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Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Welcome to the

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Richie Allen Show. How are you? It

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is St. George's Day. Happy St.

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George's Day to my English friends and

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British friends who celebrate St. George's

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Day and those around the world who

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celebrate it. Hope you've had a

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good old day. It's about bloody time.

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It was a national holiday, eh? And

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you had a day off and all of that. Well

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anyway, I am, as I've just

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said, Richie Allen. I've got a very

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interesting program coming your way between now and

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7 p .m. Thank you for joining me.

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Your Richie Allen Show begins now.

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no spin no filters this

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is your Richie Allen

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show free speech radio like

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you've never heard it

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before Now

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I really love Mark Manning. I

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love him because he's a radio

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guy. He is a terrific radio

1:10

presenter. He's a voiceover artist and

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he is a podcast host. He

1:15

also trains people how to use

1:17

the medium of radio and podcasts

1:19

and I love him. He's got

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a YouTube channel and I was

1:23

on there earlier in the year

1:25

and saw that he had posted

1:28

or published a series called Scary

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Era, Scary Ireland, which began The

1:32

second season began only a few

1:34

weeks ago. What a scary era about,

1:36

but it's about the paranormal as

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it pertains to the wonderful country

1:40

of Ireland. Ireland has a real

1:42

history with paranormal. Right it does.

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So I've invited Mark on to

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talk about the podcast he's interested

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in it and his travels around

1:51

the country visiting some of the

1:53

more haunted locations in Ireland. I

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thought after a good old news

1:57

rundown I thought it would be

1:59

nice to change pace and

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when I say I

2:03

am completely fascinated. and

2:05

hooked by the paranormal. I

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mean it. I've been an avid

2:09

reader of scary fiction, of horror

2:12

fiction, a consumer of horror movies

2:14

and thrillers with a little bit

2:16

of paranormal thrown in pretty much

2:18

my entire life. And Mark's brilliant,

2:20

so I've invited him on to

2:22

talk about it. You might have

2:24

had a paranormal experience yourself. You

2:26

might want to share with me.

2:28

If you do, send it via

2:30

the usual channels. There you are.

2:33

Avenues. Avenues is a better word.

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Use the app or use the

2:37

contact form on richieallon .co .uk. But

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I can't recommend it. Highly enough,

2:41

scary era. Look for Mark Manning

2:43

on YouTube. You'll find Mark, of

2:45

course, on Twitter. Well,

2:47

I give you his Twitter handle,

2:50

will I? It's Mark Manning.

2:52

There you are. M -A -N -N -I

2:54

-N -G. A media mercenary. He

2:56

refers to himself, but he's got

2:58

a golden voice and he's

3:00

a great company. In

3:02

fact, last time he was on

3:04

the program last year. talk about

3:07

things to do with the radio

3:09

and the evolution of media he

3:11

was one of the more requested

3:13

guests afterwards you were saying to

3:15

me get him back on again

3:17

it's been a while he's back

3:19

today in around about 35 40

3:21

minutes and hopefully then he'll stay

3:23

with us for an hour or

3:25

more the paranormal I myself have

3:27

not had what I would consider

3:29

to be a paranormal experience I

3:31

think I'd like to have one

3:33

and then I think I'd probably

3:35

cack myself in the middle of

3:37

it but I've often thought it'd

3:40

be nice to see something or

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to feel something or sense something

3:44

in one of these great locations

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with great history in any case

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as I said and I will

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say it again it's important happy

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st. George's day you won't be

3:54

surprised to learn that a lot

3:56

of the mid -morning talk shows here

3:58

in the UK TV and radio

4:00

they had the same boring phone

4:02

in they've had for the last

4:04

20 years how's the has the

4:06

far right hijacked the England flag

4:08

every year without fail. Should

4:11

you be ashamed to

4:13

display your England flag, your

4:15

George's Cross and all

4:18

of that whole garbage? And

4:20

the general consensus is

4:22

that people are reluctant to

4:24

fly an England flag,

4:27

not Not the Union Jack

4:29

now, but an England flag. And

4:32

that people have become reluctant

4:34

to do so because the flag

4:36

has been co -opted by the

4:38

so -called far right. Now that

4:40

cretinus malignant fucking goon, otherwise

4:42

known as Cure Starmer, gave a

4:44

speech at Downing Street yesterday

4:46

at a function where he talked

4:48

about needing to to reclaim

4:50

the England flag, to reclaim

4:52

it from all of the ne 'er

4:55

-do -wells, from all of the scallywags

4:57

who have taken it over. This

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is gas -lighting horse manure, of

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course. If you wanted

5:03

to celebrate it, the flag and

5:05

Englishness just denounced that from

5:07

now on in, it is a

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national holiday, just like St

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David's Day, St Patrick's Day, St

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Andrew's. I hope I

5:15

got those in the right order. You never know.

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Anyway, your thoughts as usual to

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RichieAllen .co .uk. You need to

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download the app to use the

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messaging feature on the app

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in any case. As always, as

5:28

ever, I look forward to

5:30

reading your considered take, your learned

5:32

take on all of these

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things. Catherine, you

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left me a message yesterday. Hello Catherine. Richie,

5:39

Richie, she didn't say Richie Lee. She didn't

5:41

say Richie Lee. I might change my name

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to Richie Lee. Richie Lee Allen. Catherine

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says, Richie, I am a

5:47

specialist trauma therapist, and I'd be

5:49

interested in chatting with you

5:51

about the benefits or otherwise, but

5:53

Catherine didn't leave any contact

5:55

details. Catherine, what

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the heck do you think I

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am? A clairvoyant? Might

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be. Might be a clairvoyant. I'm

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a lot of things, but a clairvoyant I

6:06

am not. I'm not one of them. But

6:08

cats and do reach back out to me because

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of course I'd be very interested in speaking with

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you about it as I said on the program

6:14

yesterday. I founded a positive,

6:17

a beneficial, and certainly

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a therapeutic experience. But

6:22

again, my counsellor was

6:24

very challenging. My counsellor was

6:26

a bit like Sean. the character

6:28

in i think robin williams character

6:30

in goodwill hunting i think his

6:32

name is sean maguire isn't it

6:34

i think the surname of the

6:36

characters maguire anyway my counselor was

6:38

like that he didn't take any

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guff he didn't have any time

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now for me feeling sorry for

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myself way back when katherine get

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back to me with details you

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mad woman am i supposed to

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imagine your email address Thank

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you Catherine. Hi to Wendy. Good

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afternoon. Hi to Julie. Good

6:56

afternoon. Happy St. George's Day. Mark

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as well. Hello. Rob

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is looking forward to hearing from

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Mark a little bit later on.

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I nearly forgot Mark's name. Wouldn't

7:07

that be embarrassing on live radio? He

7:09

waxed lyrical about a guest you can't

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remember his name. But of

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course Mark Manning. Now let's talk for

7:16

a moment about Israel. This

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stuff I think It's part of

7:20

the whole attitude era of politics,

7:22

which I'm not going to. Stop

7:24

yawning. Stop. Stop shouting at me.

7:26

I'm not going to get into

7:28

it today. But this

7:30

nonsense about Israel, the Israeli

7:32

government deleting a social

7:34

media post which expressed sorrow

7:36

and condolences over the

7:39

death of Pope Francis. So

7:41

the Israel's verified Twitter

7:44

account had published a message

7:46

or posted one. rest

7:48

in peace Pope Francis may his

7:50

memory be a blessing. It

7:52

was posted on Monday and then

7:54

it was taken down a couple of

7:57

hours later because the Israelis realized

7:59

that well the Pope had been a

8:01

tad outspoken about the Israeli genocide. Jesus

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we can't be fucking offering

8:06

condolences to him. He didn't

8:08

like the fact that we

8:10

were murdering Palestinian children and

8:12

I'm not sure any of

8:14

that was said but probably

8:16

something along those lines and

8:18

at the same time they

8:20

deleted the post they sent

8:22

messages out to Israeli diplomatic

8:24

missions all around the world

8:26

and ordered them to delete

8:28

any similar messages of of

8:30

sympathy over the passing of

8:32

the Pope they were also

8:34

ordered not to sign any

8:36

local condolence books or to

8:38

sign anything at the Vatican

8:40

yes It's

8:43

pathetic, isn't it? How

8:45

dare the Pope

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condemn the fact that

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the Israelis have

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killed at least 13

8:53

,000 children since October

8:55

2023. And I'm not

8:57

going to do that bullshit that the

8:59

BBC always does where you have

9:01

to mention the October 23rd attack by

9:03

Hamas. I'm not going to do

9:05

that. My word is my

9:08

bond. Violence is wrong no

9:10

matter who commits it. although there's

9:12

a grey area when it comes

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to the occupied having every right

9:16

under the sun to resist the

9:18

occupation but that doesn't extend to

9:20

killing women and children not in

9:22

my book but anyway I'm not

9:24

going to do that shit at

9:26

least 13 ,000 according to who

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well the BBC would say well

9:30

according to the Gaza Ministry of

9:32

Health which is run by Hamas

9:34

the BBC will say at the

9:36

speed of light the Gaza Ministry

9:38

of Health which is run by

9:40

Hamas No, no, no. It's UNICEF.

9:42

It saved the children. It's the

9:44

Red Cross. Yeah. At

9:46

least 13 ,000 children.

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So the Pope didn't like that because the Holy

9:51

Father is supposed to have a special affinity

9:53

with children. So the Israeli said, delete all of

9:56

those messages now as fast as you bloody

9:58

well can. I could

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mention the malnutrition, the

10:02

psychological trauma, the starvation

10:04

that's going on in Gaza right

10:06

now. Pope didn't like that either. And

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listen, if you've been following this, you

10:11

know, kneecap. Now,

10:13

I gave up listening to rap music when

10:15

House of Pain called it a day, top

10:17

of the morning to you. I

10:19

don't know. I love them

10:22

Beastie Boys and ill communication. I

10:24

didn't like any black rap because

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I'm a racist. It's as simple as

10:28

that. It's an old gag

10:31

now, isn't it? It's an old gag.

10:33

But I liked ill communication by the

10:35

Beastie Boys. So I liked a

10:37

bit of rap when it was clever. Not

10:39

your rap is clever anymore, but Ni

10:41

Cap is an Irish Republican rap group. How

10:43

niche, right? And

10:46

they are being investigated by

10:48

anti -terror police. Why?

10:52

Well, apparently they've been, well,

10:54

they've been talking up

10:56

Palestine, but they've been talking

10:58

up Hamas too allegedly

11:01

when they've been gigging. Now

11:03

they were in California at

11:05

the weekend at Coachella and

11:07

they used their slot their

11:10

allotted time to perform their

11:12

music but also to display

11:14

a slogan a banner which

11:16

stated fuck Israel free Palestine

11:18

even I tend to be

11:20

a tad more diplomatic than

11:23

fuck Israel because it's a

11:25

bit more complex what Israel

11:27

is and the people who

11:29

live there but fair enough

11:31

you're either for free speech

11:34

or you're not so out

11:36

they came to play their

11:38

music i've never heard a

11:40

single kneecap song kneecap they're

11:42

a republican rap group called

11:44

kneecap i love it i

11:47

remember years ago bursting

11:49

into tears laughing in the UK

11:51

in a bookie office why were you

11:53

in a bookie office I was

11:55

in a bookie office because I was

11:57

picking up some pools coupons for

11:59

the football and while I was in

12:01

there I noticed there was a

12:03

greyhound race going on and the leading

12:06

dog in the race was called

12:08

Chucky our paw and I about fell

12:10

around the place pissing myself laughing

12:12

much to the bemusement of the mostly

12:14

British people in the bookie shop

12:16

what are you laughing at And I

12:18

said, lads, chucky or paw. Chucky

12:21

or paw. Nobody laughed. Chucky

12:23

or paw. No.

12:26

Chucky or fucking paw. Chucky or law.

12:28

Chucky or law. Our day will come.

12:30

Chucky or paw. They still didn't get

12:32

it, so I left the bookies and

12:34

that was the end of that. But

12:36

I found it funny. So kneecap. That

12:38

makes me laugh in any case. The

12:41

IRA were bastards, by the

12:43

way. Most of them. and I'm

12:45

a nationalist they were kneecapping

12:47

people and stuff killing people in

12:49

front of their wives but

12:51

anyway and so were the UVF

12:54

and all the other fuckers

12:56

up there madmen but anyway so

12:58

last year kneecap did a

13:00

gig when one of the band

13:02

members shouted up Hamas up

13:04

Hezbollah and at the same time

13:06

he was draped in a

13:08

flag that was either Hezbollah or

13:10

Hamas So the Metropolitan Police

13:12

has now referred the footage of

13:15

Necap to a counter -terrorism unit

13:17

to assess whether the material

13:19

breaks UK terrorism laws. This is

13:21

tyranny, of course. You have

13:23

every right to tell me that

13:25

Necap is just a bunch

13:27

of fucking morons and they might

13:29

be, I don't know, but

13:31

don't be referring to them, referring

13:34

them to anti -terror people. Anyway,

13:36

Sharon Osborn, wife of

13:38

Ozzy, who's still alive, and

13:41

going while not quite strong

13:43

he's going he's going anyway he'll

13:45

be in Birmingham in the

13:47

summer for his final ever gig

13:49

Aussie Sharon Osborne is called

13:51

for kneecap to have their working

13:53

visa revoked Sharon comes

13:55

from a mixed family of people.

13:58

Her father, who was a big man

14:00

in the music business. He was

14:02

Jewish, and I think her

14:04

mother's side, Irish Catholic, I do

14:06

believe. So she wants them kicked

14:08

out. I don't like what you say, therefore

14:10

I want you cancelled. I want you

14:12

denied the opportunity to make a book.

14:15

It's not the Sharon Osburn that

14:17

I imagined. Watching the Osburns

14:20

all those years ago. I thought

14:22

she had thicker skin than that, but

14:24

obviously not. Anyway, today

14:26

at Prime Minister's Questions, Zara

14:28

Sultana. Great name. That'll

14:31

be a name you might take if

14:33

your name was Mary Murphy. And

14:35

you could sing like Adele. That's

14:37

the kind of stage name you might

14:39

take. Zara Sultana. It's fantastic. What's

14:41

your real name, Mary Murphy? I understand. Totally

14:44

get it. Zara Sultana. She used

14:46

to be in the Labour Party. She

14:48

was suspended. She had

14:50

a question at the very

14:53

tail end of Prime Minister's questions

14:55

for the Prime Minister, Keir

14:57

Starmer. What was your question, Zara

14:59

Sultana? Thank you, Mr Speaker.

15:01

Last week, humanitarian law organisations applied

15:03

for an arrest warrant for

15:05

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sahr over

15:08

alleged war crimes in Gaza,

15:10

including the siege of Kamal, Adwan

15:12

Hospital and the torture of

15:14

its director, Dr Sam Abu Safir.

15:16

Yet the red carpet was

15:18

rolled out. Sahr has justified blocking

15:21

vital humanitarian aid into Gaza, backed

15:23

their legal annexation of Palestinian land

15:25

and rejected a Palestinian state. The Prime

15:27

Minister is a human rights lawyer

15:30

so surely he knows that the UK

15:32

has a legal duty to uphold

15:34

international law. Why then did he block

15:36

the arrest of an unindicted war

15:38

criminal? I

15:40

didn't. Right,

15:42

that completes Brian Suss's question. Yeah,

15:44

he's an arrogant scumbag scummer, isn't

15:46

he? He is audious in the

15:48

extreme. So what is it about

15:50

then? I'll tell you what it's

15:53

about. Gideon Sahr, Israel's

15:55

foreign minister, a criminal

15:57

no doubt. Last

15:59

Wednesday, the Global Legal

16:01

Action Network, the

16:04

International Centre of Justice

16:06

for Palestinians and the

16:08

Hind Rajab Foundation all

16:10

submitted a warrant request. They

16:13

requested a warrant from the UK's

16:15

Attorney General. They requested a warrant

16:17

be issued to arrest the little

16:19

thug when he arrived in the

16:21

UK. Now of course

16:23

he got wind of this and he

16:25

was going to cancel the trip. He was

16:27

meeting David Lambie. Now he eventually turned

16:29

up. Why? He turned up

16:31

because the Attorney General denied the

16:34

request for the arrest warrant

16:36

for the criminal Kidian Sarr. the

16:38

Attorney General said he has

16:40

immunity as a diplomat but he

16:42

doesn't of course he does

16:44

not have immunity it doesn't work

16:46

quite like that diplomats do

16:48

have certain immunities when traveling in

16:50

foreign countries under so -called diplomatic

16:52

immunity but not for what's

16:54

gone on in Gaza but Israel

16:56

can do what it likes. Sultana

16:59

Zara Sultana or Mary Murphy

17:01

tweeted a bit later on it

17:03

is astonishing that Starmer insists

17:05

he had no role in blocking

17:08

a warrant for the unindicted

17:10

war criminal. Who's lying she asked

17:12

because someone is my money

17:14

would of course be on Keir

17:16

Starmer. It's 17 minutes past

17:18

the hour. Shall we stay with

17:21

Starmer and his lifelong struggle

17:23

with understanding what a woman is

17:25

and what a woman isn't

17:27

because this fecking story just won't

17:29

go away. He has

17:31

refused Starmer to apologize to another

17:33

former Labour MP who criticised

17:36

his approach on transgender issues. I'm

17:38

speaking of Rosie Duffield of

17:40

course who now sits alone in

17:42

the House of Commons as

17:44

an independent. She was

17:46

hounded out of the Labour

17:49

Party for Well, standing

17:51

up for the rights of biological women

17:53

is about right, I think. She quit

17:55

the party in September last year. She

17:57

said at the time because of the

17:59

Free Bees scandal. But there was

18:01

a lot to do. It had a lot

18:03

to do with the whole trans nonsense. So,

18:06

Kenny Badenock at Prime Minister's

18:08

questions today wanted to put

18:10

this to Keir Starmer. Mr

18:13

Speaker, does the Prime Minister

18:15

now accept that when he said that

18:17

it was the law that trans women

18:19

were women. He was wrong. Well,

18:22

Mr Speaker, let me be

18:24

clear. I welcome the Supreme Court

18:26

ruling. Let Me Be Clear

18:28

is a prelude to a lie.

18:30

Is the prelude to a

18:32

lie, isn't it? No matter which

18:35

politician begins an answer with

18:37

Let Me Be Clear, I'm going

18:39

to vomit out of my

18:41

mouth now a volcano of lies.

18:43

And he doesn't disappoint. On

18:46

this issue, it brings

18:48

clarity and it will give

18:50

confidence to women and, of

18:52

course, to service providers. The

18:54

Equality and Human Rights Commission

18:56

will now issue updated guidance,

18:59

and it's important that that

19:01

happens. To hear this bollocks

19:03

from Starmer about the Supreme

19:05

Court ruling will give confidence

19:07

and assurance to service providers.

19:10

There was no need

19:12

for any of that. All

19:15

they had to do in

19:17

the last four, five, six years

19:19

was say that any service

19:21

provider who refuses to allow a

19:23

man use facilities that were

19:26

put in place for a woman,

19:28

that service provider will not be

19:30

sued. That's all they had to

19:33

say. If you don't want blokes in

19:35

the women's toilets, you don't have

19:37

blokes in the women's toilets. You have

19:39

the full support of the government. It's

19:41

all they needed to say. Any more

19:43

of this from Starmer? And that all

19:45

service providers then act accordingly. This

19:47

government's approach and my approach has

19:49

been as follows. To support and implement

19:51

the Supreme Court ruling and we

19:53

will. To continue to protect

19:55

single sex spaces based on biological sex.

19:58

Yadda yadda yadda and he goes

20:00

on to say and to protect trans

20:02

people from discrimination. what

20:04

is bad and I'll come back

20:06

with Mr Speaker he can't bring

20:08

himself to admit that he was

20:10

wrong that was the question but

20:13

he spoke about respect and dignity

20:15

and compassion and luring the temperature

20:17

so will he now apologize to

20:19

the member for Canterbury the very

20:21

brave member for Canterbury for hounding

20:23

her out of the Labour Party

20:25

simply for telling the truth and

20:28

again it's Rosie Dorfield right I've

20:32

always approached this on the

20:34

basis that we should treat everyone

20:36

with dignity and respect, whatever their

20:38

different views, and I'll continue to

20:40

do so. And I'll tell

20:42

you, Mr Speaker, for why? Because when

20:44

we lose sight of that approach and make

20:46

this a political football, as

20:48

happened in the past, then

20:50

we end up with the spectacle

20:53

of a decent man, and he

20:55

was a decent man, the previous

20:57

Prime Minister, Diminishing himself

20:59

at this dispatch box by

21:01

making trans jokes whilst the

21:03

mother of murdered trans teenager

21:05

watched from the public gallery

21:07

just up there. Remember

21:09

that when Brianna joy Brianna

21:12

was a young boy who

21:14

had gender dysphoria and dressed

21:16

as as a girl and

21:18

was brutally murdered by two.

21:21

kids he thought were his friends, and I'm

21:23

not saying his now to be a

21:25

bastard. He was a boy going

21:27

through issues. Well, Brianna

21:29

Joy's parents or

21:31

mother came to witness

21:33

Prime Minister's questions

21:35

last year, maybe very

21:37

early last year, and

21:40

Stammer seemingly, sorry, sorry,

21:42

sorry, sorry, Rishi Sunak seemingly made

21:44

some pretty crude reference to trans people.

21:46

In any case, let's hear a

21:48

bit more. Mr. Speaker, there

21:50

is no apology for the member

21:52

for Canterbury. There is no taking

21:54

of responsibility. He talks about political

21:56

football. He practically kicked her out

21:58

of his party. Constructive

22:00

dismissal. Constructive dismissal. He

22:03

talks about... I'll save you

22:05

the suspense. Stammer

22:07

doesn't offer any acknowledgement of,

22:09

let alone an apology

22:11

to Rosie Dorfield. Let's

22:13

finish with the trans nonsense. Adrian

22:15

Ramsey is the... a co -leader

22:17

of the green party pay

22:20

attention to the greens they're about

22:22

to become a lot more

22:24

popular at least that's how I

22:26

see it why do I

22:28

see it like that we talked

22:30

about it earlier in the

22:32

week and last week didn't we

22:34

the government is determined to

22:36

change the law to allow 16

22:38

year olds vote which

22:40

would mean 17 year olds could vote

22:43

as well I couldn't give a

22:45

shite to be honest who votes and

22:47

who doesn't vote but I think

22:49

one of the reasons that's coming in

22:51

and Starmer won't be the architect

22:53

of it of course not he's just

22:55

doing what he's told it's because

22:57

they plan the Greens and the Lib

22:59

Dems I think to take the

23:01

next steps on the great reset road

23:03

to climate madness I don't

23:06

know what any of that meant,

23:08

I just said there. But you

23:10

know what I mean? To take

23:12

the climate steps on the great

23:14

reset wrote to madness. There you

23:16

go. So Adrian Ramsey, Green Party

23:19

co -leader was on Radio 4

23:21

this morning, Nick Robinson with The

23:23

Question. This week your co -leader gave

23:25

a speech in Bristol at a

23:27

trans rights rally in which she

23:29

said and I quote, it's essential

23:32

that politicians advocate for trans rights

23:34

to be quotes enshrined and strengthened

23:36

through the law, is

23:38

it now Green Party policy that new

23:40

laws are needed, new divisions, some

23:42

would say, need to be created in

23:44

order to ensure trans rights are

23:47

preserved? I've always

23:49

been clear that I want our

23:51

party to be a welcoming and inclusive

23:53

party for people of different identities

23:55

and people with different views on this

23:57

very divisive and sensitive issue in

23:59

society which we need to be able

24:01

to discuss in a grown -up way

24:03

and recognizing that people are feeling

24:05

hurt and worried at the moment but

24:07

also recognizing that it's a very

24:09

complex issue and we need to provide

24:11

services in a way that meets needs

24:15

and protects their dignity, women and trans people.

24:17

needs to be changed, yes or no Mr.

24:19

Ramsay? I don't think

24:21

that's clear yet, we need

24:23

to see the implications of the

24:25

ruling and the government hasn't

24:27

yet set out what this now

24:29

means for how trans people

24:31

access services as well as women

24:33

being able to access services.

24:35

Fairly simple, access the services that

24:37

correspond with your biological sex

24:39

or access whatever facilities they might

24:41

offer to men and women,

24:43

offer access those which correspond

24:46

with whatever is inside your

24:48

undercrackers. It couldn't be any

24:50

simpler. And I'm all for

24:52

providing mental health outreach services

24:54

for people going through gender

24:56

dysphoria. Of course I am,

24:58

because I'm not a bastard.

25:01

And that's the last I'm going

25:03

to talk about that subject for

25:05

quite a long time, unless a

25:07

tranny goes crazy and takes an

25:09

M16 into Parliament. Imagine

25:12

it. I don't hope that

25:14

happens, by the way, in case I get

25:16

reported. Imagine a tranny

25:18

went nuts with an AK -47

25:20

in the House of Commons during

25:22

PMQ's. Fantastic! Brilliant.

25:26

Trannies don't do it. I'm not urging you

25:28

to do it. Patricia, thanks

25:30

for your message. I'm going

25:32

to save it until we

25:34

speak with Mark, shortly Mark

25:36

Manning. It's really good, by the

25:38

way. Thanks, Patricia. Hi to Corky, who's in

25:40

slow. Richie loving your story

25:42

about the Greyhound with the iffy name. I

25:45

was in the bookies the other day

25:47

and the dog in Trap 3 running

25:49

in the 715 at Hove. I love

25:51

the detail Corky. It's wonderful. Let me

25:53

start again. Corky was

25:55

in the bookies the other

25:57

day and the dog in

25:59

Trap 3 in the 715

26:01

at Hove was called Pop

26:03

Guardiola. Yes

26:06

Corky. That's

26:08

as good as Chucky or Paul to

26:10

be honest. Pop Quartiola. Let's play

26:12

a game, not today. We'll play it

26:14

another day. Let's come up with

26:16

some funny names for Greyhounds. Regards to

26:18

all in BBG Towers and my

26:20

old mate Mike Rokock in County. Down,

26:22

thank you Corky, good evening Mike. Kev

26:25

says, Richie, Inglebert Humperdink, a

26:28

howl on hump that donk.

26:30

Fantastic. Brilliant. Hi

26:33

to Paul. Richie, ironic that

26:35

Starmer's dad was a... as

26:38

he repeatedly boasts. Starmer is

26:40

definitely a tool both of the

26:42

world economic forum and in

26:44

the vernacular use of the world

26:46

where claustrophob is gone from

26:48

the world economic forum and there

26:51

are rumors of misappropriation of

26:53

funds. Now those rumors

26:55

could be absolute nonsense I don't

26:57

know but into his place

26:59

steps your man Peter Brabeck. Remember

27:01

him from Nestle? Remember that

27:03

prick who said that water wasn't

27:05

a human right you remember?

27:07

Peter Brabeck yes he'll be he'll

27:09

do fine at the World

27:11

Economic Forum yeah water is not

27:13

a human right no no

27:16

it isn't say it to me

27:18

face say it to me

27:20

face yes good evening to Ian

27:22

Richie if we go back

27:24

to the days of common sense

27:26

will we not have a

27:28

happier continent Starmer belongs in the

27:30

stocks he's a programmed messenger

27:32

But he is the puppet master.

27:35

Thanks and that's Ian and Manila. Paul

27:38

says he's a wretched individual Starmer.

27:41

Rob says could Starmer be

27:43

the biggest TWAT in the

27:45

universe? Carlos says Wittering T -W

27:48

-A -T -S, grotesque distraction, high

27:50

two rubolo, Downing Street is

27:52

a mutual admiration society at

27:54

our expense, useless. Good evening

27:56

to Steven, my brother Brent came

27:58

out of hospital yesterday and is

28:00

recovering from heart surgery. Well that's

28:02

lovely Steven. Steven mentioned on this

28:04

program last week that his brother

28:06

was not well and was having

28:09

surgery on his heart which is

28:11

no small thing right. But

28:13

he's out of surgery, he's recovering and he's

28:15

doing well. I'm delighted to hear it pal.

28:17

Sounds like you love your brother Stephen and

28:19

that is a massive weight off your shoulders

28:21

pal. Delighted to hear it. I really

28:23

am. Lovely that. Well done. Well done

28:25

him. Apple was fined 500

28:27

million euro today. Meta was

28:29

fined 200 million. Because

28:31

according to the European

28:33

Union, both companies, both big

28:35

tech companies are in

28:37

violation of antitrust regulation. In

28:40

other words, they're They're

28:42

working together, together, in

28:44

cahoots with other big tech companies

28:47

to keep the small providers out

28:49

of the market. Does

28:51

it mean anything? I'm not

28:53

sure. Is it a win for

28:55

competition? I'm not sure. I have no idea.

28:58

Apple says we'll challenge the fine.

29:00

Meta says we'll challenge the fine.

29:02

That's what they're planning on doing. It's

29:05

29 minutes past the hour.

29:07

It's the Richie Allen Show

29:09

for Wednesday, April 23rd. It

29:11

is St. George's Day in

29:13

England's green and pleasant land.

29:16

I nearly bought a pub in

29:18

Nottingham 15 years ago. And

29:20

during the course of the the

29:22

tribe before you, boy, I

29:25

took part in St. George's

29:27

Day festivities. Would you

29:29

believe on St. George's Day?

29:32

and I made a lot of friends, people who

29:34

I still consider to be friends even though

29:36

it's been a long time since we've hooked up.

29:38

It was a great day all together, so

29:40

it was. They pheasant in

29:42

in Radford in Nottingham. There

29:44

was about 1500 people

29:46

outside the pub all afternoon,

29:49

all evening, decked out in

29:51

the St George's Cross, in the flag,

29:53

in England's shirts, scarves

29:55

the whole lot. Fantastic beer was

29:57

coft was coft I tell you

29:59

there wasn't even a raised voice

30:01

let alone a fight let alone

30:03

anything was all brilliant I remembered

30:06

like it was yesterday it was

30:08

great so it was and. In

30:10

a minute in the moment

30:12

Nigel Farage was on a BBC

30:14

radio for this morning as

30:17

well and he was asked does

30:19

his reform party have a

30:21

climate change policy I think you'll

30:23

find it interesting. But

30:25

in the meantime download my

30:27

app. Download the Richie Allen Show

30:29

app now at Google Play

30:31

or Apple's App Store. For more

30:33

details visit richieallon .co .uk Yes

30:35

do it now. Do it forever

30:37

more. Right what else

30:39

is there to tell you? Well

30:41

Farage! Nigel Farage was on

30:43

BBC Radio 4's Today programme this

30:46

morning with the same presenter Nick

30:48

Robinson. Farage was on there

30:50

to bitch and to whine about

30:52

net zero policies. But to

30:54

be fair to the presenter, give him his

30:56

due, he wanted to tie

30:58

Farage down on what exactly would

31:00

his party's policies be. What would

31:02

your approach to climate change be?

31:05

Does he get an answer? Will

31:07

you be the judge of it? Here's

31:09

the exchange. Richard Tice, who's your deputy

31:11

leader, said last year, net zero will

31:13

make zero difference. Yes, it will zero.

31:16

Absolutely zero. you're saying not just

31:18

we should go slower, we should

31:20

scrap all objectives, all targets to

31:23

reduce our carbon emissions, forget it.

31:25

We've already reduced our carbon emissions

31:27

by 50 % since 1990, more than

31:29

any other country in the world.

31:35

Do you want to scrap all

31:37

targets? Do you think there's no

31:39

need for climate change policy at

31:41

all? I think we should scrap

31:43

the next zero targets. Yes, absolutely. I

31:45

think they're going to make zero difference to the world. What

31:47

is your policy? Well,

31:50

Nick, you better go and

31:52

talk to the Chinese about that.

31:54

What's your policy for producing

31:56

climate change? What a gutless, wretched

31:58

little turd Farage is. Just

32:01

answer the fucking question. If

32:03

you're in government next

32:05

week, what will you do

32:07

to stop cataclysmic climate

32:09

change Nigel? Farage, of

32:11

course, is a bullshit or a grift or

32:13

extraordinary. If he was real,

32:15

of course, he would say, anthropological

32:18

climate change is a load

32:20

of bollocks anthropogenic it's a

32:22

load of nonsense man -made

32:25

climate change is junk science

32:27

Nick so no forage yeah

32:29

shall we leave forage alone

32:31

shall we yes it is

32:33

the Richie Allen show Mark

32:36

Manning will be on the

32:38

program we're going to talk

32:40

about all things paranormal I

32:42

can't wait for this, I love it.

32:44

Hi to Maria in Surrey. Maybe

32:46

a naive question. Where

32:49

does the fine money from Meta

32:51

and Co go? Who gets it?

32:53

Well, who officially gets it anyway?

32:55

That's an excellent question, Maria. And

32:57

I'd be a liar if I said I knew the

32:59

answer for a fact. I don't know. What

33:02

does an organization like

33:04

the European Union do

33:06

with fines? Maybe

33:09

it takes that money and

33:11

distributes it into various programs.

33:14

I've no idea. It's a good question. It's

33:16

worth looking up. Maybe I should know. Julie

33:19

came back to say, I bet loads

33:21

of them had just come from the Great

33:23

Variety Club on Radford Road after playing

33:25

bingo and seeing the stripper. Well, you know

33:28

what happened, Julie? The

33:30

St. George's Day Parade, it

33:32

proceeded all the way through Nottingham

33:34

City Centre. and then it

33:36

ended, the parade ended right outside

33:38

the pheasant in Radford so

33:40

the entire street was closed off

33:43

by the very helpful police

33:45

at the time and the local

33:47

authority so that entire street

33:49

where the pheasant is and as

33:51

I said 1500, 2000 people

33:53

then congregated and we had great

33:56

crack, there were sing songs

33:58

and all of that going on

34:00

I didn't stand behind the

34:02

bar the ladies I I

34:05

worked with and who would have

34:07

worked for me if we bought

34:09

the pub in Nottingham but the

34:11

ladies were brilliant they said Richie

34:14

you're very new you don't know

34:16

where everything is and you're also

34:18

a very large bollocks so just

34:20

keep the glasses coming back into

34:22

the bar and the kegs connected.

34:24

to the pumps and all of

34:27

that that's what i did i

34:29

wandered around for about 10 hours

34:31

outside collecting glasses speaking with people

34:33

joining in the sing songs and

34:35

it was a lovely day and

34:37

that was exactly 15 years ago

34:40

today which is kind of amazing

34:42

to me really hello to masher

34:44

hello masher find 500 million Slash

34:46

200 million Richie who gets that

34:48

money again good question same question

34:51

posed by Maria I don't know.

34:53

Hello to Debs who says Bon

34:55

Diada, St. Geordi the day of

34:57

roses and books in Catalonia. Thank

34:59

you Debs. David Bramble says Farage

35:01

isn't only a pipe -piper to

35:04

the disaffected with the global agenda.

35:06

He is a full bag pipe

35:08

puffer. He's just an actress as

35:10

David stuffed him. Okay I'm going

35:12

to take a tune. When

35:14

we come back, I might read one or

35:17

two more of your messages and then we

35:19

will introduce my guest today. His name is

35:21

Mark Manning. You've heard him on this program

35:23

before. He is an Irish broadcaster, a

35:25

voiceover artist. He is a teacher

35:27

as well. Podcast toast. He's

35:29

got this wonderful podcast. It's

35:31

called Scary Era. It's

35:33

in season two. You'll find it. Aira

35:35

is E -I -O -R -E or E -Fod. I

35:37

-O -R -E. You'll find Mark on Twitter

35:40

at Mark Manning. Do give him a

35:42

follow. He's a hell of a nice

35:44

guy. So he'll be on with me.

35:46

I'm gonna have a good air with

35:48

Mark. And I do look forward to

35:50

reading some of your own... I suppose,

35:52

brushes. Your

35:54

own brushes with the paranormal. Have

35:56

you had any? I haven't. I'd

35:59

love to though. And I do mean

36:01

that. I wouldn't be at all now...

36:03

going on some of those tours where

36:05

you go and visit some of the

36:08

some of the more places in

36:11

any country's history. you know,

36:13

places where people were

36:15

imprisoned, executed, know all these

36:17

places, these great castles where many things happened,

36:19

where many battles were fought and stuff

36:21

like that. But Ireland has a great history,

36:23

like I suppose like most countries, but

36:25

Ireland has a really wonderful history when it

36:28

comes to the paranormal. Mark's all over

36:30

it. I want to talk about it. It'll

36:32

be nice to get away from hard

36:34

news for a while and this is the

36:36

reason why I invited him. on today. Music

36:39

now from Colin James. Yes.

36:45

And this is surely I love

36:47

you surely surely surely, surely. Congratulations

36:53

to Sean Murphy by the

36:55

way, and to Ronnie O'Sullivan there

36:57

in the next round of

36:59

the snooker Surely,

37:01

surely, surely.

37:08

Well, I

37:10

love, I love, I I

37:12

love, I love, I love you.

37:16

I come rain, I come snow, I

37:18

come, I come sunshine. Your

37:23

love would stop

37:25

the rain. It

37:27

would melt the snow, because

37:30

you're mine, mine.

37:33

And all I got to

37:35

say, when

37:37

I feel this way, is

37:40

that I, I.

37:43

I love, I love, I I

37:45

love, I love, I

37:47

love you. Well,

37:50

I love you

37:52

because, darling,

37:55

you're so real. You

37:58

show this heart

38:00

of mine. I'll

38:02

rave to the

38:04

lovin' all of

38:06

your heat Sully,

38:08

Sully, Sully, Sully

38:11

Ah, ah,

38:14

ah Oh,

38:16

it's enough Ah,

38:30

ah Ah,

38:58

ah, ah ś

39:16

ś I love

39:18

you because ś

39:21

ś Honey you're

39:23

so real ś

39:25

You show my aching heart

39:28

ś How real do

39:30

you love it of you ś

39:32

ś It's too late ś

39:34

Too late ś

39:36

Too late ś ś

39:39

I ś ś

39:41

I ś I ś

39:44

I ś Well I

39:46

love ś ś I love ś I love

39:48

ś I love ś

39:50

I love

39:52

ś Paul

40:14

and James and surely I love

40:16

you on the Richie Allen Show Wednesday

40:18

23rd. It's a bin day tomorrow

40:20

in Salford bin day. Bin men will

40:23

be around. Black bin. Black bin.

40:25

They collected once every three weeks. The

40:27

fuckers. Once every three weeks. Black

40:29

bin tomorrow. I think black brown and

40:31

pink tomorrow. Brown is your cans and your

40:33

plastics. And the pink bin

40:36

is for your garden, trimmings

40:38

and also your waste food.

40:40

I'm doing my bit for recycling and

40:42

for the planet. because I'm a

40:45

lovely guy. I surely am lovely.

40:48

Now, Camille, I tell you, I'd

40:50

love to hear your thoughts on

40:52

what Mark will be discussing with me

40:54

in a few minutes time. You

40:56

may very well have had

40:59

experience of something... I don't know

41:01

how to phrase this. I

41:03

often feel like an Egypt, like

41:05

something paranormal. I obviously grew

41:07

up in Ireland, in Waterford, and

41:09

quite often when I was young,

41:12

when I was very young, when

41:14

Christmas time would come around

41:16

or Easter time would come around

41:18

and the adults would have

41:20

a couple of beers as they

41:22

invariably would every now and

41:24

then they would get to talking

41:26

about the paranormal they would

41:29

about strange unexplained things that would

41:31

happen sometimes these strange occurrences

41:33

would happen around somebody passing on

41:35

somebody dying or something along

41:37

those lines and as a young

41:39

story would be absolutely fascinated

41:41

by these stories by the sincerity

41:43

of them you know that

41:45

these were stories that people believed

41:48

to have actually happened and

41:50

it sparked in me a real

41:52

interest in it as I

41:54

said at the top of the

41:56

program I've always been interested

41:58

in scary films and scary books

42:00

scary books horror books James

42:04

Herbert, Stephen King, Clive

42:06

Barker, there are others. These are books I would

42:08

have read when I was a kid, so I

42:11

was always fascinated by this type of thing. As

42:13

a youngster I was a bit of

42:15

a coward in some ways, in other ways

42:17

I wasn't a coward. I

42:19

never ran away from a fight, right? foolishly.

42:22

There are many times when you

42:24

should run away from a fight but

42:26

I didn't and sometimes I paid

42:28

the price for not running away but

42:30

that's okay too right but going

42:32

going into graveyards and stuff very late

42:34

in the evening I was never

42:36

up for that sort of carry on

42:38

now. It just wasn't for me

42:41

because I was convinced if I was

42:43

to race through said Graveyard

42:45

and the Graveyard in question

42:47

would have been at Balian and

42:49

Asha in Waterford on the

42:51

Cork Road just out just across

42:53

the road from Bali Beg.

42:55

A grand and very vast cemetery.

42:57

I was like no that's not

43:00

for me either. It's 17

43:02

minutes to the top of the air now. On

43:04

the money the fines

43:06

being levied against Facebook

43:09

and Twitter or Facebook

43:11

and is it Twitter?

43:14

Was it Twitter? I said it

43:16

was X. It was X. Apple,

43:18

Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple. Not X.

43:20

X has nothing to do with

43:22

it. Apple and Facebook. Joe reckons

43:24

the fines will likely go to

43:26

Ukraine or the £800 billion weapon

43:29

slush fund says, Joe, that's his

43:31

take on it. Maybe. Maybe you're

43:33

right. Hi to Darren. Whatever

43:35

your view of Farage, one of

43:37

the obvious plus points of his

43:39

manifesto is Darren says fuck net

43:41

zero. But Darren, do you really

43:43

believe if reform was in power

43:46

tomorrow that they would scrap net

43:48

zero? For me,

43:50

this is a real tragedy

43:52

that people are still

43:54

fooled by populists. It

43:56

doesn't matter how many times the

43:58

populist lets you down when he

44:00

eventually gets into power. You

44:03

actually believe that if reform was

44:05

to win a majority, which

44:07

is not going to happen. at

44:09

least I don't think it's going

44:11

to happen not unless somebody wants it

44:14

to happen you think that they

44:16

would pursue this net you know they

44:18

would drop net zero and they

44:20

would come out and say climate change

44:22

is nonsense you know James says

44:24

some say recycling just goes in with

44:26

all the other rubbish now I

44:28

heard a campaigner on this very point

44:31

speaking on BBC radio the other

44:33

morning and the campaigner was given plenty

44:35

of time by the BBC and

44:37

she said it is nonsense.

44:39

Most of what we think we

44:41

are recycling by separating out our

44:44

rubbish into the various bins. It

44:46

is not even being recycled. It's

44:48

being sent overseas. So

44:50

that's a very interesting point by

44:52

James. Hi to Elizabeth.

44:55

Richie, you're not sorting your garbage because

44:57

you're good. You're doing it because it

44:59

doesn't all fit in the black bin. That's

45:02

true as well, I suppose. That

45:05

is true as well. Right,

45:07

Mark is standing by. Once

45:09

again, I'd love to hear

45:11

questions even for Mark on

45:13

this area of research, which

45:16

is absolutely fascinating. He

45:18

presents, he

45:20

presents, he produces

45:22

a podcast called Scary Era. which

45:24

is in its second season

45:26

now, it began its second season

45:28

last month, yes. And

45:31

he's there, I think, but while I

45:33

get him on, I'm just

45:35

going to take another musical interlude because

45:37

he wants me to check my messages,

45:39

okay. Music from the Mavericks,

45:41

back. There's plenty more in a moment

45:43

on Wednesdays, Richie Allen Show. And

46:00

I won't even put

46:02

up a fight As

46:05

long as they're

46:07

loving tonight She's

46:11

always getting

46:13

away With

46:15

little or nothing

46:17

to say When

46:21

I know she's wrong,

46:23

that's alright As

46:26

long as they're

46:28

loving tonight Well

46:31

alright, okay, she

46:34

wins again Well

46:36

I've seen this song

46:38

before How our

46:40

story ends The gifts

46:42

I get rid of

46:44

She always calls goodbye Well

46:47

in time I'm coming

46:49

to find It's my

46:51

favorite line Well

47:14

no one's to play our craze

47:19

Right, it's Immortal Sin, but let's get rid

47:21

of Raul Mallow, that's his name, lead

47:23

singer of the Mavericks, and let's

47:26

welcome our guest today. I've already

47:28

told you he's an Irish broadcaster,

47:30

he's a teacher, he is a

47:32

voiceover specialist, and is the host

47:34

of the Scary Era podcast, which

47:37

I came across when kind of

47:39

hanging around his YouTube channel earlier

47:41

in the year. It just began

47:43

its second season, and I asked

47:45

him to come on and talk

47:47

about it. Because as I've already

47:50

said, it is an area of

47:52

research that I find eminently fascinating.

47:55

You'll find him on Twitter under his

47:57

name It's Mark Manning. It's a

47:59

real pleasure to welcome back to the

48:01

program from the old sod, our

48:03

friend Mark Manning. Welcome back. How are

48:05

you doing, Mark? Richie, number one,

48:07

can you hear me? We can hear

48:09

you. I'm concerned now, though, that

48:11

you're going to be crippled by Echo

48:14

coming back at you, which we

48:16

won't hear. but it'll be very disconcerting

48:18

for you. But I hope, um,

48:20

I hope that's not the case. You

48:22

are incredibly welcome here, Mark. It's

48:24

lovely to have you back. And,

48:26

um, I love the podcast. I

48:28

love scary era. Uh, the reason

48:30

why I asked you to come

48:32

on, it's fantastic. Do you want

48:34

to tell us a little bit

48:37

about it? What led you to

48:39

do it? And where did your

48:41

interest in the paranormal and paranormal

48:43

stories in Ireland? Where did it

48:45

come from? Hold

48:47

that thought Richie. Can you hear

48:49

me? We're getting it loud and clear

48:51

Okay, that's the main thing so

48:53

just between you and I and I

48:55

know the folks don't want to

48:57

talk technical I have never had Skype

48:59

not load for me before right

49:01

I was in IT for many years.

49:03

I know my stuff never had

49:05

that happen before So as long as

49:08

you can hear me, I love

49:10

the sound in my own voice and

49:12

if I hear a couple of

49:14

echoes so We can hear you loud

49:16

and clear I wonder is it

49:18

because Skype is basically being put out

49:20

to start Microsoft is getting rid

49:22

of Skype and it wants to move

49:24

everybody on to teams and this

49:26

is meant to happen by May 1st

49:28

so I wonder is that why

49:30

you experience some issues market it might

49:32

be. Well it

49:34

could be but I'm as

49:36

we speak I'm gonna fire

49:39

up a second PC. and

49:41

try and load Skype onto that.

49:43

But now that we're nice and

49:45

cosy together, my favourite old disco

49:47

biscuit, I'll talk to you about

49:49

the paranormal and scary area. Is

49:52

that OK? Brilliant. Yeah, look, it's

49:54

a brilliant podcast. It just begun,

49:57

well, season two began

49:59

last month, if I'm

50:01

right, in March. Where

50:03

did the idea come from

50:05

and where did your own interest

50:08

in the paranormal originate? I'm

50:10

very impressed by your research.

50:12

Tell me. Mr Allen. Very

50:14

good. Yeah, we're into season

50:16

two. Okay,

50:19

so I've been thinking about this actually.

50:22

And I usually jump into a paranormal

50:24

experience that happened to me when I

50:26

was about seven or eight, when I

50:28

literally came face to face with what

50:30

looked like an apparition. But it goes

50:32

back a little bit further than that. Of

50:35

course, you will remember The

50:37

Late Late Show in Ireland, hosted by Dave

50:39

Byrne, when it was a proper broadcast entity,

50:41

you know what I mean. Yeah. Not

50:44

Late Late Light. And

50:47

a guy used to

50:49

come over, real leather patches,

50:51

you know, kind of

50:53

professorial type. His name

50:55

was Lyle Watson and Richie. The

50:57

guy was a polymath. I

51:00

mean, he was a biologist, zoologist,

51:02

a botanist, an explorer, and

51:04

also He was

51:06

the presenter on

51:08

Tomorrow's World. Which

51:11

you might recall. I do, Maggie

51:13

Philbin and company on the BBC,

51:15

yeah. Well, yeah, I

51:18

remember Maggie Philbin and the

51:20

lovely cheesecloth. But anyway, we

51:23

won't go there. So

51:26

yeah, he'd come over every so

51:28

often and... started to talk. You see,

51:30

people always think of Derrick Acora,

51:32

the paranormal. Where's me dad's outside playing

51:34

footy, but to John Booty, you know

51:36

this thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

51:38

And I love Derrick Acora. As a

51:40

matter of fact, I've been in touch

51:42

with his widow Gwen and she

51:44

might be coming on soon. We've exchanged

51:46

emails together, but anyway. So

51:49

this guy wrote a best

51:51

seller. This Lyle Watson. L

51:53

-Y -A -L -L. Lyle Watson. Check

51:55

him out sometime. Well,

51:57

he's passed away, but there's still a

51:59

lot of, you know, the body of work

52:01

is there. He wrote a book in

52:03

1974 called Supernature, Richie. And I don't believe

52:05

guy ever had to work again afterwards. Well,

52:11

I think we've lost Mark. Can

52:13

you hear me now? Yeah, you're just fading in

52:15

and out quite a bit there. Did you get any

52:17

of that at all? Yes. Oh, yeah, we got

52:19

the name of the book and you said he never

52:21

had to work ever again. That was

52:24

the last thing. And then you dipped out, yeah. And

52:26

then I dipped out. Well, I'll tell you what,

52:28

just for you and me, I'll see if I can

52:30

get this Skype up and running as well. So

52:32

look, he'd come over to

52:35

the late, late show and he'd regale me in

52:37

my little trivoring shorts at the time and

52:39

be black and white on the television screen. He

52:43

came, he said that paranormal

52:45

was, it's not just, as I

52:47

said, about ghosts and stuff. It's

52:50

about anything the forces

52:52

of nature or science can't

52:54

explain. So he would

52:56

intrigue me. He was

52:58

a kind of cunt. There you

53:00

go. Want to try Skype? Let's do

53:02

it. Yeah, because what's up is being

53:04

problematic. It's just according to me. If

53:06

somebody's listening to the Richie Alan show

53:08

for the first time ever, they might

53:10

think that I am a tad

53:12

unprofessional. That isn't the case.

53:15

let me assure you rest assured that's not

53:17

the case excuse me but I'm a

53:19

one -man band I'm here all by myself

53:21

and I don't have an editor I don't

53:23

have anybody in the gallery connecting all

53:25

of this stuff so let's see can we

53:27

get Mark on Skype where it should

53:29

be a lot easier to hear him because

53:31

this is going to be fascinating let's

53:33

get him on Let's get

53:35

him back on Skype. You

53:38

can reach out to me during the program by

53:40

sending a message to me directly. That's

53:42

at RichieAllen .co .uk. Use the contact

53:44

form there or just use the

53:46

app. Download the app and send

53:48

a message to me instantly. Hang

53:52

on a second now. Yeah. We're

53:54

struggling here a little bit. It's

53:56

almost as if the forces

53:58

of nature don't want us to

54:00

have this conversation. which is,

54:02

which will be a shame if we don't get

54:04

this sorted. But let me see,

54:06

just turn that off. So I'm waiting

54:09

for Mark to connect with me. Lots

54:11

of messages coming in already. Really appreciate

54:13

them. I'm sure, I'm

54:15

sure we have, we have,

54:17

we have, you're there. You

54:20

can hear me. I can hear you. I'm

54:22

getting a bit of echo, but that's no

54:24

problem. It's not going out on air. Thanks

54:26

be to Jesus. Do you know what we're

54:28

going to do? We're going to start again.

54:30

We are. We are. We're going to start

54:32

again. So I'm

54:34

all yours. So the

54:36

talk to us again

54:38

about loyal. Okay. And

54:40

the experiences of watching the

54:42

old late, late show talk

54:44

to us about that and

54:46

then just take over. I'm

54:48

gripped already. Okay, my

54:50

apologies again to your listeners. not your

54:52

fault. Not at all. It's my fault.

54:54

Please don't hold it against me listeners.

54:56

Okay, so this guy used to come

54:59

over in the 1970s. Lyle Watson was

55:01

his name. He was a polymath, as

55:03

I said. He could do everything. He

55:05

could do Sukahara backstands and he was

55:07

a biologist and a botanist and all

55:09

this stuff. And he was a

55:11

kind of contemporary of a guy I

55:13

think you knew, Yuri Geller. Yes. Well,

55:15

you know, it was kind of coming pop trendy

55:17

back then, the paranormal, you know. And

55:19

paranormal, as I said, isn't

55:21

just ghosties. It's anything that can't be explained

55:24

by science. So he would have, for

55:26

instance, he would relate stories. After

55:28

this amazing book he wrote called Supernature,

55:31

you know, instances where scientists had hooked

55:33

up little micro microphones, if you

55:35

like, to plants. And you'd

55:37

hear a plant screaming as you pulled it

55:39

from the soil. This was all,

55:41

you know, documented and kind of

55:43

recorded and enhanced and all this

55:45

kind of stuff. Also,

55:48

I think an old party trick of

55:50

his was he'd take a razor blade and

55:52

he'd make up a little pyramid, which

55:54

has been in the news recently, the pyramids,

55:56

but a pyramid shape and he'd place

55:58

a blunt razor blade under it and

56:00

hay pressed it within 24 hours or

56:03

so. That thing was was sharp, right? So

56:06

these were like amazing little

56:08

experiments and in the book,

56:10

Super Nature, like he really

56:12

relates things about insects, regenerating

56:14

limbs. And all

56:16

this, just totally amazing stuff. If

56:18

anyone wants to take it further,

56:20

I mean, one story I heard, I

56:23

mean, you can go in and get him, his Desert

56:25

Island discs is still there, right? And

56:28

also a documentary, a short one called

56:30

Five Narrow Windows, if you go Google.

56:33

And you'll hear a story, I'll just relate

56:35

it very quickly as follows, on the

56:37

foot of super nature being so amazing. He

56:39

got a call from an Italian

56:42

guy living with his family in Venice.

56:44

And he said, Mr. Watson,

56:46

why don't you come over here and I've got something

56:48

to show you. By the way, Venice, one of my

56:50

most favourite places in the world, right? Never been there.

56:52

Would love to visit. You've got to be. You've got

56:54

to be. I don't know if you can take the

56:56

poor old hounds. Probably not. The

56:59

retriever would love the swimming all

57:01

right, but not the other one, the

57:03

shemper. Anyway, I'm absolutely gripped by

57:06

this, so go on. He got a

57:08

call from the Italians. Yeah,

57:10

he got a call. So come up

57:12

and see me sometime in Vinici,

57:14

right, which he did. and

57:16

he was invited to this very kind

57:18

of normal but serene household and

57:20

the father was the guy that had

57:22

contacted Lyle Watson and he said

57:24

I want you to meet my little

57:27

six -year -old girl she's got a

57:29

little party trick for you okay so

57:31

um Lyle Watson sat down at

57:33

the dinner table it was all very

57:35

convivial and then the father gestures

57:37

to the daughter and he says will

57:39

you will you do your trick

57:42

for this nice gentleman so she took

57:44

A tennis ball, you

57:46

know, like the kind, the kind of hairy

57:49

yellow tennis balls. Yeah. And

57:51

she held it in her hand

57:53

and this almost explains as

57:55

like a dreamy look came over

57:57

as if she was talking

57:59

to a little furry animal. And

58:02

she gently would rub this

58:04

tennis ball. And

58:06

honest to God, Richie, the thing inverted, right?

58:10

So what happened was... flipped, so

58:12

the rubber innards, if you

58:14

like, were the outer part of

58:16

the sphere, of the ball, and

58:19

the fluffy stuff was, he cut

58:21

it in half, was inside. She

58:23

turned the ball inside

58:26

out. Out. And

58:28

was it a magic trick or

58:30

inexplicable, was it? Nobody could understand

58:32

how she did it. Put his

58:34

hands around the ball as she

58:36

was rubbing it so if there

58:38

was any kind of little trickery

58:41

going on with a string or

58:43

something like that. Not

58:45

at all another not only that that

58:47

she did it about three times for

58:49

him. How did she

58:51

come to understand that she could do

58:54

such a thing and what did what

58:56

did they think about it that they

58:58

think she was blessed somehow with some

59:00

sort of. skills, because I'd imagine, I

59:02

mean, the Italians and the Irish, we'd

59:04

be a superstitious group of people, like

59:06

you'd begin to think like, has she

59:08

been blessed by God or touched by

59:10

God? What do they think about it?

59:13

Mom, I'm here. I

59:16

wasn't there. No, no, no, but this

59:18

is fascinating to me. This is quite

59:20

amazing. Yeah. And I'm not

59:22

just for the crack, you know, no,

59:24

it was just something she did. And

59:27

he said, The sad

59:29

part about it was,

59:32

as she grew older, word had

59:34

gotten around the school, and

59:37

she considered herself, she

59:39

got very paranoid, god

59:42

-lover, and felt a bit

59:44

freakish. As you would,

59:46

oh god, do you remember that film years ago,

59:49

where your woman is in the disco

59:51

and all the paint gets, Carrie, do

59:53

you remember? Carrie, yes, this is basic,

59:55

yeah, of course. When the doors all

59:57

lock? Yeah, yeah, yeah. John Travolta, yeah. Anyway,

1:00:00

sorry, that was just a break for

1:00:02

ads. So no, she

1:00:05

got very paranoid about it and

1:00:07

she ceased to be able to

1:00:09

do it. Isn't

1:00:11

that interesting? That's all that happened.

1:00:14

That reminds me of a play

1:00:16

I went to see in the

1:00:18

Abbey years ago. And the

1:00:20

play was about a great,

1:00:22

great healer called Valentine Great Rakes.

1:00:25

You probably heard of this guy. I

1:00:27

think he was either 16th or

1:00:29

17th century. But he was

1:00:31

a bona fide, genuine energy

1:00:33

healer who operated in Ireland.

1:00:36

And then one day his powers of healing

1:00:38

completely deserted him. And that's what the

1:00:40

play is about. And this guy is a

1:00:42

real guy, a real character. But

1:00:44

again, he did these amazing things. And

1:00:46

of course, there was almost heresy back then

1:00:48

to be claiming to have any sort

1:00:50

of supernatural ability to heal people. And he

1:00:53

would have lived in kind of fear

1:00:55

of his life and stuff like that. But

1:00:57

yeah, again, skeptics

1:00:59

came from far and wide, but

1:01:01

couldn't disprove in any way

1:01:03

that this guy was the genuine

1:01:05

article. You're listening to Mark

1:01:07

Manning. We're talking about the paranormal.

1:01:09

Scary Era is in its

1:01:11

second season or series. It's

1:01:13

brilliant, Mark. I'm not just saying that. I've been listening to

1:01:16

what I've been watching it. And thinking

1:01:18

about these issues and

1:01:20

the stories I've heard growing

1:01:22

up about the paranormal,

1:01:24

particularly in Ireland. And

1:01:26

I know you've had an interest

1:01:28

in Loftus Hall in County

1:01:30

Wexford. Now, I visited Loftus Hall

1:01:33

in County Wexford. I don't know how

1:01:35

many times as a kid. And

1:01:37

for me, maybe I'm biased because... so

1:01:39

close to where I grew up, well,

1:01:41

close -ish to where I grew up. And

1:01:44

my radio station, WLRFM,

1:01:46

they did a wonderful

1:01:48

film documentary about Loftus

1:01:51

Hall. Do you want to

1:01:53

tell that story, Loftus Hall, or do you want me to tell it? Well,

1:01:55

WLR for a play, that's a

1:01:58

big station. Loftus

1:02:00

Hall, I'll be honest with you,

1:02:02

my only interaction with Loftus Hall is

1:02:04

I did the voiceover for a

1:02:06

recent movie called Loftus Hall. which went

1:02:09

out on television about six or

1:02:11

seven years ago. But yeah, go on,

1:02:13

you tell the story, Rich. Well,

1:02:15

the mansion itself in County Wexford is

1:02:17

a century mansion.

1:02:20

And it's an incredible story about

1:02:22

a, like a lot of

1:02:24

these stories, a dark and stormy

1:02:27

evening. The Tottenham

1:02:29

family were residents, they

1:02:31

were the owners, occupiers

1:02:33

of Loftus Hall at

1:02:35

the time. and late

1:02:37

one evening a stranger came to

1:02:39

the door in diabolical weather and the

1:02:41

stranger came in was invited in

1:02:43

and was invited to sit by the

1:02:46

fire and then to have something

1:02:48

to eat and then later on because

1:02:50

the storm or the weather hadn't

1:02:52

debated I believe to play cards I

1:02:54

should know this off by heart

1:02:56

you fill in any blanks here and

1:02:59

while they were playing cards the

1:03:01

young lady of the house Anne Tottenham

1:03:03

had called to look under the

1:03:05

table where they were playing cards, maybe

1:03:08

to check whether the stranger

1:03:10

was was sequestering cards under

1:03:12

the table or for whatever

1:03:14

reason and it turned out

1:03:16

the stranger had hooves and

1:03:18

when the stranger realized that

1:03:20

he'd been rumbled and he

1:03:22

transformed into what looked like

1:03:24

to be a demon of

1:03:26

some kind maybe the devil

1:03:28

and left the property through

1:03:31

the ceiling. isn't that

1:03:33

right like like like levitated in

1:03:35

the air in front of

1:03:37

these people burst through the roof

1:03:39

and for many many many

1:03:41

many years thereafter it was believed

1:03:44

that the hole in the

1:03:46

roof was irreparable that was a

1:03:48

local legend but that the

1:03:50

woman and Tottenham descended into total

1:03:52

madness and never recovered and

1:03:55

apparently horse spirit continues to haunt

1:03:57

Loftus Hall even today and

1:03:59

having worked for years on having

1:04:02

produced mid -morning talk radio, we

1:04:04

often heard from people who have

1:04:07

claimed to have seen this woman's apparition,

1:04:09

but it's a brilliant, brilliant story. I

1:04:11

mean, if it's true, it's sensational.

1:04:14

The problem with it, Richie, and by

1:04:16

the way, there's an amazing staircase

1:04:18

in that house. Unbelievable. Yeah.

1:04:21

I think there's only two. It's only two of

1:04:23

a kind or something. That

1:04:25

story is kind of replicated. You'll hear

1:04:27

it in a few instances. For instance,

1:04:29

the Hellfire Club. Oh, yes. Tell us

1:04:31

about the Hellfire Club. Well, I'll tell

1:04:34

you about the Hellfire Club in so

1:04:36

far as, as my late father, the

1:04:38

Colonel used to say, I saw nothing

1:04:40

worse than myself. By the way, I'm

1:04:42

a freaking Stone's throw. I was born

1:04:44

in Kilkenny. So

1:04:47

I consider myself a dub. I've been here

1:04:49

since 68, but sure, I wasn't born from

1:04:51

where you are, old son. No, you weren't.

1:04:53

No, you're a black in amber. Yeah. Yeah.

1:04:56

A cat. Indeed. Well, I was born

1:04:58

in a place called Kells. Now, everyone thinks

1:05:00

of the book of Kells, which is in Meath.

1:05:02

This is Kells. There's an abbey there. And

1:05:04

hold that thought as well, because it

1:05:06

is relevant to our conversation later on. But

1:05:09

the Hellfire Club, OK, was and there's

1:05:11

one in England as well, right? So

1:05:13

these were all back in the 16th

1:05:15

and 17th century. You know, the blokes

1:05:18

with the wigs and the little, little

1:05:20

pantaloon trousers. Yes, yes. Freaking money than

1:05:22

sense rich. They were the kind of.

1:05:25

the elon musks and whatever of

1:05:27

their day right bloody playboys right

1:05:29

and they basically used to play

1:05:31

cards up there now it's it's

1:05:33

located on a place called montpellier

1:05:36

hill not a mountain or anything

1:05:38

but if you're up there boy

1:05:40

you feel elevated and you get

1:05:42

a fantastic panoramic view of dublin

1:05:44

city ballia orclea all around you

1:05:46

in fluorescent light it is amazing

1:05:49

But these guys, there was, you

1:05:51

know, tales of, literally the tale

1:05:53

you told, that's happened. Also,

1:05:55

there was an instant of

1:05:57

a cat going and interrupting

1:05:59

one of their games, their

1:06:01

card games, and they threw

1:06:03

what was called Spalpeen, I

1:06:05

think, on top of the

1:06:07

cat. The cat went

1:06:10

down the hill like a... Like

1:06:12

a cat on fire, yeah.

1:06:14

Like a feline flambé. Yeah, yeah,

1:06:16

yeah. because this thing

1:06:18

went like literally flames went out

1:06:20

of it like Michael Jackson's

1:06:22

head and it took off down

1:06:24

the hill. So they were

1:06:26

ne 'er -do -wells and there were

1:06:28

all kinds of talk about debauchery

1:06:30

and black masses etc. Now

1:06:32

I was up there in 2021

1:06:34

with my good friend Stephen

1:06:36

who doesn't scare easy in the

1:06:38

least and all as I

1:06:40

was saying I mean this for

1:06:42

anybody that's listening you know

1:06:44

forget about the ghost hunt thing.

1:06:46

Stuff undoubtedly took place in

1:06:48

these in these locations. Right. Let

1:06:50

me jump in then. Let

1:06:52

me be so what what is

1:06:55

it then? Is it

1:06:57

that something is left behind some

1:06:59

sort of a trace of

1:07:01

something so. Like I genuinely believe

1:07:03

that some people are very sensitive to

1:07:05

this type of thing. I used to be

1:07:07

very skeptical. I used to think

1:07:09

people were frauds and I was very

1:07:11

dogmatic about it. I've learned a lot since

1:07:13

then. I've learned that I knew very

1:07:15

little. I know very little now, but I

1:07:17

knew even less back then. So is

1:07:20

it that there's a trace? There

1:07:22

is a residual energy in

1:07:24

these places that can be happened

1:07:26

upon or picked up on

1:07:28

by somebody who's able to who

1:07:31

is sensitive to it. Is that your

1:07:33

understanding of it? That

1:07:35

would be my preferred

1:07:37

understanding of it because

1:07:39

I can relate to

1:07:41

it. I don't necessarily

1:07:43

believe in the woo -woo haunting

1:07:45

stuff at all. Now,

1:07:47

that's just because I haven't

1:07:50

experienced it. By the way, I

1:07:52

would be top of the pops in terms

1:07:54

of being a skeptic. Had I not come

1:07:56

face to face with something in my in

1:07:58

my formative years? Yeah, was going to come

1:08:00

back to that, of course, I was going

1:08:02

to work my way around sure that I'm

1:08:04

not forgetting that's very important. But stick with

1:08:06

the health club then and the surrounds. Okay.

1:08:09

So yeah, to answer your question,

1:08:11

I am a subscriber to what's

1:08:13

known as stone tape theory. And

1:08:16

the you know, it originates

1:08:18

in a kind of Christmas

1:08:21

time film, the BBC put

1:08:23

out, or a little drama

1:08:25

series, whereby it was

1:08:27

felt, you know, the scientists were

1:08:29

investigating a castle, and it was

1:08:31

felt the noise as the audio,

1:08:33

et cetera, even the vision had

1:08:35

been imbued somehow within the stonework

1:08:38

of the castle that they were

1:08:40

investigating. So every so often

1:08:42

under certain, and this is what

1:08:44

I believe I saw, under certain

1:08:46

conditions, atmospheric conditions, whether

1:08:48

it's the you know like remember the

1:08:50

magnetic tape so it's like stone

1:08:52

tape theory so you know that that

1:08:54

tape could absorb uh I can't

1:08:56

remember exactly what god I used to

1:08:58

play with those BASF tapes and

1:09:00

stuff when I was a kid this

1:09:02

got got me into the whole

1:09:04

radio lark But I digress to answer

1:09:06

your question. I think it is

1:09:09

a replaying of usually maybe some kind

1:09:11

of a traumatic event Somewhere where

1:09:13

large burst of emotion has been involved

1:09:15

similar to I suppose in some

1:09:17

respects what you'd see in the Shroud

1:09:19

of Turin that kind of you

1:09:21

know where there's an expellation Of something

1:09:23

be it be it grief or

1:09:25

a violent event and then it just

1:09:27

gets replayed under certain conditions That's

1:09:29

just me. Yeah, I like that. I

1:09:31

like that as a possible explanation. I

1:09:34

know it's not what you've described

1:09:36

now, but for me, the word that

1:09:38

keeps coming into my mind is

1:09:40

echo, that certain things

1:09:42

can be so awful, so

1:09:45

traumatic, so explosive, that

1:09:47

they might leave echoes of

1:09:49

themselves around. Because I

1:09:51

like to think that when

1:09:53

people die, their spirit,

1:09:56

their energy, some people call

1:09:58

it a soul, moves on to

1:10:00

whatever's next. Now, there

1:10:02

are people listening to this who

1:10:04

and they've very much we

1:10:06

have listeners who are very much

1:10:08

into it. And they reckon

1:10:10

that they're convinced that there is

1:10:12

a phenomenon whereby the soul

1:10:15

isn't ready to leave. And

1:10:17

this might explain hauntings, right?

1:10:19

This might explain some of the

1:10:21

some of the experiences people

1:10:23

like Derek Acor acclaimed to have

1:10:25

had. and Yvette Fielding and

1:10:28

other people like that, that there

1:10:30

are people who were wrenched

1:10:32

from this physical world, whatever it

1:10:34

is, so quickly, so violently,

1:10:36

so horribly, that they're not

1:10:38

really aware of the fact that they're

1:10:41

gone, and they're hanging around.

1:10:43

We're thinking the Nicole Kidman movie

1:10:45

now, The Others, right? Well,

1:10:47

what a twist that was, by the way. I

1:10:49

must be the only agent in the world

1:10:51

who didn't get that twist. I didn't get that

1:10:53

twist at all. But you don't buy that,

1:10:55

do you? That it's somebody who's left around who

1:10:57

is just not aware that they need to

1:10:59

move on. Oh, I keep

1:11:01

an open mind because I

1:11:03

wouldn't have believed or be

1:11:05

creating a paranormal podcast in

1:11:07

the first place as I

1:11:10

had experienced something that was

1:11:12

just on toward to me.

1:11:14

And many of the time, you know, as the

1:11:16

years have gone by, and

1:11:18

you know i've tried to reconcile what what

1:11:20

happened to me and say oh it

1:11:23

was just a trick of the light no

1:11:25

it wasn't i wouldn't be doing justice

1:11:27

to that seven or eight year old kid

1:11:29

who not in your case but the

1:11:31

hair stood up in my head right but

1:11:33

i saw right but in answer again

1:11:35

to your question oh i'd keep in mind

1:11:37

anything you know perhaps it was you

1:11:39

know it's a trapped energy or or whatever

1:11:41

it is um Lots of things

1:11:43

happen, Richie, you know, you

1:11:46

know, in traumatic moments. If anybody's ever

1:11:48

been in a or close to a car

1:11:50

crash like I was, I was in

1:11:52

one and we were doing about 100 miles

1:11:54

an hour at the time. Everything slows

1:11:56

down. That's why people say I

1:11:58

recall it in slow motion. You

1:12:01

know, every condensing, it's like.

1:12:03

I'd say, I don't know whether it's frequency

1:12:05

or whatever it is that we're all

1:12:08

on certain wavelengths and all, but I don't

1:12:10

want to go off down a dark

1:12:12

corner because people just going to lose interest

1:12:14

in me. But no, I'm not sure

1:12:16

what it is, Richie, but I keep an

1:12:18

open mind. Here's some interesting messages from

1:12:20

our listeners. Patricia, Richie,

1:12:23

one that shocked my parents was when I

1:12:25

was about five. I was in

1:12:27

my bed going to sleep when an older

1:12:29

man walked into my room, walked around my

1:12:31

bed and came over. wasn't afraid at

1:12:33

all until he looked at me and said hi

1:12:35

Patricia. I ran out and turned

1:12:37

all the lights on. I told my parents how

1:12:39

he looked. Anyway, they

1:12:42

told me later on some years

1:12:44

later it was exactly the description

1:12:46

of my dad's father who passed

1:12:48

away before I was born. Now

1:12:51

I've no doubt that's a genuine and I've

1:12:53

got another one very similar to it here

1:12:55

if I can bring it up. This

1:12:58

is from Kev, Richie, I went on

1:13:00

a Sunday drive around Asperin's with my

1:13:03

wife some years ago. We met a

1:13:05

man walking on his own, who looked

1:13:07

really familiar, but I couldn't place him.

1:13:09

Walking along the side of the road,

1:13:11

as Irish people do, I put the

1:13:13

hand up, he didn't react. My wife

1:13:15

said, that's your father. She

1:13:18

never met him, had only seen

1:13:20

photos of him, he died in 1990.

1:13:22

Was I receiving some sort of

1:13:24

message? Again, there's no way that Kev

1:13:26

is not being genuine there. This

1:13:28

guy's familiar to me. I can't

1:13:30

place them. The wife says, I think that

1:13:32

was your father. What's going on? I'd love

1:13:34

to know what's going on there. What's happening

1:13:36

there? But that's the $64 million

1:13:38

question. It's why you're doing the podcast,

1:13:41

I suppose. Well, your guess is as good

1:13:43

as mine. But I mean, I know

1:13:45

he was off the maligned, but I just

1:13:47

go back to Derek Acora. If you've

1:13:49

ever heard any interviews with him, I mean,

1:13:51

his initial experience was very much like

1:13:53

your first listener there. the exact same thing.

1:13:55

He was running down the stairs in

1:13:57

some old house that his Nana think he

1:14:00

used to own. And he came across

1:14:02

this guy who said hello to him, I

1:14:04

think patted him on the head. And

1:14:06

he came downstairs, reported it.

1:14:09

And, you know, they said they weren't

1:14:12

they apparently they had the gift

1:14:14

in the family. So they said, you

1:14:16

know, open up the old

1:14:18

photograph album, and sure enough, it was his

1:14:20

grandfather who had been some kind of naval

1:14:22

man or something like that. But no, I

1:14:24

keep my mind open. Can I just share

1:14:26

two things with you, apart from, say, like

1:14:28

the big incident that happened in the 70s,

1:14:30

right? Yeah, we do. I want to hear

1:14:32

that as well. Is that okay, right? Because

1:14:34

one of them is very recent. And

1:14:37

as God is my witness, right,

1:14:39

here's what happened. So I'm doing the

1:14:41

podcast. I'm trying to sound like

1:14:43

you and being all the prick and I'm trying to

1:14:45

be Terry Wogan, whoever I am, right? You

1:14:48

know, when you get carried away with yourself... You're

1:14:50

the man with the golden voice, will you fake

1:14:52

off? Go ahead. No, but you know when you

1:14:54

get carried away with your own kind of little

1:14:56

importance, and it's not that. It's just that you

1:14:58

love doom. God, you do this for nothing, right?

1:15:00

Yeah, yeah. So

1:15:02

there I was, and I had this. She's

1:15:04

a psychic medium. Her name is, and I

1:15:06

of course, making a big play out of

1:15:08

it, Rhonda. She's an American. Help me, Rhonda.

1:15:11

And she's beautiful and very

1:15:13

kind of, how do I

1:15:15

put it? You know, oh, she's just

1:15:17

a big kind of blonde bombshell, and

1:15:19

she's spaced now in Ireland. I think she

1:15:21

lives in Sligo. Check

1:15:24

her out, by the way. What's your name?

1:15:26

RhondaHale .com, because she does all kinds of stuff. So

1:15:29

I had her on the show because I

1:15:31

thought, well, here's the yangle in American psychic

1:15:33

in Ireland, and she'd gone around all these

1:15:35

sites, including, as I said to you, Kells,

1:15:37

does an Abbey in Kells in Kilkenny, and

1:15:39

I'd come up with some stuff. So

1:15:41

she's been very volatious and American and

1:15:43

all the rest of it, and I'm chatting

1:15:45

away, and I can't remember how

1:15:47

it came up, but I was explaining how

1:15:49

I'd lost my parents and stuff. and

1:15:52

i'm going bloody blah blah blah

1:15:54

blah not listening not bloody listening and

1:15:56

she you know at at least

1:15:58

three times you can listen back she

1:16:00

goes you know mark she's here

1:16:03

you know mark she's here but mark

1:16:05

was too busy but you're not

1:16:07

picking up on it right yeah but

1:16:09

about third time looking i said

1:16:11

sorry she said i didn't mean to

1:16:13

give you a reading but your

1:16:15

mother is here all right so i'm

1:16:17

i i kind of gone here

1:16:20

we go um but She

1:16:22

went, she said, your mother

1:16:24

is here. And

1:16:27

she said, this is what got

1:16:29

me, first of all, she said, she's got a

1:16:31

little boy with her. And

1:16:33

I went, see, you jumped

1:16:35

to conclusions, Richie. I lost

1:16:37

my brother, who was nine

1:16:39

years older than me to

1:16:41

cancer, way back in 2009.

1:16:44

So I, you know, you want to believe kind

1:16:46

of, and I went, hold on, you're onto something

1:16:48

there, Rhonda. to

1:16:51

my mother, that would be her little boy,

1:16:53

even though he was like 53 when he passed.

1:16:56

That would be. So she said, it's

1:16:59

a boy, but anyway. And

1:17:01

I said, OK, she

1:17:03

said, your dad is here as well. And

1:17:07

she said, boy, he's, as

1:17:09

she described him, a kick in the pants. And

1:17:12

she said to

1:17:15

me, he's stubborn,

1:17:18

isn't he? He's a real stubborn.

1:17:20

He's got his little grin on his face

1:17:22

and his arms are folded. Now

1:17:24

the Mannings, Richie, are stubborn,

1:17:27

right? It's not the kind of

1:17:29

word that I think psychics just

1:17:31

conjure up. And if it was,

1:17:33

one hell of a coincidence. What

1:17:36

about the image of him standing there, arms

1:17:38

folded with a kind of a smirk on his

1:17:40

face? Did that ring a bell? He had

1:17:42

this rye kind of smile. As I said, he

1:17:44

was a military guy. You know, if you

1:17:46

hear 11 on recently, dad was in charge of

1:17:48

camp. Shamrock out in Lebanon. It's in the

1:17:50

news recently. He was a camp commander out there.

1:17:54

And he was 40 years an officer, you know. And

1:17:57

dad, she

1:17:59

said, he wants to say something to you.

1:18:02

And this isn't where I do the emotional thing. But

1:18:04

she said, he

1:18:06

says, you know, sorry, son,

1:18:09

I wasn't too approachable when

1:18:11

you were younger, but it's

1:18:13

just the way I was

1:18:15

brought up. It was different

1:18:17

times. And he

1:18:20

lost his father. You

1:18:22

know, I think by the time my dad

1:18:24

was born, his father had died. His father, by

1:18:26

the way, had got through the trenches of

1:18:28

the First World War. Founders wasn't such a short

1:18:30

way to Tipperary, married a local postmistress there, and

1:18:33

died of Blumen, what's

1:18:35

it called, appendicitis, right? So

1:18:37

this was very too

1:18:39

much of a coincidence, okay?

1:18:41

Now it gets... I mean, first of all,

1:18:43

she kind of got my father to a

1:18:46

T with the stubborn bit, you know, and

1:18:48

also the kind of engaging but not engaging,

1:18:50

you know, kind of the macho thing that

1:18:52

used to go on. And she couldn't have

1:18:54

listened to anything about you or read anything

1:18:56

on Facebook or anything. You're pretty sure. No,

1:18:58

okay. I know that I know that I

1:19:01

think back in the day you did a

1:19:03

roost on some one of these guys or

1:19:05

something. I did years ago in Spain. Yeah,

1:19:07

I did. Yeah, but should

1:19:09

we get older and wiser and so

1:19:11

look so she had that right

1:19:13

she had my dad right we

1:19:15

came off the call and as

1:19:17

you know you do you have

1:19:20

a little chat with them before

1:19:22

and afterwards and i said god

1:19:24

you got my brother and she

1:19:26

said your brother was 50 something

1:19:28

when he passed i'm telling you

1:19:30

it was a little boy it

1:19:32

was a little boy she was

1:19:34

insistent right richie i thought about

1:19:36

it in the days coming afterwards

1:19:38

and i realized my mother told

1:19:41

me when i was about seven

1:19:43

that she had a miss right

1:19:45

she didn't even get into much

1:19:47

detail she said you had a

1:19:49

brother and he died and we

1:19:51

baptized we had him baptized and

1:19:53

i remember thinking what a weird

1:19:55

thing to say because i was

1:19:57

only a kid but in reality

1:19:59

you know in sympathy you know

1:20:01

i think she was still affected

1:20:04

it was probably relatively recent and

1:20:06

she was still traumatized so that

1:20:08

was a hell of a coincidence

1:20:10

she got my she got my

1:20:12

dad she got my mom and

1:20:14

then i realized that my mother

1:20:16

had told me you know that

1:20:18

she'd lost a little boy years

1:20:20

ago so in this instance then

1:20:22

as far as you're concerned there's

1:20:24

a strong possibility that ronda was

1:20:27

able to receive messages emotionally

1:20:29

or energetically from your mom

1:20:31

and dad. You've got to consider

1:20:33

that to be a possibility. Again,

1:20:36

I'm not saying that's exactly what happened because

1:20:38

I don't know. Years ago I would have laughed

1:20:40

at it. Now I don't

1:20:42

laugh at it because I've

1:20:44

had too many experiences, met

1:20:46

too many people who've had

1:20:48

something similar happen to them

1:20:50

as happened to you. You're

1:20:53

open to the possibility that

1:20:55

mom and dad are somehow

1:20:57

still around. I'm open to

1:20:59

the possibility, Richie,

1:21:02

that, you know, stuff exists that we

1:21:04

don't understand. Other dimensions and stuff, yeah.

1:21:06

Yeah. And before, I mean, I'll just

1:21:08

move on to the second story that

1:21:10

I found on Canny, which by the

1:21:12

way is a TV series. I don't

1:21:14

know if you've seen it. It's fantastic.

1:21:17

Yeah, it's good. Yeah. Oh, it's good.

1:21:19

The beautiful color grading and the production. Oh,

1:21:22

it's fantastic. There was another one about

1:21:24

witches, something recently as well, beautifully filmed,

1:21:26

all drone footage and all that just

1:21:28

to drool for. But

1:21:30

it's not like I go around

1:21:32

chasing, you know, California hippie dream

1:21:34

girls. But years before that, I

1:21:36

was part of some kind of

1:21:38

an online group. And anyway, I

1:21:40

got talking to this very nice

1:21:42

lady. And indeed, if I remember

1:21:44

rightly, one of her talents was

1:21:46

she would paint the Oscar statues.

1:21:49

for the Oscars every year. You know, the gold

1:21:51

statues. That's not right. Wow. But

1:21:53

they're painted gold and that was one of the

1:21:55

things she used to do. But she sent me this

1:21:57

amazing birth chart one time if you want to

1:22:00

get into the whole astrology thing, right? And

1:22:02

it was very, you know, it was

1:22:04

remarkable kind of things like the day

1:22:06

I was born, by the way, President

1:22:08

Kennedy flew over to house. His

1:22:11

arms must have been sore, but it was

1:22:13

like Marine one or something. The helicopter went

1:22:15

on his visit in 1963 to Ireland. And

1:22:17

so she wanted a time, you know, the

1:22:19

time I was born. Anyway, this thing kind of

1:22:21

blew my mind. It was very, very, when

1:22:24

she presented it to me, it

1:22:26

was full of detail. And then

1:22:28

about a year or two later, I thought I could,

1:22:30

you know, amble another reading out for for the

1:22:32

crack. You know, now she used to charge for these,

1:22:34

but she didn't the first time around. But she

1:22:36

probably got a bit wise to me being tight. You

1:22:40

know what, Richie, she said to me,

1:22:42

look, OK, Mark, I tell you what. I'm

1:22:45

not going to do a whole reading

1:22:47

now, but I have tapped, wait till

1:22:49

you hear this, I've tapped into your

1:22:51

energy. This is not Rhonda

1:22:54

now, there's a totally different lady years before.

1:22:57

And she said, here's

1:22:59

what I found. I

1:23:02

can't make sense of it. And she

1:23:04

said to me, I don't

1:23:06

want to be a cycle of recycled

1:23:08

revenge. I don't want to follow

1:23:10

death and all of his friends now.

1:23:12

That is a line from a

1:23:14

Coldplay song called Death and All of

1:23:16

His Friends. Yes, it is, yeah. You

1:23:19

know, now, here's the thing about,

1:23:21

I don't know, a week or

1:23:23

two beforehand, when I used to

1:23:25

do such a thing as Arning, I was

1:23:27

doing it out in the conservatory by myself, Arning

1:23:29

me business shirt or whatever, when I used

1:23:31

to be suited and booted back then. And

1:23:34

I was listening to that Viva

1:23:36

de Loca, whatever it's called, album.

1:23:39

Which I detest now, because it reminds me

1:23:41

of a particular time in television. I

1:23:44

did some more, I loved the TV work, but

1:23:46

there was a gimp there that used to play that

1:23:48

album all the time. But

1:23:50

yeah, you know the way you got

1:23:52

a pig vomit. Remember that Howard

1:23:54

Stern movie, Pig Vomit? Paul Giamatti, yeah.

1:23:57

So I just keep thinking of him. But anyway,

1:23:59

I was due to the ironing, right? And I'm

1:24:01

listening to this song. And I used to fancy

1:24:03

myself as a kind of poet. You

1:24:05

know, I still do. I used to write and

1:24:07

I used to dabble, especially in my 40s.

1:24:09

You know, I just got into this thing where

1:24:11

I just started to write and write and

1:24:14

write. Now, I heard that line. It

1:24:16

resonated with me. I didn't

1:24:18

share it with anybody else. I

1:24:21

just remember thinking, God, I wish

1:24:23

I'd written that. She

1:24:26

comes out of the ether with

1:24:28

it. So as I said, it's

1:24:30

it's about keeping an open mind.

1:24:32

Yeah, there's no explaining that away.

1:24:34

No, I didn't even tell me

1:24:36

why she wouldn't be interested. You

1:24:39

know, you can't dismiss that as

1:24:41

some sort of coincidence or no,

1:24:43

you can't. I mean, that's that's

1:24:45

really, really strange and beyond fascinating

1:24:47

really. You'd love to get a

1:24:50

chance to sit down with the

1:24:52

lady in question. to ask

1:24:54

her what were you what were you

1:24:56

feeling when you blurted out those two

1:24:58

lines what was going through your mind

1:25:00

you know she was just amazing but

1:25:02

listen i've got one for you that

1:25:04

you might like because just before you

1:25:06

do though it's exactly half six you're

1:25:09

listening to the Richie Allen show out

1:25:11

of solford it's um wonderful to have

1:25:13

mark manning back on the program it

1:25:15

really is lovely to be speaking to

1:25:17

some one from the old country mark

1:25:19

is a he's done it all in

1:25:21

tv and radio he's a presenter he's

1:25:23

a teacher voiceover artist and he is

1:25:25

responsible for. He's the man behind Scary

1:25:27

Era, which is in season two. It's

1:25:30

a series of podcasts about the paranormal

1:25:32

and Ireland. And I really recommend you

1:25:34

check it out. You'll find Mark on

1:25:36

X. It's at Mark Manning. Couldn't

1:25:38

be simpler. YouTube channel, if you look for

1:25:40

Mark Manning, you'll find him there. And of

1:25:42

course, the links will be on the podcast

1:25:44

notes a little bit later on. And thanks

1:25:46

for all your messages. I will get to

1:25:48

them. I promise him Michael has been in

1:25:50

touch. Great mother's son Michael

1:25:53

I'm trying to think what would your

1:25:55

great -grandmother son be to you I

1:25:57

suppose your grandfather I suppose and

1:25:59

was killed in the war but after

1:26:01

he'd been killed unbeknownst anybody else

1:26:03

nobody knew he was dead and she'd

1:26:05

seen him come in hang his

1:26:08

hat and went upstairs again you see

1:26:10

people don't make this stuff up

1:26:12

you know don't later on they learned

1:26:14

that the chap has been killed

1:26:16

God love him in action But

1:26:18

after he'd been killed, he just wandered up the

1:26:20

stairs. Hang on a second. Are

1:26:22

you supposed to be overseas? And he's

1:26:24

not there at all. He's dead. Thank you, Michael.

1:26:27

There's a few more like that, by the way. Mysterious

1:26:29

appearances of somebody who had

1:26:31

recently died. Yes, and that's

1:26:33

kind of unusual, I believe. I can't

1:26:35

remember the name of it. There's one

1:26:37

of these old houses. Oh,

1:26:41

God, is it county me? There's something like

1:26:43

that. But the same thing happened. And now it

1:26:45

was an old English family. and the

1:26:47

chap had went off to war. He

1:26:50

was killed in the First World War, but

1:26:52

he appeared at the lakeside in Ireland,

1:26:54

and a groundsman saw him. Somebody will remember

1:26:56

what that is. But here's one for

1:26:58

you, and that's not dismissing for a minute

1:27:00

all these great listeners that are sharing

1:27:02

stuff with us. I just thought you and

1:27:04

I could relate to this, okay? Here

1:27:06

we go. You make me up, Richie, but

1:27:08

to be honest, I'm a kind of

1:27:10

jack -of -all, master of none. The voiceover has

1:27:12

been good to me. So

1:27:14

I go all the way back to

1:27:16

the Pirates in Ireland. And don't worry,

1:27:19

I'm not going off in a radio

1:27:21

one. But I go back

1:27:23

to the Radio Dublin, which by the

1:27:25

way supposedly had a ghost called Irma

1:27:27

Trude, if I remember rightly. But what

1:27:29

I want to encapsulate with yourself is

1:27:31

that whole thing of being the late

1:27:33

night DJ. which

1:27:35

was, you know, a lot

1:27:37

of the management would go, you know, put

1:27:39

them on the graveyard, shift kind of stuff,

1:27:41

you know. And we all knew they were saving

1:27:44

money on security by having us in there.

1:27:46

Of course. But however, you

1:27:48

can't buy that kind of time and

1:27:50

that kind of sharing of humanity

1:27:52

in the wee small hours. I remember

1:27:54

one night getting an amazing call,

1:27:56

but it would only be gone off

1:27:58

on a tangent now to talk

1:28:01

about it. So I think it was

1:28:03

episode two. We had, you might

1:28:05

remember this name, Bernie Jemisin came on.

1:28:07

Bernie Jemisin, Jesus, Mary and Joseph,

1:28:09

yeah. Bernie Jemisin started

1:28:11

out on Radio Dublin way back with

1:28:13

myself. So, you know, that would

1:28:15

place her late 70s, very early 80s.

1:28:18

And she is a beauty. She's

1:28:20

the absolute lady. And you

1:28:22

name the station, she's been on it.

1:28:24

She is a professional to her fingertips,

1:28:26

okay? And she was on

1:28:28

what was at the time, and it

1:28:30

was a failed entity called, you might

1:28:32

recall, Radio Ireland. Yeah, I remember, yeah.

1:28:34

Radio Ireland. And you know, you try

1:28:36

and get into the place, you keep

1:28:38

on knocking, but like, you know, keep,

1:28:40

keep me knocking, but you can't get

1:28:42

into it. It's an Irish joke. So,

1:28:46

you know, you'd be sending in your, I

1:28:48

remember sending in a cassette tape and the

1:28:50

PD, the program director is saying to me,

1:28:52

thanks for that. I didn't notice, still did

1:28:54

those, you know, such a snotty yolk. So

1:28:56

I'd be trying to get into Radio Ireland,

1:28:58

but she was in there. Okay. And

1:29:01

this was in Jarvis Street, which was

1:29:03

in the environs, it's just off O

1:29:05

'Connell Street, the environs

1:29:07

of what was, for many

1:29:09

years, Jarvis Street Hospital. So.

1:29:13

you probably know this kind of

1:29:15

coming up to graveyards you know everything

1:29:17

goes pretty much on auto right

1:29:19

so they can auto fade this the

1:29:21

play out software so essentially you

1:29:23

think someone's on air but nobody's there

1:29:25

right. But

1:29:27

she would because she had

1:29:29

to do the live broadcast and

1:29:31

news time i keep an

1:29:33

eye on the clock as well

1:29:36

rich so she would hear

1:29:38

this kind of like a lullaby

1:29:40

lullaby thing and it would

1:29:42

ebb. and flow and she kept

1:29:44

it to herself for a

1:29:46

while and it was always kind

1:29:48

of late night this thing

1:29:50

it seemed to come through the

1:29:52

wall you know kind of

1:29:55

I don't know ethereal or whatever

1:29:57

very light and and ephemeral

1:29:59

there's two big words for you

1:30:01

yes a quick in out

1:30:03

thin veiled all that stuff but

1:30:05

eerie And sometimes

1:30:07

maybe perhaps I might be egging it

1:30:09

a bit here, but I think a

1:30:11

baby crying or someone singing to a

1:30:13

baby She kept it to herself and

1:30:15

then she spilled the beans one time

1:30:17

and someone else went you're not the

1:30:19

only one Bernie. I've heard that as

1:30:21

well So she's beautiful.

1:30:23

The whole story, by the way, is on,

1:30:26

I think, episode two, a scary era.

1:30:28

By the way, if you go Mark Manning

1:30:30

Media, that's a catch -all for all the

1:30:32

platforms you just mentioned. Mark Manning Media,

1:30:34

put that word media in. And

1:30:36

by the way, Jarvis Street again, very quickly, there used to

1:30:38

be a hospital there. And I heard

1:30:40

a story where I was probably chatting her

1:30:42

up at the time, a nurse way back

1:30:44

in the 80s. And she said,

1:30:46

oh yeah, Jarvis Street. She said, you

1:30:48

know, she said, I was in there

1:30:50

one night, it was a guy dying. And the

1:30:52

priest was around him, given the

1:30:54

last rites. And she said, he rose

1:30:56

up, he levitated, you

1:30:59

know, a few feet above the bed as

1:31:01

the rites were being given. And

1:31:03

then it's almost like somebody just put him

1:31:05

back down again. And the priest reacted. You

1:31:08

know, Richie hit the bullseye there. I've

1:31:10

had a priest on and his name is

1:31:12

Michael Collins of all names, right? Only

1:31:14

recently and he's claimed even though he's been

1:31:16

present when people have been ill mentally

1:31:18

and all kinds of stuff. Never. They answer

1:31:20

your question. I don't know. I didn't

1:31:22

ask. I just kind of got the creeps

1:31:24

when she said that to me. But

1:31:26

on the flip side of that one funny

1:31:28

Michael talked to you about exorcisms, didn't

1:31:31

he? He did. But you know,

1:31:33

we all want the juicy stuff with the head

1:31:35

spinning around and all that. But no. He

1:31:37

wasn't playing ball. It's

1:31:39

kind of, you might remember a book

1:31:41

called The Divide itself. And

1:31:44

it's almost, he reckons it's

1:31:46

the mind as the good and

1:31:48

the evil are probably at

1:31:50

battle with each other. And

1:31:53

it's a matter of making the

1:31:55

layman's terms, but the good to

1:31:57

overcome the evil aspect of you.

1:32:00

He said, yeah, he was

1:32:03

at places where people were

1:32:05

obviously very disturbed. But

1:32:07

he couldn't, you know, he couldn't

1:32:09

give me the whole... Well, can

1:32:11

I jump in there because that's

1:32:13

fascinating. I interviewed a

1:32:15

guy called Father Vince Lampert

1:32:17

about three times over the

1:32:19

years. And you'll probably know

1:32:21

Vince is, he's the Vatican's

1:32:24

exorcist in America, at least

1:32:26

in, at least on

1:32:28

the Eastern seaboard of America.

1:32:30

And interviewed Vince, lovely, lovely

1:32:32

gentlemen. Of

1:32:34

course I challenged him, you know, pretty

1:32:36

hard. I said, come

1:32:38

on, we're talking about mental

1:32:41

disturbances and serious psychological illnesses. And

1:32:43

he said, of course, he said, you know, many

1:32:46

times you'll be taken to a place

1:32:48

because the family is religious and you realize

1:32:50

that you don't really have any business

1:32:52

being there because the person is suffering from

1:32:54

psychological illness of one kind or another.

1:32:56

But then he said, there are the other

1:32:58

times. when you're confronting

1:33:01

demons. And there was nothing about

1:33:03

the guy's conversation with me that I found

1:33:05

to be insincere or false. There was nothing

1:33:07

in it for him. And he recounted a

1:33:09

couple of stories that were fairly, you

1:33:11

can make, we'll joke again

1:33:13

about my follically challenged

1:33:15

dome. But you know,

1:33:18

stories that would rise the hairs

1:33:20

on the back of your neck, where

1:33:22

he said he was convinced he

1:33:24

was, we're talking about a face changing

1:33:26

shape and got guttural language and

1:33:28

even foreign tongues and not just gobbledygook

1:33:30

now but actual languages coming out

1:33:32

of a person and he had to

1:33:34

deal with that and he explained

1:33:36

to me that you draw the demon

1:33:38

out through the top of the

1:33:40

head or not the demon the attachment

1:33:42

whatever it is and I believed

1:33:44

him not because I wanted to believe

1:33:46

him I'm a skeptic at least

1:33:48

he I felt that he had at

1:33:50

least he believed what he was

1:33:53

telling me and the man accomplished you

1:33:55

know totally in his craft. No,

1:33:57

it doesn't mean that what he felt

1:33:59

he experienced actually happened. That's another

1:34:01

thing entirely. But at least that was

1:34:03

his understanding of it. And I

1:34:05

found that to be... I've got to

1:34:07

read some more messages made because

1:34:09

our listeners are loving this. So

1:34:11

thank you for them. A

1:34:13

listener has been in touch to say, it's

1:34:15

Wayne, saw an apparition as a child

1:34:17

woken late at night to the sound

1:34:20

of church bells. But the

1:34:22

bells weren't actually ringing. A little

1:34:24

girl in white and bathed in

1:34:26

a white glow was on the grass

1:34:28

outside my bedroom window. Upon

1:34:30

opening the court in the second time,

1:34:32

she was now suspended outside my window

1:34:34

looking in. and then he had

1:34:36

another experience at a holistic centre above

1:34:38

a market when something else very strange

1:34:40