Des Bishop
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287 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard 3 Jun
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So seven different fish on Christmas Eve.
All right. Seafood. Seafood. Seafood. Okay, got it. But anyway, it's... I looked it up. There's no evidence of any history. It's derivative. But the thing is that the real history, which I think gets forgotten about a bit, that all the ethnic groups in America... they have their own culture, and those cultures are just as valid.
So just because it doesn't actually come from Italy doesn't mean it's not a unique cultural experience.
No, of course not.
You're having the unique Irish-American Christmas. For example, a lot of people don't know this. Corned beef and cabbage is not a thing in Ireland.
Really? No, it's bacon and cabbage. It's boiled ham and cabbage is the Irish dish. Somehow it became corned beef and cabbage in America. I have no idea.
Why? Yeah. Now that's the thing. I was like, corned beef and cabbage, but like, no. And I have to tell you something else. Uh-oh. Irish Americans don't make cabbage as well as Irish people. Because I love bacon and cabbage, but corned beef and cabbage is shite. Yeah.
And my grandmother, my grandmother was from Ireland, like, you know, like a proper strong Irish accent, but she did adopt the, we used to have corned beef and cabbage in her house on St. Patrick's Day. That was like, that was always a thing. But we'd march in the parade and then we'd come home and have corned beef and cabbage in my grandmother's house.
I know, it's colder where you are. Like we have, oh no, sorry, you're in Atlanta, right? Well, actually you had your own- Oh no, it's cold. Yeah, we just had snow. Yeah, you had some snow there. I caught a little bit of that sort of, I caught the first little cold wave in the South because I was in North Carolina and South Carolina. I was in Charlotte and Greenville. Yeah.
Very disappointing, like absolutely freezing.
Yeah, it was.
So that was a letdown. But then I was in Minneapolis, which was absolute torture when I was leaving. But no, here, honestly, Irish winters are cold, but on the mild side of cold by proper American winter standards. But I did come back the day before Christmas. one of the worst storms Ireland's had in a long time. Oh, that's right.
Yeah, Storm Eowyn, they were calling it. Eowyn? Eowyn, it was a weird, E-O, I'd never seen it, E-O-W-A-N.
No snow, just... It was basically... Some parts of Ireland basically experienced a hurricane. But we had a show that night, and we thought the warning was going to be later. But anyway, in the end, it was a bit hairy. People started leaving at like 10 o'clock. I thought, oh, I'm bombing here. But actually, people started getting warnings on their phone.
Now, that was an hour and 15 minutes into the show, so it wasn't an issue, but... I, I, I, I did notice some people walking out, but I just wasn't paying any attention. I was just like, ah, they're probably stressed about the storm. But then when I got off stage, Stephen Mullin, my opener was like, bro, we got to go, bro. I think we might have to, maybe we have to get a hotel.
Cause I was driving back to tough, but we made it back. But it was actually, it was a little hairy. I actually hydroplaned a little bit twice, but not, not crazily, but just like enough that like, you're like, Oh yeah.
Wow.
Ireland doesn't get a lot of snow, so actually they don't deal with it well at all.
It's Ireland. Very rare.
I mean, we get... you get dustings. But honestly, all you need here is an inch and everything shuts down.
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