Media Panic, Cancel Culture & Brianna’s Big London Acting Move

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:26]Hello. Hello.

[00:00:28]Hello. Hello.

[00:00:32]There we go. Tim's on. Guests off.

[00:00:37]Right. We can hear that.

[00:00:40]So, L Jones, you can hear it, but it's not on yet. So, what we're going to do is turn this on and turn this on.

[00:00:51]and get a battery quick.

[00:00:54]Uh, watch this.

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[00:02:34]Right. Ladles and jelly spoons.

[00:02:37]I hope that we're on.

[00:02:42]>> Okay. I'm not getting anything through my earphones.

[00:02:44]>> You won't get anything from your earphones.

[00:02:46]>> Okay, perfect.

[00:02:49]>> Oh, that's not going to work. Okay, don't worry about it. You'll be hear Christina. Um, this is Tim. You can hear that?

[00:02:56]>> Yes, I can.

[00:02:56]>> Can you hear that?

[00:02:58]>> Yes.

[00:02:58]>> Okay, that's cool. So, we'll turn that off. We'll see who's on.

[00:03:15]>> So, we got Adam, Ted, and Ted.

[00:03:21]Okay. Okay.

[00:03:23]Are >> we all >> cool dudes? Ladles and jelly spoons.

[00:03:29]I'm hoping everything's done. It was I was so late today and I was trying to get everything prepared for the thing. I even had Descript writing my presentation >> and it isn't finished.

[00:03:41]>> I said I can't do that. You got to do the pictures yourself. I said, "Oh god, damn it."

[00:03:45]>> Anyway, I started a bit late. So, there you go. Hia.

[00:03:49]>> Hey.

[00:03:49]>> Um Adam, thank you very much for coming in.

[00:03:54]I can't see until I get this thing up.

[00:03:58]I can see he's showing us a Virgin Media voucher.

[00:04:03]>> Virgin Media.

[00:04:04]>> Yeah, maybe he's working for them now in PR.

[00:04:07]>> Could be media monsters balcony banter.

[00:04:11]>> No, >> there we go.

[00:04:15]Now, if I look at on here, unfortunately, it'll be 30 seconds behind, won't it?

[00:04:19]>> Oh, okay. We're okay.

[00:04:22]>> Okay. Anyway, ladies and gents, we've got some people coming in. We've got uh >> hopefully >> you're watching Balcon now. It's timothy dow.com and >> and I've just remembered something. I've forgotten my tablets.

[00:04:38]>> You forgotten your tablets and your earphones.

[00:04:40]>> I know.

[00:04:41]>> So, what you doing here?

[00:04:42]>> I've had Okay, I'm going to leave for 5 minutes and go and collect my tablets, guys.

[00:04:46]>> Okay.

[00:04:46]>> Cuz I need them. So, I will put my headphones down.

[00:04:49]>> Uhhuh.

[00:04:50]>> And just cope without me.

[00:04:51]>> Okay. because I will otherwise I'll turn into a ratty cow or a rattier cow.

[00:04:56]>> When uh when is Brianna coming in?

[00:04:58]>> She'll come in about 10 minutes.

[00:04:59]>> Okay.

[00:05:03]Ah. So, let's concentrate on Adam.

[00:05:06]Here's Adam.

[00:05:07]>> Here's Adam.

[00:05:08]>> Can I just look at that so I can also see? There you go.

[00:05:12]So, What's V.

[00:06:15]Okay. And um what else what else we going to ask Adam?

[00:06:25]Sorry.

[00:06:28]>> I don't know. He says he's might be coming on the 21st of November.

[00:06:39]He's playing the drums.

[00:06:46]Okay.

[00:06:47]Um, let's see who's on whilst we're here. Craig's on York, Kead, Martin, evening all Dave Strange is on. Hi Dave, Adam's on. Uh John, Steven, Woodward, Tim and everyone in the chat. Living the dream, Julie.

[00:07:05]Uh Craig Siobhan's on.

[00:07:10]Charlie McFC sounds good. Good evening, says Derek.

[00:07:16]Sounds okay. Katherine's on. Evening all. Hope everyone had a good day. Sound is on now says Julie. Thank you. Evening Tim and Christina all in the chat. Dane Differs is on. Evening Kim and Christina. Nice to see you both in a dry and sunny evening here with me gardening with me dad. All doing fine just now.

[00:07:34]Busy as we want to be.

[00:07:37]Uh I've got to stand up to do these.

[00:07:40]That's the biggest problem. I wish I could remote control it. Well, actually I can remote control it. I think I can remote control it. Ruth on. Hi Tim. Hi Ruth reunion Jackson. Hi Tim and everyone. And didn't we want to we wanted to um go and see your uh go to channel.

[00:08:04]Right. We got seven subscribers. I'm subscribed. And Reunion Jack, we met the other night on Balcony Banter, I think it was. Um it wasn't last week. It was the week before. And we said we're going to push his channel. So we're going to do this. I'm going to share the channel now.

[00:08:22]Subscribed. Share the channel. Copy the link. Go back here and pop it in. Paste.

[00:08:31]And remember to to take off the old rubbish. All the rubbish.

[00:08:37]There we go. I remember, Dan. I remembered.

[00:08:42]>> Cool, dude. So, go ahead and check that out. And it's a it's a it's a band.

[00:08:48]So check them out.

[00:08:52]Uh back in the UK. Nowhere near as nice. Oh dear. Uh Peter Glenn and hi Nigel and Dina.

[00:09:04]Uh I think I missed Ian Miller on. Hi Ian. Thanks for popping in. Um I did put a link in the description if you want to join us. Um but we do have uh two uh guests coming tonight. That's why we got our earphones on. And the second one hasn't arrived yet. Media monsters.

[00:09:24]Okay, if you're just joining us, we decided we're going to talk about how the media can make or break somebody.

[00:09:30]And Katherine gave us an example, but we're going to we're going to carry on talking to to um to Adam. So, Adam, I don't understand.

[00:09:51]There's no one on there. No. No.

[00:09:55]Oh [ __ ] Is that Is that me?

[00:10:07]>> I don't understand what he's saying.

[00:10:10]Okay. I think he's not coming. He was going to come in May and then I don't know what this is.

[00:10:20]Type it. Type it. Type it. Yeah. Okay.

[00:10:26]Uh we cover Oasis, Stone Roses, James P, Blur, and more. There you go. The media can be a nightmare. Yeah, that's exactly right. Evening Tim says Gary Taylor. Una Mines is on. John Steven is Tony Petty's on. Good evening, guys.

[00:10:43]Peter Glennon, Luis Parks. Thank you for all your support, Louise. Hi Tomina, Adam in the chat, Katherine, Dane, Nigel. I think I've got everybody out.

[00:10:56]So, we're going to hang on until um until what's her name?

[00:11:03]>> Cle.

[00:11:03]>> Cleo comes back. Uh, what I did do is I connected Christine's mic up to my phone and it's disappeared from here now and I can't put it back once we started the live. So, unfortunately, >> this is >> Yeah, they can they can hear you through here.

[00:11:21]>> What is the smell I can smell?

[00:11:24]>> Uh, is it a good smell or a bad smell?

[00:11:27]>> No, it's >> Is it cooking or is it >> is it dog poo?

[00:11:33]Is it my Is it my after shave?

[00:11:38]>> It's not my after shave.

[00:11:40]>> Is it my beard?

[00:11:48]>> Oh, we got to see. We got to see. We got to see.

[00:11:57]See, the biggest problem I've got with um with having Adam on here is that I can't really communicate with him, and it takes up a lot of bandwidth uh when we have other guests on. So, what we're going to do, we're going to have him big in the corner over here, big in the corner, and then and we're going to be here. And as soon as the second guest comes back on, then we're going to say thank you very much to Adam and uh and he can watch in the background. But I really want to be find a way that I can communicate with him. I am doing the course again of the of the things. Are you okay, darling?

[00:12:30]>> Yes, I've had my me my pills. I've t my drugs.

[00:12:33]>> Okay. So, I'll just check that everything's really connected up again.

[00:12:37]You're watching >> and we go back to Adam. So, uh you can see Adam, right? Yes.

[00:12:52]>> Okay, cool. And what do you know what he's saying?

[00:12:54]>> He's saying he doesn't want to be cut off before his 10 minutes.

[00:12:56]>> No, he does not saying that at all. He's saying something about >> I don't know what that is.

[00:13:04]>> The boat. Is he talking about the boat?

[00:13:06]>> The boat. The boat. Okay. Okay. The boat. Okay.

[00:13:09]>> Did he see me on BBC News?

[00:13:12]>> Uh B O A T.

[00:13:18]Yeah. Okay. Okay. The boat. I should have known, shouldn't I? Really?

[00:13:25]>> Uh, the boat is okay. The boat is okay.

[00:13:30]The people >> What's he doing? Nobody got killed.

[00:13:40]>> They're all home. They're all gone.

[00:13:43]>> Yeah, >> they're all gone.

[00:13:44]>> And they were on flights with nobody else. Yeah, they were they were taken from the boat in a sealed container.

[00:13:52]They were taken >> Yes. With the masks.

[00:13:54]>> With the mask on top.

[00:13:55]>> Yeah.

[00:13:56]>> And they were taken to the steps. Yep.

[00:13:58]>> Of the plane.

[00:13:59]>> And they didn't see anybody else.

[00:14:02]>> It was a pri they were private planes, Adam. So no other holiday makers were with them.

[00:14:09]>> Nope.

[00:14:10]>> No.

[00:14:10]>> And they didn't even get to see anybody.

[00:14:13]>> No. No.

[00:14:14]>> They didn't come into contact with any locals. that didn't come all apart from the emergency service >> and a lot of those were from the peninsula.

[00:14:22]>> So they were it was a military operation. The buses were military buses.

[00:14:26]>> The cordons were organized by the where they civil and the Spanish military police >> and the Americans came and picked up their guys. The Brits came and picked up >> Yes, they did. And the last flight due in this evening, the Australian flight apparently had a technical issue. M >> so there was a second plane sent and that was due to it was fueling in Luxembourg and it should be there by now because the sea is going to change this evening or is possibly changing now.

[00:14:52]>> Mhm.

[00:14:52]>> So taking people off the boat will become really dangerous.

[00:14:56]>> Got you.

[00:14:57]>> From about seven apparently if not already.

[00:14:59]>> So how many people are still on the boat?

[00:15:00]>> Just the crew really. If if all the passengers have been taken off there was only I think 20 people on the last time I checked was half three this afternoon.

[00:15:09]Well, the the the crew can just like sail away, can't they?

[00:15:12]>> Well, they are supposed to sail away.

[00:15:13]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:15:14]>> I mean, they're they're refueling and sailing up to Amsterdam.

[00:15:18]>> Okay.

[00:15:19]>> Because it's a Dutch registered boat.

[00:15:21]>> So, the boat is everything okay here? Is no problem. We are happy.

[00:15:28]>> No, no one's dead.

[00:15:29]>> Yeah.

[00:15:30]>> Yeah. They wore masks and they had gloves on, >> everything. And I'm just going to make sure we're not uh Okay, Bri, will Brian >> She's down in a tube station in London.

[00:15:41]She >> in the tube station. All right. Yeah, she's on her way back.

[00:15:45]>> Oh, she got plans >> to a friend in Essex in Debdon. She's over visiting France for the weekend.

[00:15:50]And she really wants to come on. She's going, "Yay, I can do it this week." But she needs to get off the tube station.

[00:15:56]And it's And she's going to text me when she's there.

[00:15:58]>> Okay. So, I don't have to keep looking.

[00:16:00]>> No, no, she'll text me. And there's a text. Hang on. you. Yep. Almost there.

[00:16:05]I'll be there in five, she says.

[00:16:08]>> Okay. So, um again, let's have a look to see if what people are saying. Hello, Dane says Ian. Uh hi, Cleo. Says Trisha. Nigel's on.

[00:16:23]>> Amarie, of course. Thank you, Amarie, for all your hard work. Katherine saying hi. Peter Glenn saying hi. Looking forward to your next live. Uh, Una is saying, "Hi, Christina, Tim. Adam all in the chat." Una Mines, I think I've done that one, that one, that one, that one, that one. Your killer. Thank you. Uh, evening. And Tim Dow put the Union Reunion Jack thing up.

[00:16:47]>> That's the guy we met a couple of weeks ago, and I promised him I would put post his his uh YouTube channel.

[00:16:53]>> Okay.

[00:16:54]>> He's in a band >> that does um Oasis and Blur and all that type of >> Okay, cool. I didn't think you could do I didn't think you could do both, could you?

[00:17:03]>> Blurasis.

[00:17:04]>> Blurasis. Yeah.

[00:17:06]>> Actually, Brianna might tell you this.

[00:17:08]So, she >> she's been living in Ireland. She's from here, but where she's staying, she was walking home last night and we were on a video chat and there was a Union Jack flying from every second lampost and she'd never seen that before.

[00:17:21]>> A Union Jack >> like so. Or the St. George flag. St. George flag. Yeah. And the friend she's staying with, like Bri and I often speak in Spanish and English. And the friend she's staying with said, "By the way, when you're out and about, don't speak Spanish."

[00:17:34]>> Why?

[00:17:36]>> Cuz where she lives is very much we are English and only English people here.

[00:17:42]>> No.

[00:17:42]>> Yeah. She was warned >> not to speak. Well, she's Irish. Seems worse.

[00:17:47]>> But if she's speaking Spanish, it's She speaks Spanish as a natural as a Spaniard.

[00:17:52]>> Yeah. Well, she is a Spaniard.

[00:17:53]>> She is a sp she's Well, don't say that to her. She's Canarian.

[00:17:56]>> She's Canarian.

[00:17:57]>> Oh, she said, sorry, this is not to be rude to anyone, but she was speaking to somebody, a Filipino, and she said, "You suddenly realized that we shared the same colonial history." Cuz Brianna, as a Canarian talked about the Canary Islands being colonized by the Spanish. And I said, "Well, you also have your Irish history, too." She go, "Oh, Jesus. Yeah, I've been colonized twice." You >> colonized? That island was never colonized.

[00:18:22]>> Just 800 years of a long visit. No, it wasn't a colony though, was it?

[00:18:25]>> It was a colony, >> was it?

[00:18:27]>> Yeah.

[00:18:27]>> I didn't think that.

[00:18:28]>> Yeah, we were part of the British Empire.

[00:18:29]>> That's right. That's not >> colonies. So, India wasn't a colony.

[00:18:34]>> No, >> was it not?

[00:18:35]>> That's part of the British Empire.

[00:18:36]>> It was. So, colonies are are things that are taken over by empire >> by order of the queen.

[00:18:42]>> Yes. You've been Eddie Isard.

[00:18:44]>> No, that was um I was actually doing Trevor Noah.

[00:18:47]>> All right. No, I like Eddie Art said you can't you can't put that flag there.

[00:18:51]Well, I just have. Where's your flag? We don't have a flag. Well, this is the flag.

[00:18:56]>> Was it What was it? Trevor Noah was saying, "Uh um >> I love Trevor Noah."

[00:19:01]>> Yeah. Uh we're here. Um here's the flag ter.

[00:19:06]And then the guy says, "Uh oh, this is now the British Empire." And he said, "I let you know it's the same place as it was yesterday.

[00:19:17]>> Are you sure it's not?" Maybe they're just using the same jokes.

[00:19:20]>> It could be. Yeah, it could be. Brianna actually knows to come in on Safari, so maybe keep an eye on it.

[00:19:25]>> Just copy and paste.

[00:19:26]>> Yeah, I I sent her the link.

[00:19:28]>> Okay.

[00:19:30]Uh, Peter Glenn, Mary Smith set up for the cruise thing. Well done, >> Teneras. Trisha, >> there you go. I mean, that is >> I'm I'm really actually pleased about that cuz it could have gone um a pear-shaped I think you're allowed to say.

[00:19:44]>> Anyway, I mean, even my dad from his nursing home yesterday on the phone said to me, "God, this puts the canaries in a really good light."

[00:19:50]>> Hey, Paul's on. Get some pads. How the hell are you?

[00:19:53]>> The the Minister for Health, Monica Garcia, at one of the impromptu press releases they did yesterday at the port, which >> they did in English and Spanish live, which was great. I mean, she spoke in English to the press. She would say, "Okay, I'm going to do a couple of English questions now cuz I know there's a lot of foreign journalists here." But she said that they had done it like they do simultation.

[00:20:17]>> Simolcast. No, where they practice a simulation simulation. Thank you.

[00:20:21]>> You're very welcome.

[00:20:22]>> Um I mean I know they've done ones for volcanoes here and stuff, but apparently they did one >> very similar to the actual thing that happened yesterday a couple of months ago in Gran Canaria.

[00:20:31]>> I think I read about that and it was like it wasn't the co I think it was just getting ready for for the next bio emergency, wasn't it?

[00:20:39]>> Yeah. So it was practiced and practiced.

[00:20:41]>> No, they've done very good. And not only that, they've done the the what's it called? The volcano thing as well, you said, haven't they? Yeah, quite a few.

[00:20:49]>> We're ready, Tady.

[00:20:50]>> Certainly. All of the emergency services know what they are supposed to do.

[00:20:54]>> Uhhuh.

[00:20:55]>> And like the operation yesterday was precision.

[00:21:00]>> It was military. And I mean military in terms of how efficiently it was carried out, not just that it was by the military.

[00:21:06]>> Trisha said she going by Concord. 5 minutes to get from Essics.

[00:21:10]>> Yeah, that's right.

[00:21:12]Art jockey says looked like the Canadian flight was the most stringent than any other flight.

[00:21:18]>> The Spanish was really stringent. When they got to the steps of the plane they were all wearing blue ponchos. They had like head caps on and when the Spaniards got to the foot of the plane like the Irish I remember as well. They had to take off the blue poncho, put on a full housemat suit and they were sprayed down before they were even allowed to get on the plane.

[00:21:36]>> Right.

[00:21:37]>> I mean I'm in I've been in touch with an Irish passenger I think I said and uh she's fine. She they're now in a quarantine unit in Ireland in a health unit. Um and she's fine. She was really happy.

[00:21:47]>> So they can't quarantine at home.

[00:21:49]>> I think the decision was made to keep them in a you know a unit.

[00:21:54]>> Okay.

[00:21:54]>> Um and like certainly she's got no complaints about it.

[00:21:58]>> Mhm.

[00:21:59]>> Uh so more than happy with how it went.

[00:22:02]>> So uh Tim, you've been upgrading your gadgets. Got the new Pocket 4 Osmo Mobile 8P. Actually I I got another Pocket 3. So, I've got two Pocket 3es now. So, we're on a Pocket three. This one here. This is my old one. And Cleo's on the new one. And what happens is I I run this one with the old microphone system. And I run the new one. I've got the um DJI mini mic now and I connected that to those. So, when I'm out and about, I swap them. So, I get the new one here and I wear me mic and then I just got to swap them back, which I forgot today. That's why I did it halfway through the show. M >> um that the microphone now is being connected to this one.

[00:22:43]>> Brianna might be trying to link by the way.

[00:22:45]>> Okay, I'm watching. I'm watching. Oh, she's in.

[00:22:47]>> There you go.

[00:22:48]>> Yeah, she's put her phone sideways.

[00:22:51]>> Okay, well, we can tell her.

[00:22:51]>> Oh, no. She can No, she can leave it.

[00:22:53]Leave it.

[00:22:53]>> Okay, >> she can leave.

[00:23:08]Got to turn your microphone on. Bri.

[00:23:10]>> Bri, turn your microphone on.

[00:23:12]>> No, I've got to turn it on.

[00:23:13]>> The second guest.

[00:23:16]Which one is she? Guest three. Oh, she didn't put her name in, did she? She's guest five.

[00:23:21]Who's guest three then? We got two guests on.

[00:23:24]>> My daughter.

[00:23:25]>> All right, guess five. So, we're going to say on. There we go. And we're going to say goodbye to uh um Adam now.

[00:23:36]>> So Adam, >> thank you very much. We've got to change now to Brianna. So we'll see you next week. Okay.

[00:23:50]So we're going to get Adam away.

[00:23:54]There we go. And we're going to put Bri in here, which is edit.

[00:24:01]And we get Bri, me, you. And done.

[00:24:07]>> Is she still there?

[00:24:07]>> There we go. And now we should be able to hear her. Can we hear you?

[00:24:16]>> Can we hear you?

[00:24:17]>> No, we can't hear you, Bri.

[00:24:21]>> Let me just check. You're watching Casey Sauce.

[00:24:33]>> Okay.

[00:24:33]>> Try. Have you got your microphone on?

[00:24:35]>> Oh, you know what it is. You know what?

[00:24:36]>> Hang on. Hang on.

[00:24:38]>> It is padded. Guess five.

[00:24:43]I'm going to wind her up.

[00:24:47]>> Hello.

[00:24:48]Uh, >> she's not muted.

[00:24:58]There you go.

[00:24:58]>> There you go. We got you on that worked.

[00:25:05]>> Excellent. We've got you on. It was my fault, Bri. Thank you for joining in.

[00:25:08]Where are you?

[00:25:12]>> I at the moment I'm in on the outsides of London City.

[00:25:20]>> Okay. It's very low the volume, isn't it?

[00:25:22]>> Yeah. I'm going to put it up.

[00:25:24]>> I don't think it's Tim's cutting your volume up though.

[00:25:27]>> There you go.

[00:25:28]>> Oh, that's better. But you get a bit closer.

[00:25:29]>> Yeah, if you bring it closer.

[00:25:32]>> So, I told him you were in London for the weekend.

[00:25:35]>> I'll just I'll just leave my phone here.

[00:25:39]>> Indeed.

[00:25:41]>> No, >> that's good. Go ahead.

[00:25:45]>> Yeah.

[00:25:47]>> Yeah.

[00:25:48]>> Yeah, we can hear you.

[00:25:52]Good. Good.

[00:25:54]>> So, questions.

[00:25:56]Um, the for the people who don't know, who are you?

[00:26:02]>> Well, my name is Brianna Garcia. I am clean as water, the one with the glasses on, >> and I am an actor and performer. At the moment, I am in London.

[00:26:16]Are you working uh on a gig at the moment or are you still um getting situated?

[00:26:23]>> I so right now I flew over for an audition and I will be moving over to London in September since I had a few auditions before and I got an offer back in February.

[00:26:43]So, I shall be a London girl very very soon.

[00:26:51]>> Can ask that again.

[00:26:52]>> Can you name the school you're going to?

[00:26:56]>> It's I can indeed. So, the school it's all in actors. It's their southern campus is around book in London and um I had my audition with them back at the end of February and it really really was the best audition ever. It really felt like I was having a point with some friends at the local pub. And um a day later they offered me the place. So everything worked out great. And yes, she's going to become a London girl.

[00:27:29]>> Like Lily Allen.

[00:27:32]>> You and Lily Allen. You I shouldn't be asking her questions. I talk to you every day. I'll shut up.

[00:27:37]>> No, no, you can ask the questions.

[00:27:38]>> I know, but I know the answers.

[00:27:41]Questions ready.

[00:27:44]the the reasons we got you on is because we wanted to hear your your journey and from when I first met you when I think you were about eight, right? Was it 11 years ago we met?

[00:27:57]>> 11.

[00:27:58]>> Yeah. Um, so you're you're in your 20ies now, is it? Just about.

[00:28:04]So I think you were probably about eight or nine when we first met. and you were the bubbly showgirl of the first day I met you >> and um so what what's what was your sort of progression and if anybody else is looking to go that way what were the pitfalls that you fell into and stuff like that just just sort of a a 10 minute >> so yeah I knew you I met you when I was around eight and I consciously was aware of you as a person um so when I turned 11 I joined Australia's theater school back in Tenneref and I started it off as just fun after school activity to do but without realizing it I discovered that I fell in love with theater and I want to become an actor. So from the age of 11 till around 16 I went every Saturday to study perform and I had to do my lambda examinations which were examinations you get from lambda school here in London and every year you go up a higher grade until you get to around your level bronze or silver grades and then become the last ones you do until you move on to the next chapter which is what I did when I moved to Brighton at the age of 16 and I did a B tech course in musical theater and I stayed there for about two years. It was a very hectic time but I do not regret a single bit of being there. I mean choosing if a person was to choose this industry as their career. They know already that it's going to be a lot of challenges, a lot of falls, a lot of nos.

[00:29:52]The mad thing and the funny thing about it is all of us know like all the friends I've made in the time I've been here in Brighton, London, Ireland, we're all the same bunch of Egypts just trying to make it in a world where where we basically are allowed to become Egypts but as a profession. And it's going to be very hard. Most of the time it will be a no. But most of the time when it comes to auditions, casting, getting in somewhere, a lot of time it's not based on your performance. It's just based on what kind of person they're looking for physically, mentally, emotionally.

[00:30:32]But no matter how hard it gets, you have to tell them to [ __ ] off and just do what you love. And it is what I've learned so far. I've had a few setbacks, but I've pushed my way through and now I am on my way to London for my next chapter. So, it really is all worth it at the end of the day. It really is.

[00:30:55]>> And what's your I mean, I know that you've got a plan in your head. What's your end game? Is it, you know, stardom on TV, films, the stage, or all of the above?

[00:31:10]Well, most of my career so far has been on stage. It started on stage at the age of three when I came I used to be a dancer myself. But my goal is to be the first Canarian to win an Oscar proudly and loudly.

[00:31:25]>> It is also most of my work. I would love to be on film and TV.

[00:31:31]>> Film and TV because most of my time I've learned stage so far. So, I'd love to experience what it would be like to work behind cameras, on set, behind the scenes. So, that is my ultimate goal.

[00:31:43]But at the end of the day, my ultimate goal is to be able to make this my career, a passion that I love very, very much, earn money from it, and just be able to be in Egypt on stage or on screen till the age of 84 >> and buy me lots of things.

[00:32:01]>> Oh, yes, mother. Once I've got the money, mother's getting spoiled.

[00:32:05]There you go. There you go. And mother's friends, of course.

[00:32:08]>> And mother's friends.

[00:32:12]>> Well, the fall.

[00:32:14]>> She's pretending she's frozen now.

[00:32:16]>> And they're never forgetting Tim and Chris.

[00:32:18]>> She still calls you Tim the Magician.

[00:32:20]>> Tim the magician. I am.

[00:32:23]>> I do. I do.

[00:32:25]So, for all of you that do not know, when I first met Tim, I knew he was one of our neighbors and a friend of moms.

[00:32:33]But his first way of impersonating me was by doing a magic trick. And ever since then, he has always been and will always be Tim the Magician.

[00:32:41]>> Tim the you came over for dinner here.

[00:32:44]We both did. I did.

[00:32:45]>> And after dinner, you took out the green cloth and you did your performance of Magic Tricks.

[00:32:50]>> Yeah. Did I float the table that day?

[00:32:52]>> I don't think so. You floated her boat, though.

[00:32:54]>> I've got a floating table. I got >> a floating table.

[00:32:56]>> I still got it. If anybody wants to buy the floating table, it's 300 quid.

[00:33:00]>> Bri, you sound so positive. It's for me it's amazing to hear you talk to other people because I talk to you all the time but I never hear you talk to this passionately about what you're going to do to somebody who isn't your mother.

[00:33:15]>> I don't think there's any difference. Is it really?

[00:33:17]>> I think it's cuz half the time No, >> I think it's cuz half the time the stressful parts just go on to mom. So whenever it's the stress part of the career, mom has to take deal with it and then the rest of it is just jolly golly speak to any stranger I see on the street about it.

[00:33:36]>> So when you come back home for a visit then we're going to take you out on a walk and you can uh interview people.

[00:33:44]>> Oh absolutely.

[00:33:45]>> Cuz when I start talking to people they go and say we don't want any.

[00:33:48]>> Didn't Didn't she do an interview live the day of my medal ceremony? Didn't Brianna take over and talk? She did.

[00:33:56]You've already been on the TV, you see.

[00:33:57]>> I did for a bit, didn't I?

[00:33:59]>> I did. And now you're on TV again cuz most of the people watch on TV.

[00:34:05]>> Stage and screen girl.

[00:34:07]>> Oh, well, I will say it. It is an honor cuz it's been a long time waiting for me to be on this podcast, but it is a very big honor.

[00:34:16]>> We were hoping you're going to be here cuz we're having steak tonight. Steak and chips and onion rings. Oh, are you still vegetarian?

[00:34:24]She's looking at onion rings. That was the word.

[00:34:27]>> No >> onion rings.

[00:34:29]>> Not anymore. Now she likes her chicken, her steak, her >> It's protein. It's >> Mhm. It's proteins. It's proteins. So the actual topic for tonight >> No, I should be.

[00:34:49]So the topic for tonight is >> the topic for tonight is a um uh how the media can make or break a person. So uh have you have a well apart from your mom have you had any um experience with the media at the moment with you um performing?

[00:35:10]Not me personally, but I do know a lot of the actors or performers I I follow online or social media.

[00:35:22]A lot of the times this I do notice a person will get success whether or not they are liked on media which >> I do believe is a really bad thing we've gotten into. Like I know a lot of actors, singers, performers that are doing their own thing, are working, making their own music, making their own art, but because it does seem like nowadays the only important things is whatever is on social media or whatever is trending or what is cool at the moment. And it's it's funny because you have people who have nothing to do with their lives on their phone, taking days and hours out of their life to insult or bring someone down who is trying to promote themselves on media whe whether it's an actor, performer, a radio head, a person who does a podcast. And it's become such it's so important in people's brains. And because it has become so important in so many people's brains worldwide, it does seem to affect whether or not you are good or not good, just depending on a person who is bored in their house making comments on the phone.

[00:36:32]>> Mhm. I've had a few friends who have had downfalls and have been cancelled, which is the trending quote to say to people on media who get their lives ruined where a person just want to express an artistic form, but because it was too intense or too dark or wasn't broke enough, >> they ended up getting cancelled. And from an actor's point of view, it's it really annoys me sometimes because you are being you are given limits by a person who is a stranger from miles away when they have no right to put a limit towards you or what you want to express online. Now, of course, there are things you shouldn't express online and there should be, you know, warnings, but it it has become so it has become such a control of human people's day-to-day lives that it's so hard to make an opinion on a person without social media being involved, >> right?

[00:37:28]>> And I'm not here for it. I really am not.

[00:37:32]>> Um, Katherine um sent me an an example and it might be before your time, Bri, but you might know her. Uh Caroline Flack, one of the most recognizable TV presenters during the 2010s.

[00:37:45]>> Didn't she commit suicide?

[00:37:47]>> She did. Yeah.

[00:37:48]>> Unal alived herself was supposed to say on YouTube.

[00:37:50]>> Oh, I beg your pardon.

[00:37:51]>> It's okay. It's too late now.

[00:37:52]>> But I was even think Miley Cyrus, uh Britney Spears, the Olden Twins. Like I looked it up before we came on air and this is like the first 15 people that came up on the list were all young women >> who okay they were back in the '9s or the the 200s >> but their look, their virginity, their age. Apparently there was an age countdown at one stage to like the Olsson twins. When are they going to be 18? In other words, when can we have sex with them?

[00:38:22]>> Right. And that kind of media attention >> you I mean you're going into that kind of an industry Brie where you need to be so damn strong. Why why why am I letting you do this by the way? Why aren't I telling you to go and be an accountant?

[00:38:37]>> I think it's be I think it's because you you brought up a strong independent woman just like yourself >> you know and speaking of minus which is a great example. So I I I grew up with Mr. I watched Han the TV show when it started then the movie and then Miley Cyrus started her music career. Now I was already famous because of her father Bill Ray Cyrus who is a country musician.

[00:39:09]And when Miley Cyrus was growing up and she got into her late teenage years, early 20s, all her songs were about twerking and drugs and getting drunk and getting high and getting with guys. But because that is all she was ever taught and forced on, it is what it became. So there is a lot of pressure on young female stars >> when they're still kids and what they're expected to become. Like if you're pretty cute when you're younger, you're allowed to >> be a bit overweight or have, you know, hormonal acne or look different or go through changes like any normal >> or get fatter or thinner >> and it affects very badly. Yeah.

[00:39:49]>> Or Yeah. Any change that is not suitable to the audience is wrong. And she was just I remember my stars got a lot of hate. They said she was sexualizing herself. She only wants male attention.

[00:40:04]But she was taught to only get male attention because she was told that's the only way she could become successful.

[00:40:10]>> Mhm.

[00:40:10]>> She did not have a choice. She didn't have her own will to live or her own right to choose one to be represented.

[00:40:18]And I mean 20 years later, last year she did her 20 year anniversary of Adam Montana and she has turned a beautiful corner and she's she's still a singer.

[00:40:29]She told everyone to f off. She did what she wanted to do and she's extremely successful now. But the media yet again destroys lives.

[00:40:39]>> It does. And it will forever continue to do so if we as a society let it continue to do so. Not all media.

[00:40:51]>> No, the Irish media is uh is very good at it.

[00:40:54]>> Of course, not all media.

[00:40:56]Mother and Tim of course, but the the famous ones, the ones are that on the Daily Mail, the the big drama, the gossip, oh, this celebrity did this today or where they're on, they are making a mistake, they will never be able to do right >> in people's eyes.

[00:41:20]>> I got called by from the Australian news last night at 10:00. It was an hour after the Night Strider, Michael, not what was his name? Andrew Knight.

[00:41:28]>> Okay. He's a >> um he's a blogger on the island >> and um they interviewed him about the uh about the ship and then he obviously well I'm not saying obviously but I assume that he told them that there are other vloggers on the island and my phone number is on my website. So, they called me at 10:00 last night and they said, "Oh, um, we asked J whether you want to talk anything about the um the ship that's coming over and are you worried?" And and I said, "It's a non-story."

[00:41:58]And she said, "What do you mean it's a non-story?" I said, "Well, basically um it's a ship in the middle of the sea.

[00:42:04]They've got they got a bit of a virus."

[00:42:06]Yeah. Um Spain have decided to the World Health the World Health Organization asked them for help. Sanchez said okay.

[00:42:14]OB There was a bit of a political route because he didn't ask the local government before he made the decision, but they eventually they they used it as a bit of a political football utterly.

[00:42:24]Still are.

[00:42:24]>> But anyway, they compromise to say, "Okay, it won't dock, but it will anchor offshore and in in a an industrial port.

[00:42:31]They'll be picked up by sterilized trained people. uh they'll be taken directly to private um uh chartered airplanes to the steps of the airplane sprayed and put on board and they'll be repatriated and each country will take care of their own. I said, "So basically the only panic is you." I said, "The the press who are making a big panic about it and trying to find people who are worried and it's it's a non-story." And so she didn't put any of that on the news, right? She then she the next question was, "Well, do you know anybody who is worried?"

[00:43:05]>> Oh, well. And I said just, you know, >> but I said to Tim, I mean, I had because there's a very small group of journalists who speak English working on this island. And I had people saying, well, look, we spoke to you early this morning. Do you know people who are saying they're really worried? And I said, well, most of them are talking from a point of misinformation, so I'm not going to give you their numbers.

[00:43:28]>> Right. Yeah. Because you know I'm not going to promote panic and misinformation about because I think the islands I mean we spoke about this earlier before you come on Bri but you know bloody well done Spain. Yeah, >> they did a super job. And funnily, you should say that, Tim. I was interviewed on Canadian TV >> and the woman, she was good. She was a good serious journalist. And at one stage, she asked me, you know, um, you know, this is a big story and and crisis. And I said, well, it's about a small boat coming to a small island off the west coast of a Africa. Yet here I am speaking to you.

[00:44:05]You know, now I do these things cuz I'm a freelance journalist and it's it's, you know, secondary income for me. So that's why I do them. But I don't go on and talk about things I don't know anything about.

[00:44:16]>> Well, that's that's what I do. That's my forte is to talk about stuff I have no no idea about.

[00:44:23]>> Worried the mom your mom's worried that all the the blind's going to come down, but it won't.

[00:44:27]>> It's a bit windy, Bri.

[00:44:29]>> It's a bit windy.

[00:44:31]>> Do you know what? It's been a bit windy and cold here, but the sun has come out here in Devon.

[00:44:37]>> It's shining off your forehead.

[00:44:38]>> Maybe I stole it. I stole it from you guys. I kept you with the cold swim and I'm taking the sun to myself.

[00:44:46]>> Well, wherever you go, Bri, the sunshine follows. I'm I'm not kidding you. You're the most bubbliest girl I know. I can't say girl anymore, can she's in the 20?

[00:44:54]>> She's a woman. She's 21.

[00:44:55]>> You're the most bubbliest woman I know.

[00:44:57]And um we miss you.

[00:44:59]>> I'm an adult now.

[00:45:03]You're an adult.

[00:45:04]>> I miss you guys very much.

[00:45:05]>> All right. Well, I >> I don't like adulting from be able to do a podcast all of us together on the B.

[00:45:11]>> Yeah. And I cook after responsible. I don't like that.

[00:45:16]>> Chris is saying what?

[00:45:19]>> Chris has got a microphone now.

[00:45:22]>> Yeah.

[00:45:23]>> But she's quite happy to say nothing.

[00:45:25]>> Chris take over.

[00:45:26]>> Yeah.

[00:45:27]>> I'm going to get another beer. So you can start by saying another beer. just anyway for the camera.

[00:45:33]>> There you go. You look gorgeous, Chris.

[00:45:34]>> There you go. I can't hear you anymore, Bri, but I'm going to just going to get another beer.

[00:45:37]>> He's getting another beer. I'm still on glass one. I I The one thing was every night because I knew I was getting up at 5 in the morning, I was thinking, "Okay, another evening without a glass of wine, my dinner, >> and I had the poor old cat just spent two days in the wardrobe, Chris, because every 15 minutes the phone was going, another interview." I mean, okay, it sounds like I'm making myself out to be this famous journalist, but it really is. There's about three of us on the island who are professional radio journalists who can do encapsulate a story in 4 and a half minutes. Um, so it's a lot of work, but I, you know, by the end of last night, I was falling asleep on the sofa at 6:00. So anyway, but I will have dinner with you in person during the week, love.

[00:46:25]>> And I didn't miss a thing because you >> you talked all the time.

[00:46:30]>> I talked all the time.

[00:46:32]>> Tim has a second beer now. All is well.

[00:46:34]>> All is well.

[00:46:36]>> So Tim, you've got to stay hydrated one way or the other.

[00:46:42]>> There you go.

[00:46:42]>> I've got Yeah. Basically what I'm doing, I'm filtering the hops out.

[00:46:46]>> Oh, >> there you go.

[00:46:48]>> So we got 12. You're getting you're getting your protein in for the day >> and carbohydrate in one. It's like a in fact it's German >> nearly as good as a Guinness.

[00:46:59]>> It's German beer and German beer in Bavaria is classed as liquid bread.

[00:47:05]>> Here you go.

[00:47:07]>> Well, when I was breastfeeding, I was told I should drink mold.

[00:47:11]>> And beforehand, my nurse said, "You could have a you could have a half a Guinness every day."

[00:47:15]>> Yeah.

[00:47:16]>> Because it's full of protein. So you were probably it was probably in your fetal fluid before you were even born.

[00:47:22]Brianna >> Oh Jesus. Yeah. Mom made sure I grew up nice and strong. I mean a proper Guinness gives you energy. It gives you iron. It gives you pride. It gives you a reason.

[00:47:36]But you know what?

[00:47:37]>> Chris was told to drink Guinness because she had an iron deficiency when she was pregnant. Yeah. Um >> my mother had a a spot on her lung when she was 18. She was told to drink Guinness.

[00:47:48]As they say in the old ads, Guinness is good for you.

[00:47:52]>> Everyone should just get Irish nationality and drink Guinness to the day they die.

[00:47:56]>> There you go.

[00:47:57]>> Well, I tried to get Irish nationality because my mom had an Irish setter once, but they wouldn't have it.

[00:48:02]>> Setter? Yeah. Doesn't work.

[00:48:04]>> Spanish nationality now, right?

[00:48:05]>> After X years living here 10 years.

[00:48:07]Yeah, you probably can.

[00:48:09]>> I'm going to get Spanish nationality.

[00:48:11]>> Especially with mom being a good friend as well. Oh, I could put in a word at the town council like Mhm.

[00:48:18]>> Yeah, you could.

[00:48:20]>> So, how do headlines influence public perception?

[00:48:24]>> I'll put a word in for you, Tim.

[00:48:26]>> Thank you. Thank you. You got to you got to practice uh Spanish with me.

[00:48:31]>> So, I've got to learn how to swear in the car. So, to put the intermittent on you type of thing, you know.

[00:48:40]>> I don't think he needs to learn anything. I think he has it perfectly.

[00:48:44]>> So, how headlines influence the public perception? The same facts, different headline, different reaction.

[00:48:50]>> There you go.

[00:48:51]>> So, criminal arrested or beloved teacher charged.

[00:48:56]>> Yeah.

[00:48:57]>> Yeah.

[00:48:57]>> And the rise of outrage media.

[00:49:01]>> Very much so. Yeah.

[00:49:02]>> Yeah. Outrage gets clicks and clicks make money.

[00:49:05]>> Yeah. That's that's And I mean, we're probably contributing to it right here by being >> Yeah. I think that I think that even though I did sort of I didn't clickbait the title that much.

[00:49:15]>> No, no, you didn't.

[00:49:16]>> And most of the people that come on here know us, right?

[00:49:19]>> But I think that if there are new people and if there are new people, I'm welcome.

[00:49:23]>> Um then, you know, it just makes you think and as long as you think for yourself. I don't tell you what to think. No, >> I just give you an option of uh of what to of of how what to think about. and and when I'm reporting um I give facts and I've been on one particular British television station once or twice and they have asked me a question or questions in such a >> leading >> leading way that they want me to answer either in an angry manner or in a defensive manner but in some way they're trying to get a rise out of me and I >> you still beat your wife.

[00:50:01]>> Yeah, that kind of thing. When when did they release when were you released? Are you out on bail?

[00:50:06]>> Yeah.

[00:50:06]>> Um but I just I won't I don't do those interviews anymore.

[00:50:10]>> No.

[00:50:11]>> They don't want the facts.

[00:50:12]>> Social media algorithms and viral reactions. So basically the more you react to something the more you'll get see you'll see it.

[00:50:22]>> And also if you start going down one rabbit hole you'll get shown a lot more rabbit hole stuff.

[00:50:29]>> That's the Warren >> you know. That's why and I am not I am not uh affiliated with these people.

[00:50:34]It's a shame I'm not but I'm not affiliated with these people but I consume my news using ground news.

[00:50:41]>> Yeah, you've you've >> ground news. It's a it's a news uh um >> site.

[00:50:47]>> No, no. What is it? Not conglomerator.

[00:50:50]What's the word? I'm looking a >> amalgamation. No, no, there's another word.

[00:50:55]>> Uh aggregator.

[00:50:56]>> Okay. Oh, all right.

[00:50:57]>> News aggregator, right? And um people and AI helping the people aggregate it together, summarize everything and then say what the facts are, what everybody agrees on, right?

[00:51:10]>> Okay.

[00:51:10]>> What um everybody differs on, right? And who is reporting it, is it more left reporting, more right reporting, that type of thing. And then they've got this blind spot, and you only get the blind spot if you pay, right? But basically, it shows you something that you don't normally consume. So your blind spot is for me is right-wing media.

[00:51:33]>> Okay. And would be for me.

[00:51:34]>> So I'm I'm fully informed on what the right-wing media are pushing to the right-wing media um consumers. Yeah. And then that gives me an insight into why they don't believe things in the leftwing media if you like. You know >> and and the opposite of course. And the course >> I have in up until very recently I would have said that this was well I think to a certain extent still it is true that the I mean I grew up in Ireland. I learned my med did my media training in Ireland and I moved here. So press that I read or worked for they're they're not as left right in Ireland the newspaper is and neither are they here. Certainly the local media isn't the local newspapers. So I've never and I've never really read I suppose the only newspaper the UK newspaper I read is the Guardian.

[00:52:23]So that's it. People can say oh she's a Guardian reader that just kind of you can add a whole list you know left woke feminist just because I read a particular kind of newspaper but >> that's pretty true though is it?

[00:52:35]>> Yeah completely. But no, but I didn't grow up in a media environment that was >> um >> labeled and polarized by by leftwing or rightwing.

[00:52:46]>> Go ahead, Bri.

[00:52:49]>> What were you going to say, Bri?

[00:52:52]>> Or is she frozen?

[00:52:54]>> Oh, yeah. You froze.

[00:52:56]>> I was going to say I'm proudly so too.

[00:52:58]>> No, I was going to say proudly so too, but just from one decision of you or thinking.

[00:53:03]>> No. Oh yeah. But I mean no matter what they will always assume if you like one thing they assume the rest about you.

[00:53:12]>> Yeah that's true.

[00:53:14]>> Yeah. These days they do because they have been shown that there is a profile.

[00:53:19]So if you read a certain newspaper that's who you are or if you vote well if you vote a certain way as well that's who you are. Um and you know I think that's not true anymore. In Ireland, we learned that well quite a few years ago because we have a different voting system. But England in the last local elections certainly learned that nobody's vote is for life. And just because people voted one way for 40 years doesn't mean they're always going to vote that way. And I that's changing perceptions too maybe.

[00:53:48]>> But you got you got extremists on both sides now. And I think the um the people who were, you know, sort of like not rocking the boat, sort of the centrist type type movement, they now have to get in bed with the extremists.

[00:54:02]>> With one or the other.

[00:54:04]>> One or the other, right? And the question is, do you want to get in in bed with the right-wing extremist or the left-wing extremist?

[00:54:09]>> Yeah. Are you talking about the Greens as the leftwing extremist?

[00:54:12]>> I'm talking about the Greens as the leftwing extreme. I'm not saying extremism is bad on either side. All I'm saying is is that it's all or nothing, >> you know? So the leftwing extremist if you go for certain things then you're going to have to get get things that are maybe not in your what you want to do you know but you've got to sort of do that but Germany where we live for 25 years or you live for a lot more longer than that where I live for 25 years everything was a coalition or a or the same because we had proportional representation >> representation yeah so that might be that might be something that might >> look at Wales and look at Scotland >> well no look at I mean put it this Hey, this might be a good way to get um to get the UK >> to um adopt proportional representation, you know. But what I also did here, not to be political, but just um to comment on it is that all the nationalists, it's it's like the first time in ever >> that nationalist parties have won the Scottish, the Welsh, and the Northern Irish.

[00:55:16]>> Well, there wasn't an election in Northern Ireland this time. So two years ago there was and the because of the particular good Friday agreement >> the way Northern Ireland's dormant works is that the the first minister and the deputy first minister whoever so if the first minister is a unionist the deputy first minister comes from the national side >> okay >> but it but it has worked they've had a couple of glitches >> but I mean >> they shut down for a year or so >> they have yeah but they haven't in the last two years and you know you have a Shinfane >> is the first minister for the very first time and the unionist Emma Pengali is the deputy first minister and they've attended a lot of things together um and they seem to be working well together because they've you know >> but now they're talking to each other they have been since >> No, I don't mean that. I mean the the Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland are now talking to each other and they're sort of saying you know what >> Westminster's not not the be all and end all you know. So I think the Westminster has actually got um a lot of work to do to to get the to get the >> Yeah.

[00:56:19]>> You know, one of the things I studied in college and that we've gone completely off topic.

[00:56:23]>> Doesn't matter. It's a podcast. If you are commenting on here, I do apologize.

[00:56:27]I'm not reading the comments. Yes, darling.

[00:56:30]>> Well, the coalitions sometimes don't get because they fight.

[00:56:37]>> That's also true. But if they I agree Chris and especially countries that aren't used to coalitions like the conservative lib lib dem coalition but countries that are used to coalitions know they work on a program for government and that will last 5 years but German but I so I studied political science and I was fascinated by the looking at the percentage of parties voted for and the representation in parliament and the closest was was the list system in Germany.

[00:57:08]Mhm.

[00:57:08]>> So if 75% well 37% of people voted green, you had almost 37% of t and I think that's a really good system because it means a much higher percentage of the population get representation.

[00:57:21]>> But I've seen also in Germany, I've said it before, but I'll say it again is that there is a website in Germany before every election that lists all the policies of all the parties.

[00:57:35]>> Excellent. without telling you which party it is.

[00:57:37]>> Which party it is? Oh, that's clever.

[00:57:39]>> Pick one of each. Yeah. Do you prefer this or this? This or this. And at the end it says, well, give me your um co your um postal direction postal direction postal code and I should I'll tell you which list that you need to be looking at.

[00:57:55]>> That's clever.

[00:57:55]>> It is clever. So, a lot of people and I'm not I'm sure that not everybody uses that. No, but it means that you're voting um based on what you believe in rather than which party you follow.

[00:58:07]>> Exactly. We still got 82 people watching.

[00:58:09]>> Brianna, you're not a big political head. So, is this Are you bored by this?

[00:58:13]>> I am a very big political head thanks to you. But I am in a rush. I see. I'm not staying over at my place at the moment and I've got my friends and they're have dinner everything ready and I do need to head off soon because I need to use this room.

[00:58:25]>> Brianna, thank you so much for coming in and sorry to keep you whilst we were all chit chatting that thanks for the story and keep us up to date on your um your quest for the Oscar >> and I'm sure that if ever I tell you what if ever you are nominated for the Oscar me and Chris are going to fly over with you I'll get you guys dressed I'll make sure you get very nicely dressed by Mr. Guope or Valentino to Madre Pimero.

[00:59:00]>> You're ready. M. We Yeah. Me and Matt have had us talk many times. She knows what she's.

[00:59:07]>> All right. Love. I shall talk to you later.

[00:59:10]>> Love.

[00:59:10]>> Thanks, Rick. See you, >> guys. Thank you so much. I'll be back for that love steak dinner anyway.

[00:59:16]>> I'll send you pictures.

[00:59:19]Go on.

[00:59:28]I bet you. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:59:33]>> I had a list.

[00:59:35]>> I've got a list. I can keep going.

[00:59:37]>> I have a list. We're talking about the list system.

[00:59:40]>> There we go. So, uh, so ladies and gentlemen, I'm just going to go back.

[00:59:44]See, um, good night Daniel was the last time we saw. What a beautiful, eloquent, passionate, intelligent woman Brianna is. Oh, >> that's from Katherine Ruff.

[00:59:53]>> And thank you, Katherine. Uh, Night Julie, I'm going backwards pass. That would be fab. We'll definitely have to arrange something. Uh, I'm falling behind. Nigel 402.

[01:00:05]Okay. Uh, Dina, they started talking amongst themselves because we were ignoring them.

[01:00:13]>> Vernon, just a quick one. Massive. Thank you. Everyone at nearly 800 subs. Oh, cool, dude. Uh, home of the heartage. We got a push. Final push for the thousand.

[01:00:21]Come on, guys. Don't even do what you need to do is to share it on all your social media. I know I have a bit of fun when Ruth says she's shared it on on Facebook, but it really does help. And so, please all your social media, then go ahead and um and uh share home is where the heart is. Uh >> so that they get some they get to the thousand.

[01:00:46]Uh John, yes, Lee certainly a heavy hitter on the old drink. Interesting conversations tonight. Need to go by see Ian David and Paz. Okay, it was it was mostly Cheers, Baz, mate. I don't drink Guinness. I'll have to leave the splitting G to the professional. Is that a thing in Ireland?

[01:01:03]>> It's No, of course not. Okay.

[01:01:05]>> Well, there we are. Back to social media and clicks. It was invented by the British. I think people in Ireland, they'd look at you sideways. It'd be like using whiskey to make an Irish coffee. They kind of go, "What the hell are you up to?" Well, the Brits ruined >> and drink.

[01:01:17]>> The Brits ruined the tourist industry in Spain because the Spanish invented the all the the allincclusive holiday and they were when they were inventing it, they say nobody's going to drink more alcohol than what they paid for the holiday >> and unfortunately the Brits uh did >> and now it is a thing of the past.

[01:01:35]>> Mariality Brianna's a credit to Cleo.

[01:01:38]>> A thank you >> Trisha. Whiskey was put on my dummy as a child, hence me loving whiskey. M >> Cleo, you were a triumph on RTE, says Siobhan.

[01:01:46]>> Oh, thank you, Siobhan.

[01:01:47]>> All the best, Brianna. Enjoy life, says Ian. Uh, hope you're well enough to go to Tennerean. Oh, >> oh, >> oh, I hope you are as well. Absolutely.

[01:01:59]Which is a credit to Cleo. Tim, get me a beer, please. There you go, Paul.

[01:02:06]Uh, media only report on the things in a bad light because it draws the views.

[01:02:11]Yeah, we did that. give people good news and no one watches it.

[01:02:15]>> You know, that's why we that's why we changed the balcony banter from being fun to being >> bit more >> boring. Yeah.

[01:02:22]>> You're blind him. Get some help.

[01:02:25]>> I remember when I started journalism as a joke, uh a producer I was working with said, you know, one of the slogans is you never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.

[01:02:34]>> Good story. Yeah.

[01:02:35]>> On the news now, two of the passengers, one French, one American, have developed symptoms, apparently, says Tina.

[01:02:40]>> Yeah. Uh media consequently hold celebs to account but squeal and complain when it happens to them. Also true. The press, in my opinion, sensationalizes the facts causing worry and panic, says Amory. You're right. Uh that ship has been blown out of proportion by the media all over the world, including social media, Tik Tok, YouTube, etc. I'm sure Spain can handle the situation safely and professionally, says Paul.

[01:03:04]>> Exactly. Exactly. Put UK passenger hospital in the whirl.

[01:03:08]Andrew Andrew actually did very well.

[01:03:12]>> He'll hate me. He'll hate me for saying this, but um Webbby watched it and said it was a good interview. So, and you know what Webby's like, but that's offline, right? Online's got to be.

[01:03:25]Uh they won't be asking you again, Tim.

[01:03:27]No, they won't know. Well, they've got What have I got to say? I've got nothing to say. I >> You haven't been down there. You haven't been talking to anybody.

[01:03:35]>> The only thing I know is what you told me.

[01:03:37]>> Yeah. So, no, I I don't I've not interviewed anybody. So, I mean, I can talk till the cows come home um personally on stuff I know nothing about. Chris can say that, can't you?

[01:03:49]>> And I'll take your best a best guess at it and then just say it as if it's true.

[01:03:53]>> But it shouldn't be I mean I if there's if it's a talk show or if it's a show that is looking for personal opinions about something, that's a different matter. If it's a news program and then it is certainly in Australia calling up somebody in Tenneref who the Australian viewers don't know but they assume if he or she is being invited on an Australian news program they must have some weight.

[01:04:16]>> See the thing is I had I was in a dilemma which is one of those big American cars.

[01:04:20]>> Oh >> and in fact the only way you can use the word dilemma in an English sentence is I am riding on the horns of a dilemma.

[01:04:30]That's the only way you can use it. So being in a dilemma is is grammatically incorrect.

[01:04:34]>> There you go.

[01:04:35]>> But I'm in a dilemma. American car anyway. And I very quickly weighed up.

[01:04:42]Do I want to be famous on American TV?

[01:04:45]>> Australian >> uh sorry, Australian TV.

[01:04:47]>> Australian.

[01:04:48]>> Do I want to be famous on Australian TV to get the clicks on my channel?

[01:04:52]>> Mhm.

[01:04:52]>> Right.

[01:04:53]>> Or would I rather forsake that for my integrity?

[01:04:59]>> Yeah. That's a very Yeah, I know that feeling >> that and that's what I decided. I'm not saying that people who did it don't have integrity, >> but that was my decision. I didn't want to be >> on TV in a foreign country uh to get clicks.

[01:05:17]>> Yeah, basically but and to >> and I couldn't contribute anything anything >> because like so when I'm on >> and they were looking for something they wanted to be negative. They wanted a headline. Yeah, they might headline >> where I mean so when I'm on it is freelance journalist Cleo Lint from Tenneref, >> right?

[01:05:33]>> Um because I am a freelance journalist.

[01:05:35]>> If you've not seen it, I did put a clip up and on my Vimeo account and I can share that. Can I?

[01:05:41]>> Yes. Yeah, you can.

[01:05:42]>> Okay. Y >> So I did put a clip up on the Vimeo account and uh if you want to have a look at that in now cuz we're leaving now. Um, I'll put the link in the chat.

[01:05:52]And this was Cleo's um Oh, on CBCNN Live.

[01:06:00]>> That's Canada.

[01:06:01]>> That's can Oh, Canada, was it Canada?

[01:06:03]>> Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Yeah.

[01:06:05]>> Okay. CBC.

[01:06:06]>> And I mean, it was a very good interview. She was a very good journalist and it was serious. It wasn't >> She wanted facts.

[01:06:12]>> Mhm. and and the I think at one stage I said to her personally because I at one stage I I voiced a personal opinion >> but I kind of made sure that I separated personal and professional so I think that's fair enough.

[01:06:26]>> Uhhuh. I forgot to copy the link before I pasted.

[01:06:29]>> Um paste this is it. It's the Vimeo link and that's Cleo.

[01:06:34]>> Yeah.

[01:06:34]>> And um travel awesome together on you've done the right thing. Thank you. I refuse to read. I refused to read and I delete the good news edition of the Irish Independent every weekend. It's too boring.

[01:06:49]>> Okay. I'm again if I read the Guardian, you guys must know what I read. I'm I'm an Irish Times subscriber.

[01:06:55]>> It was that was we got the Irish Times when I was growing up and I still read it.

[01:07:00]>> Oh. Um Paul saying Guinness drinking tradition with the origins in Irish pub culture started in Dublin. It originated as an informal local challenge to take one large first sip that lands exactly in the middle of the G.

[01:07:15]>> Well, after I left Dublin, >> you know, I was thinking about that and I want to apologize to everybody that I've ever offended because I uh read the other day that um geography has the fourth dimension of time.

[01:07:36]>> Okay?

[01:07:36]>> Right? So that when when I'm talking about Britain, I'm talking about Britain of the 70 I'm talking about England of the 70s.

[01:07:44]>> Yeah. And I'm talking about Ireland of the '90s.

[01:07:46]>> Right. And >> true. Good point.

[01:07:49]>> So geography. So and I have no idea what it's like to live in Britain now. No.

[01:07:54]>> Right. So sometimes when I'm talking about um policy and a little bit of politics, I really um do not have the upto-date experiences that you guys have.

[01:08:07]>> Yeah.

[01:08:08]>> And so I'm going to I'm going to That's an excellent point.

[01:08:11]>> I'm going to get off my high horse is what I'm going to do.

[01:08:13]>> Oh, and and how about the horns of the dilemma?

[01:08:16]>> I'm sticking on the horns of the dilemma. I shall carry on on the horns of the dilemma.

[01:08:20]>> I tell you one thing that I just want to finish this though.

[01:08:22]>> Sorry. Go ahead with your point.

[01:08:23]>> Um, which was the um media framing and selective storytelling. Example, peaceful protest >> and chaotic disruption.

[01:08:33]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[01:08:33]>> Right. All true.

[01:08:34]>> The same event, different frame. The traditional media versus social media influence. Well, traditional media were editors, gatekeepers, and slow to react usually.

[01:08:46]>> Yeah. And uh I think I saw something where there was an actor um I'll remember his name eventually. Um everyone instant and unfiltered his social media, right? And he said it is not enough to be right anymore. You've just got to be first.

[01:09:04]>> That's >> you just got to be first.

[01:09:05]>> Sounds unfortunately it sounds right.

[01:09:07]>> Well, it is. Yes. Celebrity politics and public image manipulation image isn't always real. It's very carefully managed. Right. Y >> and the role of clicks engagement and advertising. You won't believe what happened next. Shocking truth reveal.

[01:09:22]Click here. Right.

[01:09:23]>> And that God, I'm I stop I'm trying to stop myself doing that. I do that all the time.

[01:09:28]>> Yeah. But I mean, you can do that as long as it's not as long as it's not um it's just a bit of fun like the Mac Master, you know? You know, electric cars, I'm leaving and that type of thing. So, that type of clickbait. I don't mind because it doesn't harm anybody.

[01:09:41]>> No. No. I suppos I mean it's headlines so that I see it. But then I've learned how if it's a Daily Mail or whatever whoever Daily Mail observer and it's it so it gives your headline then you click to read the full story and the minute you click it says they want to send you notifications block or allow and I now know just block block and I'm really trying to I need social media for my job so I have to be on Facebook and I have to be on Instagram on the jobs accounts but I try and use my person even though I posted a real for the first first time at the weekend.

[01:10:15]>> It's not public though. I can't watch it.

[01:10:16]>> Yes, it was on Instagram. It was public >> on Instagram. Yeah. No, I watched it was it was not public.

[01:10:22]>> I thought it was I must revise my in my Instagram page.

[01:10:26]>> So, how online communities amplify narratives? The a few voices can become millions very quickly. And can reputation survive ri viral controversy?

[01:10:37]>> The internet remembers and forgiveness is rare. Yeah, that's the B.

[01:10:42]>> Uh, number 11 out of 12, the difference between facts, opinion, and narrative.

[01:10:47]Now, that's a very that we'll probably do a whole new thing on the difference between facts, opinion, and narrative.

[01:10:54]>> So, the fact is what happened. The opinion is what do you think about it?

[01:10:57]And the narrative is the story that you build around it. Yeah.

[01:11:01]>> Understand the difference.

[01:11:02]>> And so, no, I mean, GB news is GB opinion.

[01:11:07]>> Yeah.

[01:11:07]>> Right. There's no news in that. BBC news is BBC opinion.

[01:11:12]>> It used to be news, but >> it's well there's a slant to it's it's facts presented in a certain way. So it is news, but I mean >> if it's presented in in a certain way, then it's an opinion, >> but the facts are part of like they're presenting facts in a certain way as well. Yeah. But it's it's only opinion.

[01:11:32]>> Uh audience discussion. Who controls the truth now? Is it the journalists, the government, the influencers, the algorithms, the communities, or you?

[01:11:41]>> Many voices, many agendas. Who do you trust? Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to publish this um I'm going to publish this uh on my blog. Uh timothydow.com/blog.

[01:11:54]Uh if you don't know about that, go to timothydow.com, go to blog, and every one of these um uh in fact, every video I do, I do a summary of it. And also later on if you go into the um description and unfortunately you got to press two things. You got to go description and more, right? And then I also put in uh placeholders with timestamps and if you click them it takes you to that portion of the video.

[01:12:22]So watching my stuff back on catchup, you can actually go in and skip around the way that you want it. Are we gonna eat inside?

[01:12:31]>> Yeah. Or should I or should I just bring that down and and and >> it's Well, it's up to I'm okay out here.

[01:12:37]>> You okay, Chris?

[01:12:38]>> What we'll do? I'll even put it up.

[01:12:41]>> Put it up. Put it up.

[01:12:42]>> I'll put it up. Yeah, >> put it up or ladies and jelly spoons.

[01:12:45]I'm going to I'm going to publish this on on the blog later.

[01:12:48]>> Thank you for writing my daughter in, by the way.

[01:12:52]>> I know. She was a She was a total asset.

[01:12:56]>> And I didn't write. She was that good-looking on screen. She was good-looking on screen, isn't she?

[01:13:00]>> I know. I still see her as a 12-year-old.

[01:13:02]>> No, she's good looking off screen, too.

[01:13:03]Don't know where she gets that.

[01:13:06]>> You must have been a looker in your day.

[01:13:08]>> Is that a backhanded compliment?

[01:13:10]>> I looked interesting.

[01:13:11]>> Was Was that a backhanded compliment?

[01:13:13]>> No, I was never uh I was never as good-looking as my girl. M.

[01:13:18]>> I suppose the Spanish Irish mix is good.

[01:13:20]>> Mhm.

[01:13:21]>> Yeah.

[01:13:21]>> And don't forget, I've got a new um YouTube channel with cooking on it. I put a new one up yesterday. It was a lentil curry and you cannot taste the lentils Trisha in a lentil curry. It's just instead of minced meat or something like that.

[01:13:35]>> Lentil. I love >> Yeah, but it's just the texture texture.

[01:13:39]>> And um >> if you want to get that, it's youtube.com/cookoff or you can go to timothydow.com/cookoff and that'll bring you to the same place.

[01:13:49]So, uh I'd like to thank Cleo.

[01:13:52]>> You're welcome.

[01:13:52]>> I'd like to thank Christina.

[01:13:55]M I'd like to thank Adam for coming in and we'll see you next week. And I'd like to thank Brianna for popping in and you really were very good and you are a what's the word? A an asset to your mom.

[01:14:13]>> A >> so there you go. There you go. And we can't all we can't wait for the Oscars, can we?

[01:14:19]>> I love that. I didn't know she still had that. She said that to me years ago. She wants to be the first Canarian to win an Oscar. I'm thinking, go for it.

[01:14:26]>> Go for it. Yeah, >> go for it.

[01:14:27]>> Well, she probably she'd probably get it as uh as the star in what's the one that was filmed here?

[01:14:34]>> There was a couple that were filmed here, weren't there?

[01:14:36]>> Fast.

[01:14:37]>> The Fast and the Furious and Jared Butler. Um Jared Butler did one where the final scene was in a cafe in like a letter.

[01:14:47]>> Oh, okay. We also have the Titan, the War of the Titans or the Titan.

[01:14:51]>> Yeah, but I mean that Yeah.

[01:14:52]>> Yeah. Yeah. Well, there is Wonder Woman.

[01:14:54]Wonder uh that was in well the Raquel Welch 1 million years BC was filmed in Lanzerati of course back in the 60s.

[01:15:00]Yeah.

[01:15:01]>> Cool dude.

[01:15:02]>> All the locals were in there in their little kind of skinny bikinis or >> me Rael Welsh. She was on my wall as a kid, I tell you.

[01:15:10]>> Now there was a woman. There was a woman.

[01:15:14]>> Right. Bugger off. Chris is getting hungry at a kid.

[01:15:19]Mhm. So, what I'm going to do quickly, I'm going to do uh Iber and crockett so I can pop them out while I'm doing everything else.

[01:15:25]>> Then I'm going to do a a slowcooked on the edge steak for the fat.

[01:15:32]>> Yum.

[01:15:33]>> I'm going to I'm going to render the fat out whilst the chips and the uh onion rings are doing. Right. And then >> this is why I come here, guys.

[01:15:42]>> And then I'm going to flap it down. Do it medium rare or just a bit better.

[01:15:46]What you said, whatever. And then I'm going to tratorize it or what do they call it like the >> slice >> slice on a bed of salad >> and uh jobs are good and I'll put a picture >> looked at it enough we can eat it >> we yes we can and I'm going to do the recipe next weekend of how to cook a steak >> that sounds like good I'll be reading that >> and uh and all that stuff and and how much I spent as well and how much I spent as well right so uh don't forget tomorrow morning I'm going to meet Johnny vlogger and Tenneref TZ is at the Pasarella Center around about 9:00. We're going to have a walk around and a chitchat until 9:30 when the Olive Garden opens and then I'm going to pig out in the Olive Garden on Tenneref TZ's Dollar and then I'm going to come home and make Christina the best pancakes this side of the Mississippi.

[01:16:41]>> What's uh what's what you doing this week?

[01:16:43]>> What am I doing this week? Um I might go to Ireland.

[01:16:48]I haven't decided yet.

[01:16:49]>> Okay.

[01:16:50]>> No. Um, I want to have dinner with my daughter.

[01:16:52]>> Mhm.

[01:16:53]>> So, I think I'm going to do that. I want to see my daddy.

[01:16:55]>> Your daddy?

[01:16:56]>> My daddy who's in a fantastic nursing home in Dublin.

[01:16:59]>> Mhm.

[01:17:00]>> Thank you to the people who are looking after him. And um yeah, and I'm going to go and actually Brianna is dancing at Ireland Africa Day.

[01:17:08]>> Mhm.

[01:17:08]>> Kilmanum guys. She's danced between 1 and 2. Kilmanum Museum Jail. If anybody's in Dublin, next Saturday it's Ireland Africa Day. She was born off the west coast of Africa. She dances with an African troop. So she's dancing on Saturday and I'm going to be there.

[01:17:23]>> So all you Dubliners out there, get round to the jail.

[01:17:28]>> Yeah.

[01:17:28]>> Those gardens at the back. Apparently it's going to be great food, great music, and some great danc.

[01:17:34]>> Yeah. Yeah. So I believe.

[01:17:35]>> Yeah.

[01:17:35]>> So I believe.

[01:17:36]>> There you go.

[01:17:37]>> But Bri says the dancers get the food free, but I don't.

[01:17:42]Chris, what's what you got this week?

[01:17:46]>> I got a meet up Wednesday, but I don't know if anybody's coming.

[01:17:56]>> Nobody's booked. So, if you are on the island and you want to come and meet Chris, she's coming up to >> where we going.

[01:18:03]it baby.

[01:18:05]>> If you've got an idea, then um let us know and we'll either be in the Nebula downstairs, the Terasa Manolo upstairs, uh La Palmer, which I was walk past today, or over in the Rosa Center. So, you decide if you want to come. If nobody's coming, we'll decide.

[01:18:23]>> Okay, that's what we do.

[01:18:26]>> Yeah. So all left to say now is thank you very very much for everybody else and see you >> wouldn't want to be here >> outro >> quick otherwise we lose the >> Hi everyone not mentioned >> I Timothy Dow Jean So >> that's the section of the >> on the hill.

[01:19:01]>> Duffy, have a good one. Thank you.

[01:19:03]>> Happy birthday.

[01:19:04]>> Thank you.

[01:19:05]>> Out steamed.

[01:19:07]>> Married today.

[01:19:08]>> Yeah.

[01:19:12]>> So you got four of these basically, right?

[01:19:15]>> So it was Ray. Where are you then? We got a little bucket of eels. Now we got a video be out on Sunday.

[01:19:23]So, oh, >> there he is.

[01:19:32]>> The Mac master is a complete top one.

[01:19:35]This is normal. Yeah.