Gript Media Podcasts

TRSI 268 - Have you ever been synergized?

The price of an assault; the ICCL stands up civil liberties before quickly sitting down; and the Zappone situation has progressed from scandal, to farce, before ending up as a series of incredibly stupid events. 

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/green-councillor-deletes-milkshake-these-racist-vermin-tweet-40810277.html

TRSI 267 - Your epistemology is bad and you should feel bad

Turmoil in the Green Party as unkind things said; Simon Coveney joins the long list of Irish politicians and high ranking guards who have had some trouble with phones; and October 22 becomes the day of freedom.

 

https://extra.ie/2021/08/29/news/politics/brian-leddin-slurs-against-women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcc2t21xlxE
https://www.ign.com/articles/y-the-last-man-hulu-fx-binary-tackling-transgender-issues

TRSI 267 - Supply and demand believes in you

A shortage of truck drivers in the UK demonstrates that supply and demand is real, and perhaps could even influence the price of houses; the biggest story you're not hearing about is the issues the electrical grid is going to face this winter; and the ICCL's interesting views on protests are calling out in the Sunday Times.

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/soaring-pay-puts-waitrose-lorry-drivers-on-a-par-with-lawyers-r5673lbls
https://www.businesspost.ie/energy/balance-of-power-why-irelands-electricity-supply-is-threatened-and-what-can-be-done-to-bolster-it-d8fbf07a
https://www.idaireland.com/newsroom/publications/ida-ireland-economic-benefits-of-data-centre-inves

TRSI 265 - Is it a hotpoint you have sir?

More info on the Government's amnesty for illegal immigrants; Afghanistan moves from farce to tragedy for both the British and Americans; and the BBC asks why rent caps don't work.

 

https://gript.ie/exclusive-government-has-no-plan-to-cap-number-of-illegal-immigrants-to-be-granted-amnesty/

https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/26/afghanistan-helpline-redirected-callers-to-washing-machine-company-15156117/
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/555a928a-06a8-11ec-89b3-29a9a04e8645?shareToken=93be4692c0e358916b35ef44444a3ef0
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58317555
https://twitter.com/G_L_Kavanagh/status/1431282869654204420 - The forbidden image

TRSI 264 - Less of a statistic, more of a guess

The new amnesty for illegal immigrants is based more on guesswork than evidence; banks turn on OnlyFans, OnlyFans turns on sex workers; and Twitter refuses to turn on the Taliban.

 

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/undocumented-migrants-in-ireland-offered-once-in-a-generation-amnesty-40775476.html

TRSI 263 - Michael on auto-pilot

The ICCL now thinks political databases are bad; the Journal fact-checks a claim from Aontu and you'll be shocked to learn how that worked out; the alcohol prohibitionists are at it again; and the perfect is the enemy of the good when building houses.

 

https://www.thejournal.ie/abortion-factcheck-5521191-Aug2021/

TRSI 262 - I can mash-potato, and I can do the twist

Mashed potatoes; hording vaccines for booster shots will kill substantial numbers in poorer countries; and everything is going well in Afghanistan.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anpro-Stainless-Potato-Perfect-Vegetable/dp/B07HF1NS12/ - A ricer, it'll improve your life.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-40360784.html
https://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/what-driving-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-sub-saharan-africa
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02158-6
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/13/covid-booster-jabs-for-rich-countries-will-cause-more-deaths-worldwide-say-experts
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/08/17/the-taliban-has-access-to-us-military-aircraft-now-what-happens/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EoI-6lQFIE - Title song

TRSI 261 - We advance funeral by funeral

Rolling blackouts likely this winter as the Government continues to shower itself with glory; and how not put together an academic survey.

 

https://www.businesspost.ie/energy/blackouts-loom-this-winter-as-emergency-plan-is-abandoned-f5281ae2
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourview/arid-40357121.html
https://maynoothuniversity.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/gathering-information-on-anti-choice-protests

TRSI 260 - A very aggressive application of statistical analysis

Nature is healing in Libya and Afghanistan; rent caps are having exactly the impact the Government were warned they would have; and even the ERSI agrees that the Government's carbon tax plans will hit the poorest.

 

https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210730-muammar-gaddafi-s-son-suggests-he-may-run-for-president-in-libya

https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-afghanistan-taliban-26d485963b7a0d9f2107afcbc38f239a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

 

TRSI 259 - Take up the white progressive's burden

Fianna Fail continue to defy reason; progressive politicians don't think minority students should have to be able to read before graduating secondary school; and are people without children less invested in the future of their country? 

 

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/08/gov-kate-brown-signed-a-law-to-allow-oregon-students-to-graduate-without-proving-they-can-write-or-do-math-she-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-it.html
https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-114-katharine-birbalsingh/
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/aug/22/controversial-michaela-free-school-delights-in-gcse-success#:~:text=Compared%20with%20other%20non%2Dselective,the%20national%20average%20of%2022%25.