Irish Gothic Podcast
Join Spence and Chris on "Irish Gothic," a podcast exploring Ireland's myths and legends. Each episode delves into folklore, bringing ancient faeries, banshees, and Celtic warriors to life. The hosts invite listeners to uncover Ireland's past, whether they are folklore enthusiasts or new to these tales. "Irish Gothic" transports you to a realm where the supernatural intertwines with history. Please tune in for spine-tingling stories, cultural insights, and humour as they examine Ireland's darker heritage.
Irish Gothic Podcast
EPISODE TEN : LEGEND OF THE LEPRECHAUN (PART 2)
Welcome back to part two of the legend of the little green sprite, smoking a pipe and with a rainbow coming out of his *** (at least according to Chris). On this episode, Chris and Spence delve into the culture which surrounds this mischievous figure, and attempt to out-geek each other with their Leprechaun movie trivia. Leave your favourite pop culture Leprechaun in the comments !
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I know all the folks round these arts and parts. Can't say I know you. Leastways. Not yet. But I dare say I know what you'll be wanting. Some of the crack, maybe. How we yarn with your sup, is it? No harm in that. Come on over. Warm yourself, hmm? I'll warn you though. If it's the old Begara and Blarney shenanigans you're after, you'll not hear them from me. Well, if such, like, pleases you, you sit on. I'll fill your ears. And see what story is meant for you. On this dark old night.
chris-patterson_2_10-23-2024_181531:I'm Chris
spencey-guest437_2_10-23-2024_181541:I'm Spence
chris-patterson_2_10-23-2024_181531:And this is the Irish Gothic Podcast.
chris-patterson_11_03-20-2025_215114:Welcome back to part two of our Dive into the leprechauns.
Chris Patterson:In another story about leprechauns, a man once caught a leprechaun and was led to a tree in a forest under which the leprechaun swore to him that all his treasure was buried, but having no shovel. He took off his coat, which was a lovely red coat, and he hung it on the tree, so he would have a marker where to go back to, to dig it up. So off he goes back to his house and he gets a shovel. But when he got back to the forest, his mouth fell open every tree in the forest had a red jacket hanging on him.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:That's
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:you know.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:sneaky, sneaky leprechauns.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Sneaky. Hey, I tell you what, pay wish he had just dug with his hands and that, but do that. That's so spooky, Chris, that, I mean, I didn't wanna think about too much'cause it's incredibly spooky. I just put my 8-year-old daughter to bed before we started recording and we're going through her, you know, getting me bedtime story and her book is different stories from around the world and the story you literally just told was in her storybook tonight. So talk about these myths, enduring.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Well, it's definitely within, you know, they don't ever die. They're always continued on. It's always word of mouth I mean, people, you know, when you look back on these, people have tried all sorts of tricks to catch leprechauns in pursuit of their treasure. But the little guys are always one step ahead. Some legends say leprechauns make their gold by crafting shoes. While others claim they guard the treasures of the entire ferry realm acting as bankers. Another theory suggests that Vikings who once conquered Ireland, buried all their gold and entrusted it to the leprechauns for safekeeping. But the legend of the leprechaun doesn't end in ancient tales. In the modern era. Their influence on culture is still strong.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Absolutely. I, it's one of those ones I think be human nature, but certainly Irish human nature. We want to believe in leprechauns. There's just something about them. And let me give you a real tangible, example of this man. So we talked about pearl dentists searching for leprechauns earlier, and there's actually a little bit of a festival has sprung up around trying to find leprechauns. So 1989, a local businessman, I think he was a pub owner in Carlingford, in Ireland. Claimed to have found the evidence of a real leprechaun on the mountain of sleeve foy. And he said that he heard a scream near a wishing. A wishing well. And there he found the bones and the tiny soot, little gold coins near some scorched earth. Okay, so the evidence they say we've got a gold Chris, not just'cause it's a pub, but the ovens is no display behind the glass key for visitors to come and see. So as a result, a new tradition was born. There's now an, an annual leprechaun hunt. There's a hundred. They take a hundred or so little ceramic leprechauns and they hide them around sleeve foy. Tourists come every year, they try to hunt them down. You have to buy a hunter's license. To take part in the hunt. A little bit of, entrepreneurialism there, I think. And it gets even more serious, Chris, I think one year there was a real bar of gold was the prize that was hidden on the mountain worth 1,200 Euros down in sleeve foy. So a lot going on down there.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Well, did you know that in 2009 the European Union even gave the mountain? Heritage status because there are still some leprechauns living there. That was the idea. And the European Union stamped that down. So leprechauns, you know, they must be there.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:We are protected by law
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Absolutely.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:and not as well as the biodiversity of the land, of course, but I mean, it's really about the leprechauns, isn't it?
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:sideline. That's just a sideline. Obviously, everyone knows the word leprechaun. I mean, leprechauns have been such a big deal in popular culture to movies. Leprechauns have totally captured our imagination. inspiring, scurry movies, which is some of our favorites, which we'll talk about in a bed space
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Of course.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:And being mascots for example. They're the mascots for the Lucky charm cereal.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yes.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:the mascots for the Notre Dame fighting Irish and even the Boston Celtics basketball team.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Oh, of course. Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:But of course, it's the Leprechaun horror movies that most people know.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:The original ones starring, what's his name from Star Wars.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:No
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:No, it's the guy that played the Ewoks and it's completely went outta my head.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:war Activ.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Warwick Davis starring Warwick Davis. I think there was about five of them, including leprechaun in space. Uh of them were leprechaun in Ireland. They were all leprechaun, leprechaun in Los Angeles and leprechaun and in various different places, but not in Ireland.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:They were pure horror, Chris, weren't they? They like the kind of slashers with leprechaun, tongue and cheek. Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:They were, I mean, if it was a slightly exaggerated sort of top of the morning, I've got a big X leprechauns,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Well, I hope to know Chris, at one of your guilty pleasures,'cause you've mentioned it before. Darby will get on the little people.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:a hundred percent. I
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:encapsulates Disney encapsulating Irish folklore.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:So for those who don't know the story, I don't think there can't be many people out there who don't. But go ahead, head us up. What's it about? What's it all about?
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Well, Darby o Gill is a rogue the town, likes an all drink, and one day he catches king of King Brian, I believe his name was. He catches King Brian of the leprechauns and. The way he catches him is he decides that he gets King Brian in the house and he says, let's have a drink, Brian. Let's have a drink. And him and Brian have a drink all night. And then Brian wakes up in the morning and he realizes that it's late outside. He can't go out, he has to stay stuck. And that's where Darby Ogel gets him and he gets his three wishes. But of course, wishes don't go quite the plan. Do they spend.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:No, not the thoughts I remember, but I folks, this is a podcast. I wish you could see the light in Chris's eyes. A little claim in his eyes. This is definitely one of your guilty pleasures, man.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Sean Connery singing
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:So
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Sean
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Tommy stealing it.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:No.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:No.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:we'll talk about Tommy Steele. That was, Tommy Steele played a leprechaun with Fred, a Stern finnigan's rainbow. I.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Ah, there you go. There you go.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:had, Sean Connery, and then there was a famous Northern Irish actor who played Darby Albert Sharp,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Ah,
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:and Janet Monroe. I
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:the, only Disney film that ever dealt with folklore or Irish
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Mm-hmm.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Um.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Oh, well, no, Chris, sorry. I thought I would try and out geek you'cause I knew you were gonna talk about Dario o Gill.'cause you always try to find a way to bring Dario Gill into conversations. Disney did dip their toe again., I've never seen it A Disney Channel movie. The Luck of the Irish never heard of it. 2001. If I tell you the story, it might ring a bell because it sort of rang a bell somewhere a teenager discovers she's part leprechaun has to protect his family's magical heritage. Hard, family fun.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:I'm not sure about that one.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:1998. Then there was a very unlucky leprechaun, a family movie sitting on a young girl who befriends a leprechaun who had been cursed with bad luck. And together the girl, the leprechaun, set off to break the curse. That sounds all charming, I have to say. I haven't seen it honest.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Well, I mean, Rainbow that we just talked about, that was an American comes to Ireland story. So you had, Fred, a star comes to Ireland. You had Tommy Steel is the little leprechaun, and he catches Tommy Steel. And the idea is he's trying to save of the time and oddly enough, I'm not sure it was the first film, but it was certainly one of the first films that, Francis Ford Coppola directed.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Really.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Yeah. And I mean it. I heard a story. I mean, I'm sort of paraphrasing a little bit here. I heard a story'cause anyone who's old enough to know sort of older sort of Disney films and stuff. Tommy Steele was a dancer. Fred Aster was a dancer. Gene Kelly was a dancer. And on day one, Tommy Steele tells a story where he comes in to see Fred Eur and Fred Astaire's, well known globally for the best being one of the best dancers of his time. And Fred Astaire says to Tommy Steele. Show me what you've got. So Tommy Steele gets up nervous around the room, does all his been, and he stops. And Fred E Star goes, you were taught by that fucking Irishman. And he was talking about Jane Kelly and he
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:No.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:him for being taught and doing Gene Kelly moves.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Brilliant.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:alienated our young audience now.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. If, yeah, we've could definitely give up the game there, there's more movies there than I thought, to be honest. But that being sent still fairly underrepresented Wouldn't you say like, you know, for a character that can do so much schematic pars.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:were involved in a film, like a remake of leprechaun
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Hmm.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:a, with a, small wrestler, I
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:swaddle, or I don't know what they call them, it was strikingly similar, you know, I think the problem is we fall into cliche, you know, and
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Well actually we've just had St. Patrick's Day and we've talked about St. Patrick's Day quite a few times and there's a number of cliches that fall into that. The St. Patrick's Day just passed there. I saw Chicago turning they're river's green
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:you know, so there's a lot of, the happy drunken Irish person cliche.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:It reminds me, Chris, from your topic, from last time when we talked about she, Elise. And how that became a symbol yes. Of Ireland, but also of Ireland. Almost a snobbery like, you know, drunken riotous Irish almost made depicted as cave men, with their big sticks, like trunk lights,
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:You look at Lord of the Rings and you look at, Gandalf for
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:hmm.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:you know, you've got this and not, not Gandalf isn't a leprechaun, but you've got this one, this guy with a big staff, and the staff is a weapon.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Mm-hmm.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:You know, so it's very much, I know that we talked slightly about this when we were doing, Shely, but they're always ready for a Barney, you know,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah,
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:ready for a fight. the fact that they have this sort of batten,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Uhhuh.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:word, to club you whenever they, whenever you've annoyed them or not poured the right amount of whiskey,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:And it's got that think, sorry, Chris. Go ahead. Sorry.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Sorry, I'm just saying it's typically sort of stereotypical as that that has been built, the stereotypical that has been built around these, just leprechauns, but a lot of Irish folklore.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah and that's what intrigued me, Chris, how these stereotypes come about and maybe more importantly why they come about.'cause there's a school of thought that says, as you know, Christianity took hold across Ireland. Almost in tandem. The leprechaun stature, it became diminutive, it became small, it's almost, you know, it's almost a way of, making a mockery of the things that people believed in. Turn it into a joke that literally now fits on the side of a cereal box. And it may well be part of that same sort of thing that we saw with, when we talked about St. Patrick and Hilu Old Legends. They were either absorbed or they were kinda. Mock and made a joke off until they became frivolous. And as these stories show, there's so much more to it than that.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Well, I mean, we've talked before, Spence, when we're doing the research, if you go back far enough there, there is some sources that say that leprechauns weren't small.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yep.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:there is some sources that say the different, you described earlier on, the different types of leprechauns from different counties in Ireland, they weren't necessarily these tiny little men. I think it was the locker men who were reasonably tall. And in general leprechauns, some were described as to be, five foot and most smaller Dimi of men than
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:than, than you know, this, you know, two foot high,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:You have Sprite.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:man with a pipe in his mouth,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Exactly.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:and a rainbow
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:And you can Yeah. You can, what you can see how creating that stereotype is to some people's advantage. And it's just interesting how beliefs change and clash and bang off each other, but yet maybe by making it in a weird way, Chris, maybe by trying to cheapen it and make a mockery off it, it's actually made it endure more because it's so accessible to people in the way that the for instance isn't, it's scary. People love the aans.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:I would agree. I mean, especially Those parts of the US that have predominantly Irish heritage, you could walk into any of those parts. Boston, or Well, especially Boston. I mean there's leprechauns all over Boston in terms of different versions of leprechauns and you know, used for. Bars and tattoos and basketball teams and, all those, out there.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:I think you can walk in to a bar in Boston or even in New York say, do you know what a morrigan is?
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Uhhuh.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:wouldn't know. But if you said, do you know what a leprechaun is? Each one would probably tell you a different version of what a leprechaun
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah. sure. On a plague by them.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Yes, that's what I mean. And it's, it, almost a link that can be seen as a link to Ireland. You know,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:of ex, what do you call expats
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Uhhuh.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:even people with, grandparents, great-grandparents, you know, and further back that can prove they came from Ireland. It's a link
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Heritage. You know that old saying where there are two different types of people in the world, those that are Irish and those that want to be Irish.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:And you, Christian, what you're saying there. It's, that's a tangible thing. It sounds ether but it isn't. That's an actual tangible link. To your heritage, and if it comes in a small package, well, hell, who cares if it keeps you linked to the land of your four beers or whatever, it's well worth. And we're not the only, I mean, there are other epcon adjacent creatures across the world, or Scottish folks.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:is.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:The brownies, I believe, at Scottish English folklore, kinda household spurts. In Germany, there's mischievous Cobols. Scandinavian have the, I'm probably pronouncing this wrong, but the Tom te N-I-S-S-E is a small creature which looks after a farmer's home and the children and rewards hard work. But of course, like our guy will play pranks of mistreated. So there's something in the, you know, the global need for these little, small, small creatures and to live among us.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Know we'll go into the ferries at a later date. We're sort of researching that high,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:I.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:but think these whole. whole world that is almost arrived, as you say, it got smaller and smaller, and the belief almost like without the belief, do they really exist? You know, that, that sort of view. And I think that leprechauns especially have surpassed that leprechauns have come to a point where, you know, it's almost like they, they did exist at one point.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah. And I remember reading Chris from a kind of psychology point of view, why, another reason absolutely about the heritage, but another reason why even just on a human level that are intriguing deals because they're kind of the underdog. They're just small little creature, but they have wealth. So it speaks to our aspiration. And I think maybe not just Irish people, but I think certainly Irish people, we can be a bit mischievous. We like to get a deal. We like to get a bargain. We like to outsmart people. And that idea that if the circumstances are just right and you're just wildly enough you could make your RTEs just by on your own guy, on your own on, on your own metal. I think that appeals to everybody.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:And also that legendary Irish sense of humor. You know that mischievous, you know, you'll take a pot shot at your best mate, sort of sense of humor where, you know, everything you say has to be followed up with no offense,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:And offense.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:because you just called somebody something that somebody who's angry might have called
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:That's right. That's right. And
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:and
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:I, even our culture,'cause it's almost be, built round that humor, you know, when you meet someone, you say, what's the crack? And it's almost a challenge to the other person, you know, entertain me. You know, most people just say,
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:I remember saying that to somebody in America talking about the crack. And, uh, they looked straight at me like, what are you talking about?
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:I get arrested.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:you know, there was a bit of, uh, there was a bit of explaining to do, should I
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah, let's put it that way.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:and for me, know, there's an element of they've got these shoe making or shoe repairing little man.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Mm.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:see in my head the sort of warrior princes, the, the, to me it's, the dwarfs and Lord of the Rings. That's sort of what I like to envisage the leprechauns, as you know,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:these, these defenders. underworld, you
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:You know, the muscle that the ferrys call in
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:right,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah. Because they are rustic. They are. They are. And they're grafters and they're, you know, I mean, is it me? You just think the elves are mostly born in Northern rings. You know, it is said D Wars. We want to see squabbling beaten and
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:doors
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:the yogurts.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:miners
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:they're miners and I mean, the elves, you don't really see, I. Do much. I mean, they don't seem to be, I mean they're obviously, they're great with the bows and all the rest of it, but
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:But you know what I mean? Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Whereas, the dwarfs they mined for gold continuously.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Gotta get stuck in.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:I think when you look at that specifically and you look at the Hobbit more than Lord of the Rings that, lost for gold, that the king has. That ends up attracting the dragon.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:the name of the king, but that lust for gold, that he must have more
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:it almost sort of comes from the legend of the leprechauns. I mean, I can't say specifically that's maybe where he had some of the research for the divorce, but certainly, you know, that also that guardianship of the gold.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah. Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:not willing to let it go under any circumstances no
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Uh, Yeah, and bad things befall people who have avarice and greed and see'em for the LRE con stories. You try to eat more leprechaun. I tell you what they say. They say that they, the best things come in small packages. I like, I think hopefully this episode, you know, excites people on to go out there and learn more about Arons.'cause we've only touched the surface,
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Well, I
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:you know.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:oddly, I said that last week about, Ava attack,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Hmm.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:and in thinking back, do you wonder if Ava attack was a leprechaun? a vampire,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Well it started off, yeah. Yeah. He was a dwarf. A dwarf tyrant. Yeah. Yeah. I'll tell you what, there's movie ideas popping around here,
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Yeah,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:but you know, I,
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:copyright.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:I suppose regardless of how the leprechaun. May not change in the future. It's certainly changed from where it began to what we know now. But I think those themes of, you know, chasing wealth, luck, trickery, humor, charm, all that, I think that they're going to endure. There's such a part of our heritage, I think a part of many people's heritage. I think of ACOs gonna be with us for a long time.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:I mean, leprechauns, as you say, they've left impressions on, I would say, a few people's lives. Everyone knows who they are. Going from their mischievous beginnings in ancient Ireland. To their big role in modern pop culture. They're a great example of how folklore changes with the times and the places we live because it travels. You know, they have traveled. I'm sure you know, go to any Irish born in the world, as I said, and ask the question. We all know that picture of the Jolly Green guy with the pot of gold. I mean, whether it's right or not, it's a different matter, but we all know that picture. But if we really look into their history, we find out, like you say, so much more. So much more interesting and exciting stories about the Solidary Fair, about Solidary fairies who were skilled shoe makers, treasure guardians, and even a little bit mischievous.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Love it.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:So.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:if you're ever in Ireland and you get yourself in the spot ball, you just have to say, the leprechauns made me do it.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Will that be? Yeah, and also in Dublin. Fun enough. Just as I'm saying, in Dublin, there's a LOR museum. I
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Really?
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:there yet, but maybe we should do a field trip
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:museum in Dublin.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Old field trips getting longer and longer.'cause you know, we are,
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:about four or five field trips that we're gonna have to completely,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:just gonna.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:I think we're gonna have to move to a video. Video,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Yes,
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:podcast at one point, but,
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:definitely, definitely.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:how that goes. Maybe as we get more towards the summer, we'll take a day and go and do one of these things.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Let's do it. Yep.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:but certainly, I mean, as you say, if somebody gets a chance to look into the origins of leprechauns, I think they should. Because it's definitely an interesting story, so. What are we doing next week, Spence? I think it's pr. You know, I, I think it's maybe let's just pull one out. Let's say the Morgan.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:God of God, of female, God of war.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:No. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. War and sort of past, we sort of touched upon our wee bit when we talked about the Ki Cuts, but yeah, maybe a little change of pace and tone'em from the little people. Yeah, absolutely. I see the Morgan.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Absolutely. Excellent.
chris-patterson_11_03-20-2025_215114:So I think we'll end it there, Spence.
chris-patterson_10_03-20-2025_212425:Alright people, well, no matter where you're in the world, top of the morning to you and, please tune in next week for the Morgan.
spence_10_03-20-2025_212431:Take care folks.
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