of the height restriction
So there was like one or two small for us
Okay
And he put the wig from Rissuscian
on and the track suit and lay down on the ground
and some guy came over to do and he just jumped up
you know what we've done loads of it
I should be talking to I'd be a wacky guy
yeah you know well you see it out in the airport
the fucking messing we did in the airport before 9-11
was fucking unreal
that changed everything like the lads that I still know the work
they were like totally different job
but we used to take the piss all the
I had a gun
a child's gun right
and what you do is all the old fellas have come in
and friskin and all they wanted to do was go in behind
and look at the cameras
and as the bag comes through
it's all different colours
and every colour is like something
so a metal would be
you know a particular colour
come up with brown or green
and whatever
and what you do is
you see some owl
coming through with a bag
and go here loo
I'll get that for you
give us that bag
you walk away there
and you throw the bag up
into the thing
and put the gun underneath
so the camera's looking down
it looks like the gun
is in the bag
and next see you imagine
they'd literally be fucking
reading the newspaper
and just glancing up
every now and again
you'd like look up
and see the fucking
the shape of a gun
and the fucking
hit the button go
who's is this
And so my other one,
I go, that's my bag.
When he lifted up the gun and say,
he'd go,
Mersh, you fucking cop the fuck on,
you know.
And I remember one time we,
I like the idea of you trying to do that right after night 11th.
You've got a turban on and say,
oh,
it's not funny anymore, is it?
We're not having to laugh anymore.
People will come up to you and go,
here my sister's flying out this morning
or we're after putting a big knife in her bag.
Yeah.
Just for the wind up.
Ah, yeah, no problem.
You know, this was a regular thing.
That's so funny.
I remember Bridgeting,
one time coming up and saying she had her friend with her
and she wants to bring her down to the...
Brigitte Nielsen?
Yeah.
Holy shit.
And I was like, yeah, no problem.
Like, I'll just let you want to go airside, yeah.
Have you go.
No problem.
She's got to go on the fucking plane for all now, you know.
You know what I mean?
I said, when you're coming back out, make sure you come back up?
When was this?
When was I was there?
Ninety-six, yeah.
So she'd still be looking to do it.
Oh, she was coming at loads and she was like,
she was after being on the late late, late.
Right, right.
I was like, hey, Brigidson.
She was probably pretty sauced up.
she was a bit of Abu's hand I believe
met loads of
she had a friend with her
she was banging flavour of flavour
she's probably bang gay as well
the white flavour
oh yeah I knew I was going to tell you something there
so this like kind of an Arab type guy came in
let's say Arab he had like a big
white overall
you know like a dress type
flowy thing yeah so he came to shoot a metal detector
and it bipped and
he had a woman with him that was doing translate for him
he was saying to her and she goes
he has a condition
is there someplace we can go
where he can talk to him
yeah grand and I just turned to one of the last
Jimmy Jimmy you come with me
because we had a room and decided you could go into
and went into the room and the guy bent down
grabbed the dress and pulled it up
and put it like in underneath his
his chin and it was
elephantitis of the nuts
holy shit and it was the size
of like two footballs
in a cage so the cage was what was
setting off the fucking and all
I know you can imagine balls in a cage
where they're like poking out everywhere.
Big hairy,
big, massive fucking hairy.
What he's got a cage?
And my seven, my seven,
Jimmy, the two was just went,
okay.
And then open the door and off he went.
And we were like, fuck me.
And then for weeks afterwards,
Jimmy would go,
I can't stop thinking about that fucking thing.
Like, the cage was there just like,
stop the cage.
He had a cage as an underpants type thing.
He had a belt around his waist
that was tied onto this cage.
And the cage was holding a whole.
Oh, wow.
Because probably nothing else like, you know.
Jesus.
Your fucking F and F boxers from Tesco
ain't gonna be a hold on that, you know?
This thing was the size of two footballs,
that's no exaggeration. It's fucking massive.
It must have been incredibly painful then.
Yeah, I was watching like he was kind of waddling,
you know. He wasn't an overweight guy around
and he was just kind of, but yeah, fuck me.
That's mad.
You think you have it bad.
You left me speechless there, yeah.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
The Muslim man's giant balls.
See, I got your man, Jimmy, to come in with me.
And he's going, and he just kept giving out to me for weeks
Asks, I was, what fucking, I can't get that on my head.
You're not a little bollocks bring me in there.
Excuse the pun.
It's not like you.
I think we're just out of that we're there.
Yeah, but we stopped in the middle.
Yeah.
For a few minutes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is there anything you want to plug?
This is going to be the free one.
Oh, yeah, Jesus.
I'm the worst of the fucking world.
I have a show on the fort in May, May the Fort.
May the Fort.
In the Wild Duck, yeah.
So it's me and Lark and Hughes.
and we have Stephen Ryan
so it's just going to be big
I met Stephen there recently yeah
have you ever met him before or no
oh of course
he's a fucking I love
we're doing a podcast
we're doing a podcast with seven Stephen
oh yeah so we've
we've about six episodes recorded
it's called
tell us a joke
so we just talk about jokes
so we have to get you on
we'll have to
I would love that yeah
my plan is you know what I was thinking
about doing is having a barbecue
on my place someday
yeah inviting a lot of people
and then just for like a half an hour of time
just go upstairs
and record a podcast
and come back and join it
is kind of like a wild party
Instead of going upstairs of sex.
Yeah, we're just going to do a podcast.
We're going to podcasted.
After, like, smell my finger.
And then you come back and you go...
Fidelio, we have to give the password.
I lasted ages.
So it's just you talk about jokes.
Just talking about jokes.
Jokes that don't work, that did work,
favorite comedian jokes.
I'm a big fan of jokes that don't work
and bad specials.
I love seeing that stuff.
I don't like good specials.
see i'm i'm i'm terrible i brought my movies thing too because with movies i i always read the reviews
and read the yeah so i brought that to comedy where i should be actually watching bad comedians
and learning from them i only ever go to ones that people recommend me well in fairness you know
being on the irish comedy scene you're you're seeing plenty of yeah yeah yeah you're kind of
a bit of a buzzman holiday for you you know the ones who do get the netflix special and they're
brutal that's the ones i should yeah it's so interesting fascinating yeah sometimes
it's like you are somewhat
successful you've been doing this for a while
and I assume this is like a crowd
well no I take it back I was going to say these are your
fans but I think what Netflix do a good
bit is they'll kind of like
stack it where they'll have a
crowd in and then they'll do
like three specials
in a row yeah so that might
explain why sometimes I watch a lot of specials
and there's not that much laughing
I think it's just because the crowd is tired
I watched a special recently
I forget who it was now but it was interesting
the amount of just like he did the joke
and people just clapped at the end of the joke
it's like you know
it's almost like a fair play to you man
let's just get through this you know
yeah
it is kind of interesting
because it's like hard to fake a laugh
but you can just clap and go
yeah you can go it yeah yeah
I always quote Paul Curry
Paul Curry did a you know the comedians
comedian podcast if you ever get a chance
he's brilliant on it
but he said in it that people will go
someone will say to you
hey we're going to see a band
oh yeah you go what kind of band are they
oh they're jazz band oh i don't like jazz
yeah they just go no
well if somebody goes we're going to go see a comedian
you go oh deadly yeah you don't ever ask
what kind of comedian yeah so there is like
a market out there for a certain
you know that did you get to
again that's why people like go like some people
get very like that's the wrong type of comedy
or like that shit but like there's
some dumb person that will like it
yeah it's kind of saying like I don't like heavy metal
it's like well some people do like it
yeah yeah I like it as well not gay
But the point is
He got that in just under the wires
Like I'm okay
Thanks for listening
Like I won't say who now
But a friend of mine
Brought his missus to a Jim
Jeffery show recently
Right
And I was so shocked by the fact
That she didn't like it
And it's like
Yeah
What are you doing man
My sister
I brought my sister and her husband
They didn't like him
To Jim Jeffries
Yeah he played Vickle Street
They did not like him at all
When was this?
Oh years and years ago
So it was like
Back when he was out
Fucking Maslim's a guy
Wankers y'allai
you know like
I promote a couple of shows
I always use this is an example as well
that when you're a promoter
you have to be really careful
and I've told people this story more times
I probably told you already anyway
but I did a show in Tala
and we had to think about six or seven shows
but I had my four or five comedians
booked a headliner
and then I put on a few good lads
in my level or whatever
and met one of them aside in town
and he had a mate with him
that did comedy
and the mate said oh I saw you last week
you're very good
oh thanks very much
you know you'd be kind of
big headed or whatever
yeah oh thanks very much
and then I said to my mate
is he is he any good
is he
and then he goes
yeah yeah he's very good
because I had a faller
for the gig on tourism
if you want to bring him out
to his hall
and he can do five minutes
oh you'd be delighted
that'd be great
so he went in anyway
and there's a battle of the accident
he was up and he got up
and he got up the stage
and he did this whole routine
about riding his mother
and I was like
oh for fuck's sake
yeah
oh like I'm at to give this guy a gig
what do I do what do I do
and then I'll go
I'm in a mistake
there's actually not a spot
whatever. I was
I was sweating for the next two days.
I just got, how bad could it be?
So the night anyway, Al Porter was on.
Oh, who? And in fairness,
Al Porter,
I think Patser was on.
I was on. I remember I think it was, and Carl Spain
and someone else. It was a fucking great lineup.
Oh, sorry, and your man, I won't say
with this guy because you know who I'm talking about that.
And then he's mate.
Right.
So basically, including the MC, I had five great acts
and this guy.
so my one of the lads from work i had convinced him because he's from tallow you gotta go see
the comedy show yeah and then the next day in work he says to me fuck sake mershey you must be
embarrassed are you i said what that fucking show last night fucking how you mean yeah man going on
about writing his mother fucking hell and i goes yeah well yeah that was bad but what about carl spain
oh yeah carl spain was brilliant he was hilarious yeah but your man
yeah but what about al porter wasn't yeah no all's bringing he's brilliant yeah yeah but your man
going on a bit around
his mother
he just wouldn't
let it go
and then for ages
afterwards
he said to people
oh I went to one
of his fucking shows
one night
fucking this fellow going
and I was like
so you know
you're ruined
it's just
five minutes
against the whole
rest of the show
well you know what
it is comedy
comedy's very
sensatory
if that's the word
yeah
it's definitely not
okay well
I'm just saying
like comedy
is something
we're like
you know what's like
if you got a big cake
and it was some dog shit
in it
like the rest of cake
is very good
yeah
The dog shit does ruin the gig.
For some people it can very easily spoil the whole
knife for a...
But what I'm saying is when you're a promoter,
you have to be a baker who
bakes a cake without the dog shit.
Yes, exactly.
That is the challenge, yeah.
Even though the dog shit is hanging around the stairs
going to eat, why aren't you giving me a gig?
And I'm as good as that fucking...
I'm as good as that cream.
I'm as good as that fucking sponge.
Why aren't I getting a fucking gig?
You hate me, don't you?
It's because I'm fucking...
I'm this, I'm different, isn't it?
That's why?
Because I'm dog shit.
I'm a different colour to the fucking white cream,
aren't I? Yeah, and you're not fucking give me a gig.
There you know.
And you're discriminating and you hold all the cards
and middle-aged white men, you're all bastards.
That's basically right.
That's great.
You know what?
You came in with a sign saying,
don't get me cancelled?
You just cancelled yourself.
Well done, boy.
Yeah.
I don't know what.
Maybe dog shit was the bad thing.
My analogy went to a different way there, yeah.
Do you know what I love about this as well?
Every day and again, you go, edit that out.
And you clearly didn't.
edited it out. Well, I will say
sometimes I leave in stuff that
that James has edited and sometimes I'm like
I cannot leave that. Oh, there was a huge
clap because I got in touch to dude. There was an episode
recently and I was like, what happened there?
I knew I had an idea what I was.
I had an idea what I was going on. Yeah, Paul
's got the exclusive Patreon membership. He can just call us up.
What was that bitch you cut on it? I like 5am.
You see, if you do cut out and out of the regular
episode, you should actually put it in the Patreon.
Yeah, just like a great
It's complication of me saying slurts.
Yeah.
Sometimes I'm like, no, James will thank me for this.
Okay, yeah, so your show is in The Wild Dock.
The Wild Dock made it for it and it's up for sale.
I hop onto my Instagram and I've...
Yeah, plug it all.
I'm going to put all these links, by the way, into the actual description of the show itself.
He's never done that before.
I've started doing the Instagram thing because, lately because I just thought I've all these stupid ideas for videos.
I better start getting around to doing them, you know what I'm actually enjoying doing them.
It's just being, you know, silly kind of...
Yeah, yeah.
Some of my friends saw you a while ago and they liked your stuff, by the way.
Oh, did he? It takes me.
So I won't say who.
Well, we're big fans of you, Paul.
We've always been very kind to us on stage and offstage.
So I'll tell you what, we're going to jump onto a Patreon a few minutes.
You want to stick around to do it.
Absolutely.
But in that case, we might get in your little...
treat or something maybe like a kick cat or something or something to keep you going you know
my kind of coke that you got me is lovely now I'll say yeah well I kind of want to get
kick cats so yeah well so don't you can't stop me I need I need to ring my wife okay
that's to send me important I suppose I'm my psychiatrist yeah all right well hey go buy tickets
to Paul show yeah too come in it'll be fun oh sorry can I say one more thing yes so it's been
sponsored and you get a free point and if you mention Brian and James's podcast I'll buy you
a shot.
So you've got a
point in a shot.
Does that count for us?
Yeah,
that comes for you as well.
Oh,
fuck,
I'm going to.
So you get a point
and a shot
and a great night
to come to show up.
It's a Thursday night.
It's a Thursday night.
I'll be there.
I'll be there.
We're going to be such a con to
get the shot and be like,
all right,
good look.
And then he's going to the bathroom.
Yeah,
yeah.
So anyone to mention this,
Brian,
I thought that would have
be good marketing team.
Mentioned Brian and Jay's
a podcast.
Like,
what I love about you,
Paul,
is like,
you really have it in your head
that this is a successful podcast
it certainly isn't
by any strength
I was going to say
when I hop on
the Patreon later on
that's going to be like
20% of less people
listening to the Patreon
it's like five people
and probably
one less now
because well you can listen
to it back if you want
but I highly recommend
the Patreon because that's the one
if you release two episodes
that's the one I listen
to first every time
oh thank you
because I know you're
you know you get away with
you get a little wild
on that one
I've got some stuff to go
to say on Patreon
yeah
But we'll talk about that.
Anyway, let's end it there.
I'm going to get me kick cash.
All right.
Paul, it was great having you.
Thanks for doing this.
Thanks, guys.
Thanks a minute.
All right, man, good look.
