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Moments before I sat down to record the intro to this week's show, a Jewish friend asked me if I was annoyed by St. Patrick's Day.

I am Irish, Irish Catholic, my family names like Hollahan and Kean, which is my middle name, totally Irish, very, very Irish.

And she thought I would find St. Patrick's Day annoying.

And she offered before I could even respond that if there was a Jewish equivalent to St. Patrick's Day where everybody ran around pretending to be Jewish, wearing buttons and t-shirts that said,

Kiss me, I'm Jewish and wearing cheap plastic shiny yarmikas and glued on forlocks and

crappy plastic prayer shawls and getting drunk on Manasovets in the street,

that she would find it as a Jew supremely annoying.

And I think she wanted to tell me that as an Irish person, she felt my pain today, that

she assumed that I would be not into this shit.

And actually, I kind of like St. Patrick's Day.

I don't participate in St. Patrick's Day.

I've never been to a St. Patrick's Day parade in my life, even though I grew up in Chicago,

which is a big one like New York, never been, would never go, would never go to an Irish pub that I might go to on any other day of the year on March 17th, not interested. I'm not going to drink green beer. I'm not going to swim in the Chicago River. The day they die at Green for St. Patrick's Day, it's pretty fucking cold.

Who knows it's probably still iced over right now and they couldn't dry it green if they tried. But I'm a non-participant in St. Patrick's Day. Irish non-participant. Irish semi-conscientious objector, right? I don't do it, but I don't actually care. And I don't mind that other people do it because I think we need these dates in the calendar.

We need these dates in the calendar.

We need these moments where people get a little messy in public and tear it up and drink to excess and let loose.

I think we as humans require these.

And if you look at basically all human cultures going back millennia, these dates are a part of

every culture. They're, they're hardware. They're built in. We need them, I think, as humans,

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