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By Podcast, you improvised aivins. So a couple of weeks ago my mother rang me up on the

phone and she sounded an eye to me because she had just opened up the newspaper and

lemuric, the lemuric post. And in the lemuric post there were adverts for like a

night, like a community college, I suppose you call it night courses for adults in the paper.

And one of the classes that was being advertised was a podcasting course. So there was a course

on how to start her own podcast was being run in lemuric in as a night course of one of

the community colleges for adults. And my mother was annoyed and angry with me saying why didn't

you apply to teach this class? Why are you not teaching this class in podcasting? I had to

step back from it and realize that you know my mother's she's elderly so she's very old school.

So she comes from a kind of an Irish culture whereby the job that you get must be the most secure.

So getting a job with a teaching in an institution is the best possible job because it can never

be taken away. And that was probably the case maybe 30 years ago but anyone who knows anybody who

works in academics knows that teacher's jobs aren't safe. So I said to her, no, I'm grand. I don't

need to be teaching a night course in podcasts in lemuric because my own podcast is actually doing

quite well and I have to go on tour to Australia with it next week. So I put the phone down and then I

had to reflect and the conversation I just had I had to check in with myself emotionally because as

adults, when a parent gives you advice, you have to be very mindful of the advice coming from the

parent because you can give it a lot more credence than it deserves. Like emotionally you're like

fuck my mom wants me to become a podcast and teacher, I better do it. And then I had to say to

me, I said, no, you're a grown adult man and you know what you're doing with your life.

And you also have quite a successful podcast and don't need to be teaching podcasts in a night

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