Punked!
Background information for those of you across the water:
Matt Cooper - host of evening current affairs radio show, The Last Word, broadcast daily on Today FM.
Mario Rosenstock - voice impressionist behind the Gift Grub slots on Today FM’s Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show.
Eddie Hobbs - financial advice guru who shot to (in)fame(y) after hosting the series ‘Rip Off Republic’.
Ronan O’Gara - international Irish rugby player.
Anthony Foley - captain of Munster rugby team.
Roy Keane - Famous Cork-born soccer player. Mario’s impersonation of him, sometimes known as ‘Gift Roy’, is known for its distinctive ‘Keano’ laugh.
MARIO (as Eddie Hobbs): …yeah, I’ve only a few minutes.
MATT: No bother, no bother, we’ll get straight into it - and by the way, best of luck on Saturday and Sunday, I’ll be listening out with interest.
MARIO: Okay.
MATT: All right. Okay, we’ll start now in about five seconds.
Joined now by Eddie Hobbs, who apparently has word of yet another pyramid scheme which may have hit Cork. Good evening to you, Eddie.
MARIO: Good evening, Matt.
MATT: What’s happening?
MARIO: That’s right, Matt. I’m sure everyone is familiar with the Liberty scheme in Cork, and the trouble that it’s caused, or so we would’ve thought, Matt. But I’m quite frankly appalled by what I’ve heard today.
MATT: About what?
MARIO: The Liberty scheme in Cork, Matt, seems literally only the tip of the iceberg. Or the tip of the pyramid in this case, Matt.
MATT: Yeah? What else is happening?
MARIO: If my sources are correct, Matt, and I’ve no reason to assume that they’re not, this pyramid scheme is going under the bizarre name of “The Daddy”, at the moment, and this scheme, Matt, involves members of: the Cork City Council, who I’ll be naming on my website tomorrow morning, eddiehobbs.com, members of the Cork Chamber of Commerce, several of Cork’s leading building and architect firms and most worryingly of all, Matt, this goes all the way to the Cork Mayor’s office.
MATT: …What?!
MARIO: Well…
MATT: That sounds utterly extraordinary. How does the scheme work?
MARIO: Well the scheme, Matt, which, I don’t know if any of your listeners have heard of it, it’s actually called The Daddy at the moment, and this word, I’ve heard about it for two weeks or so…but the sums involved, Matt, are quite frankly enormous. The scheme, The Daddy, Matt, has an entry level of fifty thousand euro per person, Matt. Two people have already lost their houses in the Glanmire area alone already, Matt, and I’ve heard of other people who will be foreclosed upon as well by AIB, Cork.
MATT: You- this sounds utterly extraordinary, because we have heard of these pyramid schemes involving eight and ten thousand euros and whatever, but- I mean- who would be putting in fifty thousand euro into schemes, and for what? What were they told they were gonna get?
MARIO: Well, this will be revealed on my, on my website tomorrow, and I’m sorry I can’t say any more at this point in time, but as- you know, the thing could get quite litigious at this stage. People want to know, what is The Daddy? The Daddy, supposedly, Matt, refers to a pyramid, an actual pyramid, Matt, that will be built on the grounds of Merchant’s Quay Shopping Centre which will be torn down, the brochure says, in six months, and sold to an American investor who apparently believes this pyramid is one of the original pyramids of Giza, which has been transplanted from Egypt to Merchant’s Quay Shopping Centre. Now I know Americans are gullible, Matt, but a pyramid. In Cork. C’mon.
MATT: Yeah, eh…I, I’m sort of just checking the calendar, because this sorta sounds like April First, but this is April Fourth…
MARIO: Matt, this is absolutely mad. I even thought that it was a windup myself, but I’ve been actually tracking this for the last two weeks and when I heard it, I…I nearly threw up my breakfast, to be quite honest with you. An Egyptian pyramid in Cork.
I mean they even have T-shirts printed, Matt, ‘Who’s Your Daddy’, and a picture of a pyramid, and people in red and white jerseys climbing up the pyramid with hurleys.
MATT: (laughing) …at fifty thousand euro a pop?
MARIO: Well… Matt…they are saying…
MATT: And are you absolutely convinced and sure-
MARIO: (interrupting) Ronan O’Gara is-
MATT: -you have your facts right?
MARIO: Ronan O’Gara is behind this pyramid scheme, Matt.
Ronan O’Gara is The Daddy.
MATT: …The Daddy.
MARIO: Ronan O’Gara, Anthony Foley, Matt Cooper, all…in The Daddy.
A giant pyramid, Matt.
MATT: (starts to crack up)
MARIO: I’m Eddie Hobbs.
I’m Eddie Hobbs. I’m Eddie Hobbs.
I’m Eddie Hobbs. (Keano laugh) (As Roy Keane) And I’m Roy Keane, at the end a’ the day!
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Matt Cooper - host of evening current affairs radio show, The Last Word, broadcast daily on Today FM.
Mario Rosenstock - voice impressionist behind the Gift Grub slots on Today FM’s Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show.
Eddie Hobbs - financial advice guru who shot to (in)fame(y) after hosting the series ‘Rip Off Republic’.
Ronan O’Gara - international Irish rugby player.
Anthony Foley - captain of Munster rugby team.
Roy Keane - Famous Cork-born soccer player. Mario’s impersonation of him, sometimes known as ‘Gift Roy’, is known for its distinctive ‘Keano’ laugh.
MARIO (as Eddie Hobbs): …yeah, I’ve only a few minutes.
MATT: No bother, no bother, we’ll get straight into it - and by the way, best of luck on Saturday and Sunday, I’ll be listening out with interest.
MARIO: Okay.
MATT: All right. Okay, we’ll start now in about five seconds.
Joined now by Eddie Hobbs, who apparently has word of yet another pyramid scheme which may have hit Cork. Good evening to you, Eddie.
MARIO: Good evening, Matt.
MATT: What’s happening?
MARIO: That’s right, Matt. I’m sure everyone is familiar with the Liberty scheme in Cork, and the trouble that it’s caused, or so we would’ve thought, Matt. But I’m quite frankly appalled by what I’ve heard today.
MATT: About what?
MARIO: The Liberty scheme in Cork, Matt, seems literally only the tip of the iceberg. Or the tip of the pyramid in this case, Matt.
MATT: Yeah? What else is happening?
MARIO: If my sources are correct, Matt, and I’ve no reason to assume that they’re not, this pyramid scheme is going under the bizarre name of “The Daddy”, at the moment, and this scheme, Matt, involves members of: the Cork City Council, who I’ll be naming on my website tomorrow morning, eddiehobbs.com, members of the Cork Chamber of Commerce, several of Cork’s leading building and architect firms and most worryingly of all, Matt, this goes all the way to the Cork Mayor’s office.
MATT: …What?!
MARIO: Well…
MATT: That sounds utterly extraordinary. How does the scheme work?
MARIO: Well the scheme, Matt, which, I don’t know if any of your listeners have heard of it, it’s actually called The Daddy at the moment, and this word, I’ve heard about it for two weeks or so…but the sums involved, Matt, are quite frankly enormous. The scheme, The Daddy, Matt, has an entry level of fifty thousand euro per person, Matt. Two people have already lost their houses in the Glanmire area alone already, Matt, and I’ve heard of other people who will be foreclosed upon as well by AIB, Cork.
MATT: You- this sounds utterly extraordinary, because we have heard of these pyramid schemes involving eight and ten thousand euros and whatever, but- I mean- who would be putting in fifty thousand euro into schemes, and for what? What were they told they were gonna get?
MARIO: Well, this will be revealed on my, on my website tomorrow, and I’m sorry I can’t say any more at this point in time, but as- you know, the thing could get quite litigious at this stage. People want to know, what is The Daddy? The Daddy, supposedly, Matt, refers to a pyramid, an actual pyramid, Matt, that will be built on the grounds of Merchant’s Quay Shopping Centre which will be torn down, the brochure says, in six months, and sold to an American investor who apparently believes this pyramid is one of the original pyramids of Giza, which has been transplanted from Egypt to Merchant’s Quay Shopping Centre. Now I know Americans are gullible, Matt, but a pyramid. In Cork. C’mon.
MATT: Yeah, eh…I, I’m sort of just checking the calendar, because this sorta sounds like April First, but this is April Fourth…
MARIO: Matt, this is absolutely mad. I even thought that it was a windup myself, but I’ve been actually tracking this for the last two weeks and when I heard it, I…I nearly threw up my breakfast, to be quite honest with you. An Egyptian pyramid in Cork.
I mean they even have T-shirts printed, Matt, ‘Who’s Your Daddy’, and a picture of a pyramid, and people in red and white jerseys climbing up the pyramid with hurleys.
MATT: (laughing) …at fifty thousand euro a pop?
MARIO: Well… Matt…they are saying…
MATT: And are you absolutely convinced and sure-
MARIO: (interrupting) Ronan O’Gara is-
MATT: -you have your facts right?
MARIO: Ronan O’Gara is behind this pyramid scheme, Matt.
Ronan O’Gara is The Daddy.
MATT: …The Daddy.
MARIO: Ronan O’Gara, Anthony Foley, Matt Cooper, all…in The Daddy.
A giant pyramid, Matt.
MATT: (starts to crack up)
MARIO: I’m Eddie Hobbs.
I’m Eddie Hobbs. I’m Eddie Hobbs.
I’m Eddie Hobbs. (Keano laugh) (As Roy Keane) And I’m Roy Keane, at the end a’ the day!
-^)--)~