Leprechauns, Lore & Ladies who Keen

Sláinte, Weirdos! 🍀 March is in full swing, and we are keeping the Irish spirit alive with an episode dedicated to the myths, legends, and Leprechauns of the Emerald Isle. Forget what you think you know about the cereal mascot. Real Irish folklore is grumpier, redder, and way more chaotic than a bowl of marshmallows.

In this episode, Jacklynn and Stevie dive into the deep end of Irish tradition, featuring:

• Leprechaun Fashion Police: Why the original "fit" was actually red, and why they only ever work on one shoe (spoiler: it’s because they don’t care about your footwear symmetry).
• The Infinite Money Glitch: How to spot the silver shilling versus the "monkey paw" gold coin that turns into dirt the moment you let a leprechaun go.
• Cross-Dressing Giants: The real story of the Giant’s Causeway, involving a baby bonnet, a bathtub, and Finn McCool’s MVP wife, Oonagh.
• The Three Faces of the Banshee: She’s more than just a skeletal witch. She’s the "General Contractor of Death" with a three-look portfolio.
• Druid School: A 20-year degree that involves sitting in a dark room with a rock on your chest to force the visions out.
• Irish Trivia Fail: Watch (or listen) as Stevie and Jacklynn absolutely bomb their own Irish trivia, proving that even a "cleaned-up" record can be ruined by a little podcast pressure.

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Transcript

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Okay, so how about this, Stephen? Do you want to hit me with what you think keening sounds like?

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Oh God.

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Do your best, Keen.

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Okay, so this, get ready. This is gonna be too beautiful to come out of a human.

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Oh my god! I was so excited.

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Okay, you ready? I'm ready. This is Keenan.

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And You guessed it. Whimsical. Hi, my name is Jaclyn. And I'm Stevie. And we're keeping the Irish theme going. Yeah, we are. Ooh, with Irish myths and legends. Not to be confused with Irish hauntings.

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Yeah. Different?

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Different but the same, but different.

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Different with the same, different, more whimsy.

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More whimsy, more intrigue, yeah. Like less ghost material.

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Yes.

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Um, but more sort of continuing with the Irish legends. Love it. You know? Yay!

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Because we love Ireland.

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We do. And of course, this is the month of St. Patti's Day.

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It is. Aaron Gobra.

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Aaron Gobra. Aaron Gobra. Um, and we just love it. So why not celebrate it all month long? Wait, what is it? Month of March.

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Ireland.

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Ireland.

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We'll answer Ireland.

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We know it, but we don't know it. Um, but can we point something out? What's this?

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Of course we did. Right? Yeah.

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Super, super fun, super cute.

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Um also, did we decide if we were going to mention the background of our videos?

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I mean, let's do it.

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Let's do it.

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So we've had how many videos out since being in the new studio? Like I think like eight at some point. It's gotta be. Something like that.

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Between five and eight.

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Yes. Math. Um, and we didn't notice until uh basically so it would have been a few days before the Fresno Nightcrawler episode comes out.

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Right.

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My mom, shout out mom. Thanks, Kath. Uh, she texted me and she's like, just uh just so you guys know, um look look at your background uh sign in the studio. And we have never noticed, but it said weird as a uh whisme.

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Whis me? Did anyone else notice?

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Did anyone else notice that? We didn't because we don't, we have a habit of not noticing that thing, those things though, because we have a sign in our half bath that actually Jacqueline got for us. And it says, uh, what does it say? Get get naked.

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Yeah, it's supposed to say get naked. Just kidding. Uh this is a half bath, don't make it weird.

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Which is I amazing. I love that sign so much.

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But it says just kidding.

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Kidding. So it's spelled wrong. But we didn't notice for like what four years in?

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Years. And nor did I when I purchased it for you. Yeah. Um, and then I messaged the person who I got it from because she like made it, yeah, and she just promptly deleted my message and blocked me.

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Which sucks. But I wouldn't want anyone. I love it. Fair enough. And we always ask people if they notice. Right. And no one ever notices. Thankfully. We just, you know, your brain just kind of finishes things, it completes things. Exactly. It sees what it should or wants to see. Yeah. Right.

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So if you're all thinking, that's weird, I never noticed. Good.

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Good.

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But we brought it up. We we we needed to. We wanted to out ourselves, which is also why we have our photos. For now. For now, but also this is what's on our shirts and all of our merchants. So it works. Yeah.

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But um shout out to my father, father of mine, for the artwork.

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Thanks, Jim.

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Thanks, Dad.

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Um, so your parents are really carrying this team, really, at this time. That's true.

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So thanks, guys.

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Um, but you know, we wouldn't be us if if we didn't have that kind of hiccup.

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So true. It's so true. It's very on brand.

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Very on brand for cool Stevie Stephen the Idiot to be like weirdos of whiz me. Wiz me for a five to eight episodes. Here we go.

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Here we go.

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Um, all right. Uh we still have our fr wonderful guest who's joined us.

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Um we've talked about What did you say you call him? You had a little nickname. Hootie. Hootie. Yeah.

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Yeah, little hootie.

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Little hootie hootie.

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Um, but he needs a name for sure. He's just exquisite. So he's with us for another couple episodes.

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He really is.

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We should. Uh he's like our visiting mascot, but we do have a cute little like mascot. A little mascot?

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Should it be sharkbait hoo-ha?

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And we can maybe filter it out, or it's like something new in the be in the foreground.

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I do like that.

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Foreground?

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Foreground. Foreground. Not background, foreground.

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Not background, foreground.

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Not here.

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Yeah. Also, if you have a business and you want to, you know, be a sponsor of the pod, we'll put it there. Actually, that's a I love that. Thinking of ideas on the spot as we're live, not live.

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We keep saying.

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Is there anything else that we need to cover before we go into stuff?

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I don't think so.

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I don't think so either. Please keep listening. Please keep listening. And please go back and listen to more.

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Yeah, tell your friends. Send. I mean, we listen, we've talked about this before. We've got some listeners from across the world which are. Oh, great. And it's New Zealand somehow.

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New Zealand.

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I don't know how. I don't know who.

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Singapore is getting up there.

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Wild.

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Like, yeah, it's so cool. We love you guys so much.

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But yeah, reach out. We want to like actually like kind of talk and communicate. Yeah.

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Pen pals? Pen pals. Did you have a pen pal? I sure did. Yeah, same. Yeah. Me too. I really thought it was a cool program. Yeah. I liked it.

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Cute and adorable. I mean, we both worked because we were little boys. Um, but I remember, do you remember um Putt Putt? Of course. We, when we did meet up at school, we ended up playing Putt Putt together. The little computer game.

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That's so cute. Yeah. Aww. Uh, okay. Well, then let's just get into it, I guess. Let's do it. So I feel like we need to kick off the episode with talking about the one, the only, the leprechaun. The leprechaun. Oh. Um, forget the serial mascot, okay? Yeah, I know. The guy in the green suit on St. Patrick's Day cards. We're not talking about the cutie little leprechauns. No. Real Irish leprechauns are not so cutesy, right? In folklore, they're grumpy, solitary, fashion forward shoemakers who are basically like the grumpy old men of the fairy world.

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100%. I love it.

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Stephen knows the fairy world well. Go back and listen to the fairy battle episode.

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That's such a good episode.

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Honestly, it's one of my faves. It's just so unhinged.

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It really is.

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So if you ever meet one, don't expect a bowl of marshmallows. Even though it's so good.

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It is. I haven't had it in so long.

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Oh, it's so good. Um, expect a lawsuit or a very clever insult.

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Oh.

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So let's go over the name and the outfit or the fit. Do kids still say the fit?

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Oh, God, you just sounded so old.

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I am, though.

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A little bit.

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You know? Anyways. Do kids still say the fit? Water gandly is a nice name. Um, all right, are you ready for me? It's time for what I like to call Jacqueline screwing up the pronunciation of this word.

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I love it.

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Um pronunciation? Pronunci anyways. The name comes from the Irish man. Okay. The Irish word Lucoron. Meaning small body. But unlike the green outfits we see today, the original leprechaun was actually a big fan of red. I love that. I didn't I don't think I knew that part. Maybe it's like for all the blood.

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Hide the blood. Right. You wear a lot of red to hide blood and you wear brown to hide the shit stains.

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Wow. We are learning We are learning so much about fashion. Absolutely. Oh, that's a great point. Yeah. Yeah, it's a great point.

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There's a joke somewhere about that. Wearing brown pants. I never hauled at the moment, but it is out there.

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A dad joke, perhaps? 100% a dad joke.

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Yeah.

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So I didn't know this, but like, did you? Did you know the original aesthetic was all about red?

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No.

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Red square cut jackets, lace with gold, and big cocked hats. What is a big cocked hat?

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I got nothing.

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Who knows? But I like to say it. So it's in here. They are in fact the cobblers of the fairy world. Um, if you hear a tiny little tap tap tap in the grass, it's not a bird. It's a leprechaun fixing a tiny boot. But also fun fact it's only one. They never ever work on both. It's just one shoe. Why? Because they're chaotic and don't care about your footwear symmetry.

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There you go. So don't go to a leprechaun for your foot care needs.

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Only we'll do one shoe.

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That's funny. I didn't not know that.

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Yeah, same.

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Makes sense, though. Like a little trickster spirit. Sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Uh, where did the gold come from, you might ask?

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I want to know this.

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You want to know. Well, they're they aren't actually born with pots of gold. What? I know crazy, right? Uh they are the bankers of the fairy community, however.

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Which is kind of cool. Okay.

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Um, because they are solitary and incredibly stingy, they are the ones entrusted with the ancient tre treasure of the Twathododonin. Wow. Thanks. I didn't practice that at all. Wow. The Twathododonin, or the old gods of Ireland. Uh, they bury it in crocs or pots to keep it away from humans, whom they consider to be greedy, loud, and generally annoying, which honestly, facts.

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Yeah. That's me and you right now.

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It's true.

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Also, could you imagine if we were the ones in charge of the ancient treasure?

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She'd be gone. Gone.

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Like, let I can't owe us today.

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I was just gonna say we would spend it on trinkets that trinkets and goodies that we find. And a bunch of cardigans.

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A bunch of cardigans. Listen, you know, let's just talk thrifting for a second.

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I'm in. Anytime.

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Thrifting is important. Um, keep things out of landfills. Uh, you know, boo fast fashion, blah, blah, blah. It is really easy to suddenly spend $200 in a thrift store without even paying attention. We really paid attention. We paid attention. And I put stuff back. I was just gonna say, I want everyone to know that you, Stevie, showed incredible willpower and strength. I put zero no, what did I put back? I put back mugs and plates like saucers. A backpack. A little a kilo backpack. That's right. I love my little backpacks. Put it back. Um, end of list. End of list of things that I put back.

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Yeah. Um I put uh quite a few things back.

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You really did.

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I had my husband in my Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Fair. Um, so you know, if if if we had the ancient treasure spent, we'd be screwed. Spent in a thrift store. Yeah.

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Well, we wouldn't be screwed. The ancient gods would be screwed. They'd be out of money.

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Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough. All right, sorry. I digress.

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Um, if you do manage to catch a leprechaun, which is nearly impossible because they are basically the ninjas of the garden. Sure. Yeah. Uh, they are magically bound to tell you where their gold is.

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For more thrifting. For more thrifting.

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But they are masters of the monkey paw logic.

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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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They usually carry two leather pouches.

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Did you know this? I did not know this part. No.

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So the one has the sh the silver shilling. A magical coin that always returns to the purse no matter how many times you spend it. Infinite money glitch. I want that so bad.

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Oh, so bad.

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So bad.

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We caused some damage.

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I feel like that's the one you would want if you're gonna catch a leprechaun. The next one, not so much. Uh-oh. So we got the gold coin. Okay. Which you would think would be better. But it's a bribe they give to humans to escape. Once the human lets them go, the gold coin turns into a dried leaf or a piece of dirt.

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Oh, screwed. Rude. That's brilliant.

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That is brilliant.

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Wow.

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So if you ever catch a leprechaun, make sure you ask for the silver shilling pouch, not the gold coin.

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We are here to serve facts and helpful tips and tricks.

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Yeah. 100%.

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Wow. Yeah, I didn't know that.

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I didn't know that either.

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Man. Okay, so when you were a kid, did you believe? Did you believe that there was a leprechaun it at the end of the rainbow?

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I still do. What do you mean when I was a kid?

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That was so cute. What do you mean? Right. Sorry. Yes. Yes. Um, yeah, man.

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No, I am a little older now, and I do know that rainbows are actually circles and not, you know, arches. So there's that.

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Mm-hmm. Um, man, sweet little thing to think about, though. Oh, I know. Sweet little thing to think about.

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I love it.

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All right. So here's the legend of the field of thistles.

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Which doesn't work. I love a thistle.

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Yeah. A thistle. Can you do the whistle? I can't do the whistle.

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Well, with my invisible, I'm probably not. Right. No, it doesn't work.

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All right. So this is the ultimate leprechaun versus human story. Okay. Okay. A man caught a leprechaun and forced him to show him the exact thistle in a massive field where the gold was buried. Okay. Okay. Didn't know, didn't know that thistles indicated where the gold was buried. The man didn't have a shovel, so he tied a bright red ribbon around that specific thistle. Wouldn't you be using your if okay, hold on.

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Okay.

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Wouldn't you be like, I don't need a shovel? I am strong enough and have the will of all the, you know, gold that's beneath me to drive me to using my bare hands to dig up that gold.

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Also, you've just caught a leprechaun, which is impossible.

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Yes.

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You've figured out where the gold is. What I I get you're leaving a little clue for yourself. But like, chances are something's gonna happen. Like don't leave that spot.

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Listen, so that's exactly what he did.

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Oh okay.

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He made the leprechaun. Idiot. Wait, wait, make it Irish. Idiot. Idiot. Okay. He made the leprechaun promise not to remove the ribbon, and then he ran home to get a spade.

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I think I might know where this is going.

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When he returned, allegedly two minutes later, it's a quick run.

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That's a quick run.

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Every single thistle in the entire field, we're talking thousands, had an identical red ribbon tied around it. Well, listen, the yeah, the leprechaun didn't break its promise.

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He didn't.

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Just outsmarted the guy. Yeah. Big time. Yeah. Yeah. He was human.

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He probably was undeserving.

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If you are stupid enough to be like, now wait just a second, leprechaun. Yeah. I'll be right back. You're asking for you idiot. Idiot. You idiot. Um here's a question. Okay. Are leprechauns actually fallen angels? Oh. So in some darker versions of the lore, leprechauns aren't just tiny spirits. They're the degenerated descendants of the Duatha Daniel. Thank you, who were defeated and forced to live underground.

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Oh, okay.

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Right? They became bitter, shrunken. I thought that was very interesting that that was included, and obsessed with wealth as a way to cope with their fall from grace.

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Interesting. I've never heard that theory.

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Neither have I. Nor have I ever tried to say the words Tuatha Dwaatha Donnin.

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Sounds good. Did I say it? I also, I'm pretty sure the T is a slightly silent. Oh, so it's Uatha Dodon.

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Wow. Again, Irish people, we're sorry.

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Yeah. I did try to um listen to like one of those YouTube pronunciation things. Um I just it sounds better with the T. I don't know. How too authenticate. I know. I know.

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Hey, great tattoo.

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Oh.

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Yeah.

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I can't show mine because my arms are stuffed in this coat. Um but there you go. That's cool. Yeah. That's very potentially fallen angels.

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Um, so next we have the serial killer.

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Gotta hear about it.

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Of lower.

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We have to know it.

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Uh so in 1964, Lucky Charms cereal was launched. Sure. General Mills introduced Lucky the Leprechaun.

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Right. They this is where they like tried to make it fun and family.

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Yeah. They ruined it. Um, so Lucky was designed to be magically delicious. Magically delicious. Magically delicious and friendly. Right. He was short, he wore a green hat with a clover and had a high-pitched welcoming voice. I can't. I can't do it. Really going for it. Um, for millions of Americans, this was the leprechaun. Sure. Um, the ancient shoemaker who would rip your eyes out for touching his thistle was replaced by a guy trying to sell you marshmallow.

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I mean, painting it into that kid glove wearing, you know, no. Give me the leprechaun from the movie The Leprechaun.

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Yes. Which I would love. We should march out tonight. Oh god. I'll march that.

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I'll have nightmares.

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Yeah. Segue. Segui.

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Stay tuned. Stay tuned. Yeah. Wild that it became uh, dare we say the disnification of the leprechaun is is that cute little like ha-cha-cha-cha-cha.

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I like the the crusty old shoemaker who only works on one one boot.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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And that like plays mind games with people. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And who's the banker for the golds? Yeah. I agree. That's cool. I completely agree. Um, so what's another myth?

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Okay, so uh ever heard of the Giants Causeway? Sure. I want to go.

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It looks so cool.

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Yeah, I have not I did not go into Northern Ireland.

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Fair.

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Important to note that Ireland and Northern Ireland are two separate places.

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They are.

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So the legend of the Giants Causeway in County Antrim. Don't know if I'm saying that right, is the ultimate Irish man wins by using his brain and cross-dressing story. Geologically, it is doing it. Doing it. The dolls are doing it. Um geologically, it I almost just choked on my own spit.

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Been there. Man.

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Man. Hypermobile people can do that, though. That's what happens. Okay. Geologically, it's 40,000 interlocking basalt, basalt, columns from a volcanic eruption. Legendarily, it's a bridge built for a fight that got way out of hand.

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Way out of hand.

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Enter the rivalry. One Finn McCool versus I'm gonna say Benedoner.

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Benadoner? Sure. Yeah.

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Not to be confused with Bend Over. That's a Blink 182 joke. Once again, bringing it back to Blank in anything I can say in this.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Always.

SPEAKER_04 21:24

So our hero, Finn McCool. Yeah, uh, a legendary Irish giant, across the sea in Scotland lived another giant named Bendonner or the Red Man. The two of them spent their days shouting insults across the water, which I love.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

Wait, what's up? Um, what's that little like warthog? Not warthog. That little um groundhog? Groundhog. Um he's like, oh, what name does he yell?

SPEAKER_05 21:50

Pumba and Tomo? What name is yellow?

SPEAKER_01 21:52

It's a commercial. Damn it. No, it's gone. It's gone. It's not there. No. You wait. Some of you probably know what I'm talking about, where he's like yelling. Across and then um he's like shouting a name, shouting a name Gary, Gary, and then and they're like, What? It's like your mom sucks, or something like that. That's that, but with giants, but with giants, a hundred across our dressing giants?

SPEAKER_04 22:14

Oh, we'll get there.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

Oh, we'll get there.

SPEAKER_04 22:16

So I think anyway, honestly, I don't know. Okay. So the two of them spent their days shouting and cross insults across the water. Eventually, Bend and Honor, yeah, insulted Finn's mother, height general vibe one too many times.

SPEAKER_08 22:30

There you go.

SPEAKER_04 22:31

And Finn decided to build a path across the North Channel so they could settle their issues.

SPEAKER_08 22:37

There you go.

SPEAKER_04 22:38

He ripped up chunks of the Antrim Coast and hammered them into the seabed to make a bridge.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

That's fine. So wait, where does the cross dressing go?

SPEAKER_04 22:47

Keep reading.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

Keep oh, yeah. Right, there's more. As Finn finished the causeway and saw Bendon Otter approaching, he realized he had made a huge mistake.

SPEAKER_03 22:59

Yeah, big, big, big mistake. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:02

Bendon Otter wasn't just a giant. He was a mountain. He was significantly a man. Mountain of a man. He was significantly bigger than Finn in all the ways. Oh Finn panicked and ran back to his house. He ran back to his mother. Um. Oh, then we have Unag. Sure. Unag uh, who is really the real MVP of the story. Yeah. Finn's wife, Unag, um, is the actual hero of the story. She didn't panic. She looked at her trembling giant husband and said, Right, get in the bathtub and put on these baby clothes. Here comes a cross dresser. Here we go. She dressed Finn up as in a massive bonnet and a diaper or a nappy.

SPEAKER_04 23:50

Yes. I guess not really cross-dressing.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

It's just baby plug baby plug.

SPEAKER_04 23:56

That's a thing. People do that.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

It sure is.

SPEAKER_04 23:59

Sorry, let's just glide past that one.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

Finn's a giant. Finn's a giant. So if they had baby clothes big enough to fit this giant guy, then clearly they were into baby.

SPEAKER_04 24:09

So there we go. Cross-dressing. Bonnet is a girl's bonnet. Just saying.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

Yeah. Uh when Bendadonner arrived, thundering at the door, Unog shushed him up. Shushed. Be quiet, she whispered. You'll awake the baby.

SPEAKER_04 24:24

Oh. Bendadonner looked into the oversized cradle and saw the baby. He went pale. I mean, I would too. Yeah. I would too. The whole logic is if the baby is this big, how terrifyingly gargantuan must the father be. Fair. He was thinking, man, Finn McCool is a Titan. And he was thinking, this guy's gonna crush me like a grape.

SPEAKER_01 24:47

Like a grape. Also, is this, you know the Finn McCool restaurants? Is this named after this guy?

SPEAKER_06 24:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

That makes sense?

SPEAKER_06 24:55

Okay. It's all making sense. I didn't have to be so judgy. It's all making sense. I did not mean to be so judgy. I'm sorry. I thought you would have like caught on.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

I nope. Okay. It takes me a minute sometimes, guys.

SPEAKER_04 25:07

Also, not great, Russ, not a great place.

SPEAKER_01 25:10

It's not the greatest.

SPEAKER_04 25:11

There are better Irish bars out there.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

Hundo pee.

SPEAKER_04 25:14

Um, okay. I'm sorry, Steven, for being so judgy. Yeah, fuck you.

SPEAKER_05 25:18

Right? I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04 25:20

But everyone's gotta be like, Steven.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

100%. They all know me.

SPEAKER_04 25:26

So terrified, Ben and Honor bolted back to Scotland. As he ran, he tore up the causeway behind him so Finn couldn't follow. That's why they're matching basalt columns at Fingal's Cave on Scottish Island of Staffa. That's the other end of the bridge.

SPEAKER_07 25:45

Oh, that's cool. Interesting. Yeah, so there you go.

SPEAKER_04 25:50

There you go. I can see it. Me too. Yeah. And hopefully we will.

SPEAKER_07 25:54

Hopefully we will.

SPEAKER_04 25:55

But that's only if we go that up there.

SPEAKER_07 25:57

We should. I think we do. Up there.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

So there you go. So next we have the Banshee. Love the Banshee. Love the Banshee. So originally, the Banshee didn't show up for uh for anyone. She was a hereditary spirit. According to legend, she only followed the five great Gaelic families.

SPEAKER_03 26:19

Who were they?

SPEAKER_01 26:20

We've got the O'Neills, the O'Briens, the O'Connors, the O'Greaties, and the Kavanaugh's. The O's and the Macs.

SPEAKER_08 26:30

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Um, yeah, Kavanaugh's is uh just kind of on their own there, right? Yeah, pretty much. Um the logic behind this. If you weren't old Irish royalty, you weren't worth a scream. Make sense?

SPEAKER_02 26:47

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

Um, the modern twist of this story. Over time, as families married, she expanded her portfolio.

SPEAKER_04 26:56

Girls gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

It's true. Now she's basically a general contractor for death across the whole island.

SPEAKER_04 27:04

Imagine that. That's the name. Okay. Remember we were talking about like what's your legend? What's the name of the Banshee? Yeah, the general contractor of death across the whole island.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

I love that. Yeah. That's the one.

SPEAKER_04 27:18

Okay. The three faces of the banshee. Okay. Okay, here's something I did not know. I got three looks and that's it.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

I love that. I don't know the rest, but I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_05 27:31

I got three looks and that's it. That's it. Also, what are your three looks?

SPEAKER_02 27:37

I got nothing.

SPEAKER_05 27:39

My three, okay. Up until recently.

SPEAKER_06 27:41

My three looks. Lots of like gym wear. Which is still happening.

SPEAKER_09 27:48

That still happens in the mornings. Dream, okay, so athletic wear.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 27:55

Anything black.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

Fair, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 27:58

And funeral clothes?

SPEAKER_04 28:03

I mean, again, I don't know. I don't wear funeral military-looking stuff? No, not in the military.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

I mean, your jacket currently is kind of Yeah, like not grind.

SPEAKER_04 28:13

Feminine. Yeah, okay. Punk rock. Punk rock. Punk rock. Those are my three looks. I like that. What's yours?

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Mine would definitely be like sweat loungewear, kind of like lazy, comfy, cozy clothes. Uh-huh. Um I mean, I do like dressing up.

SPEAKER_04 28:30

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 28:30

And you're very, we're not talking like dress shirts and ties and like dress pants and stuff like that, but just like nice. Would that be like business cash? Sure. I don't know, something like that.

SPEAKER_06 28:41

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 28:41

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 28:42

I've never seen you make that face before.

SPEAKER_01 28:46

Um and then probably like a cardigan or like a wear.

SPEAKER_04 28:52

Yes. Nice knit sweater or like a printed shirt. Yeah. You love a good printed shirt.

SPEAKER_01 28:57

I do. Right. Love graphic tee.

SPEAKER_04 28:59

Yeah, really, really cute.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:00

So yeah, those are those are them. Yeah. Let's find out the three looks of the banshee.

SPEAKER_00 29:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 29:05

So she doesn't always look like a skeletal witch. Speak for yourself. I wish I were skeletal. Number three. I'm sorry. Um, she manifests in three ways based on the vibe of the impending death.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

Fair.

SPEAKER_04 29:17

Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

That's awesome. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 29:20

That is a cool parlor trick.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:22

So here are the three looks. Number one, the young girl. A beautiful pale woman with long, shimmering hair and red eyes from crying. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 29:35

Been there.

SPEAKER_04 29:38

Been there. Number two. Yeah. The stately matron. I gotta tell you, if anyone ever says unless it was um, what was that?

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Uh uh matron uh mama from Chicago.

SPEAKER_04 29:54

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_01 29:56

She was badass.

SPEAKER_04 29:57

She was badass. But um never call me a stately matron ever.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_04 30:03

That would really suck.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

That's what I was gonna write on your headstone.

SPEAKER_06 30:06

Well, you know what? I'll allow it. Headstone, I'm cool with it. There's not I could do anything about it. Fair.

SPEAKER_04 30:14

It just haunts your ass. Um you better. And I will.

SPEAKER_00 30:17

Good.

SPEAKER_04 30:18

Steve and I actually have a pact to not only say our secret phrase, yeah, but to actually actively haunt one another.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

We're gonna have to check in with each other on our what our secret phrase is so I remember what it is before I die. I'm pretty sure I remember what it is.

SPEAKER_06 30:36

Yeah, but I almost just said it, and um that's foolish of me.

SPEAKER_04 30:41

Foolish. Not gonna say it, but we'll check in. Okay. Um okay. The Stately Matron, a woman in a long white or gray dress looking like a very concerned a concerned Deborah. Concerned Deborah. Can you at least tell that story?

SPEAKER_01 30:57

Okay. So uh Dan and I were taught where we were watching like SNL, and it was the Debbie Downer, one of the Debbie Downer episode. Debbie Downer episodes. And I mean, I'm pretty sure, party people, you guys have picked up on my weird brain. And like, I will try to be explaining something, and I can't think of the right words. So I just think of the closest words to what I'm trying to say. I was trying to say Debbie Downer, and instead I said, you know, it concerned Deborah. And now that one has stuck because it's epic. I'm so good. I'm taking credit for how epic that is. It's really good. It's hilarious.

SPEAKER_05 31:40

It's hilarious. I use it a lot. I use it a lot, and in front of people who don't know, obviously, and I just don't even explain.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

No, they don't need to know.

SPEAKER_04 31:48

It's such a concern, Debra moment. Oh God.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

I love it so much.

SPEAKER_04 31:53

So the third and final Luke of the Banshee. Luke is the old hag. Classic. Classic.

SPEAKER_00 32:01

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 32:02

Not gonna say that word. Kelik.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

Kelik.

SPEAKER_04 32:05

Uh look. Long white hair, green dress, and gray cloak.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

So the banshee's very maiden mother crone.

SPEAKER_04 32:12

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Nice. Yeah. Really good, really good. Keen insight.

SPEAKER_03 32:17

Keen insight, Steven.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 32:20

Speaking of Keen. Keen. The Keening.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

The sound of doom. Okay. So the Banshee doesn't talk. She keen. She keen. She keens. Um the sound, it's described as a sound that is too beautiful to be human. Which is not how I would have described Keening. No. That's not what I was picturing when I heard Keening. Um, so yeah, it's ascribed too beautiful to be human and too terrifying to be an animal.

SPEAKER_04 32:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

Interesting. A terrifying animal sound is what I would have thought as keening. Yeah, yeah. So that tracks.

SPEAKER_04 32:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:59

Um, so if you hear it, it's a warning for a family member. If you see her, it's a warning for you. Shivers. Yeah, right? Don't like that. Uh the vibe check.

SPEAKER_04 33:12

Hand it to me.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

She is often seen sitting by a river washing bloody bandages or the clothes of the person about to die.

SPEAKER_04 33:22

Well, yikes.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

Yeah. It's essentially the most depressing laundry day in history.

SPEAKER_04 33:27

I mean, we're talking about looks. Listen, she she's got okay, so how about this, Stephen? Do you want to hit me with what you think Keenaning sounds like?

SPEAKER_01 33:36

Oh God.

SPEAKER_04 33:37

Do your best, Keen.

SPEAKER_01 33:39

Okay, so this, get ready. This is gonna be too beautiful to come out of a human.

SPEAKER_06 33:44

Oh my god! I was so excited.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

Okay, you ready? I'm ready.

SPEAKER_10 33:48

This is Keenan's out. I'm ready. Ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_04 34:10

I I I'm keening I I think I feel as though I have been touched by an angel inside my eardrum. Good job.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

Is that why you think of as keening?

SPEAKER_06 34:24

Everything and more, Steven. Everything and more. I was incredible. Thank you.

SPEAKER_07 34:30

Well, you need to you need to keen. Do I need to keen?

SPEAKER_06 34:34

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04 34:42

I don't know. That was great. I felt very encouraged by my owl friend. I love it. So there you go. I love it. Who's who's keen? Did you are you keen on? Huh?

SPEAKER_06 34:53

I like Stevens better.

SPEAKER_01 34:56

I don't know what the fuck I did, but this is what they come for. I hope so.

SPEAKER_04 35:01

All right. Let's move on to the silver comb or the do not touch item of the Banshee. Okay. Legend says that the Banshee is often seen combing her hair with a silver or gold comb. Apparently she's very vain.

SPEAKER_01 35:15

Very vain.

SPEAKER_04 35:16

So bit of a trap. Bit of a trap. If you find a silver comb on the ground in Ireland, do not pick it up.

SPEAKER_00 35:25

Take note.

SPEAKER_04 35:26

There's consequences, people. If you take it, the pa the banshee will come to your house and demand it back with such violence, shaking the walls and breaking the windows. Wow. That you wish you had just bought a plastic one at the drugstore.

SPEAKER_01 35:42

There you go.

SPEAKER_04 35:43

Don't take her comb.

SPEAKER_01 35:44

Don't take her comb.

SPEAKER_04 35:46

Listen, when I read this, I'm like, they are making a huge deal about this goddamn comb. What is the like really?

SPEAKER_01 35:53

It's a magic comb.

SPEAKER_04 35:54

I'm telling you. Hello, kitten.

SPEAKER_01 35:56

Um That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 35:58

It's a comb.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

It's a comb, baby.

SPEAKER_04 36:00

It's a fucking comb. Like what? Anyway, sorry. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be don't comb for me, Banshee. But pretty sure with your violence and your strength and your amazing legendary sort of features, you could be finding yourself a new one.

SPEAKER_01 36:14

Maybe it's a magic comb that helps with their keening, though, or something.

SPEAKER_04 36:19

Fair enough. Yeah. Fair enough. Shame on me for shame on me. Apologies, apologies, a thousand apologies.

SPEAKER_01 36:27

Uh okay, so next. Yeah. We're done with banshees for now.

SPEAKER_04 36:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

We've got some of my faves. There's a lot about them though. Um, but this is we're just gonna touch on them. So we've got the Celtic Druids. Ooh. Fun fact: I usually play a druid in DD. Nerd. Nerd. Nerd alert.

SPEAKER_04 36:49

Wearing my glasses so I can do it now.

SPEAKER_01 36:52

Um, so the banshee, if the banshee is the notification bell of death, the druids were the ones who wrote the software. Love it. A little solar punk vibe there. I like that. Um, in ancient Ireland, druids weren't just guys in bed sheets hugging trees. Sure. They were the most powerful people in society. They were judges, doctors, scientists, and advisors to kings. There you go. In fact, a king wasn't allowed to speak at a public assembly until his druid had spoken first.

SPEAKER_04 37:27

That is wild.

SPEAKER_01 37:28

Isn't that wild? Yeah. Um, here is the weird and whimsical breakdown of the Irish Druids. The education from hell. Becoming a druid wasn't a weekend seminar. It was a 20-year degree.

SPEAKER_04 37:44

Commitment.

SPEAKER_01 37:44

Yeah. I've actually looked into this and like there are still druids around. What? You uh have to take uh I don't think it's 20 years, but there is um druid society and there's druid classes. Um it's basically you just like you're very connected to nature.

SPEAKER_04 38:01

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 38:01

Yeah. Um the method is students had to memorize thousands of verses, laws, and star charts.

SPEAKER_04 38:10

I know where Orion's belt is.

SPEAKER_01 38:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 38:13

And once I find that, I can find Taurus and Jupiter. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 38:19

I know the big zipper and the little different.

SPEAKER_04 38:21

Yeah, big zipper litter. Yeah, you know what, if I'm being honest, Mars, you're in a look once you find Jupiter, you can figure the rest out.

SPEAKER_01 38:28

Yeah, fair.

SPEAKER_04 38:29

Right?

SPEAKER_01 38:30

I as much as I want to be a druid, I would suck because I don't memorize anything.

SPEAKER_04 38:34

I see, no, see, now I'm into this. Now we're talking now. We're talking stars in space and galaxies.

SPEAKER_01 38:39

I mean, that's your dream.

SPEAKER_04 38:41

Yeah, if if I could choose to study just that, I would be an advanced druid of just that.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

You'd be like an astronomy druid. Yeah, laws pass. Do not care.

SPEAKER_04 38:52

Do not care.

SPEAKER_01 38:54

Um, so the darkroom technique. Okay. To compose poetry or prophecies, they would often lie in a completely dark room with a heavy stone on their chest to force the visions out.

SPEAKER_04 39:07

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

I don't know about that one.

SPEAKER_04 39:10

Is that how that works?

SPEAKER_01 39:12

Uh apparently. I've never tried it.

SPEAKER_04 39:14

Let's let's put a couple dumbbells on us and see if we can write incredible poetry.

SPEAKER_01 39:20

I'm in.

SPEAKER_04 39:20

I'm up for the challenge.

SPEAKER_01 39:22

Um Okay. So imagine paying tuition for 20 years just to sit in a dark room with a rock on your chest. That's not an education. That's a very expensive goth base.

SPEAKER_06 39:35

Absolutely. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

Huh?

SPEAKER_06 39:38

Leave me alone. I'm in my room. I'm in my room. Um why the rock? Just to like apply pressure and put like rocks are also of the earth.

SPEAKER_01 39:47

They're very, you know, natural things. Fair. Um, maybe you're somehow getting the energy from the rock.

SPEAKER_05 39:54

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 39:54

I like that. And then forcing out your creativity.

SPEAKER_04 39:57

Listen, I like it. That was really well said. Thank you. And at this point, I'll believe anything. There you go. Um, so let's explore the power of gl-I don't know how to say this, glam justin. Glam or the satire curse. So apparently, this is the coolest part of druidic lore. They didn't need swords, they used satire, baby. Satire. If a king was greedy or unjust, a druid would compose a satire, which of course is a magical poem, against him. There you go. Legend says a truly powerful satire could physically blister the king's face or make him lose his luck forever. Wow. Here comes luck again. Luck.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

The luck of the Irish.

SPEAKER_04 40:42

There you go. So let's talk about this social media parallel a little bit here. Druids were the original cancel culture. One bad poem, and your face literally melts off. Don't read the comments, King. So funny. So the mistaken human sacrifice. While the Romans, who by the way hated the Druids, wrote stories about Wickermen and mass human sacrifice, there's actually very little archaeological evidence of this in Ireland. Irish Druidry, is that right? My Druidry was more about divination. Yeah. They studied the flight of birds, the shape of clouds, and the way sacred sneezing happened.

SPEAKER_01 41:32

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 41:32

I've never heard of that.

SPEAKER_04 41:34

I'm kind of into that.

SPEAKER_01 41:35

Sacred sneezing.

SPEAKER_04 41:36

So um they used Orgum.

SPEAKER_00 41:39

Orgum?

SPEAKER_04 41:40

An ancient alphabet of notches and lines, often carved into standing stones to mark boundaries or graves. Really? You know what I mean? Yeah. They're just living their lives in the woods, in the forest, carving stones, carving rocks, carving, you know, doing witchcraft. Doing witchcraft. I'm into it.

SPEAKER_01 41:58

There is a lot of crossover and parallels between the two. Uh so the threefold sacredness.

SPEAKER_07 42:05

Sacredness. Sacredness.

SPEAKER_01 42:07

The druids believed the world was divided into three realms. Okay. Land, sea, and sky. Makes sense. Fair enough. I was about to break into a Taylor Swift song there.

SPEAKER_04 42:17

I don't know any of them, so sure. Well, now I know you gotta do it. What one are you talking about?

SPEAKER_01 42:22

Um Fate of Ophelia. Oh no. Um Land and Sea and Sky? The land, the sea, the sky. No, that that too was so bad. Don't cover me. I'm sorry, Tyson.

SPEAKER_00 42:35

Cut.

SPEAKER_01 42:36

Um that was so bad. I can't sing on demand like that, even though I brought it up.

SPEAKER_04 42:40

You I you literally could have sang anything and have been like, oh yeah, that's Heller Swift.

SPEAKER_01 42:45

That's true. Um, so yes, they worshipped these liminal spaces.

SPEAKER_04 42:49

Liminal.

SPEAKER_01 42:50

Liminal spaces, which I really want to do an episode about. There's some very cool liminal spaces. Um places that weren't quite one thing or another. So yeah, basically, if you don't know what a liminal space is, um think of like um like a doorway. So you're not in one room and you're not in the other. You're standing in the doorway. So you're kind of like in an in-between. Where it meets. Where it meets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could also be, yeah, like a windows. Um here it's like uh basically a beach. Yes. Could be a liminal space because you're not in the ocean, but you're not quite on the land. Yep. So in-between space, things like that. Yeah. There's like psychic, like mind, mental liminal spaces, like all that kind of stuff. Um examples such as. Examples such as I need to read ahead sometimes. Um, so the shoreline where uh land meets sea, the mist, this is a cool one where sky meets land, the forge, where river is also a path. Uh this is why so many islands. Irish ghost stories happen at bridges or crossroads. The druids taught us that's where the veil is thinnest.

SPEAKER_04 44:07

That is so cool. Yeah. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense to me. Yeah. Sacredness. Sacredness. Um okay, so if you could only live in the land, the sea or the sky, which one would you live in?

SPEAKER_01 44:20

I think it would be cool, really cool to live in the sea. But if I was living on land, I would want to choose what kind of land. And it would be very much like mossy, ferny, redwood forest, like very beasty, but on the coast. Like a forest on the coast. Have access to the water.

SPEAKER_04 44:42

But here's the thing: you couldn't go into it. Because then you'd be passing that sacred light, like this is true. This is true. Only live in the land the sky. My vote is C if that's the case.

SPEAKER_01 44:54

I think men probably would be too. Do we get to be mirror people?

SPEAKER_04 44:57

Absolutely. Just like our last couple episodes ago. Yeah. Wet and confused. Wet and confused. Do you know what it is? Wet and confused? Yeah. Listen to it. Watch it. Um, yeah. That's amazing. Druids, man. Druids are cool.

SPEAKER_01 45:13

Also, that is like literally just a scrapey scrape. Just a scrapey scrape. There's a lot to it. I have a book upstairs. Have I read yet? No.

SPEAKER_04 45:22

Well, when you do, you are going to talk about it on the pod. Yeah. Yeah. So many different myths, legends, um Irish creatures, etc. Creatures. Yeah, really cool. Um, I enjoyed reading about it because it's like, yeah, I really, really like learning about Ireland and seeing. Also, I gotta tell you, anytime there's like a trivia night of Irish, I cleaned it.

SPEAKER_01 45:48

I bet you do. So are you good at trivia then?

unknown 45:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:51

Because I even even when I know the topic, if there is like a countdown or a timer or like the pressure is on, I go blank.

SPEAKER_04 46:05

Really?

SPEAKER_01 46:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:06

Although Let's test that, shall we?

SPEAKER_01 46:13

Um, we went, Dan and I went to a trivia night with um Dan's sister, Jen, Eric, um, Teresa and Adams, so cousins as well. Uh with music trivia, and we actually did very good. Yeah. There was I I answered some and it was great. You you crushed it? We crushed it. I think we were like third or fourth out of like quite a quite a good amount of ebo.

SPEAKER_04 46:37

Good for you guys. Um, okay, here's some questions, TV. Now that I know okay, we're gonna start it easy. Okay. On what date do millions of people around the world celebrate St. Patrick?

SPEAKER_01 46:50

March 14th.

SPEAKER_04 46:51

No. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 46:54

It's March. March 15th, though. Oh no, when's St. Patrick's Day? March 2nd? What are you trying to tell me?

SPEAKER_06 47:01

Two more after the 15th.

SPEAKER_01 47:04

March 17th?

SPEAKER_06 47:05

Nailed it! Yike!

SPEAKER_01 47:08

Starting off easy, guys. I don't do dates very well.

SPEAKER_04 47:12

Okay, how about okay, okay. How about this? What symbol is often associated with Ireland's patron saint?

SPEAKER_01 47:19

Oh, a clover. Four-leaf clover.

SPEAKER_04 47:22

Sort of two different something different. It's something different.

SPEAKER_01 47:25

Celtic cross?

SPEAKER_04 47:27

No, go back to the clover, but it's a different, it's a different kind. Type of clover? It's um okay, so it's a shamrock. Shamrock and a clover is different. I feel oh, I'm not sure. Yeah, you knew it. You did, you did, you did.

SPEAKER_01 47:40

It's okay. I'm not doing so hot. See what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 47:43

Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_01 47:44

As soon as you told me we were doing this, like my blood pressure spiked.

SPEAKER_04 47:49

Okay, how about this? Here's here's something that I uh I a couple of years ago, I was included in a St. Patti's Day trivia um game with some some people, and there was a tie a tie. And they were like, okay, we have a tie-breaking question. And I knew this and I want it, but I want to see if the people know it. So we all know that the color green is synonymous with St. Patrick's Day, but what other color has been associated with the saint? Not the leprechaun. So it's not what we talked about earlier.

SPEAKER_00 48:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 48:22

Associated with the saint. I have a multiple choice here for red, which we're I'm telling you, it's not red.

SPEAKER_10 48:28

Okay. Blue, pink, or yellow. I get I did know this. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Is it yellow? No.

SPEAKER_04 48:47

Is it pink? No, it's blue. Blue. The significance of blue dates back to early Irish mythology, and the earliest depictions of the patron saint show him in wearing Saint Patrick's blue. Well, shit. Well shit.

SPEAKER_01 49:02

I got them all wrong.

SPEAKER_04 49:03

I mean, why don't I just stop there? But super fun. Um, super fun to just kind of create a little trivia for your friends on St. Paddy's. I like that. Right?

SPEAKER_01 49:14

Guys, I swear I know thanks.

SPEAKER_06 49:17

To be fair, Steven didn't know I was gonna do that.

SPEAKER_01 49:20

No, and I warned her. I told her.

SPEAKER_06 49:22

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

SPEAKER_04 49:24

Don't do well on the press right. What about you could ask me? Maybe I won't know something.

SPEAKER_00 49:31

Okay. Here we go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 49:33

Okay. Okay. I don't know. Careful. You can unplug it. For those listening, we're he's taking my laptop. Okay. You haven't looked at these? Uh I don't know all of them. No. I just went halfway to wherever the blue one was, I stopped.

SPEAKER_01 49:47

Um you just asked me that one.

SPEAKER_04 49:49

Okay, great.

SPEAKER_01 49:50

Uh oh, this is too easy. Like, why didn't you ask me this one?

SPEAKER_04 49:53

Give me it.

SPEAKER_01 49:54

According to legend, what did St. Patrick banish from the uh from Ireland?

SPEAKER_04 49:58

I don't even have to hear the four. I already know the answer.

SPEAKER_01 50:01

So do I. See? Say it on three.

SPEAKER_06 50:03

One, two, three. Snakes. Damn it. Yay, but you've redeemed yourself. Okay, give me the hard one.

SPEAKER_01 50:10

I have the power in my hands.

SPEAKER_06 50:12

It's funny how having the answers in front of you makes you feel a lot better.

SPEAKER_01 50:15

Right. Uh, where are the remains of St. Patrick said to be located?

SPEAKER_08 50:20

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 50:21

I can give you there's Cavan Cathedral, Down Cathedral, Down Patrick, Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin, or St. Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.

SPEAKER_04 50:34

Well, okay. I I want to say it's the one with his name in it.

SPEAKER_00 50:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 50:39

But it also seems too obvious. I've been to Christchurch. I'm gonna go with Christchurch.

SPEAKER_01 50:47

Christchurch?

SPEAKER_04 50:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:48

Nope.

SPEAKER_04 50:48

Oh! Is it the St. Patrick one?

SPEAKER_01 50:50

It is Down Cathedral.

SPEAKER_04 50:52

I have no idea. See? Had no idea on that one. There you go. So we're we're tired of me not knowing something. Hit me with one more. Hit me with one more.

SPEAKER_01 51:00

Riveting stuff. Riveting stuff. Uh oh, here we go. What is said to have been St. Patrick's real name?

SPEAKER_04 51:06

Oh. Oh, I think I know this. Okay. Read them. Read them.

SPEAKER_01 51:10

Uh Maywin Sukat.

SPEAKER_04 51:12

Great.

SPEAKER_01 51:12

Patrick Walsh.

SPEAKER_05 51:15

This sounds like a dude who has like a constant cigar in his mouth. Like, you know those like short ones.

SPEAKER_01 51:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 51:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 51:21

Uh Patty O'Leary. Okay. Uh, and Sean Fitzpath.

SPEAKER_09 51:27

Sean Fitzpatrick.

SPEAKER_04 51:28

It's Sean Fitzpatrick.

SPEAKER_09 51:30

I'm confident. Final answer.

SPEAKER_01 51:32

No. What? It was Maywin Sukat.

SPEAKER_04 51:37

Well damn. Well, damn. Okay, well usually I do a lot better, guys. Yeah, no, see? See? Now I am also embarrassed. So we're we're living it together.

SPEAKER_01 51:48

Okay, one more. All right, all right. Where does the home of St. Patrick Festival take place? Belfast, Donegal Town, Cork City, or Armagandown. Shit.

SPEAKER_09 52:02

I've been to both Donegal and Cork.

SPEAKER_10 52:06

I think I have two. I think it's Cork. Cork?

SPEAKER_09 52:11

It's not gonna be.

SPEAKER_04 52:12

It's Donegal. It's Donegal. It's Donegal.

SPEAKER_01 52:14

Over the space of ten days, the festival in New Remorn and Down celebrates the achievement of the patron saint through walks, talks, plays, music, dance, and songs.

SPEAKER_05 52:26

Well, there you go. There you go.

SPEAKER_04 52:28

Take my Irish card away.

SPEAKER_00 52:30

Mine too.

SPEAKER_04 52:33

Well, damn. So which yeah, okay. So Armagen down. I have no idea. Okay, well, listen, guys, you can't win them all.

SPEAKER_01 52:43

We got the snake. You can't win them.

SPEAKER_04 52:45

We know the snakes, we know Angle Bra. We know that the patron color used to be blue, not green.

SPEAKER_01 52:51

We do know the song.

SPEAKER_04 52:52

We do know the song.

SPEAKER_01 52:54

We're not gonna sing it for you.

SPEAKER_04 52:55

Um, you know, listen. Are you not entertained?

SPEAKER_01 53:00

Are you not entertained? We know Celtic Thunder, we know Celtic women. Great, great groups. I could have gone to see Celtic Thunder.

SPEAKER_08 53:10

What?

SPEAKER_01 53:10

Yeah. Oh, you should have. I should have. It was you. It was a um with the retirement home. I could have taken the seniors, but it fell on um my off day, and I was just like, I can't. Such I needed a break.

SPEAKER_06 53:26

Listen, seniors, I'm off to steam it.

SPEAKER_04 53:30

All right. Any other Irish little tidbits that apparently we don't know at all.

SPEAKER_07 53:35

Oh, that was bad.

SPEAKER_04 53:35

God, that was embarrassing. Here I am being like, I cleaned up I I want it to be known, it's true. That what that that I've cleaned up with Irish trivia.

SPEAKER_07 53:44

Yeah, yeah. Oh, man.

SPEAKER_04 53:46

I have to redeem myself this year. The studying begins now. Uh, anything else to add? I think that's it. Okay. Well, thank you so much for listening to Weirdos Whimsy. We will be back again soon with another episode that guides you through the weird and whimsical journey that is our brains. Be sure to follow us on Instagram and TikTok and YouTube. That's the one at Weirdos Whimsy Pod. Watch that space for updates and release dates and other treats and delectable morsels. You'd think I'd have that memorized.

SPEAKER_01 54:21

Even the even the um intro, I still have to read sometimes here.

unknown 54:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 54:25

So it's not good.

SPEAKER_03 54:27

Say goodbye, see me. Goodbye, everybody. Buy shirts. Shirts.

SPEAKER_07 54:33

And with nipples. Extra. Extra nipples.

SPEAKER_03 54:39

And as always, big gulps, eh?

SPEAKER_01 54:43

Well, see you later. I just did like finger guns. I don't know what that was.