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1. This week's song is about a legend, Charlie Mops, the man who invented beer. Tell us about something you enjoy so much you could sing about it with the same enthusiasm the Salt Sea Pirates sing of beer. My son!
2. The lyrics tell us beer goes well with breakfast, dinner and snacks. Think about what you dined on yesterday. What beverages did you have with your breakfast, your dinner, and your between-meal snack? Oh, yesterday, I went out for Record Store Day, so I got a caramel macchiato from Starbucks in the morning and Panera's papaya green tea around lunchtime. And I had a spiked lemonade with dinner.
3. "Charlie Mops" was chosen because it's an Irish drinking song and Sunday is St. Patrick's Day. Do you expect to raise a glass in honor of the day? First of all, I'm clearly doing this very late, but I did not and do not. I think St. Patrick's Day has been co-opted into a drinking holiday for people who aren't Irish, and I don't celebrate it. But my sister-in-law's girlfriend always buys my some cute St. Patrick's Day shirts, so I always put him in them.
4. Beer is not the only beverage often dyed green for St. Patrick's Day. In 1970, McDonald's introduced the Shamrock Shake, a milkshake made with a minty green syrup. If we were to go out for shakes right now, what flavor would you order? Strawberry.
5. Legend has it that wearing green makes you invisible to leprechauns, who can be mischievous pranksters. Is there anyone you would like to avoid today? Just the same difficult people I hope to avoid every day!
6. For all our talk of green, it was not the original color of St. Patrick's Day. Through most of the 18th century, blue was worn across England and Ireland to honor St. Patrick. The Irish switched to green to express their independence from the English. Which color do wear more often: blue or green? Blue. I'm not a huge fan of green.
7. Today St. Patrick's Day is observed all over the world. In Tokyo, it's not a single day but a weekend celebration. When you think of Japan, what's the first thing that comes to mind? The fact that they're way ahead of us in terms of technology and how they apply it.
8. One of the biggest parades each year in Buenos Aires is for St. Patrick's Day. Have you ever participated in a parade? I have. In middle school and high school, I was in the homecoming parades I think every year, if not close to it, and there were a couple times I rode with my dad in his humvee in parades.
9. Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA, crowns a Miss St. Patrick's Day. Tell us about an event you recall from your college days. I always loved attending the annual banned book reading.
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