S3 EP7: Emma Doran

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Podcasts, there are millions of them. Some might say too many.
I have one already. I don't have any because there are enough.
Politics, business, sport, you name it. There's a podcast about it.

And they all ask the big questions and cover the hot topics of the day. But nobody is covering the most important topic of all.
Why is that? Are they scared? Too afraid of being censored by the man?

Possibly, but not us. We're here to ask the only question that matters.
We'll try and say it at the same time, Max. What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday?

That's it. All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday, nothing more.
Day before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and most interesting day of your life?

Unless it was yesterday, we don't want to know about it. I'm Max Rushton.
And I'm David O'Daugherty. Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?

Hello, welcome to today's episode of What Did You Do Yesterday? My name's Max Rush and alongside me, David O'Doherty. Hello, David.

I'm very excited for today's app,

which is with...

I know when the episode starts, you will say that you organized it, but it's with one of my friends from Irish Comedy, Emma Doran.

And she's so funny. It's a great episode.
I will say for the tape, David takes quite a lead in this episode.

Maybe he has designs on the hard chair or maybe my wi-fi was intermittent at times i don't know how successful marsbar has been in cutting out the bits where they couldn't hear what i was saying or me hurling a selection of wi-fi routersal hotspots at the window but i think there is a chance you could listen to this episode and have no idea that that was i just wanted to give you the full facts because i believe in honesty i want the listeners to know that possibly i take a secondary and maybe you like that maybe i should take a sort of a you know a hands-off approach to this podcast, but that's what you'll discover.

Yeah, I probably talk too much and then Emma and I would stop talking and your voice would come in kind of like a vocoder, like gaffpunk electric for

around the world, around the world. What is Max saying, Emma? We have no idea.

Emma Doran is one of the people to have really broken through in comedy in this country in the last few years. She constantly puts up really funny things on her Instagram.

She does an amazing podcast with Deirdre O'Kane called Keep It Tight, and she's about to do a big tour. Emma DoranComedy.com.
But her breakfast is absolutely rank. Yeah,

it is, actually.

Poor Emma. This is what Emma Doran did yesterday.

Emma Doran, welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Thanks for having me. Delighted to be here.
Yet another guest that I have booked. We go way, way back.
This is David O'Doherty.

I don't know if you're aware of him, but he is an aspiring comedian. And listen, I've been working with him on his stuff for a while, and I think he's got great potential.
Thank you.

Thank you for finding Dublin's Emma Doran and getting her on the podcast, Max. It means a lot.
Thanks, Max. Anytime.
Anytime. Emma, what time did you wake up yesterday? Great question.

Great start, Max. Thanks.
I know, really. I'm on it.
I'm on it today. I feel it.
It was before 4.7.

So quite annoying. That could be a lot of times, though.
We need you to narrow it down. Was it like, you know, 11.30 the previous night? No, no, I would say I didn't want to be as exact as 6.45.

I don't think it was quite 6.45. Yeah.
But it was before 7. So the thing at the moment is I keep waking up before I need to wake up.

Two things are happening. I'm in the attic of my house.
So I'm in a small terraced house. We converted the attic, which is great.
But the ceiling is about four foot high, which is fine for me.

But my beloved Shane is a little bit taller than me. So he comes to bed most evenings like a gorilla and he needs to be in the center of the room to be able to stand up straight.

Anyway, so when we get into bed, we are in bed, and that's we have to stay there. So, I keep forgetting to pull down the blinds, so I'm woken up by the sun.

Yeah, also, the other problem is I have a bad addiction to my vape, so I think as well, I am actually waking up after vape. No,

yes, like a fruity, a horrible early morning fruit blast, yes, of apple, It's apple flavor. It's annoying me now, but I'm not doing anything to rectify the situation.
Question. Yes.

Does Shane ever wake up with a start? Perhaps at the smell of sort of fruity apple, sit up straight and his head hits some ceiling. His head goes out through the valleys and then through the ceiling.

It's just that's all people can see from miles around.

You see shoulders down and the rest of the city sees a head just out of the roof. No, not yet.
BC, he vapes as well, but he, I think he has this addiction more under control than me. Wow.

Now, he's one of those, he does the thing of he's a snooze button person, which I find highly annoying.

Like he does half an hour of the snooze. I was like, fuck's sake.
Yeah. The couple that vapes together, japes together.
Isn't that what they say? They have such a good lap. My question is this.

I too live under the rafters like a little bat. And in the warm weather we've had recently, it gets steamy under those rafters.
You know, the black slates are absorbing the heat of the day.

That's the problem with an attic, it's just never quite right with the temperature. It's boiling in the summer, and in the winter, you're freezing.
Perfect.

Yeah, only a couple of months ago, I bought an electric blanket, but Shane wasn't into it.

So, what I did was somebody gave me the advice: get a single-bed electric blanket and put it on your side of the bed.

So he's just in the jocks on the other side of the bed, and then I'm on my side of the bed, and I go to bed, usually fully clothed with dressing gown, the whole thing, and put on the electric blanket, maybe a hot water bottle as well.

But we haven't found out the system for the summer sleeping in the attic yet.

When you had the attic renovated, when the builder said, and what we'll do is we'll have the ceiling four foot off the ground,

did you not say, could you make it eight?

No, if we didn't, because it was one of those situations, it was the only house that we could afford, and the builder was quite fast and cheap. So we just

could do four foot in 20 minutes, eight foot in an hour, but you've only got 20 minutes in, out

he was somebody who you would you would refer to as being quite partial to cash,

so we were just like, whatever.

And yeah, that's what happened there. I think, Max, what you haven't realized is that, and I know, obviously living in Dublin, Emma and Shane are gnomes.
Right, okay.

Like they work by day with pushing little wheelbarrows, doing other classic gnome. They have pipes, etc.
Hence the vapes. The vapes.
Hello? The vapes of the game, Max.

What else do gnomes do, actually? I've had a blank there. I can't think of other games.

Yeah, they do fish. They live on.

They're very stationary fishermen in my limited knowledge of gnomes but that's the key to fishing though is it not to stay still yeah hello they're very patient the gnomes aren't they i can't remember when gnomes moved away because obviously they were trying to get in with the zeitgeist when they moved from pipes to vapes yeah i don't remember that moment Yeah, I don't know when that was.

Instead of fishing rods, a lot of them have drones now. They're just flying a drone over the lake to try and see where the fish are.
So we've woken up. We have a refreshing morning vape.

Hang on. How many seconds between waking and vaping?

That's an excellent question. I would say two.
No. Two seconds.
I would say, so there's one second for that is the shame and the guilt that I'm about to do this. Yeah.

And then the next second is when I do it. I think there should be morning vapes that are like Wheetabix flavored.
Yeah. Or like toast and coffee.
The room is filled with these morning aromas.

That's a great idea. Then I wouldn't have so much guilt around it.
So then, next of all, you hobble over to the stairs and adorably, because you're a gnome, jump down single step.

Maybe you have a little ladder for each step. Yeah, and I'm whistling.
I'm whistling as well while I do it.

Interruption. I don't think there's lady gnomes.
Are all gnomes dudes? Maybe there's a couple of lady ones, but I haven't seen one in in the flesh in person. Yeah, unfortunately.

It's a bit of a Smurf thing, isn't it? You only have Smurfette. Yeah.
So I think there's only one female gnome. It's a very complicated reproductive story with the Smurfs and the gnomes as well.

We won't go into now,

but it's awful.

It's awful stuff. Yeah, the onus is really on one individual to keep the whole thing going.
It's a lot of pressure.

Okay, so how long do we vape in bed for? Oh, not long. Not long.
Okay.

Two and a half hours.

10 o'clock. We get a few vapes in, maybe four or five.
Demure pulls at the vape. Like, you know, I did Raquel Welsh in some old movie with one of those long filters.
Yeah.

You've got a martini and you're in a ball gown and you're on a chaise long. It's not a long-lasting pull.
It's just like, I need a couple of little toques here just to set me up. Absolutely.

Sorry, we'll move on with the day now. I realize we're

too honest already about my day. We're five seconds into the day.
I think this might be a record. So, just yeah, quick few pulls.
Then I'm like, oh, it's kind of that thing of I'm awake now. Fuck it.

I'll get up. So I head dance.
Now, what do I have the shower first? Now, I was meant to have a shower the night before. I was too lazy.
So I went, full disclosure, I went to bed stinky. It was fun.

So I had a shower that morning. I washed my hair.
So that's a big palava to wash the hair. But I was like, right, just get it done.

Then I went downstairs and I prepared my breakfast because usually I wouldn't have breakfast that early, but I knew I was going to have a busy day. So

sorry, Emma, from those first vapes, while you're in the shower, firstly, do you consider vaping? And secondly, have you ever vaped in the shower? Is that possible? Are vapes waterproof?

I've never vaped in the shower. Those kind of activities, I'm not thinking about the vape.
But, okay, I can't even believe I'm telling you this now. So, this is me in my house.

I have a bum bag around my person at all times. The vape is in the bum bag.
Okay.

Is only the vape in the bum bag or are there other interesting things? No, so the vape is in the bum bag. Yeah.
The juice for the vape, very important. Juice.
Ugh, it's that word.

In the context of orange juice, no problem. Vape juice is up there with bing juice.
It's just Grimsby.

What else is in the bum bag, Doran? My phone. My phone.
And then in the back pocket, I have a bit of cash, a couple of pairs of earrings, that kind of thing. Just like miscellaneous stuff, then.

There's a few like receipts and things. So is this just when you're in the house? Just in case you meet like

a little troll and you need to bribe them with some gold trinkets and some cash. May I pass this way? I, Evadora, the little gnome, need to travel to have a shower.

It's getting off the charts because we got a takeaway the other night. And the man delivering the takeaway actually said to me, he's like, sorry, can I ask you something? I was like, yeah, sure.

And he says, what's the story with the bum bag in the house?

Oh, that's good. This guy is good.
And also, do you take the bum bag off when you leave the house? It's like as soon as you're leaving the front door, you take it on the bump. No, no, it stays on.

It it stays on the whole time. 100%.
I even went to

this thing called Zip It the other day. You know, like one of these climbing things, and you put on a harness and a helmet, and I put up a little video, and my friend came to

go. I see the bum bag is still on.

You might be the last person wearing a bun bag. This is really exciting.
I didn't think we'd ever get to bum bags, but now it's nice to give them some airtime.

Emma, is this because you're wearing uh hot lady-ass jeans that don't allow you to put stuff in the pockets? Pockets, yeah, It's the lack of pockets, that's how it starts.

You think, oh, this will just be handy, and then you're just using it all the time, and you're going to your cousin's wedding and you're bringing your bumble. You know, like it's

the Oscars, the red carpet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, I'm going to say something now that there's going to be a lot of backlash to, okay, yeah, but it's been on my mind for a long time, and I think this is the best context to bring it up.

I feel the ladies,

the specifically ladies who wear bras

are underutilizing the potential of the bra for keeping stuff in.

You know what I mean? Like, could you not put a wallet in one

women do

in the other? Yeah.

Have you ever given somebody money and they've like I'm talking about in a retail situation and they have put the money in their bra because that's happened to me and it's quite unnerving.

And they've given me my change back out of the bra.

It sounds great at the time, but it's quite an awkward situation.

I got a facial done, I gave her the money, I had a bit of cash, and she put the cash in her bra and gave me my fiber change back out of her bra. When the builder did the attic,

did he stuff the 10 grand into her bra all the time? Just her boobs getting bigger and bigger. Huge wonga baps.

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Where are we got in? Are we in the shower yet? Are we down the stairs? What's happening? We had the shower. We had the shower.
We've now gone downstairs. It's breakfast time.
It's breakfast.

So I usually, if I was at home for the day,

I wouldn't eat this early, but I'm heading out today. So, like, I better have something to eat before I go because I used to be terrible at not eating.

And then I'd leave the hays and I'd be ravenous and I'd eat like pastries and all that stuff.

So for my breakfast, I had

a tin of tuna. Oh, Jesus.
Oh, God. Two boiled eggs.

Okay. with red onion on a plate, mashed around together, some salt

was my breakfast. Is this a specific diet plan? Sorry, is this recommended or is this something that Emma Doran has just

this? Hasn't been recommended to me, but my new buzz at the moment, because as people are now aware, I'm a health guru from how I start my day.

So

this is about me getting protein in. So the tinna tuna is 25 grams of protein, two eggs is 12 grams of protein.
So that's a lot of protein. Wow.
High performance. But it really makes you full.

I've just basically started having lunch for breakfast. Yeah.
Works for me. Is there burps? Is there terrible, terrible burps? Well, I haven't brushed my teeth yet.

I brush the teeth after that because it's a bit much for the morning. I think that's very generous.
Actually, I did buy chewing gums the other day and Paolos for the first time in months.

So maybe that's because of that breakfast. It's really high performance.
But But who knows what this day holds? Like you might be about to do a marathon or something like that. We don't know yet.

If so, that will make sense. How much red onion do you eat? I'm putting a good bit of red onion, but I'm kind of going rogue with it.
I'm not really chopping it up. I'm just...

Jesus. Oh, God.

I feel like chopping up things is kind of a bit of a time luxury thing. So I'm literally just, I have half an onion in the fridge and I'm lobbing slices off it like lumberjack style.

Eating it like an apple. That's what you're doing.
But the onion is that's the star of the show, in my opinion, is the onion. Oh, I mean, great in a salad.
A red onion makes a salad. I'm with you.

I just don't know if it makes a tuna eggy breakfast. But then I'm going to go to the house.
Oh, I love.

Another thing I love is I used to eat as a kid, and my mother used to send me into school with them,

which I figured was crazy. But I used to go to school with tomato and onion sandwiches.
That's a five-year-old.

As a five-year-old, wow. Yeah.
I've always loved onion. Not only did I have plain cheese sandwiches, my mother had to cut the crusts off them as well.

And meanwhile, you're going in with Ololenghi, just weaken out the entire primary school. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. So I hope what you're about to say now is you don't eat it.

You put it in a neutra bullet and using the juice of it, you then vape the breakfast. You vape that entire breakfast.

No, I just eat. I don't use a knife.
I shovel it up

off the plate into my gob. It's a quick thing.

You've got to get that over with. That is a breakfast you don't even, isn't it? So, Emma, you fueled up with a frankly disgusting selection of foods that should never be put together.

What are you doing now?

Now, I am waking my youngest son up because he's going to a football camp.

So this is the first time he's been going to a camp, and his brother, who's 12, is not going to the camp.

So, 12-year-old's not interested, but 10-year-old, the last while, has been cranking up to getting into football. Great.

So, I'm making his lunch. I'm trying to get him up.
He's not great at getting up, so it's a long process to try and get him out of bed, even when he's doing something he likes. Interruption.
Yes.

Is the lunch you're making for him

boiled eggs and a red onion? No, he's getting a fruit winder. All he wants for his lunch is crackers with butter.
That's what it's been niggled down to now. Footballer, classic footballer lunch.

Anyway, I'm trying to get him up. He gets up, he just has toast for his breakfast.
We head off to the camp. Did whoa, whoa, whoa, most important question here.

I would imagine he has put a lot of thought into the outfit he's going to wear for day one of camp. I'm going to be a specific shirt.
His boots are gleaming, I would imagine.

Yes, that's a very good point. So what he has done is he recently Astro

boots that he's been just wearing as runners all the time. Got to wear them in.
Got to wear them in. Yeah, yeah, he's got them on.
You should have them in the bar. Yeah, good.

So I dropped him to camp. I didn't really know the setup.
We walked in the door and there was kids taking the names, other kids. So I was like, this is kind of strange, but I left him anyway.

Right, so run by kids. There's no adults at all.
It's just kids looking after kiss. kids.
Or Lord of the Flies, football camp, Bugsy Malone, football camp. Yeah, well, he's at that age now.

I didn't want to smother him. I was like, Do you want me to come in with you?

Or, and he was like, No, I was like, Okay, and it was that thing of they were looking for his name on the list and they couldn't find it because they're kids.

And I was like, Oh my god, have I not paid for this camp?

And then I was like, No, they're kids. That's where they can't find the name.
So then that was fine.

Emma, sometimes a camp like this will be have the name of a famous player connected to it who turns up

in five minutes on one of the days. Is it John O'Shea? It'll be a classic Irish footballer of the past.
Yes, it is held in Damien Duff Park.

Yes. Interruption.
I once bumped into Damien Duff at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum.

I didn't expect to. And there we were.
We were both admiring a photo of a gorilla in the mist. It's beautiful.

Emma, Damien Duff recently left his post as the manager of the Irish football team Shelburne, and he hasn't done an interview about it yet. So here's what I propose.

On the day when he comes into the camp, we wire your son, right? We put like extensive under his woolly hat, we have a huge boom micro camcorder, a camcorder.

Chicago Bears hoodie is just full of 90s recording equipment because that's the only gear we could get.

And he asks them all the questions that people want to know what happened, Duffer. That's a great shout.

And you see, Tommy would know what questions to ask because he's a Shamock Rovers fan. He's well up on his League of Ireland stuff.
So he'd know.

We wouldn't even have to prep him. Great rivalry.

yeah we could so you're not happy to leave him there because it seems like chaos but nonetheless it's time to move on it's time to move on the camp's being bugged we've got to go we've got a small window here we all got to move on with our day you know what's next what do you do next uh get back into the car now i i felt bad because i parked in the grounds of the football club and none of the other parents seemed to do that they all seemed to park out on the road and i was like oh i didn't realize i wasn't meant to drive in whatever i'm over it i drive into town i park in uh stephen's green shopping center car park

and i had to yeah yeah yeah i had to get my hair and makeup done

for this podcast for this podcast yeah

it's very kind of you to do that i gotta judge yesterday i remember gary lineker having a makeup having a makeover before he came on oh okay what's happening what what are we having done uh had to do a photo and an interview.

So obviously this is not a normal day. That's why I had the breakfast because I thought it's going to be a long day.

Whatever. I was delighted with myself because I was on time.
I had to be there at half 10. So I thought that was pretty good going.

I get very excited when I'm on time when it involves having to park in town as well. That's very exciting for me.

And I had washed my hair as well. So I was like, I'm doing really good today.
Emma, is that not part of the service that they would provide, though? Is it not a full groom?

Like, if I was to wash the dog before I brought the dog to the groomer, I forgot that part because then the hairdresser man was like, Will we get you washed?

And I said, No, I actually washed it this morning. This is still damp.
And then I was like, Oh my god, he thinks my hair is greasy. That's why it's damp.

You know, because it's that thing where it's just about nearly dry, but there's a few strands that are a bit wet. And I was like, Oh my my God, he thinks I'm greasy.

And I was like, no, no, no, I've washed it this morning. So that made me, I felt weird then.
I was like, he must think I have some weird thing about it. Oh, I only wash my own hair or some shit.

Here's what I want to know. Yes.

So

for this glam slam operation,

what is the publication? You know what I mean? Because if the publication, say, we're an interview with the broadsheet, you might want to look quite demure. You know what I mean? Yeah.

You just sitting reading a book, looking out a window or something. Is it vape monthly?

So it's a broadsheet. So I left, I didn't have to like dust off the push-up bra or anything like that.
You know, we were going for smoky eye. Do we say a smokey eye still? Yeah, smoky eye.

I gave my vape to somebody else while the pictures were being taken, and I said, Could you mind that for me while we do these pictures? Vape cannot be saved.

This person, I hire someone to hold my vapes.

And as soon as the shutter is off vape back in

okay this is exciting okay so is this like one of those three hour jobs or is this quite of a quick in and out job it actually wasn't too bad it was quite quick so got the hair done now i love getting all this stuff done because hairdressers and makeup artists always have the best gossip and the best things to tell you yeah the makeup artist was telling me he had gotten into trouble or not trouble but had kind of been told maybe stop that forgetting people who were coming in to get their their makeup done, he had been getting them pissed.

So there had been kind of word coming back that people were leaving the salon slurring their words. So just handing flutes of Prosecco to people who are...

Yes, but he introduced me to a new drink that I'd never heard of before called the Girlo. Okay.
So I was like, what's a girlo? So a girlo is

you get a Prosecco glass and you put a half shot of gin in the bottom and then you top it up with Prosecco and he said his words he said it's like fucking rocket fuel and I was like amazing well yeah yeah it's gin and prosecco like

it's not a surprise it does the job yeah it sounds like you've just parked in a shopping centre car park and you go to a normal hairdresser's and in there is a makeup artist who is just getting people shit faced yeah

that seems to be it mags

from the way i've heard this is that an irish thing yeah i just turn on

Now that you've explained it back to me, that he was essentially just say, mixing gin and prosecco together, of course, Emma.

At the time when he was telling me, I was like, oh my God, you should go at Dragon's Dead. I was like, that's amazing.

I must try that.

Hello, dragons. I'd like quarter million pounds, whichever 10% of my steak, 17 cans of cider.
I guarantee you.

This will really get you going. Deborah Meaden wants to have a try.
That's what he said. He said, if you'd need a drink to get you going,

this is the joke.

I love a drink called 17 cans of cider and it's just like a waste paper basket with

and you just pour them all in and you're like, there it is. That's it.
Peter Jones wants to know more. Do you know what?

I have that little bit of innocence still in me that I'm always shocked that alcohol gets you pissed. And I just, oh my God, brilliant, brilliant.
Yeah. So he was good fun.
Did you have one?

Did you have a girdler or whatever it's called? No, I didn't, but I'm definitely going to make one because I drink gin. I've kind of gotten, I still love gin, but I've kind of,

I'm due at night to get

fucked. Do you know what I mean?

I want to do it fast. It's for the girl on the move who doesn't have a lot of time and wants to get fucked up quickly.
Kind of drink. That's how I'd market it.
That's a great advice.

Busy mums who want to get fucked quick. So, hair-wise, do we go for

here's all the lady hair expressions I know? An up-do? No, no, we don't do an up-do. Do you get a curly blow-dry? We don't get a curly blow dry.

Obviously, he's got a blow, he blow-dries it a little bit to flatten it because I've turned up with wet hair, like I'm a fucking swimmer or something.

He blow dries that down a bit, and then he says, What do you want? And I just say, Do whatever you want.

That's kind of my theory with these things, because then they'll do something that they like doing.

The Rachel, the rachel he's not cutting it he's just gonna curl it in some form so i'm just like yeah do whatever okay so he was all good i was having chats with him but because i had turned it with my hair already washed i had time

so makeup artists had told us about this new makeup place on grafton street so myself and chloe who was with me we went up there and we bought makeup who's chloe chloe is from avalon she was with me at this photo thing Right, okay, right.

But I was buying my own makeup to take home from his recommendations.

So, Girlo Drink Man, I was like, this guy knows his stuff. Fine, he's absolutely wasted.
He's like, literally, falling over.

Occasionally, he catches your face with the mascara, but most of the time it's all over the floor.

He's sick in a bin. And I was like, I like the cut of this guy's chip.
I'm going to take his advice. And we had time to kill, so I went shopping.
Oh, nice.

Emma Doran, do you like the job they've done? You know, is it a classic situation where you don't like this, but you have to pretend you do?

Well, you know, it's kind of a bit of both because this is the thing: because the lighting is that in there is so good, I've nearly seen too much of my face.

So every time he hands me the mirror and he's checking, and he's like, Are you all right with that? I'm like, Yeah, that's lovely. But I'm kind of like, What the fuck's wrong with my face?

Because there's so many ring lights in the room. Yeah, it's really bright.
It's really bright. I kind of need to get outside and see my face in a dimly lit bathroom.

You know, to like it. So you go to the bookies

and

you have a massive toe out of vape outside and you head in. I put 20 on Doran's Pride, which is that's on seven to one.

So what I want to know is, are you now going straight? Is the interview one of those interviews where they interview while the photo is taking place. No, it wasn't.
They were separate.

So at least that was something.

That's good because those interviews where they say Emma Doran casually lays on this chair, the wooden chair, as a photographer, she seems positive and confident about her new thing. Yeah.

I don't like those ones.

What's the show about? And you're like, it's just jokes. I don't know.
It's just the jokes I did this year. I don't know.
Yeah.

You can't say that. You need to make up some, you know.
I know. Yeah.

Are we doing the photo shoot first we're doing the photo first so we go to a place the place that we're meant to go and it's locked and there's a guy outside and

because he's like why used to try to open the door oh we're just doing like photos in here today and he says we're doing a deep clean in here today

I like the idea of the photo shoot if you just fixed into that. Do you know that machine they had to do school corridors? Yes.
It was like a circular thing that just spun around.

At least that would have given me something to do with the picture. You know what I mean? I would have loved that.
Full makeup driving this thing up a corridor.

So I was like, oh, here we go. So I'm outside.
I have a little wheelie bed because I have clothes to change into and I'm vaping. I was like, okay, whatever.
I'm like, this will sort itself out.

I did the photographer isn't there. He's late.
So then they kind of take pity on me. They're like, Well, you can come inside and wait if you want.
I was like, Oh, thanks so much.

And you know, you'd like you'd be like, Olympical, you're like, The lights aren't on the place, it's kind of weird, and you're like, Thanks so much for this.

And then the photographer guy comes, but he's like 20 minutes late. And he said, Sorry, I was late.
I was he was doing a behind the scenes on the Lewis. The Lewis is the Dublin Street Tram.

So he is moving from taking behind-the-scenes photographs of public transport to that. So, sorry, is that like what really happens?

Because, you know, we only see the tram going, you know, but we don't really know the backstory. What are they doing before they come out of the tram shed? Yeah, the driver is necking a girl out

as she pilots the Lewis through the streets of Dublin. What I want to know here is very often when a broadsheet wants a photo of you, as David had already in this case, they'll be like a bar.

We'll put them in a bar. They want a classic-looking Dublin bar in the background.
I'm in a more kind of like bar bistro bar. A lady bar.
A lady bar. A lady bar.
A lady bar.

A lady bar where you drink girls. That kind of bar.

Lady bar. Great.
Yep. So what happens? Because they're not ready for you.
Do you have to move to a new location? No, they let us in. We sit around.

i kind of keep i'm like i'm just gonna nip out for a vape or whatever obviously he's like 20 minutes later he comes he's like sorry and i'm like whatever and he's like we're gonna get this done pretty fast i'm like perfect

i go change we do a few snaps and he's chatting away he's entertaining that's all grand and then it's done and then we all go off to do an interview does at any point he say could we just remove the bum bag no we actually he does say

do you have another outfit Now, this is after a good while, just to give us another option. And I was like, oh,

I said, well, I can take off the jacket. And he's like, let's do that.
So I was happy enough with that because I didn't, even though I had outfits with me,

I didn't want to have to change again the toilets. Well, when I was the um, because as everyone knows, I was the face of Kappa 0809.
What?

Kappa, the sports brand with the ripaway button tracksuit bottoms. Yeah, I was the smart, casual Roba de Kappa sort of cardigan cardigan polo shirt.
Wow. That's a pretty big deal.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

When they asked me if I wanted to do it, I spat a coffee on them in hysterics. And I think that cost me a few pounds.

I was just like, fuck yeah, I'll do this. I wasn't like, I was just checking with the other modeling things I was being offered.
There weren't many.

Anyway, they replaced me quite quickly with a model, which seemed disappointing. But I had many chairs.
I had to constantly get in and out of polo shirts.

And I didn't want to complain, but I could have just done one. Yeah.
Did you do a serious face? I mean, can one of the listeners please try and dig up some of my

modeling career? That's one of me looking in the distance wistfully over a leaning over a table football table, which is really something quite special. Wistfully over a table football table.

Emma, sometimes in photo shoots like this, they forget that it's, well, there's two options. One is they go, it's comedy.
So like,

can you wear a sombrero and be firing Capri Sun from your teeth? Like,

or they forget entirely that it's comedy and they just want you holding a martini glass. You know what I mean? Yeah.
In a way that no one would see that and be like, I want to go and see this show.

This person,

in this case, it's me, looks like they're kind of up themselves, you know? Yes, it's a very fine line. So

I suppose the vibe of it was

uh she's made a bit of an effort but she's not she's not losing the run of herself kind of thing so the smile would kind of be like a you know it's kind of it's like a haha laughing at nothing kind of is the vibe yeah she's smartly dressed she's got a nice smile but she's eating a red onion vaping

and drinking a shot of gin and prosecco and with a bum bag and so it's kind of every man and classy at the same time yeah and she's in a lady bar so it's fine you know it's that's the vibe

it's just the balance the balance of it all

oh so this is exciting yeah we're off to an interview now this is a fun we've never haven't had an interview so far although technically we are an interview of sorts so

technically i've never really thought about what we do that way but i guess this is a sort of an interview and now we're going to interview you about an interview

Yeah we're off to the interview and that's now it's not in the lady bar it's in a hotel.

So the interviewer I know them but I've never actually met them in person so I've done a few interviews with them over the years but I've never actually met them.

So this is my problem when I meet people. I'm not a hugger.
Yeah. Like I hug my kids, I hug my family, but I don't initially go for the show biz thing of like, hey, hug.
Yeah, they've got to earn it.

They've got to earn it, right? Thank you. I'd be quite happy if we got rid of that.
I don't want to hug you.

You don't want to hug me. Stop.
No, I don't feel the need to hug you. So I always dread meeting somebody like that because I'm like, we're going to have to do the hug, but it's not a real hug.

And I don't like that. Max.
Can you imagine the opening paragraph of this interview? Aloof, alone.

Doran does not want to be here. She resists with every sinew of her body.
Each question, a staccato yes or no. 10 minutes in, and she tries to break from the embrace.

I lie on top of her, forcing her down using my wrestling skills.

I know I've been at fault in this.

I know I'm at fault.

My awkwardness around this is making something that isn't awkward awkward.

I know I just need to let go of this, but there's a little bit of the onus on them because I just need them to go for the hug and not hesitate in any way.

I need them to go full force hug, but if I get a sniff of hesitation off them, then I go, oh, they don't want to hug me. I don't want to hug them either.
And then the hug happens and it's horrible.

Okay, so are they going arms round and your arms by your side like a penguin? Kind of. But they didn't do the hug.
They did nothing. They did a handshake.
But a handshake is quite formal.

I don't know what greeting I want. Hang on.
You can't say, that's not enough. You can't say, actually, in the end, I want it to be.
What are you searching for? Yes. What do you want?

Just two fist pumps.

Two double fist bumps. Oh, like, do I want a little head tap or something? I don't know what I want.

As a gnome, you're used to just a pat on the head, I suppose. I don't want the hug and I don't want the handshake.
I don't know.

Emma Panics just slaps the interviewer in the face and says, Let's do this thing.

Okay, what angle are they going for with the interview? Like, if I was interviewing Emma Doran, I'd be like,

young mother makes good. You know, she's battled through,

she's a fighter, and it's you and boxing gloves on the front. One of life's, she's come from nowhere, and now in her 60s, or whoever old she is.

Basically, what I do is I say to the interviewer, look, let's speed through this. And I sing fighter by Christina Aguilera.

Yeah, there's definitely a bit of that. It wouldn't be an interview without that.
Then there's also a little bit of, are comedians competitive with each other? Oh, yeah. I get that.
Yeah, you get.

And sometimes you can't say anything these days. Have you ever got in trouble for saying, because then the headline's going to be like, young mother battles against the establishment.

And does it finish with quickfire? Wigwams or peanut butter? You know, that kind of.

I wish it had. I love that.

No, it didn't. Wigwams or peanut butter is a very fun thing.
I was going to answer that. I was actually going to answer that.

What way were you going to go? Peanut butter? Yeah, me too. Yeah.
I think you'd have to go peanut butter. Like day to day.

Peanut butter, yeah.

Day to day. You'd have to go.
It depends what you're trying to do, I guess, isn't it?

I don't know. We don't need to spend too much time deconstructing the time when a wig bam is more useful than some peanut butter but it's pretty obvious i think

emmet the other thing they're doing in interviews now so ones that appear online even in broadsheets they'll keep altering the headline when it actually appears it'll appear obviously in print and they can't alter the headline but the online ones they constantly they're trying to get more views for it so at the start it'll be like david putting his own stamp on the world of comedy and like no one wants to read that fucking article.

And so the next one is like battles sadness in an attempt to bring joy to the world. And then the next one is like, thought he'd win the Tour de France one day.
And every, so it's just every time you

check this article, it's got a different title. Yeah.
You just have to disengage from it. It's just like, what's going on? Oh, is it lunchtime now? Is it lunchtime now?

Yes, we're getting to lunchtime now. Oh, how good.
So it's a bit of a thing of what to do for lunch. It's kind of a bit later.
We've kind of missed lunch. Like it's after two.
Best time for lunch.

Best time for lunch.

We go into

Powers Court Shopping Centre. Ooh, to non-Dublin listeners, maybe the poshest single place you could go for a medium-priced lunch in Dublin.
Yeah, go to a place.

And it's kind of like, I just want to make the decision quick. It's like, let's go to that place.
Fine, let's go to that place.

so then one of the things they had on the special was sold out i'm just like okay

the only other thing i could see was turkish eggs nothing wrong with that eggs surely off the table you've already had two i know i'm having two more someone had six in a sitting who was joanne mcnally joanne mcnally had six in a sitting and she likes hers hard-boiled doesn't she she doesn't want any runny yolk at all

i find it strange she might have just taken the whites as well she might have had one yolk and six it was sick whatever it was was crazy and it was also at like half six in the morning or something.

Yeah. Yeah.
And I know she's very particular about her eggs.

That's the headline for this whole interview. You said comedians weren't competitive, but actually, when it comes to eggs, there's serious competition.
But who gets hard-boiled poached egg?

What the fuck, Joanne? Get a grip. Mrs.
Rushdon, Jamie likes, doesn't want the yolk to be runny. So fuck off, Jamie.
Get a life. Yeah.

jammy is okay jammy is okay okay not like runny runny runny yeah gloopy rodent okay so you don't balk at the idea of eating more eggs see i still have tales of people having cholesterol heart attacks from the 90s somewhere in my brain that says don't eat too many eggs david i think four is the max i'd go in a day yeah okay maybe five four is the max but there was nothing else i didn't want a sandwich or whatever and i'd never had turkish eggs before i actually didn't know what i was ordering Yogurt-y garlic stuff.

Yes.

So I got that and the two slices of sourdough bread. The only thing is, there was a lot of yogurt.
To consume all of the yogurt, I would have needed a whole fucking pan of sourdough bread. Yeah.

See what I'm saying? They're just not giving enough bread with these things. I hope

you were papped just because you're obviously looking sensational hair and makeup.

You're still in like the beautiful clothes you wore at the thing, and you're just like shoveling eggy yogurt into your face. Eggie yogurt.
There was a few hidden nuts in there though.

I quite enjoyed that.

Is that normal? Yeah, I think so. It wasn't by mistake.

Accidentally dropped a bag of hazelnuts in and just covering that with a yogurt. It'll be fine.
She's never had it before. Dry roasted peanuts in there.

A whole pack of KP. You just throw them in.

Okay, great. That's a lunch.
How long does football camp go on? Is that on your mind? It does because it was the first day as well. The day before they actually

there was the torrential rain.

So they didn't cancel it, but they kind of sent an email the night before going, We'd kind of prefer if you didn't come because we'll have to be in the clubhouse with them and we fuck all to do was the gist of the email.

So he didn't go on Monday, but he went on Tuesday. So I was kind of nervous for him because it was his first day and he didn't know anyone, anyone there.

But my partner was collecting him with my other son and our dogs. They were going to walk over and get him.
So that was fine. So then I came home,

and then

Shade had made a Carbonara, oh, lovely, but it was too much, Max. It was too much because I felt like I had just had the Turkish eggs, yeah.
And also, there is egg hidden in there, yeah.

You've reached your four, maybe five limit. So I was like, oh, fuck's sake, and I love carbonara, but I was like, oh,

get that away from me. So I kind of said something about I have to just make a quick phone call to kind of avoid the dinner without seeming ungrateful.
That's what a teen would do. This is.

I thought you had the Turkish eggs at two. What time is it? When's the carbon? Turkish eggs was later than two.
Yeah, it was later. Sat down for a while, then went and got the car, drove home.

Right, okay.

For a little while, I was taking off the clothes. I was putting the clothes away that I hadn't worn, that I hadn't bothered to change my hole to fucking get changed into.
Oh, that was pointless.

Emmetst. Yeah.
Did you try and ask for free clothes? Did you try and pull any sort of photos? Because I know you're doing a photo shoot. You can be like, come on, give us something.
Yeah.

And those kind of photo shoots, that is my sole purpose, to try and get the free stuff. No, these were my own clothes.
So there was like, we'll do hair and makeup, but we're not giving you clothes.

We know what you're like. So I brought my own clothes.
So do you think it'll say clothes model zone? Is that what it's going to say? The dreaded model zone. Model zone.
Yeah, we will.

And when you insta post, you go, thanks so much to Emma Doran for dressing me like this.

It must be a very tiring part of that social media existence of having to thank everybody who gave you some socks five years ago. And I'd be frantically thinking, who gave me these?

Who's bought me this tea?

I think Jamie just picked this up at Primark. Do I thank her for just this photo? I haven't really included.
Do people need this information? What's happening here?

This is how the game works because people see you thanking people and then they send you more stuff in the hope they'll get thanked. As we've covered before,

the only time I've ever tried to do this was when, for a joke, I pretended that my gigs were sponsored by Swarfega, the non-toxic paint removing hand cleaner, and got a letter from Swarfega to say cease and desist, trying to say that we have sponsored your comedy, Mr.

Funny Joker Man. So, yeah, that doesn't work out for me.
You've staged a fake phone call in order to get away from the Carbonara. Kind of, kind of.
And you just hide in the attic.

Do you actually go, hello? Oh, Brenda, so good to hear from you. Look, the trick about lying is people think it's all about detailed lying.
It's not. It's about vagueness.

I have the phone in my hand and I say, I just need to go upstairs and do something. I kind of gesture.

But I don't say

what exactly it is. Right.
And how long do you need to carry on this pretense for the Carbonara to just disappear? Not too long because I actually do have a phone call then.

And then what I do actually is I do make a quick video. For your socials.
For my socials, because the day before, in lime of the photo shoot, I bought nude underwear.

So very important to have nude underwear so you can't see your knickers or whatever.

And the nude underwear had all this writing. Interruption.
Oh, yeah. Does nude refers to the fact that you can't see them through the outline of them, through the dress.

So, what happened was I bought a pair of white trousers that I didn't change into anyway, but I had to buy the nude knickers in case I would wear the white trousers.

Because it is, David, actually a sort of misnomer, really. Yeah, because

if I'm buying nude underwear, I'm expecting people to see everything when I wear them. That's what I'm expecting to buy some see-through Lululemon boxer shorts, which I haven't found on the website.

Just on the subject of me and Max recently bought the same boxer shorts, Emma. We did, yeah.

Exciting. One pair is

nude. Well, no, no, we didn't buy one pair between us that we send between Dublin and Australia.
Max, one pair is in the sort of the tea-stained nude colour. You know what I'm talking about, Emma?

I don't have that. You have

to. It looks like I am not wearing, because I've got a bit of colour over the summer, when I wear them, it looks like I'm wearing nothing, but have no discernible genitalia

smooth like a candle kind of thing yeah yeah I did that I went downstairs then I was going to the gym okay this is good you've got a lot of eggs you've got a lot of energy in there I've got one more thing I really got invested in day one of football camp earlier did it go well did he have a nice time Yes, it did go well.

He had a good time. I kind of, when I'm asking them about things, I do it in stages.
I do the initial ask and then later I try and get some more information. Very clever.
Yeah. Yeah.

I have a three and a half year old, and if I say, How is Kinder? I might get good. I might get good.
That's all I'm going to get. No detail at all.
So, you know, I haven't thought about just the soft.

I'm a hard news guy. I can't help it.
I go, I want the truth. That's not working.
You want the headline.

What did you bottle in kindergarten?

Diggers, climbing frames, and sand. The true story of Ian Rushkin.

Max is three and a half year old when he wants Max to do something like build a Lego tower at half five in the morning. Didn't say you get Max to do anything.

He looks at him plaintively and says, but you're my best friend.

Which is such a funny word. What a manipulative little prick.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely right. Because when mum's around, I'm categorically not his best friend.

Okay, right. So where are we now? We've had the phone call.
We're at the gym. Okay, okay, this is good stuff.
What do we do? Do Do we have a personal trainer? Go to a class. We go to a class.
Wow.

What are the people? What are we doing? MMA. Is it just beating the shit out of strangers? Come on.

That's Monday. This is Tuesday.
And it's Tuesday.

I walked to the class and I was actually late. I timed it wrong.
No, late, they were just doing a bit of stretching when I came in. And it's a class where you do.
Aquaerobics. Please say aquaerobics.

No, just weights and stuff. Yeah.
So it was upper body. So we did upper body.
Okay. And how many people are in the class? 12, maybe.
Okay.

And is the trainer one of those, is it a man with a neck wider than his shoulders? Yeah. And can't put his arms down because he's just so juiced.

He's in his

60s.

Okay.

And he says things like, if he tells you before doing something, he says, now do it. And do it.
Balls to the wall. Don't be fucking aged about it.
Balls to the wall. Okay.

Is he like a 60-year-old with a six-pack? You know, like on the E.V. Pop scale.

No, no, he's not that level. But if you saw him, you'd be like, oh, that elder man looks tidy.
Fair play to him. He's that kind of, you know what I mean? He's not juiced.

Would you think I would take him in a fight?

Great question. Me versus him.
No, no, no.

Let's do it. Next Wednesday night, Power Squad Shopping Center.
I'm calling him out right now. You think you know balls to the wall? I, David, had already

show you balls to the wall.

I'll put your balls in the wall, is what you should say. No, but the circuit training is on a Wednesday night at 6:45.
He's not around

Thursday morning. Well, the shoppers fill this posh Irish shopping center.
Well, after quarter past nine, because that's the conditioning class. So, well, look, we'll find a time for it.

He's a busy guy, isn't he?

In call-out videos, you rarely get tied up in punctuality and timings. You know what I mean? Next Thursday, Friday, or the following Wednesday week, I will meet you and it will be judgment night.

Yeah, they do that on TV as well, don't they? Yeah,

there's a key thing here that I need to ask you about, which is if you're a beautiful lady with beautiful makeup, is it sad to remove it to go and do a weights class?

No, because it's going to have to come off anyway. Okay.
I'm not going anywhere. I'd be annoyed if I had to go somewhere later on.
I'd be like, oh, that was a waste. But no, it's fine.
It's fine.

Do you push it? Do you put those balls to the wall in this class or do you hold back? No, I go for it. Great.

Wow.

Oh, that. I'm giving up socks.
This is my fantasy. This is what I want to to happen okay

i want a situation where i'm with a group of men maybe comedians maybe not but probably comedians and there is

something in the way like a i don't know rock or a table or something big rock big rock and we have to move this out of the way the lads can't do it it's too heavy and then i say i'll give it a go and they just go it's kind of like grease you know like in grease like yeah with kinicki and everyone and they're like what she thinks she's doing, gosh.

And I rock up and I move the thing, and everyone's shocked. It was like, Whoa, whoa, far out, man.
And then we all sing Grease Lightning. That's my goal.

I basically want some sort of physical challenge to happen, and for people to be like, Oh my god, you're actually really strong. I'll be like, Thank you so much.
I will make this happen.

The next time we're doing a gig, I will faint. But just before I faint, I'll be like, A dude declare, I need someone to take me outside.
And when anyone else tries to lift me, I'll go really heavy.

Yes.

Well, I hope I'll be able to lift you now. I'm incredibly light.
But maybe we should just do a few training sessions where I lift you up just so I'm good to go on the day.

It's a fun TV show where you get to bench press comedians of varying weights, isn't it? I think that's really good. I really enjoy that.
Let's pick.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It hasn't been done. I don't think that is the one remaining reality.

We have to be able to tell them what it's like. You know, the way they always want to hear, but what other TV show that's successful is it like? What do we compare with?

It's like top gear for increasingly heavy comedians. That's what it is.

Or even

bring it across. So it'd be like, Emma Doran, do you think you could lift two jockeys?

And Willie Carson and Rachel Blackmore come out and you have to hold them under your arms.

Great. We're back from the gym.
Oh, and somebody in the gym tells me that Ozzy Osborne died. Yeah.
And that was sad. Yeah, that was sad.
Because sometimes, I'll be honest, when those things happen,

I do have to feign sadness. You know what I mean?

Do you post? No, I don't post. You know, I feign sadness.
Okay, all right. No, yeah, you know, that kind of thing.
Oh, God, so shock. And you're like, what, what were they in again or whatever?

But I do really like Ozzy Osbourne. Yeah.
So I was like, oh, I was like, that's sad.

And then I had to hold back because somebody was saying that they read his autobiography and they start telling thing about he didn't know it was a bat and all.

And I had to stop myself from like interrupting them and go, yeah, we know that, but I didn't. I just let them tell their story about Aussie that we all fucking knew.
Well done. Yeah.

It's an extraordinary life to go from. biting the heads off bats and sort of semi-inventing heavy metal to then being in a reality TV show.
You know, we will never.

You've got to inventing that as well. Yeah, inventing that genre.

We'll never see the likes again.

But it's an interesting point you make about the sort of performative.

I think I've mentioned this before, but I was on air when David Bowie died, and the British Horse Foundation tweeted a picture of a horse with Ziggy Stardust face.

And you're just thinking, I just don't know if that's what, is that what David would have wanted?

Are they frantically running around the office at the British Horse Foundation going, we've got to post something, guys? You know, people will think we don't care. Yeah, it's friends and family.

So, could we just check in and see what the British Horse Foundation said about our beloved? The British Bat Trust, however, posted a picture of a bat just giving two thumbs up after Ozzy's pass.

You got to come back to the house now. You still haven't looked at that Carbonara.
I have. No, no, no.
It must be claggy by now. It's got to be claggy.
It's like a human brain.

You know the way pasta goes.

So I go back to the house and my daughter Ella is tidying up after dinner. And she shouts in, Do you want me to get rid of that pasta? And I say, No, I actually haven't had any yet.

I said, Will you throw it in a bowl for me? I'm gonna have some now in a minute. And she goes, Cool.
So then I go to the bowl a few minutes later.

And now, and I didn't give her proper instructions, but the bowl is wedged sky-high,

it's crammed. So I'm like, this is going to be hard to eat up.
So I attempt to eat it cold, and I have a few bits left. I'm like, this is shit.
I'm totally gone off that.

I fuck it in the bin and then I look in the fridge

and I'm like, what can I eat? Whatever. So I see a protein milk in the fridge that she has bought.
So I say to her, could I have that protein milk? I'll buy you one back tomorrow. And she says, yeah.

That's no dinner. That is no dinner.
No, but I have the protein milk and then I have a fruit corner thing I like, but a chocolate one, vanilla balls. fruit corner.
This is bullshit.

Particularly after this breakfast that I thought the whole day was going to be like really experimental, particularly when you said protein in the first meal of the day.

I was like, as you'll be like, and then I need my carbs and then I need a pure veg. I just lost interest then as the day got on and I think I just left it too late that I just wasn't bothered eating.

Emma, you have had this incredibly unsatisfactory dinner that I'd say has kind of, to use a phrase of my mother's, it's left you a bit amped.

It's sort of popped you up eating, particularly that dessert for dinner. Yeah, but I think I was still full from all the yogurt of the Turkish eggs.
Oh, yeah, double yogurt.

Double eggs, double yogurt. I wasn't ready for like a carbon hour.
I wasn't ready for like a big feast of a meal. So I was fine.
I was all good. Did I have anything else?

I could have eaten something else snacky, but that's what I remember doing. I think you need a bit more dairy in this day, I think.

That is an issue for me. I eat a lot of dairy.
Go to a double double mountains, find a field with a cow in it, and then just creep up silently and just start to suckle from its teeth.

Honest to God, I probably did have a bit of cheese in there because I bought baby bells to just have like a quick bit of cheese on the go cheese, you know, like pocket cheese or whatever.

But sometimes I forget because it's

involuntary. I'm eating the baby bell without knowing I'm doing it.
Yeah. And I love the little wax, the wax off the baby bell.
I love it. Yeah, it's the only food, I believe, that comes in a wax.

The idea being, maybe more slightly boring foods should think about having such a fat. Come in a wax because then you have something to play with after.
A carrot. Well, you unwax a carrot.

Yeah.

People would get really into carrots and have a real moment. No, maybe you're right.
Yeah.

So do we maybe put on a little bit of tally or something like that? Yes. So the tally is on.
I think what I'm doing is I'm gradually taking off bits of myself.

So I'm gradually like, I'm like, oh, I'm going to go and take off my runners. And then what I do actually is I talk about that I'm going to go and have a shower for a good while.

I don't go and have the shower at the first mention. It has to be a gradual thing.

Oh, my son is now. He's in and out.
He's going out into the field to play more football. So So he's totally revved from the camp.
The camp is just, he's all over that.

Then I think we're getting ready for bed soon enough. He's going to be a pro.
Maybe I'm going to put a large sum of money.

Having listened to you talking this podcast, can you bet on children becoming professional footballers?

It's probably not a good idea because I'll suddenly be at all of his matches just nodding, just telling him, just play better, can you? I'm hanging out in the bookies anyway to get that nice lighting.

So I think we should look into it and see if it's doable.

And we have this shower. The thing about a shower is you never really regret it.
So, once you're in it, you never regret a shower.

So, I'm taking off, I'm now prop, like, taking off all the makeup of the day, and that takes a while because I don't really wear mascara, so that always takes forever.

I'm kind of having a little bit of a cheeky long shower. I'm using like a few lotions and potions.
I'm just kind of getting into it.

Emma, can I ask you a question? I've never thought about this. How do you get mascara off? A chisel.

Yeah, it's like it really is. They've got like, you know, make remover and all that, but they've just got to keep rubbing your eye.

Like, they can dress it up any way they want, but you've just got to keep rubbing the fuck out of your eye. So do you pull your luscious lashes outwards?

I don't like the idea of that because it gets that sort of like

sound as it leaves your eye and reattaches again. No, it's a cross motion.
You just do that until there's no black anymore.

Would it come off if you just slept face down and like turned your face from side to side during the night? And that's what I used to do when I was younger.

I never used to take off makeup, and it just gradually does come off. And what I would do the next morning is I would just get like a wipe and wipe under my eyes.

And you're kind of like, This is kind of grand for today, like that's what I used to do. But now the whole thing is take off the makeup before you go to bed.

No, could you cry if if you watched something especially sad would the crying remove it in a less painful manner yeah it would but then you've got to scrape it off your face

you know what level of crying are we thinking of film sort of or what type of crying the end of dead poet society i mean that would be everywhere or like that film pride i'd be like my whole body would just be covered in stuff oh yes we get the makeup off i have the shower i head up to bed and i like to get into the bed first i don't like if Shane's in the bed before me.

Okay. I like to establish as my territory.
He comes into the room and he starts going chilling with the big light on

because I'm constantly off the big light on. So that annoys him that I sit there with the big light on when I should turn that off and turn the lamps on.

And he's constantly saying to me, when we're in bed, then he's like, are you finished with the big light yet? And whatever. And then the very exciting, very exciting thing.

our two dogs sleep in our room at night yeah and something that has made has come back into our lives after a very long time Shane has started to say to the dog again he gives out to her for a hoo-hooing oh yeah he hadn't been saying hoo-hooing for a good I'd say a good five years and he's starting to say it again so is that hoo-hoo hoo-hoo like that

yes and he says to her stop give it over with your hoo-hooing what are you hoo-hooing about I enjoy hearing him say hoo-hooing. And he's back saying it again.
And it's very exciting for me.

The question all the listeners have is, are you sneaking a little vape beside the bed? And when, from the moment you put your head down, when was the last vape? Great question.

The last vape is at the very last second. Yeah.

So we are in bed and we watch, I think it's called Bellard. It's like a spin-off of Bosch.
I've seen it on the yeah, I haven't seen it, but I've seen it.

It's come up on an icon that I haven't clicked on yet. It's detectives.
It's detectives getting results

and doing it their own way to get them. Kind of.

Sometimes you got to do that.

They're married to the job. How many apps of the follow-up to Bosch, a show that I've never heard of? Which I think this could be you pranking me by just naming maybe.
No, no, it's no prank.

It's no prank. And the Bosch people will know.
Bosch did it. There was lots of series.
So this is now a spin-off with a different character.

And we watched it last night and he made a little appearance in it, the Bosch character. So there was a bit of excitement because we had been teased about that this was going to happen.

Also, before this, I put socks in my hair. I forgot to mention.
Socks? Why? Yes, to curl my hair. So see, my hair is curly.
Yeah. So I put socks in my hair last night.

And do you wrap the hair around the socks? Wrap the hair around the socks, yeah. Is this your own thing that you've invented? No, loads of people do this.
What?

And do you sleep with the socks in then? They sleep with the socks in the hair, yeah.

How many socks? Just two. So they're very long, like over-the-knee socks.
Yeah.

And I put them on my head and then I wrap the hair around it. That's interesting.
And then I tie it up and I sleep like that. Okay.
And then I wake up with curly hair.

When you're doing your final vape are your eyes like closing are they are literally do you want it's got to be the last thing you do i'd like to know how many seconds between the vape and the sleep yeah do you know what so the tv goes off the lights are off then there's a little scroll of the phone but the scroll of the phone is basically done to excuse the fact that the vape is still on the go.

If you know what I mean? Yeah, because once the phone gets switched off, like it's crazy then to be still vaping, you know what I mean? I mean, this is one of my great ideas,

and I have a lot of great ideas, but one of them is the last app that needs to be invented is just a vape app.

So you can surf and then just bring the phone up to your mouth and then just take a sweet hit off that fire wire port. I know.

But sorry, I do connect my cozy to my phone and I listen to YouTube videos while I sleep then. What's a cozy? So cozy is, this is obviously on top of the socks.
I put on my cozy.

It's like my hairband headphones. Oh, wow.
And what YouTube videos are we watching to go to bed to? Well, you see, this is what happens. Obviously, it flicks on through stuff.

that I don't choose. So I used, I usually start off with something like, there's this YouTube channel called White Underbelly, and it's a guy, he interviews all these people on Skid Row.

So I start with that and these are all harrowing tales. And then a lot of the time when I wake up, it's playing something

to do with Mormons. But I don't know how that keeps happening.

So it'll play for all seven hours of you sleeping. Yeah.
So the interviews are usually about an hour and then YouTube starts going rogue. And I'm obviously well asleep by this point.

Do you not think it's influencing your dreams on some level?

It definitely is because some of the interviews are quite hairy and i've had some crazy dreams well we're not here to talk about your dreams because this day ends as this day ends as soon as you nod off which is very quick looking back at it it's been a pretty action-packed day i mean the the like i feel

You just moved through the interview. Those interviews always tire me out.
I'm kind of tuckered at the end of it. Whereas you just plowed on doing other bits.
I tell you how I plowed on.

I had that start of the tuna and eggs.

Wow, maybe there is something in this absolute madness. You see?

Yeah.

I think it's a good day. Yeah, I think Emma's had a good day.
She's had a lot of eggs, a lot of yogurt, a lot of cheese. Yeah.
It's a lot to be said for it. Oh my God, I did have so much.

I forgot that I had the two helpings of yogurt. Now that you say it, I thought you were just getting down on the fruit corner.

Yes. We enter everything you say into our mainframe, and then right at the end, now it just comes back with a big printout.
I'll post it on to you. It'll be a box worth of paper.
Oh my God.

I literally just ate dairy all day.

Emma Doran, thank you for telling us what you did yesterday. Thank you.

So that was Emma Doran's day, David. I mean, it starts so brilliantly.
The vape, the bum bag, the onion, the tuna, it's the eggs. It's such a strong start.

How anyone can salvage a day from that start?

I don't know. The vape.

Small wrinkles that I love. Just Damien Duff Park.
Just the

only man people may know from Irish football and the football pitch. It's called Damien Duff Park.
Now, apparently, he still may not have sold out tickets for the live show on September the 10th.

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I'm in it for life, even with my intermittent Wi-Fi.

For the tape, it actually dropped out during this intro.

I'm only on this Wi-Fi for two months, David. Stay with me.
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