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Speaker 2: So I came across on my socials just a dad

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Speaker 2: sitting in his digger, singing beautiful songs and talking about

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Speaker 2: mental health. He's an incredible guy. I can't wait to

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Speaker 2: have him on the show right now. He is the

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Speaker 2: digger Dad aka Shane Gallagher all the other way around,

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Speaker 2: Shane Digga Dad.

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Speaker 3: Hello, we're good. First question, which sort of digger did

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Speaker 3: you do?

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Speaker 1: You drive?

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Speaker 2: Obsessed?

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Speaker 3: Manda didn't, wouldn't tell me what it was.

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Speaker 1: You had no idea. A pretty big excavator, like bigger

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Speaker 1: than a D nine some names the equivalent. But yeahs

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Speaker 1: they can go bigger, Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 2: Happy with that.

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Speaker 3: Jensen for me, I have no fun.

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Speaker 1: I guess.

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Speaker 2: So, Shane, you came into my feed somehow. You're sitting

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Speaker 2: there playing guitar and the whole world has opened up

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Speaker 2: for you since then, the people that you've touched since then.

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Speaker 2: How did it all come about? What made you think

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Speaker 2: you wanted to upload yourself singing in your digger?

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Speaker 1: I have no idea. I was noisy. It was just

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Speaker 1: a spur of the moment thing. And I first started

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Speaker 1: out just telling stories of growing up and you know,

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Speaker 1: chasing girls and all that kind of stuff. And then

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Speaker 1: just one morning I recorded a video of me singing

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Speaker 1: Tracy Chapman's Fast Car in the Youth, and a video

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Speaker 1: I put no effort into, no talking too. I just

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Speaker 1: thought I'd better put out some kind of a video

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Speaker 1: today in order for me to kind of keep showing up.

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Speaker 1: And I showed up everywhere with that one. That one

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Speaker 1: went crazy. So then I started to kind of dial

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Speaker 1: us into more important stuff like social or mental health

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Speaker 1: awareness and all the other stuff I'm doing with autism

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Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. And it's it's great.

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Speaker 1: It's really good for my mental health too, and what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, we plied a snippet earlier of that incredible

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Speaker 2: sound voice message you had from a young man in

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Speaker 2: Ireland who said you'd turned his life around quite extraordinary,

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Speaker 2: and you talked very openly about your son and his

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Speaker 2: autism and written a book to help him with that.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about all of that.

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Speaker 1: So Nil was diagnosed when he was just two, and

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Speaker 1: we kind of got a sense fairly early on that

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Speaker 1: he was a little bit different. You know, he could

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Speaker 1: You know, he was lining things up in order, everything

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Speaker 1: had to be a particular way, and if it wasn't,

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Speaker 1: forget about it. You know, if you couldn't be that way,

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Speaker 1: watch out, you know. So we kind of went and

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Speaker 1: got assessed and realized that he was autistic, and then

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Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to share my side of it

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Speaker 1: because I have the platform with people to let them

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Speaker 1: kind of see this. It's not just them that's going

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Speaker 1: through this. The dig or that goes through it, and

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Speaker 1: somebody else that they might watch on goes through, or

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Speaker 1: someone that might pass behind the shops goes through it

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Speaker 1: as well, and the spectrum is so wide as well.

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Speaker 1: Every child is different, obviously, but if people can relate

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Speaker 1: to somebody online in a kind of a genuine, non

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Speaker 1: forced way, that kind of brings them a bit of comfort.

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Speaker 1: I imagine quite and I.

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Speaker 2: Believe it's someone very especially in Ireland, who's listening to

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Speaker 2: this very interview this morning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mammy, she showed me anyway, she said she was

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Speaker 1: so hopefully, she said, she was.

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Speaker 2: What are your Irish friends think of this new tangent

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Speaker 2: that your life has taken?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was because I went back in June for

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a holiday. I did a few

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Speaker 1: gigs as well, and it was such an eye opener

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Speaker 1: when I went back this time, just complete change. Everyone

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Speaker 1: kind of sees you and recognizes you, and everyone's shaking

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Speaker 1: your hands. Some people will like it and some people won't.

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Speaker 1: It's just life, you know. People that you grew up

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Speaker 1: with might look at you a little bit differently now

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Speaker 1: that you're in a different kind of a spotlight. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you know that comes with it. But you're the people

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Speaker 1: that mean the most and that care the most about

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Speaker 1: you will kind of steering in the right direction. I

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Speaker 1: kind of hope for the best for you, you know,

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Speaker 1: and that sort of sense. We are you doing a.

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Speaker 2: Great job for the digger questions, Brenda.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm pretty much. I'm pretty much furnished on. I'm

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Speaker 3: satisfied with all the the questions. That you ever get

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Speaker 3: to drive one of those whole packs, you know, the

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Speaker 3: big mining trucks.

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Speaker 1: No, oh, No, I actually did, Yeah, I did. I

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Speaker 1: guys sent out to somewhere somewhere locally around here just

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Speaker 1: with their training and stuff, and they give me a

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Speaker 1: free course on one of those things. So it was

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Speaker 1: pretty fun.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because Jonesy's always said that when he finishes here,

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Speaker 2: and he'll be very soon. I've seen emails this morning

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Speaker 2: that he wants to do. You want to drive a digger,

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Speaker 2: don't you.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to. I love escavators.

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Speaker 1: I just.

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Speaker 3: I want to set up a park. This is what

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Speaker 3: I want to do. I want to set up a

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Speaker 3: park with guys like me. Just go along and there's

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Speaker 3: a bunch of diggers there. You go like anything from

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Speaker 3: a Bobcat up to you know, back hose, then to

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Speaker 3: like a D nine and you just have a go.

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Speaker 1: Just moving, moving dirt around.

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Speaker 3: I think that's a that'd be a thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. They've got one up here for the for the kids.

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Speaker 1: It's called dig It. It's on Mountamboury.

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Speaker 2: It's for children children.

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Speaker 3: Recently, I think we're going to expand it.

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Speaker 1: Sure, I'm sure we can. We can guess him in.

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Speaker 3: Get you on the ground floor, mate, Shane. It's great

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Speaker 3: to talk to you. Different Dave by The Digga Dad

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Speaker 3: is out now from the diiggadad dot Etsy dot com.

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Speaker 3: Hi to your mammy and thanks for joining us, mate, worries.

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Speaker 2: Love you to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Shane,