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[00:00] Oh, you know I was checking our stats the other day
[00:02] I'm pretty sure we drove away our Swedish audience with our with our Sweden under Googleable. Oh, no
[00:10] Perfect. So who's our next who's our next highest overseas? It's like Belgium or something. All right, let's do it about Belgium
[00:18] You're on notice. What do we know about Belgium?
[00:21] Waffles, I don't want to do that
[00:24] John I think you should probably get out of here
[00:26] I'm gonna have to leave. Yeah, I've got to go to the theater
[00:32] Have fun guys have a good show
[00:48] I'm super excited
[00:57] In the end it's gonna be better and more true than Google can give you
[01:02] Move on to the under Googleables, which is actually Coalson's this is his segment, but
[01:09] We'll try to figure something out
[01:11] Jason did you have one that you wanted to ask this week? I got one. Let's let's toss around so tomorrow
[01:19] after this pod comes out is
[01:22] You know a holiday that is sacred to my
[01:26] heritage
[01:27] St. Patrick's Day
[01:30] What's the deal with st. Patrick's Day? Where is it was st. Patrick a real dude?
[01:36] What what was he sainted for?
[01:40] And
[01:42] How did the the holiday come about what is it? I know it's not just for Americans to get drunk
[01:49] On a day in March. No, it's also for Irish people to get drunk
[01:53] Okay
[01:57] So real st. Right? Yeah, okay
[02:03] You grew up in the Catholic Church, yeah
[02:06] Yeah, I've seen so different
[02:08] Yeah, definitely. It's in then I guess we need to figure out what he's the patron saint of my guess is beer, but I'm I
[02:16] Think not. I think all the beer stuff is not related to him very much at all. Oh, okay
[02:23] Is there a patron saint of beer?
[02:26] There might be there. Maybe maybe it is him, but yeah, I need to get a false idol
[02:32] Like if you insane of the internet
[02:35] What oh for sure? Yeah, and I think if you want to sell your house
[02:39] I think you bury a statue of Mary upside down in your yard
[02:45] Really? Yes
[02:47] But that's only if you're selling
[02:53] If you want to buy that house, yeah, what do you do?
[02:58] You have to find a hair upgrade. Yeah, it's
[03:02] Turn the right side. It's a treasure. It's a treasure hunt
[03:07] I think patron saint of the internet is widely considered to be Saint Isidore of Seville a
[03:15] Bishop and scholar who was nominated for the role by the late Pope John Paul the second
[03:20] Although the Vatican has yet to make it official. That was in 2011 hop on it Vatican
[03:27] The internet needs more saints. I've been I've been to the internet
[03:34] If I remember correctly st. Patrick, I believe drove the snakes out of Ireland is that right? Oh
[03:40] That sounds familiar. Yeah, there were some snakes that did not need to be there
[03:45] So you must have driven them into the sea. I don't know where else you go
[03:50] Or was it like what was that Simpsons episode clubbing day? Oh
[03:56] Where's a whacking day? Whack whacking day? Hey, yeah, you go whack the snakes. Yeah, there was a song with it, too
[04:05] Yeah, according to Wikipedia
[04:08] Isidore of Seville is the patron saint of the internet computer users computer technicians jelly and programmers and
[04:16] students
[04:18] In general student I'd better get a yeah
[04:23] Okay, so st. Patrick is kicking it in Dublin probably and there was a snake issue and he
[04:32] Got them out. So he's the patron saint of exterminators, right? Okay. Okay. Okay. I like that
[04:41] and then how did his
[04:45] Name for his
[04:49] Title become this
[04:51] American drinking holiday
[04:53] Like where does that come from? Is it is it mostly American? I think that it's mostly American. It's okay. It's my
[05:02] Record election like I think if they don't care about st. Patrick's Day and in
[05:08] Really, but it was brought here by the Irish
[05:12] Potentially. Yeah, it was maybe brought here by the Internet
[05:19] Could be could be what did you were you in st. Patrick? I'm sorry
[05:24] Were you in Dublin for st. Patrick's Day? Do I miss remember that?
[05:28] You're a misremembering that okay, I was
[05:31] Yeah, it was like August when I was okay. Okay, so he must have had something to do with like Irish nation-building, right? Like
[05:40] Hmm. I don't know
[05:45] By you know
[05:47] Driving snakes out so that they could build on the land or something right and then
[05:54] grow potatoes
[05:58] sure sure
[06:00] I'm at a bit of a loss here
[06:03] Because the thing is in the church
[06:05] They didn't talk about going out and getting trashed, you know in the middle of the day in March
[06:10] That is that is never came up. I don't really feel like it's a religious holiday
[06:15] It was it
[06:17] So it's not at all. There's a feast of st. Patrick, which is on the 17th of March, right?
[06:23] He is the patron saint of Ireland
[06:26] So that's good
[06:29] It is a public holiday in Ireland
[06:33] As well as Northern Ireland the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador
[06:38] and the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat
[06:45] He is 5th century approximately, but no real solid dates of his life
[06:52] If you're a conspirator if you have a conspiratorial bent, there's a two Patrick's theory
[06:58] Which is awesome. You know I am
[07:02] Is there any explanation as to how this 5th century Saints got all these Americans drunk in the 2000s
[07:11] Not yet, but the shamrock
[07:16] Which is associated with st. Patrick's Day and Irish people in general
[07:22] Is used heavily because st. Patrick has said to have used the shamrock
[07:26] to explain the Holy Trinity
[07:29] Right to the pagan Irish
[07:31] So he brought Christianity to Ireland. That's part of his gig. Why we sell it Wow
[07:38] And boy, did he do a good job
[07:41] Yeah, and the colored green has been associated with Ireland
[07:47] Since at least the 1640s when the green heart flag was used by the Irish Catholic Confederation
[07:53] Ooh, according to Wikipedia st. Patrick's Day is celebrated in more countries than any other national festival
[08:00] really
[08:03] So yeah, I don't know just American
[08:05] Right now and we didn't find anything about Saints or snakes. Sorry
[08:15] Hmm
[08:16] Well, so you need two miracles to be
[08:23] Batified right to become a saint
[08:26] Yeah, that's true. I think it's two. Oh nice
[08:31] found a National Geographic article
[08:35] asking if
[08:37] St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland
[08:39] And it's a legend
[08:42] They never were on the island ever
[08:44] How would they get there?
[08:48] Swin
[08:49] Thanks, that's when yeah, they guess they want to go that maybe not maybe not across the ocean. Yeah, see
[08:56] But it looks like they were never there and in the first place, but he still
[09:01] He gets credit for that so good on you. So weirdly in the United States. It's not a
[09:09] Federal holiday obviously, but it is a legal holiday in Suffolk County
[09:14] Massachusetts, which I'm assuming is where Boston is and
[09:18] Savannah, Georgia
[09:20] And in
[09:23] 2016
[09:25] Consumers in the United States spent four point four billion dollars
[09:30] on st. Patrick's Day
[09:32] But that's down from four point eight billion spent in 2014 Jesus. What was going on in 2014?
[09:41] People really needed a drink
[09:43] Yeah, apparently not Irish probably Scottish, huh?
[09:52] What is going on?
[09:54] There's some discussion that the snakes were actually metaphorical snakes, which they could be
[10:00] pagans would be the snakes or
[10:02] Or the devil could also be a snake
[10:05] so pagans
[10:07] Yeah, hmm
[10:09] Okay, definitely pagans
[10:12] All right, so so okay, so
[10:15] Yeah
[10:17] So we know nothing basically is what we're learning. Yeah, but neither do historians. So right exactly
[10:23] Yeah, well, that's I meant I meant the royal we
[10:27] Society I just went on to google away, right? Yeah, we obviously know nothing
[10:33] But so we confirm that st. Patrick is it was it an actual person a historical figure
[10:41] who
[10:43] brought Catholicism to
[10:46] Ireland and there is a feast of st. Patrick's on March 17th that so that explains the date but then why
[10:55] Americans and other countries celebrated so much is sort of unknown of the large Irish diaspora
[11:02] Okay. Yeah, and maybe it's an extension of
[11:07] You know
[11:10] Vernal celebration or something like that. I mean it falls basically at the beginning of spring. So people have been cooped up for
[11:18] You know three to six months
[11:22] With winter and they're just ready to
[11:25] To get out sure. Well Irish were also widely discriminated against when they came
[11:31] Especially to America, right? So I suspect that those sorts of
[11:36] Celebrations of heritage were very important internally to the community. Sure. Sure
[11:43] All right, so so take those
[11:48] Facts with you to your
[11:51] Pub tomorrow and while your friends
[11:55] And say, you know what? We don't know why we're drinking today, but it's important that we do
[12:01] Also, his real name is believed to be may win suck it
[12:06] What?
[12:08] How do you spell his last name?
[12:10] S-u-c-c-a-t
[12:12] It's probably sukkot
[12:14] Sukkot, however, I say suck it and what is the first name may win may win?
[12:21] M-a-e-w-y-n. Well, I don't I know any anybody named me with
[12:27] So so somebody could say you may suck it
[12:36] It's a possibility
[12:43] All right
[12:47] Yeah, we should probably get moving you think