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Luck Of The Irish
As the river in Chicago turns a brilliant emerald green, our thoughts can't help but drift to the whimsical joy of St. Patrick's Day – a day so close to my own wedding anniversary that the festivity is doubled in our household. We kick things off by unraveling the vibrant tapestry of traditions and misconceptions surrounding this Irish holiday, such as the true origins of corned beef and cabbage and the original color associated with St. Patrick. From the bustling streets of Savannah's grand parade to the personal touch of my anniversary celebration, this episode is a pot of gold brimming with anecdotes and laughter, just waiting for you to discover.
Imagine the sound of bagpipes filling the air as we reminisce about high school traditions and segue into our dream of playing golf on Ireland's legendary green courses. The discussion swings from the practicalities of golf club rentals to wedding plans in Paris, weaving a narrative that's as rich in culture as it is in humor. No talk of Ireland would be complete without acknowledging the frothy goodness of a Guinness pint, which leads us into sharing a cheeky Irish-themed joke guaranteed to bring a smile to your face and maybe a hearty chuckle.
The gloves come off in a friendly but fierce debate over two very different drinks – the creamy Irish Car Bomb and the tangy Pickleback. We banter about their origins, share personal drinking stories, and playfully challenge each other's tastes, all while teasing the possibility of a live drink showdown. We then drift into discussing the impact of Irish culture, from Hollywood's portrayal of the Irish to the search for four-leaf clovers – a hunt that may leave you as amused by our dialogue as you are inspired to start your own search for that elusive symbol of luck. So, pour yourself a drink, find a cozy spot, and let us whisk you away to a world of Irish charm.
Music Alright, alright, what a day. Yeah, put on the hat. Hey cheers boys. Another great day to drink a green beer. That'd be St.
Jonny Strahl:Patrick's Day.
Kenny Massa:Oh yeah. Love the outfits Love the green. You know what's for dinner tonight Corned beef and cabbage. Some corned beef and cabbage, oh yeah.
Jonny Strahl:Whoa John, he's not up the skirt, jeez.
James LaGamma:Oh, I'm sorry, johnny did you go to Notre Dame? So lucky to be Irish.
Jonny Strahl:So lucky to be Irish. Where's we party going?
Kenny Massa:One of the best days you said party.
Jonny Strahl:Where's your lucky charm, lucky charm.
James LaGamma:Unbelievable.
Jonny Strahl:Your guys' dances in were great. They were great.
James LaGamma:I can't remember what that type of dance is called the Irish dance. No, I know, but Sheena Kelly does that dance, right, you remember her from high school. I do remember her. It's a specific type of dance. I just don't remember what it's called the Irish kick.
Jonny Strahl:You guys got me how long are we going to speak in the Irish accent? Well, I heard a country accent.
Kenny Massa:The first St Patrick's Day parade was held in America. Fun fact, all right, better, fun fact.
Jonny Strahl:What color are we all in?
Kenny Massa:Green.
Jonny Strahl:St Patrick didn't wear green, stop. His color was St Patrick's blue. The color green became associated with St Patrick's Day after it was linked to the Irish independence movement in the late 18th century. Okay, Interesting and didn't we also say something about what food Corned beef. Yeah, it was an American innovation. There isn't any corn in the traditional St Patrick's Day meal of corned beef and cabbage.
Kenny Massa:Dang, all right. Well, you know what?
Jonny Strahl:We Americanized it yeah we Americanized it Clearly.
Kenny Massa:St Patrick's special holiday to me, you want to know why.
Jonny Strahl:Why it's a great reminder of my wedding, my anniversary is the year of the sheep. My anniversary is March 18th every year, so I have no excuse to ever forget my anniversary because I got a big. We got St Patrick's Day as the big warning shot for me.
James LaGamma:So Warning shot. So it's not on St Patrick's Day, no, no, no, it's the day before, so I see green I got to know.
Jonny Strahl:Okay, whoa, let me Anniversary big day, don't piss off the wife.
James LaGamma:I can't remember this song.
Kenny Massa:Did you guys have any St Patrick's Day traditions at your household?
Jonny Strahl:I know not all of us are Irish, but Not at our household but, funny enough, the neighbors that my mom grew up with, and they're still friends to this day. Every year they have a huge St Patrick's Day party. I mean, that's been going on for probably 20 years.
Jonny Strahl:Well, that's cool, so I haven't been able to go to it all the time, but every year my parents are there outside of. They were, if you remember, at my wedding. They came in at the end of the rehearsal dinner dressed in all the St Patrick's get up If you don't remember.
Ryan Selimos:No, I don't remember.
James LaGamma:I don't call.
Jonny Strahl:That's fine.
Kenny Massa:But yeah, every year that's cool. I mean, that's a tradition.
Jonny Strahl:Yeah, that's cool yeah.
Kenny Massa:My grandma was very into St Patrick's Day, being very Irish, so every year we hosted her and corned beef and cabbage and, yeah, the whole nine kind of thing.
Jonny Strahl:Dinner was like the big.
Kenny Massa:Thing but she would wear like her St Patrick's Day pin and green and white and all that kind of stuff.
Jonny Strahl:So my parents just cook corned beef and cabbage, especially moving from New Jersey to Florida, Like all the there used to be, a big parade we used to go to like a block party, yeah, but outside of that mom and dad just cook a good old, which now we know is not it's not even done in the old
James LaGamma:island James, anything, nothing really. I mean, I've had corned beef and cabbage. I don't know if it was on St Patrick's Day. My uncle is Irish and now my in-laws they're Irish, and not now that they are, now that they are my in-laws, they're Irish.
Kenny Massa:We got carried too.
James LaGamma:Anyways, I just enjoy a good Irish car bomb.
Jonny Strahl:Oh, going that route already Early in the game.
James LaGamma:Yeah, not this green beer stuff, but you know, it still works.
Kenny Massa:I like it, yeah. Irish car bomb nice, I can fuck with a Irish car bomb, but I'm not a big guy. I'm like dark beer like that. You like Guinness? No, like well, with another scar bomb bucket, yeah that's how you had a couple of Irish car bombs, yeah all right over nothing too lucky yeah, well, I don't know, I there. I heard a recently. There's a big parade in Savannah Georgia like Irish Irish carball for St Patrick's Day. I bet you can get a lot of Irish car bombs out there but I think it's a big thing.
Kenny Massa:They have like a big parade, I guess, but they throw a big party, but there is a lot of like rubbish type of places yeah, I'm sure, when we've been, so that would make sense does anyone stand with Chicago in an honor of them?
Jonny Strahl:dying the river, maybe died the pool.
Ryan Selimos:I'm overgrown, oh never they go in with they do.
Kenny Massa:I've seen that I've been, you guys ever been. No, no, no. I've always wanted to go.
Jonny Strahl:I know a lot of people go every single year that's a big thing, oh huge.
Kenny Massa:Like first time hearing about it what I've heard about the ducks.
James LaGamma:The ducks, yeah they dump, like fucking, hundreds of thousands of rubber ducks into the green river no into the river.
Jonny Strahl:I don't know, just into the river. They die different day.
Kenny Massa:Green, it's freaking, it's a party, yeah yeah, so Chicago has transformed the waterway into a shade of bright emerald green by dumping 100 pounds of environmentally friendly dye right into the Chicago River, and it's lasted for the last five decades what the ducks are in a different river.
Jonny Strahl:You're telling me. No same river, different day, day different event different event.
James LaGamma:It's just I don't know. I don't know what it was, I just I just know they do the ducks river.
Jonny Strahl:Oh, patrick's day, you bring the ducks into so here's another fun fact on this river hit me.
Kenny Massa:It only takes about 45 minutes for the river to turn completely green and then, depending on which direction the wind is blowing, that would impact the time frame, but it could stay green for up to a couple of days. 45 minutes to die, the entire river green is pretty nuts and fish.
James LaGamma:See in that no one's asking about the fish. It says environmentally friendly.
Kenny Massa:I don't know. I mean my guess, if they've done it for five decades, is probably you probably got the oh the issue solved sure, yeah, I don't know.
James LaGamma:I like this holiday. I've just, like I kind of mentioned I didn't, really didn't do much, I mean it was just like oh, it's.
James LaGamma:St Patrick's Day make sure you wear green, or else you're gonna get fucking pinched and then and then you always forget to wear green, and then you like. No, no, no my underwear is green. I know I've pulled that card plenty of times. Thankfully, we went to Stetson's and I got a lot of green yes, true so, but I mean it's a fun holiday. I just you said America is the first country to celebrate St Patrick's Day what was it first festival festival for it?
Kenny Massa:let me go back to that fact, I'll find it. But if you want a party on St Patrick's Day, you could pay for a parade it's the same Patrick's Day parade so it's still going on.
James LaGamma:Okay, yeah, cool, this wasn't sure if we were. You know, americanizing holiday.
Kenny Massa:Well, and records show that the first St Patrick's Day parade was on March 17th 1601 in St Augustine, florida. Really. So there's a well.
Jonny Strahl:I wonder what St Augustine does for St Patrick's Day.
Kenny Massa:I wonder if it's crazy yeah me, hans play Wilde.
Jonny Strahl:There is pub. It's probably a good time Irish pubs are awesome. Yeah, yes, they are awesome, they're the best like talk about a great bar environment.
Kenny Massa:Irish pubs are awesome tell us more, ken.
Ryan Selimos:Nothing else to add, just awesome have you guys ever had?
James LaGamma:I think this is an Irish, just poutine is it?
Jonny Strahl:I've had poutine in Canada.
James LaGamma:Go Canada, I've always gotten them at an Irish, the Hilton Kelt, over downtown Harp and Kelt, harp and Kelt. Thank you, great established. They sell poutine, so I was. I made the assumption, because it's an Irish establishment, that it was an Irish food. Let me look it up. I will see if.
Jonny Strahl:I had an Irish coffee yep coffee good Irish coffee poutine is Canadian damn it.
Kenny Massa:Aha wonder why, they say hey, interesting mhm.
James LaGamma:Coddle is Irish what the fuck is that? Coddle is you know.
Kenny Massa:Dublin. Coddle is a specialty for the working-class hero. Derive them from the French word coddle, meaning parboil or lightly stew. The dishes originated in the dot dot dot. You know that's a stew. Hmm, bacon and cabbage, the combo of cabbage meat and cabbage gotcha.
Jonny Strahl:Let's talk about the passion for St Paris, but, more importantly, the passion of the Irish, the passion of Ireland, and when I think about this, I think of Conor McGregor. I think of the Irish fan base that helped like just have him explode onto the scene.
Kenny Massa:I mean, I love it, it's incredible just give me some Conor McGregor fans just tell her just drink some fucking beer and tell her to fuck myself.
Ryan Selimos:It's fucking great, I fucking love it.
Kenny Massa:Yeah, I just you know I love the aggression and the alcohol plus the aggression is even better one two, three, fuck the May winners. I apologize, absolutely fucking no one. Oh, I love it and you can hear it too when they're like press conferences, all the Irish guys just getting fucking after it back there like they're just, they're in it, they're in it for the fucking, the whole thing, the alcohol, the anger you know we're missing bagpipes.
James LaGamma:We are missing some bagpipes we missed all it's okay, we used to have bagpipes in high school for some reason. Oh why?
Kenny Massa:football, I mean wouldn't be surprising if, like Notre Dame, had bagpipes like we were spanned right.
James LaGamma:We were saying Thomas, I don't know that there was an Irish affiliation to that, I'm not positive. But yeah, we had bagpipes that played a lot, a lot of school functions, not just like sports they in a kilter when they play.
Kenny Massa:Yes, a whole nine yards, yeah, okay then maybe you went to an Irish school.
Ryan Selimos:I guess I mean they had the golden dawns, just like Notre Dame, so there's gotta be some correlation there, I'm sure interesting.
Jonny Strahl:Here's what's. Here's a bigger question that I have for our very own Mr Lucky leprechaun, over here with the full get up are you wearing this on the plane ride to Ireland? Because you are going to Ireland later this year and I am, so are you bringing this?
Ryan Selimos:absolutely not one.
Jonny Strahl:I'll have a couple of drinks before maybe, and I'll get there, but I probably wouldn't let me on the flight. They'd be like what's wrong with this? Too soon, too soon too, soon. No, that's gonna be an awesome trip that like. I don't think any of us have been to Ireland never even been to Europe, so yeah what do you look forward to?
Jonny Strahl:besides the game, yeah, I'm really excited to go to the game, but, dude, honestly, just being in Dublin Like obviously we talked about some previous episodes just around traveling how we like to witness the culture and go to areas that aren't very touristy. But to go to Dublin on a game day and witness both fan bases there during that time frame, it's going to be magnificent. I'm excited for that. But yeah, the game is going to be cool and I'm going to go golfing, for sure, nice yeah.
James LaGamma:So that's, golfing.
Jonny Strahl:Obviously that's a bucket list. Damn are the oldest golf courses yeah.
Kenny Massa:And there's like castles and shit.
James LaGamma:Yeah, I think there's one specific, specifically that like the 18th hole, like there's like literally like apartments and stuff and it's like it's a huge historical landmark thing. It's like it's insane.
Jonny Strahl:It's really cool. Yeah, I'm excited I saw Rick.
James LaGamma:Shields, do it.
Jonny Strahl:Are you renting clubs or are you bringing?
James LaGamma:all the line.
Jonny Strahl:We're going to rent. We're going to rent clubs.
Kenny Massa:I was going to say if you focus on your?
Jonny Strahl:clubs guys it's only $30.
Kenny Massa:James is the only one that's allowed to do that.
James LaGamma:I'm excited it's fine if you go to one place and they just sit there. If you're lugging them around all throughout Europe, that's not fun. So I would agree with that concept.
Jonny Strahl:But if I'm going, and you're going to do that and I know I'm golfing, especially if there's more than one round Granted.
James LaGamma:I know I'm only going to play one round in Vegas, whatever.
Jonny Strahl:Well, if I was going to Ireland, it was free, like St Andrews. If I was going there to golf, like my trip was made around that, because it's something I wanted to definitely You're going there for. But for four nights.
Kenny Massa:Depends Not worth. Most cases Not worth. I just fucking read the clubs yeah.
Jonny Strahl:I mean, it's not going to prove my score. The only reason why I would rent my club, not bring my clubs, is to then say, hey, my game suffered because I didn't have my own clubs, which is clearly not true. I'll probably shoot a 200 over there, but there's no trees, there's no bushes over there, so we might be all right, it's wide open you love a good bush.
Ryan Selimos:Oh my.
James LaGamma:With the golf ball. You're going to Ireland for your honeymoon, right? I think you guys mentioned that.
Jonny Strahl:No, no, no, Steve, pay attention to his life at all. You're going to Europe for the honeymoon? Yeah, it'll.
James LaGamma:OK, that's right, I just I.
Jonny Strahl:Yeah, we've got a we. They're jumping all around we got Ireland, we got Paris and we got Italy. This year, we just went to Paris. You know, I would rather go to the Las Vegas Paris.
James LaGamma:OK are you going to Paris separately from your Italy trip.
Jonny Strahl:Yeah, we've got a wedding.
James LaGamma:Oh, a wedding.
Jonny Strahl:Paris. It's somewhere in France, but we got to fly in the past.
James LaGamma:That's pretty yeah that's pretty cool.
Ryan Selimos:Yeah, your friend her friend money oh yeah, friend, for sure Okay she got, you guys met her.
Jonny Strahl:Lindsay, hmm, yes.
Ryan Selimos:Maybe if I saw a picture.
Kenny Massa:Guaranteed. We've met her many times, probably she and her fiance.
Jonny Strahl:They're from from an island gosh. Where is it? I like a small, no small island in like.
Kenny Massa:Over it.
Jonny Strahl:No, it's. I'm trying to just drew a blank, but they'd like live on like a very small island and like the Caribbean. I want to say.
Kenny Massa:We don't come around much. We have friends that have gone to Paris many times because they're, they live in Europe and Paris is. I think that Paris offers a lot of cool things for like first-time tourists and stuff, and there's a lot of events that happen in Paris.
Jonny Strahl:So yeah, they're French, so yeah, that makes sense. He's from, he's from over there.
Kenny Massa:He's a very good wakeboarder.
Jonny Strahl:Oh, like he's his brother or he used to be professional. Yeah, they're, they're big into it. Wow, but flip back to Dublin, black to Ireland, like we're always here for st Patrick's Day. Enough about Paris, it'll wait, paris.
Kenny Massa:What's the?
Jonny Strahl:preferred beer in Dublin. I Mean it's gotta be Guinness.
James LaGamma:I know a preferred joke in Dublin. Don't say it say it, it's Guinness. Hey girl, are you Irish Because you got my penis Dublin.
Kenny Massa:I just didn't really make that at all.
Jonny Strahl:We are wow, that's gonna be our first strike, oh.
Kenny Massa:Man. So, going back on the beer topic, guinness is the most popular beer in Ireland and has been a been brewed in Dublin since 1759 that's pretty cool. It has a rich, creamy taste.
James LaGamma:Well, no, no, no. Apparently Guinness in Ireland is miles different than Guinness in America.
Kenny Massa:Yeah, yes, okay. Well, it has a rich, creamy taste and is enjoyed all over the world people, yeah, different, different over there. Yeah, I mean, I would think.
Jonny Strahl:There's a. It's called the castle. It's in College Park. They ship and brought everything from Ireland. It's a. It's a new Irish place bar pub in a in College Park. It's. It's really good. They literally bring the Guinness from.
Kenny Massa:I love me good Irish place. There's fire.
James LaGamma:They got great wings the place down here on.
Jonny Strahl:Locksys baby.
James LaGamma:Their bar right their bars from Ireland.
Kenny Massa:Something like that. Yeah, their their bars. A nice Irish bar but that nice would you can kind of tell you walking.
James LaGamma:It's like all wood.
Kenny Massa:It's like fucking Sturdy. You can stand on top of that, you can have a whole party on top of that thing and it's like you just know when you're in a Good Irish pub.
Jonny Strahl:Isn't that where we're going, after this and you? Want can we sing truly madly deeply when we get there? Oh my gosh.
James LaGamma:Sing it for us right now I'll be your hope I'll be your dream.
Jonny Strahl:I'll be your fantasy.
Ryan Selimos:I'll be your dream. I'll be your wish. I'll be your fantasy. I'll be your rope. I'll be your love. Be everything that you need.
Jonny Strahl:I love you more with every pet truly, madly deeply do. I will be stronger, we'll be faithful, because I'm counting on the new beginning.
Ryan Selimos:Reason for living a deeper meaning. I want to stand with you on the mountain. I want to play with you in the sea. I want to live like this forever, until the sky falls down on me.
James LaGamma:I Don't remember lyrics, dude. I know he's saying it at my fucking wedding, but I don't know we did lyrics, but there's that video.
Jonny Strahl:There's, I think it's a tick tock where they are. Whatever type video, all the guys where the. It's the one guy and it's in the pub and it's, it's fantastic.
James LaGamma:It's funny, it's very good, it's really good. And then there's the act. I just don't remember the lyrics. I'd have to look up the lyrics in order to be able to give you what you want, fine, but that is straight Irish pub. Yeah, ireland lives, yeah, is the Chelsea dagger Irish. That song, dan, and it's like a soccer theme song. I had an an. Oh, I have no, I was thinking of where was Green Day shipping up to Boston, that's well.
Kenny Massa:I was pretty sure there Irish. I thought they were from American dream.
James LaGamma:Are you doing? I'm gonna play the Chelsea Dagger. Oh, I love this song is a good song. I just can't remember if it's an Irish song or not. I don't think it is the fatelies.
Kenny Massa:It's fucking green days from Berkeley, yeah, yeah.
Ryan Selimos:Great song ship without the Boston like that song.
Jonny Strahl:You guys watch piggy blinders. No, no, I just love watching them talk and like just get super aggressive. It's literally like on a McGregor.
Kenny Massa:All day, every day. Billy tells me to watch it all the time, but I just have not. Welcome to hot takes, where we talked about debatable topics today. Today's debatable topic is Did we drink too much beer? No, just kidding. Today's debatable topic is Basically Irish car bombs verse picklebacks. Which is better, james? Fucking pickleback bro.
Jonny Strahl:You kidding me, said even an Irish drink.
James LaGamma:It's with James in, so it's an Irish whiskey, ryan. What do you want?
Jonny Strahl:I guess I have to go with the Irish car bomb due to me being Questioning the origin of the pickleback. So I'll go Irish car bomb.
Kenny Massa:John.
Jonny Strahl:I love me some Irish car bombs, but I'm gonna go with a pickleback.
James LaGamma:I do love an Irish car bomb. I do want point that out.
Kenny Massa:I'm on the Irish car bomb side. No picklebacks better. It's a superior alcoholic. If you don't like pickle, you're completely fucked on this that is a fact.
Jonny Strahl:Do you not like pickle?
Kenny Massa:Do not like.
James LaGamma:I don't like pickles. I love pickle juice or pickle.
Jonny Strahl:Yeah, I love pickle juice too.
James LaGamma:It's dude. I like, just like. Yes, I like to ice man.
Jonny Strahl:Doesn't mean you like picklebacks, because doesn't? Our friend Adam Vincent, love pickle juice but hates picklebacks.
James LaGamma:No, he doesn't love pickle juice. He had to have pickle juice to help him with his cramping.
Kenny Massa:Which makes sense. We all know the facts about that. Still hates picklebacks.
James LaGamma:It's like he didn't even enjoy drinking the fucking pickle juice. Okay, does not like pickles at all.
Kenny Massa:All right, I'm like Disgusted by the shot before even fucking taste it.
Jonny Strahl:Oh, smell of pickle when you order a pickleback. I just have the James and by itself that's fine, that's fine.
James LaGamma:But but if you if you are not a skilled Excuse me. Yes, the answer is we drink to. If you're not skilled at chugging a beer, an Irish car bomb Can get real fucking gross, real fucking fast thing. We're skilled that Bailey's gets all curdled in there.
Kenny Massa:But I like.
Jonny Strahl:Bailey.
Kenny Massa:Then it is to chug pickle if you don't like pickle.
Jonny Strahl:We pickle juice. Yeah, yeah, chugging no pickle.
James LaGamma:You can chuck a pickle. That's what you want to do.
Jonny Strahl:Yeah, if you like pickle, like chug it. Let us know that goes.
James LaGamma:You know what we if that's your pickle, and you might as well.
Jonny Strahl:He's doubling after that one. I.
Kenny Massa:I don't like pickle juice. I don't like pickle anything.
Jonny Strahl:Bingcom says that the pickleback is not even originally Irish.
James LaGamma:So there's.
Jonny Strahl:Jameson is Irish, though. Look up what an Irish car bomb is. Is that actually like?
James LaGamma:I know it's Irish Guinness.
Jonny Strahl:Guinness and Bailey's. It doesn't. Again Americans like to just make shit up and just make stuff.
Kenny Massa:Yes, we do Look at us right now.
Jonny Strahl:So is Jameson Irish risky though At least Irish is in the title.
James LaGamma:I think Bailey's is also an Irish cream, exactly. So look it up, what am I looking?
Jonny Strahl:up.
James LaGamma:Is an Irish, car bomb Is Irish car bomb created in Ireland.
Ryan Selimos:The US. We are terrible people.
James LaGamma:Oh my god, you know honestly, is it really that bad Like we're. I mean America. Yes, america, yes Well, america's supposed to be a bunch of different cultures that came in, so like for an American to make an Irish drink.
Kenny Massa:And what have been there in.
James LaGamma:America. If as long as an Irish person, I guess, made it, then I guess it's probably more, except.
Jonny Strahl:I don't know.
James LaGamma:Well, like we're supposed to be, a fucking melting pot of cultures.
Jonny Strahl:I guess we can all agree that you can't use. The take of your drink, wasn't your?
Ryan Selimos:shot was not made in Ireland. So that's out the window. Zero, zero.
James LaGamma:And not only that, but a pickleback is green and we're all wearing green, so we win. Yes, we win.
Jonny Strahl:Money, money, money, be green, but Guinness is money money.
James LaGamma:Money is green, pickle juice isn't green.
Kenny Massa:What is it?
James LaGamma:Jameson.
Jonny Strahl:What is that color?
Kenny Massa:Mix it with the same. Disgusting is what it is. Mix it with.
Jonny Strahl:Jameson.
James LaGamma:It's still green.
Jonny Strahl:It's still green. There's green, it's not.
James LaGamma:And you don't mix it. By the way, when you take a pickleback, you take the Irish whiskey.
Ryan Selimos:Thank you for making fun of your fucking partner in this you asshole.
James LaGamma:Today, jr, you take the fucking Jameson and then you take the pickles. I gave it nothing, you have pickle Jameson and then the rest of the pickle.
Ryan Selimos:It tickles his tickle. When he does that I'm tickle.
Jonny Strahl:He didn't even make a tag. Fucking, kidding me, oh Ah.
Ryan Selimos:This hot take is done.
Jonny Strahl:We got green lighting. Thanks Ty. Thank you Ty.
Kenny Massa:All right, Iris Karabom wins.
James LaGamma:No chance, ty yeah, what are you?
Jonny Strahl:like Off. What facts is he going off of that one?
Ryan Selimos:He prefers to drink.
Jonny Strahl:What were the options? Hey, you don't like milk, right?
Kenny Massa:I don't. I'm not a milk drinker.
Jonny Strahl:You like pickles?
Kenny Massa:I like pickles, yes.
Jonny Strahl:Fuck.
James LaGamma:Do you like Jameson, because that's a harsh drink. No, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, he likes alcohol.
Kenny Massa:Maybe if it was swelled by the sweetness of some pickle juice.
Jonny Strahl:But do you like a Guinness?
Kenny Massa:I like.
Jonny Strahl:Guinness. Okay, this is great. Can you like Irish cream?
Kenny Massa:I sure do.
Jonny Strahl:That seems like it might be tastier than a pickle bag have you never had it.
Kenny Massa:I've never had either of them. Can we put you on camera and have you?
Jonny Strahl:taste it as we do this.
Kenny Massa:To finalize the, he's got to take an Irish.
James LaGamma:Karabom and then a pickle bag.
Kenny Massa:And then I'll drive home To be determined.
Jonny Strahl:I think. I mean it sounded like we're a mess. It's okay. The cream and Guinness sounded a lot better to Ty, so naturally.
James LaGamma:I'm excited it's a party. Just because you pick that one doesn't mean you get to sway the vote.
Jonny Strahl:That's what he said. He just said it sounded delicious. If Jameson was you know guzzled down with some pickle juice, he'd say he'd be into it. Yeah, but then he was more intrigued by the Irish cream and Guinness. He doesn't like milk. You know what I'm saying.
Kenny Massa:If it, seems like milk, curdle up it's disgusting.
James LaGamma:That's what happens if you drop Baileys in over there.
Kenny Massa:No, that's what happens to you, james. No, it's not, because I beat you every time you get faking the shots.
James LaGamma:I will guarantee you right now I'm the fastest fucking Irish Karabom at this table right now.
Jonny Strahl:Okay, that is, let's go.
James LaGamma:We're going to Roxy's tonight, we're going to videotape and we're going to add it to this fucking clip.
Kenny Massa:Okay, fine, we're going to see who beats who. Here's the problem, though You're going to do it with intent. Usually, when we do this, you do it with intent.
James LaGamma:No, yes, I always fucking chug an Irish Karabom. The last thing I want is you get it and you're like this is you, this is you.
Kenny Massa:This is your Irish Karabom, right?
James LaGamma:You're like Kenny, the only thing I like is Irish Karabom. I don't like shots, you asshole.
Jonny Strahl:So then you don't like a pickle, so then you don't like a pickleback shot. That's the only shot I like. Nope, I hate you guys by the time you drink it. Why do?
James LaGamma:we do it. No, it's the fucking Vegas bombs by the bombs. Stupid you guys are. You guys don't even know me and I've been on your lives for how long I'm on your podcast. I sit right fucking next to you, man.
Jonny Strahl:It's every.
James LaGamma:you don't even know me, that's not Irish car, I was not shot.
Jonny Strahl:It's a bomb.
James LaGamma:Which technically Vegas bombs a bomb, but still that's right, I don't like it.
Jonny Strahl:So you don't like bombs.
James LaGamma:No, I just said I like a lot of bombs but you just said no, I say the back is superior. Oh, I've done quite a lot. It just depends on how much Guinness they put in it. It really does. It comes down to the poor, because some, if you've been to some places, they'll pour it enough to where the the shot glass goes in. It just covers a shot.
Jonny Strahl:I think Penny.
James LaGamma:I guarantee you I would Irish car bomb you under the table.
Jonny Strahl:Under the table. What do you guys do?
Kenny Massa:I'll get you over there, I don't know Okay.
Ryan Selimos:I'm definitely. Oh my god, who the hell cares?
James LaGamma:I don't know when we're gonna prove this, but there's no chance All right?
Kenny Massa:Well, I get to have a fucking tackling contest with Ryan. You get to look the reason why I say Kenny.
James LaGamma:I'm strategically answering this because I know how full you get. You can't eat food fast enough like you would fill you up.
Kenny Massa:Like in the two seconds doing a row green tea shot. Yeah, that's what I'm saying I think he's just good.
Jonny Strahl:We're looking no.
Kenny Massa:I prefer a white tee shop.
James LaGamma:They're us.
Jonny Strahl:Hopper 12 fun st Patrick day shots. These are interesting. What was number two? Was it the pickle? The pickle was number two, yeah hey number one, not the pickle, not the pickle, but they do call.
Ryan Selimos:Guinness was involved in the one the third one, the Irish Slamma which I don't like that.
James LaGamma:No, the proxies has that. What is it?
Jonny Strahl:It's the same thing. It's literally an.
James LaGamma:Irish car bomb.
Jonny Strahl:I've got an Irish flag the nutty Irish Irish frog, shamrock, green tea shot grasshopper and of O'Shoe melon ball, incredible hole, oh boy. All right, well, looks like we're trying all 12 of them.
James LaGamma:We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna chug some, some Guinness and we're gonna, we're gonna see who can do an Irish car bomb faster.
Jonny Strahl:We could get to a pot.
James LaGamma:Although I still think I'd be shown that that's. That's a. That's a different night of maybe, when you actually put a GoPro on your chest and then we can. We can record it.
Kenny Massa:You know what, james? Every time I take a shot, every time you debate it, and the only one that actually knows if it curdles is you, because you let it sit, you watch it, you watch it you know what I do.
James LaGamma:God done you watch it and then I can't wait for this video evidence to come in. After all this, it never happened. It's gonna be fantastic.
Jonny Strahl:But until then Picklebacks. No, we got video games to catch up on. We got, we got more sports to watch. Fine, everything's fine. You got your loving. I love him. Love is blind, or whatever.
Kenny Massa:No, okay, do not even tell me you haven't we reached that? Watch the recent.
Jonny Strahl:Love is blind.
James LaGamma:I've never said just turn the reason. One whole thing already. Just drop last week or this week.
Kenny Massa:I don't know dropped on Wednesday. There's six episodes. It's been longer than six days. It's one episode.
Jonny Strahl:Is anybody Irish on now?
Kenny Massa:but there's one girl that looks exactly like Brian. It's freaking me out.
Jonny Strahl:Really.
Kenny Massa:Oh, I'm gonna pull her up.
Jonny Strahl:Huh, okay, interesting, very nice, very good.
Ryan Selimos:Shipping all the Boston.
Kenny Massa:It's got me, I've got never.
Jonny Strahl:I'm still yet to watch an episode of it.
Kenny Massa:Show me the cast, show me the fucking cast. Where is?
James LaGamma:this girl so green huh.
Jonny Strahl:Yeah.
James LaGamma:Four leaf clovers and, like charms, a lot of gold. That's all we got, that's all I've got. Is it really true, though, that, like Ireland, is kind of where red hair came from, though Is that like a it's not folk art at all.
Jonny Strahl:You are on a roll today, my friend. I have zero idea.
James LaGamma:I mean, I'm just, I'm looking at our friend here, our known. Yeah, well, a lot of them got the red, you know, and every time I people look at my beard I've got a little red in my beard and they're like, oh, you got a little Irish in you. You do, it's interesting.
Kenny Massa:Doesn't how me. This doesn't look like Breia Dude. Why don't you breathe?
Jonny Strahl:Cool, you're fucking abortion, breia being Jonathan's wife.
James LaGamma:I guess, I can see a resemblance, but I would say I guess I could see Sure.
Jonny Strahl:Yeah, just watching the episode I will Okay.
Kenny Massa:I will With your loved ones.
Jonny Strahl:Okay, we'll do what the hell, were we just talking about Red hair? Well, doesn't remember luck of the Irish from the Disney.
James LaGamma:Channel movie.
Jonny Strahl:Yeah, I do Basketball movie Classic.
Ryan Selimos:Doesn't he grow red hair? He does Hmm.
Kenny Massa:Is that a sign of being Irish? That's now we're talking about other than your your.
James LaGamma:You know, love is blind. It seems like your podcast is a little blind here or there. Kenny either does bad one, it was bad Reach.
Jonny Strahl:Reach.
James LaGamma:Oh, I got. That's a good one, ty, let's talk about the Irish people being dangerous.
Jonny Strahl:We talked about Conor McGregor, but the departed I believe the gang is an Irish mob. Yes, the part is a great movie and I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong, but black mass, is that based on an Irish mob as well? The Johnny Depp movie where he is?
Ryan Selimos:Hmm.
Jonny Strahl:No.
Kenny Massa:Oh, Scotland also has red hair.
Jonny Strahl:It's okay. All right, never mind.
James LaGamma:Well, I was looking it up. I'm sorry, that's what I was doing.
Jonny Strahl:I was just saying don't, don't, don't fuck with Irish. I love me some Bostonian, just Irish movies. The depart is a great one.
Kenny Massa:Part of it is fantastic. There's a lot of cast Boston mafia movie.
Jonny Strahl:That's what that's the black mass one with Johnny Depp, but I forget. Let me just Google who the hell he was. He was shipping off the boss Black Moss. Whitey Bolger, okay.
James LaGamma:What was it made? That's the name of a movie. That's the name.
Jonny Strahl:No, no, it's called black mass, made in 2015. Whitey Bolger is the crime lord that it follows Johnny Depp. Good movie, johnny Depp.
James LaGamma:Johnny Depp, welcome back.
Jonny Strahl:I'm a pre Amber Heard.
Ryan Selimos:He's back, he's back.
Jonny Strahl:He's back. He's coming back for Pirates 11. Oh yeah.
James LaGamma:Is he really?
Jonny Strahl:I'm sure I don't know if it's Pirates 11, but he's coming back for Pirates.
James LaGamma:I thought there's no.
Kenny Massa:I thought he didn't want to, yeah, but the fans.
James LaGamma:The money. I understand I understand.
Ryan Selimos:The fans no one else can play. No.
Kenny Massa:They're not going to have any of them, captain Jack Spur.
Jonny Strahl:He's pretty. He's the only one to do it, so he better be pretty good.
Kenny Massa:Well, he's the only one of our.
Jonny Strahl:Let's see Johnny Depp. I'm going to tell you I don't think so. I don't know what, johnny.
Kenny Massa:Depp's.
James LaGamma:Irish If I have to be Irish.
Jonny Strahl:Top Famous actors.
Kenny Massa:This is a Gregor. Do you have an athlete?
Jonny Strahl:English, along with a small disc with a small distant amount of Irish Scottish Irish in him. Per ethnic, ethnic celebscom.
Kenny Massa:Fucking.
Jonny Strahl:Sorry, aside from Connor McGregor, you're going to.
Kenny Massa:Is there an Irish athlete that's at like the pinnacle of what he might say he was at his pinnacle career?
Jonny Strahl:Carson Wentz might have been Group I'm basing, but he's coming from Ireland. His Irish he's just red hair McGregor's like coming from Ireland, so it's a little bit different Right, the language, of course.
Kenny Massa:Yeah, probably in.
Jonny Strahl:I mean you know who. Arguably the goat at the sport. Kelly Slater Wow, rory is Irish. Oh yes, but Kelly Slater like.
James LaGamma:Yeah, I surfing, legend.
Jonny Strahl:Yeah, but yes, rory is. Oh, this can't be right.
Ryan Selimos:Derek Jeter, derek Jeter.
Jonny Strahl:Maybe what?
James LaGamma:Maybe through a long line of that guy's given the orc or through and through.
Jonny Strahl:Was? Was it from a hub Of Irish immigrants?
James LaGamma:Okay, John L.
Jonny Strahl:Way John L Way, michael Phelps. Okay, this isn't right. These are a bunch of.
Ryan Selimos:He lived in. I'm in.
Jonny Strahl:Ali, what, john Daly, let's go. All right, so to be qualified at Nolan Ryan.
James LaGamma:So to be, you have to be Patrick. What the fuck.
Jonny Strahl:Basically everybody Mickey Ward. No, that's a movie.
Kenny Massa:Yeah, I'm a fighter With, With, with, with, with, with.
Jonny Strahl:With.
James LaGamma:With, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, with With.
Kenny Massa:Wow, yeah, there's a lot of people.
Jonny Strahl:We'd like to credit yard barker.
Kenny Massa:I'm on the same fucking yeah, the yard Dot com. We have no idea what you do. Oh, random people Wow.
Jonny Strahl:Interesting.
Kenny Massa:Let's go to another source here. Just double check that famous Irish. Don't worry the site I'm on credited.
Jonny Strahl:Rory twice.
Ryan Selimos:So we're good. I don't even have a Rory on the tour is the notorious.
Kenny Massa:Yeah, it's the same. Yeah, for sure, 100% Great.
Jonny Strahl:What else about Ireland, about the Irish? Is the pot of gold real at the end of the rainbow? Does anyone count to you? No, but did you guys eat lucky charm cereal? Yes, of course, but I like the marshmallows.
James LaGamma:The marshmallows what they're not like them dude.
Jonny Strahl:You're sick of them because you ate too many, so sugary.
James LaGamma:They're magically delicious. They're magically in the trash.
Kenny Massa:It's just they didn't pick out the marshmallows.
James LaGamma:I picked out, so I didn't eat them.
Kenny Massa:Yes, so basically you got a bowl of like on flavor Cheerios.
James LaGamma:Oh, they taste a little bit different than Cheerios. They were good Sugar grain. Yeah, marshmallow. You didn't eat the marshmallow. I know it's still sugar.
Kenny Massa:I didn't even buy that my mom bought it, James. See, I was eat the marshmallow.
Ryan Selimos:Yes, I mean well, suck it up, dude.
James LaGamma:No, that's OK, I can be different.
Jonny Strahl:Yeah, yeah, we know I mean James. You love oysters. That's an Irish food. It's an Irish food for CNN.
Kenny Massa:No, that's what it says.
Jonny Strahl:That's what it says. Oysters are everywhere. It's the same.
James LaGamma:There's a lot more to.
Jonny Strahl:Irish cuisine than stouts, then stout and spuds and oysters is on the list. Yeah, it's just top foods, this is a different one.
James LaGamma:Maybe they use it in a lot of foods. I think you're Guinness.
Jonny Strahl:No, shellfish is the number two thing.
James LaGamma:Getting this wrong. Can I say Guinness?
Jonny Strahl:The best day to feast on oysters is on Bloomsday, dublin's annual celebration of the writer James Joyce, held on June 16.
James LaGamma:Yeah, dude.
Jonny Strahl:I'm not going to be honest with you.
James LaGamma:I didn't listen to you. That's fine. Basically, I was more concerned with my joke.
Jonny Strahl:Shellfish. It's literally two on this list Interesting.
Kenny Massa:I've never found a three leaf clover. Three or four or five or four.
James LaGamma:Four is the lucky one.
Kenny Massa:Well, why there's three on the?
James LaGamma:thing I know, because you only find three it's the four, that's the lucky one.
Kenny Massa:I thought that was the case, but then I look at that.
James LaGamma:Yeah, so you find a lot of three leaf.
Kenny Massa:Have you ever found a four leaf clover?
Jonny Strahl:I have not.
Kenny Massa:You did, of course you did.
Jonny Strahl:Of course, here we go.
James LaGamma:Here comes the extreme.
Jonny Strahl:What do you got? I'm just kidding.
Kenny Massa:Tomato. Like when am I going to pick four leaf clover? I don't know, man.
Jonny Strahl:I got a. I'm staring at a six leaf clover right here on our boys head, so maybe that's the real lucky one.
Ryan Selimos:Is that a gnome? Yeah, yeah, is it a gnome? That's a gnome.
Jonny Strahl:Is it?
James LaGamma:Gnomes are Irish. Is it named Norman?
Jonny Strahl:Norman the gnome. Norman, the gnome Norman the gnome.
Kenny Massa:All right. Well, we are in trouble. Reach.
Jonny Strahl:Someone say something.
James LaGamma:Cheers to the Irish.
Kenny Massa:Cheers, but until then 10 years Didn't we just end it, that was tough.
Jonny Strahl:That might have been our roughest answer. That was tough.
