Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib, a podcast featuring my conversations with countercultural

figures and presenting complex, philosophical, spiritual, and political ideas in an engaging and

accessible way. Well, friends, it probably won't surprise you that fairies are everywhere in Ireland.

And by everywhere, I mean, in artistic representation, of course,

and I also mean in little doors that people affixed to trees,

and in tourist magnet buildings and institutions like the Dublin Leprocon Museum.

I mean that fairies are everywhere in

Ireland in casual conversation and in belief, like when I was walking through the woods with my

friend and I almost stepped in a mushroom ring. And she said, don't watch out for that,

you know, don't step in there. Or when someone was doing work in my backyard and they did some protective ritual to ward off the fairies

because they were digging up part of a tree.

Ferrys are everywhere here.

They're in the National Fol folklore collection where Irish people for decades

have had their stories taken down and recorded both in handwriting in audio recordings

and these interviews that make up the national folklore collection continue and there's lots of

fairy lore in there.

Ferries are everywhere in Ireland, also in the political and economic realm.

When a TD, or a TD is basically a member of Irish government, I'm not going to go into the specifics of that here,

when a TD of Irish government blamed a bad road in his county on

ferries, you know, the Irish press laughed at it, but I'm sure a lot of people took that on

board and just thought, huh, yep, probably. And the reason why I know that they probably did was

because there was another road project that was completely

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