Beyond Zoolander

On last week's podcast, I talked about the purpose of this podcast, and the main purpose is to provide a way for people to support the, the safety at the wave that people surf called Mullaghmore.

I realize I have some listeners who are not, who are not in the surf community, who, who don't surf, so I'll just explain that there is a, a wave that breaks somewhere between a half a dozen and two dozen times a year off of Mullaghmore Head in Donegal Bay in County Sligo in Ireland, which is getting up towards the northern bit of Ireland.

It's not Northern Ireland, now, for you listeners that are not in Ireland.

It's quite a complex thing.

When I was going to university in Hawaii, there was a guest lecturer from Belfast.

The course was called The Politics of Northern Ireland.

I sat through a semesters of-- a semester of lectures on the modern politics of Ireland, starting in maybe in the '60s, I think.

Starting from the '60s on up until present day, which was then 1997.

So the, the Good Friday Agreement had just been signed.

The lecturer was very, very passionate about her subject.

But at the end of it, I didn't understand much more than I did at the beginning of it.

I think it's...

Until you live here and talk to people with varying viewpoints who've spent their lives in it, and who continue to think about the relationship between Ireland and Northern Ireland, it's very difficult to get your head around.

It's insanely complicated.

So Mullaghmore is not in Northern Ireland.

It is in the south of Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, but it's up towards the northern bits of it.