Gript Media Podcasts

The Week That Really Was EP20 - Paddy’s Day PolyAmory

As St. Patrick's Day dawns, John and Sarah discuss the evolution of the Late Late Show from consensus breaker to preacher's pulpit, the President's latest intervention, and the attraction of polyamory

TRSI 350 - Respectable extremists

We've seen the President, the Taoiseach, and the Tánaiste all speak out against a letter which highlighted concerns about the teaching of gender theory to young children, but it's well past time we started to question the motives of the organisations pushing for children to be indoctrinated into these theories.

https://www.iglyo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IGLYO_v3-1.pdf

 

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/primary-schooling-set-for-transformation-as-children-to-get-a-big-say-in-how-they-learn-42378900.html

https://gript.ie/rte-makes-false-claim-about-social-contagion-factor-in-trans-identification-being-debunked/

The Week That Really Was EP20 - ”Get busy living, or Get busy Crying”

In an episode abbreviated by an untimely power cut, John and Sarah discuss a week in which Irish politics, and Ireland's President, drifted ever further away from normal people"

TRSI 349 - Time and space, causality and consequence

We're not saying to burn down your house for the insurance money, we're just saying you'd probably get away with it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz_lzEhyryY

The Week That Really Was 19 - The dangerous Mary Kenny

"The conversation University of Limerick thought was too dangerous for students to hear: John and Sarah sit down with Mary Kenny to discuss the state of modern feminism"

TRSI 348 - Let me contextualise that for you

El Salvador brutalises criminals and sees crime fall dramatically; tidy towns are Ireland's shield against fascism; and NPHET's decisions may not have been entirely scientific.

https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/debateRecord/joint_committee_on_children_equality_disability_integration_and_youth/2023-02-21/debate/mul@/main.pdf
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/school-closures-and-nursing-home-visitor-bans-were-inhumane-nphet-member-breaks-ranks-on-our-covid-response-42356712.html
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/explainer-the-covid-pandemic-is-over-so-why-are-more-people-dying-42357365.html

The Week That Really Was 18 - Better than the slap of a wet fish?

John and Sarah discuss the cost of living package, the growing unaffordability of life in Ireland, as well as Katharine Zappone's Poetry and Roald Dahl's dangerous books:

TRSI 347 - It’s good money if you can stomach the work

Media trust in Ireland is between 6% and 52% depending on who you ask; the new government-backed survey on conversion therapy is a total mess; and Gary defends Bowdlerisation as Roald Dahl gets a modern rework. 

https://gript.ie/the-misleading-coverage-of-trinitys-conversion-therapy-report/

The Week That Really Was 17 - Greetings, and fond farewells

Sarah Ryan makes her debut as the John's new co-host this week, as they ask: Why are Irish Politicians so afraid to say what they really think?

TRSI 346 - Venice is a city build for murder

In which Gary argues that we should bring back public caning/whipping because it's more humane and more just than putting people in prison.

https://www.newstalk.com/news/no-value-to-mandatory-sentencing-guidelines-irish-penal-reform-trust-1436143?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1676023983-1