Drule on the Toothy Pool, you googly-eyed Fintens.

Welcome to the playing by podcast.

This week's podcast is definitely one for the regular listeners.

I'm speaking to a guest this week, who's been on the podcast three times, I believe.

But I haven't spoken to them in two years.

I'm talking about the wonderful Mancon, Magin. Mancon is a writer and a

storyteller, harking back to the theme of last week's podcast. I suppose you'd call him a bit of an

eccentric. Mancon, he has a passionate interest in Irish mythology and the Irish language and he goes at these

areas from mad angles.

His most recent book is called Brethens and Brahman's.

It's a book about the similarities between Indian and Irish culture, specifically Indian mythology and Irish mythology.

Two cultures on fucking opposite sides of the world, how could two cultures like that have anything in common?

When Mancon explores this through the history of the Irish language, Irish being an Indo-European language.

So by tracing Irish words, he's able to find similarities between really, really old Irish mythology and really old Indian mythology,

which in incredibly divisive times like these,

that type of thinking is quite healing and beneficial because it reminds us all,

we're all just human beings.

Doesn't matter where the fuck you are in the world.

All of us are human beings and we all came from one small group of

people. Doesn't matter if anybody looks different, if they have a different language, we're

all fucking human beings. And if you go back far enough, of course you're going to have

similarities between Indian culture and Irish culture. Mancon also, he was a wonderful help to me

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