This is Shrine.

Hello and welcome to Shrine.

Throw the cloaks off, emerge from the shadows.

We are back finally to cover the Traders, Ireland.

Guys, how long have we waited for a decent Irish adaptation of an international hit show?

Because for years we have suffered through,

let's be honest, subparer rip-offs, rolling our eyes at the announcement of something else

that we know is just not going to work with Irish cast members like, California, anyone?

And if we were to be honest, ah, come on, if we were to be really honest, ah, come on.

If we were to be really honest, it's probably been since 2001's pop stars, date of birth, 16th of the 5th, 85, meekin me at Germany, that we were really hooked to the nation.

But fear, not pets.

Friend of the podcast, Yvonne Maxweeney, is riding over the horizon on the back of an Irish woolpound to save Irish reality TV for the weight is almost over.

The Traders Ireland is kicking off next week and it's meant to be so good.

So we are here a shrine to ride on the coattails. So guys, I think, first of all,

because this is the first Irish show in a long time that's going to be very big that we've covered.

So I think the first thing we need to do is actually reintroduce ourselves. Talk about like where

the name of the podcast came from what the hell

this is and why we're doing this. Why are we here on this planet? Well, it all stands back to,

what was the year? Is it 2018? 2019. There she is. And the three of us worked in the same office

together at the time.

And we were all, were we all catching up on or watching Line of Duty?

Was there a new series or we were all rewatching it, I think?

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