Episode 266 w/ Bob Cullen
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What led Bob Cullen to wake up in a Garda cell?
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How did childhood experiences shape Bob's identity?
Episode 266 of the Talking Mugs Podcast brought to you by Go Loud. It's me, C.O.B. It's me, Toddy Flower. And today we're joined by... Bob. Just Bob.
Bob Cullen, yeah. Bob, we first met you, we think it was 2022, was it? Yeah, well, it's how you said, yeah. Yeah, it was definitely after COVID anyway.
Yeah. I moved down Mount Joy in 23, so it was between the end of 22 and 23, yeah.
So we met you back in 2022. You were in prison at the time. Eddie Mullins avoided us up to the old park room with a few other lads and have a chat and just take the experience in and see what it's actually like behind those walls. And yeah, we met you at that time. Since then, you're out and you're doing a lot of positive shit with your life at the moment. For anybody listening, who is Bob?
Okay, Jesus, that's a big question. Yeah. So, I think, like, my life has had, like, it's had many different stages, but in a general sense, there's, like, before I went there, and then the person who I am now is, like, I don't know, a very different person, you know? So, like, to bring you back to who I was, I, like, start with, like, the story, I'll give you, like... That sort of sums up where I got to. So I woke up one morning and didn't know where I was. I was like hazy, dizzy, looking around. I mean, my face was boring. I couldn't really see where I was. And there was like these really bright lights. And as I was like trying to figure it all out and sort of get my bearings and I realised I was in a Garda cell there.
I had my jacket on and like no trousers. So I was saying, right. Obviously, you're usually stripped when you're nicked, yeah? So I was saying, right, what is going on? How am I going to get in here? I went over to the jacks and there's like, you know, like there's the little steel plate that you have, like the little hole in the jacks, it's like, there's a little bit that comes up, there's a big lump of shite on it, yeah? And I says, what the fuck? Like, obviously, like, I wasn't out there having a shite, yeah? So they were out there throwing me in, obviously, thinking, ah, we'll fuck them in there, yeah, they're bleeding. Anyway, I couldn't understand what was going on and I was lying there saying, how am I here?
What is out there happening? And I got stuck getting, like, flashbacks.
What was Bob's journey through addiction and crime?
So I had a memory of, like, being in my car And then I remembered, like, I had a gun and I was saying, oh, what the fuck, what the fuck's going on?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What led Bob Cullen to wake up in a Garda cell?
0:00–1:54
2
How did childhood experiences shape Bob's identity?
1:54–4:03
3
What was Bob's journey through addiction and crime?
4:03–6:06
4
How did prison impact Bob's perspective on justice?
6:06–8:18
5
What changes did Bob make during his time in prison?
8:18–10:35
6
How does Bob advocate for reform in the prison system?
10:35–12:53
7
What does Bob believe about the relationship between crime and society?
12:53–14:53
8
What advice does Bob have for individuals facing similar struggles?
14:53–1:29:52