Dan McDonnell

That's pretty much in the politician's playbook.

Number one, this is what you do.

The whole thing sewn up.

You know, now and again it's fine, Joe.

It's just, look, I'm glad everyone's convivially gathering around to listen to the podcast with people they don't know and stuff.

It's lovely, yeah.

It's nice that people are at weddings and, you know, bonding over, like, listening to the podcast.

It's lovely stuff, yeah.

It's just an opinion.

We've named all our children after podcast hosts.

It's like, oh, okay, yeah.

They're braced for more.

They know what's coming.

I think it's just something that's...

It's in the distance, but it's obviously getting even closer and the World Cup isn't happening for Ireland, so maybe it's a little bit closer.

I think it's a sleeping story at the moment, but I don't think it's going to sleep.

I mean, I say it's a sleeping story.

You're reading out a story, you know, reading out developments that have happened this week.

But as with a lot of things, you know, people's

attention span or their news cycle thing or whatever it's when it's when it's real when it's there in front of you it becomes a bigger story i know dan lambert said recently he's convinced the game won't happen even if israel come to the country um which is obviously you know suggesting that the protest could be sort of could could step up on the day or whatever if it came to that situation um i mean i wrote that email or said they're