Bryan Green

I'm just saying that the Irish people also had some tough times when they emigrated over to this country.

It wasn't the melting pot we'd like to think it was.

It never has been, but it wasn't the melting pot that we'd like to think it was.

And my grandfather used to tell me stories about how his relatives, his grandfather, his father, they were discriminated against because of whatever.

As a matter of fact, John F. Kennedy, as an Irish Catholic,

The Irish were so disliked, even in the 60s, the Irish and the Catholic, that he was given 0% chance of winning the presidency.

Really?

Because having an Irish Catholic president was a...

big deal like people just didn't think of the Irish Catholic people as people who should be leading the country even though in the background they were pulling a lot of the strings like his father was pulling a lot of the political strings it was a big deal first Irish Catholic president and you know that was a big milestone I think for a lot of people who were of Irish descent or people straight from Ireland okay so let's talk a little bit about leprechauns I wrote a whole bunch of notes down here about stuff that we can talk about leprechauns

Yeah.

So but leprechauns, are they Irish?

Kind of is the answer.

Right.

There was Irish Irish folklore created them, but they were originally mean red wearing shoemakers.

Not the cute like lucky charms like mascot we think of today.

Dying the Chicago River green is not actually an Irish tradition.

But Chicago plumbers died to track pollution.

Yes.

And that was originally how the river got dyed green.

But then it kind of went in the 70s when everybody started.