Brennans take on irish-americans and the irish diaspora, is the most balanced take on it. Irish americans can definitely be really annoying and belittling when visiting ireland, treating us like disneyland employees, on the flip side, having a genuine interest in your roots and culture is definitely something to be applauded
Yeah I think American tourists can do the "theme park" thing anywhere though. In this analogy, Irish Americans who are acting entitled are like the annual passholders who think theyre friends with castmembers just cuz theyre obsessive enough
Yeah, I see it as kinda harmless and also just heartbreaking. Imagining your ancestors coming to this new land of opportunity and facing immediate discrimination, even changing your names at intake sometimes for being “too hard to say”, so I get wanting to connect with that. Honour the sacrifices. My Irish side were migrants to Australia. They married Indigenous people and lived with them because of how bad it was in “white” society. I don’t call myself Irish anything, though.
I think the distinction is wether they claim to be irish/italian or irish-american/italian-american. In my experience, by using the first term, despite having a common origin, two fairly different cultures are being conflated, thus missing out on the richness of either. Even though saying irish-american might be a bit more cumbersome, I think it's a worthwhile trade, specially while engaging with an international audience.
I didn’t even know that the Irish-America diaspora was thought of as annoying. Then again I know little about the diaspora despite being Irish-American to begin with, so now I’m just sad and confused.
The part that's funny for me is that he seems to be much more on the agnostic side personally, but like really interested in different philsophy/religions in general. Idk it just tickles me that you usually hear about people with christian backgrounds going more skeptic than pagan families? Like obviously it happens but it's not like, A Thing cultural narrative wise
Everyone raised even slightly Irish was raised somewhat pagan. My family is Irish-American and my Irish immigrant family is VERY Irish Catholic, but we were also all raised to believe in our family fairy and traditional superstitions. We also have a strong conviction that that’s the correct spelling of “fairy” because it predates the “faerie” spelling made up in the 1800s and popularized by modern edgelords, lol. We’re also pretty prejudiced against the Wiccan religion, not because it’s anti-Christian but because it appropriates our Irish heritage, as well as Native American, Norse, and many other historic religions. My “patron saint” that my Catholic family forced on me is actually one of the Celtic goddesses. I mean, hell, Britain is named after a saint who was actually one of our goddesses. My grandma refuses to hear me when I mention how pagan we are.
He was always yours. I need to ask how ya'll let Liam O'Brien out your fingers. That man belongs in the court of Ériu, herself. In meantime, I'll get Danai back. She wandered out of Zimba.... I mean Wakanda far too long.
@@DaddyWarlocksI can't find the clip to see how he says it but I've always heard it pronounces b-yel-ten-a (then again I have a habit of crushing syllables together when speaking irish)
@@aquatis1721 From personal experience, you can regain some of it, but it requires repeatedly running 7 miles in the Southwest US at 1pm in the middle of June. You only get light-headed and almost fall over a few times. And you get to experience that cool thing where you get so hot your brain feels like it goes cold and a wave of tingling chills washes down through your body.
“you dont drink! youre not Catholic!! but youre at LEAST GONNA FIGHT” i really want a storytelling channel where brennan just goes through these old irish myths he talks about
My niece was the exact kind of little girl who'd go wandering around in her fairy wings for long treks without explanation and she's also the kind of person who'd absolutely just give a gift to a nice looking stranger and then run off. There are kids like that out there. Doesn't make the interaction any less special!
the fairie giving him the token story feels like the seal/fairy question that’s been going around tumblr. like the mental gymnastics to believe it was a fairie is way easier than trying to rationalize it being a completely unrelated tween
Tbh i feel like if it was a teen tho like? Clearly theyre interested in the Larp if theyre showing up to the site in costume right? Like wrong day not registered, maybe too shy to actually play yet but wanted to RP with One person... BUT LIKE THEN SHE WOULDVE COME BACK THOUGH its the disappearing after that makes it ambiguous for me. Like im absolutely team "she was a manic pixie dream girl not a pixie pixie" (based off location mostly lol) but STRANGE. And iconic.
I feel like you're really misrepresenting the tumblr thing by referring to it by a ''seal/fairy'' thing when it is in fact about a walrus. A walrus is a lot less likely to show up at my door than any random seal. Seals are much smaller and actually native to my country for one am i taking this too seriously? maybe. but it's fun!
3:21 If I had a nickel for every time on Make Some Noise that we saw Brennan be a really aggressive chariacture that got a bit real at the end before aggressively tapdancing,,
The opening made me BARK with laughter, and then Brennan talking about diaspora made me cry. My mom's family has passed down letters and journals from Ireland and from first fleeing to America, and very recently tracked down very distant cousins who still live there... That thing about "a lot of people who left didn't want to leave" hit hard, because that's exactly what it's always been. They wanted to be home!! It drives my (real) Irish friends nuts that Irish-Americans claim heritage without even knowing how to identify shit like the UK vs Republic of Ireland, but it's true as hell that those traditions do get passed down in a lot of families. I'm culturally American for sure, but a great deal of my family's traditions came from elsewhere. Anyway, lá fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!!
The thing about the adventure coin is that Brennan has demonstrated having such a good memory for certain things, and has been known to have favorite food places he goes back to regularly. I can totally imagine him sitting at the same table in a coffee shop from months before and just knowing that he had lost it there and suspecting where to find it. The one part of the story that freaks me out is that the girl that gave it to him didn't show up to camp the next day.
EXACTLY! Like clearly this girl loves whimsy and fantasy, TO NEVER ONCE COME TO THE ACTUAL LARP??? HMMM?????? Like the actual action itself of running up to people, giving a thing, and running away, is so Larper-coded too like ive been on the giving and receiving end of that... BUT THEN TO NEVER SHOW UP??? Like if it was a money thing that year sure but NEVER????
@@LostLifetimes Right?! Like… was she dared by some friends on summer vacation to go mess with the cute LARP boy’s head?! What is the rational explanation here?!
@@catherineelmore2004 My guess? She lived or was visiting nearby, couldn't afford to go to the camp proper, so snuck in and decided to have some fun. Its certainly an archetype of person I've known before.
@@ryanjones_rheios I know in my head that's the most plausible explanation... It's just so much more fun to think the fae were messing with teenage Brennan's head!
The 99 Questions Potato story is so funny, but not at all the most bizzare and telling story that makes the Brennan we love in that episode. Go watch it, its 4 and a half hours of Deep Brennan Lore
the cut from 40:36 to 40:37 is PEAK editing. the smash cut to the most ginger he's ever been with his beard, there's such a hilarious dissonance in Brennan's reality in that moment where it's like.. buddy. There's not an ocean big enough that makes you less Irish
i also heartily relate to when he speaks about the very real diaspora when living in america ( vs the contemporary citizens that currently live in the place you say you hail from.) theres a very real sense of belonging you get from relating to the place your great grandparents hailed from, because you're relating yourself to your family, even if its family you never got to meet. you get to feel more at home in your body, because they shared pieces of themselves so that you could exist. what's not magical about loving a place that use to be your home? there's a sort of buoyancy i get from hearing him talk about his upbringing or his mother and the wealth of knowledge that still exists about old irish mythologies. i use to want to read about those things as a kid, but the skim off the surface was still rife with catholic jumbo, and it just made me feel more alienated than when i started. listening to him talk is like a rekindling of something i always had interest in but had no way of starting
"You get to feel more at home in your body because they shared pieces of themselves so you could exist", gotta go stare at a wall for a minute DAMN wow yeah. And I feel the exact same for that last bit. Really recommend the Dúchas Archive for non-catholicized folklore. Or this channel I found recently ruclips.net/p/PLwuHsjOPtwP41VtRfmJqdRrGqYT9G8MZg&si=6nC8Rbf4nLXZIap_ Especially this video about Changelings (and the history of folklore and ableism), which is long and really fucking sad, like you Will cry even if you don't relate to it too, but the heavy topics are treated with so much empathy and the cinematography is gorgeous and I think it's like, the most important video that exists, and the fact that the algorithm hasn't deigned to favor it is obscene to me, it does NOT have enough views ruclips.net/video/s_F5VecpO-Y/видео.htmlsi=FV8D3D20rKSql6W9
@@LostLifetimes i also had to lie down after i said that bit like.. oof. really pulled from a profoundly emotional well in that moment. i could personally write a whole thesis about widespread cultural diaspora in america i think about it so often. but thank you so much for the resources! i shared them with another friend who is also interested in irish folklore! 🙂 i'll have to make time in my schedule for the changelings video because im sure i will relate to it, and i want to be properly ready (emotionally) for when i watch it! i think this has been a little missing puzzle piece in my life at the moment, where i've felt only distantly connected to my spirituality (which started as an interest in paganism), and in its absence its hard to maintain a sense of wonder for the world without the presence of whimsical folktales (which are all forms of appreciation for the whimsy innately found in nature)
@@mintmittensahhhhh this comment means SO much to me dude, I'm glad I could help in some way!! And yeahhh you definitely wanna steel yourself for that video. Like there's no graphic physical depictions of anything but it's ROUGH and imagining is bad enough... But there's moments of levity in it too for sure it's really really good can't recommend it enough
I know a lot of your videos are wrapped up in the weirdness of parasocial relationships and your whole username mentions that lol, but I just wanted to say that not only is this video extremely well made, but it's delightful, and I do think everyone should watch it. It reminds me of the Brennan food compilations where it's not about anything weird, it's just "this person is being wholesome" and it's actually very positive and nice to watch (and informative, in this case at least!). Love it! (love all your videos lol, but wanted to shout out this out 😊)
Yeah I'm trying to (mostly) pull a Lords of the Wing and "turn a new beak" or whatever with more wholesome content 😂 I'm glad it has warm fuzzy vibes though, and putting it up there with the food ones is high praise, those are the best! And thanks about the informative thing! I can't help myself from mini ted talk when the opportunity comes up lol
@@LostLifetimes you know what Izzy said on that podcast about how she likes it and she watches compilation videos.. I think that it’s an incredible service that you do, and appreciated greatly by people who love understand! (sorry for my english, it’s helped by autocomplete spelling. love from Japan 🇯🇵❤)
I have learned more about ireland and irish history than every before by watching this video. as a polish american who loves to learn, 10/10 highly recommend
Thank you! And I really recommend watching the video I linked if you wanna deep dive! Super interesting, and presented really well so it's easily digestible, doesn't feel as long as it is
There's also this channel I found when making the LOTR video because they did a video about it too, and this person does great videos on Irish folklore, I hope their channel grows it's so good ruclips.net/p/PLwuHsjOPtwP41VtRfmJqdRrGqYT9G8MZg&si=6nC8Rbf4nLXZIap_
I know that brennan as a white man doesnt experience discrimination for being Irish, but that whole potatoes bit fully read to me as a xenophobic encounter
I think it's a good illustration of the difference between institutional racism and prejudice. Anyone can be prejudiced against a group of people, with varying degrees of rationality (for example, African Americans can be prejudiced against white people, and I can understand the root of that prejudice even if I do not agree with it). However, *institutional* racism is different, because it comes with material disadvantages to the people being discriminated against. That's why there's no such thing as reverse racism - racism has the implication of the oppressing group having power over their victims. Brennan did not experience *institutional* racism - him being Irish did not materially disadvantage him in this situation. He absolutely experienced xenophobic prejudice, and even if he himself admits that the encounter didn't have any lasting effects, it also doesn't Feel Great. Like, even if you know that you'll be fine because you have privilege, it still sucks to experience, and it can be hard to process the nuance. I think Brennan expressed it really well.
@@mac_sourtbh I feel like it might be an East Coast thing too. Like I got "haha redhead" jokes in elementary school on the West Coast who cares but it was never an Irish thing specifically, except like people would all swivel their heads to look at you on St. Pat's lol but that's it. BUT on the East Coast like there's an actual History of anti-irish sentiment cuz that's where they immigrated to first?? So like I can theoretically see why some old New Yorker might Actually be xenophobic against the Irish, when that's like fully laughable to a point of surrealism on the West Coast. But also this fully is me pulling from history class shit not personal experience for both comparisons, so people on the East Coast please tell me if I'm wrong
The reason corned beef and cabbage is popular for st. Patrick's Day is because we moved to America. Bacon and Cabbage was how we celebrated originally but when we moved to America bacon was scint, the Jewish delis introduced us to corned beef. Shot out to my Jewish brothers PS: free Palestine.
Corned beef was originally also traditionally eaten in Ireland in medieval times. Then the English decided they wanted to have as much Irish beef as possible, so the Irish would raise pigs and goats and the like for themselves, thus bacon and cabbage! Max Miller actually did a great video on it.
I feel him, man. In this day and age, I could get attacked (physically or verbally) if I let it slip that I'm Jewish. Like I'm calling the fucking shots in Isreal or something. I'm just trying to live my life. But some jackass teenager might be like "FrEe SpEeCh" and commit a fucking hate crime on me outta nowhere. I'm not comparing my experience to anyone else's, just relating how I feel.
This video, for me, truly cements Brennan as a magical being. This man has it weaved into his very being, & views it in such a genuine & wondrous way. This explains why everything he crafts is so breathtaking
This made me emotional, I agree. I have this (maybe too optimistic) feeling like the Universe recognizes when people consistently put in effort to help people all the time, like the people who that's their Whole Thing, and goes "ah yes, you're responsible with this power, so here's the energy and things lining up in the right order to do what you need to do to help the most people"
There was a major union victory REALLY close after the WGA Strike D&D event he DM'd for (which was basically just a secular group ritual in my opinion) SOOOOOOO I AGREE PERSONALLY. WIZARD.
I love that it was Coke, the most stereotypically American drink 😂 Like it's very super possible that "the guy drinks Coca Cola", a lot of people like it, but its funny thinking of it like the guy going "ah shoot idk what he wants, idk if he'll like what I like, quick what do all Americans like COCA COLA"
I have watched the Unsleeping City and Ghost of St. Patrick's Day clips seperately, and I've been trying to find the first one again to point out that his ghost is also humming The Days of Kerry Dancing. I learned the first verse by heart since then and have been singing it for a week now.
the first few minutes I just listened in my kitchen and had a little giggle- but when he started telling the adventure luck charm story I stopped, went and sat outside in the garden. Felt like a kid again, what a wholesome morning- bless you!
"white American" culture tends to be mostly Racist Protestantism/WASPy so like. PLEASE let us white people living in America learn about and love our heritage outside of the colonization of Turtle Island. I know plenty of Black and Latine Americans who are fiercely proud of knowing where their great-grandparents came from, as they should be! Please let us Irish and Polish and Italian and Dutch Americans feel a fraction of that joy. I don't wanna be a nationalist ;n;
Fr I hate when people say Irish Americans aren't Irish, because it leads to "well what culture is there then, American consumerism or nationalism/racism??" Like aside from identifying with your city or state I feel like that's different, but "I'm an American" okay??? I'd much rather claim Irish heritage than "oh yeah we live here now but I grew up without grandparents who were all shitheads in the Midwest" like nooooo thank you, if I have to skip a ton of generations to do ancestor worship no fucker can stop me, it's not like I have access to real good records anyway to recent shit regardless ...
@@LostLifetimesEXACTLY, the majority of my extended family doesn't care about their past, but some of my mother's family do, and while Grandpa came from a town that started as a Dutch settlement, Gramma's parents are both Polish; my great-grandpa's parents were first gen immigrants in the 1900s, before the first World War. I've been watching D20: Unsleeping City chp2 and everything to do with Iga has made me WEEP because it reminds me of the things I never got to talk to my grandpa about. I'm missing so much of my family's past and I can't get it back and I REFUSE to turn into my father and let it all go in favor of becoming a cult member for the Republican party. I want to be part of something bigger and more beautiful and more HUMAN than "the United States of America". I am very sorry for the word-vomit I haven't been to therapy in a couple weeks and it's making me weepy and prone to infodumping
@@LostLifetimesI think it's mostly because of the specific Americans that go "I'm Irish" (and this applies to other countries/ancestries too, but I'll use Irish to keep up with this specific example) just to say it and because they think it makes them more justified to get shitfaced on a holiday, but don't actually give a shit about exploring the history or culture of the place they claim to be so connected to. They just say it because they think it makes them interesting, but ask them a single thing about Ireland that's not the modern drinking version of St. Patrick's Day and they're out. The wording is also a big thing, at least to me, you say Irish American and I think that's a lot better than just saying Irish, that one word already changes it in a big way. I'd also like to add about Brennan specifically, and maybe he was purely doing a joke there and knows it's not true, but with his track record of using bits to say what he wants to say I'm not sure, it always bothered me how much people praise his ghost of St. Patrick's Day rant as him "knowing his stuff," if you take two seconds to think about the idea of a holy man on a mission to convert people somehow leading to him murdering said people, and then look for the origin of the snake thing, none of that is very logical. But, that's ultimately up to interpretation I suppose, and I won't pretend to have seen every piece of evidence pointing in either direction, just a thought of mine.
i think personally, as a scottish person that frequently sees my culture bastardised by americans who feel like they are entitled to it, it depends on how you approach it. my main issue is when people are like “oh i’m scottish” when there is absolutely no direct link to scottish culture in their life because i think particularly with americans there is this tendency to kind of mythologise scotland and ireland particularly?? like one kind of example is hozier, who is obviously an irish singer who frequently uses his music to talk about colonialism and oppression within ireland. and something i’ve noticed is american fans especially have a tendency to write everything off as “oh he’s a fae” “oh he’s the Bog Man” and that kinda thing and it’s just. very weird. like american people very much do have a tendency ignore and write off all of the living aspects of scottish and irish culture like highland dancing and irish dancing and scots (which is its own language!) and all of the cultural things that make these places what they are NOW. but as brennan says in the video diaspora is very real- for example, there’s a large scottish population in nova scotia who do highland dancing competitions etc and that’s cool! i think the main thing is like. embracing that while there is a connection to these places that has informed your upbringing and view on life, you are not culturally connected to these places as they are now, and that’s ok! i think the communities of irish and scottish immigrants are really interesting in that there are customs and a new culture born from within that that should be embraced. and there’s nothing wrong with learning about these cultures and engaging with them to feel closer to your heritage as long as you do it respectfully and like. actually bother to learn about these places NOW lmao. i’m learning scottish gaelic and there are so many americans in the online learning groups who say stuff like “oh i’m visiting edinburgh in a few weeks, where can i go to practice my gaelic?” or “oh i’m visiting edinburgh can i order in gaelic at restaurants?” and while i really do genuinely love that people are keeping the language alive it kind of reinforces how little they know about scotland Now and the wider history. gaelic isn’t widely spoken in scotland due to colonisation from england over a period of several hundred years and that has informed the identity of scotland culturally, so again there’s that kind of disconnect between these places Now and the like mythologised “land of the faeries and bagpipes” or whatever you know? tl;dr- you are not entitled to these cultures, because they’re not just an idea of where you came from but a living breathing culture that people still participate in. if you don’t do the work to actually understand them as they are NOW, the people from that place WILL think you’re ridiculous and a cunt. learn about them in a RESPECTFUL manner and understand that you are generations removed from these cultures which does mean you will have a different understanding and knowledge of them, and there will be things you need to learn about them that will differ from your understanding.
@@eric_the_egggremlin dont apologize for long comments! Im a fellow member of the Loquatious League i get it. I wish people wanted to read. Now you gotta read through a comment 3 times and take out any filler words and make it short as possible if you want people to not auto respond with "ew youre too emotional" THERE SIMPLY IS MUCH TO SAY OKAY. I'm really glad you're getting that out of the USC2 story 💜
So, when I was younger, I was learning Gaelic to get in touch with my Irish and Scottish roots, I also learned the tin whistle just because I like the music anyways I was working at a summer camp one summer and I decided to just convince all the kids that I was Irish for no good reason other than to play a joke on the last day, where I started playing Celtic music, and had it slowly transition to baby shark.
I’m not Irish or American, but this video made me realise how important are all those little traditions, tales and fairytales from my culture and childhood. I will never stop leaving food for home spirits or forget the recipes with foraged food and will try my best to find more real information about it. Thank you for making this ❤
@@LostLifetimesOh yeah, that too. In my country the knowledge was mostly eradicated by the church, you know how it’s is. We don’t have any written records of gods or belief systems that were really old, it was all replaced and consumed by Christianity. But we still have mythology about “demons” and spirits, that were passed down through oral tradition and fairy tales. It’s almost more important to know, bc it came from regular working people, villagers, farmers and folks alike. I recently found a book that is written by a linguist with direct quotes that he got from visiting old villages and speaking with people there. It’s amazing, I continued reading it today after your video!
Yeah the church definitely was the source of all that. In America tho the church and capitalism are (hot take Apparently) often one and the same, they evade taxes too. Im not saying it's ~all connected with the media and the church~ or something (mostly...), but it's more of a subconscious thing? Idk these are thoughts I've had simmering in the back of my brain but don't have good words for. And I'm so excited for you! What's the book?
I agree so much with Brennans take on the diaspora and the complicated relationship between irish americans and irish people. I'm Irish myself and there are shitheads on both sides of that divide. But every time he says bell-tayn or bod-ran i want to tear my fucking skin off... (Bealtaine is promounced b'yowl-tin-ah and is an important irish pagan festival, important enough that we use the name for the whole month. Its about spring and life renewing. A bodhrán is a hand drum and is pronounced bow-rawn)
I've always been deeply envious of people who were raised with such a strong connection to their heritage, because my parents were always the type that considered themselves Americans and not much else. Even my Jewish roots were always kept at arms length, and I never really felt any connection to them beyond cousins barmitzvahs and a few facetime seder dinners. Not having that can leave someone with a love of culture and heritage feeling lost and adrift in the world.
The tragedy of growing up primed with tales of prophecies where good triumphs over evil then coming to full adult consciousness in the real world and finding out that it’s not all set in stone (like a sword)… so scary and heartbreaking!!
I wish I had a connection with my Irish ancestry, but my family emigrated from Ireland so many generations ago that even my dad doesn't have a connection to it. It was pre-potato "famine". They moved here, named the place I've lived most of my life after the area they came from in Ireland, and have basically stayed in this same place for since
This video is gineunely fascinating. As a Scottish Australian who only truly learned that about myself recently and has surprisingly complex feelings about it.
Juxtaposing his talk of being Irish American on podcasts to video calls where his skin is literally #FFFFFF is almost a religious experience. I love it.
It's so, so important to know and honor where you come from. For most of us in the US, we're descended from immigrants who belonged to other cultures that they were either forced to forget or tried to hold onto but they still lost parts over time. Especially since American culture is as prominent as it is, it's so important for white folks to be proud of their heritage too
(I feel the need to apologize?? For commenting several times?? I can't explain myself But) Looked over this before somehow, the fact that his character RESURRECTED A BASILISK with 'Finnegan's Wake',, I love it so much *Eta: 36:05
I took a DNA test. im roughly half irish but feel so out of water when wanting to connect with my culture because i have no living ancestors who actually lived in Ireland.
honestly 😂 listening to that story I had to remind myself "don't get emotional about this guys say way worse to their actual friends in COD chatrooms, sometimes in these kind of bro-y work environments if you don't get teased it's actually the real problem cuz then it means people think you can't take a joke/hang" dghjgfhdjkssh But either way it's Definitely not appropriate for the workplace or okay in general
@@LostLifetimes No but with me being ND, like a good seven times out of ten, that disconnect between someone just joking around with me at my own expense and someone actually, genuinely trying to single me out and make me feel like shit, that doesn’t exist for me unless someone’s being explicitly clear about that before hand. But flinging mashed potatoes at my face and calling me a “shitty Irish prick” in front of everyone just for everyone to turn around to laugh at me? I’m going to have the reaction I think is necessary, regardless of my ND status
@@grumboflipflorp5688 oh yeah i agree you'd be rightfully upset (i too am autistic if thats not already abundantly clear by my typing style/general obsessiveness). This is one of those moments where I'd be like "hahaha so funny guys" in the moment then cry in the bathroom where nobody could know hfdkgfdhjka. But like god forbid you show that though, then the kind of people who would do the joke in the first place at best go "ugh you can't take a joke nevermind," at worst they pick up on it like blood in the water... But at the same time I have to be like, okay but wait am I overreacting viewing this through a female friendships lens though, cuz this kind of shit is WAY more common with male friendships.... But then it's like this isn't friends though it's work, it should be professional.... but some industries (like working as a PA on some film sets) do some light hazing shit, I don't get it. But at least it's not personal I guess if they're like that to everyone??? Still would feel cagey like i was always being judged though, which would make it way harder to work without overwhelm. So yeah it definitely wasn't appropriate, but I think "pretend it's fine and move on" can work if they know they can't get a rise out of you it isn't fun anymore. It kinda feels like a posturing thing too tbh, like what I would Want to do in that situation is just take a handful of the potatoes they flung and smush it directly into their face like a wedding cake prank video. If we're going childlike food fight foolishness then we're DOING THIS. But then you have to worry about legal shit like "oh well the other person started it first, but they didnt actually physically touch you just the food, but you put your hands on them even gently you're in the wrong" so. Exhausting idk. I'd probably actually just make dead eye contact with them as i shove a handful in my mouth instead like "oh thank you for the extras, all according to plan, you cant humiliate me i'm staring you in the eyes i have bigger balls than you" idk
also autistic here. I would be too shocked and hurt to react I think. but my gd listening to the other guy laugh made me start crying. it's very confusing how some people think being mean is funny.
@@eric_the_egggremlinyeah it's definitely not funny tbh... Basically I'm saying I can see why Brennan was chill about it cuz it's easier, but it's Definitely Not Right in general especially in a work environment, and I don't get why some industries have a weird frat bro mentality sometimes
The "Ghost of St. Patrick's Day's Past" is so fucking funny. Making a grand, ghostly spooky entrance, and the very first thing they say is, "...Roight!"
I am extremely skeptic, in most things. Faefolk is the one area in which I’m superstitious. There’s no particular reasoning, and it’s not like I’m conspiracy theory level spouting off about it, it’s just… I will always be a little more observant and a little more cautious in situations that could pertain to that. It certainly can’t hurt.
Honestly I feel like "accept hospitality don't look a gift horse in the mouth, tread lightly and respectfully through nature and walk quickly if it's dark and don't take things without leaving something (biodegradable) in return" is just good manners tbh, like even if the fae folk can't show up in our realm or whatever it's still just good behavior overall?
Two reasons I adore him, one i could use the name Caoimhe in a dnd game with him and second... i too troll people as an obviously Irish American person and my weird ablity to consume an absurd amount of potatoes out of spite.
I absolutely love and agree with brennan’s perspectives here. except I was raised catholic and have a very complicated relationship with it as a second gen catholic irish american. I love irish folklore traditions and believe in the magic to the same level as brennan. this video ended to the second that I arrived at work and I think that’s a little bit of the magic lol!!!
Even though it was told in jest, that story about the mashed potatoes genuinely made me sick. Even though it’s not obvious, discrimination against the Irish still exists. The amount of times I’ve been told to repeat something because my accent is funny, or offered “spuds” to eat or I’ve been told to do an “Gaelic” jig is insane. Even last year at the Oscar’s, the amount of people taking the piss out of Banshees of Inisherin for being an Irish movie was ridiculous. And don’t get me started on the amount of people who’ve insisted on mispronouncing Cillian Murphy and Saoirse Ronan, let alone the ones who claim them as British. Eirophobic sentiment is very normalised in popular culture and it needs to be talked about more.
Yeah, I think it's weird cuz you get the double edged sword of that kind of stuff, but then if you take it seriously "duh it's a joke omg you can't be racist against white people", which like yeah true, but this isn't exactly racism it's xenophobia... Don't get me started on the sexualization and bullying of redheads... Idk it just sucks that every time you bring up the (admittedly way less common) prejudice it always has to come with a "but of course other people have it worse" disclaimer so people don't have a "oh boo hoo whitey" auto response. But also I HATE when white people overstate this to justify actual racism, like the "hurrdurr but Irish slavery", like bro indentured servitude truly was NOT the worst thing Irish people went through, and certainly nowhere near chattel slavery.... But they go on about that instead of any of the actual colonialist shit the UK did
Weird thing is, the pagans being "snakes" doesn't really make sense contextually from what I can tell. Like, sure thats what the analogy became because of motifs common to christianity, but ireland didn't have any snake gods I can seem to track. Scotland did. The standing stones on the islands are usually covered in either pictish symbols, or ogham. Ogham comes in all flavors of surviving celtic language, but pictish symbiology seems to specific to those Cruithni (Brythonic) tribes driven north by the Romans, they are the stones that have snake symbols sometimes. So if anything its the brittish half of scots that are "the snakes" that would be associated with snakes. In fact, I know there is one seer that prophecies there would be a good land with no snakes. I think its an alternate version of there being a "fat land", so if anything NOT having snakes was a feature. Barring sea and lake serpents.
@LostLifetimes Check out Monstrum for a start point. Dr Emily gives some good starting points to the history. Also good old Blue from OSDP. From there ah there is so much to enjoy.
I've never seen Brennan talking about any form of spiritual beliefs. I've always respected how much he clearly respects all cultures and religions. Well... idk, maybe Catholics get grief. I wish that was just default (the acceptance part, not the grief), and not something that makes more sense when I hear his background. Of course, it's never not cool to hear one of your favorite creators echoing a lot of your own viewpoints. It's really validating. And hearing him talk about a triple goddess, without it being fiction, per se, is just refreshing to see in a just mainstream environment... or comparatively mainstream to pagan culture.
21:52 my mom had a similar experience. she had an argument with her brother about God and it bothered her a lot. that day there was a lot loud knocking at the front door and no one was answering it. so she went and there was a small and frail old woman that handed her a bookmark (i dont remember if she said anything) and after that my mom closed the door looked down and noticed it said believe (some kind of jesus thing) so she threw open the door again to speak to the woman and didnt see her anywhere. not walking away from the house not walking down the road no car pulling away nothing.this was a dead end road and it wasnt a neighbor or anyone she knew. idk if she still have that book mark or not but that is definitely a strange interaction
Tbh that just sounds like an opportunistic Jehovah's Witness way more than anything supernatural 😂 the "and then she was gone" is spooky though. But the fact that it's a bookmark specifically gives human more than angel 😂 but who am I to know right?
@@LostLifetimes fair yeah lmao. bc of my Christian/catholic upbringing, I can't help but wonder if maybe that was, Jo, her guardian angel (that's the name she uses when referring to her guardian angel bc she went to a spiritual thing and the lady told her that her guardian angel's name was Jo. we are of the belief that angel's have no gender btw and take human forms to comfort us when they choose to appear lmao)
so like from that stand point, it makes sense why my mom as a kid saw a sweet old lady who has a loud ass knock no one else heard and seemingly disappeared into thin air
The Irish-American in me hangs out in the same bar as the Irish-American in Brennan. 😂 I also love him so much for bringing awareness to the fact that St Patrick was murdering our pagan ancestors.
im that stereotypical white american, but im not proud of it. i am deeply deeply sad my family has basically no culture at all. my ancestors mostly came from germany back in the 1800s and retained absolutely nothing of that into the 20th century. the US is a melting pot of a sort but to me it feels more like a cultural blackhole.
Yeah that last part is true. I feel like the only non-immigrant culture America as a whole has is entertainment or nature-based, or individualized microcosms based around cities/classes/etc. We As A Nation™️ have really mastered the "art" of giving people just enough subjects to talk about to their family at the dinner table without actually talking about anything. "How was work, how was school, hey did you see the episode of ___?" Mastered using media discourse as a shield against (or proxy for) having to bring up your own actual vulnerability in conversation.... (But also this is fully me talking from a "white person with a complicated family background but the one time there is guaranteed peace is a Shared Activity Or Thing We Can Talk About That's Not The Elephant In The Room" perspective SOOOO PERHAPS I AM SIMPLY PROJECTINGGGG)
if u look at my watch time for this, I happened to pause shortly after the fairy coin story, and while my ass was all like "fucking lol mythos bs" the tempered glass side pannel to my pc fucking exploded and launched shards of glass upwards of like 2m across my room, somehow not damaging any components, what the fuck irish magic bullshit just happened
Yknow, I feel kinda like that mash potato story proves that there is still a little bit of discrimination against the Irish in the modern day since that is. like. objectively a hate crime???
Yeah, at the very least it's bullying in the workplace. Like even if the prejudice against Irish people is a joke/historical anachronism, the action playing off it is still fucked up fr
I will put this here, but the St. Patrick killed pagans in Ireland in a common myth, and one that I fell for back when I was pagan myself. There is no historical or anthropological evidence of it. There is, in fact, mentions of druids in a King's court 77 years after St. Patrick's death, in the account of High King Muirchertach Mac Muiredaig (died 534 CE). The idea that snakes were a euphemism for pagans is BS, when the sources are talking about druids, they say druids! Expelling dangerous animals from the land is also common in Irish Saint myths
I’m an Irish-American, I’ve never been very in touch with Irish culture, but I’ve also never been proud to be American in my life. But lately I’ve felt a really strong desire to get more in touch with my roots, and having this compilation of someone I look up to talking about Irish culture is honestly super meaningful to me.
Happy St. Patricks everybody 🇮🇪💚☘🌈
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🌈Unsleeping City AP ep2: 0:12:-0:24
☘Adventuring Academy s4e4: 0:24-0:35
🌈FHJY AP ep5: 0:35-0:53
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☘Unsleeping City ep 9: 1:35-2:18
🌈Make Some Noise s1e8: 2:18-3:22
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☘Of Mice & Murder AP ep6: 10:57-11:33
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☘FHJY AP ep8: 12:46-13:36
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☘Adventuring Academy s3e5: 28:13-28:46
🌈ACOC AP ep5: 28:46-29:40
☘Neverafter AP ep11: 29:40-31:20
🌈Game Changer s6e1: 31:20-31:28
☘Adventuring Academy s3e3: 33:25-33:48
🌈FHJY AP ep10: 34:19-34:30
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☘Ravening War AP ep6: 40:34-41:29
I love the quick glimpses into Brennan's hippy childhood. Like, "oh, you're THAT homeschool kid." 🤣 But also, wow, what a world view.
Me too
Brennans take on irish-americans and the irish diaspora, is the most balanced take on it. Irish americans can definitely be really annoying and belittling when visiting ireland, treating us like disneyland employees, on the flip side, having a genuine interest in your roots and culture is definitely something to be applauded
Yeah I think American tourists can do the "theme park" thing anywhere though. In this analogy, Irish Americans who are acting entitled are like the annual passholders who think theyre friends with castmembers just cuz theyre obsessive enough
Yeah, I see it as kinda harmless and also just heartbreaking. Imagining your ancestors coming to this new land of opportunity and facing immediate discrimination, even changing your names at intake sometimes for being “too hard to say”, so I get wanting to connect with that. Honour the sacrifices.
My Irish side were migrants to Australia. They married Indigenous people and lived with them because of how bad it was in “white” society. I don’t call myself Irish anything, though.
I've never met an Irish person who likes their American relatives. They will tolerate them to be polite, but they do not like them.
I think the distinction is wether they claim to be irish/italian or irish-american/italian-american. In my experience, by using the first term, despite having a common origin, two fairly different cultures are being conflated, thus missing out on the richness of either.
Even though saying irish-american might be a bit more cumbersome, I think it's a worthwhile trade, specially while engaging with an international audience.
I didn’t even know that the Irish-America diaspora was thought of as annoying. Then again I know little about the diaspora despite being Irish-American to begin with, so now I’m just sad and confused.
The fact that Brennan was apparently raised *Pagan* is truely wild and makes absolute sense.
The part that's funny for me is that he seems to be much more on the agnostic side personally, but like really interested in different philsophy/religions in general. Idk it just tickles me that you usually hear about people with christian backgrounds going more skeptic than pagan families? Like obviously it happens but it's not like, A Thing cultural narrative wise
Everyone raised even slightly Irish was raised somewhat pagan. My family is Irish-American and my Irish immigrant family is VERY Irish Catholic, but we were also all raised to believe in our family fairy and traditional superstitions. We also have a strong conviction that that’s the correct spelling of “fairy” because it predates the “faerie” spelling made up in the 1800s and popularized by modern edgelords, lol. We’re also pretty prejudiced against the Wiccan religion, not because it’s anti-Christian but because it appropriates our Irish heritage, as well as Native American, Norse, and many other historic religions. My “patron saint” that my Catholic family forced on me is actually one of the Celtic goddesses. I mean, hell, Britain is named after a saint who was actually one of our goddesses. My grandma refuses to hear me when I mention how pagan we are.
from Ireland, he said Sláinte right so we're taking him back actually, he's one of ours now (but god almighty those fucking accents)
He was always yours.
I need to ask how ya'll let Liam O'Brien out your fingers. That man belongs in the court of Ériu, herself.
In meantime, I'll get Danai back. She wandered out of Zimba.... I mean Wakanda far too long.
But his Bealtaine pronunciation though… 😬 regardless, yes, we accept him as one of us 😂
@@Bec13I think it's the American in him, the pronunciation of some names is INTERESTING 😀
@@Bec13I love this, how do you actually pronounce it?
@@DaddyWarlocksI can't find the clip to see how he says it but I've always heard it pronounces b-yel-ten-a (then again I have a habit of crushing syllables together when speaking irish)
"Where I really went wrong, so at craft services there was this mashed potato"
NO BRENNAN YOU CANT NO WAIT NO MY BOY
That was me with the "I felt I needed to explain myself" thing, like noooo that only ever draws attention to you and digs the hole deeper nonononono
did you charge him? charge him
this is a man who'd be visited by the ghost of st. patrick's day's past
Want to like this comment but it's at the funny number so just know you have my like
@@weaselwolf your doing gods work
i love the fact that his irish accent is the same as his pirate accent
I mean pirate speak is just an Irish accent with a bit of grit
Like mechanically it's the same voice, you've just been yelling all day
i think brennan would approve of this being the way we celebrate st paddy’s
I think being built like an Irishman still doesn't give you endurance in the sweltering heat.
Most Northern European ancestries grant a perk for +50% cold resist but -50% fire resist.
It specifically removes whatever heat tolerance you otherwise would have
@@aquatis1721 From personal experience, you can regain some of it, but it requires repeatedly running 7 miles in the Southwest US at 1pm in the middle of June. You only get light-headed and almost fall over a few times. And you get to experience that cool thing where you get so hot your brain feels like it goes cold and a wave of tingling chills washes down through your body.
@@ryanjones_rheios I think that's called 'hyperthermia' and you should go to a doctor (/lh)
As an irishman he gets the pass for being irish american. He can do a better accent than me, and he can pronounce sláinte properly so
imagine if he did a kerry accent
“you dont drink! youre not Catholic!! but youre at LEAST GONNA FIGHT”
i really want a storytelling channel where brennan just goes through these old irish myths he talks about
My niece was the exact kind of little girl who'd go wandering around in her fairy wings for long treks without explanation and she's also the kind of person who'd absolutely just give a gift to a nice looking stranger and then run off. There are kids like that out there. Doesn't make the interaction any less special!
the fairie giving him the token story feels like the seal/fairy question that’s been going around tumblr. like the mental gymnastics to believe it was a fairie is way easier than trying to rationalize it being a completely unrelated tween
Tbh i feel like if it was a teen tho like? Clearly theyre interested in the Larp if theyre showing up to the site in costume right? Like wrong day not registered, maybe too shy to actually play yet but wanted to RP with One person... BUT LIKE THEN SHE WOULDVE COME BACK THOUGH its the disappearing after that makes it ambiguous for me.
Like im absolutely team "she was a manic pixie dream girl not a pixie pixie" (based off location mostly lol) but STRANGE. And iconic.
I feel like you're really misrepresenting the tumblr thing by referring to it by a ''seal/fairy'' thing when it is in fact about a walrus. A walrus is a lot less likely to show up at my door than any random seal. Seals are much smaller and actually native to my country for one
am i taking this too seriously? maybe. but it's fun!
@@Eldariel15 oh so true,, i misremembered it. and where i live it would be equally strange for either a walrus or a seal to be anywhere near me
@@Eldariel15 thank you for explaining the Tumblr thing cuz I was clueless 😂
@@LostLifetimes What if there's a woman from NY who doesn't talk about it, but is sure she gave a leprechaun a coin one day when she was a teenager?🤯
3:21 If I had a nickel for every time on Make Some Noise that we saw Brennan be a really aggressive chariacture that got a bit real at the end before aggressively tapdancing,,
The opening made me BARK with laughter, and then Brennan talking about diaspora made me cry. My mom's family has passed down letters and journals from Ireland and from first fleeing to America, and very recently tracked down very distant cousins who still live there... That thing about "a lot of people who left didn't want to leave" hit hard, because that's exactly what it's always been. They wanted to be home!! It drives my (real) Irish friends nuts that Irish-Americans claim heritage without even knowing how to identify shit like the UK vs Republic of Ireland, but it's true as hell that those traditions do get passed down in a lot of families. I'm culturally American for sure, but a great deal of my family's traditions came from elsewhere.
Anyway, lá fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!!
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The thing about the adventure coin is that Brennan has demonstrated having such a good memory for certain things, and has been known to have favorite food places he goes back to regularly. I can totally imagine him sitting at the same table in a coffee shop from months before and just knowing that he had lost it there and suspecting where to find it. The one part of the story that freaks me out is that the girl that gave it to him didn't show up to camp the next day.
EXACTLY! Like clearly this girl loves whimsy and fantasy, TO NEVER ONCE COME TO THE ACTUAL LARP??? HMMM??????
Like the actual action itself of running up to people, giving a thing, and running away, is so Larper-coded too like ive been on the giving and receiving end of that... BUT THEN TO NEVER SHOW UP??? Like if it was a money thing that year sure but NEVER????
@@LostLifetimes Right?! Like… was she dared by some friends on summer vacation to go mess with the cute LARP boy’s head?! What is the rational explanation here?!
@@catherineelmore2004 My guess? She lived or was visiting nearby, couldn't afford to go to the camp proper, so snuck in and decided to have some fun. Its certainly an archetype of person I've known before.
@@ryanjones_rheios I know in my head that's the most plausible explanation... It's just so much more fun to think the fae were messing with teenage Brennan's head!
@@catherineelmore2004 I almost invite you to. I'm a human wet-blanket is all.
the earnest with which brennan tells the faerie coin story makes me believe him
The 99 Questions Potato story is so funny, but not at all the most bizzare and telling story that makes the Brennan we love in that episode. Go watch it, its 4 and a half hours of Deep Brennan Lore
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@@LostLifetimes I've listened to that episode alone 3 or 4 times. It's so damn good.
I could listen to this man talk for hours, or at least 42 minutes straight apparently.
The 99Questions podcast in here is 4 hours soooooo don't let your dreams be memes
the cut from 40:36 to 40:37 is PEAK editing. the smash cut to the most ginger he's ever been with his beard, there's such a hilarious dissonance in Brennan's reality in that moment where it's like.. buddy. There's not an ocean big enough that makes you less Irish
i also heartily relate to when he speaks about the very real diaspora when living in america ( vs the contemporary citizens that currently live in the place you say you hail from.) theres a very real sense of belonging you get from relating to the place your great grandparents hailed from, because you're relating yourself to your family, even if its family you never got to meet. you get to feel more at home in your body, because they shared pieces of themselves so that you could exist. what's not magical about loving a place that use to be your home?
there's a sort of buoyancy i get from hearing him talk about his upbringing or his mother and the wealth of knowledge that still exists about old irish mythologies. i use to want to read about those things as a kid, but the skim off the surface was still rife with catholic jumbo, and it just made me feel more alienated than when i started. listening to him talk is like a rekindling of something i always had interest in but had no way of starting
"You get to feel more at home in your body because they shared pieces of themselves so you could exist", gotta go stare at a wall for a minute DAMN wow yeah.
And I feel the exact same for that last bit. Really recommend the Dúchas Archive for non-catholicized folklore. Or this channel I found recently ruclips.net/p/PLwuHsjOPtwP41VtRfmJqdRrGqYT9G8MZg&si=6nC8Rbf4nLXZIap_
Especially this video about Changelings (and the history of folklore and ableism), which is long and really fucking sad, like you Will cry even if you don't relate to it too, but the heavy topics are treated with so much empathy and the cinematography is gorgeous and I think it's like, the most important video that exists, and the fact that the algorithm hasn't deigned to favor it is obscene to me, it does NOT have enough views
ruclips.net/video/s_F5VecpO-Y/видео.htmlsi=FV8D3D20rKSql6W9
@@LostLifetimes i also had to lie down after i said that bit like.. oof. really pulled from a profoundly emotional well in that moment. i could personally write a whole thesis about widespread cultural diaspora in america i think about it so often.
but thank you so much for the resources! i shared them with another friend who is also interested in irish folklore! 🙂 i'll have to make time in my schedule for the changelings video because im sure i will relate to it, and i want to be properly ready (emotionally) for when i watch it!
i think this has been a little missing puzzle piece in my life at the moment, where i've felt only distantly connected to my spirituality (which started as an interest in paganism), and in its absence its hard to maintain a sense of wonder for the world without the presence of whimsical folktales (which are all forms of appreciation for the whimsy innately found in nature)
@@mintmittensahhhhh this comment means SO much to me dude, I'm glad I could help in some way!! And yeahhh you definitely wanna steel yourself for that video. Like there's no graphic physical depictions of anything but it's ROUGH and imagining is bad enough... But there's moments of levity in it too for sure it's really really good can't recommend it enough
8:28 Ahhh, the kryptonite of any true irishman; potatoes
Him and Izzy are a match made in heaven for many reasons, but definitely the latkes too
I know a lot of your videos are wrapped up in the weirdness of parasocial relationships and your whole username mentions that lol, but I just wanted to say that not only is this video extremely well made, but it's delightful, and I do think everyone should watch it. It reminds me of the Brennan food compilations where it's not about anything weird, it's just "this person is being wholesome" and it's actually very positive and nice to watch (and informative, in this case at least!). Love it! (love all your videos lol, but wanted to shout out this out 😊)
Yeah I'm trying to (mostly) pull a Lords of the Wing and "turn a new beak" or whatever with more wholesome content 😂 I'm glad it has warm fuzzy vibes though, and putting it up there with the food ones is high praise, those are the best! And thanks about the informative thing! I can't help myself from mini ted talk when the opportunity comes up lol
@@LostLifetimes you know what Izzy said on that podcast about how she likes it and she watches compilation videos.. I think that it’s an incredible service that you do, and appreciated greatly by people who love understand!
(sorry for my english, it’s helped by autocomplete spelling. love from Japan 🇯🇵❤)
@@lil_archive
that fairy/lucky coin story is among the craziest things i've ever heard
I have learned more about ireland and irish history than every before by watching this video. as a polish american who loves to learn, 10/10 highly recommend
Thank you! And I really recommend watching the video I linked if you wanna deep dive! Super interesting, and presented really well so it's easily digestible, doesn't feel as long as it is
There's also this channel I found when making the LOTR video because they did a video about it too, and this person does great videos on Irish folklore, I hope their channel grows it's so good
ruclips.net/p/PLwuHsjOPtwP41VtRfmJqdRrGqYT9G8MZg&si=6nC8Rbf4nLXZIap_
@@LostLifetimes oooo thank you so much!!! this is gonna keep my mythology hunger filled for a long time :)
@@sofiakaye702
I know that brennan as a white man doesnt experience discrimination for being Irish, but that whole potatoes bit fully read to me as a xenophobic encounter
I think it's a good illustration of the difference between institutional racism and prejudice. Anyone can be prejudiced against a group of people, with varying degrees of rationality (for example, African Americans can be prejudiced against white people, and I can understand the root of that prejudice even if I do not agree with it). However, *institutional* racism is different, because it comes with material disadvantages to the people being discriminated against. That's why there's no such thing as reverse racism - racism has the implication of the oppressing group having power over their victims.
Brennan did not experience *institutional* racism - him being Irish did not materially disadvantage him in this situation. He absolutely experienced xenophobic prejudice, and even if he himself admits that the encounter didn't have any lasting effects, it also doesn't Feel Great. Like, even if you know that you'll be fine because you have privilege, it still sucks to experience, and it can be hard to process the nuance. I think Brennan expressed it really well.
@@mac_sourtbh I feel like it might be an East Coast thing too. Like I got "haha redhead" jokes in elementary school on the West Coast who cares but it was never an Irish thing specifically, except like people would all swivel their heads to look at you on St. Pat's lol but that's it. BUT on the East Coast like there's an actual History of anti-irish sentiment cuz that's where they immigrated to first?? So like I can theoretically see why some old New Yorker might Actually be xenophobic against the Irish, when that's like fully laughable to a point of surrealism on the West Coast.
But also this fully is me pulling from history class shit not personal experience for both comparisons, so people on the East Coast please tell me if I'm wrong
"Tippety-Ta-Ti-Ta!"
The reason corned beef and cabbage is popular for st. Patrick's Day is because we moved to America. Bacon and Cabbage was how we celebrated originally but when we moved to America bacon was scint, the Jewish delis introduced us to corned beef. Shot out to my Jewish brothers
PS: free Palestine.
Corned beef was originally also traditionally eaten in Ireland in medieval times. Then the English decided they wanted to have as much Irish beef as possible, so the Irish would raise pigs and goats and the like for themselves, thus bacon and cabbage! Max Miller actually did a great video on it.
Lechaim brother!
I feel him, man. In this day and age, I could get attacked (physically or verbally) if I let it slip that I'm Jewish. Like I'm calling the fucking shots in Isreal or something. I'm just trying to live my life. But some jackass teenager might be like "FrEe SpEeCh" and commit a fucking hate crime on me outta nowhere. I'm not comparing my experience to anyone else's, just relating how I feel.
Hey guys, I might be wrong...but I think this guy might be Irish.
This is beautiful thank you for compiling! Happy St Paddy’s 🍀
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This video, for me, truly cements Brennan as a magical being. This man has it weaved into his very being, & views it in such a genuine & wondrous way. This explains why everything he crafts is so breathtaking
This made me emotional, I agree. I have this (maybe too optimistic) feeling like the Universe recognizes when people consistently put in effort to help people all the time, like the people who that's their Whole Thing, and goes "ah yes, you're responsible with this power, so here's the energy and things lining up in the right order to do what you need to do to help the most people"
Ok, so like guys, is Brennan *actually* magic?
There was a major union victory REALLY close after the WGA Strike D&D event he DM'd for (which was basically just a secular group ritual in my opinion) SOOOOOOO I AGREE PERSONALLY. WIZARD.
For any non-Irish, the Bealtaine festivals that Breenan mentions are actually pronounced Be-owl-ten-ah not bell-tain
The “two glass bottles of Coca Cola” is such a lovely Irish magic moment lol
I love that it was Coke, the most stereotypically American drink 😂
Like it's very super possible that "the guy drinks Coca Cola", a lot of people like it, but its funny thinking of it like the guy going "ah shoot idk what he wants, idk if he'll like what I like, quick what do all Americans like COCA COLA"
I have watched the Unsleeping City and Ghost of St. Patrick's Day clips seperately, and I've been trying to find the first one again to point out that his ghost is also humming The Days of Kerry Dancing. I learned the first verse by heart since then and have been singing it for a week now.
the first few minutes I just listened in my kitchen and had a little giggle- but when he started telling the adventure luck charm story I stopped, went and sat outside in the garden. Felt like a kid again, what a wholesome morning- bless you!
"he's built and he's smiling" and we love that about him
This is genuinely a perspective-changing video
Ahh im glad 💚
I could have listened to another hour of this Brennan has such mirth and humble magic.
"white American" culture tends to be mostly Racist Protestantism/WASPy so like. PLEASE let us white people living in America learn about and love our heritage outside of the colonization of Turtle Island. I know plenty of Black and Latine Americans who are fiercely proud of knowing where their great-grandparents came from, as they should be! Please let us Irish and Polish and Italian and Dutch Americans feel a fraction of that joy. I don't wanna be a nationalist ;n;
Fr I hate when people say Irish Americans aren't Irish, because it leads to "well what culture is there then, American consumerism or nationalism/racism??" Like aside from identifying with your city or state I feel like that's different, but "I'm an American" okay???
I'd much rather claim Irish heritage than "oh yeah we live here now but I grew up without grandparents who were all shitheads in the Midwest" like nooooo thank you, if I have to skip a ton of generations to do ancestor worship no fucker can stop me, it's not like I have access to real good records anyway to recent shit regardless ...
@@LostLifetimesEXACTLY, the majority of my extended family doesn't care about their past, but some of my mother's family do, and while Grandpa came from a town that started as a Dutch settlement, Gramma's parents are both Polish; my great-grandpa's parents were first gen immigrants in the 1900s, before the first World War. I've been watching D20: Unsleeping City chp2 and everything to do with Iga has made me WEEP because it reminds me of the things I never got to talk to my grandpa about. I'm missing so much of my family's past and I can't get it back and I REFUSE to turn into my father and let it all go in favor of becoming a cult member for the Republican party. I want to be part of something bigger and more beautiful and more HUMAN than "the United States of America".
I am very sorry for the word-vomit I haven't been to therapy in a couple weeks and it's making me weepy and prone to infodumping
@@LostLifetimesI think it's mostly because of the specific Americans that go "I'm Irish" (and this applies to other countries/ancestries too, but I'll use Irish to keep up with this specific example) just to say it and because they think it makes them more justified to get shitfaced on a holiday, but don't actually give a shit about exploring the history or culture of the place they claim to be so connected to. They just say it because they think it makes them interesting, but ask them a single thing about Ireland that's not the modern drinking version of St. Patrick's Day and they're out.
The wording is also a big thing, at least to me, you say Irish American and I think that's a lot better than just saying Irish, that one word already changes it in a big way.
I'd also like to add about Brennan specifically, and maybe he was purely doing a joke there and knows it's not true, but with his track record of using bits to say what he wants to say I'm not sure, it always bothered me how much people praise his ghost of St. Patrick's Day rant as him "knowing his stuff," if you take two seconds to think about the idea of a holy man on a mission to convert people somehow leading to him murdering said people, and then look for the origin of the snake thing, none of that is very logical. But, that's ultimately up to interpretation I suppose, and I won't pretend to have seen every piece of evidence pointing in either direction, just a thought of mine.
i think personally, as a scottish person that frequently sees my culture bastardised by americans who feel like they are entitled to it, it depends on how you approach it. my main issue is when people are like “oh i’m scottish” when there is absolutely no direct link to scottish culture in their life because i think particularly with americans there is this tendency to kind of mythologise scotland and ireland particularly?? like one kind of example is hozier, who is obviously an irish singer who frequently uses his music to talk about colonialism and oppression within ireland. and something i’ve noticed is american fans especially have a tendency to write everything off as “oh he’s a fae” “oh he’s the Bog Man” and that kinda thing and it’s just. very weird. like american people very much do have a tendency ignore and write off all of the living aspects of scottish and irish culture like highland dancing and irish dancing and scots (which is its own language!) and all of the cultural things that make these places what they are NOW. but as brennan says in the video diaspora is very real- for example, there’s a large scottish population in nova scotia who do highland dancing competitions etc and that’s cool! i think the main thing is like. embracing that while there is a connection to these places that has informed your upbringing and view on life, you are not culturally connected to these places as they are now, and that’s ok! i think the communities of irish and scottish immigrants are really interesting in that there are customs and a new culture born from within that that should be embraced. and there’s nothing wrong with learning about these cultures and engaging with them to feel closer to your heritage as long as you do it respectfully and like. actually bother to learn about these places NOW lmao. i’m learning scottish gaelic and there are so many americans in the online learning groups who say stuff like “oh i’m visiting edinburgh in a few weeks, where can i go to practice my gaelic?” or “oh i’m visiting edinburgh can i order in gaelic at restaurants?” and while i really do genuinely love that people are keeping the language alive it kind of reinforces how little they know about scotland Now and the wider history. gaelic isn’t widely spoken in scotland due to colonisation from england over a period of several hundred years and that has informed the identity of scotland culturally, so again there’s that kind of disconnect between these places Now and the like mythologised “land of the faeries and bagpipes” or whatever you know?
tl;dr- you are not entitled to these cultures, because they’re not just an idea of where you came from but a living breathing culture that people still participate in. if you don’t do the work to actually understand them as they are NOW, the people from that place WILL think you’re ridiculous and a cunt. learn about them in a RESPECTFUL manner and understand that you are generations removed from these cultures which does mean you will have a different understanding and knowledge of them, and there will be things you need to learn about them that will differ from your understanding.
@@eric_the_egggremlin dont apologize for long comments! Im a fellow member of the Loquatious League i get it. I wish people wanted to read. Now you gotta read through a comment 3 times and take out any filler words and make it short as possible if you want people to not auto respond with "ew youre too emotional" THERE SIMPLY IS MUCH TO SAY OKAY.
I'm really glad you're getting that out of the USC2 story 💜
So, when I was younger, I was learning Gaelic to get in touch with my Irish and Scottish roots, I also learned the tin whistle just because I like the music anyways I was working at a summer camp one summer and I decided to just convince all the kids that I was Irish for no good reason other than to play a joke on the last day, where I started playing Celtic music, and had it slowly transition to baby shark.
Celtic baby shark omg
@@LostLifetimes it’s such a ridiculous story I often forget it happened
I... didn't do anything for St Patrick's day yesterday. I'm away from home and I'm missing it. This was probably just what I needed. So thank you.
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I’m not Irish or American, but this video made me realise how important are all those little traditions, tales and fairytales from my culture and childhood. I will never stop leaving food for home spirits or forget the recipes with foraged food and will try my best to find more real information about it.
Thank you for making this ❤
You're welcome! And yeah, so important now. I feel like capitalism is trying to replace all that cultural lore with stories they can make money off of
@@LostLifetimesOh yeah, that too. In my country the knowledge was mostly eradicated by the church, you know how it’s is. We don’t have any written records of gods or belief systems that were really old, it was all replaced and consumed by Christianity. But we still have mythology about “demons” and spirits, that were passed down through oral tradition and fairy tales. It’s almost more important to know, bc it came from regular working people, villagers, farmers and folks alike. I recently found a book that is written by a linguist with direct quotes that he got from visiting old villages and speaking with people there. It’s amazing, I continued reading it today after your video!
Yeah the church definitely was the source of all that. In America tho the church and capitalism are (hot take Apparently) often one and the same, they evade taxes too. Im not saying it's ~all connected with the media and the church~ or something (mostly...), but it's more of a subconscious thing? Idk these are thoughts I've had simmering in the back of my brain but don't have good words for.
And I'm so excited for you! What's the book?
I agree so much with Brennans take on the diaspora and the complicated relationship between irish americans and irish people. I'm Irish myself and there are shitheads on both sides of that divide.
But every time he says bell-tayn or bod-ran i want to tear my fucking skin off...
(Bealtaine is promounced b'yowl-tin-ah and is an important irish pagan festival, important enough that we use the name for the whole month. Its about spring and life renewing. A bodhrán is a hand drum and is pronounced bow-rawn)
I've always been deeply envious of people who were raised with such a strong connection to their heritage, because my parents were always the type that considered themselves Americans and not much else. Even my Jewish roots were always kept at arms length, and I never really felt any connection to them beyond cousins barmitzvahs and a few facetime seder dinners. Not having that can leave someone with a love of culture and heritage feeling lost and adrift in the world.
with all the love and respect in the world… the way he pronounces bealtaine… Brennan no!!
(bee-yowl-tana if ppl are curious)
The tragedy of growing up primed with tales of prophecies where good triumphs over evil then coming to full adult consciousness in the real world and finding out that it’s not all set in stone (like a sword)… so scary and heartbreaking!!
25:32 just imagine if Brenna went to fairy stone state park he would have a field day finding the quote “fairy stones” lol
great addition to the Internet on st Patrick's day
I wish I had a connection with my Irish ancestry, but my family emigrated from Ireland so many generations ago that even my dad doesn't have a connection to it. It was pre-potato "famine". They moved here, named the place I've lived most of my life after the area they came from in Ireland, and have basically stayed in this same place for since
This video is gineunely fascinating. As a Scottish Australian who only truly learned that about myself recently and has surprisingly complex feelings about it.
I'm so glad people are learning from it!! 💚
As a Ginger who loves mashed potatoes, that story had me fucking weeping! roflmao
Juxtaposing his talk of being Irish American on podcasts to video calls where his skin is literally #FFFFFF is almost a religious experience. I love it.
It's so, so important to know and honor where you come from. For most of us in the US, we're descended from immigrants who belonged to other cultures that they were either forced to forget or tried to hold onto but they still lost parts over time. Especially since American culture is as prominent as it is, it's so important for white folks to be proud of their heritage too
(I feel the need to apologize?? For commenting several times?? I can't explain myself But) Looked over this before somehow, the fact that his character RESURRECTED A BASILISK with 'Finnegan's Wake',, I love it so much *Eta: 36:05
Brennan just seems so awesome. A little much at times, but awesome.
that tim mccormick story is so beautiful
Been a wanting a compilation like this! Thanks for putting in the hard work! Happy saint Patrick's day 🍀
thank You!
I took a DNA test. im roughly half irish but feel so out of water when wanting to connect with my culture because i have no living ancestors who actually lived in Ireland.
Excellent editing and cutting between clips here!
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Now me personally, I would not let 9:00 slide. Alan Wolf would be dead on the floor with two in his chest after that.
honestly 😂 listening to that story I had to remind myself "don't get emotional about this guys say way worse to their actual friends in COD chatrooms, sometimes in these kind of bro-y work environments if you don't get teased it's actually the real problem cuz then it means people think you can't take a joke/hang" dghjgfhdjkssh
But either way it's Definitely not appropriate for the workplace or okay in general
@@LostLifetimes No but with me being ND, like a good seven times out of ten, that disconnect between someone just joking around with me at my own expense and someone actually, genuinely trying to single me out and make me feel like shit, that doesn’t exist for me unless someone’s being explicitly clear about that before hand.
But flinging mashed potatoes at my face and calling me a “shitty Irish prick” in front of everyone just for everyone to turn around to laugh at me? I’m going to have the reaction I think is necessary, regardless of my ND status
@@grumboflipflorp5688 oh yeah i agree you'd be rightfully upset (i too am autistic if thats not already abundantly clear by my typing style/general obsessiveness). This is one of those moments where I'd be like "hahaha so funny guys" in the moment then cry in the bathroom where nobody could know hfdkgfdhjka. But like god forbid you show that though, then the kind of people who would do the joke in the first place at best go "ugh you can't take a joke nevermind," at worst they pick up on it like blood in the water...
But at the same time I have to be like, okay but wait am I overreacting viewing this through a female friendships lens though, cuz this kind of shit is WAY more common with male friendships.... But then it's like this isn't friends though it's work, it should be professional.... but some industries (like working as a PA on some film sets) do some light hazing shit, I don't get it. But at least it's not personal I guess if they're like that to everyone??? Still would feel cagey like i was always being judged though, which would make it way harder to work without overwhelm. So yeah it definitely wasn't appropriate, but I think "pretend it's fine and move on" can work if they know they can't get a rise out of you it isn't fun anymore.
It kinda feels like a posturing thing too tbh, like what I would Want to do in that situation is just take a handful of the potatoes they flung and smush it directly into their face like a wedding cake prank video. If we're going childlike food fight foolishness then we're DOING THIS. But then you have to worry about legal shit like "oh well the other person started it first, but they didnt actually physically touch you just the food, but you put your hands on them even gently you're in the wrong" so. Exhausting idk. I'd probably actually just make dead eye contact with them as i shove a handful in my mouth instead like "oh thank you for the extras, all according to plan, you cant humiliate me i'm staring you in the eyes i have bigger balls than you" idk
also autistic here. I would be too shocked and hurt to react I think. but my gd listening to the other guy laugh made me start crying. it's very confusing how some people think being mean is funny.
@@eric_the_egggremlinyeah it's definitely not funny tbh... Basically I'm saying I can see why Brennan was chill about it cuz it's easier, but it's Definitely Not Right in general especially in a work environment, and I don't get why some industries have a weird frat bro mentality sometimes
The "Ghost of St. Patrick's Day's Past" is so fucking funny. Making a grand, ghostly spooky entrance, and the very first thing they say is, "...Roight!"
I am extremely skeptic, in most things. Faefolk is the one area in which I’m superstitious. There’s no particular reasoning, and it’s not like I’m conspiracy theory level spouting off about it, it’s just… I will always be a little more observant and a little more cautious in situations that could pertain to that. It certainly can’t hurt.
Honestly I feel like "accept hospitality don't look a gift horse in the mouth, tread lightly and respectfully through nature and walk quickly if it's dark and don't take things without leaving something (biodegradable) in return" is just good manners tbh, like even if the fae folk can't show up in our realm or whatever it's still just good behavior overall?
I gotta tell ya I dont believe Fae are real but also I stay the hell away from any suspicious rings of flower
For those of you wondering like I was, the song he sings at 36:06 is "Finnegan's Wake". I don't know what the one before it was.
"The Parting Glass"
No but for real this is very cool, thanks for sharing it (and for the context links)!
You're welcome! 💖
Two reasons I adore him, one i could use the name Caoimhe in a dnd game with him and second... i too troll people as an obviously Irish American person and my weird ablity to consume an absurd amount of potatoes out of spite.
I absolutely love and agree with brennan’s perspectives here. except I was raised catholic and have a very complicated relationship with it as a second gen catholic irish american. I love irish folklore traditions and believe in the magic to the same level as brennan. this video ended to the second that I arrived at work and I think that’s a little bit of the magic lol!!!
Even though it was told in jest, that story about the mashed potatoes genuinely made me sick. Even though it’s not obvious, discrimination against the Irish still exists. The amount of times I’ve been told to repeat something because my accent is funny, or offered “spuds” to eat or I’ve been told to do an “Gaelic” jig is insane. Even last year at the Oscar’s, the amount of people taking the piss out of Banshees of Inisherin for being an Irish movie was ridiculous. And don’t get me started on the amount of people who’ve insisted on mispronouncing Cillian Murphy and Saoirse Ronan, let alone the ones who claim them as British.
Eirophobic sentiment is very normalised in popular culture and it needs to be talked about more.
Yeah, I think it's weird cuz you get the double edged sword of that kind of stuff, but then if you take it seriously "duh it's a joke omg you can't be racist against white people", which like yeah true, but this isn't exactly racism it's xenophobia... Don't get me started on the sexualization and bullying of redheads... Idk it just sucks that every time you bring up the (admittedly way less common) prejudice it always has to come with a "but of course other people have it worse" disclaimer so people don't have a "oh boo hoo whitey" auto response. But also I HATE when white people overstate this to justify actual racism, like the "hurrdurr but Irish slavery", like bro indentured servitude truly was NOT the worst thing Irish people went through, and certainly nowhere near chattel slavery.... But they go on about that instead of any of the actual colonialist shit the UK did
this is just.. oh so wonderful..
The coke story is truly beautiful.
Love this man! #staysippy
Amazing! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this! 😂💚
Weird thing is, the pagans being "snakes" doesn't really make sense contextually from what I can tell.
Like, sure thats what the analogy became because of motifs common to christianity, but ireland didn't have any snake gods I can seem to track.
Scotland did. The standing stones on the islands are usually covered in either pictish symbols, or ogham. Ogham comes in all flavors of surviving celtic language, but pictish symbiology seems to specific to those Cruithni (Brythonic) tribes driven north by the Romans, they are the stones that have snake symbols sometimes. So if anything its the brittish half of scots that are "the snakes" that would be associated with snakes.
In fact, I know there is one seer that prophecies there would be a good land with no snakes. I think its an alternate version of there being a "fat land", so if anything NOT having snakes was a feature. Barring sea and lake serpents.
Dangit now I gotta go on a Google deep dive thats so interesting
I think the "snakes" come from them being not Christian.
@LostLifetimes Check out Monstrum for a start point. Dr Emily gives some good starting points to the history. Also good old Blue from OSDP. From there ah there is so much to enjoy.
I've never seen Brennan talking about any form of spiritual beliefs. I've always respected how much he clearly respects all cultures and religions. Well... idk, maybe Catholics get grief. I wish that was just default (the acceptance part, not the grief), and not something that makes more sense when I hear his background. Of course, it's never not cool to hear one of your favorite creators echoing a lot of your own viewpoints. It's really validating. And hearing him talk about a triple goddess, without it being fiction, per se, is just refreshing to see in a just mainstream environment... or comparatively mainstream to pagan culture.
21:52 my mom had a similar experience. she had an argument with her brother about God and it bothered her a lot. that day there was a lot loud knocking at the front door and no one was answering it. so she went and there was a small and frail old woman that handed her a bookmark (i dont remember if she said anything) and after that my mom closed the door looked down and noticed it said believe (some kind of jesus thing) so she threw open the door again to speak to the woman and didnt see her anywhere. not walking away from the house not walking down the road no car pulling away nothing.this was a dead end road and it wasnt a neighbor or anyone she knew. idk if she still have that book mark or not but that is definitely a strange interaction
Tbh that just sounds like an opportunistic Jehovah's Witness way more than anything supernatural 😂 the "and then she was gone" is spooky though. But the fact that it's a bookmark specifically gives human more than angel 😂 but who am I to know right?
@@LostLifetimes fair yeah lmao. bc of my Christian/catholic upbringing, I can't help but wonder if maybe that was, Jo, her guardian angel (that's the name she uses when referring to her guardian angel bc she went to a spiritual thing and the lady told her that her guardian angel's name was Jo. we are of the belief that angel's have no gender btw and take human forms to comfort us when they choose to appear lmao)
so like from that stand point, it makes sense why my mom as a kid saw a sweet old lady who has a loud ass knock no one else heard and seemingly disappeared into thin air
@@FenwaypupI love that 💜 I definitely wholeheartedly agree with that last bit as like personal philosophy too
Is fear maith é. As seo amach cuirfidh mé Braonáin (laoi) Ó Maolagáin air.
I love google translate and you
@@LostLifetimes go raibh maith agat!
The Irish-American in me hangs out in the same bar as the Irish-American in Brennan. 😂 I also love him so much for bringing awareness to the fact that St Patrick was murdering our pagan ancestors.
I also have a VERY similar interaction with a “fairy,” except it was a ring. ❤
happy st. patrick's day folks!!!
There’s a Brother Lee Mulligan?!?
im that stereotypical white american, but im not proud of it. i am deeply deeply sad my family has basically no culture at all. my ancestors mostly came from germany back in the 1800s and retained absolutely nothing of that into the 20th century. the US is a melting pot of a sort but to me it feels more like a cultural blackhole.
Yeah that last part is true. I feel like the only non-immigrant culture America as a whole has is entertainment or nature-based, or individualized microcosms based around cities/classes/etc. We As A Nation™️ have really mastered the "art" of giving people just enough subjects to talk about to their family at the dinner table without actually talking about anything. "How was work, how was school, hey did you see the episode of ___?" Mastered using media discourse as a shield against (or proxy for) having to bring up your own actual vulnerability in conversation....
(But also this is fully me talking from a "white person with a complicated family background but the one time there is guaranteed peace is a Shared Activity Or Thing We Can Talk About That's Not The Elephant In The Room" perspective SOOOO PERHAPS I AM SIMPLY PROJECTINGGGG)
RUclips user dontwatchthese continues to do the Lord’s Work
On this particular day it is the Goddess's work 💜 🙌♧🌘🌕🌒♧🙌
Hell yeah
if u look at my watch time for this, I happened to pause shortly after the fairy coin story, and while my ass was all like "fucking lol mythos bs" the tempered glass side pannel to my pc fucking exploded and launched shards of glass upwards of like 2m across my room, somehow not damaging any components, what the fuck irish magic bullshit just happened
OH MY GOD I'm glad you're okay???!!!????
Should've checked yourself!! (/jk, glad you're alright!)
@@LostLifetimeslol ya Im fine, luckily the panel was pointed away from me, so I only saw the large amount of glass shrapnel and none hit me
The american urge to showcase your grandpas culture 'cause yours is barely 200 years old xD
Yknow, I feel kinda like that mash potato story proves that there is still a little bit of discrimination against the Irish in the modern day since that is. like. objectively a hate crime???
Yeah, at the very least it's bullying in the workplace. Like even if the prejudice against Irish people is a joke/historical anachronism, the action playing off it is still fucked up fr
whenever a person i know is whiter than me just calls themself “american” i get annoyed
how far removed from ireland is brennan?
I will put this here, but the St. Patrick killed pagans in Ireland in a common myth, and one that I fell for back when I was pagan myself. There is no historical or anthropological evidence of it. There is, in fact, mentions of druids in a King's court 77 years after St. Patrick's death, in the account of High King Muirchertach Mac Muiredaig (died 534 CE). The idea that snakes were a euphemism for pagans is BS, when the sources are talking about druids, they say druids! Expelling dangerous animals from the land is also common in Irish Saint myths
I’m an Irish-American, I’ve never been very in touch with Irish culture, but I’ve also never been proud to be American in my life. But lately I’ve felt a really strong desire to get more in touch with my roots, and having this compilation of someone I look up to talking about Irish culture is honestly super meaningful to me.
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