1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Trump derangement syndrome example eighty nine hundred and fifty two. 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: Liberals are blaming Trump for redesigning the dime to mark 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 1: the nation's two hundred and fifty at the anniversary when 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: the citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, which advises the Treasury Secretary, 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,479 Speaker 1: voted to approve the new design in October twenty twenty four. Yep, 6 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: that's right. The design was voted on before Trump won 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: the election. 8 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 2: Real quick, how about that rules of engagement from girl 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 2: right there? 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 3: That was pretty good? Right, that's good. 11 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 4: That's the best twenty dollars investment I've made in a 12 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 4: long time. 13 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 2: I'm just curious as to where all the other goopers 14 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 2: are doing with their rules of engagement because we haven't 15 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 2: gotten any in quite a while. 16 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. 17 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 4: So for those, you know, for those who may be 18 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 4: new to this program, we have rules of engagement and 19 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 4: they're pretty simple. You know, you can go back in. 20 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 4: Is that available on the podcast? 21 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 3: Yes? They are, Okay, so you can. 22 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 4: Listen to one of the podcast episodes and you can 23 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 4: hear the rules of engagement, get a pretty good idea 24 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 4: for what's needed, and you can submit those Now, there's 25 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 4: a thirty second limit on the. 26 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 3: Three hot apps. 27 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you could. 28 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 4: Leave more than one if you if you need to, 29 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 4: and if you stumble, don't worry about it. Just kind 30 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 4: of keep going, start over whatever, and you can you 31 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 4: can submit two or three of them Dragon or recognize 32 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 4: it by the phone number, and he can edit them 33 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 4: and put them together. So you can if you think 34 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 4: you can be clever or as cute as she is, 35 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 4: then you too can establish because we need new ones 36 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 4: for you know, rotation. So you you also could do 37 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 4: some rules of engagement for the situation with Michael Brown. 38 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 2: Trust us, you do not want Michael to do the 39 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: rules of engagement because he'll take fifteen minutes doing them. 40 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 4: Because I have to explain everyone because you know I 41 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 4: tend to over explain things. So yeah, so go do that, 42 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 4: and you do that on the iHeart app. The other 43 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 4: thing you can do on the iHeart app is you 44 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 4: can leave a talk back. Now all you have to 45 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 4: do there and maybe you know the one talk back 46 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 4: that I think chich and Chong do about it's kind 47 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 4: of hard to find the or somebody. 48 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 2: Says that if you can't find a little road I 49 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 2: can't find I can do it. 50 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, you touch a little red microphone button and you 51 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,839 Speaker 4: can leave a thirty second talk back. And she's right. 52 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 4: I do love them because oftentimes they will cause me 53 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 4: to chase a squirrel. 54 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 2: You don't have to fill the entire thirty seconds. 55 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 4: You can basically tell me I sucked. Yeah, and trust 56 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 4: me Dragon. Well, in fact, if you do say that. 57 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 3: Dragon will play. 58 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 2: It's the front of the line. 59 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. 60 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 2: Now. 61 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 4: If you tell me how great I am, well, probably 62 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 4: you'll never hear it. So somewhere in between. Yeah, no, 63 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 4: like maybe I'm just mediocre. Just you know, maybe mediocre 64 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 4: would work. 65 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 3: That would work. Dragon. We have one rule for today, 66 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 3: just one rule. 67 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, what was that rule where you said out. 68 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 4: There there will be no Irish bumper music at all? 69 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 3: To there? This is exactly what I said to that. 70 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 2: You dropped an F bomb. 71 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 3: Okay, there will be no efn Irish music today. 72 00:02:54,960 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: You didn't say fan Okay, well you can't careful, but yeah, 73 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 2: it's just stand all right, drive for accuracy. 74 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 4: So let me let me make a confession. I don't 75 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 4: particularly enjoy Saint Patrick's Day, and it's not because I 76 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 4: have anything against the Irish. If somebody stole your four 77 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 4: leaf clover, I admire the Irish enormously. It's the fake 78 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 4: Irish that I can't stand. You know, the ones who 79 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 4: discover their Irish heritage about what forty eight hours ago, 80 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 4: just prior to March seventeen. They dust off a kiss 81 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 4: me Irish button they bought at some local convenience store, 82 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 4: at the gas station, and then they go out and 83 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 4: drink beer, green beer, at nine o'clock this morning, as 84 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 4: if somehow that constitutes cultural appreciation. And yes, before you 85 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 4: flood the text line or leave a nasty talk back, 86 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 4: I know you've got great Irish, great great grandparents. You 87 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 4: know what everybody does. Everybody does. There are thirty two 88 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 4: million Americans, almost ten percent of Americans who claim Irish ancestry. 89 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 4: Who claim Irish ancestry. I don't know whether they've ever 90 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 4: submitted their DNA to twenty three and me, which, by 91 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 4: the way, if you did, you're now part of a 92 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 4: class action lawsuit, and you're also part of a chapter 93 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 4: I think eleven bankruptcy proceeding because well, they didn't exactly 94 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 4: keep your DNA, you know, private, and then of course 95 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 4: they end up going bankrupt. So you're part of both 96 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 4: a class action and a bank bankruptcy proceeding. Ireland's total 97 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 4: population is about five thirty two million. Americans claim, emphasize 98 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 4: the word claim Irish ancestry. Ireland's total population five million. 99 00:04:59,480 --> 00:04:59,919 Speaker 3: You do the. 100 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 4: That's a lot of buddy up and around to create 101 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 4: that many people. Now somewhere in this country, somewhere, probably 102 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 4: within eyesight of me, right now, there are people claiming 103 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 4: Irish heritage who are at best one sixteenth Irish and 104 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 4: one hundred percent committed to using that fraction as a 105 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 4: license to be public publicly obnoxious today. And I, you know, 106 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 4: and maybe this stems from my childhood. Maybe it's childhood PTSD. 107 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 4: Maybe it's when you know, if you didn't wear green 108 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 4: when you were in high school, you got pinched. Well, 109 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 4: maybe I got pinched one time in the wrong place, 110 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 4: and I've suffered PDSD ever since. I don't know, and 111 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 4: I've seen I read an article last night about how 112 00:05:54,920 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 4: Ireland is embarrassed by American Saint Patrick Days. 113 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 3: That was the headline, anyway, But. 114 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 4: I want to address that directly because the story is 115 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 4: actually far more interesting and actually far more ironic than 116 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 4: that headline might suggest. Because the article isn't really about 117 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 4: American excess, embarrassing, embarrassing the Irish. You know what's really about, 118 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 4: It's about Ireland embarrassing itself. Here's what's actually happening. There 119 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 4: are in effect to Ireland right now. No, I'm not 120 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 4: talking about Northern Ireland London. I'm talking of that at all. 121 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 4: There is the old Ireland. It was rural, Gallic, Catholic, traditional, 122 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 4: the Ireland of the Gaa teams and the boy Scouts 123 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 4: in the parade and the floats that were sponsored by 124 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 4: the local businesses. That's the Ireland, by the way, that 125 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 4: your supposed Irish great grandparents came from. And that's the island, 126 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 4: that Ireland that Americans have romanticized. In fact, I was 127 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 4: they sometimes over romanticized for more than a century now. 128 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 4: And then there's what this article refers to as the 129 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 4: new Ireland. It's modern, it's self consciously cosmopolitan, it's post Catholic, 130 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 4: and it is very proudly progressive. That's the Ireland that 131 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 4: looks to Brussels for its values. Now why Brussels for 132 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 4: the chocolate. No, because Brussels is the home of the 133 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 4: European Union. All of those wusses that won't lift a 134 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 4: finger to do anything because they're scared of themselves and 135 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 4: because they wanted to be like the United States of America. 136 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 4: So they decided to create a European Union, in which 137 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 4: they started dissolving the sovereignty of all of the nations, 138 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 4: which led to Brexit. But that's another story for another time. Now, 139 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 4: that Ireland that looks to Brussels for its value, it 140 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 4: also looks to in geo's non government organizations for its 141 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 4: social cues. And it's that Ireland that has decided that 142 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 4: Saint Patrick's Day should be well, less about Saint Patrick 143 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 4: and even less about Ireland, think about County Claire. Because 144 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 4: County Clare in New Ireland this year invited everyone to 145 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 4: quote celebrate the cultures of Shannon. All right, sounds very Irish, right, Well, 146 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 4: what did the invitation include? Hey, come waive your national 147 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 4: flags in County Clare, Come play your country's music in 148 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 4: County Clare. Which sounds lovely, doesn't it, Except wait a minute, 149 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 4: who's country? 150 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 3: Oh? 151 00:08:53,760 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 4: Yemen, ran o'lan uh, Olivia? Yeah, anywhere except Ireland. The 152 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 4: parade is in Ireland on Ireland's feast day and for 153 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 4: Ireland's patron saint. By the time you've made everything inclusive 154 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 4: enough for official New Ireland. You've accidentally celebrated everything except Ireland. 155 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 4: So here's the delicious irony that I want you to 156 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 4: just sit with for a moment. Americans, except in these quarters, 157 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 4: are out here celebrating a version of Ireland that no 158 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 4: longer fully exists. The Shamrocks, the County crosses, the old 159 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 4: Danny Boy, the cultural pride. 160 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 3: Is it over the top? 161 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 4: Suref courforts over the top, because Americans we do everything 162 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 4: over the top. Right? 163 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 3: Is it accurate? No? 164 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 4: And increasingly getting less and less accurate every single year. 165 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:58,319 Speaker 4: But hey, at least Americans are trying to celebrate Ireland. Meanwhile, 166 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 4: back in Ireland itself, the establishment there is trying to 167 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 4: quietly retire the very irishness that Americans are celebrating. In 168 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 4: other words, American Saint Patrick's Day has become a caricature, 169 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 4: but Ireland's official Saint Patrick's Day is becoming an erasure. 170 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 4: Now I want to which is worse. Which is worse 171 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 4: our caricature of Saint Patrick's Day or Ireland's Saint Patrick's 172 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:33,199 Speaker 4: Day that's erasing Saint Patrick's which isn't Which is worse? 173 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 4: I'll actually take the guy in the leprechaun hat or 174 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 4: the bureaucrat that decided the saint gets cut from his 175 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 4: own feast day. 176 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 2: You know. 177 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,599 Speaker 4: The article also makes a point that I think I 178 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 4: ought to resonate with anyone who's watched similar dynamics play 179 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 4: out here in America. Ordinary Irish people, according to the 180 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 4: author that I read, have largely learned to keep their 181 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 4: mouths shut. Why on that would be, like on, let's 182 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 4: just take a different direction from just a moment. Okay, 183 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 4: bear with me. We're about to celebrate America's two hundred 184 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 4: and fiftieth anniversary July fourth, seventeen seventy six July fourth, 185 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 4: twenty twenty six. If we're going to do like the Irish, 186 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 4: then rather than play old the star spangled manner, America 187 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 4: the Beautiful, which really ought to be our national anthem, 188 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 4: that's another story for another day. What we really ought 189 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 4: to do is play I don't know, God save the King, 190 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 4: learn to do that or whatever the national anthem of 191 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 4: Saudi Arabia is or Libya triple e. 192 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 3: What are we going to do? 193 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 4: The bottom line, that'll be faking. At the bottom line, 194 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 4: they're learning to keep their mouths shut in Ireland because 195 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 4: expressing even my dissent from the press. Progressive program that 196 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 4: the Irish are now implementing means social and professional consequences. 197 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 4: The old fear of the church has been replaced by 198 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 4: a new fear of x or Twitter mobs by activist 199 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 4: journalists and a lavishly funded non government organization. Oh, it's 200 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 4: the same enforcement mechanism is just a different denomination. Sounds familiar, 201 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 4: of course it should. Here's my bottom line. Yes, American 202 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 4: Saint Patrick's Day is overblown. The green River in Chicago, 203 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 4: the green beer everywhere, cakes and eggs. We should put 204 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,199 Speaker 4: DAGs and eggs in there too. The performity of irishness 205 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 4: that evaporates on March eighteen tomorrow, it'll be gone. It's 206 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 4: a bit much, I'll grunt you that. But before Ireland 207 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 4: lectures America about doing Saint Patrick's Day wrong, Ireland might 208 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 4: want to make sure it's still doing Saint Patrick's Day 209 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:08,199 Speaker 4: at all. And should we go ahead and do single 210 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 4: demiel now? You want to go ahead and do single 211 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:11,319 Speaker 4: demiel now? 212 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,559 Speaker 3: Right? And you want to wait until May? What is 213 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 3: it may sink? 214 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: Oh? 215 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 3: May fifth? May fifth? 216 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,199 Speaker 4: Right? Don't put your head in your head. Don't put 217 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 4: your head yes, like that. What day you sink a demio? Oh, 218 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 4: let me figure that one out. Let me think of 219 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 4: that one through for a moment. Think, Oh who knows 220 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 4: those trace quatro sink? Oh it's the fifth. Wow, it's 221 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 4: the fifth of Mayo sink? Oh, May, that's the fifth 222 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 4: of May. Got it all right? Oh man, Happy Saint 223 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 4: Patrick's Day. Drink responsibly and truthly for all, for the 224 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 4: love of all things holy, learn at least one actual 225 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 4: fact about old Ireland, the real Ireland, before you put 226 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 4: anything on a hat. Can you at least do that 227 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 4: for me? So Happy Saint Pat's Day. And as I 228 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 4: might remind you, dragon, there will be no Irish music 229 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 4: played today. 230 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you very much. Are you wearing green? 231 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 2: There's a saying my dad said, oh I love the. 232 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 4: All year we go because your dad's a rocket scientists. Yes, 233 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 4: your dad's smart. Uh huh, your dad's practical, he's down 234 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 4: to earth and he's no bs correct. 235 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 3: Okay, see, well, but I know it. 236 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 2: Everybody is Irish on Saint Patrick's Day except for us Scots. 237 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 2: We're still Scottish. 238 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 3: So I think it don't have no green at all. Okay. 239 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 3: If there was a story that we're gonna switch gears. 240 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 3: You're gonna go. 241 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 4: From Ireland to Iran. How about that Ireland Iran. If 242 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 4: there was a if there was ever a story out 243 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 4: of Iran that is made for the in sanity that 244 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 4: is today, the well you'll see. I think a lot 245 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 4: of people in the United States think of the royal 246 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 4: family in Iran as this collection of beastly old men. 247 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 4: They like to preside over a public hanging of thieves. 248 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 4: They hang them from the you know, the cranes, from 249 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 4: the cherry pickers in Tehran city square. They give thumbs 250 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 4: up to public stonings. They keep twenty two wise and 251 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 4: concubines in their personal harems. And then they go about 252 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 4: and they help toss gay dudes off the roofs of 253 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 4: tall buildings. Nothing says inclusivity like taking a guy that's 254 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 4: gay and you know, hanging him by his feet, you know, 255 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 4: from the top of a crane and then letting it 256 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 4: go and boom, watching his brains splatter all over the 257 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 4: concrete in the in the town square. 258 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 3: Yeah. 259 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 4: Those that's the that's the monarchy, that's the royalty in Tehran. 260 00:15:59,080 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 3: Now, believe it or not. 261 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 4: Uh, it turns out that not all of those common 262 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 4: American held myths are accurate, especially about the current Iatola, 263 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 4: who may or may not be among the living. 264 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 3: Right now, go figure first this guy. 265 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 4: Now, I'm going to bastardize his name, not on purpose 266 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 4: but simply because, well, you tell me how to pronounce this. 267 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 3: M o j t a b aa. 268 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 4: M o j t a b a Mataba. I think 269 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 4: mataba probably work. Well, that is that acceptable to you? 270 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 4: Mitaba kammen A is or was at the time of 271 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 4: his passing, if he's alive or dad, I mean, who knows. 272 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 4: He was just fifty six years of old, which is 273 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 4: not all that old in Ayatola years. I mean he's beer. 274 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 4: The beast seemed to you know, all live well into 275 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 4: the eighties at least, so uh Mohammad Mataba uh he 276 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 4: he still has or maybe had quite a while to 277 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 4: proceed with his British shenanigans. There's my tip to Saint 278 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 4: Patrick's name. The part about public hangings from cherry pickers 279 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 4: and cranes is indeed valid. The old dead Iyatola pretty 280 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 4: much invented that one back in the nineties. Tossing gay 281 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 4: men off of rooftops is also totally real, And then 282 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 4: The Molas, who have ruled Aron since Jimmy Carter gave 283 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,880 Speaker 4: them license to do so back in nineteen seventy nine, 284 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 4: have luxuriated in the fact that no country on Earth 285 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 4: is more gay phobic than their own little domain here. 286 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 4: They've liberalized their gay phobey in recent years, you know how, 287 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 4: because they have embraced sex changed surgeries for those gay 288 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 4: people who come clean before they're caught in the act, 289 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 4: as it were. 290 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:51,640 Speaker 3: But if you. 291 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,639 Speaker 4: Get caught, well, it's still off the roof with you, 292 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 4: which brings me to an interesting story about the currently 293 00:17:59,200 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 4: dead or alive. 294 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 5: I'm other disappointed that you won't be playing any of 295 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 5: that Irish music for bumpers, you suck. 296 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 4: Hey wait a minute, was that Irish or Canadian? 297 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 2: Irish? Canadian? 298 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 4: It was a Canadian irishman. Okay, I got I got it. Well, 299 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 4: you know, we accept all kinds here, so that that's right, 300 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 4: rich Canadian. Good brief. Okay, let's go back to the iyatola. 301 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 4: Somebody told me that it's I don't know, just because 302 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 4: you spell it on the text line doesn't necessarily mean 303 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 4: that you have phonetically spelled it. 304 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 3: I love this. 305 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 4: Acunah Ta taba okay, whatever. I don't know whether the 306 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 4: hakuna is a joe or what, but no stry and 307 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 4: I know Israeli news has said that he got flown 308 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 4: out by a Russian helicopter and he's in a Russian hospital. 309 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 3: I don't know. 310 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 4: That's not the point of the story. Do you think 311 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 4: you know where I'm going with this? You don't necessarily 312 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 4: know where I'm going with this. So let's go back 313 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 4: to Maltawa. Kamenee he is or was at the time 314 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 4: that he passed. Maybe he's got a couple of legs 315 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 4: blown off, maybe he got. 316 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,639 Speaker 3: His you know, blown off. I mean, who knows. 317 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 4: He was fifty six years of age, and all these 318 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 4: Mola's nyatolas seemed to live well into their eighties. So 319 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,199 Speaker 4: he still has or as I said, had quite a 320 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:50,199 Speaker 4: while to proceed with his British Shenanigans. Trying to be 321 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 4: a little cool Irish right there right now. The part 322 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 4: about the public hangings from the cranes is true. That 323 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,719 Speaker 4: started back in the nineteen nine and they really have 324 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:09,160 Speaker 4: approved and have embraced sex chained surgeries for anyone who 325 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 4: is gay but wants to come clean before they get caught. 326 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 4: That leads to a story in The New York Post, 327 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 4: President Trump was stunned to learn that US intel indicates 328 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 4: that the new Iranian Supreme Leader Mataba Komena may be gay, 329 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 4: and that his father, the late iotola Are Kommene, feared 330 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 4: his suitability to rule the Islamic Republic for that reason. 331 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 3: Got it. 332 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 4: It turns out that the not so young Mataba is 333 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 4: a gay dude. So if he is still alive, somebody's 334 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 4: gonna have to toss him from the roof of a 335 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 4: tall building. And wouldn't that be well kind of ironic? Wow, Craig, 336 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 4: and can I get a little audio on the roops? 337 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 3: We try it again? 338 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,880 Speaker 2: Hilarious And since you're listening on the podcast right now, 339 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 2: make sure you check out Michael says, go here dot 340 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 2: com where you can find that video. 341 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 4: Wow, because of the odd because of the yep music, 342 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 4: bed I hate that. 343 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 2: That's so stupid, yep, Michael says, go here dot com. 344 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,919 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't care whether the guy was gay or 345 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 4: not not if there's anything wrong with that right quote Seinfeld. 346 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,719 Speaker 4: But if there was ever a story that you just 347 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 4: could not make up in the mazillion bazillion gazillion years, 348 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 4: if it didn't already exist, This one happens to be it, 349 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 4: I think now. The post says that Donald Trump when 350 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 4: briefed on that bit of juicy intelligence, which apparently went 351 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 4: to the highest levels. Except I'm so disappointed they don't 352 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 4: have photos. 353 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,399 Speaker 3: I can't believe we don't have photos. 354 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 4: What kind of CIA do we have, Massad, I'm so 355 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 4: disappointed in you. You can claim that his gay's been 356 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 4: making moves on his caretakers and maybe his bodyguard's bodyguard 357 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,919 Speaker 4: and everybody else, and you can't you don't have photos. 358 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 4: Come on, President Trump was stunned to learn last week 359 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 4: that he might be gay. Not only that, but he's 360 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 4: laughed out loud about it every time it's been brought 361 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:16,959 Speaker 4: up ever since the breathing. 362 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 3: I'm laughing out loud about it. 363 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 4: Not because he's gay, but because he's gay in a 364 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 4: country where his father hangs gay people from cranes for 365 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 4: being gay. 366 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 3: The iotol was a gay dude. 367 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 4: Now, I want you to think for a moment, what 368 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 4: would mel Brooks have done with this story back in 369 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 4: the early nineteen seventies. Can you imagine now, Paul Linde 370 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 4: remember him from what was that Hollywood Squares? Remember him. 371 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 4: I think he probably would have played the leading role. 372 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 4: It's not even a real movie, and I can think 373 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 4: about exactly. Can you imagine what mel Brooks would have 374 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 4: done with this? I mean, Blazing Saddles would probably be 375 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 4: okay to play again. That would be hilarious. Now, I 376 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 4: want you to check out the wording from the brilliant 377 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 4: New York Post writers. The shocking claim was described to 378 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 4: the Post by two intelligence community officials and a third 379 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 4: person close to the White House. All three sources say 380 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 4: the implausible sounding allegation is viewed as credible by US 381 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 4: spy agencies, rather than false information intended to undermine common 382 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 4: A fifty six who was selected to replace his dead 383 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 4: father as Supreme Leader on March eighth. Two of the 384 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 4: sources said the intelligence indicated that Mataba, who had earned 385 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 4: the nickname the Power Body the Power behind the Robes 386 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 4: while serving as his aging old farts dad's gatekeeper, has 387 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 4: had a long term such relationship with his childhood tutor, 388 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 4: The Power behind the Ropes. Someone's doing some very good 389 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 4: riding at the New York Post, and then there's this Mataba, 390 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,880 Speaker 4: who's believed to have been wounded in the same February 391 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 4: twenty eight air strike that killed his father and other 392 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 4: members of this family has made aggressive sexual overtures to 393 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 4: men caring for him, possibly while under the influence of 394 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 4: heavy medication. One of the Post sources said US spy 395 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 4: agencies do not have photographic evidence of Matama Kammenades alleged 396 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 4: sexual attraction to men, but the sources said the tip 397 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 4: is solid, with one saying that was derived from one 398 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 4: of the most protected sources the government has. You have 399 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 4: got to be at the top of your game if 400 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 4: you're going to be a reporter and a writer for 401 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,679 Speaker 4: the New York Post, and then they get to this 402 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 4: juicy bit of info. A classified US diplomatic cable from 403 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 4: two thousand and eight published by WikiLeaks describe Mataba being 404 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 4: treated in the UK for impotence, though that report did 405 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 4: not identify what may have caused the condition. The State 406 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 4: Department file says Mataba married relatively late in life, around 407 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 4: age thirty, reportedly due to an impotacy problem. Should have 408 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 4: gone to Rocky mounta men's clinic, treated and eventually resolved 409 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 4: during three extended visits to the UK at Wellington and 410 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 4: Cromwell Hospitals, London. So it turns out that he had 411 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 4: an impetasy problem. He just didn't like the girls, not 412 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,199 Speaker 4: that there's anything wrong with that either. The hilarious part 413 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 4: is the old I think probably dead Iotola probably spent 414 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 4: millions treating his son for his so called air quotes 415 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 4: here impetusy empantasy, while the little Mataba was out partying 416 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 4: in the gay bars of London every night. And honestly, 417 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 4: where's Mail Brooks when we need him? No one could 418 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,719 Speaker 4: possibly make this up. It's got to be true. And 419 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 4: here here we are for all of it, the Iotola's game. 420 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 4: The world is really healing now. 421 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 5: Well. On top of the morning to you, Michael o'brownie 422 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 5: and Dragon ol Redbeard. May the sun always be at 423 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 5: your face the Saint Patrick's day, and may when you 424 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 5: cut wind, may it always be at your back. I 425 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 5: have a good day. 426 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 3: Yes, there we go. That's a pretty good talk back. Mom. 427 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 4: Donnie, speaking of Saint Patrick's Day, had this to say 428 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 4: this morning. 429 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 6: I say this is over the past few years, as 430 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 6: we've witnessed the genocide unfold before our eyes, there has 431 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 6: been deafening silence from so many for those who have 432 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 6: long cared about universal human rights and the extension of 433 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 6: them to Palestinians. Silence, however, is nothing new, for Palestinians 434 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 6: are so often left to weep alone. Yet former President 435 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 6: Robinson has never been silent, not when she was president, 436 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 6: not when she was High Commissioner for Human Rights, and 437 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 6: not in the decades since. As she once said, commemoration 438 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 6: is a moral act. 439 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 4: Now remember this is where are they the Chicago We're 440 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 4: one of the most prominent Saint Patrick's Day parade and 441 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 4: celebrations takes place. This is in Manhattan. As he stands 442 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,159 Speaker 4: in front of an American flag and an Irish flag, 443 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 4: he spends two minutes talking about genocide in Palestine. 444 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 6: Our solidarity is many things on wavering sincere, and chief 445 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:43,399 Speaker 6: among them Irish. Irish solidarity is no coincidence. Who can 446 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,199 Speaker 6: better understand those who weep than those who have been 447 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 6: made to weep for so long? The story of the Irish, 448 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 6: both in Ireland and in New York City, is at 449 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 6: one time a story of oppression, of subjugation, and of discrimination. 450 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 6: As we know, it was on Irish soil that the 451 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 6: British Empire developed their colonial project. So much of the 452 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 6: exploitation later imposed elsewhere across the world was first honed 453 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 6: in the plantations of Ireland. And yet when I think 454 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 6: of the Irish, I do not think first of oppression. 455 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,400 Speaker 2: I think of resistance. I think of unity. I think 456 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:15,200 Speaker 2: of corned. 457 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 6: Beef in ninety six minute Troy Parrot Goals and the 458 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 6: Pope's fairy Tale of New York. Above all, I think 459 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 6: of that solidarity. When Irish immigrants arrived in New York City, 460 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 6: they were so often barred from employment and from housing. 461 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 6: Signs plastered across storefronts read help wanted, No Irish need apply. 462 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 6: And yet while Irish New Yorkers were, in the poetry 463 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 6: of e Van Boland, long suffering in the bruised colored 464 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 6: dusk of the New World, they did not grow discouraged. 465 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 6: They banded together, they organized, They formed labor movements that 466 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 6: endure to this day. It was Irish hands that helped 467 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 6: to build so much of the city that we recognized today, 468 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 6: the skyscrapers that pierced clouds, the tunnels carved through bedrock, 469 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 6: and we can see an example of that legacy and 470 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 6: the incredible labor leaders that we have with us today, 471 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 6: both in this room and beyond this room, and as 472 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 6: we celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, together and as I belatedly 473 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 6: acknowledge our State Senator Brian Kavanaugh as well, we celebrate 474 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 6: not just the day of revelry, but a day of 475 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 6: continued obligation to one another, to a better world, to 476 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 6: all those who still weep. And I want to thank 477 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 6: President Robinson again for joining us. I want to thank 478 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 6: the people of Ireland who have taken the past of 479 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 6: suffering and used it to fight for a future of justice. 480 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 6: And I want to thank every Irish New Yorker for 481 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 6: helping make this city into what it is today. 482 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 4: So he starts out with ripping genocide in a non 483 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 4: existent country called Palestine in order to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day. 484 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 4: This is the same guy who chose today to do this. 485 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 6: Today, I am proud to announce that we are going 486 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 6: to reduce the speed limit to fifteen miles per hour 487 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 6: outside all eligible twenty three hundred schools of US. Thirteen 488 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 6: years ago, Sammy Cohen, Exteine, was chasing a runaway ball 489 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 6: when he was hit and killed by a van outside 490 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 6: his home in Park Slope. 491 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 2: He was twelve years old. He was just a kid. 492 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 2: His death should never have happened, and yet we know that. 493 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 6: Sammy's death is a tragedy familiar to too many New Yorkers. 494 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 2: NYPD data shows this. 495 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 6: That speeding causes twenty five percent of all traffic fatalities 496 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 6: may minute. 497 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 4: I thought we're talking about school zones. Now we go 498 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 4: to all traffic fatalities, and he doesn't tell us. And 499 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 4: it's a sad story any kid that's killed running out 500 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 4: chasing a ball in a street and a school zone. 501 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 4: But not to be too cold hearted here, but whether 502 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 4: the car was going twenty miles or fifteen miles an hour, 503 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 4: it seems to me the results are going to be 504 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 4: the same. This is just nothing more than what, oh, 505 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 4: a revenue grab, oh, Saint Patrick's day.