The Blindboy Podcast - Husband Dove

Episode Date: April 18, 2018

Tragic dog history, nuclear war, embracing the morning dew Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, you dirty customers. Welcome to the Blind Buy Podcast. I'm going to start this week's podcast by reading out a poem that has been very kindly donated by Hollywood actor Jeremy Renner this poem is called

Tennis I've been kicked out of Portugal for fondling the poppers baubles dragged from the gallows for a terabyte of bent over Philadelphia internet butt

I've audited my galoshes for the shin accountants lay bare my heart for the Paisley bailiff that was Tennis by Hollywood actor Jeremy Renner thank you Jeremy I liked you in

em The Hurt Locker yeah that film that won all the Oscars because of the war in Afghanistan and not because the film was good you can't so we're on

episode 27 are we I want to say 27 pretty sure it's episode 27 that's 27 weeks of podcast hugs for ye bastards and it's been a very

very gentle 27 weeks oh I enjoyed it wait I'm talking like the podcast is going to end the podcast is not going to end it's going to continue indefinitely

I've no intention to stop on the podcast I can't wait to see it flourish and it's coming up to summer now so it's going to start growing flowers

that's what I want a flowery summery podcast if this is your first week joining the blind boy podcast please go back to the very start ok because I don't want to have to

pepper this podcast with too much exposition do you know just go back to the start get familiar with it get to learn it's fears it's intentions you need to watch this podcast

to put it's socks on in the morning you can't do that by starting on podcast number 27 please god bless em do that by starting on podcast number 27 please, God bless em I was reading about a very bizarre breed of pig it's called a Danish protest pig

and it's an incredibly rare breed of domestic pig and it's the only animal I can think of that has specifically been bred, oh there's cunts texting me, cunts are texting me again in the middle of my podcast and I don't have my fucking Gore-Tex combat trousers from last week and alright and then as soon as I go to the fucking phone. The chair starts squeaking. Fucking faulty towers around here this week lads.

Hold on a second. Okay. I'll find some soft material in a minute. To put the phone on. So it doesn't. Because cunts are going to keep texting me. Non-stop. So anyway.

The Danish protest pig pig it's the only animal I can think of that I'm aware of anyway that is specifically bred by humans as an act

of cuntishness do you know it's this really rare pig that the Danish have bred and it was at the beginning of the 20th century right really rare pig that the Danish have bred and

it was at the beginning of the 20th century right Denmark was ruled by the Prussians Prussians aren't around anymore I'm not sure what they were I think they were somewhere around Russia did Prussia have something to do with World War 1

it doesn't exist anymore anyway the only thing I know about Prussia is there's a paint there's a type of colour called Prussian Blue which is a very interesting blue almost turquoise but yeah at the Danish protest PIG

in the early 20th century, Prussia was ruling Denmark. And it was illegal to fucking display the Danish flag under punishment of death. And the Danes were pretty pissed off because the Danes are a proud nation. They're fucking Vikings, man. They invented colonialism. So, there's no way the Danes are having some you know, shower of Prussian cunts saying

don't be fucking displaying your flag. But the Danes are also you know, those Nordic lads they love their ingenuity and their design. Isn't IKEA Danish, is it? I think so.

So the Danish protest pig, it's a specific type of pig that was bred to look like the flag of Denmark. So that's what they did. They bred this fucking. This fucking pig. It's. The back. They are saying that the pig is red. Then the middle around the shoulders is white. And then the head is red again. So it looks like the Danish flag.

So they bred a pig. As a fuck you to the Prussians. Fair play to them. I can't think of any other animal that's been. Bred out of pure spite. I can tell you about a dog that was. Not bred. For spite.

But bred for a spit. That's one of my favourite dogs. And they're now extinct. And. It's a dog breed called a turn spit dog and they went extinct about 300 years ago

right, very interesting little characters so they had a few different names they were called turn spit dog the vernapitur Cur which is a pretty cool name the Kitchen Dog

the Cooking Dog the Underdog those were all the names for the Turnspit Dog but it was like no photographs exist obviously because the last kind of mention

of these dogs is in the 1800s. But they were kind of like little terriers. And what these dogs were bred for is in kitchens when the cook would have meat on a spit. If you can imagine like a medieval kitchen. So there's this huge fire, okay? So fire is a is a giant of lamb or whatever and it's over the fire and obviously you need to if you're cooking a giant of lamb over a fire it takes hours and hours and it continually needs to be turning and turning so it doesn't burn so imagine imagine the medieval kitchen. Huge big open hearth. And then up on the fucking wall.

Was like this. Big wooden hamster wheel. Right. And the turn spit dog. Is this dog that was bred. To run around. In this wheel up on the wall. And the dogs running in the wheel. Would move.

And rotate. The leg of lamb or whatever that was over the fire and that's what these dogs were bred for and they most breeds of like terriers nowadays that have extreme loyalty the loyalty comes from this turn spit dog because they were not only bred to be hard workers and that you know to work on a wheel all day long but they were bred to have the loyalty to be able to be around a leg of lamb all day long and not go near it the other thing with turn spit dogs is they were bred to cooperate they often worked in teams a kitchen would have two of these dogs and the phrase every dog has its day as far as i know goes back to the turn spit dog and like when one dog was up on the spit or up on the wheel doing his thing, when he got tired, he'd come down and then the other dog would be lying down

and he'd start barking into his ear, roaring at him. Get up onto the fucking wheel, you prick, you know. And the two dogs would just work hand in paw, turning the meat all day long and as well they were also bred to be foot warmers in church the poor bastards imagine that being bred like not even for anyone to rub you but it's like all week long climb up there onto the wall and go around in that giant wheel to turn the meat that you can never eat and then on sundays lie on on people's feet to keep them warm and there's a story in a place over in england called bath and the story I think stories from like the 1600s but the bishop of Gloucester was given a sermon you know in church and it was winter so all the pews all the people had turn

spit dogs on their feet keeping them warm so the bishop bishop of Gloucester starts reading out. A passage. And he says. It was then that Ezekiel saw the wheel. And the second the bishop said the word wheel. All the fucking turn spit dogs. Jumped up and went mad. And started legging it towards the door. And caused chaos. Because as soon as they heard the word wheel.

They thought that they got to fucking work. The poor bastards. because as soon as they heard the word wheel they thought that they got to fucking work the poor bastards em what they they went extinct because of the industrial revolution when

automation and steam power became a thing you didn't need a dog to turn a wheel for fucking meat to rotate you could just do it with a a piston a steam powered piston so that's quite sad

Queen Victoria the total and absolute bitch in fairness to her kept retired turn spit dogs as pets and no one's really sure what they kind of turned into like I said extreme loyalty in dogs can be traced back

to the turnspit dog but some people think that they not evolved but were bred into corgis and corgis are the closest thing now and because they'd very short legs they'd very short legs But it's interesting fucking dog breeds, you know. I mean, I've said before on a previous podcast that, you know, dogs aren't real. And they're not. There's no such animal as a fucking dog. There's wolves. But dogs are a human creation, you know.

I hear people talking about global warming. Something like 50% of the world's problems with global warming comes not from industry, but from the agricultural industry and the farts of cows. Cows produce so much methane that it's making shit at the... It's making... Not the ozone layer. It's... The methane from cows' farts causes a...

It's not even fucking what is it CO2 Jesus Christ I'm going down a scientific rabbit hole now that I can't get myself out of cows farts make the fucking world warmer anyway and it's a problem and some people say how can that be the case sure cows are animals

if cows are animals then it must be natural but it's like cows aren't fucking real either there's no such thing as a cow cows aren't real animals they don't exist in nature cows are human creations there was wild cattle and the most docile obedient ones were bred into what we call cows and who produced loads of milk and did fuck all other than do cow things and all the aggression was bred out of them you know bulldogs

there's an interesting story of breeding bulldogs how they came about I'm not sure how old bulldogs are but I'm guessing a couple of hundred years old but anyway how bulldogs are but I'm guessing a couple of hundred years old but anyway how bulldogs were bred is if a farmer was in a field and he had a bull in the field and that bull was randy and aggressive and liable to kill the farmer the farmer bred a dog that had the courage and tenacity to attack the bull and the purpose of the bulldog was that when the bull went nuts the bulldog would put himself or herself

in front of the farmer latch onto the bull's nose and the dog was bred to have like a set of jaws that were strong enough so that no matter how hard the bull shaked the dog would never come off the nose so the bull would be so kind of pissed off that they've got a dog latched onto their nose that they forget about the farmer and the farmer can hop over the wall and escape but what happened with the earliest bulldogs that they were breeding when a bulldog would latch onto a bull's nose for too long blood would start teeming out of the fucking nostrils and snout of the bull and there'd be so much bull or blood that it would go into the nose and the mouth of the bulldog that was latched on and it would slowly go into the mouth, back the throat and then into the lungs and the bulldogs would drown in the blood of the bull.

So the ones that survived and the ones that were the best at bulldogging, The ones that survived and the ones that were the best at bulldogging, they started to, I don't like saying the word evolve because it's forced, but these are the ones that were born with kind of wrinkles in their faces. Bulldogs and pit bull terriers and all those breeds. Mastiffs, fucking boxers. The reason wrinkles are on their face is because they're ancestors from a few hundred years ago. The wrinkles on the face meant that blood would drain into the little furrows. And not fucking drown the dog. and not not fucking drown the dog so this is why you have to go back

to episode fucking one of this podcast because the people who've been listening all along are perfectly comfortable with this being the start of the

fucking podcast another extinct breed of dog and it's going to come as a surprise the Irish Wolfhound em Another extinct breed of dog, and it's going to come as a surprise, the Irish Wolfhound.

Irish Wolfhound is one of the oldest breeds of dogs gone. Some people say it's around maybe 7,000 years old of a breed. And the ancient Irish, the first kind of settlers in ireland had irish wolfhounds now they're fucking massive but five feet tall and they were used for wolf hunting because ireland was full of wolves wolves and irish elk massive animals and wolves in particular were a threat to human settlements so wolfhounds a pack of them would go out hunting wolves with humans and killing the wolves and getting rid of them part of the reason why there's no actual wolves left in ireland anymore but like one of the one of the irish heroes in in our mythology is called Cú Chulainn. And the story of Cú Chulainn's childhood is that he...

I can't remember the fucking names. Was it Phinegas? So anyway, Cú Chulainn, his name... When he was a kid, his name was Setanta. And, oh yeah, he called over to a lad called Cullen to his house wanting to train with him or something and there was a wolfhound guarding the house and the wolfhound attacked Satanta

when he was a little kid, a little child so Satanta took out a hurley and a slither and he lashed the slither down the fucking the wolfhound's neck and choked it and killed it and then satanta feeling bad about killing this guard dog offered himself to be the guard dog of cullen and so satanta became coo cullen coo meaning hound and Cullen, Hound of Cullen so that's in you know in ancient Ireland you can see how important and how

ferocious the wolfhound was because our greatest mythological hero his ferocity is, can only be communicated by comparing him to a wolfhound, so there were these massive fucking dogs

and they were being, the Irish exported them by comparing him to a wolfhound. So there were these massive fucking dogs. And the Irish exported them. You know, Julius Caesar mentions wolfhounds in Rome. The wolfhounds were being sent over to Rome to fight bears and lions. And they were considered in ferocity to be as scary as lions at the time. Massive bastards. They were also used not just by the ancient Irish to take out wolves, but they were used as war dogs.

In a war, a wolfhound was trained to drag a man off a horse or drag a man off a chariot. Scary bastards. So when the Brits came over. And it started with King John. Because he loved fucking Wolfhounds. He even had one. The Brits decided that. The Wolfhound was too dangerous.

For the regular paddy to have. Because. You could fight a British regiment. If you had enough wolfhounds. So wolfhounds became a thing that only. The English nobility. Were allowed to have in Ireland. So the English nobility started to breed them.

Export them. To the point that the. Wolfhound numbers were actually. Disappearing massively in Ireland. By the 14th, 15th centuryth century so then Oliver Cromwell roaring prick of a man absolute bastard but in fairness to Oliver Cromwell he stepped in to stop the extinction of the wolfhound the Irish wolfhound and he created a ban on exporting them to other countries but it didn't really work and the Irish wolfhound the proper ancient Irish wolfhound that's

7,000 years old went completely extinct and the Irish wolfhounds that we see today, they're not real Irish Wolfhounds. They're bred from the 19th century based on the memory of what the Irish Wolfhound was. It's a mix of a few different dogs. Great Dane, Scottish Deerhound, English Mastiff. And his name was Captain George Augustus Graham and he went out of his way to try and breed

what we now call the Irish Wolfhound which is this big hairy five foot dog but the Irish Wolfhounds we have now we don't really know if they're in any way similar to the proper ancient Irish Wolfhound if you will they're in any way similar to the proper ancient Irish wolfhound. If you will, they're a hyper-real simulacra.

They're a breed that's created on rumour and memory. They're a copy of a copy, you know. So we don't know. So it's fair to say that the true Irish wolfhound is actually extinct. So last week's podcast, as you remember, it was about Conor McGregor sending me a mail after he threw that thing through the bus. I compared him to Tupac.

He took exception to this. He sent me a mail explaining that he took exception to it i apologized everything was grand and i don't know if he listened to the podcast someone reasonably close to him got on to me and said that they believe he did listen to the podcast but i don't know connor didn't get back to me but he appears to have had um judging by his social media a kind of a calm week um he tweeted i can't write i'm paraphrasing now but he tweeted something along the lines of uh he kind of acknowledged having made a mistake and the other stuff on his social media was just him with his family which which is a positive

thing that to me suggests that he is interested in getting away from bullshit because a great way to get away from bullshit is surround yourself with people who love you unconditionally regardless of whatever it is you do and family are a great one for that but anyway i did request last week when i was telling the story about mcgregor mailing me i said like journalists listening please do not report this in a clickbait fashion because it'll draw a lot of shit on top of me and did they listen no not really there was a tremendous amount of ridiculous clickbait and what i meant by clickbait was obviously i understand i can't tell a story like that publicly on a podcast and not expect it to be reported it's out there you're fully entitled to report to report it that's your

job i just wanted accurate reporting what i didn't want was stupid big ridiculous headlines that suggest I'm engaged in a fucking feud with Conor McGregor which is untrue because I don't want his fanboys atting me on Twitter and being goals so a number

of publications went for the clickbait route the one publication that didn't go for the clickbait route. And actually reported it accurately. Was Joe.ie. And even when Joe.ie put it out. They got cold feet like two hours later. Contacted me directly.

And offered to delete it. And I said no it's grand. And he actually reported it accurately. So fair play to Joe. But other fucking publications didn't. They went straight for the. McGregor furious at blind boy. Blind boy scared.

That type of shit. And the fanboys. The fanboys came on top of me. They came on top of me. And made my life a bit difficult. Well not really. They just Made my life a bit difficult. Well not really. They just annoyed me for a bit. I'll tell you who went for a clickbait.

And it's so absurd. I'm happy it happened. This. I think it was. Was it the sun. I think it's the sun. The sun had a full page spread. And.

Someone sent me a photograph of it I'd love to actually have the fucking the physical copy so I could frame it because it's so ridiculous the sun went with this giant tabloid fucking thing and it's me with a megaphone

photoshopped image of topless Conor McGregor behind me and then at the bottom is like a photograph of Tupac. And then on the bottom right even smaller. Is this smiley. Or small little picture of 50 Cent. With like a little. A little brief as to who 50 Cent is.

Fucking absurd tabloid journalist Photoshop. And it's so ridiculous. I hope the person who made it. Was actually having a laugh I like to think that sometimes like the shit that tabloids print I like to think that sometimes the either the

journalists or the graphic designers are self aware at the utter horrible absurdity that they are making on a daily basis I like to think they're aware of it I'd love to think that actually yeah once after fucking horse outside we went into it was the sun or the star or something and they wanted a photo shoot with us and we weren't into it but we've been kind of made to do it so we said we'll only do a photo shoot if If the photo shoot is us. Eating balls of American dollars.

And they were like. Yeah we don't give a fuck. We'll put that on the front page. So they did. It's just us eating a lot of money. But em. Yeah some of the fanboy criticism I got. Which pissed me off.

Not even fanboy criticism. Some of the. Lads. Who follow myself. had problems with last week's podcast one person said that that i was weak i was weak to have apologized to mcgregor and i was weak to have um apologized and explained myself it's like what the fuck do you want what's weak about that do you know what i mean i don't understand that shit weakness the e often the easiest thing to do right no not even often from emotional perspective, the easiest thing to do

when someone takes exception with your behaviour or when someone, like McGregor misinterpreted what I said, the easiest thing to do is to react with anger and tell the person to fuck off. The hard thing to do is to take ownership of your own behaviour, not see it as winning or losing and have empathy for the other person so that's how I see it I've worked very hard over the years

to not be reactionary around things I would perceive that in myself that for me would be weak you know if someone says something to me. And I all of a sudden turn around. And get angry. And lose control of my emotions. That shit only leads to negative stuff.

So I work on a daily basis. And the strength. Having the strength. For forgiveness, compassion and empathy. And it is fucking tough too. Because I'm a lad. And I've been bred. Not bred but I've been raised to confront.

I've been raised to be aggressive and to confront people and to be stubborn. And it took me a lot of work to be compassionate. And be nice and to feel that it's okay to apologize. And the act of apologizing to somebody, to not frame that within something like winning or losing, it's bullshit. Happiness is winning. Avoiding conflict is winning. Do you know what I'm saying? Having a peaceful life is winning avoiding conflict is winning do you know what i'm saying do you know what i'm saying having a peaceful life is winning who the fuck wants conflict nonsense um and then what did some other person say that i wanted to correct yeah one one fella didn't he felt that i belittled myself um because i called myself a

nobody and that tweet seemed to be concern but again it's like i don't agree with that either when i said last week that you know why the fuck is Conor McGregor mailing me a nobody the reason I say that is that it is objectively true right you you it's an observant fact that in the world of celebrity and the level of fame that Conor McGregor has I am a nobody that is objectively true and I don't consider that to be belittling myself when I say it and I tell you the reason why it's of benefit to my mental health for me to have a realistic appraisal of we'll say my level of success uh my level of my level of success as it's perceived on

the outside is what i mean my level of fame things like that if i have a realistic appraisal of these things and i'm honest with myself about it and i'm honest with others and i have a sense of humility around it right and i'm comfortable saying i'm not that famous it means that my personal identity right my sense of self how I value who I am as a human is not tied up with my level of fame or my level of success or my wealth or anything like that because like I've mentioned many times a huge part of my mental health journey is to have intrinsic value no aspect of my behavior no failure of my behavior or no success of my behavior can define my value as a human being and I actively try and foster this attitude in myself through humility, you know, being realistic about things, you know. I don't see anything wrong with that.

Some people could see it as self-deprecating, but I don't see it as self-deprecating when it's actually accurate, you know. I've said it before. People ask me about my career. My career trajectory. For the past. 18 years or however long I've been doing it. The trajectory has been. Asher you know yourself.

Tipping away. Do you know what I mean. And I'm alright with that. Because I'm happy. Success for me is it has much more to do with whether I'm doing what I want to do

do you know I happiness is my thing if I'm writing a story that I like or writing a song that I like or whatever, as long as it's ticking my boxes, then brilliant, I'm happy.

If it performs excellently and people like it, that's a wonderful bonus and obviously that brings happiness to me. And if it fails, that would bring me a bit of disappointment. But I'm never, I would would never it wouldn't affect my happiness and it wouldn't affect um my view of myself or how I value myself as a person so that's why I say things like that and I don't consider it to be belittling myself at all it's it's just my part of my mental health journey because thank you for the concern and some are wondering now no why even

bother responding well the reason is is part of this podcast is through me explaining my own processes of how i manage my mental health i know from feedback that you listen and you apply that to your own lives and then it benefits you as a kind of a shared experience you know she's one of the worst things you can do in life for your mental health is to attach your personal value in an aspect of your behavior i remember watching an interview once with a fella called Paddy McAlloon he's the lead singer songwriter of an amazing fucking band called Prefab Sprout and they were

huge in the 80's you know he's an unbelievable songwriter but I watched his interview with Paddy McAlloon and when Prefab Sprout came out at the start they were getting global number ones but then they became less popular as their career went on

and Paddy McAloon in this interview was speaking about the intense pain and anger he felt when one of his records didn't go to number one and it stabbed me in my heart when I watched it because I first obviously I could relate to it because I'm a

you know I'm a fucking songwriter I know but it's like to put things out there and to have them either perform well or not perform well and in the early stages of my career if something I put out didn't do well and i didn't have awareness around it yes it would actually hurt and it's fucking that is a living hell because that meant that my identity and worth and value as a person was being placed on how many youtube hits i'm getting or in paddy mccalloon's case where his song is in the charts that is not a good way to live your life at all because it's

shit that's outside of your control and you can apply that to your physical appearance if your sense of self is tied up with your physical appearance and you know whether people think you're good looking or fashionable or whatever if you end up feeling genuinely bad or hurt or this trails into depression or sadness because of an external factor of yourself it's a never- ending recipe for unease and it's a tough skill to develop do you know and it takes a long time

and you fall off the wagon but that's part of the process you know I say this today that like I try and have intrinsic value and not allow external things define my value as a human. I have to work at it all the time. Because I might fall off the wagon, you know.

And I'll tell you what does it. I'll tell you what causes me to fall off the wagon. Of this particular mindset. Positive praise. mindset positive praise if i do something that's good and i get a lot of positive praise from other people around it i have to be very careful that i don't bask in that praise or that i don't allow that praise to make me feel too good as a human about it because that's what sets you up for the crashing depression when you get negative feedback so the trick is

keep on a level the whole time, intrinsic value if I something that I create a creative work that I create I should place no more value on this than I do a fry up that I make in the morning you know, or a nice dinner

that's the way I look at it and that not only protects my mental health it protects me as a fucking artist I'm writing my second book at the moment and one of the toughest aspects of writing this second book is trying to forget any positive praise I received for the first book because it colours my vision it means that I'm trying to write what I think other people want instead of following my heart which is what I did with the first book so it's a challenge but you can apply that to anything couple of podcasts back I spoke about Carl Rogers' real and ideal self

there is the person that you actually are and there is the person that you would like other people to think you are if you live too much of your life being the person that you would like other people to think you are it's a never ending cycle

of anxiety and depression anxiety and sadness because it's unattainable but you can always strive to be the best version of you and no one can take that away you can always be the best version of you

and no one can do it better than you nobody can do it worse than you it's just you and I try and apply that as much as possible to myself as much as I can someone did say something nice last week regarding the McGregor thing

one person tweeted and said because you mentioned McGregor and it got into the papers a lot of the type of lad who wouldn't be listening to your podcast

will now actually listen to it and may actually take away some some good messages from it that they wouldn't otherwise hear so I hope that's the case that'd be class so enough of that this

this podcast when I sat down to it was supposed to be about it was a dog tragedy podcast. I wanted some dog tragedy. You know? Extinct breeds. Breeds that were bred for human service.

Sadness of... The sadness of dog. Tragic dog podcast. There's a bridge in Scotland called the Overtone Bridge and it was built in 1895 right

it's a gorgeous bridge, it's a kind of decorative bridge but it's very high up but anyway dogs keep leaping to their deaths from this bridge and no one knows why it started happening in the 1950s

somewhere between 600 and 1000 dogs have leapt to their deaths from this bridge and it's like to the point that some people have like think it's paranormal they've had dog psychologists in all sorts trying to find out what the fuck is going on with this bridge the only kind of commonality that seems to be the case is it's only dogs that have long snouts jump off this bridge one theory is that the potent order of piss from male ferrets is traveling up the wall of the bridge with the wind and the dogs get the smell of this From male ferrets. Is travelling up.

The wall of the bridge. With the wind. And the dogs get the smell of this. Ferret piss. And say I'll have a bit of that. And they just leap off the bridge. But no one really knows. No one understands.

What the fuck is going on with it. So that's the. That's a bit of a tragic dog story isn't it poor pricks so it's at this point of the podcast that I ask you to support me you can do this

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um what did i mean to say oh yeah yeah the question segment isn't sponsored this week because the wonderful wolfgang digital sponsored three questions over the past three weeks. So I just want to give a special shout out to Wolfgang Digital. Say thank you so much. They're a small Irish digital company, digital marketing. Thank you so much for sponsoring the podcast for those three episodes. I really fucking appreciate it. Fair play to you.

And if you want to see the videos that they made, that were responses to questions that they asked me type in wolfgang bites into youtube and watch them so thanks lads i appreciate that i was in wexford at the weekend doing a live podcast which was great crack I interviewed a woman called Cathy Keane and she she was an expert on Vinegar Hill so I don't know when I'll put that podcast out

but it was good crack and thank you to Yellow Belly Brewery who are a micro brewery in in Wexford and they came along to the live podcast and brought me They're a micro-brodie in Wexford. And they came along to the live podcast.

And brought me a few cans of their beer. And one of them was very, very strange. In a nice way. It was a passion fruit sour beer. Which. It assaulted my tongue. I didn't know whether I liked it or not. but I haven't been able to stop thinking about it so that's a good thing

you know so it was an interesting week with Trump and Syria wasn't it I hate that I fucking that really pissed off my weekend those missile strikes in Syria That really pissed off my weekend. Those.

Missile strikes in Syria. Now I don't know enough. About the fucking situation. Like I mean. Assad is some dickhead. Using chemical weapons like that. But at the same time as well. You just wonder like.

Of course chemical weapons. Are fucking terrible. but you have to wonder what's so what is so bad about chemical why is it okay why is it not okay for Assad to gas innocent um civilians but it's completely okay two weeks ago for Israel to fire live ammunition on children. Why is one of those things okay? Like, and Israel use white phosphorus bombs in Yemen, which is a form of chemical weapon. I just don't understand. Why aren't they all terrible? I just don't get it but

yeah I had an anxious and sad weekend waiting for Trump's military response and Syria because I just don't want the US and Russia

knocking heads especially with Trump the lunatic who's willing to do things based on his ego so I didn't like that I didn't like the anxiety and tension of going to sleep and waking up in the morning

and the horrible feeling in the pit of my belly. As I search for my fucking iPhone to turn on the news app to see what has happened the night before. And are we in World War 3? So fuck you Trump for that. That really pisses me off because like i said with my with my mental health journey and keeping an eye on my happiness and my anxiety and my sadness when it comes to genuine external events like that that are miles outside of my control the feeling of anxiety that i get and

the feeling of depression that i would get those are justified responses those are not that's not a mental health issue that is it is perfectly normal for me to be anxious and afraid that an American missile is going to land on some Russians and then we've got a fucking war I don't like that um at the same time as well i don't want to be freaking ye out okay here's the thing with the reason russia are a problem is because they have nuclear weapons okay so you don't want a nuclear fucking conflict because that's the world gone however there is a thing called mutually assured destruction and this is an agreement that the world powers have that it's basically their nuclear structure is set up

so that nobody can shoot any nuclear missiles because everyone dies so it's a real last resort thing so that does help me to sleep at night a bit the other thing too is we do think of Russia as this because a lot of it has to do with Russia's physical size on the map

which isn't actually fully accurate as well because the map as we see it is not geographically accurate but on the map as we know it Russia is the largest country in the world so we see Russia is not geographically accurate but on the map as we know it russia is the largest country in the world so we see russia as this fucking huge giant power we also think back to russia in jordan the cold war when it was a superpower but russia's got an economy about the same size as italy no matter what bullshit putin talks or how hard he seems he cannot take on the forces of nato and conventional

warfare it's cannot it's not the 19 fucking 60s anymore so russia are they're mainly talk do you know what i'm saying and this mutually assured destruction thing technically should keep us safe from worldwide global nuclear conflict but if you get bogged down about the world ending one thing to always remind yourself the world ends for people every single day when they die you know

try and focus on the now. On the here and now. But you know there you go. There's a big privileged rant out of me. Because like. It causes me anxiety when I think. The conflict will affect me. The poor bastards over in Syria.

That's their life. You know. But that's it. I'm a human and we're selfish so it's time now for the ocarina pause this is where Acast the app that I

published this on inserts a digital advert into the podcast which you may or may not hear depending on your geographic location so I don't have my ocarina yet I don't know where it is, it's not lost it's just somewhere in a bag somewhere so last week I tapped

a sherry glass to create a little, a modern digital angelus that you could hear, I don't have my sherry glass but what I do have is a butterfly knife and i took this out had this since i was about 13 years of age and i took it out of its its its box because i was watching the film falling down with michael douglas and he plays with a butterfly knife in it

this week's podcast was supposed to be about a very hot take that I have about the film Falling Down and a few others from that period but I didn't want to do it this week because it requires a little bit more research and I want to do it justice maybe next week so I'm going to play with my

butterfly knife for a few seconds and you can listen to that if you're lucky and if you live on mainland the mainland uk then you're probably going to hear some capitalist bullshit but for the good people of ireland just listen to uh listen to me play up my butterfly knife for a little bit bit. life-saving progress in mental health care. From May 27th to 31st, people across Canada will rise together and show those living with mental illness and addiction that they're not alone.

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bad things will start to happen evil things of evil it's all no no don't the first omen i believe the girl is to be the mother mother of what is the most terrifying six six six it's the mark of the devil hey movie of the year it's not real of the year. It's not real. It's not real. It's not real. Who said that? The First Omen. Only in theaters April 5th. Oh yeah. I feel like Michael Douglas.

I feel like Michael Douglas it's time to take some questions for the podcast because we are 50 minutes in Hattie asks what is your take on so many Irish living at home with their parents how is the scarcity of good paying jobs and affordable housing changing the cultural dynamics and yes mental health How is the scarcity of good paying jobs and affordable housing changing the cultural dynamics?

And yes, mental health. I have a bit of a, kind of a hot take on that. Like, in the 19, in the 19, not the 1950s. Teenagers, right? The concept of a teenager and what a teenager is is a very recent thing um teenagers only became a thing in the 1950s with post-world war ii capitalism before that you were a child you went from short pants to long pants and you became an adult at about 15 but capitalism

more income and more expendable fucking money meant that all of a sudden now there was this new period of adolescence called a teenager where adulthood was delayed until you were 18 I think that capitalism and neoliberalism

now is causing the same thing and you'll see this in hipster culture we call it hipster culture although hipsters are gone a bit out now I don't know what to call it but people in their 20s are in a state of delayed childhood if you look at our popular culture and the films that are most that are grossing the most in the fucking cinema they're superhero films shit that children should be interested in shit from our childhood, nostalgia

if you take a film like Big with Tom Hanks like the whole shtick with Big is that a child is placed into the body of an adult the adult is only about Tom Hanks I think is early 30s in that fucking film and the adult behaves like a child the film Big wouldn't make sense in 2018 in a world where our offices have got beanbags and people it's it's it's completely acceptable for someone in their early 30s to work in an office that has a ping pong table and for them to go into a tie shop and jump around on a giant piano that is no longer absurd that is now normal and i think a new a new period is is is happening in humankind because of of of uh capitalism we've got teenager

and now this new delayed adulthood thing where you're not you're adult now until your mid-fucking-thirties, you know? So that's kind of, that's my hot take on it. It's going to become completely and utterly normalised. I can't see it changing or getting better because of the boom and bust nature of neoliberal economics. because of the boom and bust nature of neoliberal economics rent has gone higher and it's just going to become normalized we were the first kind of modern generation who have got it worse off than the generation that came before us which is very odd and it's just going to become normalized and And adulthood is delayed. And this is reflected in.

Our culture. And is that a good or a bad thing? I don't know. Biologically it might be a bad thing. Because people are having. People are having children later. And then. Those children will be born.

With older parents. And be confronted at a young age. Knowing that their parents are probably going to die. When they're in their twenties. That mightn't be great for the mental health of future generations. It might make them more anxious. I don't know. Time will tell.

Adrian asks. What's going on in the minds of those people who climb cranes and dangle off buildings? Yeah, I've often wondered about that myself. I fucking hate watching those videos. There's a lot of Russians that do that for some reason. Dangling off these giant fucking buildings for selfies. And it makes me kind of angry. It angers me that

I don't know I've kind of that they've been given the privilege of an able body and they're taking the absolute fucking piss by risking their lives you know but

in Freudian psychology there's a theory called Thanatus but in Freudian psychology there's a theory called Thanatos which is the death drive first posited by a woman called Sabina Spilrein and what

there's two drives in Freudian psychoanalysis there's Eros which is the sex or life instinct that humans have and thanatus which is the death instinct and the death instinct is it's kind of expressed in aggressive terms and one of the conflicts that we as humans have is to kind of try and find a balance between the life, sex, eros instinct and the death, aggression, thanatus instinct, that drive.

And I think those people that dangle themselves off buildings, they're people who on an unconscious level completely and utterly refuse to accept that they will one day die because that's a huge part of being human massive part of being human is to understand and know and eventually accept that you are going to die that your life is finished and these people who engage in the risky behaviours unconsciously I think they cannot accept this and their way of

the defence mechanism that comes into place for them to manoeuvre this uncomfortable realisation is for them to maneuver this uncomfortable realization is for them to continually test death that by consistently putting yourself in a situation where you come close to death and you get an adrenaline rush that it's it's testing its boundaries it's trying to make and these are unconscious forces now so the person doesn't know they're doing this they just understand that they get a good rush but what i think it does it relieves the underlying unconscious

hum of anxiety of not accepting that they are going to die so consistently testing its boundaries as a way to feel more powerful than death you know that's all I can think of it it's like I can't in a million fucking years understand why someone would do it I'd never jump in front of a train or do something like that

I value my life too much but the people who do it I guess they're trying to control or coerce or bully or gain victory over this pure

fucking existential thread that is in the human psyche they're denying it they're denying it completely so that's what I think that's what's going through their minds Andy asks do you have any hot takes on the current state of the music

business em yeah we're gradually getting to a stage where musicians and I mean like even famous fucking musicians we're no longer pedestalling them as much

in terms of them being rich and famous the only musicians that are rich are like the top 1% but the rest are just getting by like Vice did an excellent article there about a year or two ago about these indie bands in the UK Getting by. Like Vice did an excellent article there. About a year or two ago. About these.

Indie bands in the UK. Who'd be selling out. Fucking 5,000 crowd venues. And then spending the weekends. Working in Nando's. Because that's the way it is now. You know. There is not. A lot of money to be made

in music at all Spotify plays fuck all and that's where most people are listening to it YouTube pays fuck all for music the only money you can make is by doing gigs but if you're in a band with five people you have to split that

as well as that with gigs, overheads are fucking massive. So, into the pocket of the artist, an artist will walk away with maybe less than 10% than the actual ticket price for a live gig, and that's the main income. And merchandise as well is the other source of income. So, that's the hot take

on the music business we're kind of drifting towards a more humble view of people that are fucking famous fame does not mean money unless you're at the very top but there's no middle ground anymore

bands in the 60s and 70s that were modest modestly successful they were still millionaires not anymore no fucking way and it cripples a lot of fucking bands i know a lot of irish bands who simply had to quit because if you want to take your career seriously you have to focus on that 100 but how do you do that when it doesn't actually earn you any fucking money and they did a study over in the uk where the arts is massively massively underrepresented by working class people in the uk because it's only privately educated people who can afford and fund a music career in the UK

and it's part of the reason as well for the bag on my fucking head I mean the Patreon is keeping me going at the moment and that's fantastic but if I want to focus seriously on my art and still earn a living because I've got a fucking bag in my head

if I need to take a part time job to pay the bills then I absolutely can which is a brilliant thing but if I was more recognisable. That would become difficult.

I mean it would be difficult for someone with a recognisable face to get a lot of jobs. Because it would interfere with that work you know. So that's one thing I'm grateful for. And I have done it many a time. It's just. Tapping away at the work, oh shit only a couple of gigs coming in, that's not gonna pay the fucking heating bill, grand I'll do something else for a while, no hassle, no worry

so that's the music industry now and I don't know is it a good or a bad thing, I'm not sure as long as art keeps getting made then great but I fucking hate seeing

someone's dreams get crushed because they can't pay their fucking heating bill that's shit and that's why it's important for ye support things like fucking Patreon for whatever artists you're listening to that you actually enjoy don't be the amount of fucking people that have said to me,

oh you were on the Late Late Show, you must be a millionaire, my fucking hole, you don't get paid for being on the Late Late, like, other people too, like I would have a, like,

like a four part series on RTE, and people would assume, Jesus, you must have got to pay the million for that I swear to fuck I've done 1916 a one hour documentary for RTE

and I've done a four part series for RTE where I'm writing it, editing it, appearing in it like if I add up the amount of work that I put in to do these things that are shown on television if i add up the fee that i got it's it's less than minimum wage for the work that i put in now technically what i should do is not give a fuck about the rte commission and just simply

show up on the day when the cameras are there and make a piece of shit bit of television and then the pay is somewhat justified but I'm I care about what I put out so if I get a four-part series off RTE I'm putting six months of research into that I'm putting six months of writing into it I want to do it the best that I can possibly do and as well take a lesser fee so that more money goes into actually making the best that I can possibly do. And as well. Take a lesser fee. So that more money goes into actually making. The best piece of TV. But the downside of that is. Like I said.

Actually getting paid less than minimum wage. Because I want to do something properly. That's the fucking reality today. That is the real deal. That's what's actually happening. And. Same thing can be said for music. For fucking anything.

You know. Unless you're. Setting out Vicar Street. Ten nights in a row. Then you'll be talking about a profit. But. Last Rubber Bandits gig. We did in Vicar Street.

Sold out one night. Took six months to sell out but again ending up with about less than 10 percent of that ticket in my pocket so it's it is tough going it is tough going and i'm not fucking complaining because i fucking love my job i will take that over a job I don't like. I'm certainly not fucking complaining. But that's just the reality. The reason it needs to be said is because there's misconceptions. Do you know? And thank fuck for Patreon.

And thank you for contributing to the Patreon. I am not taking the piss when I say how much of a difference your small contribution makes. Seriously. So that's all we've got time for this week. Was that an unintentionally negative podcast? Was that slightly negative? Talking about the sadness of dogs

and then mutually assured destruction. I don't know. Do you know, you've got to embrace the darkness sometimes. You've got to embrace the darkness if you want to have a bit of delight as well. I'm fatigued today as well. I've started a new running regime. I used to run around 7km three times a week. And now I've upped that to 10km.

So I'm running 10km three times a week. And I'm feeling it in my bones so i'm slightly fatigued recording this podcast um anyone who's interested in running can i give you a small bit of very very important advice your your i don't think your legs want you to run that much. So it's very, very easy to get injuries. Right? Very easily. And once you get an injury on your ankle or your knee, you're fucked.

That's with you for ages. So if you're thinking of starting running, get your gait analysed. Most good sports shops will actually do it for free. You go into the fucking sports shop, they throw you onto a treadmill. And they have cameras on your feet. And all they do is they record how you walk.

And that will tell you the shape of your feet. And whether you need shoes that have support. Or don't have support. Right. The correct running shoe is essential. Or you're going to injure yourself. And do stretches as well before after warm down that stuff's not bullshit i'm very lucky to have not given myself

i've gotten the old sore the odd sore knee or sore shins or a sore ankle but i've been lucky enough to nip it in the bud and i've identified identified my. I have an over pronated gait. Which means that I need. Insoles that have a very high arch. To support my legs. And as soon as I do that. I can run 10k 3-4 times a week. Not a bother.

No hassle. No pain that's outside the ordinary. I do. And I've said it before. I recommend a bit of running running is fucking class it's horrible for the first three months but once you get into it

it is like meditation it's great for the mental health and I'm not suggesting running as a mental health solution that's a facetious suggestion that some people make it is one small facet in a holistic mental health regime so i'll leave you this week i'm gonna come back with something more positive next week i've had

an unintentionally negative podcast and i hope you still got your podcast hug yeah we had a cry hug what's wrong with a cry hug every so often often. Alright? So, look after yourself. Go in peace. Have a wonderful, lovely week. Embrace the fucking... There's some nice flowers out there at the moment. The flowers are coming up. Daffodils, dandelions, all that carry on.

Leaves on trees. You remember back the podcast around November, when it was bleak, when the weather was bleak, and I was telling you how I, if the environment is bleak around me, I search for the beauty in that bleakness, and it does exist, especially if you're a maggot or a worm. But now. It's time. Nature is reflecting. Human happiness. Days are longer.

The air smells better. All this crack and carry on. So. If there's one thing I'd like you to take from this podcast. If you've made it this far. 70 minutes in. Live the rest of the week in the here and now and don't miss the start of spring don't miss it smell what needs to be smelt feel the temperature notice the fucking the gorgeous color of the fucking evening sky the pink draping across the

clouds do you know what i'm saying the early mornings looking forward to May and June with those crisp fucking summer mornings and the dew hanging around the place like it's smoking fags enjoy that take it on board engage it with every one of your senses your taste, taste

the air, smell it feel the grass, touch your feet taste the air smell it feel the grass touch your feet onto the ground all of this stuff is sustenance for the spirit you shower of cunts alright

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