Ivy Day in the Committee Room, Is That a Blue Yeti?

Joyce wrote a letter to the King of England asking, is this offensive? Or, you know, can I just, can they publish this? Or are you offended by it? He was trying to get he becomes a little bit of a known quantity and tree-estage. And there's a great quote he said about Ireland: "No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered jove"