Chapter 1: What wedding experiences did the guests share?
This is an Irish Independent Podcast. Welcome, everyone. It's Tuesday. Bits and Bobs. Happy to say my guys are here. My guys. producers, extraordinaires. Will, hello. Welcome back from the wedding. Hi, Joe. How are things?
Were you a groomsman? I was a groomsman. I was the MC as well, having to put some of my talents to use. Did you charge? Not free of charge, but they all got a show.
They all got a show. They did. Ronan Mullin, hello to you. Hi, Joe. Will is an MC at a wedding. Thoughts?
What were you telling me recently about, it was like a Soccer Saturday-esque template that was at a previous wedding?
Yeah, so another wedding before. I've been on the MC three times in the last three months for weddings. Is this because you're burgeoning media? Yeah. I asked you, had you ever been asked, and you said you'd never done it, which surprised me. You're going to a wedding in the near future, and I assumed you were going to be asked for that. Maybe I think you'd take over.
It would just be too distracting to have an actual...
When you say you emcee a wedding, beyond saying, can you welcome me into their room, their bridegroom, what else do you emcee?
Oh, well, no. There's a few one-liners for each speaker, each guest. Each speaker is getting a few kind of tidbits about them, you know, related to the crowd.
Okay.
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Chapter 2: How did Gary Neville handle public backlash?
So I was going to be the emcee and it was going to be kind of a bit where I would pretend and touch my ear and say, oh, I believe, yeah, my co-emcee is reporting from the end of the room. And then Barry was like, I'm down at table 25. And it was kind of throughout the speeches, there was interviews and we did like, you know, interviews during the speeches.
So, and I believe you're standing by with like, you know, the father of the groom. Hello. I love this. Yeah, so very elaborate. So a lot of work. I should have charged for that one. No better man than Barry. Yeah, he was good. That's great.
So, yeah. That is good. I like that. You did a journalism degree?
Yeah. That was an unfortunate waste of time. It was a complete waste of time. If anyone ever asked me now, I'd say, don't bother wasting your time with that. Did you do journalism?
I did a journalism master's and it was a great decision.
That's the way to do it, yeah. Pointless. I actually wasted my college degree. And the funny thing is, my career guidance teacher begged me not to do one. He was like, why don't you do a master's, maybe do something else? And I was like, no, I really, you know, I want to be a sports journalist. He was right, to be fair. He was good.
He obviously knew what he was talking about. Yeah. That's the advice I'd give anyone as well. Don't do your primary degree in journalism. I'm sorry if there's a second year. You don't need a degree to be a journalist. Journalism student. Doing something else and then just do a one year add-on thing in journalism. That'll be enough to get you in the door if you're good enough like Will is.
Although I did study it and I do work in it.
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Chapter 3: What is the fallout from Munster's coaching appointment?
So I suppose the end did justify the means to some degree. But I would feel a much more well-rounded individual with a much more greater safety net if I had something else to fall back on. That's the point. Because my career hasn't just been straight rocket ship either. Well, until you met me, it was... Yeah, I was floundering. It's true. Have something to fall back on.
I was barely getting any MC gigs at weddings until I joined the show. Gigs. Can I ask one question? Please. Someone came up to me at the weekend, said they were a fan of the show, and asked if I'd give them a shout out. And I said, we don't do that.
We don't do that, yeah. We don't do it. We don't do it. We had a beautiful email in asking for a birthday shout out for someone's father. It's a slippery slope. Did you respond to that one and say no? I didn't respond yet. I will. I'll explain. Maybe I'll do it this week.
But that's it. That's the exception that proves the rule. You're preemptively being told no, listeners.
Yeah, yeah. This guy didn't deserve one anyway, but like I was just saying, we don't do them even if we did. Yeah. Sorry, sorry.
What kind of shout out would it even be?
Oh, I met a guy the weekend, his name was whatever.
Yeah, no, we don't want that. No, we don't. We're above that. Indosport podcast at independent.ie. Yesterday we had Arsenal. wilting with Miguel Delaney and Dame Delaney. And we had some hurling. Long overdue.
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Chapter 4: What controversies surround the GAA and Westmeath?
Michael Deignan and Michael Verney yesterday. Two good, awfully men spent the first portion of the podcast talking about awfully hurling. But it was good. You give them an inch.
I have to say on Friday evenings, sometimes we bid each other adieu and convene again on Monday. And occasionally there's tic-tacking over the weekend. We have to change plans or finalise plans. I was so content when I saw what we booked on Friday for Monday and it turned out every bit as good as I expected.
It was just fine. Earline Halland on Gabrielle. If I go down, it's a red. I'd never do this. My father taught me. Stay in your feet. Don't be a blank. One of the quotes coming through. He was saying his girlfriend didn't like the... The scrapes? Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it was rough.
Have you seen the replay subsequently of the goal and all the different camera angles? They just are in the penalty box waiting for the cross to bundle its way in. They are just dragging each other left, right, centre, two of the minute. And that crucial thing of timing, Haaland gets the last drag in before the ball comes. But fouling each other, I don't know what you do in that situation.
I love that Damien Delaney story that he told Justin, as told before, but... Are you happy? Are you happy to himself and Troy Deeney? And even if the referee didn't have that conversation with the lads on Sunday, it was definitely implied. You can set the rules of engagement kind of early in the match.
Yeah. Did you hear that yesterday? No. Yeah, the referee, Troy Deeney and Damon Delaney were going at it in a match. A bit like Hal and Gabriel yesterday. And the referee came up to them at one point and said, Damon, are you happy? Yeah. Troy, are you happy? Yeah. Okay. Don't do something silly, but go on, do your thing.
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Chapter 5: How are the NBA playoffs shaping up this season?
That's a good referee. Very good. So some emails in before we get to quite a few talking points, really. Brian said, I hope all is well. As it's had some airtime since its opening, can you have a stab and see if maybe you could get Will to refer to the Dexcom as the sexy Dexy or the sexual Dexual when discussing Connect Home Games? Best, Brian. The sexual Dexual is a great name.
Brian, what are you doing in your life? He had time to send that. New series of Full Swing was unveiled there on Netflix. Ben was wondering what we thought about it. He was complaining that the Masters and Ryder Cup completely glossed over. I haven't seen it yet.
I watched an episode over the weekend. It's funny because I saw it. You were at a wedding all weekend. Well, on Sunday night. I was back from the... Look, I needed some comfort watching it. It had been a long three days. And that did strike me. I was like, how come this is being like run off and double quick time when every other season is taking their sweet time with it? That did jump out to me.
I watched the Tommy Fleetwood episode because I wanted to see his kind of crowning moment. But it was shoehorned in as part of like a Keegan Bradley Ryder Cup picks episode as well. It just, there was no room to breathe. I don't like it. I have to say. You generally don't. Yeah.
Because I think it's a lot better than maybe it gets credit for, but all the bad points have just been kind of shoehorned in. It was just nothing could breed. Everything got short shrift. Very disappointing.
Okay. Ben, agreed with you. We had an email in from Fergal Comiskey last week, which I feel I should... I touched on it on Friday. I'll just give you guys 20 seconds. Where in the name of Jesus is the Bayern Munich reaction podcast? One of the best matches I've seen in ages.
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Chapter 6: What recent events have impacted the Irish women's national team?
I thought this podcast's entire existence, perhaps even Ronan's, had been building up to this. Oh, Fergal. The moaning in the office on Thursday. Fergal. Joe.
Will can't even get his words out. Oh, you were a disgrace on Thursday. I'm like, Ron, I'm backing up on this. We were begging him, begging him to record a podcast. The greatest Champions League game probably played in 20 years. And you'd swear we were asking you to come in and talk about some like, you know, run of the mill, cruddy, crappy sporting event.
We can literally talk about whatever we want, whatever we wanted. And you were just, I don't know why you were being so intransigent over it.
Did it just not meet the threshold of quality? We had another podcast to do of a serious nature. I was like, lads, I just don't think it's going to work today. I apologise. I've given you your chance.
We're always talking in meetings about light and shade, levity, gravity. You just didn't think you could make that tonal shift. I just didn't know how to approach it.
Do we get a guest? Do we not get a guest? I'm the guest.
Yeah, okay. No one's the guest. True. I know why Joe didn't want to do the podcast now. I've had a eureka light bulb moment. Michael Alisa, obviously his goal, the crowning moment. And I don't think Joe wanted to have brought up that when you were waxing lyrical about how good he was in your previous Bayern Munich experience, he was giving you absolutely nothing. Oh, sorry.
I don't think you'd ever heard of him. I think that's why you were a little embarrassed that we would have to bring up that moment when Ronan was giving you gold and you were just giving him nothing back.
If people just listen to my football expertise on this podcast, I told you in January, Bruno Fernandes is going to win Football of the Year. I told you Elisa is going to be the key man of Bayern to get to the Champions League. Think of all you've got wrong.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the latest rugby performances?
Elisa was... Phenomenal. I mean, I was really, I messaged you. I said, Jesus. I know you did. Can I push on for a second? In your 20 minute delay. These things happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm often that way. Come here, the new insert album here. The Price of Fame. This video. Gary Neville walking down the street with his wife.
Dude takes out phone, does what, I don't know, he seems to think is appropriate. Bad language alert. If you're in the car, bad language alert. Bad language alert. That's enough time to, okay. So Gary Neville walking down the street with his wife and you'll hear the videographer talking as well.
Is that Gary Neville? Wanker. Wanker. Wanker. That's what you are, a fucking wanker. Listen, listen, you fucking have filming because you're a fucking wanker. You've got fuck all to know about the working class man you have. Hey, even your own fans have turned against you because you're a fucking prick.
His wife, I mean, Neville initially stopped almost in a will I square up kind of a way and then made the better decision. Looked to be Manchester to me and then the accent of the guy shouting stuff is Manchester. Very, very grim. You wonder how often Neville is encountering that kind of stuff. But I don't know. There you go.
Yeah, I don't really engage with much of his stuff outside of his, like, say, Sky Sports appearances and his football stuff. So I'm not sure how... I suppose divisive he's become because you can tell he's referring to stuff he might be saying politically there.
I think he got lots of heat from certain quarters when a couple of months ago he was talking about how, you know, things in the country, he was giving out about flags, you know, so I guess it's that immigration point, you know, obviously we have the flags, Irish flags are not here and Neville was giving out about the flags and he did a big long video about how, you know, I'm just disgusted at what's been done to our flag.
For me, playing for England, our flag was, you know, something I was so much pride in and The problem in this country, you know, the real problem in this country is a couple of white men.
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Chapter 8: How are sports organizations adapting to new media challenges?
And obviously in certain quarters that went down very badly. So I got the impression maybe there was a hint of that in that video from the guy saying that stuff to him. You know, what do you know about the working man?
Because he would have to be making massive waves with that stuff to justify, not even to justify, but to explain in my mind why someone would be so vitriolic. Like that goes way beyond, like, remember it was Carragher in the car and the guy's like, you know,
two on the United haha and like Carragher obviously then wasn't happy with that even but that was nowhere near in comparison to what Neville's putting up with there in front of his wife as well like it's very aggressive the video makes it's actually ten times worse than the actual clip there I was shocked when I heard it to be honest if he's putting up with that kind of stuff or having to listen to that walking around terrible yeah not to dilute the trust of what that's clearly getting at because it's not football related but
Among football fans and Manchester United fans, he's kind of lost a little bit of his luster too. He's deemed to be overcritical of the club in that sort of overcompensating manner that a lot of ex-players are accused of. Don't want to be seen to be favouring their ex-team, so they actually appraise them a little more harshly.
And then the Mark Goldbridge acquisition and the fact that Neville is seen to be reigning plaudits on this new frontier of media which a lot of quote unquote traditional sports fans don't actually like all that much I don't think by the way he's overly critical of Man United oh well I think that would be the consensus among Man United fans jeez I mean
I must have missed this well-run operation for the last 10 or 15 years. I mean, they've been a shambles.
Well, see, this is kind of part of the problem because he was very happily critical of the Glazers, but the fact that he's been brought on in a consultancy role for the new stadium and by the end of that has closer ties to the decision makers at Old Trafford, that he's less critical of them now and has turned desire towards the players increasingly, even though
there's been upticks in form on the pitch. It's actually incongruous enough that he's criticising the playing group at a time when they would have been doing much worse previously. And he would have criticised the glazers and the operation.
Okay. We were touching on the cost of the trains and public transport at the World Cup. Next summer, there was the story about how a return trip for the New York MetLife Games, if you're coming from New York City, you're going to be kind of... $150 return for an 18-mile journey, whereas usually they're $3. So Ian is over in the area. A listener based in New York here.
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