Chapter 1: What does Harry Styles have in common with famous personalities?
Guess what? Harry Styles and I have something in common. He was a paperboy. I was a paperboy. Yes. Yes. I read it in an article by Donald Clark. More about that in a moment. But now, who else was a paperboy in a younger life? Tom Cruise. Elvis Presley. Ed Sheeran. All paperboys. Wayne Rooney. Cristiano Ronaldo. Alex Ferguson. Lionel Messi. All paperboys.
Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, all billionaires and all paperboys. Ray Darcy, not a billionaire. So what is it about being a paperboy that prepares you for the world? Now, I know what you're saying. There are hundreds of thousands of guys out there who are paperboys and they're not famous actors. They're not famous sports people. They haven't made billions. You're right.
I'm one of them. But there is something about doing a job when you're at secondary school that helps. I read a piece recently. I couldn't find it when I went looking for it. But it's about independence. It's about social interaction with people outside your immediate group of friends and family. And it's about taking instruction from authority outside of school and family.
And all of these things prepare you for real life, adult life. And so there was an article written by a psychologist, I think, just praising Saturday jobs. Of course, when I was a paper boy back in the day, it wasn't just a Saturday job. It was seven days a week. It was seven days a week.
Chapter 2: Why is being a paperboy significant for personal development?
I used to get up of a morning, make me own porridge, deliver the papers around down the main Dublin road to Rowanville and French Furs and all that and back. And to get ready for school and out to school. And then in the evening, after school, you delivered the evening papers. The evening heard it in the press. And then on Thursday, there was an extra delivery because of the Leinster Leader.
Then you do Sunday mornings. Ā£2.25. That's how much I got a week. Anyway, under a much Tom Cruise. He's the same vintage as me. Looks a lot younger, I'll give you that. But he's the same vintage as me. Didn't know Ed Sheeran was. And Cristiano Ronaldo, whoa. He's probably like the guy in that ad.
He's probably, you know, he was able to do keepy-uppies with the rolled up newspaper and then kick it into your porch.
Chapter 3: What are the benefits of having a Saturday job during school?
Yeah.
Yeah. Anyway, the reason Donald Clark has talked about Harry Styles, because Donald Clark usually writes about movies, is that Harry Styles' song, Sign of the Times, features in the new Ryan Gosling movie, Project Hail Mary, which is a space epic. I looked at the promo. It looks amazing. Jenny's on to me to go to the cinema to watch him. I think we will this weekend. It's very exciting.
We don't get out that much. We're locked in here doing the podcast.
Let me out. Let me out.
Just to be your parasocial friends. We're your parasocial friends. Anyway, Project Hail Mary and Ryan Gosling befriends an alien called Rocky who looks very cute and may take over from E.T. as the cutest alien ever invented by Hollywood. Anyway... At a crucial moment in the movie, haven't seen it, so I don't know which crucial moment, one of the characters sings Harry Styles' Sign of the Times.
And that's why Donald Clarke's writing about Harry Styles. And he's just saying that he's around for the long haul. And it's odd that somebody emerged from a boy band and has this cred. He's cool. Harry Styles is cool. If you watch his latest Netflix concert from Manchester, where he plays the full album, Kiss All The Time, Disco Occasionally, and then he plays all the old hits.
He's just a very cool guy. He doesn't have to make any effort. He's just cool. Songs are good too. He can dance. And now he's meddling with synthesizers, which makes him extra cool. I don't know what he's doing when he goes over and twiddles his knobs, but he appears to know what he's doing. And I see that he's embarking on a 30-night residency at Madison Square Gardens in New York.
And Ticketmaster has told the Irish Times that about 11.5 million people registered for a pre-sale code that allows booking. 11.5 million people registered are interested in going along to see Harry Styles in Madison Square Gardens and the tickets are not cheap. So he has it. Whatever it is, he has it. He has the X Factor, which was spotted by the people on the X Factor back in the day.
That's Harry Styles. Kiss all the time, full stop, disco, comma, occasionally. So you have to kiss all the time, do the odd bit of discoing, as in disco dancing. There's some great songs. Dance No More is a great song. DJs don't dance anymore. That's what he's saying. I always figured when I was DJing that you had to dance.
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Chapter 4: How does Harry Styles maintain his popularity and cool factor?
F you. F your effing wife. He had a point about the 90s. We'll put that to Jenny when she comes in later on. She has things to say about my sandwich. And so do you. I mentioned my perfect sandwich yesterday and I made it and I put it up on Instagram. You can see me making my sandwich. I'm not an expert when it comes to that sort of thing.
Making a sandwich and making a video of making a sandwich. I'm not expert at either of those things. But to me, that is my perfect sandwich at the moment. And we go through phases, don't we? Yeah. But more coleslaw needed, says one person. Well, you see, the thing about the coleslaw is it's a thin layer of coleslaw, so it doesn't take over the sandwich. That's important to me.
Obviously not important to you. Heard you talk about this morning on the pod. Have to try it. I will let you know. Do let me know. That's... Is it Herlihy Koslow? I see with names on Instagram, you just don't know what the real name is. And that bread isn't toasted, it's just heated. Well, it was toasted. It's crunchy. It's crunchy.
Yeah, so there will be debate about the 90s and there will be debate about that sandwich coming up. And Mairead Ronan will be talking to us very shortly about the age of attraction. Younger men, older women, older men, younger women, whatever you're having yourself. Maraid Ronan.
Maraid, Arcee.
You weren't a paper girl. No.
Milkmaid.
Aha.
Right. Well, actually, the correct title was I collected the milk money. Every Thursday evening, Friday evening, we went from Finglas. We would collect. We had a big round in Finglas and then go to Sutton and to Hoth. So I know all the houses in Hoth really, really well.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Barry Keoghan share about dealing with online hate?
shite to watch. I wanted to see something like this. Age of Attraction came up, recommended for me, wasn't recommended for Louis because you know when you go into the different profiles on Netflix. And I said, oh, let's throw this on. And it is 40 singles all looking for love in this beautiful place in Canada, but nobody knows the age of anybody else.
So they do this kind of speed dating thing and they're just looking for a connection. All they want is a connection with someone. Some of the things people have said make sense. I mean, there was a girl saying, I prefer older guys. I have more in common with older guys. And the places that my friends go to, no older guys are there. So she says, I'm hoping to find an older, more mature man.
But it kind of focuses in on one or two couples per episode. And myself and Louis had great crack watching it because we were like, ah, she's 52. She's 52 and he's only 34, which you don't know because as a viewer, you don't know either.
Oh, you don't know. That's good as well. That's interesting, isn't it?
That's good. As a viewer, you don't know. You're guessing.
And at what stage do they reveal their ages?
So after they've kind of dated for, I don't know, is it two weeks maybe in this? It's reality TV. So I know everything. Long days filming. They probably feel like they know each other after two days. You can, you decide to go to like a commitment room and you wear a promise ring. And only then you reveal, you say, I am 27. And he says, I am 58. Okay.
It's,
So the commitment room, you say, the commitment room, we have a clip from the commitment room. This is Age of Attraction, recommended to Mairead Ronan by the Netflix algorithm. So the first voice you'll hear is the woman declaring her age to her new boyfriend. Here we go. Yeah. Do you know how old I am? Oh my God. Okay. I'm 54. And that's it. There you go.
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Chapter 6: How does the Age of Attraction show explore relationships?
John. Hi, John. Hi. Thanks for doing this for us. How are things at you?
Oh, not too bad. Thanks. I'm retired, thank goodness. Right. Yeah. I remember somebody said to me recently, where do you work? And I said, what's work? Can you remember when you first started thinking about retirement? Well, it actually happened at around 50, because what happened to me was I was working for an American multinational who I won't mention.
But however, they decided that they want to let 20 of us go because they were changing some of their equipment. Anyone who was 50 would be entitled to get a full pension. I was eight days short of being 50. And I says, look, I'll stay on the books. If you let me stay in the books, I won't ask for any money. And I said, no, everybody has to be gone by the 31st of December.
And my birthday was the 8th of January. And that was it. I had to wait then from being 50 to 65 before I could collect my pension based on the old salary. Yeah. So American multinationals are not in my good book. Eight days. Yeah. And simply because they said that the American bosses said heads would roll if they didn't get this thing sorted. Right. So, you know, you're expendable.
So you would work for 15 years for another company.
Well, I did my own thing, computer work, etc. But it didn't work out that well because I was starting to make money a little bit. It wasn't great, but I was getting there. And then the 2008 crash came. And coupled with that, the cost of computers were going from being a thousand plus down to maybe four or five hundred. And if I had to do a major job on the machine, it'd be half that price.
So people just didn't bother anymore.
They replaced them. Yeah. Yes.
Yeah. So it all went pear shaped.
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