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What is up and welcome to the latest Energized Show! On this episode we have the Irish comedy duo of Sir Stevo Timothy & Lady Sinead Nora McGrath better known as "Farmer Michael & Kathleen" to discuss Starting comedy, Viral videos & Overcoming Adversity. Check it out, enjoy…

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Energized Show episode with Irish comedy creators Sir Stevo and Lady Sinead, known for the Farmer Michael and Kathleen viral Facebook characters. They describe starting by accident when an uncle used a fake Western Ireland farmer accent in a phone video that blew up because viewers were unsure it was real. Michael and Kathleen were already a couple before the content took off; Lady Sinead says she has supported Everton since before they met and grew up around Liverpool-linked family ties. They trace early momentum to the UK inviting them to shows, then US venues, while Stevo avoids flying and uses the ferry to England. They contrast blunt UK theatre touring with harsher online reaction in Ireland, defend making sketch videos on abortion and other topics others avoid, and say Liverpool and Dublin are their top follower cities alongside Manchester, Sheffield, and Southport. Both discuss overcoming personal accidents—a car crash and a horse fall—and using comedy to lift people. They criticize a small circle of Irish comedy promoters, say they sold out UK shows within about two years without years of unpaid open mics, mention two documentaries in progress including Cork filming, new characters doing well, and a secret upcoming project. They are self-managed and note many followers also follow rugby, football, or combat sports.

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okay what's going on guys welcome to a brand new episode of energized it's today we have two very special guests on the show we have youtubers we we hit them okay that's tricky it's hairy it's hard an orphan it's a weird situation I think yeah and when you have like 50 on yeah people live in idiots you guys obviously passing car way is that you probably well-known around there well people could be coming up to asking for photographs and stuff even though this is all happening yeah you're kinda like a bit oh like some burnt moreover two days and her older kids for me I think like if you go into town all you see now is because town is empty of for lack of a better term normal people when you see is the wax that's all that's in town now see you see the mad people so always tell us this how do you guys get started on what you're doing late everyone knows why wait right now but haven't lost our it was all by accident um I was waving at my uncle we kind of joined together and he's always do this like fake accent as a farmer like Western infirmary and one night he was messin like with his phone he just did it with his brother and stuff yeah and then I trued up on Facebook and it kinda just it just grew from there I think it exploded initially because people didn't know whether it was real or not yeah and I didn't like ice Falls a lot of people still today I think it's actually real and they get angry when I don't talk like that real life like not a vicious and then yeah so in the video and it's Michael was talking about his wife cut like why don't you just be okay were you ever going out long before this is all exploded or we dived into everything yeah I was looking for a victim so yeah go out with this girl and make her happy so you're on the dirty you've been on the chip the whole journey together yeah yeah and it's been a crazy journey - mm-hmm really crazy you supported her from before hunt me yeah me that I've grown up supporting average - my family here from liver and like everyone said like you know you don't have to support average in just because your boyfriend does and I'm like yeah I do initially I was a pure Republican he minded person I use their widest premiership leave her on for parties that's worth any governor and stop being a [ __ ] idiot Coleman I just think obviously the deal has been Sligo Rovers just very close to us and just a genuine guy it's unreal and what I always I know what's really generic and cliche but I have like I love Dixie Dean because he was the player that my grandfather's follow around which is kind of cool him and James Forman had the connection even have you ever noticed how biggest tongue is adds weight to his defense where we had to like interview man so that means actually he's such a shy fellow but he is so nice really nice to be able to kind of have a relationship with him and I was interviewing him as firm like like OC OC right now you're like your Facebook page or Twitter your Instagram like your new tree we're all absolute blowing up and like I what stage did you get to when you were like wow this is all really like kicking off no I think computers in the UK start especially in the UK because it was like oh we'd love to have you come over to a show and then I suppose at that point we were fined like alright there's something babe here like if people in the UK want to score and even venues in the US and things asking us will we do shows I've been like completely irrational fear of flying so I get to ferry over to England and I'm gonna have to force myself to go to America one of the days so if I can because we have had like alpha-1 on the show we have a Halloween show and like we've asked why why do you do they think that there's not more like Irish people put themselves out there I'm making like bigger comment or like content what was it why would you think that yourself because like you all see started out and go away which most people like most people the people are here until them doing it it meant so much yesterday but she sent out like hundreds of theaters all over the UK is because they don't care whether they like you or not they're just very polite about it I think in this country like it's the generic thing that everyone like Bono's fine like we just it's just when you're but no comedy videos especially people like people are really really weird oh you're taking around with new characters and put on the new character and then go like this [ __ ] bring back my kid you do a micro video the same person to comment on like I could be the first admit at a lot of people like that do memes and things like or we won't do any about him cause he'll attack us and [ __ ] but [ __ ] you if you're attacking me online I'm gonna attack you back I don't give the [ __ ] you not I mean because sometimes you just usually it'll pass other times you might be feeling depressed I'm really low and you're like no I'm gonna go you know tonight yeah mixed yeah she makes me stop and they eventually stop anyway so people's comments on liens well don't wait boys just think unfollow our unsubscribe or nurse or anyone we know like my mom or dad my siblings each other going online actively writing like your [ __ ] I hope you die like what kind of like or just incomprehensible and homophobic rats spend its really really badly that's why and you're like why would you write that and they're like how can you not take constructive criticism I remember it probably right so like haha your mother's just died that's very your community media character just pinpointed a one thing I mean most people they'd like be like alder from tape talk litter from your YouTube or you know mean order Facebook you're sort of doing everything so it's hard to be put in a yeah and I think because we like as you know one if you've seen any of our videos related to other people that do Irish sketches there is topics we'd touch that they would not [ __ ] go near Namur said that from like if you have an influencing if you have a stage to a platform you have to use it if not it's kind of a cowardly way out like we don't videos about abortion like we don't in videos about and like I see my likes Luna's like 2,000 bikes overnight but it's like we gain them by comedian on Facebook what's the safe route what does that mean just like don't videos we don't like people god I stay out of religion stay out of politics no honey the sides mind like don't Adair that's why I tied it up like 17 you guys are they doing something like myself awesome no it's not like you're actually like doing geeks like I know in England when you say stuff they're America but like not not older people are really doing that by or maybe like Alf or and where exactly would be like your core audience for Liverpool Liverpool definitely yeah and from both sides and well I suppose all kind of surrounding areas sort of like you've run korneyev Manchester Sheffield all that kind of area Southport the two top cities that would follow us would be Liverpool Dublin they're the two if I look at my Instagram as well in the community which is amazing because like I've never heard of any other Football Club you know in Ireland or England that has such a huge involvement with charity and things like that so you know they have their own like mental health hospital they have their own schools in Liverpool that holds like hundreds of students that could not get their students on properly because of whatever backgrounds they have and they have their own school it's amazing yeah another cool thing as well that I saw you were doing as well is that like I know I'll see you're putting yourself out there doing all this comedy like put like the trees of like Great backstory as well I would like you both overcame certain things in life like I've saw one of your interviews like a phone cracks like you your Steve um see in the car crash and then today you like fell off a horse in your boat like injure yourselves then really see at the end of a all you're doing is try to pull it out content to make people could feel better like have a bit of crack you know so like you're actually doing it from a cool place we started this just for the crack it was we were both was they suffering from our accidents comedy was there whether it being something small or something huge Irish people tend to be Seth said it's just we are you know when you're down you me they're laughing you cry you're not I mean so it was like obviously on the we are on the first wave and like people the new people they're creating content dogs you like the old people are on tick tock but later I look back and be like who were the people are like Anne Ricci started to be like you our foreign and Rory stories like these these Irish people were like her baby set the building blocks and started people doing it you know like when I first had a Facebook page I can close to like one of the first like comedians that had a Facebook page and everyone laughed at sketches and you were looked upon as not a ten years okay now them saying people like I've noticed every comedian now is the whereas they paste on but no people are put those people probably gonna open for you as policy you're open for them as we were to deal with taken event you tell the majority the tickets and then you meet them and you're kind of like oh Jesus you came down a long way and the world of stand-up comedy anyways so toxic it's not funny at all okay so what's it like in the comedy scene these days as well because also you've been everywhere so you see a lot of things it's not no it's not funny ironically they're very they can be very vicious to each other it would be towards ourselves or because you'd hear things that they'd be saying behind your back and stuff with it well you know just because we didn't have to do ten years of open mikes and beg people for spots for no money and stuff like that we just two years picker Street done sold-out shows all over the UK done you know groups that we'll only associate with certain promoters and stuff like that and you can't get into their circle and all that we want you well you know what they're like the most comedians in Ireland they're like that because there's three or four big promoters and they are absolute [ __ ] and we despise their exists okay like Oh calm down like you play in my club for free and it's like a notch on your bedpost or some all eight on the web a black hole and you you're meant to think that that's brilliant give you a nose stupid festival for winning a competition and a hundred or something honestly you're not going to get out them out of that you've just slaves yourselfer this person belief if you think you can do it go and do it yourself you don't need to be like under the column of these like horrible bastards do you think they're just ignorant because obviously like you use have grounds which allowed audience that like they wouldn't really understand no they will constantly feel if they have the authority of one of these big promoters over them that they will get somewhere eventually yeah they're always been let it out at the carriage and stay kind of thing and it's always like oh I got a big ego get a big geek no make your own gate yes okay don't be you know waiting on someone else to make it happen for you at the chance of him throwing you a slot at whatever Festa don't [ __ ] do it yes basically cutting out the middleman it's 2020 that's the way it is women have the right to vote they have the right to drive they have the right to go to a Nordstrom Roper Rugby party after and not be abused by the way you have a documentary coming out as well I memorized sent you a TM saying can you send us on the link what's the update with that there's kind of two at the moment which is really weird yeah there's Anderson you have to send us it like I really read was here well I can only send you the link for one of them it's not yeah we did yeah and we did the cork for them flat it's been introduced the if something some if death hanging or something which are we heard they're very nice people that's we heard now yeah it's like the Oscars round yeah yeah what about documentaries about just for people that just are accidents and fucked-up beginnings and how I supposed to be kind of turned it around by accident he's hitting on Sinead altruistic warrior things on the show like what else is there to look out for I know you said documentaries he's going to do and like I'll keep the gigs that the kind of doing them right now but have you got more and we are we are writing so much right now and we're creating so many new characters that are actually doing really really well for something that's not fair and Michael and we also have an exciting and upcoming project that we cannot comment Mira Bari were to be farmer Malika or Kathleen he'll be fire Malika and who become Dean do you guys have a manager or do you guys just run it from yourself with the promotional site but we are not managed we like Kanye West we cannot be mad yeah we're unmanageable like you're said yeah because you knew now if like because a lot of people that follow our stuff like into the Ruby or football or combat sports so like we cooled I pretend to see two people like gone for it and then just that like we making the modern stuff and we have like people doing various little bits but like I don't like that because I'm a control freak so I like to arrange everything I'm just that way see you cannot be is just saying we have the best of all inspiration for a generation and when the documentary does come out and if you're looking to promote it with Lord he'll be back on so like go you guys thanks guys for tuning in and if you haven't checked them it's just Evo's Timothy and they you know we're still you have to do it right now and make sure the like subscribe and as always stay energized