The Artificial Hipsters Cross the Bridge

This week Jim goes to his daughter’s wedding and delves into the rights and wrong of sacking ther Spurs manager. Ciaran gets caught up in Original Sin (its a new book about the cover up around Joe Biden’s health). We also talk about how the left lost Marxism and found woke authoritarianism. We both spend a lot of time talking about economic policy but in particular whether Trump is about to impose...

WE LOOK AT WHAT BREXITEERS MIGHT WANT OF THE EU. NO FOOTBALL...NO ODDS AND SODS...STRAIGHT TO THE MEAT COURSE.

We comb over Keir Starmer’s agreement with the EU....needless to say we have different approaches, but in attempt to get to the other side of the bridge next week we are going to try to identify what a deal with the EU which would satisfy brexiteers might look like. In the process we hate the Eurovision Song Contest but love Ciaran’s daughter’s keys......

This week we talk about whether a social revolution is under way and have we passed peak woke? We also talk about Skortgate in Camogie. News just in...Ciaran doesn't regard Jim as his role model in all things, oh calamity !

MONTY PYTHON’S BLACK KNIGHT WHO RESISTED HAVING ALL BODILY PARTS RENT ASUNDER COULD TEACH US SOMETHING ABOUT RESILIENCE. UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE NOT LISTENING. THE MESSAGE OF VE80 THIS WEEK IS THAT THE ALLIES WERE ABLE TO BUILD ON THE RESILIENCE OF THE PEOPLE TO CREATE A WAR WINNING MACHINE. ARE WE JUST A NATION OF SELF OBSESSED WOKE WIMPS OR IS THAT ESSENTIAL STRENGTH STILL THERE? DISCUSS.

THIS WEEK WE HAVE A FEW OF THE USUAL MOMENTS AT THE BEGINNING BUT WE SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME DISCUSSING OUR GUESTS TO A HISTORICAL DINNER PARTY. OUR GUESTS ARE ENOCH POWELL, FORMER UK MP, BILL CORBETT SNR (JIM’S GRANDFATHER), BOB DYLAN, LIAM CASEY (CIARAN’S GRANDFATHER), TONY BENN, BILL BURR (US COMEDIAN), GEORGE ORWELL AND NELSON MANDELA. THERE’S A COLLECTION FOR YOU! I WONDER HOW THEY’LL GET ON?...

WELL WE DON’T JUST TALK ABOUT THE LEGACY OF THE POPE THIS WEEK. WE TOUCH ON TRAFFIC PLANNING AND WHY TRAMS DON’T GO UPHILL, DOUGLAS MURRAY AND INDEED AND BIT OF FOOTBALL...THAT SHOULD KEEP YOU GOING FOR ANOTHER WEEK.

AFTER OUR HOLS WE SPEND A WHILE TEACHING OUR AUDIENCE HOW TO FILLET SARDINES AND HOW TO AVOID CAR HIRE INSURANCE CHARGES BUT MOST OF ALL TRYING TO WORK OUT HOW THE COIFFURED ONE IN THE OVAL OFFICE HAS BEEN GETTING ON WHILE WE WERE AWAY.....

This week we look at how Governments can actually cut expenditure. The role of democracy in doing so and how to make the population more self reliant and less dependant. Also the Heathrow shut down debacle and on a brighter note the revival of a great play my Brian Friel called Making History by Cork’s Famous Everyman Theatre under the direction of new Artistic Director Des Kennedy in his first Ev...

WE HAVE A FEW MOANS THIS WEEK BUT MAINLY WE CONCENTRATE ON PARENTING AND THE MODERN PRESSURES UPON CHILDREN AND PARENTS NO FOOTBALL AGAIN ! THATS BECAUSE BOTH OUR TEAMS LOST BUT OUR RUGBY TEAMS DIDN'T!

Well after a few weeks of Trumpian excess we thought we should change the pitch a bit so we’ve taken a look back at Covid. There’s quite a lot of data about now which seems to show that most Countries got it badly wrong what do you think? Let us know via our poll.

Well we get a bit snappier this week after our sick leave. After the normal pleasantries and a report back from the convenor of our Listeners Council we concentrate on the spat between Trump and Zelensky. Above all we have no football !

Well another interesting week, we look over the Vice President’s speech to the European Security Conference and find some good bits in it. We touch on the moral foundation stone of our democracy and wonder how to defend it. Also this week, a new restaurant in Cork’s St Luke’s area, Jim’s going to write a book for Ciaran to publish and Man Utd are going to be relegated.

WELL WE PACK A LOT IN AGAIN THIS WEEK. JIM’S VISIT TO DERRY AND THE BOGSIDE; WHY THE EURO ELITE HATE TRUMP; A GREAT RUGBY WEEKEND EXCEPT FOR WALES WHO SHOULD BE DRUMMED OUT OF THE BROWNIES; ENDING WITH BUYING GENERATORS; AND DEMOCRACY FOR ALL FROM YOUR LAPTOP...AND WHY NOT?

This week we cover US Food Additives; Populism is it good or bad?: We visit a power lifting contest and start a new section called One Thing I Would Change. Plus the Spurs resurgence ?? And Liverpool for the Premiership.

WE START THIS WEEK WITH A SHAMBOLIC TIME IN THE DAIL, FOLLOWED BY A REVIEW OF EXTREME CENTRISTS AND THEN THE AWFUL IMPACT OF PSYCHO TERRORISTS ON SOCIETY AND HOW WE STOP THEM MURDERING LITTLE GIRLS. WE END UP WITH A LITTLE BIT OF FOOTBALL BUT OUR HEARTS WEREN’T IN IT AND WE’RE GOING TO HIDE UNDER THE BED CLOTHES NOW.

EP.80: THIS WEEK WE SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME TALKING ABOUT THE INAUGURATION SPEECH AND WHAT IT MIGHT MEAN FOR US ALL. THERE’S LOADS TO DISCUSS THERE ! DID YOU KNOW THAT ONLY 10% OF PODCASTS GET PAST THEIR THIRD EPISODE ? WELL THIS IS OUR 80TH !!! THATS A FEW PINTS YOU ALL OWE US. BY THE WAY THE WHITE HOUSE POLICY IS THAT ALL PUBLIC SPEECHES BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT SO WE’VE A...

We cover a lot of ground this week. Mainly we talk about whether personal ethics ever overcome the public good. This is by way of Tottenham’s biggest fan calling them dreadful; compulsory vaccination; Enoch Burke; The destroyers of slavery; Rich Boy Barrett; Building then closing empty schools which never see a pupil. And what about two protesters getting two years for throwing soup at a picture?...

This is our review of 2024 and predictions for 2025. Surprising unanimity from our two boys, both think Trump is the key factor, both think that starmer is useless, both think Nigel Farage is on his way to No.10 and both think we’re in for a rocky economic ride on both sides of the Irish Sea. They even agree that Liverpool is the team of 2024. Whatever is the World coming to? We’ve started consecu...

Time for our seasonal jollies again. Santa Jokes, Songs, The Night Before Christmas, jokes, Carols, Favourite Christmas memories, jokes, Panto memories and how to cook a turkey. Suitable for all ages, no swearing, no politics, no football just Santa Claus and Christmas stuff. Enjoy Songs, poem and jingles provided by Pixabay Community

AFTER A BRIEF HOLIDAY WE ARE BACK ON THE JOB. THIS WEEK JIM GOES CROSS EYED WITH IRISH FERRIES AND THE SPURS, CIARAN GETS EXERCISED ABOUT THE IRISH ELECTION...WELL A BIT. WE TALK ABOUT WHAT REPLACES THE LEFT RIGHT SPLIT AND THE WAR IN SYRIA. AND WE’VE GOT PLANS FOR OUR CHRISTMAS POD NEXT WEEK. DON’T BLINK.

What a mix this week! We start with a bit of football but quickly move into what a twit Simon Harris is, then the over representation in the Irish Parliament. This is followed by Ciaran queue jumping at Gatwick, Jim leading off about the poor timing of British defence cuts, then the behaviours which alienate the electorate and inspire criminals. Phew! No wonder we’re having next week off !

This week we spend some time wondering whether we are entering the time of the new fascism. Journalist Alison Pearson was said to have been given a Non Crime Hate Incident report lodged against her. This for criticising some anti-Israel demonstrators to which someone took offence and...bish bash bosh there she is getting the three o clock knock from the Political Police, otherwise known as the 9am...

HOW DID TRUMP WIN SO EASILY? WE DO A DEEP DIVE INTO THE CESS PIT OF POLITICS. COULD IT HAPPEND IN BRITAIN OR IRELAND? WELL YES AND NO. WE ALSO HEAR ABOUT NHS ADMINISTRATORS BEING INVOLVED IN THE TRAGIC SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GIRL AND FINALLY WHAT A GOOD JOB LIVERPOOL DID.

THIS WEEK WE DIVIDE THE PODCAST INTO TO HALVES, THE FIRST HALF IS FOOTBALL BASED, WELL WE HAVENT DONE IT FOR A WHILE. THE SECOND HALF IS A DISCUSSION OF WHETHER COUNTRIES SHOULD HAVE A FORMAL RELIGIOUS ALLEGIANCE. THIS WAS TO ENABLE JIM TO SAY (NEARLY) DISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM, WHICH IS THE MOST SPELLED AND LEAST USED WORD IN ENGLISH.