Dog bless you festering Endas. Welcome to the Blind Boy podcast. It is hauntingly

chilly in Limerick City. It's below freezing with a ghostly thick low-hanging

fog, the type of weather that would make you stay out of a graveyard.

I'm going to keep the introduction short this week because I got quite a long podcast,

quite a long fun-filled podcast for the podcast for you. I had a very interesting conversation

with Professor Ethan McLiseet who was a geneticist at Trinity, above in Dublin.

She's a professor of molecular evolution.

She's also incredibly funny and sound

and a magnificent science communicator.

She speaks about genetics, as expert as a professor in an

incredibly accessible way. I chatted to her a couple of months back in Vicker Street.

It was a fantastic gig. Every single person in the audience was just

absolutely focused in silence with a look of sheer wonder on their faces because this conversation about genetics was so

captivating and interesting. I don't know much about genetics or biology but I'm

really curious about it so it was an absolute treat for me and even though I'm chatting with a professor

This is actually an unbelievably silly podcast so I'm gonna go straight into the chat

You know I love my vicar street gigs. I adore them. I always do my Vicker Street gigs on a Monday or Tuesday night,

because that's the night that no one else wants. But for me, the energy, the crowd energy of a Monday and Tuesday night is absolutely perfect for my

podcast because what I like to do up on stage is to have a conversation, to have a conversation with my guest like we're in a kitchen and then for the audience it feels like

going to the cinema or being at a play and if you're up in Dublin I'm back in Vicker Street this month.

Again a Monday and Tuesday gig on the 22nd and 23rd of January,

down to the very last tickets and I have magnificent guests lined up.

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