#14 Born to Be WILDE: Irish Pop Culture

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!!! For our Paddy's day special we're talking all things Irish pop culture: "Ceol, scannáin, leabhair agus gach rud idir," From Jessie Buckley's fabulous win at the Oscars on Sunday to skeleton detectives and Kingfishr, we cover all things recent (and old) circulating in Irish media, with a couple words of Gaeilge thrown in and a healthy bit of Irish wit! Enjoy agus maireann croí éadrom i bhfad!🍀

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hi, I'm Sophie. And I'm Deirdre. As a smart film filmmaker, actress and musician. We will deep dive into the world of music, movies, books, and everything in between. Welcome to the E Joker Podcast. Hi Cock Dinner. Love and Patrick. Woo! Yes! St. Patrick's Day today. Happy, happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone. So we've got like a special episode lined up for today.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Yeah, unfortunately Claude isn't here due to a sudden bout of illness.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

Yeah, we're sending our condolences.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

Yeah, hopefully she'll be recovered next week.

SPEAKER_00 0:41

Yeah. No, it's gonna be a really good episode because um we're so like we talk about pop culture, music, movies, books, and everything in between.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

But today it's um um Kjol Scan on Lauer August um Gok Rud Ider.

unknown 1:06

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

So we're not actually talking in Irish, but it's about Irish pop culture specifically this week.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

Yes. So yeah. Okay, so we're gonna start off with um last night. So was it last night?

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Yeah, it was last night.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Last night. Congratulations to Jesse Buckley for winning an Oscar.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

Woo! Yes, pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

What did she win the Oscar for?

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Was it Hamlet?

SPEAKER_01 1:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:35

I don't know. I didn't actually see Hamnet, I just know she was in that. Yeah, that's pretty cool. She's doing really well these days.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Yeah. It's kind of funny to see a person like an Irish person, and you're like, oh, yeah, that's cool, and then they just won like an Oscar and you just didn't know about them until they were. Yeah, literally.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

And you're like, what? Or like Barry Kyogen becoming like a meme these days.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

My favourite meme with him is the like, you know, him with the black cap on, and it's like Oliver Twisted, he had access to a course. Like it actually crafts me.

SPEAKER_00 2:09

I just love the the baby blue eyes video.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

I was gonna send it to you but I forgot.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

Okay, um what is um Mary Gogan in? Well, one movie I wrote down that he's in is The Bangees of Inner Sharon.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

That was maybe 2023? I don't know. It's a really good movie though.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

Isn't he in the upcoming Beatles movie with Paul Mascott? Maskell. Maskell. How do you say it's it? Rascal. How do you say it's a mask? Paul Maskell.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

I'm sorry.

unknown 2:45

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

Um yeah, Paul Maskell is Paul McCartney and Barry is um Rinkel. Barry's Barry.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

No, but Paul actually looks like Paul. Like if you like Oh for real. No, like actually.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:00

I forgot who the other two are, but same. Oh, isn't one Joseph Quinn?

SPEAKER_00 3:05

Yeah, I think. Oh yeah, that's George. I forgot who the other one is. But that's playing John Allen's Joseph.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

That's gonna be that's gonna be interesting.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

Mm-hmm. For real.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

So it's Harry D Harris Dickinson, Paul Maskell, Joseph Quinn, and Barry Coban, as Ringo. Oh, and Ceresha Rowan's in it as well. Oh cool. Apparently.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

We love Seria Sha Rowland.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

Seriously Rowan, I loved her in um Little Women.

SPEAKER_00 3:37

Yeah. She was like as a The Little Women cast was so good.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

Yeah, like you had Florence Florence Pugh. Florence Pew, um Emma Watson, Sergeia Rowan, Timothy Chalamet.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

I don't really like Timothy Chalamet.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

After the recent controversies. Wait, what happened? He made like a video saying that like opera and ballet didn't matter anymore. What? Yeah, considering like anyway. I think yeah, I think she acted really brilliantly in that movie, but I think she's also in a few Is she in like Lady Bird?

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Oh she's in Lady Bird yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

Yeah, I haven't actually watched Lady Bird, but it's been on my two watch list.

SPEAKER_00 4:21

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

Have you seen um the Irish goodbye?

SPEAKER_00 4:26

No. I always see people on social media saying Irish goodbyes when you like leave without telling anything.

SPEAKER_01 4:32

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

But I swear that's not true.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

It's the exact opposite. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Yeah, like you say you're leaving like half an hour early, at like family gatherings and stuff. Yeah. And then it just takes so long going around to everything. Or even on the phone. Like I remember when I was really young, my parents like when we lived in Canada, okay, oar dropping, but whatever. They'd like be on call people and they'd be like, Yep, bye, bye, bye bye, bye, bye, but see it, but yeah, most of them say, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. They're like chuckle bye.

SPEAKER_01 5:06

Yeah, like bye, bye bye. It like fades the decrescendo of good. It's like, you know, those like 80s songs. And that's how they end the song.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

Um But or we have to mention our goat, Killian Murphy. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

The first time I watched Killian Murphy was in the Batman movie where he played Scarecrow. Excuse Scarecrow. Scarecrow, Scarecrow, Scarecrow. But I remember like looking at his really blue eyes. Because the like aura of the movie is really dark when Killian Murphy popped up.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

I remember one seeing like a dog with bright blue eyes and just thinking it's like Kaylean Murphy. Yeah, he was in small things like these last year. Oh did you actually see that? No. I actually didn't either. I've been meaning to watch.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

Where's the worst clever guy who probably watched it? Like it must be so weird for like to study a film that your dad was in pre-leaving stuff. Yeah, oh my god. What's Killian Murphy? It's like, oh yeah, Killian Murphy's like a choke on a guy that actually would you know it's yeah, it's like actor research, and you're like, oh no problem, he's a movie nature.

SPEAKER_00 6:20

Or um The Wind That Shakes the Barley. It's a really, really good Killian Murphy movie. Yeah. Like so good. And that's that's an Irish one. Yeah. It's uh during um like around 1920 or something. It's like when the IRA were like just before they split, this guy comes back from London. I think he was a doctor, and him and his brother joined the IRA. Oh. But then do you know how like the IRA split?

SPEAKER_01 6:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

After the treaty.

unknown 6:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:52

Because some of them went pro and some were like anti-treaty.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Well, you're just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um the the two of them went opposite ways and joined opposite sides.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 7:04

So the movie's about that. It's so good though. I recommend it.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

Yeah, I have okay, so actually, so while you were like at least playing, I'm not being rude.

SPEAKER_00 7:13

Um you just didn't know what I was talking about. Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

That's like right. It's this like movie with Killian Murphy. And it's a short from the 2000s, so it's like not a movie, but it's like so it's called Filly and on Fail. So it's Filly and On Fail, so it's like what comes around goes around. No, it's like no, it says treachery bounds on the treacherous. So basically what comes or goes around comes around. And it's like with him and this other guy, and I'm I don't even know how to say his second name, Don Richley, but it's like where they travel across the country, but it's in Irish and they speak Irish, and it was really Oh, I think I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Yeah. I love his like early 2000s movies when he was just taking like any role.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

He just pops up anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

No literally. My personal fave is Breakfast on Pluto.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

It's like probably dead.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

No, that is such a good movie. And it's set in Northern Ireland. Yeah. In case anyone doesn't know what Breakfast on Pluto is, it's from 2005, and Killian Murphy plays a young trans woman in Northern Ireland. In the 70s, I think. Wait, hold on, let me check that.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

No other context, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 8:34

Yeah, it's during the troubles in the 70s. A transgender woman in her small Irish town who leaves for London. It's always Oh, and her name's Kitten.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

Kitty working looking down at the road calling she seems Kitten. Oh my god, wait, you know what my favourite like favourite Irish movie is Sing Street.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Oh, I love Sing Street. Oh, Sing Street is so good. Yeah, it's that was 2016, wasn't it? Yeah. John Carney.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

Yeah, it was like that.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Like the music in that is absolutely the music is so so good. It's actually fun. And the way it was all like written for the film too. Yeah. It's mad.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

But the way like you can see it like come together when they're strictly bad.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Oh, Sing Street is so good. Do you know what it reminds me of? The Commitments. Yeah. It's about this guy in Dublin, I think it's from the nine the eighties or nineties, and he starts a band, and it's just about him. He's like 20 and he's putting a band together, and it's just such a good movie. It's sort of like nostalgic.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Yeah. But yeah. Saint Street isn't great, though. Saint Shir is really good. Yeah, I think. Um what's it called? I think my favourite song for that movie is probably Riddle of the Model, even though it's kind of like.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

Like if you ask people, they'd probably be like, drive it like you stole it. But I think Riddle of the Model is the real Haid.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

She's so indisciverable. She's the real Haidancy. Yeah, for real. I love how the music is so like 80s and like Yeah. Pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

Pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 10:14

Or have you watched Belfast?

SPEAKER_01 10:17

No. Is it good?

SPEAKER_00 10:18

Yeah, it's about Northern Ireland again during Well the Troubles. And it's this like boy, but it's all told from like a child's perspective, what's that? Yeah, and also um what's your favourite Irish series?

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Oh my god, I love Gary Girls.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

Oh same, no way.

SPEAKER_01 10:41

It's probably actually my favourite like series. Like it's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

It's so funny. Oh, it's so good. Who's your favourite character?

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Oh I love James, probably.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

Really?

SPEAKER_01 10:51

I love James and Rachelle, but like James is so funny, but you know that one series like it's too crazy. It's more than a big thing.

SPEAKER_00 10:57

Oh, and the chipper, yeah. It's so funny. Or isn't it so weird how in like the UK they call it a chippy? A chi a chippy? Yeah, have you not heard that? No. I don't know what they actually call it in the show. Here, is this recording? Ah, Jesus. Why has it gone blank?

SPEAKER_01 11:12

It was blank before.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

Are you sure?

SPEAKER_01 11:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:15

Alright. Yeah, they call it a chippy in the UK.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

Chippy! Chippy. What?

SPEAKER_00 11:20

It's a chipper.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

But who's your favourite character?

SPEAKER_00 11:26

Maybe uh Gino the Grand Dad.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

He's so horny. I should know I should change Joe I love Jerry and Joe. That's like my favourite. I don't like Jerry. Yeah, but like people are like you can't really have Jerry without Tommy. Tommy Terry.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

Joe is like the rage baiter.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

Like so funny. He's so funny though. Have you watched Father Ted? I watched a few episodes actually, but I like to.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

But do you know what I actually love? Irish reality TV. I actually just love reality TV in general. Like Dancing with the Stars finale was yesterday. I would have got and watched it. Caitlin Cummins won and I was so happy. Party almost won. I was like, no. Yeah, he was in the semi- he was in the final.

unknown 12:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Can I have Potty? Did you watch Traitors? I watched a bit of it, yeah. He was not Traders was really, really good. I think they're they're doing another series this year.

SPEAKER_01 12:20

Wasn't the actually speaking of traders, wasn't the like the the numb from Terry Girls the one who's presenting?

SPEAKER_00 12:26

Yeah, yeah, wait, yeah. Oh she's so she's literally so funny. Oh my god. Sometimes I cry watching traitors. Why? Because it just gets so like intense and you're just like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

I thought you were like with laughter.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

See, how did you get that off for me like?

SPEAKER_00 12:48

No, I was near tears in the Dancing Stars final, I can't lie. Happy tears. I was just so happy for them.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

I was like, aww. Wow, so a bit that I can do. Have you watched The Unoffended?

SPEAKER_00 13:01

Not really, no.

SPEAKER_01 13:03

There's a well I've like I've only watched a bit of it, but that was the story of literally everything I say. But like um there's this one scene, it's like Billy like hijacks the bus and he and he's like, Does anybody want pizza? Oreo pizza? And then they're like, Oh sure. He's like, is any vegetarians or vegans?

SPEAKER_00 13:23

Oh gluten-free people? They're gluten-free people. Yo, oh my god, I made such a funny joke earlier when we weren't recording. We were talking about the wind that shakes the barley, and Zopie was like, Oh, I haven't seen it, and I was like, Oh right, I forgot you can't watch that. Because she's gluten-free and can't eat barley. Wait, but like, why would you even eat barley?

SPEAKER_01 13:48

Like oh barley's in McGinnis and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

What's the difference between wheat and barley?

SPEAKER_01 13:54

No, different proteins. Wheat, rye, barley, and oats. Wait, can you eat oats? Like gluten-free oats. I would be survived on these like you don't survival shows. Oats and oats and bread on my oats.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Well, you know, like bear grills.

SPEAKER_01 14:16

Yeah, it's actually thank you.

SPEAKER_00 14:18

Oh my god. I remember me and my dad used to love watching bear grills when I was younger. And then there was that big scandal where it was found out that he just didn't like survive in the wild every day. Him and his crew would like go to a hotel like every night and then go to the restaurant, the spanshop. Really? Yeah. It was all fake. But Ray Mears, the goat, he was he was genuine. But this isn't really Irish. Oh, well, like Ireland's Fittest Family. The equivalent. Yeah. I love Ireland's Fittest Family so much.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

No, imagine like oh, imagine how much of a Lord talk it'd be like, oh yeah, I was actually in an Ireland's fittest family a few years ago.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

Oh no, it'd be so funny, you know, and one of the people like can't like make it up, and the others are like dragging. Yeah. It's kind of like oh my god. Who's your favourite Irish actor?

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Oh, I don't know. Is it wait? Um probably like Kenyan Murphy. But is Alicia Weir Irish? She's from Matilda. Yeah. Yeah, I think she is, yeah. I met her. I got a battery with her.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

Do you actually? I didn't know that. No way.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

That's mad, what? She's so chill. That's so cool. Well, um, yeah. I like Socheron as well, though.

SPEAKER_00 15:46

She's like Yeah, she's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

Who's your favourite march actor?

SPEAKER_00 15:50

Well, I really like Andrew Scott.

SPEAKER_01 15:53

Guys, a third episode in a row, probably.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

No, I love Andrew Scott, he's so cool. Do you know he studied at Trinity? Trinors. Trinity drama.

unknown 16:05

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

Why do I know this is the last book?

SPEAKER_00 16:09

Um, yeah, or do you know what all confuses me? Like Brendan Gleason and Liam Neeson. Just the fact that their names rhyme. And to me, they look similar. Wait. I genuinely mix up what they look like, so I might just be thinking of like one of them.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

Liam Neeson was that guy from Star Wars, and he acted in Michael Collins, didn't he?

SPEAKER_00 16:29

Oh my god, we should talk about Michael Collins. Oh yeah, so that's Liam Neeson.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

And then Brendan Just FYI, Michael Collins is the guy on the TikTok.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

Oh yeah. They do look kind of similar. Yeah. Sort of like. Isn't Brendan Gleason in Harry Potter?

SPEAKER_01 16:47

He is. He's oh I forgot his name.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Oh, he's Professor Moody.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Yeah, Mara Moody.

SPEAKER_00 16:54

Yes, for real. Um, but what were you saying? Yeah, Michael Collins 1996. Such a good movie. Oh my god. That's like one of my fave Irish movies to be honest.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Have you watched it? I actually watched it in sixth class because my teacher skipped over some of the scenes.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

It's so good. Oh my god. Oh and what's his name? Alan Rickman. Yeah, he's uh Ailen deviler. Dev, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's such a good movie. They play it every like August because it's around the time when Michael Collins died. Really?

unknown 17:37

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 17:38

Well, like August.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

Really, no way.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

August.

SPEAKER_00 17:43

Yes. Um okay, let's move on to music then. Oh wait, we'll come on to a break. Okay, see you in a minute. Hey guys, welcome back from the break. We're gonna talk about music now.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

So what are our fave Irish music artists?

SPEAKER_01 18:11

Kingfisher.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

Okay, wait. I'll read out my list. Okay. Fontaines DC, U2, Sinead O'Connor, the Cranberries, Pin Lizzie, Van Morrison, The Pogues, the Dubliners, Florence Road, Enya, Kneecap, and C Matt.

SPEAKER_01 18:29

Oh, song list.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Um I like um Do you like Pin Lizzie? I think you'd like Thin Lizzie.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

I've listened to a few songs, but like not really.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

They're they're like 70s, 80s, and they had loads and loads of guitar. They'd always have really good guitarists and they do like twin harmonies and stuff. Really voice crotch. Really, really good.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

Okay, good listen then.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

And then um Florence Road, we actually mentioned them in the last episode.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

But they're a good recommendation. New Irish Girl Band. And Sinead O'Connor. My goat.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

I actually kinda hate you two, but Isn't didn't you two like wasn't there a whole album that was for free on Apple Music?

SPEAKER_00 19:18

I think that was around 2011. Their new album was like automatically in everyone's library. Like everyone. I don't know how they did this. Like why didn't they paid Apple loads of money or something, but loads of people just hated them for it. To be fair, it wasn't as if people are gonna be like, yo, new U2 album for free on my phone, and I can't get rid of it. So that was basically a plan, but and then um the cranberries.

SPEAKER_01 19:47

Oh I love the cranberries. I love um didn't like uh dreams play or linger play like the final episodes of Dairy Girls.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

I was just thinking Dairy Girls and the Cranberries are kind of linked in my mind, but I couldn't remember why.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

That was so sad about that episode. But I love it.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

And yeah, she made music for the Lord of the Rings, was it?

SPEAKER_01 20:09

I actually haven't listened to Enya.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

She it's kind of like uh hard to explain. Sort of like sorry, sort of like mystical sounding music, if you know what I mean. I think it was the Lord of the Rings, and then after that she just kind of stopped making music and just kind of vanished.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

Who's the um Irish musician who like got a castle in like the middle of like any here somewhere?

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Maybe it's her.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

Probably. But she has like these cats and stuff, she's kind of famous for it.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Okay. Um oh, I love Fontaine DC.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

I saw them live on the romance tour.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Didn't you have like the necklace of the heart and broke?

SPEAKER_00 20:57

Yeah, that was so sad when that broke. I was like, oh I remember being so annoyed because Nika were meant to be the support, and in like the UK dates they were the suit, but not the Irish ones. It's a band from London. I was like, what's going on here? Like the roles are like reversed, but yeah. Or um C Matt, she's pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Oh when C Matt appeared on the toy show, I was like, I was literally the only person who knew who C Matt was. I was like, guys, C Matt, and they were like, Who's that? C Matt. Nah.

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Um, or self aid. I don't really know why I wrote that down, to be honest. That was maybe 1985. It was either after Live Aid or after um Christmas one, what was that one called? Band Aid. Yeah. After that in Dublin, you two put on like a whole show without musicians to raise money. Oh. Which was pretty cool. I forget what else I was gonna say. I'm really annoyed. About music, I had something good. That's it, yeah. I was actually I actually have a story at Christmas. Um, my family. So I'm not gonna say like where we were staying, obviously, but we weren't at home, we were like away. And so then like it was pretty like close quarters, obviously, and we kept me and my siblings, we kept singing killa, or like we take any opportunity to to reference it. Like my parents would be like, So where do you just want to go for like a walk or like a hike? We'd be like, Jesus, I don't know, maybe like the woods of Glen Bower or something. And it got to the point where they like banned us from singing it. They were like, No, no more killah, no more killah. And anytime we'd like make a joke about it, they'd just be like, Stop. That's not funny. Stop. So killah is kind of banned in my house, but Capefisher's actually like a good kind of like band.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

Like it's it's nice when they know, like No, I know, but like when they appear in the torture, it was nice for them to give the tickets, but like I don't know if you saw Twitter after it was like it I really was like, yeah, they just had 70 spirit tickets, not not any reason else.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

I was like, oh yeah, I don't they just kind of irritate me to be honest.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

The way your man sings just say oh sorry it was the way that like whenever you looked, I don't know if like on Spotify, sometimes I look at the top 50 in Ireland. I looked for like two weeks, and every day those two weeks, kill out was number one. I was like, Don't go off your roads, please. From the woods of Glenbach.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

Follow that tune! Um What if some good like Irish music festivals then?

SPEAKER_01 24:05

Electric picnic is probably.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

Yeah, I wish we could go to electric picnic.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Yeah. It seems pretty chill, to be honest.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

Like Gorillas, Fontaine, CMA, all this year. Chapel. Wait, really?

SPEAKER_01 24:18

Was she not last year?

SPEAKER_00 24:20

Oh yeah, last year, yeah, yeah. There's like a few like gay artists going to be a little bit more. And was it Sound Fender, I think? Oh yeah, it was. I remember like watching it on TikTok live and it was so good. Did you cheering home from the video?

SPEAKER_01 24:33

I was like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

Yes, go sound. Or you know what I love? The Irish Rock and Roll Museum in Dublin.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

Oh, I should have never been.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Really? I've been a couple times. You should go together. Yeah. Yeah, they're they're pretty cool. They have loads of thin Lizzie stuff. And you two. Oh, what do you think of inhaler actually?

SPEAKER_01 25:00

Never listen to inhaler.

SPEAKER_00 25:01

Do you know like um what's that one? Something about the sky or something. Oh no. Oh, what's it called again? Something about Dublin.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

Oh, I might have. Well, you know what? I love as a song is Mania 2000. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 25:27

Or you know who's so goaded. Yes. Dublin and Ecstasy. That's a good one. And My Honest Face. It won't always be like this. They do actually have a couple good songs, to be fair. Or yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:45

That was the one that I kept I used to say was, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, I think they're alright. Because you know, his dad's Bono. Oh yeah. So that's kind of why they're famous, to be honest.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

Bono was in the same movie, and then I remember we were watching it with my parents, and my mom was like, Is that Bono? I was like, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

Whenever my parents see Bono, they're like, oh my god, it's Bonno. I remember when I was at Oasis, I found out that Bono was sitting kind of near me. I found out after though. I didn't see him though.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

A lot of people like you wouldn't think went to Oasis like.

SPEAKER_00 26:24

Yeah, what's her name? Malala.

SPEAKER_01 26:26

Yeah, oasis. Oasis guys. Doja was so close to Malala.

SPEAKER_00 26:33

Oh, I remember when Simon Harris went to Oasis and posted. So funny. No, I didn't think it's Oasis. Yeah, it was such a cute little photo of him like smiling at the concert with like his hat and then the article. The article is like Simon Harris shamed by the shamed by the power shamed by the nation for a telling open. Like why? It's probably because everybody was sour that he got the ticket to him. It's so sad. People just hate him. It's so sad. Um yeah, Oasis, they're pretty much Irish. Pretty much. Do you know when Noel Gallery was 16, he played in a GAA tournament in Croke Park? No really. Yeah, isn't that mad? Imagine if he knew then that he'd like play there years later. As a musician. And I like saw there, like, oh my god. Actually, for my birthday next week, we might do an episode about Oasis. Yes. I always forget that I literally know like everything there is to know about Oasis. Do you know what I mean? Like the last thing to mention is literature. Or like any plays you want to mention. Here's that one Irish like playwright.

SPEAKER_02 28:01

Oh no, no.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

Um well there there's a lot of good actually places. Like Dublin City is actually great if you're into the arts, you know.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

Like there's so many places to visit and there's so many theatres. Like do you remember when we were looking at my map?

SPEAKER_01 28:21

Oh yeah. Oh we're only called theaters. We were in town. No, you're literally just after O'Connell Bridge. Is it Colin Bridge? Colinly, no. Um stop. Yeah, I think it was, yeah. Yeah. Um she Or no, it was the one after that. No, she pulled out a massive map. Massive map. And it like it took up her all arms back.

SPEAKER_00 28:45

It was like a computer square. It was so funny. Oh I love my map. But it it's great for telling you about like good places like that to go. There's loads of theatres and stuff. Yeah. The Abbey Theatre. It's a good one. The Gaydia. And um amongst others.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

Yeah, others, others as well.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

Or the the the IFI. Yeah. And the um what's the with the like a lighthouse cinema place? Oh. Is that a nice place to go? Yeah. I think it's cool. Um the Rock and Roll Museum, the Wax Museum, amongst others. Yeah. Who is your fave Irish author?

SPEAKER_01 29:32

I don't really have one to be honest. Like looking looking back on it now, like.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

Do you know Bram Stoker's Irish? Really? Yeah. Or Dracula.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

Oh yeah. Actually, you know what? I just I think wait, is it Irish? Gulliver Showers. Is that Irish? Is it like a big thing? It might be, yeah, I don't know. Like I remember when I read that and I felt kind of bad for being fresh.

SPEAKER_00 29:53

Oh, do you know what book I love? Under the Hawthorne Tree. It's really sad. Oh yeah. It's about it's that during the famine. Oh, it's so sad. It's really good though.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

Yeah, I remember like yeah, any book about like the famine or anything is just so sad.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

Yeah, it's just so depressing. Or the famine memorial in town. That's uh that's a cool thing to check out. And the Epic Museum, I think, is the one beside.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Oh, I've been to the Epic Museum. I got like uh there's like a machine there, and you get to put in like your second name and you get to see like I don't know like how many people like have your second name amongst it.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

I can think of a couple.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

Stop. Stop.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

Edward, stop um, sorry. That's that's pretty cool. Or you know, like the genie Johnston. Yeah. That's that's really cool. I actually wanted to see that. You you have?

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:48

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_01 30:49

I've been on the tour, it was really cool.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

Oh really? Same. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:52

Oh, is we were there together.

SPEAKER_00 30:55

Or did you know the Viking Voyage?

SPEAKER_01 30:57

I feel the Viking Voyage. I love the Viking Voyage so much. We could do like a group outing of that, like that would be so funny. Yeah, we can make like a vlog.

unknown 31:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

Imagine.

SPEAKER_01 31:07

I mean we wouldn't post it, but we'd tell you guys.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

We could post it.

unknown 31:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

If we didn't have our faces in it. Faceless vlog about the Well, yeah, like we what am I sitting on? Oh. Um Oscar Wilde, the goat. We love Oscar Wilde in here. There's genuinely like three Oscar Wilde quotes hung up in this recording studio. Not in this room. Oh wait. In the in the whole place.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

You have like three rooms of recording folks, but the point studio is that.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Why is this? The Garda Museum is also another good one. That's cool. Um, but yeah, I love Oscar Wilde. Yeah. We should go to his house. Yeah. Or visit the statue one day next summer. With the Liam Gallery Funko Pop.

SPEAKER_01 32:02

Statue crossover.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

I was at the statue today, actually. Waiting for my piano exam. It's just across the road from the building, so I was like, ah sure. Go chill with Oscar for a bit.

SPEAKER_01 32:15

When we went to the statue, there was like these Americans here, and this one guy had like this one obnoxious, like obnoxiously bright pineapple like shorts and stuff. And then he just saw us like giggling with him going taking pictures with Oscar on her, like so funny.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

I love those photos. Um James Joyce, Claire Keegan, WB Yeats.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

Isn't Yates on like every single water bottle? Like, you know, those pinker water bottles that you bought.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

Yeah, I remember going on this like ferry that was called WB Yeats, and they had all the waters from the ferry. So for ages I thought those waters were just from that one ferry. And then when I started seeing them everywhere, I'd be like, geez, that ferry's doing fairly well, aren't they?

SPEAKER_02 33:04

That fairy is doing fairly well.

SPEAKER_00 33:06

But yeah. Or did you know Rihanna is part Irish?

SPEAKER_01 33:09

Is she?

SPEAKER_00 33:10

Oh, Sean O'Casey. I think that's the play right I was thinking of. But yeah, also, what do you think of like Irish speaking? Oh, it's while we're on the topic.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

Um I think it's like I think it's kinda sad how it eventually like you know, like the way we used to speak Irish and then it just kind of like stopped being.

SPEAKER_00 33:33

Well, I like to speak speak the odd bit of Irish every now and then.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

No, I do too as well. It's funny to speak it as just throw in a word or two. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:44

Did you have something else you wanted to say? Oh well, I think we're kinda done then.

SPEAKER_01 33:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:51

Can you think of anything else? Um Yeah, sure. Like we're a great country at the end of the day. Loads of great arts and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

Come visit Ireland together.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

The National Gallery, another cool place to check out. That's like actual book.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

Oh, Angela Talley.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

Oh my god, how can I forget? Oh my god, my favourite book series ever, Skullduggery Pleasant.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

I was waiting to see if she would notice.

SPEAKER_00 34:22

Um, written by Derek Landy. Genuinely best book series ever. Just behind us here on the shelves is my collection of all 15 books. And like better than like Harry Potter, and I used to be a really big fan of Harry Potter. Oh my god, it's so good. It's basically about this girl, and um, she basically discovers that like magic exists. Like it's sort of like Harry Potter if you were like a muggle and you found out about magic, right? So it's like it exists, but like in the real world, and then this like skeleton detective, they like become friends, and then she's like his sidekick, and they just solve mysteries and like find like vampires and stuff. Okay, it sounds it sounds kind of stupid, but it is so so good, and it's like um it's like a lot of the places in the book are like around Dublin City, so like to get into the sanctuary, which is basically the secret magic underground government, just trust me, you have to you have to get past the Phil Linnet statue in the Wax Museum, and he like talks to you, and like I'm a really big fan of the Linnet, so to me that's really cool, and also the National Gallery. Um, basically the guards there are actually like vampires, and it's guarding um this the vault, which is where all like special magic ornaments are kept, and they guard that, so yeah. But I would strongly recommend that book series, like oh my god. But yeah, that's kind of it then. Hi Shine Shine, yeah. Um well furfa. But I'll bit of Irish. That means that means perfect. Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everybody. Happy Saint Patrick's Day, yay! Okay, bye.