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List - St. Patrick's Day Facts From March 17th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have you know, is it a yeah? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's what beneficial?
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  Speaker 2: What list? Yeah, it's Radio from Hell with another list
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  Speaker 2: because people love a good list.
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  Speaker 1: Act ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like a list if it were about Saint Patrick's Dale.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I have, Bill, But you're in luck.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know that there are thirty point five million
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  Speaker 3: US residents that claim Irish ancestry.
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  Speaker 1: A title.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, one hundred and seventeen thousand, two hundred and nineteen
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  Speaker 3: US residents born in Ireland, So so lots of celebrating
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  Speaker 3: for the Irish. Here are eleven surprising Saint Patrick's Day
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  Speaker 3: facts that.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't know about the holiday. Okay, I mean maybe
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  Speaker 1: you did, but but maybe some of you listening did
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  Speaker 1: not know. The first one Saint Patrick not.
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  Speaker 3: Irish, actually went to Ireland, actually British, although he's one
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  Speaker 3: of ireland most celebrated figures.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick was born around the year.
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  Speaker 3: Three ninety in Britain, likely in what is now Scotland,
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  Speaker 3: though there's debate his family had Roman citizenship. He returned
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  Speaker 3: to Ireland as a missionary in the year four thirty two,
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  Speaker 3: where he played a major role in converting the Irish
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  Speaker 3: to Christianity.
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  Speaker 2: Well let's not forget he drove the snakes out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's coming up.
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  Speaker 3: After his death, he was named Ireland's patron Saint I bet.
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  Speaker 2: He's had twenty beers today. That's how many I had
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  Speaker 2: when I tried to plug the television into that dog.
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  Speaker 3: Saint Patrick's real name was Maywan's Soukat. He changed He
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  Speaker 3: changed your name to Patrick when he became a.
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  Speaker 1: Bishop, to MC Saint Patrick.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's that's a better Irish name. Yeah, March seventeenth
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  Speaker 3: is not Saint Patrick's birthday. That's the date he is
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  Speaker 3: actually believed to have died in the fifth century. He
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  Speaker 3: died in down Patrick, Ireland, in for sixty one eight
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  Speaker 3: and the site is known as Ireland's Cradle of Christianity and.
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  Speaker 2: The mixture of beer and vomit on the Florida this
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  Speaker 2: fine establishment.
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  Speaker 3: The first Saint Patrick's Day Parade took place where New York.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, do you know the year though? I bet not.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm going to say nineteen thirty something.
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  Speaker 3: Nope, it's long believe that the first parade took place
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  Speaker 3: in New York City in seventeen sixty two, although history
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  Speaker 3: professor discovered records showing that the inaugural march in the
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  Speaker 3: US actually occurred in Saint Augustine, which would become part
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  Speaker 3: of Florida.
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  Speaker 1: That's the oldest.
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  Speaker 3: Settlement, by the way, Saint Augustine on the in sixteen
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  Speaker 3: oh one.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Regardless of where the first state side parade took place,
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  Speaker 3: it's no surprise that Saint Patrick's Day become a widespread
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  Speaker 3: holiday thanks to the increase of Irish immigrant You.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I just can't drink green beer.
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  Speaker 3: Saint Patrick's had no snakes to banish, as I was saying.
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  Speaker 3: Legend says Saint Patrick drove Ireland snakes into the sea,
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  Speaker 3: purging the land of all evil. However, research indicating that
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  Speaker 3: snakes had never inhabited the Emerald Isle seem like.
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  Speaker 2: There are no rocks in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: The entire island was once covered in ice. There is
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  Speaker 3: no fossil evidence of snakes in the region, alas nature
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  Speaker 3: itself is why there are no snakes, not Saint Patrick.
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  Speaker 2: I like drinking and I love riding tricycles.
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  Speaker 1: Saint Patrick' Day used to be a dry holiday. Saint
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  Speaker 1: Patrick's Day started as a feast day in sixteen thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: That's what how you celebrated in Ireland.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the day remained a church holiday for hundreds of years,
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  Speaker 3: including much of the twentieth century. Until nineteen seventy, all
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  Speaker 3: pubs were required by Irish law to close on March seventeenth.
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  Speaker 3: Really so wire pubs now thought of as the go
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  Speaker 3: to spot for many.
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  Speaker 2: To celebrate Because of Americans.
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  Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety five, the Irish government used the holiday
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  Speaker 3: as a way to drive tourism to Ireland and celebrate
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  Speaker 3: the region culture both at home and around the world.
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  Speaker 3: Couple that with the many parades that take place in
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  Speaker 3: Dublin and places like New York, You've got a reason
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  Speaker 3: to raise againness.
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  Speaker 2: It's the American Irish Americans. Yeah that you know this
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  Speaker 2: started doing all that wearing of the green, the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the shamrocks and well.
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  Speaker 1: Bill funny you mentioned wearing of the green.
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  Speaker 3: Green not always associated with Saint Patrick's Day. The color
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  Speaker 3: most associated was actually blue, for a time, still regarded
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  Speaker 3: as symbolic of Ireland. In fact, according to Irish Central
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  Speaker 3: green was considered unlucky. So how did emerald become the
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  Speaker 3: go to color for those who don't want to get pinched?
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  Speaker 1: Carrie's wearing his green today.
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  Speaker 3: Historically, green was linked to a series of Irish rebellions
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  Speaker 3: over the years, aiming to gain independence from the English crown.
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  Speaker 1: The color struck once waves of Irish.
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  Speaker 3: Immigrants made their home in US and began wearing green
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  Speaker 3: and carrying the Irish flag to show their pride again
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  Speaker 3: American Irish many believe that Saint Patrick's used the three
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  Speaker 3: leaf clover to teach about Christianity. Three leaf clover for
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Okay is brought
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  Speaker 3: to you by your duels.
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  Speaker 2: Irish blend Ireland's number one non alcoholic beer now a
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  Speaker 2: thirty alcohol.
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  Speaker 3: There are no female leprechauns, which is this is where
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  Speaker 3: one of you says, well there are no lepre.
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  Speaker 2: Sure there are. I just wonder how they reproduce.
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  Speaker 3: You ever wonder why you've never seen a lady leprechaun, Well,
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  Speaker 3: they don't exist. Leprechauns tiny men who belong to the
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  Speaker 3: fairy family. Legend has it that the magical beings are
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  Speaker 3: descendants of a Gaelic goddess and inhabited Ireland before humans.
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  Speaker 3: Some have said that leprechauns rejected the fairies, ousted by
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  Speaker 3: the fairy community, which explains why they're usually described it
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  Speaker 3: is grouchy creatures prone to mischief. Apparently that's also why
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  Speaker 3: there are no female leprechauns, but.
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  Speaker 2: Still port grouchy because there are no girls around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how you make
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  Speaker 1: new leprechauns. Maybe you don't. Maybe they're just the same
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  Speaker 1: lepercawns that have always been there and want to drink
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  Speaker 1: the beer.
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  Speaker 3: Corned beef and cabbage. Yes, the classic Saint Patrick's date
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  Speaker 3: dish made with chopped meat, potatoes, fried onions did not
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  Speaker 3: originate in Ireland. While ham and cabbage were traditional Irish bear,
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  Speaker 3: corned beef.
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  Speaker 1: Because you don't have a lot of cows in.
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  Speaker 3: Ireland, corned beef became more affordable alternative for Irish Americans.
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  Speaker 3: There's also no corn in corned beef.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, it's called corned beef because it's cured with
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  Speaker 2: rock salt or they call those corns heeward that. They
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  Speaker 2: call them corns of salt.
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  Speaker 1: Me love beer.
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  Speaker 3: Chicago was the first US city to die it's river
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  Speaker 3: green for St. Patrick's Day. The tradition of dyeing the
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  Speaker 3: river green began in nineteen sixty two. The kernel of
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  Speaker 3: the idea came from Mayor Richard Day taking office and
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  Speaker 3: deciding he wanted to clean up the river front with
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  Speaker 3: city workers using green dye to determine the waste origins
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  Speaker 3: so you can find, you know, watch it flow and
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  Speaker 3: see what's And Dally said, huh, maybe maybe we could
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  Speaker 3: do this for Saint Patrick's Day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I could use a beer.
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  Speaker 1: A top secret, environmentally friendly food grade.
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  Speaker 3: Orange powder gives the river its green tone every March.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he loves beer.
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  Speaker 1: That is eleven Saint Patrick's Day faction. Probably Yeah, ain't
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  Speaker 1: you gonna have a beer?
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  Speaker 2: I feel edified.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad.
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  Speaker 2: I think I now know more about Saint Patrick's Day
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  Speaker 2: than I ever really ever wanted to know. Why.
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you want to know? He was about Sam Patrick's.
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  Speaker 2: All I knew about Saint Patrick's Day is and about
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  Speaker 2: the Irish was that movie The Gangs of New York.
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  Speaker 2: They don't look good in that, No they don't. They
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  Speaker 2: don't come. They had a rough time when they first
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  Speaker 2: came to So the way to protect themselves was you
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  Speaker 2: know that movie.
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  Speaker 1: That movie Far and Away with Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise.
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  Speaker 2: I never saw that is about the.
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  Speaker 1: Irish coming here.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a scene in there where for some reason,
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  Speaker 3: Tom Cruise has a bowl. He's naked, a bowl, a
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  Speaker 3: bowl b O W lay covering his junk. Yeah, like
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  Speaker 3: he passed out and they're kind of tending to him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: And Nicole Kidman comes in and she's she's curious about
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  Speaker 3: what's under the bowl, and apparently in like ten takes
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  Speaker 3: so that they had like a little you know, towel
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  Speaker 3: or something covering him up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, to take that's in the movie.
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  Speaker 3: She removed the bowl and hit there he there he was,
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  Speaker 3: and there he was, and so her reaction is genuine.
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  Speaker 2: I can't just leave it take it. Leave it to
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  Speaker 2: Geina to know that kind of fact.
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  Speaker 1: I add that to your list of Saint Patrick's Day
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  Speaker 1: facts you didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: All right, this isn't about That's right, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's about me and my beer. Okay, clearly most of
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  Speaker 1: it's in your system.