 That's me. Yeah. What's it done? Donnie called daddy. That is, do you feature you being a dad? That's pretty much it. It's just evolved into day-to-day life with being a stay-at-home dad with me girls. Well, two girls now. We had one at the start when it started. We had Gracie just, and she's three and a half now, and Kate is five months. Wow. So... Hanson, how do you have time for doing any filming? Well, it started off, it was easy enough, because Gracie was only nine months at the time, so it was just a matter of messing about, and now it's evolved into people wanting to see more of just the day-to-day life of how it being a dad of a toddler is. So it's not too bad. You just take snippets of real life, and that's what it's all about, keeping it real and showing that. The ups and downs. Yeah, exactly. Keeping it real. Showing how hard it is. Yeah. Oh, I can well imagine. Very good. Okay, then. So you've used your platform because you've, you know, a lot of followers, as all the boys do, but decided to do Movember, it's kind of a Movember plus. It is, yeah. We kind of, well, my ifa there, my wife, she's not too impressed with the old beard and mustache growing, but this year I've kind of decided to stick with the beard for now, and then I'll go mustache for the last couple of days, but yeah, and then we added on a hundred press-ups a day to try and just, just to show, like, doing bits of exercise to help with the mental health and give you kind of a goal to do something every day. It's a hundred press-ups in the whole day, you know, to expect it all together. No, no, well, I've tried to do them all together, but yeah, you had, I, I, I breaking them down into 10s and 20s, and I can bang out them in 20s, not too bad as grand, but the first few days it was, oh, you're breaking them down to fives by the end of the day nearly. So you have a nice firm biceps when it's all over. I don't know what, I, I needed to do something, I know, maybe before it started, but yeah, so it's, that's good, it's been good, like, it kind of gives you a motivation to do it as well, and then it does it highlights what, what we're trying to highlight, and that's the main thing. Yeah, well, that's, that's part of it, but it's, it's good to set, set a challenge as well, and, and then you, you just work towards it. In this case, it's over, over a month with the, with the different elements. And together, mo bros, is that how you pronounce it? The mo bros, yeah, so it's like, it's the Movember, and then the, yeah, we team we have gathered up, Paddy kind of got us all lined up. Would you have known the other, the other boys, or would you just been aware of them online? That is one of the kind of, I suppose everybody talks about the negatives of social media at times, but the positives are definitely like meeting, meeting the guys like Paddy and, I met Paddy and Kevin probably around this time last year, or the summer last year, and Paddy was doing another charity, events, women doing dips in the sea for 365 days, he'd done it every day. But so I met Paddy and Kevin through that, and I like top lads, and then he kind of met the other lads through that as well. So it's just amazing, you can, it's a real positive thing that comes out of social that people never really talk about the good side of it. Nearly it's always you hear the negatives. It's easier to. This is true. This is true. You hear the downside of, of, and you know, sure, you've experienced it as well, but it's good to focus on the, on the positives and, and in this case, it's meeting the boys and being able to use your profile then for, for something like this. Exactly. And it's, it's, it's so how's, how's the other beers and moustaches and stuff coming on? Paddy is a, Paddy's a salubrious moustache there. But he, he had a bit of a facial growth. He always, he always keeps the beer on, and he has a quality tache now. All right. To go with it. Yeah. And, and they're, they're, I presume they're all progressing with the push-ups as well. They're all. Yeah. That's it. They're ones. Paddy's is like, when you see his videos, he's, he's doing a lot quicker than me. That's fancy editing. Maybe sped it up. So it's, in a way, it's leading up to the end of the month and, and this, this event on Sunday, which is, which is a great idea. And it's so simple. It's just meet up and go for a walk. In this case, I walk up, there you go. That's it. Exactly. Yeah. So it's, I suppose a big part of it is the whole November thing started with, initially it's, they started it for prostate cancer and make it awareness and getting men to go and get checked because it was a thing of not going to get checked until there were symptoms. And that was kind of nearly too late when you have prostate cancer. So it's pushing that to go and get checked without there's any signs and then it kind of progressed into mental health awareness because it's become such a mad thing in young men that there's like it's crazy. I think it's one minute around the world, across the world of young men committing suicide. So it's pushing that end of it to like, and I think most people have a lot of people you speak to have had some kind of mental health struggles. Um, so it's nice just to kind of do something to help highlight it and show that there is help there to be got if you need it. Like what is it about us men? We're just reluctant to talk about serious issues, whether it's to do with, you know, physical health or mental health with, with other men. Um, if we do, and it's a big if, if we do talk about it, it tends to be with women, whether it's, you know, your partner or someone in the family or whatever, but, but not man to man. Yeah. Instead it's all kept, you know, on the surface and it's all lights with the football or you just think it's completely ignored. Well, I know myself personally, like my, like probably wouldn't, I've got the help because my wife was there with me, supporting me and me, you know, my parents, but, um, you know, you have to, like at the time, I, I just had a, I had a kind of a brick wall and I just needed it. I knew I had to do something because it was like that real dark place. And I just was like, I have to do something here. Um, and I went to me GP and I broke down in his office and I thought, go into the GP. I thought, God, I'm, this is so stupid. Go into the GP. Why am I like, he's going to think he's going to laugh me out of the room, you know, thing, but a lot of, a lot of men would think just like that. And I, I thought, oh God, he's going to think I'm a clown. Like, and then I went and I spoke with him and I, like, Jesus, I just broke down in his office, as I say, and like it was just, it was a breakthrough because he just was absolutely brilliant and he just got me sorted, like, and I went to speak then with other people, like, and you, and I can use them tools now. So when it, if it comes around again, that you feel that, oh, this is coming up me again or creeping up, you have tools to deal with it. And that's, that's the big thing is once you go and get the help, there is loads of help there to be got. But, but there's a real struggle to get to the point where you knew you had to go to the GP and you knew you had to get help. And I suppose what this does is it creates awareness and it's awareness about how it's okay to talk to other people and it's okay to look for help and maybe it'll help, it'll help other men get to a stage where they either reach out for help or, or maybe they'll be able to deal with it and develop some tools along the way where they don't need professional help, but just to be aware that there's, and it's like, the likes of these, the likes of these events now, like the walk and talk that we're doing on Erigil, it's, it might just be that case if you need just to go out and have a chat about life in general and it might just be getting out of your, getting out of your own head like and not kind of running from things like, or just as you say, brushing them under the carpet like which, like I would have done that a lot when it was, when I was going through it, I would have done a lot of fitness and cycling and that would have just been like, oh, I'm feeling crap, go, go, go. And then, and then next thing during the winter you'd start to get and you would go and decide to start running just to kind of be doing something and you were never addressing it. So rather than addressing it, you would just go and do some crazy challenge. But that's, that's the kind of an escape that I think a lot of men would, would opt for, you know, going for the run or going for a cycle or a walk. Like, and them escapes are fine once you realize that why you're doing it. If you know what I mean, like that you're, that you're dealing with the actual issue as well on top of that and not just going for the run and trying to avoid it. It's kind of been able to go, I do like running and I'll do that to help. But I also sit and deal with this, what's going on inside to like. And talking is so important. Massive. Just just sharing. Yeah. Like, yeah, like even like that, like, and I wouldn't have been one for talking about it either, really. But like even at the lowest point, like we were, I was, I said this before on my profile and said it like about we were away in this holiday of a lifetime and I, but I had a back issue and it had just put me in this real bad place. And we were out there in this, I mean, holiday of a lifetime and I was lying in a bed not wanting to leave the room. And we were like, I didn't speak to my wife for maybe four days, I would say. And I was lying in a hotel room in Dubai, just not wanting to move. And I just, that's when I got to the point of going, this needs. This is not, this is not the way to deal with it, lying in a room and not speaking to your, your best friend, kind of thing. Was the problem with your back or was it more than that? It was, it was the back. It was the kind of, I suppose the back was the kind of thing that made me, made it all kind of build and build because I would have been able to kind of train myself out of it like that kind of way. And then when I couldn't train and then my back was giving me the problem and I had, I just kind of got into a point of, I'm going to have this back trouble for the rest of my life. And you kind of, you just don't see an end to it. And then it was kind of like, you just were when you see no way out, then you start thinking worse things and that kind of, and then I realized, no, that's not. So one thing can lead to another. That's it. Whereas if you'd, on day one, if you'd opened up and talk to Ifa, then it might not have escalated. Well, she would, like Ifa would always have been like, oh, like, you need to go and see her. She might have said that, you know, well, maybe you should talk to someone like, I would just really not, or they can deal with it myself, I can away and then you just need to kind of realize it. But like maybe if I didn't have that support of Ifa and my parents, like it would have been, you could have, you just don't know why it would be like, and that's what I'd be afraid of for a lot of people that might not have a partner or a friend that they can open up to her that would know what's going on even, because like only for Ifa was there in the room at times, she would, that she actually seen you, seen it happening. Whereas some people might not have that. And when you come out the door, like if anyone met me out the door, they'd be like that fella's 100% like, you're not going to miss going about there, not a bother. Do you know all too often isn't that the way of it? That's it. Okay. So talking is vital and there's going to be hopefully plenty of talking on Sunday. That's that's the whole idea. And and this isn't just the six of you guys getting together. You want you to throw this out to everybody who wants to come along. Feel free to talk or don't talk. Just go for the walk if you want. Exactly. That's it. And like and listen. Yeah. And let's that's it. It's kind of just come out. It's just to get people out of the house, get people socialising, chatting, having the crack. It's like any time you go for a hike, you'll meet somebody. And it's always you get a you'll have a chat about all kinds of everything like and it doesn't you don't have the common talk about mental health, you can just come and chat about the weather. It's just about getting out and realizing that there's lots of good people and it's because you can get bogged down in social media too and see all the negative comments and negative comments about everything. And then when you go and go for these walks and I think it's the struggle together up the hill. It's kind of everybody's in the one boat. Yeah. Do you know precisely and it's a little bit easier now to get up with the exact. Exactly. It's great. It's accessible. You still have to get up to the same height, mind you. But it's it's where practical clothes get cold up there. I haven't gone up or it's been ages since you've gone up then the footwear not as big an issue as you go up in trainers. Yeah, you could go up in trainers now. But yeah, as you say, just it's stunning all in November. So plan for every and layers, plenty of layers. I always find it's good going up here. I go like that. You might not need the jacket on the way up. But when you get to the top, you'll definitely need it and the hat or whatever like you'll just become prepared and then bottle of water is always a good option to 100 percent. OK, so what time is everybody meeting up on meeting at 11 a.m. on Sunday morning at the car parking area and then we're hoping to be away by half 11. OK. And just a reminder that you you're Donegal Daddy, but you can suppose that people can check out any of the other fellas as well. Exactly. Yeah, you'll see us all like we'll have would be tagging each other in stories and that's you'll see us all there. But yeah, I like that if anyone needs to even reach out for anything, just give us a shout as well, like private and confidential always, obviously. Great. Good to know. And you raise money along the way. Is there any money you've been raised on Sunday? Will it be donations? It's just donations if you want. We know that obviously there's a cost-loving crisis at the minute and the big part of it is raising awareness, like in making sure people know the the means is there to help you. But yeah, donations are all welcome. We're up to about two thousand for the team there now at the minute. So any more we can get to be great. Listen, well done. Good luck on Sunday and well done to the other guys as well. And look with all the beers and the moustaches into the bargain. OK, me or Ben? Thank you very much. Thanks, my name is John. Cheers for that. My brother's coming home this Christmas and he hasn't been home for years. And we miss him so much and we cannot wait to have him back. Christmas is a special time of.