Gerry Adams

idea that being your patron is so toxic to the brands that there are people who are having to keep their identity secret.

They're calling in with the sort of Gerry Adams voice changer.

That is funny.

Do you know what though? I think it's ridiculous too, but there are, I get messages from people saying, please don't read it out because where I work is, It would be a problem for me if people knew.

Big time.

Um, but Thunberg, yeah, Thunberg in the RA, um, you know, playing Connect Four with Jerry Adams or whatever she's been up to.

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Um, s- I think it's just legendary.

And then the Compton homies and pops were actually touring the UK.

They visited Belfast, where they were introduced to a guy called Gerry Adams, who was head of Sinn Féin, which is a major political party in Belfast.

northern ireland um and also this club the comps and hybrids and pops went to the house of lords in london and also played a cricket match at windsor castle so they had like this crazy story and i just felt quite a lot of resonance with with what they were trying to do and yeah reached out to to uh it was very in the very early days of kind of the internet really it was like the bbc website was still you know you would have a modem it goes you get the page you know yeah and it would render very slowly uh but you know i got the name and somehow i got an email address and uh yeah we i reached out to them And immediately, like within a day, got an email response back from an extraordinary woman called Katie Haber, who was one of the two, let's say, architects of that particular project.

along with a homeless activist called Ted Hayes and KT immediately started uh you know saying yes come on over whenever and and so that precipitated like a year of fundraising because not everybody in the club could actually afford to go out to California so we had to do a year of raising to make sure that everybody could go you know uh so that was like uh You know, on a monthly basis, we'd be having concerts and doing pub quizzes and all sorts of things just to raise funds, you know, extra funds above and beyond the usual subscriptions and stuff.

Did you come across the, the, the rumor that throughout the so-called Troubles, the IRA was effectively run by, by British in-intelligence under the auspices of ultimately Lord Carrington?

Well, I mean, there's certainly been long been rumors that Gerry Adams was, was, was an informer for British intelligence.

Uh, his brother was a pedophile, and that was one of those kind of holds over him.

Um, and of course, we had Stakeknife, who was working for British intelligence, but was their kind of their hitman.

He was cancelled, yes, he has been cancelled.

But again, fascinating characters who, you know, I mean, because we're sadly of the generation where everybody, you mentioned Northern Ireland and the only people people knew was Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley and Bowmans and what have you.

Now, you've expanded that repertoire somewhat.

Do you have a Geordie Best room?