Dermot Kennedy | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #528

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charging gang today's guest is a singer. songwriter out of. Ireland and uh and Ireland is one of the. most um beautiful and complex and simple. places all at the same time a wonderful. uh time that I had there recently I'm. really grateful to spend time with them. I've been a fan for years and uh we've. been in touch for years and glad to make. this happen um he has had hits like.

paradise and kiss me amongst many others. I got to see him play last night here in. Nashville Tennessee today's guest is my. friend D. [Music]. Kennedy I'll sit and tell you my. stories. sh. me and I will find a oh I been.

[Applause]. sing kiss the way oh man sorry no it's. okay I didn't mean I meant I meant that. for me oh yeah. I'm I like that you did it dude yeah. listen I think after like the first song. last night I was I leaned over to your I. was like God dude I I might be gay dude. I was like.

this is really awesome man it felt uh it. felt so serious like I was saying to you. afterwards it felt like a very serious. show when I play headline show we've got. moments that are down and somber and the. moments that are fun and up when I do a. show like that like the blue bird last. night it's quite you know it stays. serious and I haven't done that in a. long time yeah um and I think crowds. sometimes want both so I would worry. while I'm doing it if people are kind of. like this is a lot of seriousness you. know like it feels serious yeah yeah.

which it should be I take it seriously. but it's just like I think sometimes you. need relief but I think then as. well I like having funny moments in. between songs talking to people cuz I. don't take life very seriously but I. take the songs very seriously oh yeah. yeah man when you like got into the. songs you were at blueberg Cafe last. night for our listeners and that's a. small venue in Nashville and it's. probably I mean it may seat 60 yeah if. even yeah yeah and I mean we were. sitting I was in the second row and I. was 5 ft mhm from um Gabe Simon who was.

playing with you accompanying you yeah. yeah yeah and like I could have done a. couple notes I could have you could have. you should have yeah I could have chimed. literally I could have chimed in yeah it. would have been nice it would have been. a very welcome thing I think but yeah it. was captivating man it was so incredible. I was like yeah it felt so intense in. there at moments you know you could see. everybody going through like I mean I. was going through like the history of. like relationships and like I felt bad. like after one song like I gotta text.

this one gal yeah yeah well we spend so. little you know I think we kind of in. daily life we go through the motions and. I think I would like to think moments. like that maybe put you in a spot where. you think about life and just assess. things a little bit you know I uh like. that's what it does for me I I don't. know who I'd be without it you know what. I mean I think sometimes in terms of the. therapy and kataris I get from it I. think I take it for granted 100% I don't. know who I'd be without that outlet you. know what I mean and I find it difficult.

sometimes It's Tricky like last night. start of the show I loved it end of the. show I was feeling good in the middle of. the show I kind of went Within Myself. for some reason but uh yeah I I think. I'd be a much worse person if I had all. that emotion kind of bottled up you know. are the Irish notorious for like. struggling to show emotion or something. I think there's definitely issues in. terms. of like men in particular I think in. terms of not opening up to people I. think it's something that's improving.

constantly but uh but definitely and I. think I mean it's no surprise that. Ireland has a rich history in the Arts. cuz that's how it comes out you know. what I mean authors actors musicians. everything yeah man it was it was crazy. dude it was like I went through it all. you know I was sitting there I was like. I even I got home and I texted an. ex-girlfriend I was like I think I owe. you a call you know that's a nice thing. right no it was good and and yeah I'm. glad I did you know yeah there's a lot. of ballads there I know yeah I was.

thinking where you and it's because you. don't have the all the instrumental like. I've listened to your albums where it's. like you have the whole and some of. those are upbeat songs it's different. but when you're playing them just right. there for everybody totally but even. like how you frame something is so. important like I even laughed when you. were singing kissed me there a minute. ago because that to me is one of the. best songs I've made lyrically in terms. of How It's put together but I would I I. if it was if I could do it again it. would just be me and a guitar it'd be. like last night you know what I mean and. I think you know I think you frame.

things in a certain way for certain. goals and stuff but um when I play that. song by itself I'm like oh it should be. this way I think it takes courage to. take everything away from a song and I. it's only recently I've kind of got that. back it's like I said last night when I. would play shows like that when I was. younger I felt so confident you know. what I mean cuz I loved that no one knew. who I was and I loved that I had. something to bring to the table and. people might be excited and and I felt. like I said last night I felt borderline. kind of arrogant about it but now when. I'm doing it like I got quite nervous.

for last night um but if it's it like. 10,000 people I don't get nervous at all. but things like last night I do get a. bit nervous yeah yeah just now when you. said like it used to be nice to be a. surprise yeah dude that. was the best yeah that's one thing I. miss the most about um you know I'm. grateful for having like uh people come. out and people get to know you and stuff. but it was awesome when only you knew. you of course in a way and you got to be. this like you like were always your.

secret because you're you right you and. you build up this especially as a. comedian you build up this sort of. rapport with how to interact with the. world and to surprise people like what. how did what is this guy like that. always seemed interesting to me and then. um people get to know how your. instrument works or it's just the the. surprise isn't there anymore and it's. different totally I mean that moment I'm. sure you feel this like that moment. where you feel like you've arrived and. people know who you are and and and yeah.

no longer do you surprise people and so. you kind of feel like you have to change. or deviate from what you're doing and. and to try and keep that feeling it's. tough I find it difficult I know like I. know for. myself like I remember seeing a thing an. interview with Drake years ago and he. was just saying that moment where people. are sharing your music and kind of say. you got to listen to this you'll never. get that back again no matter how. successful you get um cuz that's the. most exciting part I don't know I think. like for what you do for what I do for. anyone involved in the Arts I think the.

work is the only thing that's exciting. it's the only thing and of course you. play big. shows and you have ambition and you try. and grow your career and all those. things are lovely but at the root of it. if you're not like I always say you. could be miserable playing in stadiums. do you know what I mean or you could be. completely content playing shows like. last night so I think it's very. important to keep that yeah I noticed. when I have some new stuff and I'm that. is the most exciting time when I'm ready. when I'm like wait till I get to this. new part of the show and it's going to. be fun for me and it's going to be fun.

for them you know oh yeah and I'm sure. you could play to like 40,000 people and. and it can go either way it can be. completely eoric or it can kind of feel. hollow yeah either way but it it like. nothing the work is the only thing I. think it's a good point yeah yeah and. especially these days there's so much. like uh surrounding things that you have. to do to kind of manage yourself you. know like social media and just um I. mean specifically I guess social media. probably it's such a big world of at all. do you get involved with that side of.

things do you run your own stuff and all. that yeah uh no I split it with my. producers and stuff you know but you. know I'm particular kind of about what. we put out and like try to be sensitive. or try to think okay this feels like me. sometimes they're like no this is good. and I don't have an idea course yeah so. trusting other people sometimes that's. um with your own voice you know totally. I think I find it hard sometimes I spend. way too much time worrying about how I'm. perceived you know what I mean and uh.

and I think things like social media. only make that more kind of inflamed and. then yeah you just get closer to. forgetting what you're actually truly. about so I try and stay away yeah but. it's healthy sometimes well before this. conversation gets any gayer dude oh and. no offense if it does dude I think Irish. people no offense to me yeah yeah sorry. yeah no and probably me too dude I mean. look who knows what'll happen with us. but um I think yeah dude the Irish are I.

I couldn't believe what the Irish were I. always had an idea you know that wasn't. your first time there though recently. was it wasn't but it was my first time. really with my eyes open I think yeah. yeah yeah I saw you in a field with a. load of cows where was that yeah was uh. down in court County brilliant oh you'll. milk anything down there people yeah and. there's no women this is the thing about. how people are always like oh the girls. are coming they're going to be here and. you'll be you'll go to the next place. you know they're coming the losses are. coming false promise they never come who. made all the men who how did they what.

did they fall out of yeah they're the. ones that stuck around I guess I guess I. mean here I am they these is some women. we met it was like unbelievable dude. actually these are some drunken mixed. fellas that we met out there dude these. are the blackest guys I saw in Ireland. right here you just Were you invited to. this field no we got there and we wanted. to like just drive out into the distance. so and so we stopped at a farm and a man. took us and showed us all about the. dairan and gave us fresh milk or. whatever and um do you drank the milk.

straight from the cow we drank it. straight out of it I mean it felt and I. don't know how old the cow was it felt a. little illegal I'll be honest with you I. mean the the first sip yeah that's. normal but if you you know I had a. couple sips and I'm like you got into it. I it's like yeah you definitely Peak. around for the police after a bit you. know um but it was yeah it was just. unbelievable we just wanted to see the. countryside we wanted to feel something. that felt normal a farmer took us into. his home and sat at his table no way. yeah I'm glad you got around the country. I think a lot of people go to Dublin for. 2 or 3 days and they just experienced.

that but Ireland's a beautiful place and. you can you can see so much of it in. like a couple hours you know what I mean. it's a small country so yeah and you. have to see it because if you ask. somebody something you can't understand. what they're saying and so you just you. have to just believe that they're going. to be okay when you meet a lot of Irish. people yeah yeah they love you too did. you like you had good shows yeah I mean. I felt a lot of love and support yes and. it was awesome you know I think and it's. just such a unique culture like they. just they have a good time MH they know.

how to have a good time it's they're not. as overly concerned with a lot of other. [ __ ] like uh as we are in the States. you know definitely not like if I go on. tour in Australia I feel a similar thing. people just don't take it too seriously. you've been down there yeah oh yeah. Australia is so great man yeah similar. thing people just there's no [ __ ]. you feel good energy from people but I. have a a comedian friend Mark Hayes and. he's Irish and so he's always queuing me. in on just like the shame of the Irish. and the you know the.

you know I guess there's a lot of Shame. over there I guess there is but. also this I don't know if you heard this. phrase earlier there about Notions this. idea that when you start doing well at. anything you get Notions like you kind. of start feeling yourself a bit and you. have to be very careful of that I think. humility like you see Irish people who. just won medals at the Olympics they. just kind of in the interviews they're. just like no no no I I stink they're so. mean to themselves yeah it's terrible. but uh yeah happy medium would be good I. sometimes you kind of constantly.

downplaying what you do and I think uh. it would be nice if people celebrated. themselves a bit more but Notions is a. real thing yeah I know like people have. said about me you get to a certain point. and some people just don't like you for. no reason yeah I could maybe see that. they because there's this more Unity of. us as a group yeah yeah yeah yeah I. remember there was a thing years ago uh. I think it was Damen rice told the story. they were like in a restaurant and there. was Leb lobsters in a and who was Damen. rice he's a brilliant musician from. Ireland okay he had a song called. Cannonball and an album called oh it's. like a classic and he but he was talking.

about lobsters in a tank I think it was. him I don't mean to attribute this quote. to him if it's not him but he was. apparently there was like a lobster. trying to get out and uh and another. them he was kind of like oh careful it's. going to get out and someone was like no. they're Irish lobsters so the other ones. are like drag it back down oh yeah. apparently the shellfish I don't know. yeah I love it you feel massive support. too don't get me wrong like it's the. best place in the world for doing. anything cuz people just we're so quick. to celebrate our own and I love that oh. that's beautiful yeah yeah what's that. article right there was about an.

Olympian Irish rower's brilliant. response to winning an Olympic gold. medal goes viral it's all right yeah I. can't complain in a BBC interview. following the win the pair were asked. Paul o Donovan Finton McCarthy gold. medal winning athletes how does it sound. how does that sound it's all right yeah. yeah yeah you can't complain about it. really I wouldn't go around introducing. myself yeah it's that type of thing you. wouldn't talk about it he did it but I. love that too cuz we do take care of. business but don't talk about it too. much yeah there's a bit more humility. definitely yeah man it was so much like. uh there was something you said last.

night that I really resonated with it. was about like um wishing you could slow. down time or grab on to a moment a. little bit more and just how like. impossible it is and like what a fight. it is yeah I'm crap at it what about you. I can't like I when things are good I. don't know I feel like I'm sometimes I. feel as if. I'm waiting for something bad to happen. you know what I mean like you're almost. like just sort of waiting for bad news.

or bad phone call or something I don't. know instead of just enjoying the fact. that it's good right now I feel very bad. at that um and again music puts me in a. better place but uh yeah I feel that way. I find it very difficult to settle into. a good feeling yeah I think it's hard I. mean the moment it's hard to have the. moment you used to I've talked about. this before but you used with the mo the. moment used to be like a real thing. because we couldn't record it all the. time right we couldn't capture it so the. moment it was like it had so much value.

the only way you were going to learn. about what had happened was through. someone else through a Storyteller so it. promoted so much more storytelling it's. like cameras have taken all that away. from us and not all the time and not all. of it but it's definitely um it's like. squashed a lot of that you know I mean. the moment if you got to see a girl like. at school you couldn't go home and look. at pictures of her you had to imagine oh. so you would wait till tomorrow what she. was doing and most in your mind you. imagine oh she's thinking of me she's.

drawing pictures of me in the walls and. everything and then you got to school. the next day and she still didn't care. about you yeah yeah or like you would. see that they're online and they're not. texting you yeah that type of thing yeah. it's squashed yeah so I think like. there's like stuff like that I miss cuz. your. imagination became so much more of a um. it did its natural work absolutely I. think about it yeah like I that that's. my livelihood comes from my imagination. you know what I mean that's all I have. and so yeah you got to be careful I I.

think what you put in is very important. like if I read I can feel it sort of I. can feel ideas start to generate if I. walk around just all day and stay just. literally looking at the most boring. stuff I can feel ideas start to come but. I got to be careful and not let it get. squashed all the time like what do you. mean like by like get squashed by what. as in like if I look at my phone too. much it's just sludge in my brain do you. know what I mean and it's just bad. thoughts and and stupid stuff and so. like no good song is going to come out. of that but also spend so much time. traveling by myself and all that kind of.

things so it's a yeah to stay creative I. find it difficult I don't know like I. know like we were in your car last week. and you were kind of say you taught us. something and you were like oh I need to. write that down and it's that constantly. right you're constantly trying to grab. that thing or that moment of inspiration. or something that can translate to part. of your show yeah yeah you notice. especially like a phrase or a thing. you're like oh I've never said that or I. never thought about that after a while I. noticed it's like if it makes me laugh. then it might make somebody else laugh. so I have to like you know cuz at this.

point you have to think maybe you and. your audience have some like um. symbiosis or whatever simar people yeah. are similar and so yeah if they told you. a if they told you a you know this thing. you just heard or you know you're like. oh this will probably this will probably. play um do you base songs like do you. kind of start with like a nugget of a. line definitely yeah I find it hard when. someone's kind of like what you want to. write about it's like I don't know yet. like I have I'll have a lyric in a song. last night say the first song I played. is called an evening I will not forget.

and I know there's a lot of lyrics in. that from the best days of my life and. from the worst days of my life and they. just mix together so I struggle. sometimes when someone's like what's. this song about or what you want to. write about it it's everything you know. like there'll be one lyric about like. hanging out with my friends and one. lyric about someone passing away and. difficult things all mixed in together. but it all kind of I think sometimes. when I and this is overly serious but I. think like the one lasting message. through my music hopefully is like a. hopeful thing you know what I mean so if. a song seems down it's never all the way. down there's always a hopeful moment and.

if it's up it just I'm trying to lift. people up a little bit I would I would. like if I could have a goal from people. coming to my show is just they feel a. bit better about where they're at and. how their life is um and not in a corny. way but just that they kind of think. about things and realize that life is. good a little bit I would love that even. a down moment in Ireland is pretty good. probably I think yeah yeah like I said. the Irish like oh yeah we'll take it you. know oh definitely yeah people are good. we kind of yeah like I even I don't know. I just when I got too far from home I. kind of miss that feeling I don't know.

there's so many people that are happy. go-lucky good people I'm sure you saw. tons of them but just uh yeah so that's. what I mean is between songs I don't. feel serious like we're all on inner. monitors on stage and uh in between. songs when we're on tour it's Relentless. like people shouting at each other and. we're all just communicating on stage. it's just people like taking the piss. out of me while I'm doing something I'll. like yeah so I'm trying to sing through. all of that like everybody on stage will. be slagging me in some way in my ears. while I'm trying to say something really.

sincere and then I'll laugh and the. whole crowd will kind of cheer cuz I. look happy but it's really cuz someone's. like slagging me about something yeah. yeah yeah I you know what that's I. there's nobody likes to laugh more I. think than the Irish maybe really yeah. like maybe that's something that I. realized I I was just so um yeah people. just love to [ __ ] laugh there it's. very sarcastic yes they love to rip on. each other and it's okay they don't take. things as personally you know yeah in a. way that. sometimes I'll say something sarcastic.

over here and it doesn't necessarily. land and people think I'm quite serious. about it so you have to be careful yeah. yeah yeah yeah some of the songs last. night it was like uh yeah a lot of them. felt like kind of relationship based or. trying to like capture um a moment from. a relationship or relive a. relationship or where does some of that. energy come from does it just do you. feel like that that's like been. something that's been very important in. your life I mean it's important in a lot. of people's lives of course yeah I think. like. I think even the relationships you know.

were you on The Bachelor or something no. I was meant to sing on what was I meant. to sing on I was meant to sing on The. Bachelorette years ago and it fell. through thank God yeah I uh but I was. yeah cuz after sum of songs I'm like. Jesus how many got how many no yeah you. think like there a this guy's been yeah. like this guy's been on a lot of dates. no that couldn't be further from the. truth but I think sometimes I'll sing a. song and it'll be from the perspective. of anybody you know like a family member.

I sometimes I'll just embody someone. else in my life I think it's an. interesting thought right to think that. my community say my close friends and my. family at home we all have the same. feelings and emotions it's just I sing. about it do you know what I mean and so. sometimes I feel like a mouthpiece for. them oh yeah you know and that puts me. in a good place cuz I'm not thinking. about my own life all the time so that's. where all the dates come from I've been. on very few yeah it's uh oh you just. were you not were you not a big dater. growing up really not oh man I was like.

I I said people went to school with me I. mean yeah was supply and demand I was. that's not your issue yeah yeah i' say. there's a lot of people went to school. with me who have like if they watch this. would hear me speak for the first time. wow really yeah yeah yeah what do you. hate like the public speaking of it or. something public not even public. speaking but just I just felt so awkward. in school you know like we used to oh. yeah we used to like go to you know way. have your locker at school and you would. get your books for the first half of the.

day and then get your books for the. second and like drop them off I would. walk around with every book for the. whole day in my bag so I didn't have to. go to the lockers for that potential. interaction I hated it man yeah not good. God and is that a kind of a general. Irish thing you think I don't think so I. I don't know what it was in me but I. just felt quiet I didn't even nowadays I. kind of feel that way um I think it's. lovely like I'll talk to you and I know. we can talk about things and get into it. but just general socializing it suck at. it and I I you know you get to an age.

where you don't apologize for it and you. don't care anymore but um when I was a. kid yeah I hated it [ __ ] yeah I got so. nervous around girls I just remember. well on the school bus I would get so. like I would get like erections all the. time I guess because of like the motor. going and they would play um like music. that we weren't allowed to listen to at. home it was like kind of not sexy music. but just R pop music or whatever and so. I would just have to like I just would. turn my whole body just like facing just.

and. like just a constant state of arest in. school you mean that was just on the bus. dude when I got to school I think there. was so much kind of like violence and. stuff at our school that it was hard to. stay erect around a lot of violence you. know a difficult thing yeah if there's. broken glass or somebody getting beaten. I can't get an eraction you know nor. should you yeah I mean maybe I'm. oldfashioned or whatever but it's like. yeah I just yeah so but yeah around. girls yeah I was always was afraid never. could ask a girl to dance or anything.

this one girl man I loved her I think I. did anyway I don't know I looked at her. really hard every day and I yeah fin I. just I needed to express to I felt and I. saved up as much salive in my mouth as I. could one day and I just spit it right. into her hair oh lovely like a like an. animal just like you know I'm every. primal thing yeah it was it was all I. knew yeah yeah yeah you lost control. yeah I I guess I lost control I remember. dear God yeah yeah I I don't know I.

couldn't like it those situations didn't. even come up for me I I would just hide. I remember I remember there was a girl. that used to kind. of fancy me I guess and it got to the. point where I like stopped putting gel. on my hair and stuff cuz I was like I. need to look scruffier for school so no. one pays attention wow weird right like. I got to tone this down yeah too good. man yeah I can't be like this back into. the Moore yeah just yeah just hide in. the corner constantly what is a Moore. anyway Moore is like a British thing I. guess Oh I thought it was like a swamp.

is it in my mind I would think of a. Misty Moore yeah it's like a swamp Okay. in the middle of nowhere it makes me. think of Jack the Ripper oh yeah you and. was that you guys' guy Jack the Ripper. no no no no no he we don't claim Jack. who's your most famous serial color of. it. air well besides alcoholism I'm going to. say if you if you look at there's a. great podcast called West cork mhm and. you could think it's fiction but it's a. true story now it's not a serial killer. it's one stand alone murder there's very. few things like that but uh but it's an.

amazing story and it's about this lady. that was killed in Cork in West cork out. by the ocean uh horrific thing years and. years ago but they still haven't found. the person that did it and you know how. Ireland is like there's a lot of talk in. the town about who did it and even up. until recently the fellow that they. thought did it was like selling pizzas. on the market and stuff and everyone. would go just to see him and all that. kind of stuff yeah yeah but no I I mean. I'm I I know I'm wrong but I don't think. there's many serial killers I know hear. you we've got Classics but yeah yeah I.

guess yeah people it's definitely we. there's a lot more we Hill over here. yeah um who's your favorite my favorite. serial killer that's a great question. man you. know there was the BTK serial killer. who's that he was out of um. witch M witch Kansas. and yeah he was like an electrician he. ran. um he ran like his community church and.

he was just killing people they're all. like weirdly handsome as well aren't. they not him not him uh well we've had. some of the handsome ones Ted Bundy I. believe was the handsome guy you know. dmer was a famous one that show was. pretty great um but yeah I guess I don't. know I should think about that a little. bit more who my favorite one is yeah no. no there's there's very few things like. that in Ireland it's like a small. country well and you also yeah you would. rather if you kill somebody they're not.

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I even I remember my friend had 50 cents. first album and that was just huge for. me and it's funny because I listen to it. all the time and I never try and let it. influence my music too much because I'd. just be pretending to be a rapper and. that would be ridiculous but it does. influence the way I write like I write. verses in a hip-hop type way and no one. really knows or acknowledges it but to. me I can feel the flow if there's no. beat or anything then there may be no. drums or whatever but it's just to me. that's written in a hip-hop way like if. I could yeah I would love to get certain. features and stuff that would be my. favorite yeah definitely yeah I feel.

like that could easily happen especially. now cuz there's so many there's a lot. more featuring now it feels like yeah. definitely it's important jcole to me is. like number one I that would be like an. incredible thing to me I would love that. so much did you you're here working in. Nashville right now on music yes yeah. have you met up with other artists while. you've been here a little bit yeah it's. funny you know because like you said. Gabe Simon and Joshua were with me at. the show last night in the bluebird but. also the idea is you kind of you kind of. have your friends with you playing songs.

and it's like you go back and forth I'll. do a song you do a song they do a song. but like I I don't have friends like. that do you know what I mean I kind of. feel quite solitary when I go to these. places uh yeah like sometimes you know. there sometimes people have tons of. features and have tons of friends on. songs and stuff I I feel. quite content in this way but like a bit. of a loner in the music Biz I feel like. I kind of go about my business in a in a. in a lery way which is fine I'm okay. with that and I love people I think. they're incredible I think I think the. other artists in my genre and that are.

doing well I absolutely love them but I. I often times if I'm doing a thing like. last night I'm just like I'll do it by. myself it'll be fine oh yeah definitely. is it just and it's not really a choice. that you don't want to work with other. people it's just kind of like this has. been going fine this is how I'm doing do. you feel like you don't want to bother. other people ever uh yes definitely and. I. also I don't want to be kind of I don't. want to seem as though I'm reaching out. to somebody for their clout or whatever. you know I don't want to seem swe like. nice one yeah I appreciate it to be. honest with you I don't think just you.

know I don't know you super well but. we've gotten hung out a few times I. don't think that you could seem like. that okay yeah doesn't help anything but. no no no but you know when you still not. working with jcole but still I think you. easily could I mean we went out the. other night and Zack Brown saw you and. he was like I you know immediately he. brought you onto his show yeah thank you. for that he said that immediately he. didn't think at all it was he just he. was like so excited to see you yeah we. we randomly ran in and we were at the. red play Strays and yeah there you are. right now that's crazy dude I saw that.

video it gave me chills dude it was nuts. we had it was funny I lingered for so. long cuz we uh he said we rehearsed it. beforehand and he was like I'll sing the. outro verse or he said you sing the. first half the outr verse I sing the. second half I was like perfect so I sang. My bit then went and hid away with the. Bongo player for a while and then the. outr verse came along and I I walked. back out to the walkway and I was like. all right sweet here we go and then he. started singing the outro verse I was. like oh no now I'm just standing here so. in like being an awkward person I was.

like I'm just standing here in front of. 70,000 people yeah with nothing to do I. should have been gone ages ago yeah oh. yeah yeah yeah he was lovely though God. that's so cool looking dude it's nice. it's the best thing I don't get nervous. for that which is weird yeah oh man that. yeah karaoke makes me so S I could not. even imagine having a sing in front of. people um so when did you start to learn. that you had singing talent I mean I I. know that some of this will be like. Elementary stuff to you but for some.

audience that doesn't know you you know. so like um yeah when did you start to. learn that cuz how do you go from being. like this sort of like in like like not. recluse but sort of this like quiet kid. shadow lurker yeah yeah yeah of course. good. guy I don't want to make it sound like a. villain no but sort of this um this guy. who's this patient person how do you go. from that to like being able to like. express yourself because dude yeah when. you start it's like there's a lot of.

levels to what you do like sometimes I. feel like there's like some Mac Miller. sometimes I feel like there's like this. Dr Seuss of like Irish funerals going on. there's so many and then sometimes it's. just like this you almost feel like. you're at a opera or something way you. know yeah so it's really impressive nice. one man thank you yeah I try and do a. few different things but I I remember my. sister played piano and she still does. when we were kids and classic thing I. would just sing in the back of the car. and I remember my mom I was just loud. you know I'm still loud and I uh so yeah.

I just started figuring out I played. soccer quite seriously when I was a kid. seriously in my head and uh and so music. was like a secondary thing so I never. worried about playing to people cuz I. was I was thinking about playing. football so I uh I would always it came. quite easy to me to play to people. because I didn't see it as being that. important the first few times you know. and uh and so yeah it just gradually. became a thing I started realizing I. wanted to write music I go into town and. like do open m and stuff oh you would. yeah like Dublin's so supportive that's.

what I mean it's like I know I always. talk about Notions and all that kind of. stuff but it's just like it's a nice. place I was 15 16 playing in these pubs. and people would do anything to help you. you know I don't know what it's like. States yeah yeah no that Irish would do. anything yeah and they just if they see. some potential in you they'll just kind. of say I know this person I know that. person be careful with this and da and. loads of advice and all that kind of. thing so um yeah just gradually I mean. like I'm 32 now so like I've been doing. this since was 19 I guess you know what. I mean so it's a long road and I know we.

were talking about the red clay rays and. how they put time in and I think if you. get to a certain level there's very few. people haven't had that Journey do you. know what I mean I know you had Luke. Colmes on here I know everybody's got. their journey in music but like there's. so much time you spend knowing you're. good and being frustrated that you don't. have a career you know what I mean so I. think uh you just have to be patient. it's so like it's so silly to me it's so. kind of arbitrary in a way because it's. like it's this thing where you're like. you said like you're lurking in the. shadows knowing you're good and but no.

one's paying attention and then out of. nowhere people decide you're just really. good and I like yeah I knew that before. yeah but it just takes time yeah it is. that is such a fine line there's a like. what's it like for you you know what I. mean like when you knew you had this. potential but yeah I thought that I was. funny I think I was sitting on a porch. one day at school in college and this. kid's like you should do standup comedy. man and I was like [ __ ] you dude you're. an idiot right and the guy was an idiot. so I was right. but uh but yeah I eventually I started.

doing comedy you know um were times you. start to do good yeah and then you're. like why why what you know you see other. people like I'm doing but I think a lot. of it's just time and it's like yeah. like weathering that. storm and then weathering that storm of. like other people's careers have been. going they have to have their successes. and so that's just the way that time. works do you you find that hard. sometimes when you see people like. having massive.

moments yeah I I know you are too so. it's probably made easier by that of. course I definitely did ear earlier on. you know and then um yeah now it's like. you know we're able able to sell out a. club and able to sell out some spots so. once you can kind of do that you start. to feel a little bit more like in. control that like at least okay at least. I'm doe in my job I think that's part of. it too it's like hell it's hard to admit. to somebody that you're a comedian like. you know cuz everybody's funny and. everybody has good stories especially. being from Louisiana so um like they.

don't even have any comedy clubs in. Louisiana because people are so funny. just talking to them yeah yeah yeah so. it's like I'm not going to go pay $7 and. go in that you know booze my friend is. funnier than [ __ ] yeah well [ __ ]. Randy out here did you spend a lot of. time sort of doing sets and clubs with. just oh yeah tough ones yeah for years. man yeah I would drive and do all the. sets yeah I think there was a part of me. that wanted to be good at it of course. and then I think after a while I think.

the art chooses you because I didn't end. up getting married I didn't have a child. so th those things didn't kind of like. start to take up my time so I was still. available for it you know so yeah I. think there's there's a moment kind of. where some of the art chooses you um I. keep thinking about you spitting on that. girl's head oh terrible times God if she. only knew and I tried to I think draw a. heart when I spit or something I tried. to yeah yeah yeah tried save it triy to. do something you know I remember just. doing like that a little or something I.

I don't know I wanted it to be kind of. artistic I don't [ __ ] know but it was. that was the only way I could express. myself so I know what you mean about the. saliva I find it even when I'm doing. this you. know so I don't know man. um yeah what were we talking about but. it's been good I I've loved being here. honestly it's a good place making music. yeah it's a good place definitely I. think yeah and I think if you don't you.

have to kind of like put yourself out. there some here and if you like to do. kind of your own thing your music does. feel very. uh important to you like you said right. like the stuff you're you know you're. not trying to go for like uh it doesn't. seem like um some pop thing or trying to. like read a bunch of other people's. songs that they've written no it seems. like you're trying to make your your. voice yeah if it was like someone else. you know there'd be no point there's. people I'm fan of and there's people I'm. inspired by but you got to take a mix of. all that and make your own thing yeah.

otherwise it's boring cuz that's a big. part of the culture here is like all the. big songwriter groups and then they. service the musicians you know totally. and you got to be careful because you. find you like I've written songs where. I'm like oh no that's too like this. person there's there's no place in the. world for that I think it's funny. sometimes you'll have people kind. of so I remember we were talking about. Louis Kali the other day I remember for. uh for a long time I was kind of pushing. to do just piano and vocal and I always. it never really worked out and then uh. he had his massive song uh I was getting.

kind of used to being someone you loved. and then I remember someone in my team. that I worked with was kind of like oh I. was thinking like maybe piano and vocal. and I was like this is so obvious like. he did that already so like there's it's. so senseless that I would go and do that. unless it felt right but this idea of. just like copying something else that. did well is weird and we'll never get. the right results I think yeah I think. you see a lot of that with music you see. like someone um. breaks out of the pack yeah and then.

there's a lot of other people that start. to sound just like them oh totally you. see it now like say Noah can and Zack. Brian like having these huge moments I'm. inspired by it but I have to make sure I. do my own thing and don't sort of what's. the word try and replicate it I guess. cuz you'll just end up on your ass yeah. I think yeah because then you're just. like oh he sounds like this person. totally and the reason it works for them. is because they are them and they're. uniquely them and people are drawn to. that definitely I think even like the. the attitude that's contained within. your music like you see Zach Brian like. the recordings and everything they're.

quite what's the word like they're so. rough and ready but people are drawn to. that everything's so perfect nowadays so. people just like that if he's literally. just pressing record and that take is. that take I think it's incredible again. I heard Luke Holmes kind of say they'll. go in and do five songs in an evening um. I think that's beautiful I I've been in. situations now where things can get. quite fragmented and you're kind of like. okay we'll do piano then do vocal it's. all quite polished and put together so I. want to get back to that side of things. definitely yeah that feels like a.

challenge I think it's a challenge in. any art you know how do I stay me yeah. and then how do I stay me as I change MH. and. then am I is it okay to still be. me this changed me at the risk of that. my the people who are paying attention. to me won't will understand totally and. I like I get to hide behind the music. like in your life plan of work I think. you are your brand right so like.

changing has got to be a whole different. thing do you know what I mean like I can. change my music all I like and I'll. still be me underneath it but like I I. find for comedians or people that do. what you do it's tough because because. your name is the whole thing right you. know like like if you change as a person. people will kind of could criticize. could enjoy it whatever yeah or like but. to not even evolve I think right like I. think that's kind of the thing that I'm. thinking of is like like a guy told me. one time um he's a manager he's uh. worked at uh a fancy management company.

in Los Angeles and he said you know your. audience will grow up with you so you. have to grow up as well or it can get. kind of stale you know and I thought. that was just interesting you know I. just like yeah that's kind of true like. if I you know be afraid to change or. don't grow up or you know then they're. going to grow up past me course you I. got that with music too you know like. yeah you try and like you try and sort. of think about what age you were when.

people first started listening to your. music and then change with that 50 cents. a good example he always he's stopped. making music sometimes because he was. just like it's not relevant to those. people anymore it's. interesting yeah I'm trying to think. yeah there's some like there's a little. bit of Zack Bryan want to hear there's a. little bit of James Blake but there's. it's you it definitely felt like uh this. guy at the shipyard who's just going to. [ __ ] show you what's going on yeah I. hope so you know I hope so my voice girl. she better pay.

attention like that yeah it's stories. and if he goes out on the boat with you. to fish or crab or whatever he's going. to be a little loud sometimes yeah yeah. yeah I got told I even talk too loud a. speech therapist recently was like you. need to relax constantly yeah yeah they. said like cuz I have trouble with my. voice sometimes even last night my voice. kind of went about halfway through and. uh I I don't know how to not go full. beans constantly yeah you know you must. get so many dude every girl I know my.

brother's wife my ex-girlfriend they. every woman is looking for. you um so I don't know if you I'm sure. you have how many ring cameras do you. have yeah we got the cameras on the. house at home yeah yeah yeah n it's just. people can connect to real. feelings I saw you you were nodding long. oh I was I had one song that had rhythm. in it last night right oh no there was a. couple moments you hit some yeah I mean.

well yeah when it's not like the whole. band and it's just you that's a lot of. pressure I mean you had the you had the. boys with you there the poet Joshua yeah. he was great dude he was at my show in. Halifax I tell you that was he at the. show yeah cuz he said he bumped into you. on the flight yeah I didn't know he's at. the show yeah he came to the show in. half in the morning I'm on the plane he. said hey I was at your show last night I. was like oh you're heading to the US. he's like yeah I'm going to play with. Derm Kennedy I said oh I'm actually. going to his show no way and so I'll see. you there tomorrow yeah he's a nice guy. he was so much more confident to me he. uh he was funny yeah he's 22 as well so.

it's just like I don't know I I I think. I think that's a difficult gig when it's. just spoken you know the music you can. hide behind it and stuff but when it's. just spoken word that's not easy yeah. but it added this element of like um. because last night so just for the. listeners so there was um dermit there. was uh Gabe Simon accompanying him on. guitar and mandolin and some different. instruments and um and uh there was uh. Joshua de shooter and he's a poet and he. was like um kind of reading lines at.

certain points yeah and he had sort of. tailored his poetry to fit around the. songs and stuff it was just cool I don't. know like it was cool I know when I was. that age I kind of was dying to do. things like that so I was excited to. work with him yeah yeah I thought that. was super cool how'd you find him uh. Instagram I saw him doing a he had a. really cool poem uh I couldn't even. point it out now but he had a really. cool poem about two people who every. night in a cemetery they come up out of. the graves and one guy was really rich. and one guy was really poor and just. it's this beautiful poem about like not.

forgetting what's important in life so I. thought it was cool I think there's a. lot of I think there's a lot of [ __ ]. poetry on Instagram and I think he's not. that so that's why yeah yeah I liked. even just having a younger person it. like added this element of like um. nervous energy and approach to the world. which was like such a dichotomy to kind. of some of your music you know some of. it's like you know it's more like uh I. don't think a young person could even. write some you know you know I think you. have to have some experience you know I. definitely think about that now even. like having any degree of success I feel.

better equipped now you know I I used to. be annoyed that I wasn't getting gigs. and stuff but I guess I'm glad it. happened the way it did cuz now I I I. even as a person just in society I try. not to you know you you learn how to not. take [ __ ] from people and you learn who. you are in the world a little bit I'd be. scared if I was 22 doing this do you. know what I mean oh yeah having like a. lot of success at anything any kind of. traction yeah and someone was like I. feel like I'm easily LED or gullible. even at this age so I don't know what. I'd be like if I was younger yeah yeah.

yeah it seemed kind of risque out there. m i want to think more about Ireland. dude dude they have oh somebody said the. Irish started Halloween is that true. sound yeah I think so yeah yeah yeah cuz. what is it it's sort of translates like. the the night of the lost souls or. something like that I'm not sure but. yeah Irish people Ireland's very Pagan. and sort of a lot of things like that. the dead are very important the dead are. very important you know the way like. Coco like uh yes in those movies like. that's Mexican dead right yeah it feels.

like there's similarities in that sense. there's like the Celtic sound Festival. yeah wow. my actually I was talking about it last. night at the gig the island my auntie. lives on Halloween's really important. and it's all the lost souls stuff what. is it called inishmore inishmore I. thought her name's dearra I thought you. were about to say her name I was like. you know my auntie. [Laughter]. de but they have these Traditions you. know where there's very few people live. on the island it's like I I'd be. bullshitting maybe a few hundred people.

kind of thing um and there's this. tradition where someone someone you know. will knock on your door and and they're. kind of allowed walk around your house. in silence and open drawers and close. drawers and and then leave and then. later on everyone's in the pub and you. don't know who is in your house so it's. this kind of there's all these creepy. Traditions yeah but started Halloween. yeah oh that's guessing yeah Halloween. was invented in Ireland the roots of. Halloween can be traced back 2,000 years. to the Celtic swin sa s yeah I think.

those things are important in Ireland. like ghosts and all that kind of thing. do you believe in ghosts yeah for sure. dude yeah from Louisiana we got [ __ ]. ghosts over there everybody's yeah. everybody's eating trout or something. you know even you'll hear a ghost eating. some like a lot of we have fat ghosts. down there we at the hospital and be. like yeah there's a ghost in the other. the other Ward yeah he's [ __ ] yeah he. broke his leg New Orleans is Louisiana. right yeah yeah ghosts are like that's a.

ghost town right it's a ghost town can. do tours about yeah yeah and the crazy. thing you'll be on a ghost tour somebody. will get murdered because it's so. dangerous there that then another ghost. will show up you're like oh damn that's. Reginald yeah yeah I knew him yeah they. just he just got here he's fresh yeah uh. but yeah there's a lot of like that that. sort of energy there there's tons of. ghost tours and stuff like that we had a. dude in our town who got um busted by. the cops being for being a ghost dude we. had um so this familyowned they bought.

like a Rada and it was like a small it's. a small motel oh okay and uh used to be. nice and now it's still nice but it's. not like it's not like. Swanky and they were trying to make it. on the um get on the on the ghost tour. so when people came to America to go. learn about ghost and everything it. would show up on like the ghost like oh. you got to stop here right so they. wanted to make it haunted Okay so they. did like some like like low-key haunty.

[ __ ] like the wiring and stuff and like. it was getting a little bit of a buzz. but then they're like oh we're not. getting enough people that love ghosts. you know and so they would have somebody. would dress up upstairs and they had. hotel room doors that were across the. hallway from each other yep so they. would open a door on each side and when. you go walked up the stairs the person. would just walk across so you'd see. something like just what was that you. know and um yeah and so it was getting. some heat and people were like holy [ __ ]. there's ghost and people were outside.

[ __ ] hanging out and drinking Dr. Pepper and [ __ ] sometimes even people. cuz there people get really excited and. um and then they busted the guy the guy. forgot to take off his ghost sheet or. whatever he was driving home it was like. the owner's son and they [ __ ] busted. him dude idiot yeah yeah yeah have you. had any like encounters properly with. ghost oh yeah a friend of mine died and. like I was laying in his living room um. the day after and I felt him he was. right outside wow no way and I just it.

felt as if he was right there I mean it. just I don't know I never felt like he. was standing around me before or since. but it just felt real and I just started. like crying it was like just like super. intense you know wow um I've never had I. believe in all that stuff so strongly. but never anything like that yeah. Ireland you guys have like the Giants. Causeway Causeway yeah and it's. supposedly made by Giants yeah um but. did you go there um did we go to John's. cosway we didn't no I haven't been there. m. but is that good is that. helpful but but it's like but the story.

is that uh there was a giant from there. and a giant from Scotland and they. weren't getting along is that right I. feel like you know more about it than I. do yeah I think so oh Finn mol that was. one of the Giants and there was another. Giant Legend has it that an Irish giant. named Finn mol oh yeah created and. everybody's going to think this is. extremely G exciting yeah an Irish giant. Finn mol yeah to cross the Irish sea and. fight his rival the Scottish giant Ben. and donor yeah so they like and so it.

just looks like these like there these. big. Square um Stones heading out into the. water from each side yeah beautiful. thing so there's one of them in Scotland. as well that's a good question hopefully. there is if not you made it up yeah [ __ ]. it. um Scotland giant cosway we'll say that. there is let's keep the lore alive but. yeah there's a lot of stuff like that in. Ireland like a lot of like well there's. lepr chons there's mystery you know.

ancient things yeah a lot of that. there's a lot of like uh lore definitely. Absol lot of myths and stuff it's kind. of it's romantic in a way yeah I think. like I love Lord of the Rings The Hobbit. and all that stuff purely because I. think being Irish you kind of Grow Up. Loving those things yeah definitely I. would hate to be without that I think to. be honest like I in my songs like I had. a song last night cuz called the killer. was a coward and it's just madeup story. I love it it's just about a king and a. person that kind of like finds his way.

through this castle and kills him and to. me I was just like [ __ ] it why not make. a song like that. yeah what has the um songwriting. experience been like in Nashville has it. been inspired by like any like country. Vibes or is like is it just this is a. place that you feel is good to write and. be I think it's a good place you know. like I think you can't downplay how. talented people are sometimes if I'm. writing somewhere else I can get stuck. and kind of Come Away with like half a. verse or half a course or something. whereas here you come away with full. songs cuz people just do not stop it's.

like Gabe who was there last night he. just he's Relentless you know what I. mean he can kind of just he never runs. out of ideas so people here are just so. talented plus it's just a better place. to write yeah I don't know I I like. being here it feels like it's not the be. all and end all the music business even. though it's here and it's based here and. there's so many people here that are. working on music it doesn't feel like. people are writing to try and be. successful it feels like people are. trying to just make music music and see. what happens yeah yeah I agree there's a. nice sense of like just being alive here.

definitely and you just take time and. people are nice and you be playing a. song and someone will kind of invite. their friend over and play guitar where. he in La that' be kind of like what's in. it for me why would I do that you know. what I mean whereas here it's just. supportive yeah yeah yeah I think that's. really true man I mean we went out and. saw some great music and then you met up. with Zack Brown and you're playing with. yeah I think it's definitely people uh. it's more of a sharing culture here for. sure and it yeah it feels like it's it's. its own place outside of just the. possibility of um making music totally I.

think sometimes when I write I question. how important it is do you know what I. mean that's why like I've had moments in. the past where I struggle with getting. music over the line CU I'm just like who. cares and I completely forget about the. fact that people listen to it you know. what I mean I kind of I have dismissed. that and I don't mean who cares Like. It's always important to me but also I. in the past I've kind of been like oh I. don't know you get so CAU up you're just. like does it really matter really like. and and and I don't know yeah so it's.

nice to be back at a place where music. is the most important thing it's lovely. I think when you kind of go chasing a. career it can be a tricky thing and it. can get in the way of doing the right. stuff creatively so I'm glad to be here. oh yeah that's a good point yeah well do. you feel like I mean you've had such a. great career already do you feel like um. yeah does a does a. new like desire arise in you once you're. already doing well kind of um um is it. like a maintaining desire is it no I.

think it's a returning I for me it's. returning to who I was before doing any. of it you know what I mean yeah like you. being funny on the porch cuz it just. makes you feel good you know what I mean. um me playing music at home just cuz. it's the thing I love um I have yet to. play a show where I come away being like. oh wow that was perfect I'm so happy now. do you know what I mean like when I'm on. the Toros after a gig like I keep an. even Keel constantly I don't come off. stage wired or I don't come off stage. really sad I just kind of like yeah it. was good and if it was good I'm happy. with it and if it was bad it's okay cuz.

I'll do it again tomorrow but um yeah it. like getting back I said that last night. like I want to be able to play music. like I don't care do you know what I. mean I just there's no thought about. like whether it's good or bad I'm just. doing it cuz it feels right yeah like I. blow my voice out cuz I'm just trying so. [ __ ] hard all the time do you know. what I mean I need to get to a place. where I don't feel very confident doing. it you know what I mean not at all doing. what just performing for people like I I. I self-analyze constantly uh to the.

point that it's detrimental but then. like I think a lot of musicians do that. right like you're Harding yourself. you're Harding yourself you're Harding. yourself you want to do your best. totally yeah I that's part that's. something I got out of your stuff too. it's like I felt like I. felt like am am I I want to give. everything that I'm capable of while I'm. here yes yeah of course yeah it's only. last night like you talked while I exist. even while I exist I want to get. everything that is.

possible out of me definitely you know. like having played sport for such a long. time when I was a kid that felt like. such a powerful feeling and I think. sometimes I'm trying to get that feeling. from music um and so yeah I just I think. like if you play well in a match or a. game or whatever the reason you feel. like you leave nothing out there and I. take that into music I think uh and I I. think it's it's important to not be. competitive as a musician but uh but. sometimes I I I can take the gigs in a.

competitive way you know and just make. sure you have nothing left I think that. kind of feels important what um what. happened with sports with football I. just wasn't good enough really yeah damn. I was all right don't get me wrong I. wasn't but like I always I'm always. conscious of if I was on here being like. Oh yeah I had to decide between soccer. and music there'd be someone in Dublin. and be like [ __ ] not true yeah you. know what I mean I was all right but I. wasn't doing that yeah yeah no way and. that's like the biggest sport over there. oh wait have you seen that road bowling.

yes yeah I don't know what it is I like. really well I know what it is I follow. them on Tik Tok do you really have you. seen the stone lifting no I haven't but. I know this is people and these are. adults most of them it looks like yeah. and they get. up in Shannon. Vil shot it off I'm lovely shot it off. I'm lovely from Tim Young. not about effort at all and they throw a. ball and this is a real thing that.

happens this isn't like a um prank they. throw a ball down a street uhuh and try. to get it as far as they can and they. want to get to a certain Finish Line in. the least amount of tries so it's kind. of like golf just with your hand yeah. yeah on it's an iron ball it's a steel. ball you should look up the stone. lifting the stone lifting seems to be. back in a major way really play one more. of those I want to see we got to cuz. here H par here.

going, we here in shanille here we go he. runs so. far oh. [Music]. he a b. shot what a big big shot from Park it's. the best thing that I've ever seen how. much do they get they say 13,800 no- oh. really 13,800 aside and Wayne parks is. on fire good man Wayne Park wow and yeah.

there certain things are back there like. there's people lifting stones are like. 300 kilos and stuff it's probably on Tik. Tok I feel like it's a big thing again. lifting Stones yeah like and they're. awkward you know it's like random it's. not like those big round ones it's like. a proper like awkward Stone in the field. there we go let's see it yes holy let's. go holy pull joh that's it. come on John holy joh John let's go come.

on holy [ __ ] John those are his coaches. yeah yeah when I'm not on yes come. on holy. God let go so strong oh unbelievable now. how high do you have to get up I guess. you have to get it above your waistline. it looks like I feel like it needs to be. on your chest yeah play one more of. those that's unbelievable mean that is a. huge strong people yeah that was a huge. Stone play that top one just play the. top one. oh and this is a more rounded.

Stone yeah wow this guy wants to make an. omelette. dude and there's his brother who can't. LIF him talking [ __ ] all the day. probably oh yeah this is crazy this is. yeah there's something so Irish about. all this I think I don't know what it is. good I feel like I've seen it before. told you. strong yeah what's that guy's name with.

the awkward. ones Tom Salman. official oh wow where is that. England strongest Brothers T-shirt oh. they're both strong then it does seem. oneid doing all the work yeah but yeah I. will say. this one of them is doing a lot of the. work. Lads um yeah that road bowling play one. more of those I just couldn't see if you. can find uh P I'm trying to think. P there we go play that one in Gary.

daily there oh he's a off-duty police. officer yeah I never really knew this. well I knew it was a thing but I didn't. know people GA you throw it into a crowd. of people that's the crazy part and some. of them move and sometimes they don't. move yeah yeah look at that one 3.2. million views wow 50 Grand wow it's a. massive amount of money what is that 50. pound yeah yeah 50,000 find the one with. P somebody right there who is this lady.

that's just constantly that's Michelle. Smith Oh P FL right there see what she. says about him go up Road Bulls in. Ireland so just to let you know you know. you've been keeping track of follow this. approximately 20 3 on road BS and. Ireland on Facebook so who's going to. win and it's a qualifier to take part in. the king and queen of the roads Festival. 2024 happening in September. ra colum ra big store from County Arma.

and Pa needs no introduction here so. tune in in about 20 minutes have gone. this IED did you yeah they were out of. uh they were out of cork they were they. were guys Michelle here from Road bulls. and Ireland far away they were in Europe. somewhere there was one that actually. made a little message to me there you go. shortest Bowl in history shortest Bowl. in history let's see that's po flood. right. there that's him a him yeah oh [ __ ] oh. oh bollocks Paul now does best work gosh.

my flood. huh just joking P that guy will throw. one of those through my. house oh imagine that though lad you're. just in your shins. oh um yeah that's Michelle Smith. official how much is that 50,000 pound. for the winner 50,000 Euro yeah so I. don't know 55 th000 probably wow in and. around um and look up the rules for Road. Bowling real quick I just want to read.

it so I can $. 6,573 wow to throw a damn ball down a. road yeah yeah I don't know where that. money comes from now that's a great. question brother that's an. IOU Road Bowling is an Irish sport in. which competitors attempt to take the. fewest throws to propel a metal ball. along a predetermined course of Country. Roads the sport originated in Ireland is. mainly played in counties a ara Arma and. cork Road Bowling in Ireland is governed.

by the voluntary Irish Road Bowling. Association AR won the all Ireland this. year in the football oh they did the. bullet or bowl is a solid iron. Cannonball uh 7 in circumference and it. weighs 28 ounces uh there are two or. more players or teams in a match the one. with the fewest shots to the Finish Line. wins if two players or teams approach. the Finish Line with equal shots the. winners decide about which throw goes. far farther past the Finish Line wow you. should have played this God i' love well.

I you got to I guess you really have to. have the shoulders for it you know are. you. lefty or righty righty yeah I'm pretty. much righty Normy I'll do it but you. know remember when I was younger I used. to like try to like eat with my left. hand for like I be like I'm gonna change. things up I'm G to be different and I. would do it for like two bites I'm like. [ __ ] that yeah yeah yeah are you you so. like fork in your left hand so you would. now eat with fork in your right hand uh. no now I go fork in my left hand yeah. knife in the right hand yeah but every.

now and then I try to change it up yeah. yeah I remember uh at home if you were. Lefty this probably happened here too if. you were writing with your left hand. they would slap you and put the pen in. your right hand I remember my dad my. dad's left2 and he uh they would make. him right with his right hand when he. was younger yeah why they don't like it. over there no yeah I mean it's not to. stay on Google the whole time but I bet. it's like an old Irish thing there was. some weirdness about being left to you. wow yeah they just don't want you to be. different 100% yeah yeah you get like. slapped on the back of the hand it says. right here it was all due it was.

believed to an unloving refrigerator. mother even as late as the 1900 some. schools in Ireland were still forcing. Southpaw children to WR with their right. hands nowadays we know that nine out of. 10 people are right-handed and that. left-handedness is likely to be. genetic um what's a refrigerator mother. yeah is that like a lch key kid in irand. the term refrigerator mother was coined. by Austrian physicist Leo caner in the. 1940s to describe a mother who's cold un. caring style so traumatized her child. that they were treated into autism wow. so they thought maybe if he was.

left-handed he was autistic we had a. fellow with Down syndrome in our town. and his mom just thought he was Irish. his whole life think be saying that. before yeah and it was just crazy man. yeah and he might have been actually he. would dress him up in all these Boston. Celtics [ __ ] all the time oh it's crazy. leprechaun things yeah just different. yeah different just joyful outfits that. poet yesterday the guy we were doing the. show with I had green shoes on and he. called me leprechaun within 5 minutes I. had never met him before and yeah called. me a lepre it's terrible yeah he was.

kind of outgoing like that yeah he was. yeah he kind of he had a couple of. Pops do people get married young in. Ireland what's that like uh not so much. I don't know what's it like here I feel. like it used to be but not anymore yeah. uh yeah like I would say 30s early 30s. maybe nowadays I know my parents got. married when they were like 23 so I was. just gradually growing up yeah I guess I. just wonder like how the cultures are. are super. different oh yeah in a lot of ways I'd.

imagine I mean that guy Joshua the PO. last night he couldn't drink he was 20. years old I mean in Ireland that is not. the case people can drink that early eh. well 18 but you know they let him in the. pubs as well some yeah yeah yeah. especially down the country like after. the road bowling everyone's getting in. I'd imagine yeah yeah dude yeah cork was. something else I couldn't even believe. when we got there I was like this is so. wild you played the Marquee too that's. great yeah in the tent there I played. there one one time when I was younger. Prett it was it was totally different. the Acoustics were a little bit.

different in there do you have to change. your set on in a cultural way probably. not right oh I I learned stuff about. like Belfast when I first got there and. like the um NRA the IRA yeah and the IRA. yeah yes and uh we learned about the IRA. and like uh yeah like ooh up the raw we. learned about that yeah yeah and then we. learned [ __ ] England was the big thing. we learned you were saying you could. just lean on that whenever you wanted. got bad yeah you just yell it out yes. people would go some guy pulled out a. sword I'm like who has a sword and I.

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one for me you know oh yeah yeah he's. playing here coming up at the pilgrimage. Festival is oh I saw that yeah I was sad. cuz I'll be gone but he yeah he just. he's Irish and he he oh wow yeah I think. sometimes people don't know that I think. I remember someone thought I was talking. to someone recently they thought he was. from here but he it's just cool he kind. of blew up way before me and it's just a. nice to see it's kind of a cool role. model to have he just carries himself. very well I think you know will you keep. in touch or hit him up if you have any.

thoughts yeah definitely not even. thoughts but just a talk I think artists. don't talk to each other enough like I. find it hard to talk to other artists. sometimes cuz I feel like it's a very. we're all quite selfish and we're all so. locked into our own existence that It's. tricky sometimes I find it much easier. to connect with people who are involved. in sports I think that's easier. sometimes but he's I don't know it's. just cool for me to see him he's got. this huge career where he's got so many. followers and supporters of his music. but it's all always just about the music.

you know what I mean it's just he's. inherently him and I think that's a. pretty cool thing and it's good for me. to kind of like just see that follow it. yeah yeah definitely yeah I'm trying to. think of some other Irish musicians um. you two are obviously probably the. biggest ever but oh yeah huh of course. dude one time I went to like the MTV. Movie Awards or something might have. been Music Awards I think it was Music. Awards actually so I got dropped off. there I'm walking up and all these. people start cheering right and I got.

like a pass like through the artist pass. whatever and I'm walking all these. people are cheering and I just like in. my head I was like these people are. cheering for me yeah yeah and I was like. what and then I looked next to me and it. was um Bono Bono yeah were you talking. to him I said nice glasses that's what I. said cuz I didn't know who he was yeah. yeah yeah at the time I was just kind of. like think I was 19 and I was like I. didn't have a clue he's the best you. know sometimes times when you're talking. to somebody that's so famous and has. been for such a long time you kind of. feel like you're not getting there's no.

nothing beneath the surface oh yeah H. with him it's the complete opposite. really you can tell like if you were. talking to him he's just full undivided. attention and gives feedback and we'll. pay attention to you and stuff it's. great oh I've met some of these guys NY. Lauren. yepy who else uh oh The Cranberries yep. Van Morrison oh tinle are the best Have. you listened to Tinley uh-uh oh man I. got to get in it you like rock and roll. you like the red Place trays yeah oh man. Thin Lizzy is that's up your straza I'll.

have to get into that Thin Lizzy oh the. best he passed away a long time ago but. he uh the music's incredible wow The. Boys Are Back In Town you know that song. bo back where were they what you mean. like why were they where were they oh. does he ever say that I actually do know. yeah they're hanging down at dos is the. lyric Dino dos is here too but there's a. dins l Restaurant in Dublin oh yeah yeah. that's and that's where they were. hanging at and where where did they come. back in town from yeah I don't know but.

I think about that all the time and I. always think about them going on tour. back then it must have just been like. see you soon yeah imagine in the 70s and. no one knows where you are no one knows. how it's going you're not on social. media it must be insane and you just. come back and kind of hopefully it went. well yeah and I don't even know if you. knew how well it went really no never. you just get feedback every night and. then a lot of drugs and drinking though. so God that must have been f [ __ ] fun. eh crazy did you ever struggle with any. of the uh gear or whatever they call it. over there n man I find it like I don't.

know I again like not to harp on about. it but I think sport was crucial for me. it was just kind of I I I always like I. tour when I tour I'll often do kind of I. feel like it's not sustainable nowadays. in music it was different back then do. you know I don't know how heavily they. toured and stuff but nowadays touring is. so key like you'll just I don't know. personally I wouldn't be able to sustain. it at all no even drinking I got to be. careful yeah just think just be. impossible like to be hung and then the. response but he's getting to the next. place it just seems like it's not worth.

it yeah yeah I don't know how people do. it no I know yeah sometimes like I don't. know I don't know how some artists do it. but um I wouldn't be able even last. night like I'm tired today from just. playing an acoustic set in a cafe last. night I'm very pedestrian yeah. definitely what about uh the love life. man how does that look for you uh it's. solid and always has been not always has. been but been good with the ladies then. no no no no no no that's kind of I've. always been good with one lady yeah oh. yeah not in a corny way that's the.

corniest thing I've ever said people. know that have experence oh yeah kind of. I don't talk about it much but I think. if people wanted to know they would know. yeah oh so you had a lady then for a. long time wow yeah yeah I don't see like. I'm happy to talk about it but I don't. see it as like a relevant part of my. career do you know what I mean I don't. see it as something to promote she. definitely doesn't so it's just our. existence outside of my career does it. um feel does that Inspire some of your. music with some of the like the emo. stuff or no what you mean the emo stuff.

like some of the loving type stuff. definitely all of it all of it um that's. where it all comes from and and yeah. yeah I never talk about it but it's all. good what about you. um I don't know dude I think yeah I got. to get a wife I I would like to get a. wife I will say that I got to get some. of my. uh Affairs in order. mhm I got to get some of my Affairs in. order this was like a follow on from the.

serial killer. chat this feels like yeah oh yeah dude. I've had it like I yeah I mean I dat you. know it's just hard you're in town. you're gone and then you're supposed to. be like date you know yeah course dis. you're like come back three weeks later. but I think that's one of the reasons. why I stayed in comedy because I was. like oh. well I was had so much trouble like. staying in relation and being committed. in relationships I was like this always. gives me an excuse to leave you know.

yeah so it's like I got to go you know. and then you come back and they might. have found someone else you'd hope they. found somebody else oh really a lot of. times yeah so you can detach from it and. just yeah yeah yeah you're like oh gosh. good luck with Stanley or whatever yeah. I'm glad you found him yeah so things. like that I think uh I'm trying to think. of yeah I just been I just had like I. don't know it's just always hard for me. to um. like uh trust. somebody I think that was just like the.

hardest thing right I just had no idea. of how to do. it yeah it was like a foreign practice. trusting somebody yeah really anybody. only romantically friends anything oh no. it even goes over into work and. everything a lot of times yeah I think I. have to. really. um yeah I don't know does it like take. time yeah I think it takes time some you. can tell with people kind of easy but. it's been uh it's just been a tough. thing for me over the years sure and I.

don't even know why sometimes it's crazy. line of work to be in too. right yeah for that situation yeah and. then you're leaving or all the time or. something it's like so many of my. friends have been divorced in comedy and. stuff like that I think it's just a. tough go of it yeah of course um do you. own any animals durit I have a dog. called Tom that's it I miss him dearly. he's a puppy does he right I do he right. yeah Tom the writing dog yeah he uh he. is the best it's the best thing in the.

world I always took the piss out of the. emotional support thing but I believe in. it now you know what I mean like. emotional support dogs flying with them. and stuff oh you you take them on planes. at all I haven't yet but I will oh. you're looking forward to yeah yeah you. think like noan he was in Dublin with. his big German Shepherd and I was like. if he can do that I got to be able to. get my little puppy on the plane wow he. took a German shepherd with him yeah now. it's a nice dog it's like well behaved I. think it sleeps under his leg legs while. he's on the flight oh my God yeah it's. bad that's beautiful yeah it's the best. thing I don't know here's a Dublin Zoo.

inless help of breastfeeding mothers to. encourage female orangutang bond with. her. newborn so this is happening over by you. guys yeah brilliant well not brilliant. what app did this monkey order this. woman off. of cuz this seems like and if those are. Irish breasts brother they're full cream. I'll tell you. that they have I dude I saw some breast. over there you did oh my God you're F.

it's like just like uh I'm coming home. tell the world I'm coming home it just. feels like the root of time started in. them right right right lovely I mean God. they just like the [ __ ] just Bea just. like the eyes of the Moon yeah yeah yeah. just those [ __ ] front hammers baby. you see some goddamn I mean you'd see. bre they literally look like they were. sculpted out of like you know just a.

fine. [ __ ] thick yogurt it's wild you. thought you said there's no women oh but. when you saw them you they would break. yeah or they'd see yeah you'd see a. [ __ ] Shadow coming over you and. need'd be a big tit a woman would have. leaned out of a window to look for. something you had your eyes peeled. constantly make sure A man was still at. the pub you know cuz the pubs yeah I I. mean I went a pub no furniture mhm bunch. of guys holding each other up [ __ ]. just yelling and drinking yeah no.

furniture you would go into a pet store. no pets seven people drinking in there. drinking talking about animals you're. like what everything there is just. people having a beer man it's funny. though you know like do you ever see the. way Italians like live to be really. really old cuz they all just hang out. constantly I like to think Irish people. are kind of like that too we just need. each other there's all these like small. communities stuff they need somewhere to. gather definitely music's part of that. and I grew up in New Orleans and there.

people were drunk vomiting you didn't. see it in Ireland man pukin yeah I. didn't see a lot of it oh there's plenty. of PUK oh there is oh yeah oh they do it. all at once or something uh I would say. it's just like you maybe missed it. there's plenty of it though yeah yeah. it's the worst feeling in the world it's. crazy that I would say that nearly keeps. me away from drinking too much is the. pukin I [ __ ] hate it well the first. part of pukin I don't like you start to. get this little sweat out of like the. middle of your neck or tongue yeah yeah. yeah or the saliva it's like the saliva. all over again yeah it's like your. saliva starts to be like hey guess what.

[ __ ] you're in trouble yeah yeah yeah. yeah yeah you're in. trouble yeah that's pretty hellish um so. I like how you take moments to think oh. just scan your mind I don't have a. choice yeah yeah yeah yeah I wish I. could just call upon. it yeah man my brain retired years ago. man years ago um yeah and some of the.

names in our like I feel like people are. trying to be have the most Irish name. you'll meet like somebody a oi f e epha. epha yeah and that's doesn't really. spell that we we were talking to someone. yesterday called Neeve it's n i a MH. yeah and that's not anything so it's. like you have to have real names if. you're even going to you should guess. some these are very run-of-the-mill all. right you got some spicier name bring up. very hard to spell Irish names but. without the. answers all right.

um. count he. me qua all right nope uh sioban that's. nice but it's sioban shobon okay I. didn't know they had black people there. all right r r Rory that's nice yeah Rory. oh r that would be like Rory DH what. like it's like silent okay they spelled.

it so you know at home r u a i d h r i. okay yeah yeah yeah so they don't spell. it like Rory um the next one t a d g h. Tada. or TIG TIG Ty TIG okay and the next one. I N I A MH um Noah no Neeve NE just Nee. V Neeve and then the next one another. one that's not real s a o i RS e.

Siri ca ca ca yeah oh this is. unbelievable and then I'll do this last. one because I've seen this one before. these are good now we're we're getting. good on okay here we go too gr r a i n n. e yeah granny gr gr that's the closest. you've been oh that's beautiful actually. yeah and this one right here is not. anything but I'll read it b l a t h n a.

i d. mhm BL. blot BL blot blotted blonded yeah you're. doing all right all right here's one. right here c a o c a c a o i LF h i o NN. K. Kevin I that one is even weird for me I. would say I would say quilin quilin yeah. yeah yeah there's just everybody you. meet over there you're like I'm quailing.

Madonna gar you know yeah yeah but I see. that here too oh that's true you know. what I mean everyone I was in the Boot. Barn last weekend and there was a guy. called Lin I yeah yeah and he was like. I'm Irish you know he just claims it but. know like no [ __ ] yeah um what about the. new album so are you working on a new. album what is it like for you right now. uh yes I am I have. written I would. say 25 to 30 songs and yeah but it goes.

crazy it's kind of like you can do as. many as you want you can do hundreds and. like I know do you remember that song. that Rihanna had uh I want you to. stay uh not really sure how I feel about. it that song No I was with the fell that. featured on that song and huge success. and then his second album he wrote 250. songs so it's just like at what point do. you kind of call it you know what I mean. and then I've heard Billy Irish do. interviews where she says if the album. is 12 songs I've written 12 songs and.

that's it so I'd like I'd rather be like. that it's crazy to me the idea of. throwing songs out you know I don't know. why I would do that so I got a bunch now. and I feel good about them I never know. that's what I'm saying is like I analyze. myself too much and I think sometimes I. lose perspective and I could have the. best song in the world but I can't see. it you know and do you is there certain. people you go to to get really clear. perspective no no I don't play music to. anyone anybody yeah cuz if it's good. feedback I'll be like yeah I know and if. it's bad then I'll be. aggressive wow so do what about a.

management or an agent or anything yes. some of that but then that's hard too. right because you kind of question like. what are people's criteria you know to. me I only care that it's good but then. they might be like oh this song could be. successful and it's like what does that. mean right you know it could stink but. it could like it could send me down the. wrong path musically but it could make. money on the radio I don't know so you. got got to do the right thing and do you. uh will you choose a certain number out. of those yeah I like 10 I I know like I.

I've seen like Morgan wallen's album. with like 37 songs and stuff I don't. know if I'm able for that kind of thing. yeah I mean yeah I means different. people have different stuff. definitely. H yeah I wonder like yeah would I be SC. God it's just got to be so scary putting. an album. out it's going to Define your life for. two or three years you know it's almost. like throwing a stick Dynamite into a. room or something definitely and then. what if you don't hear anything it may. not go off yeah yeah yeah definitely.

yeah you never know I think like yeah. that definitely scares me sometimes and. and it might not happen you know what's. almost even worse is that middle of the. road kind of just like some people like. it and boring yeah for me what's funny. is like I've never had a song go crazy. do you know what I mean like I've never. had a song like I play Big venues in. most places but like I can walk around. all all day and no one knows who I am so. I think I kind of exist in a sweet spot. to some degree you know what I mean I.

think for me it's like a careful what I. wish for scenario sometimes cuz my life. is still very normal but then I get to. go on stage and do very abnormal things. you know like if I had to stay in my. hotel room all day CU I can't that would. make me sad definitely yeah you're. almost like Clark Kent kind. of you know or. CL yeah Quin Quin kinip. um yeah I just just because you have. some anonymity still definitely there. was one time you do have a chip on your.

shoulder sometimes though I do like I I. was playing for a football team in New. York and we were at training one night. and one guy was like are you playing. shows or whatever and I was like yeah. I'm playing a show at the Garden and he. was like oh cool are you like part of a. bigger Bill are you supporting somebody. and I'm constantly just like no it's my. show like people will be there hopefully. uh so I think people are constantly. surprised how big the shows are because. my I I don't feel like a very famous. person which is lovely honestly that's. the way you don't yeah I I think you. keep like a you seem like a pretty.

regular demeanor nice one man I think um. which I think is probably one of the. best compliments you can get yeah yeah. yeah but then to go and have that many. people show up for something yeah that's. pretty freaking unbelievable it's not. it's the I think like if I I I feel. lucky in the sense that before I did all. this if I had a check list of what I. wanted I feel quite lucky I feel like. I've ticked most boxes which is nice you. know my life hasn't changed I get to. play to lots of people I get to decide. what music I put. out that feels good to me yeah yeah how.

long do you think tum will come out or. do you have a plan on it or uh does it. matter I don't I'm trying not to care it. matters but I don't know how it people. yeah definitely yeah like will people. stick around you know what I mean like I. think music you kind of have to stay. relevant and stay present and release. music all the time you know I think it's. I think you have to kind of do stuff. constantly and and constantly bring. stuff out but uh you got to be careful.

too cuz if people just get bored you. know what I mean I would love to I'd. love to bring out an album definitely in. less than a year but I'm not in a hurry. to do it either I would rather have a. good one you know what I mean I don't I. don't think it needs to be just. constantly doing it and the tour off of. it yeah like we've been doing touring. very slow we'll do like chunks Tak three. years now to do the tour oh man but it's. fine people don't care as long as you. show up people don't care yeah it's like. and it's been good and and I couldn't. handle doing like a seven Monon tour or. something yeah I've seen like who did I.

see I saw Matt mccusker's tour and it. was just every weekend like a couple. shows I was just that must be so sweet. to do shows and go home but music you. can't do that because you got like a. Bandon crew on the road and you're. paying everyone every day so you just. you'd be bankrupt immediately yeah. that's true you got to do it all yeah. definitely when you have such a squad. how much uh do you have a big band. supporting you when you go out there's. what is it there's like six of us on. stage Irish we're playing no two of us. Irish and then uh everyone else is from.

Australia Switzerland in the UK oo yeah. pretty diverse yes indeed but uh it's. important like you you kind of even. though it's a solo project I think it. has to feel like I hate when a. songwriter it looks like it's them and. their employees I think that's crap yeah. I think it's makes for a bad musical. connection I think you want to feel like. a band yeah what makes that. happen uh I I think I mean bottom line. the way you treat people you know and. you give people creative freedom you let.

them play the way they want to play I. think if you stifle it and and sort of. restrict people too much it stops being. fun you know what I mean I think people. come to see my show to see that musical. interaction it's not just me playing you. know what I mean I think it's weird. sometimes when you you see a solo artist. and their band is just kind of in the. background and not really part of the. show that's weird to me m. yeah what um where'd you meet your gal. at like.

what 25 years ago probably at home no. yeah yeah at home or was she going door. to door no she wasn't but we were uh we. were it's not your sister is it we grew. up in the same area and uh yeah it's a. very like it's a very sort of high. school sweethearts thing oh that's so. there is some romance right there then. definitely there's something romantic. about that and is that yeah I guess. Ireland makes me just think everything. seems like um fairy tale over there a.

bit yeah sometimes too much certain. movies and stuff you know yeah what was. the I wonder if you're talking about um. gangs in New. York that one's kind of cool though. there was like this movie recently the. Irish wish or PS I love you those types. of things they're terrible yeah get. [ __ ] yeah if your wife yeah if you. found your wife in a wishing well or. something you're out of your [ __ ]. mind dude could happen you could could. do it hey. look that's true man you need to go back. oh yeah oh I I want to go back so bad I.

want to do a couple more spots there. yeah and maybe do one more I think I owe. a little bit better of a show to maybe. belf Fest um it was good but I think I. wanted you know you just want to do it. better yeah I like the way you say I. tried my best at the end of your shows I. think that's good yeah thanks man I. think I usually I I definitely 99% of. the time I feel that way that I tried my. best now the outcome sometimes but yeah. but then that sentiment stands above. everything right like even if it doesn't. go the way you want it to yeah tried my.

best you know yeah people appreciate it. too yeah I think people appreciate it I. think so that's probably a good point um. what uh what will you do when you get. back to Ireland like what's something. you look forward to doing I will I like. to write music every day and to to be. like in the studio every single day I. know it's a very privileged thing to say. but it's a very taxing thing I get tired. of it so like I'll go just I where I. live is in the middle of nowhere so I'll. just be in the forest every day with the. dog you a dog no I would like to get a.

dog as soon as I quit touring yeah in. like s months I'm going to try to get. some kind of dog it's the best thing. I've done yeah oh man yeah it's just. like a companion it kind of it's a nice. injection of real life as well in. amongst all the weirdness it's just nice. like and it's this thing that would die. if you didn't look after it so it's kind. of it's a powerful feeling you guys got. a is it a staff you over there what you. got no teeny little scruffy Terrier no. yeah and it's he's a rescue oh yeah yeah. everything is in Ireland H everything. I'm a rescue yeah yeah if he's a male is. he he is male yeah oh yeah God he's.

still got his [ __ ] well he won't be. using them there's no girls up there. that's true there's nothing yeah I'll. have to bring them to America yeah yeah. um derit Kennedy thanks so much man. thank you very much thank you for having. yeah I appreciate it thank you for all. the awesome music man thanks for like. yeah just kind of sharing like whatever. you can to the best of your ability yes. sir um that's kind of how I feel when I. listen to your stuff and um yeah had a. great time thanks for inviting me last. night and yeah thanks for the ticket. dude that was awesome not at all thanks.

for going thank you man yeah cheers on. you bro now I'm just floating on the. breeze and I feel I'm falling like these. leaves I must be. Cornerstone oh but when I reach that. ground I'll share this piece of my found. I can feel it in my bones. it's going to take.