Blindboy (Host)

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7,390 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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The Blindboy Podcast · A cultural history of Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman Jokes · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

Your fellow workers are from Pakistan. voice-verified

So you have this beautiful space, cooperatively owned by the workers. voice-verified

A site of union organization, solidarity, collective bargaining against the fucking factory owners. voice-verified

And now Paddy doesn't feel safe showing up because he's gonna get called a paddy and the entertainment entertainer on stage. voice-verified

doing is telling jokes about how Patty is thick. voice-verified

And earlier on in the day yourself and Paddy were working together equal in the fucking mines. voice-verified

In some clubs, Irish people just weren't allowed in. voice-verified

Black people definitely weren't allowed in because there was a working men's club in Doncaster in nineteen sixty eight and there was a a Jamaican a miner by the name of Ivor Brown who was explicitly barred from his working men's club because they didn't allow black people in. voice-verified

So where'd you go if you're not allowed in? voice-verified

So if you're if you're listening to this from England and your grandparents are from Jamaica or Barbados, Trinidad, Montserrat, or South Africa, then you'll know the word Shibeen. voice-verified

If you're listening to this and your people were Irish, you'll know the word shebeen too. voice-verified

Shibeen is it's an Irish word. voice-verified

It's from about the 1700s. voice-verified

In Ireland it used to mean a little illegal hut. voice-verified

Where you could purchase and drink pochine, poochine being our our moonshine. voice-verified

So the Irish and Jamaicans. voice-verified

In London, Birmingham, Sheffield, wherever the fuck, we had our Shabines. voice-verified

Where the Irish worker in the steel mill and the Jamaican worker in the steel mill go to a little a makeshift pub where they'd drink Guinness. voice-verified

Cause Guinness is a big thing in Jamaica too. voice-verified

And you probably had a lot of Kerrymen and a lot of Jamaican fellas going, Why do our accents sound the same? voice-verified

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