History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas - The Irish Civil War with Shane Todd | History Hyenas

Episode Date: January 1, 2026

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Thank you. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha, ha. All right, All right, folks, we got Shane Todd on the pot. He's got a heart out in 40 minutes because he's taking a flight back to another country. country we will

fucking hold him off the line because the kid's not in America so we just have to check him out a little bit yeah he's from the motherland from Belfast from Belfast welcome boys good to be here I do think you think I'm Scottish so because when I asked you about the subject for this

Janus was like let's cover some Scottish history yeah he'd I was like I'm from Belfast he just knows I'm white but that's kind of it yeah yeah original white like the factory where white people were made you come from where American whites are made yes I did my ancestry thing and it was I was keen to see, like, how exotic I was, and it was like, you never left. Right. It was like

100% Irish. Right. And he just, but see, the thing, what I like about Shane is the kid is fully Irish, but he does look like a German Nazi. Oh, yeah, he's got the look. 100%. Yeah. I look like I could be, I could be from Germany or like cold parts of Spain. Yeah. Yeah. Can I tell you, yeah. Can I tell you him? Yeah. I open for Chris when he was in Belfast on tour. And Chris, like, had a long conversation with me about how he's turning everything around. He was getting healthy and he was eating right on tour. And we were talking about how important that is on tour. I took Chris and James Matterhorn. James Matterhorn. We'll call

him James Matterhorn, yeah. I like that's what I call him. I took them out for a drink and Chris like I'm just going to have one drink I'm living healthy and I was like God that's great and I drove home. The next day my friend went I saw Chris and Stephano in Belfast last night. I was like oh you're at the show did you like it? He's like no no he was walking through city center with like a rock sack full of McDonald's yeah yeah he was like I didn't know the container they gave him he's like I've never seen that before. Yeah, Chris, Chris is Chrissy, went in Rome, Chrissy, Honeypots, Chrissy. You can, whatever his plan is, you can derail him with a bag of McDonald's,

a Guinness, a piece of pussy. You can, you can just derail the kid. Me and my, me and my girl talked about this morning. We talked about how, you know, looking for a new place to live is really stressing the both of us out. And we had a real hard to our conversation. And we said, we will not look at any more places for at least six months. Let's just take the pressure off. We're happy with what we got. And immediately after this podcast, I have four apartments to look at it. The kid bought two houses when he was in Belfast. Yeah. Did I have no property in Belfast? Chris and the Chenees. He's going to be on Zillow. In Ireland, Zilloo. Yeah. Zillow. Now, now how's your time been in the U.S.? It's been great. I'll tell you

this. Well, it's been up and down. First show, San Francisco, people in masks in the front row of the show. I can chat and do it again. He's a Mexican guy in the front row He's wearing a mask I asked him about it And I was like oh is it like a silence of the alarms kind of thing It's been a bit weird I called him Juanable Lecter

Yes he hated it Yeah So hard I like that one I like Wadable Lexington That would be a good Patreon name Wannibal Lecter Shane Todd comes on here

And immediately just starts giving bangers Yeah yeah That's a good one I heard the way shown she in my head When I said it Yeah Yeah yeah And then we went to Tijuana

For the day Oh nice Yeah I felt like it was out of barbecue You're Chris's his sister's Yeah, seriously. That really is. Yeah, that is.

I've never been to Tijuana. Yeah. What'd you think of it? You know, it was good to say we're gone. It was the quickest, like, it was the easiest country to get into. Yeah. We breased and they didn't even really look at our passport. Yeah.

And then the way back, it was a lot of big time. Yeah. You got a question. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because San Diego is a very conservative town. Right. Yeah. You don't really get a hint of any Mexico, even though it's so close to Mexico.

You don't really get a hint. Yeah. Yeah. It's, uh. And then we were, oh, I booked, I booked our hotel for me and my friend in San Francisco. Not knowing a lot about San Francisco. I thought the tender line sounded lovely. Yeah.

I was like, just that sounds nice. Yeah. You know, it sounds like a nice thing I would like. Yeah. And we stayed there and... You got fucked in the ass by a guy. Yeah. Well, it's a lot of the tenterling.

But it's a war zone there. Yeah. It's a war. It's crazy when, like, you're in, like, a developed country, like America and the guy at reception is like, guys, have a great time, but when you leave the hotel, don't turn left. Like, that's so unsettling when it's like, don't go left. It's crazy that a kid who grew up in Belfast is like that part of town's a ward. Oh, yeah, yeah, it was white.

A lot of unreasonable gentleman, the tenderloin. But, like, Ireland has its problems like everywhere else, but America's the only place I've been to. And I thought it was just in San Francisco, but it's all over, where in the CVS, the groceries are incarcerated. Yeah, yeah, they are. Yeah, yeah. We were buying Doritos, like, I was buying, like, a diamond necklace to my wife. do it because we fucking too many people steal here yeah well over there for change yeah no over there you have to

protect the CVS has to be protected by like a national guard yeah yeah you gotta have like somebody like a guard with an AR 15 guarding the deodorants and shampoos yeah yeah yeah they really just steal oh no it was a small Asian man with white gloves yeah he's taking it so seriously I think he'd brought the gloves himself like they weren't issued by the store is just have Trumpy on truth social put out a thing that hey we're gonna bomb San Fran yeah and then the people aren't true social know to get out and the people who aren't, they just fucking got to go.

With the wind, it would take it to San Diego. The ball would not land. No. It's funny. You know how we say reality is a suggestion? Yeah. Well, price is a suggestion in San Francisco. Like, pay if you want or just take it.

Yeah. Dude, I went to this deli over there, Molinaris. It's one of the best Italian sandwiches I've ever had in my life. But their food is so good there that the people who work there will just be dicks to you. They just know, like, there's nothing that you're going to do. Because it's the only sandwich I've had that, like, it's comparison. terrible to New York. You've ever eaten there? No. And they're just like, look at you, like, what the fuck do you want to type thing? And I could, there was a part of me

wants to be like, listen, dude, you're from San Francisco, so that just means I'm automatically better than you. Yeah. I just am better than you, but I do want to eat those fucking cold cuts, so I'm not going to say nothing. Yeah, well, that's how you know the place is probably good if they treat you. Yeah. What is really the better the food, the worst they treat you. Which is good. Yeah. Yeah. What does it mean when your nipples are itchy. That's my new thing now. My nipples are got a sexually transmitted disease. No, that's what the good news about me is I know I don't. There's no possible way I can.

Yeah. Do you have big nips? Maybe it's an old one flaring up. Could be. Yeah. They just stick around there. Yeah. Do you have big nips? No, I don't have big nips and I've been used, well, I have one nip that fucking hangs off under my armpit, but I've been using this healthier, like, paraben-free deodorant that you spray on and maybe I'm accidentally spraying some on my nips. Yeah. Possible. That's very possible. Yeah. So, uh, you're from Belfast? Just outside. Yeah, but it's tiny, like everywhere. Like, Belfast to be in my nearest city.

So the mayor, who's the mayor over there? I know you got like an Indian guy or something. It's like, that's in Dublin. The mayor of Belfast is kind of like work experience. It's like, when you were in Belfast, you could have been the mayor. Right. Like the mayor is like, you got the chain. Like he doesn't, like he wears his own clothes.

Yeah. You know what I mean, like the mayor will wear their own clothes. Like they'll wear like a track suit or whatever. Yeah. Like the mayor isn't like that big of a deal in Belfast. But it's like... What's going on in Ireland? because, like, you know, you go on X and people are saying, oh, Ireland's, like, not even Irish anymore.

Is that really true or is it just X hype? Are there like, is it like overrun with immigrants? Well, there was loads of, that was, like, loads of riots in Dublin. Yeah. And being, like, from just outside Belfast, it was kind of nice to, like, watch that. You know, because we were like, you know, it's not us. Right. You know?

But, yeah, in Dublin, like, that's crazy in Dublin. So it's in Dublin most. That seems to be where, like, all the trouble for all that kind of stuff is. Yeah, it's crazy. But we are like, like, we will give all, like, you know, people. People will give off and be like everyone coming over to Ireland, you know, trying to start a life here. Yeah. We're everywhere.

Yeah. Sure. You are everywhere. Well, the thing is, too, like when you meet Irish people here in New York, they're never from Northern Ireland. They're from, like, Dublin, like the Republic of Ireland. So it's weird when like I had to tell Patty Finnegan, like, oh, I'm in Belfast and there's not, you know, you see Catholics and Protestants. He's like, that's no, Irish people are Catholic. Yeah.

And it's like, no, no, there's a lot that aren't. Yeah, because that's it. Like when I was coming back to San Diego from Tijuana and you actually see the wall, like the wall that goes into the sea, I was like, this is crazy. Like I took a minute to just take it in. I was like, what kind of world do we live in where these people are divided by a wall? They remember where I was from and I was like, we got a little wall. Yeah, we got a bit of wall.

Yeah, when I went there two years ago, you can sign the wall something nice and I wrote my Patreon on the wall. It's just what it is. Because it's just, I mean, now that. That's Michael D. Higgins. I mean, this guy is fucking wild. He looks like a character from Lord of the Rings. Yeah, he does. Who is this guy?

This is Michael D. Higgins. He's the press right now? He's the president of Ireland. A president of Ireland. Look at that picture at the bottom where he's meeting Prince William or King William or whatever. Yeah, look how tiny is. He's tiny.

He's the tallest man in Ireland. Now, because when you say Ireland... Would you abide? Yeah, look how tiny... But Northern Ireland, you don't recognize him as the president. Oh, I mean, I just say I'm Irish. We can be like fluid. You can be like whatever you...

The young can, but not the older people wouldn't do that. They make a... call. They make a call. Yeah, yeah. So you're seeing in Belfast in Northern Ireland, you know, you call it all Ireland, you think it's starting to be unified by the people a bit. Well, they're talking about having a referendum, but it's like, it's...

So people are over it. Their people are over... No, there's a lot of people who are absolutely not over. Not over. No, they love it. Right. You know, it gets them going. And it's just the religion. It's just religion. It's literally a Protestant Catholic thing. Yeah, it's it. Which, and like, we... Like, it's crazy because

if there's Protestant people, you're Catholics and vice versa. too. Yeah. You've got to ask like eight questions before you decide whether you hate the person. That's crazy. You know, you eye them up and you're like, you know, you got to find like what school did you go to? Where are you from? How do you pronounce the letter H? Yeah. Then you can be like, you're my enemy, but there's like a long time where you're

not 100% sure. What's the H difference? Like, you said pronounce your H? Typically, some people say H. Right. And other people say H. And that's like a big day. Like, if you say that wrong, if people are like, what comes after G? Yeah. I'm

Right. What comes after G? Yeah. That's the difference between like a Dopp up in Belfast or like a Bo. There's no better example, I think, than Ireland between the Catholics and Protestants that just show you that humanity will just find the way to hate each other. Sure. I mean, because if you do the Protestant and Catholic, here, think people going, what? Yeah. Right.

What? Yeah. You guys hate, I don't care. The guy's Protestant. It's like not even, it's an afterthought. Yeah. Like, what? You're Catholic?

You're Protestant. I don't give a fuck. Tell you what, because, first of all, Connor McGregor looks terrifying in that picture. He looks like he's been through some drugs. Yeah, he just does it. I mean, I wouldn't want to fight a guy like that. But that's what kind of happens to the Irish is they kind of fall apart after like. They blow out a little bit.

They blow out a little bit. But Shane's healthy. Yeah. And I'm a Crohn's kid. Yeah, how old are you? You're a Crohn's, Bill. Oh, you got Crohn's? Yeah, I got Crohn's.

You're the Pete Davidson of Ireland. That's my secret. That's my secret. I'm 36. 36. Yes. But I'm aware I look anywhere anywhere between like 19 and 40s. You do.

Yeah. You look like a 23-year-old girl. You look like a candidate for trans surgery. Yes. In the brow of a hill, I look like Ellen. Yeah. If I'm in the right trousers or soon, I look like Ellen. Like, for sure, I look like that.

Now, I got to be honest with you, and we've spoken about this. You've been to Belfast? Do you have it? No. Because I know this is going to sound sacrilegious. Yeah. I'm telling you, though, one of the best pizzas I've ever had in my life was in Belfast at Flout Pizza.

That man who runs the pizza shop at Flout Pizza, that pizza, Pete, is unbelievable. Dude, I'm telling you, and this is coming from me, who you know me, I'm a kid, I know my Puerto Ricans, I know my pizza. Yeah. This pizza puts any, dude, I know we're about to say is wild. It sounds crazy. It's nearly as good as Lucali's.

What? Because what this kid did, the kid who runs the flower. He's an Irish kid? Oh, yeah. He's an Irish kid, but he took a Japanese approach to it. You know, in Japan, some of the best food in the world is in Japan of any cuisine because they just focus on one thing. They focus on one thing and one thing only.

They're now trying to do a thousand different things. So this place, flat pizza, they just do pizza, and it's just this guy, this kind, he's let everything else fall by the wayside. He doesn't give a shit how he looks. He's fucking blown out. He's care about his family. He's like, I make the pizzas. And his pizza is legendary.

When you said he took a Japanese approach, I thought you meant like he bombed the dominoos. Yeah. Where does he get the tomatoes? He's traveled, like, all over the world. It's learning about pizza. But where does he get the tomatoes? He's got to get him imported.

You guys don't got tomatoes. No. Yeah. He's the only person that could bring the Protestants and the Catholics together. Yeah. He's the only guy. So if you're like a Catholic kid and you bring home a Protestant girl to your mom, is it like bringing home a black girl if you're an Italian in America?

I don't think it's that big of D now, but I say that was horny back in the day. Back in the enemy lines sort of thing. Wow. Like coming across the peace wall and that kind of thing. That's the only thing, the difference between like the American-Mexican wall and our wall was there is like doors in our wall. Yeah. You can just go through it. Yeah. I'm sure there's a glory hole somewhere. Yeah. That's got to be the horny's glory. But isn't there that one part of Bellfish where they actually close that wall still to this day every night, right? Well, that's how you know

it's not that hardcore. The wall, yeah, the door gets locked at night, but then it's open like eight till seven. Right. So like you can pass through it. Like it's, so it's just a, yeah, yeah, it's a tourist thing. It's a tourist thing and it's just a really, it's a traffic nightmare. It's like, you want to just fucking, you know, you can't go like, you have to like go all the way around town after a certain time because that fucking door is locked. Yeah, it's just for Asian tourists. Like, when the tours are over, the wall comes up like a garage door. Yeah, you know, and then people just

like, get in. Yeah, nobody cares. But I did the tour of Belfast because I had friends coming over and I was like, I know everything about the city and all that kind of stuff. And it was mad how much I learned about it. And then you're like looking down at this way. It's like being in a zoo. It's almost worth it what happened just to have a tourist attract. Because otherwise you go to Belfast and you're like, look at these

potatoes, look at the French fries. Hey, Titanic baby. Oh, Titanic. That was us. It came from Belfat. The museum, we have the museum. The museum there is lovely. And one of the best hotels in the world to me is the merchant hotel in Belfast. I love staying at that hotel. I love it there.

Yeah. You got to go. We should do a live history of heinous in Belfast. Oh, that's going to the fucking Europe. You've been to Edinburgh. I've been to Edinburgh. The first time we met. It got dumped in Edinburgh.

Yeah. Well, the first time we met, we were talking about the Edinburgh Fringe. And I was like, have you been? It's so great, isn't it? Yeah, I was a horrible experience. No, I mean, the kid was going to a breakup bed. Yeah. Yeah, it was bad.

Edinburgh is not a breakup. No. If you want to break up. No. It's just gray in. Yeah. It's a great place to go and off yourself. Yeah.

It's a great place to decide to kill yourself. Edinburgh is a great place to go not during the fridge. Yeah. It's a good place to go if you're Dracula. I mean, you just feel like you're like in another century. Everything's gothic. This hotel, the merchant hotel, it's amazing. They have like these Victorian beds.

I love the merchant hotel. I really truly do. The crowds in Belfast, I got to be honest with you. The crowds in Belfast and Dublin. were the best crowds I did a whole tour through Europe it's not even close the Irish crowds

the best by a landslide yeah just the best not too drunk or anything no yeah well they can handle they can handle it yeah well because you guys have like it shows you're like two drink minimum yeah and American comics are like

is your two drink minimum it shows in Ireland yeah I'm like no one needs to be told yeah and then if you got told that we have to pretend like that's crazy the idea of having two drinks yeah people have two drinks

and drive for the show yeah is it true there's no A.A. in Ireland. There's no alcohol's anonymous. Like you just deal with it as a family problem if someone's getting after it. Is that true? No, that's not true. They do have any there. No, they got they probably, it's probably booming industry in Ireland. I thought that alcoholism was just looked at differently in Ireland than it is here. Well, my son's actually an alcoholic. An alcoholic? He's eight. He's four. Well, here's the deal. That's wild. And this is what we're talking about. We're going to tell the people about is it used to be. It used to be in Ireland. You just

went to the parliament and everyone was fucking getting hammered so they would have like brawls in there so like the stereotype stereotypes just don't fall from the sky right exactly i mean you know we've all met a couple of jews who trying to cut a deal it's what it is we've all seen

a couple of dicks that were black that were really really big yeah yeah it's just we've all got a couple of dumb Polish kids yeah it's what it is yeah my girl's got a tattoo on her tit yeah it's just they don't fall from the sky yeah yeah you know they just don't i mean We've all met a few Greeks who are in the guys. It's what it is.

It's just they don't fall from the sky. We've all met a couple of Italians who love their mom and live in the basement and have a corvette. It's what it is. We've all met a few Chinese who are spies. Yeah. We've all met a few Jews who crawled into your shoes. Yeah, it's what it is. So you're going to meet a couple of Irish kids that like to fucking bang back a couple of cold ones.

Yeah. That's an issue for me because when I show up to shows out here, they're like, we've got you sorted out. I don't really drink. Wow. They'll be like, there's 12 cans again. for you. I also can't have gluten so I just sit, I put it up to my mouth and I said, but then I go back to coconut water. So you're like a Jewish

Irish kid, you got allergies, you got fucking Crohn's, you're circumcised, and you don't drink because you're scared of what might happen. Yeah. Yeah. And now when an Irish kid tells you he doesn't drink, you know there's a story behind it. It's not just I don't drink, it's like I don't drink because my dad drank and hit everyone.

Yeah, there has to be, though, a workaround for if you're born in Ireland with Crohn's disease, there has to be a beer you can drink. They have to have figured out that out. There's a gluten-free. And I say I don't drink, but that's like an Irish I don't drink. Like I'll drink like six, seven times a year and like excessively drink. Right. But I will cut that in Irish. That's a teetotaller.

Yeah. You know, that's like, I don't drink. Right. At one, because last night was the last show, the whole tour. Where was it? In the stand, early and late show in the stand. Nice. So I had a cider. Pint a cider after the show.

And that's gluten free. That was gluten free. And for an Irish kid, that's not drinking. I couldn't drink. Cider is not allowed. Like, that's illegal. Right, right. Like, it's got to be like Ginnisor beer.

Yeah. Right. Right. So you really can't go through living in Ireland and not having alcohol at all. Yeah, you got to something. The people who don't drink just don't have that much alcohol. Yeah. Got it. I understood.

I understood. But that is funny, but it's, it is true. I mean, yeah, I got to, I got to say, though, when I was in Ireland, man, you don't see, you see people drunk and having a good time, but they don't fucking, like, I feel like you can handle it better because you drink earlier. Yeah, you guys say the free is here, fucked up. Yeah. No one really ends up not fucked up. people will be like mangled after like 12 pints and me like I got to go I got to drive this bus now how how early can you start like what's the age that people genuinely start drinking in

Ireland 15 15 it's okay our legal drinking age is 18 if you go to go into like a country bar like in the countryside or whatever and you look 16 17 you're probably all right probably good yeah I do a bit of my show but I took my dad in New York a couple of years ago my dad's 75 my that's 5 for 5 long white hair little white beard we went to go into an Irish on Times Square and the American doorman ID'd me and my dad. Wow. My dad looks like a white walker from Game of Thrones. This guy was like

you need to prove he's over 21 but my dad didn't bring his passport. So what happened? He wouldn't let him in? Well I needed to like prove my dad was over 21 so I just pulled the skin on my dad's elbow and walk backwards. I ran the block and I was like this surely proves. But we had to like we had to get into the whole thing. Yeah we stick to the rules here. Yeah we are a little bit. But the rules sometimes it's like a little. You like noise though. You're German. You like when people

fall money. I do like rules. Yeah I do but I also kind of just like, you know, you got to just think about things. Like, sometimes it's like to have a little fucking common sense. Yeah, I mean, look at the guys got great beard. Yeah, the guy's got a great beard. I mean, you know, look at his balls, you know, ask him. All you got to do is to say, say, that's, you know, show him a black guy. And if he says colored, he's old enough.

That's 14. He calls him a Negro, let him. Yeah, yeah, let him. So what is the age? Is 15 the age that priests stop getting interested in you as well in Ireland? People, exactly. So it's like 14 and under your catchable. Then you get sent to the bar.

Yeah. So you're. You're. You know. You're officially a man in Ireland when a priest stops getting interested in you. You think, yonest, that's why Irish kids drink so much, is because they all get touched a little bit by the Catholic priest? Is that your kind of take here?

That's what the, it's called Irish therapy for a reason. I mean, you push it down. I mean, I did read an article there was, in Ireland it happened a lot. A lot of kids got clipped. No, no, but Irish kids, Irish Catholic kids didn't get clipped as much as the American kids. Right, right, right, right. We got clipped more. Or if they did, we don't know about it because they're really Irish and they just don't talk about it.

Luckily for me, I was a late bloomer, like Lukewise. Can you bring up Brazilian Ronaldo, the soccer player? It's going to take about 15 minutes from it. So growing up, I got, I got, uh, I got, uh, he put the word Rincualdo. Rincualdo is Rinaldo from, uh, from Wish, but I, uh, this guy. So if you, that photo, uh, I mean, his hair was fucking wild. Third one in. Yeah, this one.

So growing up, my nickname in school was Rinaldo. And I thought it was because I was really good at soccer, but make no mistake. because I look like that guy. You shaved her head like that? No, no, no, I didn't shave my head. Like, I put the teeth, the ears on the head. I mean, this kid blew out. Look at out, look at him now.

One of the best soccer players of all the time. One of the best psychopathers and one of the most famous trans lovers. Yeah, you got caught. He got caught. Why not? Yeah, why not? I mean, yeah, the kid got caught with a couple of trans prostitutes in a motel. No, I think there was like, if I'm right, I think there was 12 prostitutes on one or two of them were

drunk. I think he was like, percentage-wise, this isn't like, it's not even a thing. I mostly don't want to be with transstutes. but I do like a few. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's the thing, you know, when you have a bowl of oatmeal, you're going to get a couple of raisins in there. What it is.

And then, when they ask them more questions about it, to distract them and change the subject, that's why she had to stand like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, people just talk about it like that. Yeah. So listen to this, because in the 18th century in Ireland, which was just, let's be honest, in the 18th century in Ireland,

it was 100% white people. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It was just, they were just drunk in the legislative. They were just fully drunk. What else are you going to do? I mean, they went there. They were drinking while they were talking, like, laws and politics.

They just got absolutely hammered. I'm not like fine Roman wines. Like they would have in the courts, we're talking like meat. Mead, you know? Medieval beers. Yes. Yeah. Like 75% alcohol.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. A potching? You guys ever heard of potching? What's that? Oh, Potching's like an Irish spirit. And I don't know what the alcohol content is, but it is insane. All people in Ireland will have a bottle of potching. It's like you're not allowed to sell.

it like in bars or anything, but they will have like an empty Coca-Cola bottle with potching in it and they have like a little sip. Someone dies, maybe they have a little sip of poaching. Wow. But it's got to be like 100% alcohol. A hundred percent. Like if you drank a cup of it, you would die. You'd die. Wow. You'd die. Yeah. And they'd get so

hammered sometimes that they would get into fights and then they'd just go, let's go solve this with a deal. They'd just be hammered and then they'd go outside and they'd just shoot each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Yeah, I mean, it's definitely going to make it more fun. I assume that, like, engaging in the legislative branch is pretty boring.

I think it was because, like, Ireland for so long was ruled by English kings and English crime that when we got to, like, rule Ireland ourselves, it was like, it was probably, like, the first night they ruled. It was like, let's have a couple drinks, let's have a party. And that just seemed to continue. Right. For, like, a long time. Right. You know?

Yeah. Yeah. Just have a good time. Who gives a shit. Free bar. Yeah. And I got to be honest, when I said, because when I told. you that I wanted to be healthy in Belfast

at the show I genuinely meant it. But then I started drinking beers at that bar that we all went to out. And then I just said, you know what? Who cares about anything? I want to stuff a fucking McFish down my face. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. And I got to be honest with you, I would have married a transgender Irish person that night. I would have

fucking fully, I would have pulled a Ronaldo. That's the funny thing. Think about just doing laws while you're hammered. You wake up and you're like, did we do that last night? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did we decide that we were going to invade? Yeah. We invade Scotland. Holland? Wait, you're like, the people in Belfast are like, did we secede from Ireland? Yeah.

It's so hammered that we took on our own country. Yeah, what the fuck did we do last night? Holy shit. What did we do? You can tell we're so drunk because we still often figured the secession and stuff out yet. Yeah. In 2025, we're still, like, the hangover still just keeps that going. Yeah.

So it's still, I still haven't figured it out. Yeah, I mean, when I was there, when I went, and I don't know if this was just a tour guy, you know, put it up, but I had my arms up and I had like, you know, these crosses and whatever. And they were saying, oh, we're going into the prostit part of town. you need to cover up that. You need to put your sleeve down. Yeah.

And the cat, because I was like, really? Is that just like part of the tour? And he was like, no, you really should because he was like, I'm not worried about the young guys. But if there's an old timer walking around and they just see that and they're drunk, they actually might fucking get a flashback. Maybe someone might say something. But the great thing about those tours is the tour guides are done by like what we would call the troubles in Belfast. So like the conflict in Belfast. Yes.

Like the 60s to the 90s kind of. the guys that take you in black taxis to do these tours are like the guys who were part of it. Yeah. They were part of it. My tour guide was fighting fought in the war. Yeah. And now they do the tours which is unbelievable. It's like doing like the France set experience was like, you know, David Schwimmer. Yeah. It was in taking it. Well, the thing is what Belfast actually is, let's call what is, it's the Middle East for white people. That's what Belfast actually is. It's literally

Kabul for the whites. Right. Yeah. It's just what it is. Well, who's the Jews and who's the Palestinians? The Jews, well, you mean who's the good guys, who's the bad guy. Guys, that's my heart out. So I would say, I would say, I mean, well, it depends. Careful. You say the Catholics are the good guys. But the Catholics way outnumber the Protestants, right?

Even in, even in, only in Northern Ireland, do they not? Yeah, exactly. So down south, absolutely. The north is sort of like 50-50, maybe like 51-49 something. That's why if they talk about having a referendum, that's why it would be so contentious because there would still be a lot of people who just would. You just don't have many Irish Protestants here in New York City.

No, no. All the Irish here are the southern Irish. I've never met an Irish Protestant. Yeah. And that's the way it should be in Ireland. Yeah. Do they have an Irish Protestant bar anywhere in New York or a Protestant bar? No, I don't think so.

They wouldn't, right? They would just, maybe if they were that into it, maybe if they hit it out of Ireland that much, they would just go to like an English bar. That's, so they identify with the English. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe. I mean, I get it. Is that what, is most of the conflict that then? Is it more about, like, the loyalty to the crown versus?

is not because that's what it is. It just seems weird because you both love Jesus. Yeah, it's like, do you see yourself as British or Irish? Right. That's kind of what it is. That's what it is more. And this is, I loosely understand, again, not having an in-depth knowledge, but I get how like, right, wasn't it like the Protestants sided with the English, but the English, you know, had ruled Ireland for many years and not been nice to them. They weren't that nice to them all the time. So the huge understanding. Right. Right. Yeah. So the southern, so the southern Irish, the Catholics, were like, no, we're rebelling against them. Why are you, it would be like the loyalist first to patriots.

Right. You know, like in the American Revolutionary War, like, we would be patriots probably. We're okay with the seceding from England, but the lawyers are like, no, this is our dad. Yeah, but that's kind of what it comes down to. A little bit, but also it's wild because originally they would speak in like another language. Who? The people in Ireland. Well, there's the Irish language, which is still spoken by a lot of people, but it, like, where.

Do you speak any of that? No, like some, some greetings. Yeah, because the word English is. because of the English conquering Ireland in Scotland. Like when England kind of like... Are you a P or a C? Huh?

Are you a P or a C? T. No, I'm neither. I have no dog in a fight. You're not a prostrate. I have no dog in a fight. You're a muzzie. Brought up without...

I'm 100% Jewish. No, brought up with... Neither one. No religion in the house. That's nice. I like that. I have no dog in the fight. Is that very common in Belfast?

To people speak, you know what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, like, say, I'm doing like a corporate and the people booking it. like a big into one religion, I will be that for the show. Right. You know, I'm more than willing to be religious fluid. So then what do you think?

So what, so where do you think you're going when you die? Like, do you get, like when you jerk off, do you feel bad about it? Can your wife get abortion? It's like where we stand on the issues here. Where I, I, I, I don't know. I'm not in. You don't know where you die, you don't know. You're like, I want to be in a mushroom suit.

Right. Got it. You know? Just throw me into the garden or whatever. That's interesting because if you have no dog in the fight, no religion, you kind of live life differently by different rules. Yeah. You don't have guilt then.

Yeah. You don't suffer from that. And I can be, yeah, there's, like, people when I'm in America always want to talk to me about, say, if I'm in a bar or some guy, I'll be like, I'd be in the Belfast. Like, last time I was here, guys, like, is it still tribal politics there? And I don't know what that word means. So I was like, answer it by not answering it. Yeah. And I was like, you tell me.

He's like, you live there, you tell me. And the best way I can describe it is, like, we have two sort of main parties, kind of like everywhere, but they're never on the same page. So even now, like, in Northern Ireland, you've got, like, say the British party, they're called the DUP. see themselves as British, Sinn Féin, like the Irish party, they see themselves Irish. And the way it works is, it is so tribal that if like one side picks an opinion on something, by default, the other side has to go the opposite. Got it. But it's got to the point, like, I think about 15 years ago, there was a referendum on gay marriage. Because it was like way behind the times where I live. And then the DUP, the sort of British party,

they came out and they were like, there'll be no referendum like, it's against the Bible. And then because the rules are the rules, by default, the other side, they had to just like be so horny for it. Like they loved it. Oh, just because the other stuff. Yeah, they were like loving it. You know, they had to come out and be like, let's, you know, they were twerking. Yeah, even though they probably wouldn't be. Yeah, yeah, but they were like, they were well into

it. Like, yeah. So it's just, these were all like, these were all like, you know, tribes. They were all like Germanic tribes. Right. And then like the British just turned into a big country and started conquering everybody. So who was the Celts originally up there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the Celts. Right. Kelting you would say like Ireland and Scotland.

Yeah Kind of that little tribe And then the British Just came And kind of civilized the Celts The fucking Maybe the British Did some good

Listen the British We gotta like talk more about You can't say that Because that's tough How that little island Just was able to do so much damage Yeah Those little fuckers

What do you mean The Brits? The Brits? They conquered everyone Little Island It didn't live the sea Yeah they were good Killing machines Yeah

They did it with the most class Of anyone Nice red coat With their little wigs Oh they did it Classy Like they didn't come in And got like

The Vikings Like all around We're gonna The words came in, you know? Old dress, a little tea. That would be demoralizing to get fucked by the guys with the little wigs. You must have looked at them coming in the distance. You're like, we'll fuck them up.

Yeah. But they were good. Murder, murder, murder, murder. Yeah. It was very classy. And you guys were like, we're fucking Irish and fucking. And they're like, stop drinking so much. Kill him, kill him, kill him.

The Vikings fucked us so bad, though. We got got got so bad by the Vikings. I mean, everybody. How are you going to beat a Viking? Nah, no, no. Do you imagine? We're so open as well. We're just like a big island floating in the middle of sea.

Yeah. That's so bad. Why Irish kids so tough? They're hard to go down. You fight an Irish kid, the kid just doesn't go down. Right. Is it because of booze? Or is because of Catholicism and guilt?

Probably the booze. The booze. You're not feeling it. Irish women have nice big fat asses. They got no fumes either. They don't have any fumes. No. They don't.

I'm going home tonight. I can't wait to tell the lady. We got Irish fumes. We got Irish girls. We believe are fumeless. Yonis is if you have red hair or any red hair in your DNA, you cannot possibly have fumes. That's his feeling. Yeah, it's a scientific evidence.

Or if you look at this area right here under the ear. Now, who is this one? She's black Irish? She's Irish? Miss Ireland. Funiguela O'Reilly? How do you say that? Funula?

Fanula. Phanula, yeah. Fanola, O'Reilly. That was great. Thank you. Funula O'Reilly. I went to school with a girl named Funula. Do you want to have a go with that?

G-R-A-N-N-N-N-E. What would that name be? Show me again? It's way over to the left. G-R-A-N-N-N-E. Second down. I would say Miss Ireland, Graney Gallagher

Grainy Grainne Grain. How do you say? Gronia. Gronia. I mean Gronia is a fucking peeve. Yeah, she is a piece. Yeah, she has no fumes. Absolutely zero fumes. The women in Ireland are beautiful, right? Oh, gorgeous to do it. And because we're like, we just have the sea around us and we're not like, we're not landlocked at all. The fumes are getting blown away. Blown into the sea. Very far. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, they really are. The girls in Ireland

are beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's just, you know, it's just saying easy. It ain't easy out there. Yeah. It ain't easy. It's just saying easy because there's women in every country. There's women in every country. And they're beautiful everywhere.

It's just what it is because it just doesn't seem natural. Now you're married? Yeah, yeah. He's a married kid. He's a good kid. How many kids? Two kids? Two boys.

Oh, how old? Four and two. And you're just, you're raising them neither Catholic or Protestant. No, no, no, no, no, no. Now, do you, because the thing is in Ireland and these are, these countries, you know, is it all about, like, being bigger, better, getting the most money? Is that how your mind is? Because in America, this is how it is.

It's like, if you're not fucking crushing it every year, we like start to feel like losers. Oh, no, we're the opposite. So like in America, if you do something, like an achievement, you say it and people love it. People lose their minds. Like, amazing or whatever. In Ireland, that's not an option. Like, you can't do that. You can't pick yourself up.

You have to be humble. It's a thing about don't get above your station. Right. You know? But like, what about like, even like, you know, fame and fortune and all that. These are not big goals in Ireland. No, no, no. Like, I would never, like,

America is obviously like the comedy capital of the world. And, like, when I come to New York or Austin or L.A., it's incredible. But I love it as a novelty. Like, I could probably, I've got my visa so I can probably, like, spend time here and try and move on up through the ranks. But you could never pay me to leave where I live.

Because you like, because you like the idea of, like, you just, you like, you do well enough there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's more about having fun there and, like, enjoying it. and like everywhere has its issues but I feel like it's overall pretty calm place like we're talking about the

religious division and all that's over that's way better it's still lingered a bit but it's way better than it was I remember in Belfast one of the guys who was running I think I was doing when I went there in 2023 what the hell was the name of that room oh you did the limelight

the limelight yeah when I did the limelight I remember the guy one of the guys running it I did one show and I said I was like oh man it would have been great to add too he was like why? He was like, you go to dinner after this and you'll enjoy your time here. And I was like, oh, like he just said that simply as if to say why are you always trying to go after the money

because it's an American thing. Do two shows. Make the money. Because you'd already made four grand. That makes you like the third richest man in Ireland. Why not? Just going to enjoy dinner? Yeah, because I think... That's why you were buying all the properties. Yeah, I went to fucking shout out Dean's Meat Locker. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Shout out Dean's Meat Locker, which was awesome

and that place was great. And that's actually my name on Grindr now. Yeah. But, but dude, It was very eye-opening to me because he suddenly said it. And I was like, huh, this American idea of like more, more, need more, need to live in a gated fucking mansion. It's like, that's just American shit. You will free yourself from that if you don't think like that.

Yeah, yeah. Like the wealthiest comedians in Ireland do well enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great. You don't have to have seven Ferraris over there. That's smart. See, that's a freeing way to live. Oh, they're not the only country that lives that way either.

It's the same in Scandinavia. It's the same everywhere. I mean, we're just a new. Well, the thing is America. We came here to loot. Our ancestors came here to loot. Imagine the personality of the person who left their comfort of their home with their relatives. All our grandparents, they're greedy little bastards.

They were ex-fits that didn't hate, they didn't like their families. And they're like, we're going to go over here and get as much shit as we can because we're fucking assholes. Even like some, like there's some cool people who've come from Ireland to here, Hercules Mulligan. I was big into. Who's Hercules Mulligan? He was part of the American Revolution. he's like in Hamilton so he's like a real guy

left a place called Coleraine in Northern Ireland to come over to America and he was he was a tailor so during the American Revolution he would be measuring up the like the Americans

like all the generals and stuff and then he was like doing a little bit of airy wigan in the conversation I think maybe when he would maybe suck the dick I don't know what he did like he but he was getting the information and he was bringing it back to the founding fathers and then that helped

because he intercepted some they were going to do some battle or whatever some attack and he intercepted a wow and he's like see that's fine I never heard about that yeah yeah Hercules Mulligan yeah Hercules Mulligan that's a good hyenas episode yeah deep dive

so yeah because it is I do like being around that energy because you know like Janus is you have European you have a European brain inside of American in an American body your brain is more European you're very good at living you always preaching you're always

talking about hey I think it's more from experience. But it's just, but it's looking around. It's smart. It's smart. Because I don't have that sometimes. And I'm like, you know, why do I feel all this pressure and stress? Like, well, why do you fucking, why do you need everything? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just calm the fuck down. Part of being from Ireland and living in Ireland is you just sit down sometimes and you do nothing. I can see like here, here, everything is like a mile a minute. That would be laziness here. Talking about things where it's like sometimes we just sit down and we just relax. Yeah, what's your, what have you like picked up about Americans? What do you see? Like, how would you expect?

playing if you're talking your buddies back home what are we like tell us the good end the bad and the ugly just be careful that we have guns in here so yeah so enthusiastic yeah about about everything yeah like everything at all like is enthusiastic um you guys you guys get behind everything

um the and I and I actually love like coming over here like I've been coming over here for shows for like seven years or whatever and I know there's like big issues but I actually find like New York's crazy like so wild but like the first time I came to New York

I got off the subway and the first person we spoke to we were on like a family trip a homeless guy said the sentence put your dick in my mouth and we'll see who's gay and I didn't have time to work out the science behind that I don't know whether this is a trick or not it's true what it's just a Catholic school

that's just a Catholic school trick that we do yeah so so they're like I'll see stuff here that I would never see back home but then also when you kind of go to different cities and places where it's more like layback and you get maybe a sense of more real America, people are really, like, hospitable and really friendly.

Like, when I was in Austin, Texas, in San Diego, especially the West Coast, people are, like, people are very, very friendly. Yeah. That's a misconception that, like, people say, Americans are rude. Right. New Yorkers are rude.

When you get the rude people, it's really rude. Right. Like, it's really rude. Like, also, here's a way, like, when I say, like, say someone holds a door open for me, or I hold a door open for someone,

and they say, I say, thank you. and they say, mm-hmm, that's rude. That's rude. But they don't mean it like that, but we would just see that as rude.

Yeah. So in Ireland, you hold the door in there, you're like, thanking the old, you give a hug, little kiss, yeah,

suck a car, round the back, all that kind of stuff. But, and then the downside is, like you say, like things, things move too fast.

Right. And there's like, like the homeless situation, like we wouldn't get, like obviously there's homeless people in Ireland, but it's not as big. I feel like we,

What would you do, like, differently than us? Like, why is our homeless like that and yours isn't? Are you helping them more? I feel like there's way more, and there probably is this in America, but I obviously don't say it because I don't live here, but I feel like there's more, like, I see more shelters, I see more outreach, you see. You're not lighting them on fire.

Exactly. You have to light a few on fire just to send a message to the rest of the... It's all it is. Right, right. It's just like one on fire. Yeah, and the guns, I can't talk shit about the guns thing because we have them. You have guns in Ireland? Yeah, you're not allowed, but, like, people will have them.

But everyone's uncle has a gun. But no shootings Other than the troubles I think it's like The alcohol thing You know It's like You know

It's crazy Everyone's doing it all the time here We don't do it that often But when we do You go big They do it Right We haven't had a school shooting

In a while by the way Not sure They just maybe none of the news Yeah I think By the way The craziest sentence of all time Yeah

School shooting You're like What do you have think of America You're like We haven't had a school shooting In four days It's really Yeah

Three months maybe Check yeah You know you've just jinxed it though This is interesting though so Hercules Mullen Molligan Hercules Molligan His information directly saved

George Washington's life On at least two occasions By warning him of assassination Attempts and troop movements So the kid was very important Yeah the Culper ring That was the spy network he was in That was a big one

He was a member of the Sons of Liberty Yes Wow The Colpeper The Culper ring We could go see that That's in Long Island We should take a nice trip out to

Sutucket one day That would be nice But you know that's interesting that's how much the Irish hate the British that he probably came here just to help us because the Irish

didn't even have a dog in the fight really but they're like we hate the British so much we're gonna send dudes to come help these Americans because we hate those records this guy's going on a three year boat right

he's gonna lose a leg on the way over but he was like yeah he was close friend of Alexander Hamilton which you know for a fact like Alexander Hamilton loved all the information he was getting but he didn't understand it

he was telling him he couldn't understand him he's like right of fine right at done they're fucking come I don't get a lot. Put it in. What I'm going on? What she didn't fucking get it? Come over there.

I can't understand you, bro. Slow it down. Yeah. Yeah. Just the pikey speak like that, right? The guy, the traveling dudes. So, yeah, it's like, typically that's a thick. Because my accent isn't not thick.

They don't like being called pikey. No, no, no. So I just insult you. You just did a slur. It's okay. You're safe in the confines in United States. They can't hurt you here. Yeah, they don't have passports.

They can't get in, right? I've met a few. Oh, yeah. But they're the sort of guys you meet when you're here that are Irish. And I'm like, how long are you visiting for guys? Like, I came here 18 years ago. Do you go home often? He's like, I can't.

You know? He's got legal issues, yeah. They're here. So what do they like being called then? The right term be traveler. They like being called the traveler. Yeah, yeah. And so they just, they don't have like houses.

They move. Well, they, they. So I'm a traveler. Some do. You would say, you would see. I'm a traveler. I moved nine times in nine years. Yeah.

That is wild. You're a runaway slave. You're a traveler. Yeah. And I got my gypsy family. Yeah. So, yeah, you would, like, Romey. Yeah.

A lot of, a lot of the guys now would be, like, there's settled travelers. Yeah. So sometimes they get offered, like, housing. But sometimes, typically they'll, like, they will go into a house and not like it. Yeah. You know, they'll be like, now I would just rather be, like, moving around or be in the caravan or whatever. Now, why, who are they? Are they Irish, indiginally?

Like, who? There's a huge Irish traveler population. There's a lot of travelers in England. And there's different kinds as well. And there's, like, ro- And how do they? come about? How did this happen? I actually don't know. I know, I imagine they started as Romani gypsies, although maybe I don't want to get that wrong, but like, yeah, this is, it's a

big European thing, but loads of Irish travelers. There's a lot of Irish travelers in England. Yeah. Tyson Fury's family. Yes. Travelers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where they fight from, now as far as the bare knuckle fighting in Ireland. Yeah, that's fun, those are fun videos to watch. Yeah. The call out videos. Yeah. Yeah. I did it. I did a boxing session with friend of the Pollard Sergius. Sergeus Cohn. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You were supposed to come on today. As a matter of fact, we cancel them because we had you. Yeah. But there you go. Yeah. You ever watch those videos though? It's like family. They have like family feud.

Pollite videos. And they make like, they actually make like, they cut promos. Right. So, and it's like this whole underworld of bare knuckle boxing and it's all family rivalries and like real Irish shit. Yeah. I just want to say that Jesse Spell Knuckle N-U-C-L-E, which also sounds like a slur. Yeah.

So what they do is these are like, a lot of these guys are old boys. They're like in their 60s. They beat the fuck out of each other in a car park And then they love each other Yeah, yeah And Tyson Fury's family Not Tyson Fury No, no, no

I think people in his family have maybe done it But Tyson Fury will probably Bareknuckle fight you too I'm sure he would You beat Aiden Fucking Aiden You beat my brother So fucking I'm coming in a parking lot

And I'm gonna fucking beat you Look at this fucker Holy shit That guy is Jack Yeah They get paid no money But they train It's your family's honor

It's family's honor It's like samurai nice shit. Yeah. Yeah. And then they shake hands after and nothing. It's like playing for your country in the Olympics. There's a movie there called Knuckle. It's all about this. It's unbelievable. Is it a documentary? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. I mean, this guy, I would not ever want to fight that guy. No, no, no. If I come home and that guy's fucking my wife, then he just has my family and I just walk away. Yeah. But this is how you see everyone around the world has fucking holes in their roof. Like these guys. Leaky roof. So this guy, like,

so what they'll do, the families will. fight, whatever. The guy will train. So I'll be like, what are you doing? You're training? He's training. He's like, are you getting paid? No, no. It's a family dispute. And they'll train and they'll fight each other. How long do they train? Like they... Their whole lives. And they agree to it, right? Like, we're going to fight on this date.

It's like all family rivalries. So they do those callouts and they're like, I'll see you 7am, this car park or whatever. And then it's done. And you have to go to defend your family's on it. Yeah. And is it technically illegal in Ireland? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They just find the way. Yeah, yeah. Irish traveller. Get it done. Yeah, I mean, Irish travelers have a population around 40,000, so they are considered an ethnic minority.

I mean, this kid's Franks and beans and got a leaky roof, the kid with the hat on. Oh, yeah. See, because our weather's that bad, once you have a leaky roof, we can't patch it up. Yeah. We can't get in. I mean, all these kids have leaky roofs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These kids.

That's why we wear flat cups. Yeah. To patch it up. Yeah. The rain still gets through. Yeah. I mean, look at these kids. These kids look Franks.

I mean, the kid's name is Giggsie. Yeah. The thing is, they take this. Nick, knack. They take this so seriously that when I land, like, back in Dublin, they're going to be waiting after this. I got to fight these guys. They do, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They take it really. So I shouldn't have to fight these guys. Well, if we ever go on tour in Ireland, these guys are coming to the show. They have a long memory. Yeah, listen. Oh, Hanlon family. I'm Yannis Puppas.

You said something. I'm saying it right here in the podcast. Meet me at fucking Dublin's pub and we'll fucking settle it. Yeah. Your fucking pikey. They'll settle it. They'll settle it. I'm just kidding.

I'm just joking. Here, and I'll handle in family if you need a fluffer for that fight on your guy. Yeah, well, let me tell you. Yeah. My friend Chris said your whole family's pussy and you're Protestant. Boys, there will be people who will pay. You know, to come over for a show. We're just joking, guys.

I do not want any problems with any Albanians, fucking Pikes. I mean, travelers. Yeah. I don't want any problems. You don't want no problems. I love travelers. Speaking of travelers, Shane's got to go Now what airline you're flying home?

Aer Lingus, baby Oh, fucking love Air Lingus. I don't go with a lot of the American Airlines because I did Southwest and the boys are just wearing her own clothes. Yeah. Like even the pilot. It's no good. You know what I mean?

But Aer Lingus now, because you're just Irish royalty, they bump you up to first class, so you just buy first class. Take it going home. What's your rule? I tried and they've said, they say, listen, get into that lounge. No problem.

But then I don't like the lounge. Because I like to go to American eateries that we don't like a shake shack. we don't have that back home. Right. So I have the lounge access, but I'll just go in, snap a pick for the EG story, and then leave the lounge. Right, right, right.

Tag them up, you know. Aer Lingus, when I flew it, last time I flew it from Shannon Airport. If you ever go to, I went to, I flew from Shannon Airport, direct flight to JFK. It's a guy's house. Yes. And it's like they have the same planes as JetBlue.

Really? Yeah, it's a JetBlue. You got to push on it? Yeah, seriously. It was a nice fucking flight. Tim Dillon's calling. Yeah, we'll talk to him. I'll call him back.

I did his support in Belfast, too. He was great. Jimmy D, baby I mean, you are his type Yeah, yeah I want to take a bite out of you I opened for him in Belfast And then did 15 minutes at the show

Yeah So tell the fans about some Irish comedians that are great I know Dylan Dylan Morn Dylan is great Yeah, yeah There's a lot of legend

Tommy Tiernan Tommy Tiernan You guys should check out All these guys The comedy Like great So Belfast's my own city Like even our comedy scene

You got like Half a dozen local comics Have played the arena In the last couple of years like that is unheard of for like audiences to support their local comics it's unreal so like you would never have come over before you would have just on dublin your promoter or agent would have said just do Dublin in Ireland but now people are coming to Belfast as well when I did limelight Louis CK was there the week before yeah yeah yeah yeah so it's like the comedy is is awesome

and yeah yeah yeah big in Belfast Dublin Galway court all big comedy cities and they love like me they love American yeah yeah it yeah it's awesome you got to go. Yeah, they would love you. Where could people check you out? Shantog comedy on social media platforms and then I host a T with me podcast. You did on Zoom? I did on Zoom, Ben. I did it on Zoom as well. You did on Zoom. You'd

taken some medication and you were just getting used to. Johnny Clonnie's? I don't know, but your mouth was moving a lot. Yeah, Clonip probably. Right, that was right after I had COVID, yeah, right? Yes, that's what it was. That's what it was. Yeah. Five years ago. Yeah, that was five years ago.

Five years ago, 2020. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thanks for coming in. Well, thank you, Shane. Boys, thank you. I appreciate. I wish you luck leaving the nation. We'll see what happens. Yeah. I'm, you guys know, I'm a Patreon. You are. I'm, I'm, oh, you're on Patriot. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, you're on. Oh, you're on. Oh, you're on. Oh, yeah, yeah. This is my favorite part. You know what I'm so much for a meal. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Glad to have you on. All right, baby. Thank you, boy. Thank you, boys. Yeah.