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St. Patrick's Day List and Fun for March 17th 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I realized it was Saint Patrick's day to day when
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  Speaker 1: I saw the Walker Bank sign driving into work and
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  Speaker 1: it was not Walker It's not Walker Bank, it's the
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  Speaker 1: Walker Walker Building. Yeah, the Walker Center, and it's it
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  Speaker 1: was good. I thought, why is that green? I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen Oh wait a minute, Saint Patrick's day.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, most people celebrated this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Why does Saint Why does Patrick actually have a day?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's not actually Irish. He was born in Britain. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: who wants to play? Drink the beer? He was captured
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  Speaker 1: as an adolescent and ended up enslaved in Ireland, and
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  Speaker 1: he escaped to another part of Europe, where he was
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  Speaker 1: trained as a priest. He returned to Ireland in the
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  Speaker 1: fifth century to spread Christianity and and drive the snakes
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  Speaker 1: out of Ireland. There is no there is no evidence
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  Speaker 1: that snakes ever were in Ireland.
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  Speaker 2: So that's just a is that like your stick that
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  Speaker 2: keeps the cougar is away?
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  Speaker 3: You don't see any cougar.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, U lots of a beer leprechauns, his shamrocks. What
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  Speaker 1: else do we associate with as are either of you
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  Speaker 1: wearing green? I can't.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I sort of the little alligators.
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  Speaker 2: I realized because I went to the parade and everything
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday. As I was getting dressed, I don't own
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  Speaker 2: anything green. I have no, I didn't have a green hat,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have green scarf.
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  Speaker 1: So what'd you do?
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  Speaker 3: I was a great risk of being pinched.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose you always are though, great, Yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean people always want to pinch you. Pinchable.
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  Speaker 2: Festus has so I was talking to him last night,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, he has green eyes, yeah, and so
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  Speaker 2: he did you know he never has to worry about that,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, well, my uniform is green every so
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  Speaker 2: he's double green today.
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  Speaker 1: Saint Patrick has never been canonized.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't.
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  Speaker 1: No, despite his status as a patron, Saint Saint Patrick
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  Speaker 1: was never actually canonized by the Catholic Church during his lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: This is primarily because such a process didn't exist when
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  Speaker 1: he died in four sixty one.
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  Speaker 3: Well perhaps, well, Pope Francis can get on that.
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  Speaker 4: You'd think, well, no, he's he's too busy trying to
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  Speaker 4: trying to live, trying to live.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah he's not. He could be formally canonized, but he.
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  Speaker 3: Be an thing to me.
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  Speaker 1: Love Bear the shamrock was once considered a sacred plant
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  Speaker 1: in Ireland.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's the it's the Trinity, it's the Father, the Son,
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's the three. Ireland's only female patron, Saint Brigid,
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  Speaker 1: has her own holiday in Ireland. I could use a beer.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. The first Saint Patrick's Day parade was held
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  Speaker 1: in America.
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  Speaker 3: In New York.
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  Speaker 5: Right, yeah, at it was Oh no, no, no, no
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  Speaker 5: record show that a Saint Patrick's Day parade was held
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  Speaker 5: in sixteen oh one in the Spanish colony that is
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  Speaker 5: now Saint Augustine, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Was organized by Spanish Colonies Irish vicar Ricardo artur So.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why the Spanish had an Irish vicar,
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  Speaker 1: but they did. Oh he loved beer. The Irish were
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  Speaker 1: once scorned in America. Yes, well yeah, you ever see
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  Speaker 1: Gangs of New York that the Scorsese movie, that's.
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  Speaker 4: John Lyden's book is no Blacks, no Jews, no Irish
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  Speaker 4: or no dogs, no Irish.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So you know, we always we always have to
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  Speaker 1: find an ethnic minority to pick on.
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  Speaker 3: And they were the immigrants.
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  Speaker 1: They were the corned beef and cabbage was an American innovation,
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  Speaker 1: not not something that they not something that they really
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  Speaker 1: go for.
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  Speaker 3: In Ireland, they eat a lot of lamb there.
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  Speaker 1: They eat a lot of it. They said they used
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  Speaker 1: to have ham and cabbage. Corn beef was a cheaper
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  Speaker 1: substitute for the oh. Irish immigrants started eating corn beef
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  Speaker 1: and cabbage in America. Ain't you gonna have a beef?
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  Speaker 2: And you know corn beef. Corn is not involved at all.
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  Speaker 2: The corn part comes from peppercorn salt salt or whatever
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  Speaker 2: they call it.
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  Speaker 1: They salt it and that you know, kind of like
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  Speaker 1: rock salt or it's they call those corns of salt.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where corned beef comes from. Because it's it's
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  Speaker 1: I guess they take a raw honka beef and then
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  Speaker 1: they put it in salt and cure it. It's a
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  Speaker 1: way to preserve it because they didn't have no refrigerators.
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  Speaker 6: That's right, it's not it's about meat and my beer.
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  Speaker 1: And if you make corned beef, you would be wise
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  Speaker 1: to rinse it off very thoroughly. It'd be too salty
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  Speaker 1: if you don't rinse it off. And it's and it's
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  Speaker 1: and always by the flat cut. Don't don't buy the
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  Speaker 1: point cut. Don't don't buy point cut.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, clearly most of it's in your systems.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what else we need to know about wearing
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  Speaker 1: greens common tradition. The origins are debated, with some people
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  Speaker 1: saying it's a way to honor Ireland's green landscape. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's in their flag.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody says that the snakes are actually Pagans. He drove
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  Speaker 4: the pagan Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland.
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  Speaker 4: It's symbolic im converting Pagans to Christianity. Snakes and serpents
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  Speaker 4: were pagan symbols.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's odd that there are no snakes in
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  Speaker 1: Ireland though, aren't there pretty much snakes? Snakes are pretty
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  Speaker 1: much everywhere. Yeah, I'm not sure why they are. In Hawaii, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: there's plenty.
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  Speaker 4: There's plenty of snakes, and there's a snake problem. So
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  Speaker 4: they brought mongooses over, yeah, to get rid of the snakes,
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  Speaker 4: and now they got a mongoose problem.
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  Speaker 2: In Hawaii has no native land snakes. There are occasional
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  Speaker 2: sightings of escaped or smuggled snakes, but no snakes.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, they got a mongoose problem.
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  Speaker 3: They got a mongoose problem.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I just can't drink green beer.
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  Speaker 2: Ireland is snake free due to the last Ice Age,
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  Speaker 2: which made the island too cold for reptiles. After the
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  Speaker 2: ice retreated, surrounding seas prevented snakes from colonizing the Emerald dial.
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  Speaker 1: And you say there's no climate change. That goes to
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  Speaker 1: show you.
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  Speaker 4: People around the world drank themselves into oblivion today in
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  Speaker 4: honor of Saint Patrick's Day, or as the Irish referred
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  Speaker 4: to it, Friday.
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  Speaker 1: No. And in Chicago they dye the river. Did they
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  Speaker 1: do it again? They do it every year, diet green.
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  Speaker 2: With some non it's not I guess it's not toxic,
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  Speaker 2: all right, Uh, it's anything else.
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  Speaker 1: When it used to it used to be sort of
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  Speaker 1: fun when I was a kid. You know, you wear
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  Speaker 1: green and.
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  Speaker 3: Let's still bill have some whimsy in your life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm sorry, but most things have stopped being caught.
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  Speaker 3: What you need to try to incorporate fun.
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  Speaker 1: I remember today is try to act happy day or
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  Speaker 1: I don't give a rats ass day. Oh, come on,
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  Speaker 1: play just a few beers. Uh? And people really, I
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  Speaker 1: mean when we participated in the Saint Patrick's State Parade
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  Speaker 1: that really it was really quite fun, and I usually
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  Speaker 1: had to have somebody drive me home because I was
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  Speaker 1: by time I was by the end of the parade,
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  Speaker 1: I was in no condition. All Right, what do I
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  Speaker 1: want another beer? Uh? It takes over five hours for
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  Speaker 1: the New York City Saint Patrick's Date Parade, really five hours.
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  Speaker 1: They use forty pounds of green dye to dye the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago River green.
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  Speaker 4: The dye that they used to dye the river green
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  Speaker 4: is not actually green, it's orange.
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  Speaker 3: But when you mix it with the.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the mongoose for back to Hawaii. The mongoose were
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  Speaker 4: brought in to get rid of the rats, not the snakes.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I got to choose.
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  Speaker 4: Now they have a ratt and mongoose problem.
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  Speaker 6: Four more beers.
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  Speaker 1: Did Bill frost At your band play anywhere on St.
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  Speaker 6: Patrick's Day? We're not one of those occasional Irish bands.
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  Speaker 3: Occasional.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a few of them out there to make
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  Speaker 6: some pretty good bank on Saint Patrick's Day in the weekend,
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  Speaker 6: but sadly we're not one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's something you might consider adding to your repertoire.
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  Speaker 1: Then might we might just add a whole thin Lizzie block. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: want to make some meat to drink beer? Let's see,
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  Speaker 1: is there any Is Saint Patrick's Day the most pop
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  Speaker 1: your drinking day in America? No? No, it is the
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  Speaker 1: fourth most popular, fourth most populart So you got New
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  Speaker 1: Year's Years, Christmas Day, and the fourth of July bigger
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  Speaker 1: drinking day than Yeah, yeah, I can see that, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that's you know, you're Sinco Tomayo. Yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be in there, wouldn't it. Maybe it's after sat Patters,
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  Speaker 1: it's on.
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  Speaker 3: The fifth for the sinko.
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  Speaker 1: There you.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Who needs a beer? Who doesn't