The Ringer NFL Show - Power Ranking the Best Parts of Our Dublin Trip

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

As their time in Dublin draws to a close, the guys take turns drafting the best parts of their trip to the Irish capital, from hurling to Irish pubs to spice bags and much more! 00:00 Start of show 01:21 Ranking the best parts of the Dublin trip 02:29 Hurling 15:01 Irish people 18:38 Pubs 26:18 Umbrellas 29:58 Steelers buzz 34:20 Spice bags 37:24 Taxi drivers 43:54 Driving on the other side of the road 45:30 Guinness 49:38 Not Telling Anyone About Irish Descent 53:00 Irish slang 55:00 Book of Kells Check out the 2025 Ringer Fantasy Football Rankings: https://fantasyfootball.theringer.com/ Email us! [e-mail] The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Must be 21+ and present in select states (for Kansas, in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino) or 18+ and present in D.C, Kentucky, or Wyoming. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit rg-help.com. Call 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut, or visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland. Hope is here. Visit GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call [phone] for 24/7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8HOPE-NY or text HOPENY in New York. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Kai Grady, Carlos Chiriboga, and Ronak Nair Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Hyfitz, and I joined in person in Dublin still by Danny Kelly and Craig Rolbeck. We are recording this Sunday morning because honestly there was so much we wanted to talk about about Ireland that we couldn't fit it all into the Sunday episode.

It would have been funny if we were just still in Ireland. Yeah, we just had left. We just didn't leave. So we're saying. Well, that was what Bill was saying at one point when he found out we were going to Ireland. He's like, what's the over-under on? You guys staying one and a half, two and a half.

So every Wednesday we power rank something and we're going to power the things we loved about Dublin because we really couldn't fit it in the Sunday show. So we're going to just go through everything we loved about this country because this trip was honestly pretty amazing. Yeah. Still is. I mean, we're still here. We haven't got to the game yet. We haven't you gone to the game.

It's not even over. Yeah. This is going to be the big Ireland debrief that we didn't get to on the ends of the other shows. We just want to do it justice. So after this, it's going to be regularly scheduled programming. We'll have Sunday night shows, Monday waivers again and, you know, Wednesday, power hours about other things than just going to Ireland and the Friday previews and everything. But for right now.

I don't know. Maybe all of our power hours will just be about Ireland. Yes, too. Maybe all of them. All right. We're going to take a quick break and then, yeah, Ireland talk, baby. Let's do Ireland. Let's do the power hour.

Honestly, I don't think we're going to power rank it. I think we should draft. I think we should draft our favorite things from Dublin. We're just butchering. I know the format, but that's fine. We could rank it, but I don't want to know what you guys have. We didn't share it with these with each other. Yeah.

So I think we're going to draft things we loved about Ireland. I think I should get the first pick because I won the splitting the G at the Guinness Factory, which feels like the, we said we would power right. Yeah, I feel like I didn't win a single split of the G. You didn't do it right.

I was fucking enough. But I don't know. I don't have a better system for who should get the first back. Is it blasphemy to split the G in the Guinness factory or is that fine? What? No, it's like their whole thing. I don't think it's blasphemy.

I mean, well, I don't know. How is it blasphemy? We're stupid Americans. How would we know? I don't know. I got one DM like,

oh, don't split the G in the Guinness factory. And I was like, Is that like a little touristy of us? Oh, 100%. But the Gittes factory is the most touristy thing. Literally a tourist attraction. I'm telling you. I'm telling you what I got.

All right, fine. Now I feel weird taking the first pick. Who wants to go first? No, go ahead. Fine, I'll take the first pick. All right. We're going to draft things we loved about Dublin. Yeah, draft things who loved in Dublin.

Yeah. Number one is hurling. Yeah. Hurling was one of the best things I've ever done. Well, keep in mind, we haven't gone to the actual game yet, for the record. True. Yeah, we haven't gone to the game. Right.

But hurling's better. There's no chance Steelers Vikings will be. better than the Hurling match you went to yesterday. That's correct. Hurling. So we saw Vincent's versus Bally Bowden was the second game we saw. That was a banger of a gang.

If you didn't, if you don't follow us on Instagram, I'm not going to like the Instagram story is really fun. We'll pin it to, we've probably pinned it to the Instagram right now and you can watch the story. But we were told and shout out to the people who told us to go to hurling. We literally, you changed your whole trip.

Yeah, we got an email about that. And Hyphos was like, I saw this email. This is the most Irish thing we could possibly do is go to a hurling match on a last second decision by us. Yes. And it was actually one of the most fun things. We literally knew nothing about hurling.

It was so classic too because we just get out of the cab at the hurling match. And there's like one of the coaches from the team from like 10 years ago just standing there. There was like a parking attendant. Yeah. Who as we got out of the car, he was like, oh, you're in front of royalty here. Like this is like, look who you got. And the guy's like, oh, no, no. And I'm like, the way you would do it if you were a big deal.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And the guy, so we just walk in with literally the former hurling coach. Yeah. And we're just like, so what's hurling? Yep. And he's like, it's the fastest sport in the world is what they call it. He had his son who had the little.

Hurl. Hurley or a stick, depending on the part of the country. Yeah. And the ball, which is a, I think. Oh, I've left it at the hotel. I think it's a ball. It's a ball. I don't know.

Remember they were telling it's a baseball? It's like a, yeah. Oh, it's a slither. Slitter. Yeah. Slitter. It's S-L-I-O-T-A-R. Slitter.

Yes. Yeah, yeah. Because we sat next to there was like an older Irish woman sitting behind us who told me a lot about how to say slitter. Yeah. Yeah. And then their family. And then they taught us a lot about hurling.

We literally went from it kind of a bit. The first game kind of sucked. Yes. The second game was by the middle of the second game, Craig's like, the scoreboard's wrong. They got it wrong. They actually did. They were scoring it incorrectly. And they ended up getting it right after like 10 minutes.

I've never seen that before. Yeah, the ref came over and was like, you guys need to get this. sorted ASAP. He was like screaming at the side. The players are yelling at me. The players are, I'll get you. I'll get you on the left, right, center. Yeah.

Get this fixed immediately. Yeah. But they didn't stop play. And I was like, why not? And they were just, the people on us, it was kind of like the vibe behind people behind this was like coach beard and Ted Lassow. I was like, why don't they stop players? Like, they just don't do that.

And they're like, why not? They don't usually have a scoreboard. Well, that was the other thing is they had, uh, if a guy got hurt, you'd have the medic guy come out and he was like tending to them. And then they just like, wow. playing while the person's hurt. And we kind of asked the people behind us, we were like, is that normal for the medic to be out there kind of while the game's going on?

And he's like, if he's just cramping, yeah, it's no big deal. If it's not like an actual injury, right, yeah. If he's not in the thick of it. And I was like, well, he's like 10 yards away. That's crazy. It was, oh my God, there was a point. A guy just goes down in agony and the fans are screaming. And he's like, he's hurt his hand.

He's hurt his end. And the rest turns to the crowd. He's like, he's not out of his hand. He's holding his balls. They just think wooden. stop playing for the guy? The whole thing. We like a sassy ref that yells at the crowd. Oh, my God. Thank God

we stayed for the second game. Because the first game was pretty boring. It was a blowout. We debated leaving and then that coach who kind of looked like a young Doug Collins was telling, he was like, oh, the second game's going to be way better. The teams are way more evenly matched. So it really is kind of like field hockey with aspects of

lacrosse, lacrosse, soccer. I would say those are the big three. Like rugby? There's like scrums. It's on. Rooks. Rooks. But honestly, it really is like quiddage without flying if it was a home run derby. You got to give it to me that I pointed that out having never seen Harry Potter.

I was like quiddish, right? I thought someone told it to you. I think Beck said it and then you heard it and thought you came up with it. Oh, I didn't hear anybody. Maybe. But either way, it really is like a home run derby in that it's just kind of pop it up a baseball and just like hitting it through uprights like a field goal and football. That's what I was going to say is like there was a lot of reasons this was really impressive

watching them play. It was a sport where I was like when we were watching, I think I said to you probably like three or four times. Like, man, I wish I had played this growing up. It's amazing. So, so completely amateur. These guys don't get paid to do this.

It's literally like a full contact home run derby almost, but you, it's kind of like a, like a field day. You know, you have to carry the egg on the spoon? Yeah, you have to do that. They like hold it on the hurl as they run. And then obviously guys are like,

it was remarkably physical. I got to say, like. Oh, yeah, there was like shoulder checks. Literally is like there's no more physical sport. Maybe outside of rugby than hurling. Right. But it literally is like, is like the egg thing.

Well, if you could balance the egg across the entire field, but then people are like trying to slam into you while you're doing that. And then if you want to score... And you're like flapping you with their sticks, like beaters and quidditch. And we're saying sticks,

but these are like thick wooden oars. Right. They're like little, they're like little or. They're like bats. They're bats. They're bats. They're bats. They're bats.

Well, that was what I was going to say, though, is one of the most impressive parts of watching this was watching them. They're basically taking a, They're like hitting, like I've had said, a home run derby, but they're doing it on the run. It is so impressive and how accurate they are from like legitimately 50 yards out.

And like at an angle while covered by somebody. Just running. Their ability to get a shot off while being guarded so closely was one of the more impressive things I've seen in any sport. Honestly, the skill level of these players was really high level. Shock, yeah, yeah. It was genuinely shocking about how easy, like think about, really it's kind of like taking a baseball bat and a baseball.

and trying to imagine just staying on a football field and being like, can you just toss it up and just hit it through the upright? It's kind of like get hit. You're running from people while you're doing it. It's basically lacrosse, but instead of like having a stick with a net where you could just like throw it, but you have to hit it like a baseball. Yeah.

Which is ridiculous. Well, people are beating the crap out of it. And they don't wear any pads. And the other way, the other thing that's amazing about it, I know we're just describing a sport we just saw. But the other part of it is it has the elements of soccer in that when the, when they don't score. There's like set pieces and things.

Yeah, and then like the goalies, the same win soccer, they'll just like clear the ball and they just boot it to the other side. Yeah. The version of that, instead of like, you know, try to hit the ball in your chest or whatever in your first touch, they just catch it bare with their hands. They have no gloves and they were just- 75 like yard. It is like a post-up in the NBA, except instead of an inbound, it's a soccer, they're hitting it literally 60, 70 yards. And to DeAndre Hopkins bare hand a baseball. Yes. From 70 yards away.

It's kind of the most important part of the game is basically, it's, it's. you can feel the ball out of the air without letting it hit the ground? Because it's a ball up. And you can't pick the ball up off the ground. You have to use the stick to get it off the ground and then you can grab it with your hand. I had the best time.

And we should say the game, the game went to overtime. The team we were rooting for Vincent's. The people behind us were Vincent's supporters. So we were kind of like hopping on that bandwagon. They came back twice. They came back to barely squeeze into overtime. She used to play for Vincent.

There's a women's team too. And she played for like, I think, 10 years. And she undersold that. And how it was explained to us. obviously it might be different in different places, but it's like a neighborhood club. By parish, but he said it's not by church.

Well, yeah, but that's like in the county. You're saying in the county, it's by parish. In the city, it's like, he's like anywhere from like three kilometers,

like diameter or whatever. And they're, they just draw the kids from that area and they develop them through the years. It's really cool. And you can be anywhere from me. Like he said 18 years old to 30 years old. He's like basically until you just can't play anymore,

which man, I feel like 25 years old. If you play that for three years, your body is. Yeah. It's very physical. It was honestly stunning. And also,

it was not to be all sappy, but I actually thought it was like the epitome of like traveling and why you go abroad stuff. Oh, because we just like kind of went a little bit out of our comfort zone of like, we're just going to spend like six hours of this thing we've never heard of. And then by the beginning,

we were kind of like, it was a bit. We were like, ha, ha, ha, ha. It's like funny that we don't know what this sport is. I genuinely thought it was when they roll the wheel of cheese down the hill and they do that race. I really thought that's what it was. I said we were going moneyball by the end. We were like trying to figure out advanced analytics

way to improve the game. I got a couple ideas. We actually did. We could absolutely moneyball. Let's get you in touch with the hurling organization. We're not kidding, though. We actually have thoughts. The Americans came in and watched.

We are the billy beans of hurling. The Americans came in and watched one game and figured out. Two? Two games. Two games. Not American. Not American of you. We have thoughts of ways to be more efficient, offensive.

Right. All right. So I'm winning this draft. Also, by the way, at the end, they let us go out. Yes. The guy, the people behind, were very nice. They let us use their hurly or hurl and go out and take a few thwax or whatever you want to call it.

Swickets. Yeah. We did thwack. I hit one right through the uprights. Totally. Totally. My first try. Yep.

Hifitz had a couple whiffs and there was like 15 children just gathered around staring at it. You know what he's weird? This is my nightmare. This is my nightmare. I was too confident because at the bachelor party where I pulled my hamstring, I did make great contact. We were, we were just crushing. Honestly, golf balls in the middle baseball.

That's the best feeling ever. and like crushed a couple of those. And ironically, it's the best feeling ever. You can't hit anything further than you've got a golf ball. Oh, it's the best. You can't hit anything further than a golf ball of the metal baseball bat. Yeah. And I ironically made great contacts slowing down.

And then so I was like, oh, I got this. So I was trying to hit really hard. Well, and then I just kept with him. Well, that's the other thing I wanted to bring up. Obviously, we're talking about hurling this whole time. But it's so funny that we had this huge conversation about the hand placement and left-handed versus right-handed. Oh, my God.

It was exactly the same. Because it's like the hockey thing. where in hurling, I think, I don't know 100% if this is like what everybody does, but the way that we were being taught was your dominant hand goes on the end of the bat, so the bottom of the bat. Baseball bat thing reversed. It was also very confusing because when they were explaining it to us,

they kept saying your dominant hand goes on the top, which was actually the bottom. So of course it's like backwards. So it was like getting very confused. But when you watch it basically like my, like if you're right handed batter, your right hand would go under your left hand when you're, when you're batting.

Yeah. On the bat, when you're holding. Your dominant hands on top on a baseball bat. Right. And they wanted your dominant. Well, that's how we left hot in America.

Yes. Right. Because we had this whole talk about like right hand versus left hand. But it's the way I normally hit. Yes. I throw lefty, but I bat right.

But it's the same principle as hockey. And it goes back to the original reason. One of the people emailed us who made a great point about why you even end up hitting the way you do in hockey, which is in part, it's because you carry the stick around all the time. And those people,

kids just hold a stick of their dominant hand. And then you have to just be able to grip it and rip it really quickly, and that's kind of the reason you end up doing it that way. I was watching closely the way that they were kind of like using, you know, like, it's like stick handling or whatever in hockey. It's, and you obviously, they use it to trap the, trap the, whatever, a slider or whatever you call it. Slitter. Slitter. And they were using it to trap it and obviously like, you know, like, hold it to themselves or whatever.

But even when they're like playing, they'll like hold it kind of in the middle. And then they have such, it's like they're so dexterous with this thing. It's like crazy. It's like an extension of their hands. hand. We'll move on quick soon, I promise. We can't get over her. Also, there's switch hitters. Every single one of them. Oh, my God. They can hit the ball from both directions.

You can be running left or right and they can hit a ball 50 yards through the upright. Incredibly accurate. The game really represents, it's really like a three point line, which ironically is worth one point. But like, and also we didn't describe, if you hit it through the uprights of a field goal, it's a three points. But if you hit it underneath, there's a soccer net underneath the field goal. If you hit it above, it's one point. Yeah, well, sorry. Above it's one point. So the field goal is not worth three like football, it's worth one. Underneath, there's like a soccer goal underneath, and that's worth

three if you get it past the goal. And those don't happen very often. There was like two or three. There's a goalie there. This is where we're going to money ball out. They have to go for the goal. They have to, they keep taking the points. They have to go for the goal. Amazing sport. Shout out Hurling. An amazing experience. The people there were so nice. Yeah. Shout out to the coaches. Shout out to the people sat behind us. And oh my God. I think we were in, we're like the only Americans there. It was very much like they felt like we were experiencing. And shout out to those kids when I whiff didn't make fun of me. They actually encouraged me, which was actually pretty cool. Yeah, they were very nice. It gave me hope for the young

generation. I kind of couldn't believe they didn't make fun of me. They were kind of in their heads. They really wanted you to succeed. They really and I didn't. Kids in America would have been like dicks. Yeah. Like Rider Cup. They would have been like yelling at hyphids. Yeah, just like Rory Macquarie. I'm like, shut the fuck up. It would have been like the stepbrothers like white dog shit situation. All right. So I got the 101. Who's going second here, Craig? I'm going to go really earnest. Sure. The people are so nice. The most incredibly nice people you could imagine. We've probably taken 10 taxis and every taxi driver is nicer than the one before.

Yeah. They are so sweet. They gave us so many recommendations. Everybody at the hurling match. Everybody was just so accommodating, so sweet. So happy about this weekend. I thought it was so cool that this is all happening. Like a lot of times when you go to things like this where like there's just a bunch of

of tourism swarming a city for a weekend. It can be frustrating and it like completely takes over and kind of like. It's like annoying. Yeah. It's super annoying. Well, that has not been the case. and everybody has been so nice, told us, like, where to go, what to eat, what to do. The nicest people I think I've ever met in any country.

Yeah, I was going to say there was a guy, Mark, who did some production for us in the show that we did at Kennedy's on Friday. What day was that Friday? Shout up Rob again for letting us use Kennedy's. Another guy who was weirdly nice and just really accommodating. Man, they were so nice. Dude, when we got there, they just brought us coffees and a giant, like, plate of breakfast, like immediately. They gave us and ash, maybe. They gave us hats.

Yeah, they gave us hats and shirts. which I didn't know at the time. That's really what that was. Those hats we wore on Friday. We didn't buy those. We didn't just be like we're going to go look like the flatline. We're not just like stereotypical. I was worried.

I was like, we need to communicate that they gave these to us. Yeah, they handed us the hats. Not to wear them. But anyway, Mark was saying, because I was asking him essentially the same thing. I'm like, is this just like so annoying? There's so many Americans here just clogging up the streets. The traffic was kind of bad or whatever. Yeah, yeah.

And he was like, he's like, you know, when people come in, a lot of Americans will come in for St. Patty's Day. and it's like they're coming in and kind of like stepping on our thing and like trying to make it their own. But when for this, the way he put it was like, you guys are coming here and we're getting in on your thing, which is really cool. And he was saying that like, and I was like, that sounds awesome. Like it makes me feel so much better about like just the hordes and hordes of people that are walking around. And it's just like, it's cool. NFL diplomacy, baby.

We're spreading. Right. I can tell the note, genuinely like you hear it enough. obviously there's a level, there's a veneer, it's kind of like the stripper thing where it's like, you know,

the, oh yeah, no, is she enemy or is this her job? And like there's a degree of when you're a tourist, you deal with people who are like in the tourism industry and they just want you to feel happy. But I will say you do this over the weekend and you talk to enough people who are like,

not in the tourism. You actually can get the vibe of whether they are sick of this or not. Every, the locals really were just, they kind of just thought it was cool. There was an NFL game here and they were amazed that somebody like, like it was,

they really did seem jazz that there was, there was a game here. They were kind of tickled by as cool. There's probably some people there. I'm sure some people are pissed as fuck. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But man, we have not seen those people. They haven't talked to us. They haven't said anything. So I assume there's zero. Like, I, you know, we're, you know, hi-fits. He makes best friends with everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, even, even the people in the we work or the we work employees, we were like, we were in the NFL game and they're like, really? Like, they thought it was cool. Can we be here at midnight? Like, of course, let me help you. Do you know how many? My phone number,

if you need help? They're just the nicest people. Do you know how many people we have had to tell, we are podcasters. They were the first people that ever thought that was cool. I've never heard anyone. I still don't tell people. We might move here. We might move here. Yes. No one's ever said, you're a podcast. I was like, wow, I've never got that reaction. You can do that for a job. Oh, Jackie's uncle. You do that full time. Shout out Tom. That was Jackie's uncle. He's like, that's like, is you okay? You get money for that? Have you heard a spot him? He's like, no. Okay. D.K. Third pick off the board. Well, it's funny because these are literally my top too. can just show you. Hurling match,

nice people. How nice literally everyone has been? Yeah. I'm going to go with the Irish pubs. Obviously, that's like, you know, it's a draw for Americans. We love that kind of shit. I had that high on my board. Actually forgot to write that down. It was like half the experience.

Half the time we spent, I didn't really forgot about it. I think it was really cool because we saw a whole different spectrum of like the different types. There was one's made of wood. Donahehy's and what was the name of it? Dehini and Nesbitt. That one is like four levels. levels, like the most massive bar you've ever seen.

They had like six or seven different bars on different floors. We went to Keyhoes. Keyhose was awesome. That was our first, that was like our baptism by fire, getting the, like splitting the G, getting the real life, Dublin Guinness. We do have to tell them about long haul. Hyphids. It was a good time.

It was awesome. That's okay. Because I bounced last night because it was so packed. It was really packed. The second you left, we immediately got beers. A table opened up in the corner booth. We sat down and then like half the people left. And it was just like lovely.

So it's like the water's part of it. You're welcome. There you go. Moses with the Red Sea. You were so famous when you left, they were like, we're going to fall in. There you go. There you go. But Long haul was sick. The whole reason we wanted, we walked in there the first place was the rumor is

it's Springsteen's favorite bar in Dublin, which I think has been appropriated to his favorite bar. Apparently he has his own personal bottle of whiskey. It's on the menu that they say that he has, or it's somewhere in there, it's somewhere in there's his own bottle of whiskey. Literally the amount of people who are like, we're here because it's Springsteen's pub, we should start telling people we're Bruce Springsteen's favorite podcast because I actually can't believe how many people knew that this was... I think that was my favorite bar, or pub, vibe-wise.

You love the vibe there, yeah. Also, our cab driver, he was like, that's the best Guinness in Dublin. And I will say, we did notice a difference. What is that means? It was colder. It was colder. Yes, we, like, noticed it.

We, like, chugged the first couple. I was like, ow, that hurt. Yes. Brain free. It was literally weird. It was actually, me, too. What? Yes, it was very cold.

I never, was the mug frozen? No, normal Guinness class. That's actually like stunning to hear. It's probably like subtle, but it did feel like it was colder. You know, the fact that both of us were like, I think this is way colder. Yeah. It was very refreshing. Wow. That's awesome. The pubs are, the pubs are amazed. Everything about the pubs, I mean, look, obviously Irish pubs are like the most popular kind of bar probably the entire planet. But like you go here and you're like, yeah, I get why you would want to share this with the entire world. I wanted to bring up specifically. And I don't know if this is,

only Ireland has this, but I'm sure they don't. I think it's, um, other countries will have these two, but snugs. In the, in the bars, in the pubs. They have these like little areas that are kind of like, yeah, they have big partitions, partitions that like go up past your head. So it's like you can have these little areas that you can just like put your bar down or put your, uh, beer down. And it's not even like a table. It's just a little place for your beer. It's like at the bar. It's like a sill. Yeah. Um, I love that I love snugs. It's so charming. I'm just go and like sit in a snug and. drink again. Anything else on the pubs? I can't. The other thing is obviously there's a whole

difference between tipping in Europe versus America and obviously America, I mean, without getting into all that, basically, obviously, you don't tip here, but people generally like, you know, it's easier to like have a living wage or whatever with the hourly and everything. So there's just not a tipping culture. With that said, it's so much more efficient. It's more efficient at the time because at a bar also there's a thing where millennials in Gen Z don't do tabs as much as our parents did. So bar lines take longer now and bartenders hate it. Because everyone closes every time in case your friends leave or whatever.

All that being, I never realized how much fucking time it adds. Holy hell. We have three people in front of you and everyone has to print the papers, sign, do the tip, do the right down. Dude, you just tap and go. They take your thing,

you tap the card, you turn out. No, it takes so, and you never realize how much, you never realize how much, they're just cranking people out. Like, there's five people lying in front of you. It's amazing. I think that's like Europe, though.

The contactless payment is like a big thing here. They're way ahead of us of that. It's so much faster. One last thing on the, the pub that I will say is great. We went to McSorley's in New York, right? We took you to McSorley's the oldest bar in New York. And there's only two options, right?

It's dark in my beer. I love monoculture drinks where it's like, it's basically, I mean, you can get other things. Obviously, it's a full working bar, but like, I don't know, 85% of the people are just drinking Guinness. And you just walk up and you go three Guinnesses. And if it's loud, like, you know, it's just like, yep, they run it. It's quick.

It's easy. Everyone's doing it. Yeah. I don't actually, I think we, I think we have too many drinks. Yeah, what is it? No, it's so true, the paradox of choice. More options you think will make you happier,

but it actually makes you less happy, and simplicity is actually much better. And you're totally right. I believe that with TV shows, actually. I think I speak about these TV shows. You're right. No, that's also true. Yeah, people were happier when you can watch fewer things together.

But you're right, Craig. That's a great point. I love that. The other thing I'll say... It also feels more communal. Like, everybody's drinking the same thing just feels like you're more of a group, yeah. You're right.

what I thought you were going to say is McSorley's is like the oldest bar in New York City. We argued about it. It was like 1865 or 64 or whatever. All these pubs are as old as McSorley's base. They're all about as old as that and just everything. I think long haul is 1766. Damn. It's yeah.

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Isn't that a whole knock on the two of them? I mean, I think that he drank his milkshake when he beat them to go to the Super Bowl and then won the Super Bowl. And Kyle Shannon's like, I could have beaten the Bengals in the Super Bowl and won. So I think that'll just always be a thing between them. We'll see what happens. I know the Rams guards are both banged up, but like the Niners lost Dick Bows. So I'm like, I just kind of think the Niners are just running out of guys in defense, man.

Like they lost all the free agents, but then also, I don't know, you know, Fred Warner's there. But it's like the D-Line's all without BOSA. It's a lot of young guys on the D-Line. And frankly, I think McVe, you don't think a lot about confusion on the D-Line, but I'm like, McVeigh can really confuse a lot of the younger D-Linman on the Niners. Niners are getting a little bit healthy on the offensive side of the ball. Like John Jennings is working his way back. Brock Purdy's back this week.

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RG-Help.com. Call 1-888-789-77-7-7 or visit CCPG.org slash chat in Connecticut. Okay, so yeah, snake draft, TK, I think you get to go again. All right. So let's see here. I'm going to go with, this one's kind of out of a left field here, but we were going to the hurling game on Saturday.

It was expected to rain most of the day. We grabbed a couple of umbrellas. And Craig and I decided we're umbrella guys now. Dude, I've been on the umbrella train. They're amazing. But not actually opening them. Having them closed and just kind of by your side is the coolest accessory a man can have. It's kind of like having a scepter.

It's like a modern scepter. You guys just got a handed the umbrellas on video, which is fucked up because Craig's holding my umbrella. Which is actually Greg Rosethal's umbrella, but. This is not. Yeah, this one's from the house. This is from our. Oh, sure.

Our umbrella. No, umbrellas, I actually really do want to carry an umbrella. You were putting out the umbrella vibes all day. Yeah, I kind of just feel like the main character with an umbrella. I'm not going to lie. It's kind of, it's kind of like you feel like, you walk around like, like, honestly, it feels like a pin cane. It's a little bit. It's a little bit.

Like he just sat down to having two cocks. It was just unbelievable. It is just funny, though, because Craig was just sitting up and sitting there the whole time, just holding, like, it just like gives you something to rest your arm on. You know, it's just like a good accessory. Just resting your hand on the end of the umbrella, it's kind of like when you're driving in the car and you got your hand on the stick shift. Yes, totally.

Feels right. It's great. It's really great. It's like a, it's, uh, it's, oh, yeah, the umbrella vibes. It's funny because when I was reading up on Ireland before coming here, the people were like, Irish people don't use umbrellas. It's like automatic you're a tourist, but then everyone was using umbrellas. I find that to be, that's really funny.

I'm like, it rains all the time. Don't use umbrellas? I think it was like, it's like someone projecting like that didn't want you to be like a pus or something. Like, don't get rained on. I will say I also.

You live in Seattle. It rains all the time. Don't people use umbrellas? The same, it's the same thing. Apparently in Seattle, you're not supposed to use an umbrella because that means you're like a shit thing or something.

But it's like, they forgot an umbrella. It's like, if you're a real, if you're a real Pacific Northwestern or you don't use an umbrella. It's like bullshit. A lot of people use an umbrella. No,

that's dash some guy who forgot an umbrella. That's like that guy's an idiot. They're incredibly useful. Also, it's like even if you get a rain jacket, obviously option one or option after an umbrella is a rain jacket. Sure. There's two issues with that. One, washes under your pants. You look like an idiot.

You take it off and it's like it's really raining. Craig doesn't know any shit about this because it L.A. doesn't rain. But like it washes off. Don't be honest. But, you know, your pants right around your phone area, it gets all wet. But also, you still kind of get the psychological impact of being rained on, which you've evolved to like hate an umbrella. You're like, I can't die. Also, there's a third thing.

If you don't have an umbrella and you have a rain jacket, you're just getting rained on. The second you step inside somewhere, you have a really wet jacket. And then you're like a wet dog and people around. You're like, in a tight restaurant trying to pick up your wet jacket. Yeah, that's a great pick, DK.

I think we're going to get some haters about the umbrella. No, I actually. The people that think you're weak if you have an umbrella. It's also just like a great accessory. No, that's toxic masculinity. If you're like you're in a bitch to have an umbrella, it's awesome. I feel like carrying it around. Yeah, dude.

I feel like Gene Kelly in this. thing. I'm going to start singing. Like him and Mary Poppins. It's amazing. Down Dr. R.R. Lane. It's a walkdown. Oh, we did find Dr. Rely Lane. We forgot to get muffins and everything.

Do you think they had a muffin shop? They must. If not, we'll start. I asked, I don't know where that's, like, what's the origin of that song? I don't know anything. D.K was like, what's with that song? We're like, I don't really know. When you guys started singing, I reckon.

I think it has an outstanding impact on our thing because of Shrek. I think Shrek brought the Muffin Man song back to our generation and it skipped him. back. I think, you know, Muffman, it came back. Yeah, for sure. Okay. Power Ranking or drafting things. We love about Ireland. Craig, your second pick here. I have to say, the Steelers buzz. It has been awesome. Helpable. I guess I didn't realize how strong the connection is between the Steelers' ownership of the Rooney's and Ireland. Dan Rooney, the son of Art Rooney, the founder of the Steelers, was the U.S. ambassador to Ireland under Obama. And the Roonies were really pushing Goodell

to play this game in Ireland. And man, can you feel it in the streets of Dublin? I would literally, I have seen less than 10 Vikings fans in total this weekend. There's way more now. They got here. But I'm just saying like straight up, I mean, we've been out a lot. I think I've seen less than 10 Vikings fans. They're playing with Steelers.

It says that they said 30% of the crowd today is projected to be American. Straight up. Usually it's like 10. Straight up. The Vikings fans got here Saturday. And the Steelers fans got here Thursday in front. Like that's just a fact. And I don't know if that's, I mean, frankly,

I wonder if more Pittsburgh fans have like Irish heritage and wanted to come here and see more of Ireland or maybe there's more Vikings fans. I don't know. I mean, Minnesota's a slight, I guess a slightly further trip than Pittsburgh. I feel like Vikings fans travel well, too. It's just like the Steelers fans.

It is the first two nights. I will say my hotel now has, I saw more Vikings fans this morning than I did the rest of the trip. But there were like 30 this morning I saw. The most Vikings. It was there everywhere. It's like pubs. It's just occurring the corner.

I don't know how many rooms we were in this weekend that didn't have a Steelers fan. No, they were also like a million Steeler dedicated pubs. I mean, it feels like the Super Bowl. It does. It's funny. When people of the NFL pitched us, shout out to Sunny and people pitched us, they were like,

oh, these little things are like mini Super Bowls. And I was, in my head, I was like, is that like just a thing they're saying as a marketing gimmick? Being here, and we've been to Super Bowls. Yeah. It does feel like the Super Bowl. It has the same, like Craig was saying, the buzz in the city.

You can actually feel it. It's great. And it's funny because I know that maybe this game today was awesome. We haven't been to the game yet. Maybe this game sucked and it was like nine to six and it was awful. People still have fun. But it. And so maybe people are laughing.

We're like, it's like a Super Bowl. But the vibe here, I am shocked at the level to which the game is taken over the city. Yeah. Is it honestly really surprised. I kind of thought it would be a thing happening within a larger city. Completely dominant.

Yeah. Sometimes the buzz around the game is better than the game. You know, I sometimes feel that way with like the college pageantry. It's all so cool. And then it's like, 54. Like the tailgate. Then you're like,

you go. You're like, oh, it sucks. And Carson Wentz and Rogers might combine for four picks. And it's going to be like 14 to 10. Yeah. And it'll be like an okay game.

But the vibe is so cool. You know, it's funny. One of our taxi drivers was saying this, talking about American football. Because he said he kind of liked it. He was excited for the game. He thought it was cool.

But then he was like, I tried to watch the Super Bowl, man. It's like so boring. He's like it's so long. So long. So long. It's like, it's so slow and long.

The kids, the hurling kids who actually refused to make fun of me, which really built up my confidence. The kids, we were walking up the field and they asked them about American football. And they were like, yeah, they were like, we like trying to watch it. It's like, it's so complicated. Yeah, it's confusing. And it makes me feel better about how we were watching hurling. That's probably how they feel.

But honestly, football is way more, American football, way more rules. Yeah. Imagine trying to explain. After an hour of hurling, we were like, like, okay, I think we get it. Right. I mean, I still don't know how the NFL play. Imagine trying to explain like roughing the passer,

body weight landed on the quarterback to an 11 year. Like, leverage, re-do the kick on the kick. Explain what a catch is. The elbow counts as two feet. You can't bounce on the same foot twice. That's not a catch. No, definitely not.

One shit is two feet. What? Yeah, it's, oh, we should have. God, the best idea is happen. We should have explained football rules to random Irish people. Going to the stadium. him. I'm so mad we just thought of that. We still can. What are you talking about? We should go do that.

You're right though. What? No, just the game, Steelers said the vibes are good. Yeah. I thought they win. I saw a handful of Vikings fans when we went to the Guinness Brewery. I've seen way more. There was, I would say it's like, I would say it's like 80, 20 maybe percent. Yeah. I heard that it was probably going to be more like 70, 30, but we'll see. Okay. So do I have back-to-back picks now?

Yeah, yeah. Do I have back-to-back picks now? Sure. Okay, can't believe this sold to me. Things we loved in Ireland. Spice bags. Oh. Spice bags are...

I'm surprised you're announcing this because we... Should we... How about I? A company in America. Are we going to start the company or should I tell the story? No, let's be honest. You should tell the story. Okay.

So this is... Someone listening, you know, it's funny that the TikTok trend of Russell Wilson's bathrooms versus touchdown count as a Bronco, that's... The guy who started that listened to our show and then made it like a TikTok, I think, and it became a huge thing. And this is going to be like that with a billion dollar company. Yes.

So I'm a little, I actually, I know someone listening is going to just do this. And they're like, yeah, thanks for that idea. And we're able to fuck. Just do it. We'll cut it if we want to. Okay, we'll cut it if we have to. The spice bag thing is I actually have never come across an idea or a thing in any trip I've ever taken where I've been so surprised this doesn't exist in a way.

I agree. Are we sure? It doesn't it? I don't know. I feel like one of us would have seen it by now. We all love eating and have never heard of it. And so all spice bag is, and it's called spice bags. And it's these Chinese restaurants in Dublin. And I'm sure maybe other places too, but the ones I saw were all Chinese. And it is basically the simplest perfect idea ever. It is a bag of French fries and chicken nuggets basically. Like salt and pepper chicken. And it's just with a bunch of Chinese spices in it and shaken up.

And it's just drunk food. And it's in a thick paper bag. It's drunk food. Yeah, so it's just a bag of salt pepper, chicken fries. It's like onions and then great spices. There are places. I've seen this idea in America, like, Chap – I mean, I'm sure there's a bunch of people screaming, ghost screaming. But I'm like, you went to UNC Chapel Hill. They have the places that it'll sell you bag of chicken fries. I hate it, like, first your bubble, but it's definitely already in America.

You're on – no, but you're on some random website. No, but the point being, specifically it being Chinese spices and the mix of, like, a Chinese food tastes with just – it put its chicken fingers and, like, French fries in a bag. and you can bring it into a bar. And so you pick it up and you walk in a bag. But you want instant a bag and you just deliver someone shows up with a bag and Uber eats and bikes over to you.

And you're at a pub in Dublin and someone just hands you this bag of French fries with all the taste of like Chinese seasoning. And it's like, there's peppers and onions in there sometimes. But like some of YouTube or doing this in America, I wouldn't say means this is like a part of American cuisine. We all have lived in America or entire lives

that have never heard of this. Like clearly it's not big enough. Restaurants all. over. It was the best. I don't say this lightly. Every college town should have this. I don't say this lately. It's the best drunk food. Top five drunk food of my entire life. Wow. I would agree. Also, I just love the mechanism. Like the way it's delivered, the way you eat it. It's just like in a big tin that you have to open with a fork in knife. It's like a paper bag. It's just a paper, a thick paper bag. You're eating it with your hand. There's so many ghosts screaming

at us. It's like, okay. Whatever. Whatever. Fine. All right. All right. That didn't hit the way. We like the spice bag. All right. All right. Fine. I have another... This is making me hungry. We'll get one more tonight. So I have another pick right now, right? Yeah. Okay.

Things I loved about Dublin. Cab drivers. Oh, yeah. Taxi drivers. We were talking about this last night before dinner. People and then I have a larger take. But you guys had more fun taxi drive. I don't want to give you the space.

Tell about your taxi drivers again. Oh, right now? Yes. Well, the first guy we ever took from our Airbnb into downtown was the most classic Irish man I'd ever get in my life. Exactly what you would imagine a Dublin. taxi driver because he was swerving all over the road yelling at people in that were like going too slow or whatever he was like fucking gobshai i fucking he did you like just like the under his breath

the whole time it's so funny but like in a nice way you know what i mean like we really liked it in a nice way fucking gobshay you're like what a nice guy but he's like he's playing around he's not being serious not like actually starting fights he was just funny i've never heard the word fuck more yeah than then then this week other than when between that and rory getting yelled out yeah All these Irish taxi drivers yelling at Rory Macquarie. Yeah, like every fifth word out of this guy was fucking, it was bad. Fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking ruin in this fucking city. It was great.

He talks about gobshite and crack. And crack. Yeah, he explained what the crack is. Yeah. I still don't know what cracked this. This weekend has been cracked. It's been cracked, but then there's the American Gen Z version of crack, which is cracking. What's that?

Is that what Kai taught us? Yeah. Don't worry about it. It's fine. Cracked? Don't worry about it. Wait. Is that sad?

Sex? Yeah, it's sex. Don't worry about it. Like, what, we can't handle that? Craig's like, I have a wife. There's children. Yeah, the cab drivers have been amazing. But we're talking about why taxi drivers are so great.

I really, I have really strong. I'm going to, not to get on my fucking high horse here, but I'm going to do it. This weekend has really cemented for me two things. One, how much better it is to have taxi drivers. And honestly, what a travesty ride share has become. because Ireland has an alternate universe of how it should have gone down, which is there is no Uber here,

there's no Lyft here, there is an app powered by Lyft where you can hail taxis. So there are no random people with the side hustle or who are trying to drive Uber or Lyft. You have cab drivers, like it was 15 years ago

for the last 100 years, like, we're not 100, but whatever, cab drivers, that was dumb, whatever. Wrong. That doesn't undermine my whole point. But the point is there's taxi drivers

and they can just be a regular taxi, you can hail down or they all are on an app. And so, one, when you're just driven around by only taxi drivers who are professional career guys who just, you give them an address and I mentioned my hotel, they're like, oh yeah, I know exactly what that is and they just go. You're reminded one, how much more skilled

they are, how much safer you feel, how much better they are at their, they don't, they know everywhere. And it's just a better product. They know the city. It's just nicer to have a tourism city. I can't tell you how many, how many recommendations we got from taxi drivers that we took and did it was super fun.

They were almost like tour guides running out. I'm sure someone listening to this drive. Telling you don't go to this pub. Our taxi driver told us about the long haul. And I don't mean, and I'm sure someone listening to show right now is probably like driving a lift to Uber right now. And that's,

no offense, just like this guy's been driving for 40 years. Like, it's just, he's good at it. But the other thing that I think is really clear to me, he's fucking Uber. He's a lot.

But the other thing, it's so clear to me about what, how this should have gone down. And it's worth talking about. What happened with, you know, I can only talk about New York and taxi drivers where I,

I know better, but basically... I didn't know we were going to go on a rant. No, but the career, the way it goes with the New York medallions are like a taxing medallion in New York was like a mortgage for your career. It was like it costs somewhere between $200,000 and over time. It actually peaked around $1.2, $1.3 million to get a taxed in a medallion. And you would borrow the, you would borrow the money, pay it out like 30, 40 years, like a house. And then that's your retirement.

If you pass away, it's like your life insurance. It's what you passed in your kids. Like you get the rights to it's like a million. And that's your thing. And so that's the idea of. like you come as an immigrant, you're able to do a taxi, and you're able to pass down a very serious, like you really can lift your family to a better life than you had. And it's like really engine of the American dream. And it's what you're paying for is the exclusive right to drive a taxi

in New York. There's a limited amount and you only get to so many. And what Uber came in and did was took advantage of a loophole. I think people get it. Contractors, blah, blah, blah, not taxis. And it completely undermined. And I think the value of a medial went from 1.3 million Uber was invented. It cut down by a fifth. And it just completely undermined it. Everyone knows what's happen to taxis in cities, Uber's, et cetera. So the point being, the daily had an incredible episode on this, like years and years ago. And the taxi driver put it as, imagine, like this year, what channel was the Super Bowl on? Fox.

Fox. Why didn't you watch it on CBS? Because Fox paid for the exclusive right for the Super Bowl. And if the NFL let CBS air it, Fox probably should have gotten their money back because they paid all that money for the exclusive right. The point being that the taxi people aren't like Uber should be deleted. Uber should be whatever, but they should have been compensated for losing their exclusive right to do taxes. No one's going to pay them for that. That's not the point. The point is, in retrospect, how all these

companies, Uber and everything set up this whole economy of we're going to open a dollar store and just discount. It's going to be sold for 75 cents, undermine the business. And then no one will be left and it's just us, which is obviously what happened. Flood the market, then raise the price. Yes. And so there's no tax. And so coming to a country, which has had basically an alternate reality where they're like, this is so much simpler. And what they did is in retrospect. So obvious, the technology and the app should have just been for taxi drivers. Like it's so obvious. Having, merging the two ideas, which is I should be able to call a taxi to me instead of going to taxi on this lovely app.

And the taxi drivers just learn to use the app is in retrospect so much obviously better as a user experience for us and as a business for them. And I am upset that we didn't get to that in America because it would be a better place. we had just had all the taxi drivers, get the app and the technology, and it's upsetting that this didn't happen. 100% agree. It's just a better product. It makes way more sense

the way that they're doing it here. It seems like this is less fun than our other stuff. You're making good points here, though. Oh, my God. Anyway, yeah, well, all right, other stuff. Yeah, sorry.

I just, yeah. I'm 100% agree with that. It's just way better. I just wish the apps called taxis. Anyway, sorry, keep going. Yeah, you're ready. I would say tax. Taxis are like 20% of like a responsible for how great of a weekend we've had.

Right. It's like the taxi drivers and how much they've helped us. Also, and not to skip you, Craig, but one of, I just want to, since it's so related, one of the highlights was just getting freaked out by driving on the wrong side of the road. I wasn't actually doing the driving, of course, but like in those, in the cabs, it's like trippy when you're on the other side. I've never actually, I don't know if I've ever been in a cab on that side of the road. I've taken buses before in like in London or something.

In like the UK and Ireland. Yeah. But like, I don't know if I've ever. ever ridden in a car before. It's like very different. Yeah. Or at least I had never been to a country that you're about to get in an accident. Right.

I've never been to Ireland. I've never been anywhere in the United Kingdom. I've never been anywhere that drove on the other side of the road. Oh, wow. And so it is weird. Bizarre. One, I just, you don't get used. We're not here long enough.

I haven't gotten used to it. I've just, no. At left or right. Also, taxi drivers drive with just like more reckless abandon. Right. Because they're so comfortable with the city. They know what they're doing. That's an original Jerry Seinfeld, like stand up.

joke, which is like when you're in a taxi, you're like, huh, not my car. I wouldn't drive like this. Whoa. It's like a ride. It is like a ride. It's like a theme park. You're like, oh, you're like, oh my God. Whoa, we're going right. Dude, my cab here. This is weird. I'm not in the same place as you guys. My cab with you guys. I drove here. I've never seen a car in any context get so close to pedestrian as he did coming. I've never seen. And you're from New York. Yeah. I've never seen a car get so close to a person. Chris has been hit by a car. I guess I get hit by a cab.

Yeah, that's true. You've never seen it happen. Dude, I got hit by the car. I didn't see the taxi. You didn't see it coming. So it doesn't count. You know, my friends saw me after and they were like, oh, it's the cap, okay? Craig, what do you got?

Any other picks here? I guess we haven't said this explicitly, which is a little surprising, but Guinness. Right. That was on my list. Yeah. We were talking about the cold Guinness. I guess I just thought pubs. But, yeah, Guinness, it is, I think you dailed it with the monocle, a city having a monoculture

drink is awesome. It's awesome. Having said that, the funniest thing anyone said all weekend was we, we have, I mean, if you follow us on Instagram, you know, we kept splitting the G and drinking the Guinnesses. We went to the Guinness factory. We spent hours. We go to the top of the Guinness factory, which is this like 360 degree thing over the city. And we're sitting there.

We drink there. Get Carlos to Guinness. Carlos has been awesome with us on this trip. And there's just a pause. And I'm kind of like, Carlos, what do you think of all the, what did you think of the tour? There's his long pause and Carlis is like, I don't really get this Guinness thing. He's been drinking Moscow meals. Carlos was ordering Moscow meals.

Wrong city, pal. It's been great. Everybody, all the bars have it. It was an elite zag. He's like, I don't know. So funny. He's like, it tastes like beer. But dude, shout out Tom.

The same guy who showed us the spice bags was like, oh my God. Well, this is all. Sorry, I'm just cutting into this. But he was like, oh, yeah. you don't need a Guinness, you need a Murphy's. And I'm like, what's Murphy's? I'm just glad you asked. And he has a quarter zip.

Unzips his quarter zip, pulls it out like Superman. And he has an infographic on his shirt explaining the three beers of Ireland. What was the other one? Guinness, Murphy's and Beamish. Oh, yeah. And I was like, you need a Murphy's. I'm like, what's Beamish? He's like, you're not ready for that.

You have to work up. And he's like, he gets me in Murphy's. And he's like in a different glass. Murphy supplies their own glasses. And he's like, you hold it with a little bottom. And it's like, don't you feel a little classier of this. It's like an umbrella for glass. And I'm like, yeah, I do feel classic.

And you liked Murphy's more than Gaines. I thought Murphy's was better because the, I like, I like Giffingham. I like Giffels. What is it? The mouthfuls. What they told us to the Guinness factory. Oh, that was one of my highlights. You need to take big, generous mouthfuls. She said it like four times.

Yeah. In an Irish accent. That is the way to drink Guinness. Big generous mouthful. You don't sip that shit. You take big generous mouthfuls. I will say right after that happened, we ordered a Guinness. And then DK just like sip to the Korean mom on top.

I like, just shipped it. Craig, I didn't want it to spill. It's just the bubbles. Just the nitrogen bubbles at the top is all you said. Big generous mouthfuls. I forgot about the big generous mouthfuls. You can't forget about the big generous mouthful, which is the new name of my fantasy. You know what's funny?

That's why he can't split the G well because he doesn't do big generous mouthful. It's on your chat. It's on your board. Again, to be clear. Big generous mouthful. Did you think that would slip to the fourth round? What are you doing? I know.

I forgot. I should have done earlier. We also learned that, you know, Guinness, the Nick. name of Guinness, like people call it like the black stuff. We learned that Guinness is not black and it's actually Ruby Red. Dude, Jackie nailed that. Jackie said that and I kind of was like, yeah, sure, hon.

I don't know. I kind of feel like it's. It looks black to me. The Guinness factor they told us. Yeah. Maybe I can't see. Jackie. Jackie feels so fucking vindicated when they said that on the tour and she was like, it's actually Ruby Red and she was just like, hmm. I think it's the most aesthetically pleasing beer.

It's my favorite beer. I think it's the easiest beer to drink. And we think it tastes, it does, we confirm it. It does taste different here. Definitely. I would say it's, the two biggest things for me is it's creamier. And then I think the aftertaste is so much smoother and there's no metallic tininess. It leaves it on the glass. D.K., I'm curious. Yeah. I think Craig, wife guy. Happiest I've ever seen Craig was his wedding. Second happiest I've ever seen him was drinking Guinness. The first generous mouthful of it. Yeah. The first, I actually, I actually think the happiest I've ever seen Craig other than his wedding was the first time you got a Guinness in his hand.

on this trip. It's clearly your favorite beer. Oh, I love it. There's an L.A. Pub, I guess. It's called Ye old King's Head, and I drink Guinness there. And it was like,

it's like the only, you know. Sorry, keep going. No, no, go ahead. I was basically just saying, like I loved it there and then now coming here. My holy shit.

Are you going to drink Guinness and you go? I feel like I can't. I will. I feel like I have to. You just have to recognize it's going to be better here. I'm not going to be coming to Dublin

every other month. That's good point. No, I'll keep drinking it of course. But, Guinness is good, I kind of can't believe you got Guinness in the third round. I know. It was kind of amazing.

I guess, I don't know, pubs. I didn't think you could just take it. Save the best for last. D.K. What else you got? A generous mouthful. For me, one of the highlights was having the self-restraint to not tell any Irish person that I have Irish descent. Oh, I've done it.

I haven't, I haven't said that one time. Last name. Kelly. I actually did have a buddy that one of his, he told me we should do a bit where we just go into any bar. I don't know if I said this before. Go into every bar and try and find as many dates. Danny Kelly's as possible. Like the people with the Rockies game, they had like 400 people named Ryan.

Oh, how many Dan Kellys are going to be at the stadium today? Like, over and email a 50, like 50, probably. Yeah. There is a,

I don't know if, I think he might be British, but there is a Danny Kelly that does soccer coverage. And he's like pretty famous. And people always tag me and like, say, well, they're like all mad about some take he had about like soccer.

And I'm like, what do you? I don't know. you're talking about. That was like Bobby Wagner. He used to work at the ringer. Oh, yeah. It would always get tagged.

Like Bobby Wagner, the linebacker. Dude, even Darius Slaten on the Giants, uh, was a receiver, obviously. And then the Eagles had this cornerback

named Darius Slay. And Darius Slay made all his comments in Brazil about, I won't even go to what he said or whatever. And, um, Darius Slaten, like all these Brazilian people just like, were screaming at Darius Slaten.

He's like, I am an NFL player, but I'm not that guy. Right. Please stop yelling at me. there's like yeah there's like a reporter called Jerry Sandesky and he's like I'm not changing my name

he's the worst he's the one of the change one yeah that guy he should probably change his name yeah I think I might I think I would change I would add an initial go by Gerald like Gerald yeah oh that was actually something this is not on my list but Irish names are awesome

they're beautiful yeah and it's and obviously like we are terrible at pronouncing them and we recognize that and so apologies so what are your five favorites go ahead EFA. Ifa. Efa. Sorsha. Sersh is great.

But the guy, the coach that we met, the hurling coach, his name was, and I'm going to fuck it. It was the Irish version of Gerald. Gerald. I think it was something along those lines. He's like Gerald.

I can't. For you, idiot Americans, it's Gerald. Shocking, I can't pronounce Irish. I can barely speak English. But I love that. I think it's cool that. And there was a lot of, you know, when we were watching the hurling,

it was like, Tara, Connor. like Patty. Like it was just like all the classic Irish names. They're just like screaming at each other. It was great. Oh my God. Hearing Irish people scream at other Irish people in any context. Anger.

So charming. It's so charming. I just, it always is funny to me that no matter how much I hear an Irish accent or even an English accent or anything, I'm like, oh my God, that's so. I don't know what effect it has in Americans.

I don't know why it is so much better than hearing an American talk. Because we have family from me. honestly, actually, I wish I'd taken this first. The fact that every Irish person you talk to has an Irish accent is like, honestly, one of the best and most charming parts of the whole city. It never gets old. Every time they open their mouth, I'm like, oh, man, I can listen to you talk forever. He's just sitting there like an idiot.

Like, really, I'm sure. It's fixed. Just keep talking. I remember there was one guy on the street the other night who was like, oh, I love the American accent. We were like, what? An Irish guy. I've never heard that in my life.

I love the accent. I'm like, what are you talking about? No one said no one ever. Get a load of this guy. Yeah. Any of the stuff. I mean, this is undrafted free agents now. You can kind of just like sign who you wanted.

I had Irish slang on there. Banjaxed? Best is cab driver saying banjaxed? Which means tired? I think so. Yeah. I can't say. Can you do the Irish?

I can't, like I need like specific words to say and then I can fall into it. Gobshite. Which we don't know what that means. Still right. I mean, we do. It means gobshite. That's what that's how he explained it. I was like, gobshshy.

what does that mean? And there's a pause. And then he goes, you're gobshite. And I was like, all right, I get it. Go, go, go, go.

That makes sense, actually. No, yeah, I get it. It's not gob. It's Job, dad. This dictionary says a person who is stupid or incompetent. Gobshshite.

You're a gobshite. You're gobshite. Yeah, all that slang. Anything I have like a couple other undrafted some agents I'd take. Trinity College is cool. Trinity College is great.

The Book of Kells. The Book of Kells was cool. I actually have a brought down a bunch of stuff. We didn't turn that into a bunch of content, though. The book of, well, it was about. We tried to be a specific. I tried to take the book, but it didn't work. I almost took a picture of the book of Kells, which is like 1,500 years old.

He's like, you know, there's no lights in here at all because, like, there's no lighting. I took a picture of it. Did you, you know, flash, right? No. But you're definitely not. You are. No, the guy told me not to, but I, you're going to get kicked out of Ireland. I will, good thing this ain't coming out until Wednesday.

I do want to tell the book. I didn't know that you could. I mean, I didn't have a flash, but I took a photo and the guy was like, hey, no photos. And I said, too late, jump. I'm selling this. I saw that. You were like, sorry. You guys were a little, you guys hit traffic.

He got upshite. You got upshay. You guys missed some book of Kell stuff. And I kind of figured you were, you kind of, there was no way you were going to digest some of the stuff in the museum in the beginning because you were kind of catching up to us. And I wanted to just, I wrote some stuff down. Okay. That I kind of thought was incredible and just random stuff. One, just the book of Kells, it's an old book.

It's like, we don't have to go too into it. But it's cool. It's kind of like how the fuck do they make this thing? And it's just interesting, but one, all these monks made it. One, we've got to bring monks back. We have too many insoles and not out of monks. And, like, we really need to bring back. I think monks, I'm pretty impressed with the monks.

We have too many insol. We need to bring back order to this kind of lifestyle. I thought they were coming back. Measles and monks, aren't they coming back? I don't think that's what that was. That was pretty good. That was pretty good. One, 185 calf skins to make this book.

You were blown away by that. I just, they're like, yeah, we did the really good pictures on the flesh side. Yeah. Because the hair side's hard to draw on. I'm like, that's unbelievable. But the other ones that I just, from one, they think that they had magnifying glasses because when you put it under a microscope, there's like more detail. Like there's a picture, the big best picture of their whole thing, like the main thing

of like, like, obviously, it's like a big, you know, the big, you know, Jesus's big reveal and the devil's there. And like, under a microscope, the devil has like 20 stab wounds. And they're like, they must have used. crystals or something to have a mac, but they don't really understand how they would have had a mac to find glass. But there's just all this stuff where it's just really impressive of everything people did. However, I just wrote this down because I just thought it was funny. They were talking about the writing in the book. And they're like, the letters, J, you and W were not used by the Romans.

They were added later. You and W developed from V and then J came from I. And I don't know why this is so funny to me, but I don't know when we decided we were done with the alphabet. But I kind of think we could keep rolling. You think we need more letters? Or less. Tyler Parker talked about this years ago. It was like the first hottest take, but I'm like, I feel like they, I don't know. GIF versus GIFT thing. Who gets to just edit the alphabet? Why did I turn into J other than visually?

I think they just added a little curve. I don't understand how those are related at all. And they looked, I think it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't know how, I don't know, Craig. The other one, the colors in it, they made it. I haven't done the research on that. They made yellow in the book from arsenic. Wow.

Which is, I mean, that's hardcore. Yeah. Okay, I can tell we're really dying out. This is the only case about the book of Kell's thing. Old book, it was cool to see. Very old book. Bad podcast content. No.

Trinity College, the library was beautiful. Library's beautiful. It felt like I was in Indiana Jones or something. Oh, that was the last thing I want to say, but the library, I thought this was so funny. I felt like I was Hogwarts. One of the cool things is the maps. I think it's cool to see. Oh, yeah, that was cool.

For example, I think I could build Stonehenge. The idea of like, hey, can you go back a thousand years make a map of a place? I'm going to drop you something. Make a map of it. It blows my mind. and the notes on the historical, you know, they have like, here's a thousand-year-old map of Ireland what they thought it looked like,

and then a little, like, they write a little paragraph under it, you know, like museum. It was so catty. All the notes were so jealous of these fucking people. And they were, like, the notes was like this, like pretty incredible map of Ireland. It's from like 800 AD. And the note is like, yeah, this guy made it.

And they're like, you know, it's two degrees off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, bitch, he made this a thousand years ago. And they're like, tape pretty rough. I'm like, are you kidding? It's like, it's like, I just couldn't believe all the notes were nitpicky. The Ulster region's not accurate.

Yeah. It was unbelievable. I couldn't believe. They left that part blank because I didn't really know much about it. Everyone's a critic. I couldn't believe all the, yeah, it's pretty sloppy. You know, we're not that far from Stonehenge now. Should we go?

Oh, my God. No, that's the other thing. You know, there's other hinges. There's all kinds of hinges. Right. We learned that. I thought it was kind of just the one. Right.

The other thing that, my mind is that there's a, if we had a little more time here, I think it's like an hour outside the city, we could have gone, but didn't really have time. But there's a tomb here that is roughly the same, in some ways older than some of the pyramids. It's like an, because I didn't realize that Ireland, you mean, think of it obviously as like Catholic, but before, I mean, I didn't realize that's actually what St. Patrick is. St. Patrick kind of brought Catholicism to Ireland, but it was pagan before. And the pagan culture is very old. And I didn't realize, like, I guess, I don't know because it was an island.

I didn't really, it's like 10,000 years of paganism here. And I don't know. That's never fucking thought about that before. Yeah, they think. And so I wish we could have gone. But just another like notch in the bell, like how many times I always talk to you guys, my mind's always blown by the fact that like of like recorded history that we know of like civilization, I guess, around like settlements and stuff that we know of.

It's kind of half Egypt and half everything after Egypt. And the idea that there was also just, yeah, like this tomb older than pyramids. I'm like, what? This just blows my mind. Every time I visit a new country. it's always tough because I have such a good time, but then basically what you learn once you visit for like a week is that there's so much more to see it and you just need to come back.

Well, you feel like when you travel more, you feel like the world, you feel like you've seen less of the world. Totally. Yeah. And so now I'm like, well, yeah, we spent four days in Dublin, but there is so much more obviously to explore in Ireland. Now I want to come back and spend two weeks here and travel around.

Anything else in this trip. Bill Murray was down in. Oh, yeah. He was in Dingle apparently. I think he's going to be at the game today. He's supposed to be at the game, yeah. Allegedly. Yeah. Well, I guess people would have saw it already. I guess we would have talked about it on Sunday.

Right. And the other thing, Obama just, the 20 minutes before we got to the bar on Friday, and Obama just drove by and waved to people and lined at the pizza restaurant because he got some. You saw him? No, but. Yeah, other people were like just getting a slice of pizza. Yeah, and Brooks' husband was like, is that Barack Obama? And she turns and Obama is just waving out of the van. Barry. That's, Corp. Veryo. And it's, is that Barack Obama? Well, it's because, well, it's like, I mean, six Cadillac escalates.

Wow. I can actually see him smoking a cig. Smoking a jig. Just lick it and syself roll on at the corner. Even Springsteen at Long Hall. With a spice bag. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anything else in Ireland while we're here? No. Loved it. Looking forward to coming back. This is our last show from Dublin, even though we still are going to record a show on Sunday. This is the last one we're publishing. And I just want to reiterate. Thank you to like a thousand people for all this. Thank you, you too. I mean, Carlos, who's been unborn. believable and had the courage to stand up against the Guinness. Bex here behind the camera who has just been,

Beck's just an absolute wizard. Just been, I guess which technically, but it's been unbelievable. Bex is just actually amazing. Just shout, I mean, Connor Nevins,

Bill, obviously, Jeff, like everyone at the ringer, Mal Sean, Sunny met at the NFL. Everyone at the ringer who like was like, yeah,

this is a good idea and go do it. Shout out to Sunny at the NFL who really, yeah, really fucked with us at first, meeting us and then really pitched us on this being worth it. He was totally right. thank you to Rob at Kennedy's for setting that up shout out to Sonny's friend Hugh

who is the reason why Sunny listened to our show and then Pram at the NFL like a bunch of everyone literally everyone in Dublin who like gave us recommendations I'm not gonna lie I wait a lot if people who emailed in were like I was there for three days a year ago I appreciate your emails we didn't really take your advice as much

but anyone who lives here or ever lived here we really read like no offense to the people visit three days but when we got like a hundred emails people lived in Dublin for any amount of time. Like, we really appreciate it. Perhaps most of all, I want to shout out Matt, who is the one Matt and Alan. No, Alan in particular is the one who said we should go to hurling thing.

Matt Allen, I'm not, I guess I shouldn't read his last name, but Alan, you know who you are. Yeah. He's the one who said, go to the hurling match on Saturday, best time ever. The locals were like tickled and that we went, I feel like, you know? Yeah, yeah. Well, we try. Yeah, we were dumb, but they appreciate dumb if it's earnest.

and we really wanted to learn about hurling. We did, actually. And so it was fun. Yeah, we were asked them all about the rules. They were very, very generous and willing to play ball with us. It was crazy. They didn't have to do that. So anyone who played a part in this trip, like, we really appreciate it.

This was like really a privilege. It was like a time. It was so much fun. It was so worth it. And so, yeah, this was awesome. The number one person we have to thank for all of this. Thank you, Lord. Lord.

Thank you, the chieftains. Nice. Yeah, traditional Irish music. We've been playing all of our Instagrams have had strictly Irish bands. Chiefsons? I don't. I don't know who the Chieftain's are. What songs are?

Yeah, they've been around forever. They play traditional Irish music. I actually played them to Calvin when he was a baby. That was like, pre-Misty Mountains. Yeah, it was like, it's in the same style of Misty Mountains. We played in the morning when he was eating breakfast.

It seemed to calm him down. And so I have very fond memories of the Chieftain's music. And yeah. This is a bit of a pivot. But every time you say, anytime Misty Mountains comes up, unfortunately. Think of the porn star? Yeah, I think of, I think of the nice guys, the movie.

Right, right. where it's all about the porn star named Misty Mountains, who dies. Oh my God, I never thought of that. It is a funny point. It's a great born name. Get careful when you're Googlinging Misty Mountains.

I know, seriously, yeah. But it is worth, oh, we actually got five more people emailed us. Everyone, the single best emails we get, I think the number one best email is when someone says, hey, just had a baby three weeks ago. And I just, in the depths of my brain at three in the morning, remember you guys said Misty Mountains from the Hobbit soundtrack,

comes the baby down. I played it and it worked in 20 seconds. And just hypnotizes babies. We need to do the PSA one more time. If you have a baby and it's crying, that song calms it. I don't know what the rhythmic chanting, the way you put it is,

is like it just calms the baby down. It's deep guttural humming. And it just calms. I think it's like it's literally a calming agent for like a baby. For I would say between two out of three to maybe even three out of four people who try it. It seems to work. Like just based anecdotally on the feedback we've gotten, it's like 75%.

Even my friend Jackson who had a kid, I picked him up at the airport. It's like a two-hour drive back with traffic and like played it. The shit works. It was incredible. Yeah. Deep guttural humming. Like,

and big generous mouthfuls. Generous mouthfuls with the deep gutteral humming. Big generous mouthfuls. I didn't want the baby do it. Yeah. But no, the Irish folk music is a bit incredible. Honestly,

walking to a pub and they're just like playing folk music is like the best. Yeah. Well, yeah, wait, one tiny quick thing. when we went to Long Hall, you probably didn't notice because you left quickly. No music in the bar, which I loved.

It was amazing. You think that's what Springsteen loves about it? Yeah, probably. He's like, finally, I can get away from music. It's like, it was great. You could hear each other talk.

I'm a big fan of that. Yeah. For the right type of bar. I think that with bars... I think it can be very awkward if it's not the right type of bar. Totally, of course. I totally agree,

but there is a certain type of bar where I actually think it enhances the experience. We need a system of rate, like there's all these like metrics we have for like when you Google map or whatever, bar. And like, you need a thing of how loud is the music on a scale of 10 being like a EDM rave where you have to go to the bathroom to hear something to a one, which is like

a library. And we need a system to explain like, can you take your grandparents here with hearing aids to like can move a conversation? If you go to dinner, it's like a Richter scale. Yeah, well, you have able to hear the people in the end of the table or just the people next to you. Like I want to be a bar consultant. I just want to go around to bars and kind of offer up suggestions. You could name a show called Bar Rescue. We should shit. Yeah. Oh, that's good. Maybe. It's good. Yeah. I like that. And then you could also add spice bags. Yeah.

Okay. Cut this out. We have an idea. Goodbye everyone.