Wet Cold Irish Summer

The boys go to see alternative comedy legend Stewart Lee as he performs his show ‘STEWART LEE VS THE MAN-WULF’ at Cork Opera House. Does this count as local tourism, and thus fulfil the remit of the podcast? Sure. Why the hell not - RECOMMENDEDs: STAND-UP/TV: Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf (2026) Basic Lee (2024) Content Provider (2019) Ricky Gervais’ Derek (2012-14) Carpet Remnant World (2012) If Yo...

A Wet Cold Quickie about one of Cork's tastiest little food spots, BOOM. - Plus: settling the debate over Cork's controversial Firemen's Rest hut, the disappearance of Lord Lucan, and more dispatches from Virgin Island.

Celebrate 250 years of the USA with unproblematic king Chris Colombus - as the boys explore a replica of his ship in Cork city.

The Red Abbey is a 14th century ruin on the southside of Cork city. Head down Douglas Street and turn right when you find the bloody tissues. BYOB!

The latest from the Saltee Islands, Italy, Budapest, and Virgin Island. The three Anthony Bourdains discuss puffins, colonial horrors, reality TV therapist sex, and American tourists in Rome. - RECOMMENDEDs: Rome (HBO, 2005-7) Virgin Island (Channel 4, 2025) 'The Romans' (Doctor Who, 1965)

The boys visit the Lough, which is made of water. Plus: Is generative AI ever justified, for example if Sam Campbell uses it? Is Ross' favourite short story 'The Egg' good? - Come and see 'Dreaming in the Years' at the Cork Fringe on Saturday, May 9. - RECOMMENDEDs: 'The Egg' (Andy Weir egg story, 2009)

What a treat! At the end of 2025, the Wet Cold boys chatted to James Moran of the Celtic Ligers politics podcast. Here is that chat. It was fun! You'll like it!

A trip to Blackrock Castle Observatory devolves into a mental health episode. WARNING: something horrible happens in the middle of this one, but it is signposted. - RECOMMENDEDs: Space films: Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902 silent moon film) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969 ape-and-space epic) Solaris (1972 space psychocrisis film) Alien (1979 alien film) The Right Stuff (1983 Ed Harris NASA film) Apollo...

Road trip! The boys head up to Dublin for Mark's alternative comedy show, Test Tube Babies - and on the way they explore motorway art, euthanasia, Pádraig Pearse's poetry, Bonnie Blue, patron saints, Israel, and much much more. - RECOMMENDEDs: Test Tube Babies Tracy Emin: A Second Life (Tate Modern)

The final episode in the Roger trilogy. The gang visits the site of Michael Collins' death (unaliving) - and Roger explains the Irish Civil War in terms you'll understand ( Avatar ). Plus: whether SNL UK is any good, revolutionary Tom Barry shoots a load of Brits, and Roger performs an original trad piece. - RECOMMENDEDs: Fekken (Roger O'Sullivan) Michael Collins (Liam Neeson) Avatar (...

The Roger trilogy continues! This time the gang traipse through the dark to Kilcrea Castle, which has less ghosts than the friary but more bats. Plus: Ross almost tumbles to his death and Mark's windscreen takes a country road beating. - RECOMMENDEDs: Grizzly Man (2005) Form for reporting bat sightings to Bat Conservation Ireland: https://www.batconservationireland.org/in-your-area/sightings

The Blair Witch Podcast. This one's got a Ouija board, ghostly voices, and the Edinburgh Fringe's Best Newcomer 2025. On a flying visit from London, award-winning Macroom comedian Roger O'Sullivan joins the boys on a midnight ghost hunt and gets really, really scared. Ross also gets really, really scared, Mark gets quite scared, and Thomas doesn't get scared at all. Reach us at ins...

Cork has its own Fringe festival! And we're in it! Also up for discussion: meningitis and Rolf Harris' house. - RECOMMENDEDs: Dreaming in the Years - at the Cork Fringe, Saturday, May 9th (corkfringe.com)

Mark drinks in the street, Thomas talks boyhood scouting trauma, and Ross flip-flops on Wales. The Taoiseach visits Washington.

Is wrestling for kids? It turns out wrestling might be for kids. Plus: Ross renews his assault on James Cameron, and does anyone want to go and see the Smiths drummer flog his book? - RECOMMENDEDs: Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) El Doctor Misterio (1963-) opera ballet

Mark dares venture onto the northside as the boys explore one of the city's few green spaces. Plus the Burning of Cork, 9/11, and Ian Bailey. - RECOMMENDEDs: Eden Lake (middle class propaganda film preparing the masses for austerity, 2008) - Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod and wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

Hop on a big Paddy Wagon tour bus and head to Blarney with a hundred ancestrymaxxing Americans. - RECOMMENDEDs: ‘The Adventure of the Blarney Stone’ ( The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , 1946) YouTube: Explore With Us (police bodycam videos) - Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

Taking you INSIDE the painful, unjust world of comedy competitions. Also there is Epstein discussion. Hello Morgan McSweeney if you are reading this. - Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

WARNING: discussion of extreme monkey anatomy and horrifying duck behaviour. - Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

Mark, Ross, and Thomas go to see recession-era twin sensation JEDWARD in concert. Ross gets critical. - RECOMMENDEDs: Ghosts of My Life (Mark Fisher, 2014) - Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

Hello you. Mark, Ross, and Thomas return from the Christmas break and have a great time looking at some old bones. Thomas gets to talk about his favourite dinosaurs. 'Do you know how many extinctions there have been?' 'Counting or not counting meteorite strikes?' RECOMMENDEDs: Walking with Dinosaurs (BBC, 1999) Prehistoric Planet (Apple TV, 2022-) The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs...

Includes intense, immersive audio of someone seriously winding himself on the ice. - Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

One of Cork city's most iconic tourist spots sparks a heated argument about the ethics of eating dogs. Also, Ross is injured. - Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

Mark and Ross support Thomas as an earnest performance threatens to send him spiralling. Also, Ross was driving. - RECOMMENDEDs: The Science of Storytelling (Will Storr, 2019) - Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

Mark, Ross and Thomas contact the dead - and one of them goes on an unexpected spiritual journey. - Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com