Elaine Crowley talks white wine, mortgages and morning TV

27:41I started crying. Why were your chain lords that bad? No, they were... They were great. I know they were. So they should have... I shouldn't have been crying. I started going... I started... I was my best friend. How many did you have? Best friend came in. One. I don't know. That's more of it now, yeah. It was probably in that cup over there. My best friend came in and I was like, I love you so much. That kind of thing. And the next day he texted me. Dude, are you alright? You got a bit emotional there yesterday. No that's not good So it was white wine Mixed with champagne So I was toxic And crying Oh I'd love to have seen that I'd say that's very funny It was awful We should have a sociological experiment Put you in a room And observe I hope Patrick will feel This isn't too bad To edit Aetna He's going to have a nightmare There's so much I could talk to you about Actually so I'm not so sure Where to go next I think I'll just Wherever you want I know you're happy to go everywhere But like I've appeared On your show and everything Ireland AM You know and all this And I've appeared with Martin So many times over the years Martin King You do a great Martin King Yeah Is Martin King always happy?

28:41Pretty much, yeah. Are you sure? He only gets pissed off when he's watching Dubs lose. The Dubs lose. He's not a happy buddy when that happens. Anything to do with football if it's not going in Dublin's favour. And Chelsea. Oh, I can take or leave it really. But you know, it's the Dubs. It's the Dubs. The only time I've ever seen him unhappy. Because he's even an early morning on the weekend and everything. He's so happy. He is probably the nicest man I've ever met in my entire life. Yeah. He is a sure Martin's. Are you sure he doesn't come in and just go, fuck this, Elaine. I couldn't be, fuck this for a game of soldiers.

29:13No, and even if... I'm not doing the papers this morning. You do the fucking papers. Even if you wouldn't believe him. Do you know, he's just one of these... What if we gave him white wine? I'm not going to do this. He's a Sambuca man, would you mean? Sambucas! He's going to kill me for telling you that. I drink Sambuca. He does. He likes Sambuca. But he's just, I don't know what it is. Some people have different, I always assign colours to people. Martin is yellow. Yeah. He just comes in. He's kind of an orangey, yellow, glowy person. He's just, that's what he is. Yeah. Like he's, Martin is Martin and he's just great.

29:47He's one of life's, because I agree. He's one of life's good people. Exactly. He's not a bad bone in his body. I'm one of life's, my wife calls them, my wife calls people, well, you're either a well-wisher or not. Yeah. And she goes, he's a well-wisher. Yeah. That person who, their natural predisposition towards other people is to wish them well. I'm a bit of a cranky bitch now sometimes. Yeah, I go either way or the other. I can be absolutely lovely or I'm absolutely bananas. There's no two ways about it, but Martin is just, he doesn't, I don't think I've ever heard him giving out about anything.

30:19Yeah. And do you guys kind of socialise at all with each other outside of work? Not really. Not really. Because I'm, who does anything during the week? Same with Ian and me. Yeah. I mean, we see each other working on the crack. But like, you're so intense in work together, right? That it's like, don't feel like you're going out for a pint on Thursday, do you? Sure, he's so busy. he's got kids he's got a wife he's got the radio he's gigging left right and centre that man I don't know how he's still standing exactly but he must be exhausted yeah exactly but why would you be going out with each other as well as you know yeah well I would I'm sure have we actually ever but also there's always do's little do's see we miss all the work do's oh do you yeah because we work weekends and they're usually on a Thursday night and we're like we're in a Friday morning we can't do them I can't actually remember the last time it was at work too it was a bit unfortunate or maybe it's fortunate who knows yeah yeah yeah yeah and And that's going great, right?

31:08Oh, it's really strange because everyone's saying kind of the whole, I suppose, the rhetoric at the moment is that terrestrial TV and it's going downhill and blah, blah, blah. And I've been in Virgin Media slash TV3 for years. There's more people watching Ireland Day now than it was when I started news reading. Is it true? I swear to God, I can actually show you figures from the other day. Can you? I can. That's not just a wind-up. I swear to God, it's not a wind-up. I swear on my mother's grave, it's not a wind-up. Yeah. because I found it really it's but you know I always think like what TV do you watch?

31:44If you watch anything on TV Oh I watch a lot of TV So If I'm watching anything it tends to be live I watch live TV Yeah correct Because that's where TV is So I'll watch sport Live chat shows box sets Like recently I would have watched a lot of athletics I would have watched the archer Yeah glued to it Yeah glued to it Swimming I'll watch Channel 4 News at night nearly every night I record it and I watch a lot of CNN Yeah Because I'm one of those What's that all got in common though? It's live. It's live. It's immediate. And I think live and immediate TV is not going anywhere. It's a bit like radio.

32:11Correct. Radio. Podcasts are going to kill radio. They're not going to kill radio. No, they're not. They will live in harmony. Yeah. And they will interbreed. Completely, completely. If you want a long form interview from a radio show, you can do it and cut it down or whatever. But I think with televisions, particularly because I was a producer for 10 years, so I tracked the numbers like a mad thing, even though I'm... I love the numbers as well. I love the numbers. and I'm very into numbers like who's talking there and if there's a spike in the ratings and that sort of stuff but it is very true.

32:40I don't know about the rest of the week but I know from Friday, Saturday and Sunday because obviously they're the only numbers I care about. Yeah, absolutely flying it. Absolutely flying it. And so it's flying it because of life and two questions around that. Did you ever wonder why RTE never took you on? Took me on? No, took on TV3. Oh, I know why. Or Virgin. I know why. When it comes to breakfast shows.

33:05the way RT are structured and the way Virgin Media are structured we run a very lean ship and because it's so early RT couldn't afford to put it on and if it did it would cost them an awful lot of money for the percentage this is my theory anyway for the percentage of viewerships out there I mean for what we can do a chat show at I'd say you'd have to multiply it by at least 10 for RT to do it that goes for any show, whether it's to do with being unionised, whether it's due with different rates or like they're paid a lot in RTE in comparison. So I think it's purely financial. That's why RTE have never taken it.

33:49Yeah, because there's, as you indicated, a market share there. There is a market there. You know, I mean, there, you know, people are up in the morning and they do want to put the telly on. and if it's live especially they'll put it on and nowadays we're so if you like honed into the news so for example let's say something happened you would be you go straight you go straight to the TV to see what's going on yeah but if something happened Ireland AM no matter what they were doing would get it we'd interrupt it straight away we'd have to go straight into it that's just the way it is exactly I mean if something major happens internationally what do you do do you look at Instagram do you look at Twitter or whatever it's called now do you look at TikTok if you really want to know what's properly going on you don't really.

34:30No because it's still you're not sure. Yeah. Okay. And at least you know anything that is broadcast on terrestrial television. It has to be factored. It's gone through several levels and layers of trust. It's not just some eejit talking into their square box thinking they're a genius. So that's why you're right. You're right. So live is what works. Live and local. Live and local. And the other one was you were born in Newtown Pothouse. I was not. We've had this conversation. New 2 Pothouse. New 2 Pothouse. New 2 Pothouse. New to. New. New. Oh, so it's I'm new to Pothouse. I am new. I am two. I'm a pot.

35:04I'm a house. So I am. No, sir. Are you from Pothouse? No, I am new to Pothouse. Is that it? God, that's terrible. No, but is that it? It's new to Pothouse. New to Pothouse. Yeah. What a great name for it. It's a great name, isn't it? Yeah. Like Effin. Effin. Effin's great. Bastardstown. Oh, there's even better ones. Fannystown. Oh, there's even better ones than that. Well, don't say the obvious one. I'm not going to say that Eric Eric would say that The Blue Ball Yeah I heard that one I like that one The Blue Ball But then you've got Still Oregon as well You know that's kind of funny If you say that abroad Yeah Mickey Marov as it's known Mickey Marov yeah That's right Yeah I actually did a whole Half a show once On this very subject Yeah Strange Place You get such mileage Oh you do Yeah But it is fun And then the ones you don't realise That are really dirty Until someone who lives In a different country Goes oh my good god Yeah Yeah Like not the ones I just said like Still Oregon oh yeah yeah yeah we think Still Oregon is quite normal have you ever seen an American try to pronounce Greg Nimana no this is an experience yeah I try to avoid them when they're on holidays yeah now listen one of the things how do you feel about being a person who has had over the years no problem in talking about certain issues be specific well okay well in fairness I talk about everything I can't yeah no but you don't shy away from them so obviously body image clinical depression early menopause yeah listen being a bitch on white wine I haven't talked about that one before exclusive to you but like I'm literally held together by bits of pritt stick and glue and MacGyver put me together in what way I'm sure I'm physically in mental wreck but sure I'm still standing no you're not I'm a bit I'm a bit banjaxed and bonkers just for our listeners I'm going to you know I'm not going to go quick fire round almost quick fire round I'm not going to do this I'm not going to do this tell us about your clinical depression is your depression clinical?

36:58It's yes it's major depressive disorder wow MDD and that means that you need never going away you need to of course never going away also you need to manage it with medication yeah without being without prying are you allowed to say what kind of medication you're on or do you mind? I'm on an SSRI what's that? it's it's it's sounds like something that Simon Harris is going to let us invest in It's something serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Okay, so... So it's like the first one would be in Prozac. This is like sertraline. There's loads of other ones. So it allows your serotonin to come through. I'm not sure what it does, but it works.

37:31It doesn't inhibit it. Yeah. I don't know what it does, but it does the job. Or it inhibits the inhibitor. That might be what it is. No clue. Yeah. It does that. And so with this, it keeps you... You want to jump off a building. Good. And does it have any sort of... Do you take one a day or... Sorry for being... I take two a day. I just find it interesting. Yeah, I take two a day. Two a day. And if you didn't take it for a week? No, no difference. A month? Not a huge amount of time. A year? No, a year. No, no, no. I think it's about a six. It tapers off after about six weeks. Wow. So if you, let's say, go on holiday and you forget your medication, it's not the end of the world.

38:06But it's not recommended, but it's not the end of the world. But some of them, if you stop taking them on the Monday, you'll feel it by the Tuesday. Not this one. Was it a godsend to you? To find it? No, not really. Because I went on it first when I was 17. and then I was obviously very much in denial I went to some people can go on it for five months it fixes whatever bump in the road they have and then they're never on it again and that's the way I had hoped I was so I was on and off things like this for years and then when I was kind of in my mid to late 30s I just said fuck it I have to my psychiatrist was who I'd just gone to see because you know actually seeing a psychiatrist is a massive step it was for me anyway psychologically and then I was like yeah come on just have to face up this ain't going anywhere so just go with it so I did and I haven't well I have looked back obviously but you know it's something I don't have a choice about in my life I wouldn't be here if I didn't have the obviously I'm not a doctor as you know I know you might be forgiven for thinking I am with my inhibitors my knowledge of statistical discrimination and inhibitors but if I was your doctor I would I would probably if I was your doctor an amateur doctor right I'd probably go now well sorry he's not Martin King either, the doctor.

39:19I was wondering where you're going with this. I was sort of half Luke O 'Neill. Okay. But anyway, I probably... You played a doctor in Glenrow, be him. I did, yeah. Oh no, he was terrible though. I know. But the, I would probably say, yeah, drinking half a bottle of Pinot Grigio is grand. But it probably isn't. Or is it okay? They say, is it okay to... Anything in, listen, I'm not going to lie, I'm a moderate. I go out, I have crack, but I'm not going to be drinking bottles of wine every day or anything like that. I think if you're prone to depression, it does bring you down a lot alcohol yeah of course it does if you're not depressed it brings you down for God's sake but I'm just saying you take some medication yeah but it's not the only medication I take right so I'm on a raft of stuff for various different ailments and stuff oh yeah oh God yeah I used to see my little thing it's like my mother god rest her I'm rattling around the place nine a day I'll tell you now one two three five oh five there's a tour there's a tour there's a five my HRT it's rubbed in the arm very important yeah so I I have a few bits I'm a hormonal mess you see yeah yeah speaking okay you might as well jump in there you've opened the you've opened the that's an open goal for me there right so thanks I'm going to go in here funny but the headlines of this I'm actually good crack people believe it or not because if you open goal Martin King just heard HRT I'm going in with early menopause if you believe sometimes I look at the headlines Early menopause?

40:45And it's like, oh yeah, early menopause. I sound like the most miserable. I know you're not. If anybody listening to this interview would know that you're a great crack. But if they don't know me, it's like, oh Jesus. No. Banging on at a depression and early menopause. I'm the one bringing it up. I know, but I'm saying sometimes I read the headlines about myself. That's why I want this interview not coming across like that. Oh yeah, no it won't anyway. But you had early menopause in your 30s. Yes, clapped out ovaries. I'm serious. I've heard of perimenopause, which is early, which is that the whole thing if it's perimenopause I started perimenopause way earlier and it's a part of see and if you have depression or anything like that and having something like that on top of it like hormones is a nightmare and then actually through my early menopause discovering how ADHD as well because you can't mask the symptoms anymore Do you have ADHD as well?

41:35Absolutely brilliant I know You are I told you I'm a mess I'm a specimen I am a specimen so yeah where was I going with that and we're allowing you on TV every day but I'm really really good in crisis over and out to the basket case yeah but masking I mask it very well to be fair yeah these things these things can be so yeah early menopause yeah so that wasn't that wasn't great because yeah obviously I didn't know I was getting is there a tinge of sadness in that sorry if I'm not yeah I didn't realise it at the time now in hindsight I was devastated but looking back now But I had to keep going because in the greater scheme of things, I'm a believer in like, it's not the end of the world.

42:19So, but it did, I suppose, rob me of the future I thought I would have in a way, but I didn't realise it at the time. Had you envisaged it to being part of your future? Yeah, completely. I always presumed I'd have. You come from a family of 10 children. I've got a family of 10, I've got 20. I just kicked three, the nephews out this morning. They were over in a game in Cardiff, landed from the airport into me last night. I'm a very welcoming person and I adore kids but it was something I presumed would always happen and I'll never forget it and I've said this before when I went in and I was on air I was doing midday at the time and I kept having to wear black clothes because I was like no matter what I did I was piling on weight Right Nothing I did I would go on fasts for two weeks and everything and these hot flashes and sweats in my hair and I was only in my early 30s and I was going to the doctor and one of the doctors actually said you know what we better test you for Hodgkin's lymphoma because that so I was like shit I might have cancer because that's one of the symptoms because I was too young to be getting this degree and when I'm talking about hot flashes I mean like my entire hair would be drenched wet I mean my clothes would be wet and would it be on telly sometimes yeah oof it was horrible and would you have to get like sorry for being yeah sorry for being a bit but I have to drink cold water and have the fan and all that sort of stuff but when you took a break and everything would you ask the makeup ladies to come in I'd have my makeup bag behind me all the time my own stuff yeah I took my own makeup you know don't need anyone to do my makeup you know we're very self-sufficient they're a virgin but Adrienne isn't still there is she?

43:46She is actually she's the boss now she's the boss of makeup I love Adrienne she's brilliant she is she is but where was I oh yeah the yeah so it was but I think it was such a relief in not being more serious initially that I was like okay that's not so bad but then I was in work when I got the results one set of results and I was like okay I could be in perimenopause so that's fine and your hormones are a little bit wonky. I could have 10 years. And then another test came back and it's kind of your egg reserve. And I remember getting that. And my sister was a fertility nurse and she'd had a load of IVF herself.

44:19And I sent her back and she went, oh no Nancy, I'm so sorry. And I knew then that was it. Like it was literally through the floor. So, and I went to the edit suite. I cried for a little bit. But I was AP at the time, which is the news AP. So I had a 12 hour shift. I had the 5.30 news to do. I had the 6.30 news at the time to do. We had the late news to do. And I was assisting the producer and all that. So I didn't have time to give too much about it. So I kind of got on with it then. But I think it affected the way I viewed relationships hugely because I suppose if I thought like the kids aren't in the offing, why bother?

44:53You know, and it really did. So I suppose I'm just trying to dream this up now, but I suppose you would be thinking to yourself, you would be game, you would be going to date with somebody. There'd be war gaming situations in your mind. So you'd be going, I'm going to go for a date with this fella. If I do like him, then I'm going to have to at some stage tell him then I may not be able to have children. As it is, no, may not be able to. Will not be able to have children. And then, yeah. Good luck. Where's that going to go? Exactly. And do I even want to face up to that situation? Do I want to bring it this far?

45:20Yeah. So why don't I just put it on my Tinder profile? Yeah. Won't be having babies. Well, I went on Tinder. I never did that kind of dating. I went on Tinder in London for two days once. Got an awful fright and went off it then I went back to the old fashioned way. They're very nice. I wanted to meet for brunch and things. Yeah. On Tinder. And Tinder in London. Yeah, I was only, I was in London. So, you say London Tinder was nice. Yeah, I wasn't on it in Dublin, but I'd heard nightmares about all sorts of booty calling at all hours of the day. Yeah. So, I didn't want any of that over there. So, anyway, it's like shopping for willies.

45:50Like, I didn't like that. Yeah. It's like, this swiping business is like picking stuff online, picking a skirt or a top or a pair of shoes. So, nah, didn't like that. I like meeting people in real life. Sure. So, yeah. Where was I with that again? Shopping for willies. Shopping for willies, yeah, as you do. And I thought it was a boudon The boudon? Hmm? I thought it was a boudon Bud Bud? Bud I feel that Bud That sounds like you like You sound like Josie Marino now with your bud No no I sound like Dahi O'Shea Oh no Bud Bud Bud Penis as Gaelge Willy as Gaelge I don't need that in my mind Willy as Gaelge is bud Thanks Anyway Do you know what he said?

46:29He said Do you have ADHD too? No Are you sure? Positive Okay and I'll be the last to go you all can get it yeah I've had it a long time I'll be the last I didn't talk about it though I ain't conceding I'm not conceding to this ADHD it's great cracker there's no letters after my name superpower I've loads of them PCOS MDD what else are I ADHD what else Dahe said to me once he said because Dahe is Dahe comes from kind of a Shan a Shan Uccle background his dad was a Shan Aki I remember Dohi when he was back in the TG Carr days actually he was dating at the time a girl who lived in my old building when I was a newsreader 20, 30 years ago well long, long time ago in Bethlehem Exactly yeah and he's a brilliant guy I love Dohi and I've always thought he was underrated by RTE but anyway that's another issue Happens a lot of them Yeah but anyway he'd come on and I'd ask him tell me about Irish more about Irish give me, you know tell me, enrich me with Irish because my uncle Gabriel Rosenstock before he died this year which is one of Ireland's best and most noted Gael Gores and poets and so I used to pick up a lot of Irish stories from him and stuff like that but Dali would tell me great words you know and one of the words he told me this year was he says what about this one Mario Bud Brega Bud Brega and I went Bud Brega Bud I did know Bud Bud is penis I've never heard Bud before if I said to you Breg on

48:03A dildo Yay A vibrator Budbrega Budbrega That's a great A vibrator A vibrator And just to hear Dahi Just to hear Dahi O'Shea say Vibrator Is just You pay your money in for that God That's your nickname There you go now Thank you very much White wine Third glass of wine Budbrega Budbrega God Isn't that a good one So Clinical depression early menopause Martin King not an asshole and is it true that once you were described by a by a critic as the robust one do you know what the robust one was what the newsreaders of TV3 were called they called the Times called us the Stepford Wives what and I was did they Colette and myself and Grainne we were all bobs like we all looked kind of similar like darker Stepford Wives alright Stepford Wives and there was the witch one the Gwail Gore one the other one and I was the robust one The robust one?

49:03You wouldn't mind I was a bit two stone lighter than I am now then Oh for fuck's sake The robust one Where is that going? I know The robust one That's funny though Talking to her floor manager at the weekend You must That's funny No Once I was reading the news I wore my hair up kind of very swept up on a very elegant bun and someone texted God Elaine is she looking well today chunky but classy. Fucking hell. We still laugh about it. I know. People are so cruel. Yeah. But yeah, I still meet people all the time going, God, you don't look half as big in real life as you do on telly. Oh, yeah. She listened.

49:42I'm not a girl. I didn't get that. The obvious like. Yeah. You're better looking in real life than on telly. You're not as fat in real life as on telly. Thought you were fatter. You're taller in real life. I thought you were taller. you're smaller I love when you go no offence but and then they proceed to offend you roundly or this idea that they start talking about you but you're beside them yeah and you're sort of going do you not know I can hear everything you're saying yeah it's funny I'm actually here with you oh boy that's a funny one that's the worst thing you got what? what's the worst one of those you got of looking things of people talking about you and you right next to them kind of thing was I don't personally find you funny at all but there's a few people I know who do So can I have a selfie?

50:33Kind of thing Yeah They could have an insult before the ask So they're doing two things to you They're asking for something and insulting you at the same time and they're still expecting a result Yeah But you can't be You have to be nice That's fine Yeah And do you know what It is fine because I guess I'm a nice person and that makes a difference Yeah that you're no Roy Keane well I think he's a nice person I think he's gas I love him yeah but like if you came up and said that to Roy Keane I don't like you but he'd drop kick you to the moon most likely yeah he'd probably give you a funny look and go you know yeah he'd probably give you a funny look alright but it's not always other people's fault do you understand so when somebody comes up and insults you and then asks for something that's not necessarily who they are yeah the Irish way They're having a moment And they're a bit flustered And they're not being their best Do you know this expression Who's going to get flustered You know what I'm like Do you know what I'm No but No but No no no But there's somebody They're interested in right now Oh So you might as well be Bono You're Bono now I get you You're Bono now God forbid And so they're So like They're not being their best selves And that's fine Just tolerate it Move on Yeah And then And then you know So But you're still used to then obviously being people commenting on you.

51:57Oh, yeah. That's a constant, isn't it? Ah, sure, of course. Myron. So who's on to me about this? Myron. Myron did a good bit of talking about this, actually. And also talking, which was really, this took me aback. This thing about women's personal safety. She still said she walked home with keys in her hand. Her car keys in her hand. Do you know that kind of thing? In the daytime. I don't know if it was in the time of the day or whatever night it was but she was conscious of that. Yeah, I suppose. I thought that was really interesting as well. I used to do it when I was in college a lot and walking a lot at night time but I suppose I don't really do, I wouldn't walk alone by myself a lot.

52:41I wouldn't feel safe. I live in town, I live in Dublin City Centre and it's changed an awful lot over the last while and for the worse it's a lot less safe than it used to be. You notice, yeah? Okay, hugely. Absolutely hugely. What time frame? Anytime. No, what time frame are you talking about? 10 years over the last 10 years or five years? It started getting bad. Since COVID, it's got really, really bad. Really, really bad. And before that, I think basically since they started cutting the number of guards after when they're making all those cuts. Years ago, when I've seen it getting worse, the recruitment and retention isn't what it used to be.

53:17And you can see it. You can see it. There's gangs of youths. youths. I know a lot of the right wing fraternity would like to blame migrants for this but from my experience as gangs of kids and they might, I'm not talking about 17, 18, I'm talking about 12, 13, 14, wandering around breaking into stuff, causing trouble, anti-social behaviour and it's getting worse and that's what's, I'd be a hell of a lot more scared to walk past a group of 12, 13 year old boys than I would to be walking past a group of migrants any day of the week. It's very intimidating. Yeah, yeah. I mean anybody who's listening to this podcast now you can get on to me and you know how to get on to me mariorosenstock at gmail.com it's a personal email I use I have Elaine Crowley at hotmail.com that's how old we are Mario we've got the OG emails exactly but they can talk to me on they can get back to me on this email because maybe about what Elaine said there about Dublin becoming noticeably more dangerous feeling noticeably more dangerous with gangs of marauding youths.

54:20People don't live in Dublin anymore either. Yeah, that's right. But like I was in, and you can test me about this if you want to, but I was in, you know, I go to Rome a good bit because we just like it. And one of the things you find in the centre of Rome, right, is tanks and lads with enormous muscles and submachine guns just standing there. And believe me, if you see those lads, you're not going to fuck around. I'm sorry now. I draw the line. at submachine guns. I feel safe. I don't. I don't trust anyone with a gun. Oh, I feel safe. No. I feel safe. Sorry, it's a rifle, right? I feel safe with a responsible member of the military in their tanks.

55:01Responsible. Yeah, but they are. No, I don't like guns. Okay. Well, no, I hate guns, but I'm saying that I think... I think if there's a bigger guard or presence, of course it would be better. I think that's exactly what I'm saying. A strong, a strong presence But people don't live. Dublin isn't a city, isn't a place where people live. The communities in Dublin are being destroyed. I mean, every shop in Dublin, every cafe, everything, should have apartments and people living above them and living in the city. That would be lovely. But it's not. It's dead at night time now. It is dead. That's why it's dangerous because it's not a living, breathing city at night time.

55:38It's changed a lot. That's another massive issue. And it's not just Dublin. Look at any town, any town or city around the country the same thing is happening there boarded up as well and it's funny people talk about shops being boarded up but there's loads of vape shops bookmakers and you know those kind of one pound shops as well and chippers iPhone fixing shops iPhone fixing shops yeah so it's that's a bit grim it's a bit seedy I often look at I'm sorry I often look at O 'Connell Street and go what potential it has to be such a beautiful grand street I know that's O 'Connell Street is a street I don't feel safe on I know at any time of the day or night yeah yeah which is such a shame such a shame it shouldn't be like that and congratulations well congratulations for moving in there anyway thank you very much that's what Connell Street does well Lorraine you just nearly called me Lorraine Lorraine Lorraine we have come to the end of our conversation and I really enjoyed it I love seeing you you're such a I don't know we get on well together and you're easy to talk to and you're doing something aren't you you're doing you do what you are I am the great pink run I'm an ambassador for Breast Cancer Ireland and the Great Pink Run is every year in Cork, Kilkenny and Dublin and the 29th of August it is in Dublin greatpinkrun.ie still time to register if you want to do so because you know researching a cure and all that I suppose for me it's the Great Pink Walk very fast I'm not the best at running you should come it's a bit of fun and you participate I participate I mean of course you lost some members of your family loads of them already see I'm YOLOing to feck at the moment you only live once because we're genetically cursed in my family so God knows how long I'm on this planet.

57:18Yeah, genetically cursed but you're genetically gifted as well Elaine because you look so well and congratulations and happy birthday. Thank you very much. Yeah and He jumped out of cake for me earlier with tassels it was beautiful. Well, happy birthday Elaine. Thank you Mario. Thank you for coming in. Take care. Thank you.

57:40And my thanks to Elaine Crowley for coming in and talking to me. I always have such a fun afternoon talking to Elaine. And thank you, of course, to Hum for getting involved in the podcast and being our partners. Most importantly, of course, as always, thank you to you, the listener. Get in touch, mariorosenstock at gmail.com. If you have any suggestions for guests, characters, new comedy sketches I could be doing, new comedy characters I could be doing, or just to get something off your chest, let me know. Talk to you soon. See you same time, same place next week. The Maria Roselstock Podcast.

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