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00:00Good old Temple Bar. Join us for tales of pints, prices, and peculiar people watching.

00:06As always, it's a lively evening in Temple Bar, Dublin.

00:09The sound of fiddles, laughter, and clinking glasses fills the air.

00:14Temple Bar, Dublin's most famous cultural quarter, or as I like to call it,

00:19the place where your wallet goes to die.

00:22Because let's be honest, the only thing stronger than the Guinness here is the price tag.

00:26$10.45 for a pint? At that rate, you'd want the ghost of James Joyce to personally recite Ulysses to you while you drink it.

00:34And yet, somehow these pubs are always packed.

00:37Which brings me to my next point. The people.

00:40Now, take Oliver St. John Gogarty's, a grand spot where you'll find two types of people.

00:46Tourists who think a trad session is just a Spotify playlist.

00:50Local musicians who've played whiskey in the jar so many times, they've started questioning their life choices, and crawled into a jar.

00:59And then there's the Temple Bar pub, where you'll pay nearly 11 euros for a drink and still queue for 20 minutes to get it.

01:07It's like Disneyland, but instead of Mickey Mouse, you get an American man named Sean,

01:11who insists he's grand after eight pints, despite being nearly horizontal.

01:16And let's not forget the Owled Dubliner, where the crowd is so dense, you'll make more friends than you intended.

01:23One minute you're ordering a drink, the next you're in a deep philosophical debate with a Swedish backpacker

01:29about whether Tato crisp salt and vinegar are better than cheese and onion.

01:34No, Henrik, you're wrong. Salt and vinegar is the superior crisp, and I will blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:40But here's the thing, despite the prices, the crowds, and the occasional lad belting out Galway Girl at 3pm like its last orders,

01:49we keep coming back.

01:50Because where else can you find this much chaos, crack, and questionable life decisions under one roof?

01:57Sláinte.

01:59And may your bank account forgive.

02:01Thank you very much.

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