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🔔LAST ORDERS O'KEEFE🔔talks Emporium, Liverpool, Guerrero, Burridge, The Rock, Guinness & more · What Do You Call It? Podcast!

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  Hello and welcome to What Do You Call It podcast.
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  I'm your host GB. At the time of recording it is
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  Valentine's Day, so brand new points for me.
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  Happy Valentine's to my awesome garfit.
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  He's an Irish pro wrestler who lost seven points.
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  Hands out arse weapons. Please welcome last orders,
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  O'Keefe mate. Blip me threw off the bell.
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  Mate. How you been doing?
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  All good. Yeah, I'm good.
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  I'm good. Thank you very much for having
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  me on the show. I thought you were going to wish
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  me a happy Valentine's Day there for at the beginning.
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  So I was a little bit disappointed it wasn't for me,
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  but yeah, all good. How are you?
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  Good mate, all good, cannot complain.
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  Those that follow me on social media and those that I do like
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  to post about us a lot. So while we are still in
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  contention for four trophies, it's been a bit frustrating
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  moment drawing against Brentford, a good Brentford side
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  to be fair. But there's just some individual
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  players that I have issues with like Odegaard.
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  I'm sorry to say I'm going to get crucified, but as AI just
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  don't think you've been good enough besides the hat trick
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  against Tottenham, but we can't keep going on about that.
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  But I'm going to ask you mate because I know you are an avid
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  supporter of Liverpool. Bit of a different season
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  compared to the previous season where you won the Premier
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  League. Please tell me how would you
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  rate Liverpool season so far out of 10?
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  Oh gosh. And yeah, I mean, look, it's
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  going to be a little bit low, isn't it?
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  Like I'm, I'm, I'm going to give it like A5 or A6 at the moment,
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  you know, I think like, you know, considering everything
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  considered, I think they're doing, they're doing OK.
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  Like in my personal opinion, I feel like, like, you know, Clap
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  got us that Premier League title, you know, it was the work
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  that he had put in that got us to that stage.
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  Not that I don't like Arnie Slot like I do I I have a lot of
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  respect for him. I think he's a great manager and
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  stuff like that. But but but yeah, I'm starting
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  to lose hope a little bit, you know what I mean?
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  And then and I, I think as well, like, you know, I think we, we
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  all also are like, really like not addressing like the the
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  elephant in the room, which is like, you know, this is like
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  this is not even a full year since Jota has passed away.
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  You know, so like such a prominent player for our team,
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  such like, you know, like, like a best friend of all the other
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  players, like most Salah, like got loads of lads.
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  They were so, so close with him. Do you know, And I think like,
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  you know, when you put that into perspective, like, you know,
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  people are like, Oh, they get paid so much money and you know,
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  they, they should just be focusing on what's at hand.
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  But I that that would ruin that would ruin me if it was like,
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  you know, if I put myself in their shoes and it was like one
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  of my teammates, like our colleague or something like
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  that. You know, like I think I think
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  there's I think there is a bit of that as well, which is is
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  kind of obviously such a major factor for it too.
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  So yeah, not the not the most ideal season for us.
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  But look, I have AI was watching your game actually against
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  Brentford. So Brentford is like my local
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  team, like I live in in Hanwell kind of Ealing area.
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  So Brentford is like the closest club to me.
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  So yeah, got respect for Bradford and obviously they've
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  got Cui, Dean, Callehring and goal, you know, another Irish
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  man. So I love that.
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  Sorry about the phone. But yes.
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  So basically, yeah, I was, I was watching your game and obviously
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  I do fantasy Premier League as well.
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  So like, you know, with the 2 Arsenal games, like you've got
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  one on the 18th and the one last last Thursday, I put a fair few
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  Arsenal players in my, in my premier, in my, in my fantasy
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  league. And yeah, it's like I even treat
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  who do I triple captain? I triple Captain Gabriel, you
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  know, and and. Yeah, yeah.
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  Literally gets booked in the first like 15 minutes.
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  Yeah, exactly the point. The point I'd offer him playing
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  got removed straight away. So what can you do?
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  But yeah, I was I I was I with loads of loads of Arsenal sport
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  is that might as well. So you know, it's yeah, it's
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  obviously not ideal for my fantasy Premier League, but
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  don't don't hate that, don't hate that in terms of, you know,
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  in terms of the overall score, I think, you know, it would maybe
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  be nice to see Arsenal win it. You know, it's been a long time.
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  I'm sure you guys are getting quite.
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  Frustrated. 22 years, mate. No, wait, 20?
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  Yeah, 22 years. Bloody hell.
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  OK. You, you were alive.
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  You, you've seen a, you've seen a, a Premier League title win.
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  Yeah. I'm I'm quite old mate, Yeah.
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  Because I remember it like I remember it definitely.
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  I was, I think I was like 12 or something.
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  So yeah. This didn't feel real, to be
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  fair. And you've got these this young
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  generation that tried to submit it.
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  Oh, but the drew loads of games, the drew lot 11 games stuff
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  didn't lose any games. That's that's the whole point,
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  being unbeaten in an entire season and then lose it the way
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  that Arsenal did lose it to May night, 49 games when Rooney
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  dives. He dived.
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  Don't care. The baby comments are more than
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  fucking happy to do it. But I hope it happens to me.
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  It's been quite unique season for you.
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  Like you said, you know, unfortunately Jotter's death is
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  going to have an impact on the players, you know, in the
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  dressing room because he wasn't just, you know, just another
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  team player, but he's also putting very good friends with a
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  lot of them. I know Salah was really upset
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  about it, you know, and you've had issues with Salah this
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  season, you know, getting drops and then him posting what he did
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  and the way he behaved. I don't necessarily agree with
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  it. I get why he's angry because
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  he's a club legend. He's one of the best players in
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  Liverpool football history. That that's going to be very,
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  very hard to debate. I think you've also had issues
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  with like can I say, and Virgil Van Dyke in the back and then
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  big, big sign in 150 million ASIC and he fucking injured the
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  rest of season. Yeah, yeah.
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  Not not ideal, not ideal. And like it's taken words a
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  little, a little minute to like warm up and stuff as well,
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  hasn't it? So, you know, well, let's see,
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  let's see how we go next season. Like I think we're kind of like
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  we're, you know, we're obviously we're obviously kind of on the
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  back foot a bit this season. So for me, I'm just like, yeah,
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  let's, let's look at that. Let's just get the season.
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  Haven't done with. Yeah, let's hope that Arsenal
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  don't. Don't bottle it for your sake,
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  you know so. Fourth season the Roman can't do
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  it honestly like they're going to full day with me just because
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  I'm I'm a Dick, right When we win stuff I will literally abuse
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  people just. All are so fans are like that.
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  I think it's like, you know, I don't know why so many of my
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  cousins even, you know, like they're.
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  Part of. They're all corners as well, and
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  they're all it's, they're all the same like, you know, every.
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  All my honestly we could have been quiet as a mouse or like
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  the most aggressive assholes ever, but when we win the most
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  cockiest fan base. We love it, we love it.
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  It's all bad and funny, right? Isn't it?
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  Awesome mate, but I do wish you the best luck for Liverpool next
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  season. I think the season's a bit right
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  off, but you know, you've got some great talent.
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  Bryce is coming in finally. Yeah, improving thinking.
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  Yes, it's happening. So good luck with that.
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  One last question I'm going to ask you that isn't none less.
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  I'm laid and I think you might crucify for me for this, but I'm
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  going to ask you. OK.
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  Would you say I'm wrong for saying Guinness doesn't taste
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  any different in Ireland? No, I disagree.
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  I, I, I strongly, strongly disagree.
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  Strongest disagreement I could give.
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  Like you just can't be it. Like, you know, we do keep the
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  best stuff at home and we keep the best stuff like in Dublin as
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  well. And you know, and in the other
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  counties. I'm from County Kilkenny, which
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  is like an hour and a half from Dublin, but like you're, you're
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  not going into it, you're not going into a bar there and
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  getting a bad point to Guinness. Like I think, I think just then,
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  you know, I think the care for like the taps and for like the
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  infrastructure that brings the Guinness into the glass from the
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  keg. I think it's just, you know,
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  that the, the they just look after it properly.
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  You know, you need to clean the pipes out regularly.
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  You know, I was a barman myself, so kind of, you know, I know to
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  crack with. And yeah, you just, you just
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  kind of need to keep like the pipes clean and stuff like that.
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  And, and I genuinely do think there is like we keep the best
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  stuff at home. I don't know how it how it
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  works, but I think there is a bit of that as well.
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  And you know, it's hard to find a good point of Guinness over
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  here. Really like.
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  I I, I, I think it is, I don't really drink in this over here
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  that much because it's a, it's like, I just go for a lager
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  really, because I'm like, I know that an English pub is going to
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  give me a better lager than it will do a stout.
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  But then there is, there is my Irish pubs that do really good
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  Guinnesses are like, there is, it's the Yorkshire man.
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  There's a pub in Soho called like it's either Devonshire or
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  the Yorkshire, Yorkshire man or something like that.
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  I think it's a Devonshire, but they're meant to do really,
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  really nice points. It's a Guinness in there and I
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  need to go check it out myself to, to see.
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  But, but as well as Guinness in Ireland, we also have like
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  Beamish and we have Murphy's. So we have like different Irish
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  stouts as well. And like my, my favorite site
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  would be, I love that we're talking about Guinness and stay
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  here now. But like my, yeah, my, my
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  favorite stout is actually Murphy's.
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  It's it's brewed in West Cork. So you know, it's, it's not very
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  well known as a brand. Like Guinness is iconic.
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  Like who, who doesn't know Guinness?
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  You know, it's like the gold harp.
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  It's very, very iconic, you know, So, but yeah, Murphy's is
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  really good. And I, I would, I would tell you
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  to try it at some stage. Have you been to Ireland?
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  Well, obviously. I have, I have once to Dublin
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  love. I mean, obviously, yeah, public
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  violence in Northern Ireland, but just yeah, in general.
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  So Dublin allied, but I thought it was really expensive.
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  Yeah. So I was, yeah, a little bit
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  part of it, yeah. I hear it.
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  I hear it, man. And Dublin is essentially like,
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  it's like London with a Irish accent.
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  It's just like a big, like, you know, it's given that European
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  city vibe and it's like, you know, kind of yeah.
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  It's just like, it's just like very CES, like, whereas, you
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  know, I come from like the sticks, like I'm like from this
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  place called Kilkenny. It's like a medieval kind of a
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  town. Very beautiful, so nice.
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  Like like the history is crazy. It's like my dad's, my dad's a
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  doctor of history. So as you can imagine, from like
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  a young age, like I've been, you know, like just, yeah, head full
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  of history type of a thing. And I'll give you an interesting
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  fact about my hometown. So the first witch burning in
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  Europe was in in my, in my hometown in Kilkenny.
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  So that's that's our claim to fame.
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  A little bit morbid, but but but such a, it's an interesting
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  story and yeah, I'll have to tell you.
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  I'll have to tell you more. I could do a whole podcast about
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  Kilkeny and Guinness in Ireland if you want.
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  We can we. Can do that.
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  I will have you back on don't worry, Part 2 history of Ireland
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  and then maybe maybe I will backtrack my comments to say it.
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  It does taste different because I'm actually heading back there.
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  Sorry next year again. But what I'm going to discuss
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  with you is pro wrestling, and that's how I know you from.
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  So please tell me, what was your introduction to the world of
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  wrestling? Right, so my introduction to the
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  World Wrestling, I think it was when I was about like, gosh, I,
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  I think I would have been maybe about 5 or 6.
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  So we're talking about like 9697.
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  And I used to kind of hang around with my cousins, you
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  know, like their mom and babysit me or whatever.
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  And, and whenever we were over at my cousin's house, we were
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  always watching football and then wrestling.
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  So it was like Premier League on Saturday.
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  And then like, I think we we watched Smackdown on a Saturday
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  as well. Or no, the Smackdown probably
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  wasn't around at that. Time maybe or.
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  I can't remember exactly which one it was.
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  It was definitely like WWF and but yeah, like my memory doesn't
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  kind of serve me that well with that.
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  But like it started at around that age, like, you know, six or
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  seven. And then by 99 when Smackdown
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  actually started, I had like very vivid memories of like
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  Smackdown when it when it kind of when it started and, and, you
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  know, and like The Rock was the reason that I got like hooked on
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  it. Like I, it was just something
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  about him that like he was just so charismatic and like, I think
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  that my brother was like The Rock was like my brother's
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  favorite wrestler as well. And, you know, you kind of look
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  up to your brother and all that kind of so yes.
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  And you're younger, So what you do all the time, but, you know,
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  but but you kind of yeah, you take on their football team, you
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  take on the wrestlers that they like.
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  So, so it was The Rock that really got got me into it.
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  But then there was like seeing like the Hardy Boys and Lita and
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  like seeing like the Dudley Boys and like, you know, edging
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  Christian. And then like all the like,
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  different type of matches, like the hardcore matches, like Raven
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  and hardcore matches and TLC matches and you know, street
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  fights like, you know, Shane McMahon, Steve Blackman, like
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  all those, kind of like that guy.
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  I'd. Like you know, from I think it
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  was like 99, like around that time it was definitely went
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  Smackdown, like started. I became just completely
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  obsessed with and The Rock got me into it, but then Eddie
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  Guerrero, I just idolized Eddie Guerrero and like I loved how,
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  you know, I just, I just love how we wrestled, you know, like
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  the the lucha libre kind of style.
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  It's just, it just really resonates with me and obviously
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  been like a smaller guy and stuff as well.
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  It's you know, I can, I feel like I'm I'm able to do that
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  kind of stuff. So yeah.
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  So so it was really the rock. And then you have like Eddie
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  Guerrero and stuff like that. But then also like, you know,
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  the Hardy Boys and Lita and like China and, you know, there's
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  just, there's too many names. Stone Cold, Undertaker, Kate,
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  like like this did. It was just a it was a Hardy,
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  Yeah, right to sense. Oh my God.
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  I like even. I even think their entrance
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  music slaps like you know it. Was amazing like just yeah, so
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  many just want to. Boo them, yeah.
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  That's two minutes. Like a guy.
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  Oh. My Jim Johnson.
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  Fucking phenomenal. So yeah, so so that was that was
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  kind of my entry into it, you know, and like, I think I just
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  became obsessed like super, super quickly.
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  Like absolutely obsessed with it.
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  Like I just wanted to talk about it all the time.
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  I had my parents gone mad buying me action figures and the little
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  wrestling rings and all those kind of a things.
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  Then like I got my first PlayStation Smackdown one the
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  PlayStation game came out like the first console I ever had was
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  a PlayStation. So I'm always been kind of a
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  Sony guy in terms of like, you know, a gaming equipment and and
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  then and, and yeah, like basically just like the
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  Smackdown games, you could create a wrestler.
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  I'd always like create myself and stuff.
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  And that like fed into the dream of like wanting to become a
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  wrestler. And like from from a very young
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  age, I was like, I just want to be a wrestler.
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  I don't want to do anything else.
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  And like I would tell everyone, anyone that would ask me, like
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  aunts, uncles, like, you know, my parents and told them until
• 15:22
  they were blue in the face. So I think my parents always
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  they always wanted me to like pursue education as like, you
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  know, make sure you go to college, make sure you have a
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  degree, you know, that kind of like old school, kind of like
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  thinking. I say, you know that that
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  that's. Still with the best interest in
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  you in your. Future yeah, absolutely.
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  They were like, yeah, you can do whatever the hell you want,
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  just, you know, get your degree 1st and then then you can do
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  whatever you want to do. Like, you know, at least if, if,
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  if the wrestling thing falls true, you have something that
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  you can go back to, you know, like you're always going to have
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  that degree behind you. No one can ever take that away
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  from you. So.
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  So that was it. And like I, I wrestled, I think
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  like the very first time I got into a wrestling ring was it was
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  N.W.A Ireland, actually. And yeah, yeah.
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  So this is way back in the day. And I can't even remember who
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  the trainers were. Like it wasn't like Finn Balor
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  or Anton was there, but it was a school that Finn trained that.
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  And you know what, like I wish I could go back in time now and
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  look through my own eyes when I was that age because there must
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  have been like someone there like, you know, like maybe Becky
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  Lynch or I, I don't know, like it like you just you just never
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  know. But but I was, I was probably
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  about like 14 when I did my first kind of class there.
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  And me and one of my best friends from school, like we
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  were just he was also as obsessed with wrestling as I
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  was. So his dad agreed to bring us to
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  like this two out two and 1/2 hour drive to this wrestling
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  school, like way far away from where we were living and, and
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  you know it, it just wasn't feasible for us to be able to do
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  that regularly. Like we didn't have like someone
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  that would be able to like give up a whole day on on a Saturday
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  to drive his open back to, to, to Wicklow to to where the
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  school was. But that was my first at like
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  that was my, my first time in a ring.
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  And I remember getting in and like they were like just showing
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  us like back bumps and side bumps and what have you and, and
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  I and I really was trying to impress them.
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  So I just like jumping up like really high.
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  Extra Life. Yeah, you know what I mean?
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  I started, I couldn't walk for a week after it, but like, but
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  yes, that was the first introduction.
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  And then like it kind of it kind of just like, you know, it was
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  always a big love of mine, but it just wasn't feasible.
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  I didn't have a school or a way, a means of training and, and
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  continuing that. So it wasn't until I came over
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  here that I got involved with, with Lucha Britannia.
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  This is when Lucha Britannia was at the Red Skull.
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  So, you know, I was trained by Greg Burridge and Greg still
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  trains me to this day. And then Gary Vanderhorn as well
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  and the both coaches are at Lucha Britannia and, and, and
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  that was where it really all kind of kicked off.
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  Like that's, that's when I started focusing on it properly.
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  You know, I trained for a few years with, with Lucha Britannia
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  and I eventually had like an Irish Rover character, which is,
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  you know, it's, it was kind of like my first ever gimmick.
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  And I, I love playing into the Irish thing, don't I?
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  You know, I love playing into the scrappy Irish kind of vibe.
• 18:27
  So, so, so, you know, I did that for, for a bit, but, but kind of
• 18:31
  never really focused on it, never really gave it the
• 18:34
  attention. It may be deserved because I was
• 18:36
  in university and I had other things were kind of getting in
• 18:39
  the way, like relationships. I obviously had a job and stuff
• 18:41
  as well. And you know, it's expensive
• 18:44
  living in London and, and then when you're studying over here
• 18:46
  as an immigrant and stuff as well, it's like, you know, it's
• 18:49
  obviously, you know, it can be quite, quite expensive.
• 18:52
  So, so it kind of like, you know, it plateaued a little bit.
• 18:56
  I had a really bad injury When, when was that?
• 19:00
  In 2019 I broke my hip. So yeah.
• 19:03
  So that, that was, that was annoying.
• 19:06
  So I was, I, I went broken hip for like 2 years because it
• 19:09
  didn't heal properly and ultimately I had to get surgery.
• 19:12
  So from 2019 to like 2021, I was like just battered and and it
• 19:20
  was just exactly, but then, you know, like I've kind of come
• 19:25
  back to it now again. And I train at Bridge Flight
• 19:29
  Design, which is involved from so central.
• 19:32
  We train every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
• 19:35
  Sometimes I think there's a Saturday class as well.
• 19:37
  But yeah, I just appreciate Greg so much, you know, like he has
• 19:41
  just like he's, he's made me fall in love with wrestling
• 19:45
  again, you know, and like, and I'm just like doing the shows.
• 19:49
  Like you've obviously seen the shows Emporium and and whatnot.
• 19:52
  Like, you know, they're just like, I just love it.
• 19:55
  Like I love what, what, what what, Greg.
• 19:57
  They are just fun. They're just.
• 19:59
  Really good crack, you know, like and Ryan and Robin like and
• 20:02
  everyone in in the school is is all got a part in that show and
• 20:06
  and whatnot. But but you know, it's yeah,
• 20:08
  it's it's just amazing. Like I'm just so grateful to
• 20:10
  people like Ryan and Greg that, you know, they've, they give us.
• 20:13
  This opportunity and, you know, and I've never loved it more
• 20:17
  than I've loved it before. I've never loved a character
• 20:19
  more than I love like last orders O'Keefe, you know, it's
• 20:21
  just like an extension of myself.
• 20:23
  Like so I like the pint, you know, and, and and I love like,
• 20:27
  you know. I serve a pint at the end of the
• 20:28
  last show. I was like, they come in the
• 20:30
  show, just like I'll definitely come in the show.
• 20:34
  Mate, Definitely definitely and I love like a bit like mixed
• 20:37
  martial arts and like you know like you know, I mean any type
• 20:40
  of mixed martial art. I love you know I'm really big
• 20:42
  UFC fan and but but but but I just I just love all kind of
• 20:47
  fighting sports like or even like you know, we've got like
• 20:50
  what what movie is coming out now?
• 20:51
  Is it like Street Fighter is coming out soon?
• 20:53
  Isn't it I? Cannot wait for it.
• 20:55
  Yeah. And $0.50.
• 20:58
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 21:00
  It's so like, like these kind of things like Mortal Kombat like
• 21:03
  though I'm, I'm always interested in those kind of, you
• 21:06
  know, like these kind of movies. Anything that's involving
• 21:08
  scrapping. Just a few things I want to,
• 21:12
  that's it to what you said. First of all, I want you to tell
• 21:15
  me the best advice you received from Greg Burridge.
• 21:19
  I hear nothing but great things about that man.
• 21:23
  I've met him. He's a very cool guy.
• 21:25
  I've had previous podcasts to discuss important progress,
• 21:27
  which I'm going to touch on because you've had one hell of a
• 21:30
  rise there. But just tell me first of all,
• 21:33
  the best advice Greg has given you, or something that Greg's
• 21:37
  said to you that you've reincorporated into your
• 21:41
  wrestling. Yeah, so, so something that that
• 21:45
  that kind of Greg would would have said, you know, and you
• 21:49
  still would say to this day. And and it came from a guy who
• 21:52
  used to wrestle actually Lucha Britannia.
• 21:54
  His name is Mike, and he passed away quite a few years ago.
• 21:57
  But it was shy. Kids get no sweets.
• 22:01
  So, you know, like if, if you, if you wanted, you gotta ask for
• 22:06
  it. Like you gotta like, you gotta
• 22:07
  put an effort. You gotta give it your odds, you
• 22:10
  know? So like for him, it's just kind
• 22:13
  of like I, I I think to translate it like for me, it's
• 22:16
  like just don't let anything hold you back.
• 22:18
  Don't let like fear, don't let anxiety, don't let like what you
• 22:23
  think other people are thinking or whatever holds you back.
• 22:25
  Just go for it. Just like give it your
• 22:27
  knowledge. You know what I mean?
• 22:27
  And and like, and I think that's the thing with last orders
• 22:30
  O'Keefe as well. Like, you know, I've, I kind of,
• 22:32
  I I'm just out there. He's a really out there kind of
• 22:35
  character. But like, you know, Greg will
• 22:36
  say, go more, do more like, like bring him out further, you know,
• 22:40
  so bring more the Irishness into it.
• 22:42
  Do a little, a little jig and a reel, you know, a little dance.
• 22:44
  So have you So, so, so I think that that that sticks out my
• 22:49
  mind has been like probably the best advice I, I have received.
• 22:53
  But like, like, you know, I've wrestled with the guy for 12
• 22:56
  years. So there's been years upon years
• 22:58
  upon years of like amazing kind of advice and support, you know,
• 23:03
  And actually I, I did for my final year piece, like at
• 23:08
  university, I did a documentary called Lucha Britannia and me,
• 23:13
  it's on YouTube. I'll share the link with you
• 23:15
  afterwards. You can see that.
• 23:18
  And that's like back in the day, that's like 12 years ago, you
• 23:20
  had people like Malik, you know, you know, Malik, the heavy
• 23:23
  hitter. He he, he's, you'll see him in
• 23:25
  that. Malik is a really good friend of
• 23:27
  mine and got a stag do in April, actually.
• 23:30
  So looking forward to that. And and then and then and then
• 23:34
  and then, yeah, like hostile, like, you know.
• 23:37
  Yeah, you'll see. You'll see some familiar faces.
• 23:39
  Actually, if you look at that, at that documentary, I think you
• 23:41
  might see like Sam Allen, a bit of Cassius and stuff like that.
• 23:45
  So yeah, really, Really. Yeah.
• 23:49
  Good times man. I'll don't forgive it a watch,
• 23:51
  mate. Important Pro Wrestling.
• 23:53
  So you've made a name for yourself there.
• 23:57
  I saw you for the first time. I was very impressed and John's
• 24:01
  mental as well. With Important Pro Wrestling.
• 24:03
  You actually opened the match for the first show.
• 24:05
  Yeah, the eliminate match and the second show, Six man tag and
• 24:10
  then the most recent show, the third one, because there's going
• 24:13
  to be more shows. I'm not going to say final show
• 24:15
  use in the fucking main event. Yeah.
• 24:17
  Tell me about this twice. Tell me about the Point Pro
• 24:19
  Wrestling. I mean, the venue's great from
• 24:21
  me being a fan. Genesis Cinema's great.
• 24:24
  It's really easy to get to and you can track with the rest is
• 24:28
  after. You can drink during the show.
• 24:30
  You can, you literally have a good time if there's one match
• 24:34
  you don't like. OK, cool.
• 24:35
  Second match. I'm gonna like this one though.
• 24:37
  The characters so easy to like and so easy to Boo.
• 24:40
  Snyder Brothers scared the shit out of me a little bit.
• 24:44
  They're so good. Like, yeah, they are.
• 24:47
  Yeah, no, the sliders are great. Like I love, I love working with
• 24:50
  them in the in the second show, you know, and, and and they're
• 24:53
  just like, they're just so like they're just so easy to hate,
• 24:56
  aren't they? Like just.
• 24:57
  You know, I don't have little podcasts.
• 25:00
  Yeah, just yeah, you do honestly, they're they're
• 25:02
  they're great. But but yeah, they're about
• 25:04
  really, you know, they're both great guys as well.
• 25:07
  Like, you know, behind, behind all that, like, and and yeah,
• 25:11
  and, and honestly, like we, we love this show.
• 25:13
  Like I'm I'm so happy that this has come around, you know, and,
• 25:17
  and, and long may it last, man. Like this is, this is just just
• 25:21
  the beginning. Like we've only literally had
• 25:22
  three shows. But like, you know, like I, I
• 25:25
  just, I'm so grateful as well for the opportunity for to be
• 25:30
  put intimate into the main event.
• 25:31
  Like, you know, like the very first show I ever did with Greg,
• 25:34
  actually, he put me in the main event against Malik.
• 25:37
  It was when we had a promotion called London Looter League.
• 25:42
  So it was kind of like a little spinoff of Lucha Britannia,
• 25:45
  basically. So Greg gave me an opportunity.
• 25:49
  Like this is the second time that Greg has put me in that
• 25:51
  position. And, you know, it's all down to
• 25:53
  like, to him. Like I'm just so grateful that
• 25:56
  like you think of me so highly to even put me into that kind of
• 25:59
  position and. And, and yeah, yeah, man, like I
• 26:03
  love it. Like, you know, for me, it's
• 26:04
  just like wrestling is just like, look, you know, I have my
• 26:08
  95 job. It's expensive living in London.
• 26:10
  Like, you know, and I'm really passionate by what I do.
• 26:12
  I do freelance producing. So like, you know, I work on
• 26:15
  like shoots and like behind the scenes and clip based stuff and,
• 26:19
  you know, all all that kind of world in, in in media.
• 26:22
  But and but yeah, I just, you know, I, I, I, I love wrestling.
• 26:26
  And for me it just has to be like at this stage especially,
• 26:30
  it's just about having to crack, you know, like I just want to
• 26:33
  have fun. And like, for me, wrestling has
• 26:36
  always been like, just like fun and like an escape, like
• 26:40
  something I can do that. Like, just like I just lose
• 26:43
  myself in wrestling. Like, you know, I don't think of
• 26:45
  anything else. Like if I'm having relationship
• 26:49
  drama or like life drama or anything like that, like
• 26:53
  sometimes I'll be in just like a terrible mood and like I'll go
• 26:56
  down to like Greg school and see all, all the lads and all, you
• 27:01
  know, all the guys and the girls in there and like just just you,
• 27:04
  just I just become silly. I don't know what it is.
• 27:06
  I just become like last orders O'Keefe and like, I just like
• 27:09
  I'm kind of just getting all the energy and the, the, the vibe,
• 27:13
  the bad vibes out from the dates, you know, so, so for me,
• 27:17
  wrestling is sad. Like wrestling is like it's,
• 27:19
  it's, it's something that I do that like I love and I want to
• 27:23
  have a bit crack with it. I want it to be fun.
• 27:25
  I want to make people laugh. I want to make myself laugh.
• 27:28
  I want to have really cool matches and I want to do more
• 27:30
  cool stuff and show off my move set to people.
• 27:34
  And yeah, I want to get involved in more hardcore matches and
• 27:36
  stuff as well, actually, because I I do love a little bit of
• 27:39
  violence. I think anyone who wrestles has
• 27:42
  to love a little bit of violence.
• 27:44
  So but but yeah, so, so that that is that's it.
• 27:47
  It's for me. It's like, you know, it's all
• 27:50
  about having fun, but I'm just so I'm so grateful to be given
• 27:53
  these opportunities that, you know, that that emporium that
• 27:56
  they give us. So yeah, we've, we've definitely
• 27:59
  got more to come in terms of news.
• 28:02
  There will be, there will be a show very, very soon, but I got
• 28:06
  away until you know, until the buses say we're we're able to
• 28:11
  we're able to promote and release information about it.
• 28:16
  That's cool man, if they do want to find out when important
• 28:19
  process is having this show, just give them a search on such
• 28:22
  media, point progress in and keep up to date with the news
• 28:26
  announcement. One last question for you mate
• 28:28
  and then I'll let you enjoy the rest of your day.
• 28:30
  I was going to say different time and stuff, but we're
• 28:32
  actually in the same time zone which is nice.
• 28:35
  A few guests. I've had 50 before you have been
• 28:38
  in America, so I don't know. In Australia as well.
• 28:41
  Actually Australia, but he was an American but in Australia.
• 28:45
  So I'm just kind of 1. So 3 dream dinner guests for
• 28:49
  your dream party. This doesn't have to be rest and
• 28:51
  related. Dead or alive, past or present,
• 28:54
  fictional non fiction teammate, anyone?
• 28:57
  3 guests quick reason. That's why you went to there.
• 28:59
  Give me #1 mate. Oh God.
• 29:02
  OK 1st guest I'm having is Eddie Guerrero.
• 29:08
  Like, I don't know if I spoke as much about him as I wanted to
• 29:12
  because like, I just like I love daddy so much, like, you know,
• 29:17
  just just his personality and like his how he wrestles and
• 29:21
  like, you know, when when he came back with Chavito and they
• 29:24
  did the you know, I lie, I cheat, I steal, Oh my God, lost.
• 29:28
  Guerreras man, it's fantastic and.
• 29:30
  I, I was so upset when he passed away like my, like my, my
• 29:35
  parents had to keep me home from school when I found out he
• 29:38
  passed away because man, I was, I was like, I was just in tears
• 29:42
  like I was just like so upset. It still hurts me to this day.
• 29:45
  That one, you know what I mean. He was stolen from us too soon,
• 29:48
  far too soon. Like Bunk in school, off to meet
• 29:51
  him at Ilford. Woolworths was the best thing I
• 29:54
  did. So you met him?
• 29:56
  Go on my Instagram page after his interview.
• 29:59
  It's one of my pin posts. So I did like a 20 year
• 30:01
  anniversary post for him. No way.
• 30:03
  And I met him six months before he died, very friendly, very
• 30:07
  nice. It was a very quick interaction
• 30:09
  casino, you get those like official meet and greet WE when
• 30:11
  they come over here, it's like 2 wrestlers on the table and then
• 30:14
  you sign an official WE merch and stuff like that.
• 30:16
  So I met him. So I actually had to bunk 2
• 30:18
  days. So the first day I bunk was to
• 30:20
  get the ticket and then I went next day and I went my own.
• 30:23
  I was 15. I was a little bit nervous, you
• 30:24
  know, going offered and training, you know, damn kids
• 30:27
  still. But it's so worth a mate.
• 30:29
  And I actually chose the thing was John Cena.
• 30:30
  I didn't mean anything right? And at the time people were like
• 30:33
  what the fuck are you doing there?
• 30:34
  He's a world champion and stuff like that.
• 30:36
  I was not daddy man. That's crazy because that must
• 30:39
  have been like nearer around the tour that I went to see.
• 30:41
  Like I am. I basically I got to see Cena
• 30:45
  and Guerrero, like I got to see Guerrero wrestle.
• 30:48
  So I'm just so happy about that. Like it was way back in the day
• 30:52
  God, like I think it was like 2000 and was when did daddy?
• 30:55
  Pass. So when they feud, I think it
• 30:57
  would be 2003. So it might be 2003 to 4:00 on
• 31:00
  that part. Yeah, sounds about right to me.
• 31:02
  And yeah, gosh, like it was. Yeah, it was, it was amazing
• 31:06
  seeing him, you know, like I was open the nosebleeds and, you
• 31:09
  know, some gaffing in Dublin watching it.
• 31:11
  But but it was, yeah, it was life changing.
• 31:14
  So that's so Eddie, Eddie #1 and #2 I've got to bring Greg
• 31:19
  Burridge, but I want Greg to come as the Poker 1.
• 31:21
  And so you know, I don't know if you remember asking me.
• 31:25
  Greg Burridge, but the poker one.
• 31:27
  Yeah, exactly. So, you know, he'd be the life
• 31:30
  of Annie Parksy. And then the third one, gosh,
• 31:37
  who am I bringing as me turds? I'll go on Becky Lynch.
• 31:41
  I've got to bring an Irish person in.
• 31:43
  And you know, it's between Becky and Finn.
• 31:46
  I think I just want to meet Becky a little bit more.
• 31:48
  I probably like maybe met Finn like sometime back in the day
• 31:52
  when when I was maybe at that school and didn't realize it.
• 31:55
  But but yeah, I I have like just so much respect for Becky and
• 32:00
  for Finn and any person not to put an Irish wrestling on the
• 32:02
  map. Obviously you have to you can't
• 32:04
  talk about them. I talk about Seamus.
• 32:06
  But but I think, you know, like, seeing what Becky has done is
• 32:11
  just amazing, man. And like, you know, for for me
• 32:14
  to see an Irish woman lift the two titles at WrestleMania main
• 32:17
  event, first ever all women's main event, like iconic, man.
• 32:22
  She is, you know, she is, she is the best in the world.
• 32:26
  And it's not just me saying it. So yeah.
• 32:30
  Joyce, Right? Becky Lynch, Greg Barvage.
• 32:32
  PAC1 and Eddie Gray. All right, I love it, mate.
• 32:36
  Make an interest book, by the way, if you get a chance to
• 32:37
  listen to it. The audio version.
• 32:39
  The audio. Version.
• 32:41
  I really easy listen. It's also it's read by it's done
• 32:44
  by her as well. Sometimes it's not by that, then
• 32:47
  try again. Sometimes it's not done by them,
• 32:48
  but with her it's quite funny. And, you know, I mean, it's sad
• 32:51
  stories, but it's also like fun stories.
• 32:53
  But the it's also a journey into her personal life and her
• 32:58
  resting career. And you see how she got where
• 33:01
  she is now, why we talk about her in such a high, you know, in
• 33:05
  a highway. I'm going to wrap up the
• 33:07
  interview. What's that mate?
• 33:09
  No, I was just saying I need to get back into reading like
• 33:11
  wrestling books, you know, Like, you know, I've obviously read
• 33:14
  Eddie's and Shawn Michaels and a few of them and.
• 33:17
  Not read Eddie's book. Have you not?
• 33:20
  No, I've read quite a lot of them.
• 33:21
  Shawn's of Ed. I thought Shawn was the right,
• 33:23
  but I've not read Eddie's book. I think at the time I just
• 33:26
  couldn't find it and then I just kind of forgot and it's one of
• 33:29
  the book. I have one.
• 33:29
  Here I can give you. A lens and give Appreciate
• 33:32
  appreciate it find find the post though.
• 33:35
  I'll send it to you after the interview.
• 33:37
  But mate, where can the fans find you on social media?
• 33:40
  To give up today if you if you want to find me on Instagram and
• 33:45
  my username is last under score orders under score O under score
• 33:51
  Keef. So yeah, my name last orders
• 33:54
  O'Keefe 2ES2FS and yeah. And I kind of keep the I keep
• 33:58
  the Instagram page, you know, updated a fair bit.
• 34:01
  You'll see a bit of training from Burge flight design in on
• 34:04
  there and stuff like that. And and yeah, obviously you'll
• 34:07
  see, you'll see some updates about when, when Emporium and
• 34:10
  last orders O'Keefe are, are they're coming back.
• 34:14
  Awesome, awesome. Give last orders to follow like
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• 34:20
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• 34:22
  as well. But for now, everyone, happy
• 34:24
  Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day to you, by
• 34:27
  the way, last orders. Hey, that's awesome.
• 34:31
  But I do I do feel like I'm quite interested over here about
• 34:33
  the history of Ireland and just a long chat about Eddie Graham's
• 34:37
  career and I think we're going to make it like happen this
• 34:39
  year. But thank coming on mate,
• 34:41
  everyone take care, enjoy your weekend.