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Aidan Mccarthy

Aidan Mccarthy

Jul 12, 2026

33:21
Yeah,
33:22
yeah.
33:23
So, yeah, little fire was being blocked as a child.
33:28
So I was very quiet, very shy, but so... really wanting to talk to people really wanting to burn out so then my parents put me into the i don't know if you remember the fca the free clothing so it's kind of the irish reserve army yes i was trying to think of it yeah yeah so um i started going to that and they were just there was kind of military uh drills that disciplinary kind of marching and people shouting in like you just clean your boots all this discipline stuff uh fold your clothes neatly brushes or so we spent I spent a week or maybe it was two weeks in Tralee boot camp and that that changed that was a seminal moment that changed my life I was like I was getting shouted at and clean your boots and and into with the marching I remember we were marching and it was click click click dos click in Irish click just remember all this stuff and then when you see a sergeant walking past you just everyone just goes to the left just acknowledge his presence you don't salute you just everyone looks and you keep going click click click, click, click.
34:40
So they're marching there.
34:41
And then, then I came home and I, that was just such a wonderful experience.
34:45
And then I came home, something was building.

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