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Welcome to what we are, the Hansons, and today we're
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talking about Saint Patrick's Day.
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Welcome everyone.
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Yeah, you know what, you want to have fun with
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your kids, your wife, everything you can do. You want
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to have some fun with it. And I think we
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do a pretty good job with Saint Patrick's Day. What
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do you think?
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I think? So? I think they make it fun for
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the kids.
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We did. I mean, I really appreciate the things that
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my mom and dad and my grandparents did for me.
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But we did fun stuff on Saint Patrick's Day. I
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mean some stuff I know now that has nothing to
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do with Saint Patrick's Day, but we were celebrating some
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of our Irish heritage. And I mean I think I
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would say, like seventy percent of Americans have Irish in
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their ancestry somewhere.
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Yeah, I think I would have to agree.
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Yeah, I mean, and it's just it's fun. It's one
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of them things. I mean, every since Shrek came out,
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wouldn't you say that, like Saint Patrick's Day got even
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though just because he's a green ogre. I mean, somehow
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that has affected Saint Patrick's Day.
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Hm, that's pretty cool actually.
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So, I mean we have food Food's probably the biggest
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thing when it comes to Saint Patrick's Day. Now, you
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love corn beef and cabbage, Yes see, I like boiled
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cabbage with butter, salt and pepper. I mean, just you know,
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I'm a pretty basic guy. I just don't do the
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corn beef, don't. I really don't know why.
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I don't know why either, because I love it.
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Yeah, I mean I eat it. I choke it down.
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You know. It's it's a family thing. But I wouldn't
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say that I'm piggy, Piggy or peggy. You know, it
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is what it is, Folks, Happy Saint Patrick's Day. It
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was a long weekend for us. We went up to
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see some family up in Flatland. Yeah, and so it
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was a long trip back. You know. We went up there.
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We left before the storms, didn't even know that we
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were getting superstorms, and then we had superstorms come in.
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And how was the drive back?
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It seems like it takes less time coming back. The
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drive going there takes longer, I think.
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And the thing is is, if you have a traditional
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family like ours. I do most of the driving.
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He does, and we drive multiple cars.
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Yeah, well we have our kids and our nephews and
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you know, we make things, you know, super fun for family.
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Just you have to, especially if you want to get
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the most out of life. And Saint Patrick's stays no different.
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Yeah. I like going on trips with all our family.
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I do too, And so spice it up whatever you're doing,
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even if it's like if you're having a husband and
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wife night, you know, get some clear wine, put some
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green food coloring in it. You know. Hm, you do
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know what I'm saying. You know, maybe you can you know,
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set the moved, you know what I'm saying. Oh sure, okay,
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But if you're dealing with the kids and you want
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to have some fun, Okay, we did this last year.
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We made slime. Yep, we made slime green slime. Yeah,
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and it had the little green glitters in it.
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It definitely tends to make a mess if it gets.
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It can make a mess. And gentlemen, if you want
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to save your shaving cream, hide it. Hide it before
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the slime gets made.
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Yeah, otherwise it's going to be gone and you know,
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you're going to be looking and it's gonna be in
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you know, some cupboard in some other bathroom or hidden
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somewhere from you. So they can make more more slime.
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Yeah, it's between that and glue right now.
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On Easter, traditionally families go and find Easter eggs. Okay,
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but one of the big things that celebrated out on
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the East Coast is families have scavenger hunts on St.
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Patrick's Day.
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I think that'd be fun. Maybe we should start doing
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something like that.
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Well if you remember that one year we did the
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gold coin thing.
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Yeah, the gold coins, yeah, and we did.
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A scavenger hunt. But I mean they get really really
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in depth, like you can find one thing and it
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will tell you where to go to for the next
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like give clues, and.
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You can think that's fun.
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It is, it's awesome, and you can you can make
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it so the kids can actually do it, like the
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biggest tree or the you know, the whatever it may be,
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or by the red car or something, and you can
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make it fun and you can just get a list
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and you can go on these scavenger hunts and they're
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pretty fun. You know, some cities actually do that. Also.
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I wonder if we could do one where they go
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on a scavenger hunt for four leaf clovers.
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Well, I mean you could do that, but I think
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they get well, yeah, but the kids, you know, it'll
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be like, oh, this is too much like mowing lawn. No,
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you can go to a parade. I love Saint Patrick's
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Day parades. There's just something about it, you know, and
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there's usually pretty good food at those. Now this is
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kind of Christmas y and other thing. But some people
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we haven't done this per se. We haven't done the cookies.
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It says you can decorate shamrock cookies, but we have
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done the not the muffins, but the other things with
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the green topping and you know, cupcakes, cupcakes. We did
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cupcakes one year.
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Yep.
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Where we did you.
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Know that we did green pancakes.
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We did green pancakes, waffles and waffles, and we did
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green scrambled eggs yep.
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And ham yep.
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The ham that it's a little bit hard to get.
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It turned out to be the right color.
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Yeah, because it's kind of like it turns brown right.
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If your kids are a little bit older, you can
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donate to charity or send something special to charity. You
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can tell them about the struggle that the Irish had,
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you know, about famines actually happening in Ireland, things like that.
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But just doing something with your kids like crafts and
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things like that.
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Yeah, our kids love doing crafts. Doesn't matter what it is.
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They if you say let's do some crafts, they will
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be there doing.
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It, you know. Speaking of that, the kids went to
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your sister's house, yep, and they made some of the
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coolest So your sister's kind of a crafty gal. Yes,
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does a lot of stuff. Her husband is also your
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niece or our niece. She's very very crafty. But they're
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very very good and they get in depth with their stuff.
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So tell everybody what she was making.
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She makes gnomes, and she has she names each of them.
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She sews all their clothes to fit them. She makes
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their shoes, whether it's a ton of shoes or boots.
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Their custom. Yes, they all have their own names.
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Yeah. And then she writes a story about each gnome,
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and each gnome has a little pet with it, whether
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it be a bird, a rabbit, whatever, an owl, whatever
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it may be. It's there's always a story with it
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when you purchase them.
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See, I think I was kind of making fun of her.
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I was. I was coming up with names like Govinsky,
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Mac and Flip and you know, just stuff like that,
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and it was so fun. But you know, we could
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do something really cool we do, like Igor Patrick mcfluffin. Yeah,
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like you could do your own stuff, but things like that.
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Our daughters had a wonderful time with their aunt and
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they came back and they had these really cool looking
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dolls and they'll keep them forever. Yeah, you know they
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will be handed down to their children. And you know,
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it's so easy, folks, if you actually take the time
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and a lot of people say I'm too busy. If
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you actually start looking at how much you're looking at
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your phone, but you're looking at the TV, and you
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start investing your time into your children, you're going to
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find that life is a whole lot more fulfilling and
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a lot better And it really doesn't take take that long.
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Yeah, and it's important. It's important for them to know
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that you're taking time to spend with them.
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Right. Here's something most people don't know this, but you
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can bake soda.
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Bread that actually sounds good.
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Now, soda bread is very very irish. I love soda bread. Well,
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you know me, I like any kind of bread.
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I've never had it.
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Beer bread, soda bread soured oah, I mean I'm just
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a bread fanatic. Okay, that's That's probably why I used
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to be big around the midriff. Midriff, you know what
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I'm saying. If you got young girls now that you
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have always done this from the time they're small. You
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paint their nails to match the holiday, the holiday, yep,
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and it's it's pretty cool when you got the green,
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the white, the gold. Yeah, and multiple colors are green.
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Yeah, yep. We're going to try and catch a Leprechaun tonight.
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M Lepracauns can be pretty shifty. Yeah, well, you guys
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catch a Leprechaun. I'll get the gold. How about that? Okay,
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you can have a costume contest.
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You're gonna dress up like a lepren.
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No, but you can have one and then you know,
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everybody wins, so you know, the little kid doesn't feel bad,
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you know what I mean.
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They're gonna want their dad to dress up like a
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leprecaun too.
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I know, I know, and I have done things like that.
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Yeah, do you have.
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You can make? You can make other things besides corn
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beef and hash, like Irish stew that's actually a thing,
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potato soup.
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Corn beef and cabbage, or corn beef hash.
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Oh did I say corn beefash. I meant corn beef
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and cabbage. She was giving me the evil eye. Folks started.
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I was trying to think you just said that, and
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I was like, wait a second, that's not right.
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Well it's corn beef and corn beef and hash.
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I actually like, yeah, you do eat a lot of that.
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Yeah, that's very very good with eggs and toast. I'm
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kind of a morning person, so I kind of like breakfast.
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It's like the best time kids waking up getting ready
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for the day, and you get to sit there and
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have great conversations with them before the day, and you
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got to get to motivate them, give them a little
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bit of confidence to tackle the day. You know what
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I'm saying.
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You know, we could make green coffee.
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Let me know how that goes.
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Well, you know how you put creamer in coffee.
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Well, I don't drink creamer, but the girls have.
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Yeah, you could add a little bit of green to
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it and make the color green because it turns like
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a real light tan.
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You could you could also do like a apple, like
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a green apple type of drink. Yeah, these things. I
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always say, go on a walk. I mean, you can
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go on a walk, but you can go on a
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walk any day, and I highly recommend it. You can
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make a special playlist to show your children what music
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from Ireland sounds like traditional you know, bagpipes, Yeah, you know.
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You could teach your kids what kilts are, not that
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they would wear them. You obviously could go and celebrate
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mass drinking green beer. Now that's a thing. However, most
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people don't know this, but from nineteen oh three to
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nineteen seventy in Ireland they actually shut the pubs down
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on Saint Patrick's Day because it was an important religious holiday.
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So the green beer thing kind of came from the US.
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Considering also that traditional Saint Patti's colors were blue and gold.
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Yeah I didn't know that.
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Yeah, and yeah we turned it in. Now this is
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something very important. Are you and ice cream meter? I'm
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talking to the people out there because I know I've
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been with you for twenty some years, so I know
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that you are. But we have celebrated this. We've had
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shamrock shakes before.
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Yes they're good, Yeah.
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Very good. Minty yep, you know, very goodness filled to accept.
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You know, it's not so good when you got diabetes.
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Yeah, that means no for you.
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Now, if you're older. You could take a cooking class.
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I for sure would do the breakfast thing, do a brunch.
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If you don't like breakfast that you can plant shamrocks
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or you could hunt them. Yeah, like four leaf clover.
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Then you got to figure out, you know what's the winner. Yeah. Now,
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years ago, there used to be this thing where you