1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: It's because I'm Irish. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: You have a drinking problem, my friend, I'm Irish. 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: I'm Irish. 4 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: I can't get truck. 5 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: But today's the day you try a big part of 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: that dark beer. 7 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: It's the it's the food coloring. I think that tips 8 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 2: you over the edge. Nothing to do with the alcohol. 9 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: It adds, it adds to it. But yeah, I mean, look, 10 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: much of the world will claim to have a little 11 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: Irish lineage. Yeah, that's the word, isn't it. 12 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 2: It's fun, It's a fun day in. 13 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: Their in their family tree. I know I've got some, So. 14 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, somewhere down the track, I believe there is a 15 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 2: little Irish. 16 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: He usually is. Let's face it, one of Ireland's biggest 17 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: exports has been their people. 18 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, a very very long time, that's right. 19 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's Day honors Islands patron Saint Saint Patrick, who 20 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 2: wasn't Irish, Who wasn't but that ruined things? It dates 21 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 2: back more than one thousand years. And is he the 22 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 2: guy that led the snakes out? 23 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: Is that we wanted to get out because the climate 24 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: in Ireland was pretty crap and they said, you're our man. 25 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 2: But he was a slave, did he like did he 26 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: and they, you know, and kicking up his legs and 27 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 2: they follow out of counter. 28 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: I think that was Piper. I think that was just 29 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 1: I think that was on the Simpsons only, which is 30 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: not where I go to for my historical facts. Yeah. No, 31 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 1: but he was he was a slave. He was. 32 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. He was born in Roman Britain, kidnapped and brought 33 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 2: to Ireland as a slave at age sixteen. He later escaped, 34 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 2: but returned to Ireland and is credited with spreading Christianity 35 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 2: among its people. 36 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 1: And getting rid and getting rid of. 37 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 2: Them, and then getting rid of the snakes, which is 38 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 2: he threw that in for free. A bit of a metaphor, 39 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 2: I guess, yeah. 40 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: Ah, but what yeah, you might be to say metaphor. 41 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 2: For you know, I would say, well, yes, rid of 42 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 2: the demons, getting rid of the serpents, The serpents snakes 43 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 2: always get a bad rap. I mean they were, you know, 44 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 2: they were allays there with the apple and that story. 45 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: We're getting a bad rap in island, which is why 46 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: they were happy to leave. 47 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. One icon of Irish folklore is the leprecorn. The 48 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 2: original name for them is Lucapan, thought to mean small 49 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 2: bodied fellow. 50 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: With a green. 51 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 2: Belief in leprecorns probably stems from Celtic beliefs in fairies, 52 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 2: tiny men and women who could use their magical powers 53 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 2: to serve good or evil. In Celtic folk tales, leprecorns 54 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 2: were cranky soles responsible for mending the shoes of other fairies. 55 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: And again shoes like snakes get a bad rap. 56 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,519 Speaker 1: They do, they do. Yeah, But then, like like you said, 57 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: it goes back a thousand years or more. But then 58 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: nothing really kind of happened. And then of course when 59 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: the Irish, especially when they went to America. Yeah, that's 60 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,399 Speaker 1: when Saint Patrick's Day really took off. Yes, they Saint 61 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: Patrick's Saint Patrick's Day March. 62 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 2: They do. You know how far back they die that 63 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 2: river green? They in Chicago, they're doing that since nineteen 64 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 2: sixty four. 65 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: Well they've been marching in New York since seventeen sixty three. 66 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,839 Speaker 1: That's how long the Saint Patrick's Day March. I don't 67 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 1: think they had the blimps and everything. 68 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 2: Back then, we had a parade. 69 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: Don't talk about the present. 70 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 2: We had pade, a parade and a big festival on 71 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 2: Saturday in Birdwood Square opposite the Brisbane Hotel because you 72 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 2: never want to be too far from the pump. And 73 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 2: there are events on today at all the major Irish 74 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 2: pubs around town, including Dirty Nellie's, drty Nellie's, JB. O'rally's, 75 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 2: Molly's and the Mighty Quinn. You can check their social 76 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 2: media pages for details. We should head down to the 77 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 2: Motor it's. 78 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: Their biggest day of the year and they sell a 79 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: hell of a lot of something that rhymes with year. 80 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 2: That would be beer. 81 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: So everybody, while you're tucking into your pork sausages and 82 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: a bit of black and wait, protectors and your protectors 83 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: please do have a great Saint Patrick's Day.