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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Julie Douglas.

And this episode is coming to all you guys and gals out there.

It is, of course, coming to you right as we're leading up into St. Patrick's Day, which I have always loved St. Patrick's Day.

I don't have, I'm basically of Scotch German heritage, so I don't have that, you know,

distinctive Irish roots link to it.

And I don't have, you know, I don't have the Catholic link to it either.

But from a very early age, like my family was always into St. Patrick's Day.

You know, my mom is a kindergarten teacher, so we would have green things.

We would eat green treats.

Green beer?

Well, no green beer, but maybe like a green cake or a cupcake or something.

And I still, St. Patrick's Day comes around, I'm like, I need to eat something that's green.

I need to get like a pistachio cupcake or have some pistachio pudding.

But more importantly, we would, to a certain extent, we would celebrate the Irish myth of the leprechaun. We would always watch Darby O'Gill and the Little People, that classic Disney film with Sean Connery in it. Wow, you guys did it up. Yeah, yeah, we were big into the holidays. Okay. So we would always watch Darby O'Gill and the little people Connery would sing and it was awesome. Leprocons would run around. There was a banschy. You know, it was just a great film. I still watch it from time to time. I just, I feel like this is really informed, like your ideas of creatures in the world. like somehow this is like an early influence on

you yeah definitely i mean we we really got into halloween and then we would really get

my big thing on on holidays is that if a holiday has magic to it then it's in creatures

specifically then it's great like i can obviously Halloween i love right uh Christmas you know the Christmas season can get a bit annoying when it's great. Like I can, obviously Halloween I love. Right.

Christmas, you know, the Christmas season can get a bit annoying when it's over commercialization,

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