you're very welcome along to the Tommy and Hector podcast with Loretta Blewett.

I had an interesting experience during the week that I want to share with you now.

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I was in a country bar, a country bar where they mainly talk Irish.

And I was talking to the barman, and he is from the eastern side of the island, of Ireland.

And he wouldn't have Great Irish.

And the same few lads are drinking in the bar every day, you know.

And I said to him, they're speaking Irish the whole time, yeah.

And I said, what do they be talking about?

And he says, well, I wouldn't have Great Irish, but it's the same kind of stuff every day. They talk about

cattle. They talk about how many people are passing through the village and they talk about the

weather. That's all they do. And it's the same stuff over and over and over again. And I was just

thinking that, you know, when you're doing that, you're talking about the same stuff all the time,

it's kind of a limited type of conversation.

It's familiar and it's comfortable, but it's kind of limited.

And I started thinking by them, boys, and I said, now, what would their conversations be like if they were able to bring up, like, metaphysical subjects?

Like, if they were able to talk about deep psychological and spiritual issues in the same way,

they talk about cattle and strangers in the village.

And I was just wondering, like, if one of them said to the other,

what did make of the story of the loaves and the fishes?

Like, what do you think that's over a point of guinea? What do you think that's actually about? And I think those things are great, you know, but we don't do that because it's almost seen as bad manners. But I wanted to ask ye, now that this is kind of a replica of people in a bar having the same types of conversations. What do ye think the story of the loaves and the fishes is about? The Lord, save us and blesses such a way to start. I'm not really sure, to be honest. I'd rather sit with the lads in the bar talking about the weather. Well, you know the story of the in fishes. Yeah. Right? So they're up in the mountain

and the apostles were saying there's too many people we can't feed them. And Jesus said, well, sure, what's handy? And they said, well, there's two mackerel and there's bread. There's five loaves of bread, which is the guts of 5,000 people out there. And Jesus says, no problem.

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