Of course, it would be remiss of me to not consider the fact that Jack (the RTE producer) probably DOES know all about Val. His show is on the ground in Ireland, it's not an ex-pat looking back over his shoulder with some choice things to say. I'd imagine they already know about Val, but maybe they think he's too much of a head case to take a chance on.
Whereas with me, they know I've been out to Montrose loads of times with various bands, interviews about my school St John's College, Ballyer in general, and Ballyfermot TV, on which I featured several more times through Tommy Morrison, local political activist better known as
Tommy O'Brien, the Politics.ie hack and the man who robbed all the copies of some local newspaper and dumped them because there was an article about the Fine Gael politician (name escapes me) he was PA to. He produced everything on Ballyer TV, which ran for a year or two before the local Senior Cycle multi-media college opened and gave birth to some of Ireland's best animation work over the last four decades.
But anyway, one of Val's problems was that he let standards slide, like all culchies do when it comes to order and hygiene. His act of pinning A4 sheets covered in scrawl over his backdrop (which for the last nine months has a sheet of plastic hanging over one side of it and is never framed correctly) instead of learning to add text onto the video was a big mistake. Not dressing or shaving is another. His missing teeth. His filthy appearance and the big gash across his face from the last haircut done by a sheep-shearer wasn't too wise either. Wearing the same manky jumpers for months at a time, along with those suit jackets covered in muck and shite. The filthy fingers and hands, and his nails. The unbearable twitching and facial ticks. The shouting and roaring. The melodrama and the fake Dubliner voices. But most of all: constantly referring to himself as '
an extremely intelligent' eh, '
farmer with cows' and his windmill campaigns nobody cares about.
He's near, but not close enough - and the real problem there is that he liked it as it was - he had no intentions of improving the standards and quality.
So no - they wouldn't invite him anywhere given his current stance - and mental state, not to mention his disheveled appearance and gruff manner.
Plus: he can't be trusted - he's a culchie.
So what's with all the Arsefielders boasting that Val has two million views a day?
They'll tell each other any lie they can to feel better about themselves.
Nobody else believes it because we can see for ourselves it isn't true.
At the moment he has zero viewers, he was banned four days ago:
I'd say the withdrawals are killing the cunt.
He must be in rag order by now.