Fellow Passengers

In this episode we speak with author Sarah Griffin about how she became the podcast reviewer for the Irish Times, the state of podcasting in Ireland and in general, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the legal oppression of of cannabis, Leo Varadkar meeting with Mike Pence and the efficacy of uncomfortable diplomacy, political polling and Leo Varadkar's honeymoon period, forcing prisoners to work for free, Clinton vs Trump and other neoliberal heroes, writing, and repealing the 8th.

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( to find tickets for Fin's Dublin Famine tour visit: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dublin-famine-tour-tickets-43587703996 )

In this episode we chat with Finbar Dwyer, host, writer, researcher, (and everything else) of the Irish History Podcast. We talk about vaping, the famous executioner Albert Pierrepoint, the old notion of genetic crime, working class discrimination and guilt in Irish society, the church and its sexual abuse of children, Ireland's blasphemy laws, the Berlin concentration camp Sachsenhausen, the dwindling power of facebook, and Cambridge Analytica.

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The Trans-Neptunian object named Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in February 1930 and became the 9th planet in our solar system, until it was downgraded in September 2006. It takes Pluto 248 years to complete a single orbit around the sun which means that for the entire time it was considered a planet it only aged by a third of a Plutoid year; it was 76 years old...

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In this episode we speak with Joe Mcgucken, sketch comedy writer and actor, and stand-up comedian, about the recent snow and siege on Lidl in Jobstown, the probability of fate, the recent Fine Gael propaganda surrounding the 2040 plans, gaming, the recent birth of Al's daughter and much more.

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In this episode we speak with Jason Collins about cataracts, North Korea, Matresses, Hunting Hitler, some of Jason's most interesting guests, becoming a parent and much more.

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In this episode we chat with Gerry McBride, stand-up comedian and writer for Waterford Whispers News, about Irish comedy, D'unbelievables and Father Ted, Waterford Whispers News and the role of satire in the world today, Billy Connolly, the abortion referendum, crazy TV shows and much more.

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In this episode we chat with Sean Earley, an award winning digital creative director at Teneo PSG. We talk about Sean's research into the social media habits of older people in Ireland, the trade-off between selling your data for free online services, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, the great global wealth divide, how emojis are made, and much much more.

Opening with a tribute to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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In this episode we speak with journalist Gavin White about Trump, the state of the music industry, whether musicians can make a living these days, politics, the future of music, and, of course, the nazis.

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In this episode we speak with the woman behind Jen Hatton Sketches, one of the most popular sketch comedy facebook pages in Ireland. We talk about accidentally going viral, snapchat, the trials and tribulations of being a movie extra, the scandal of social influencers, whether Ireland's data centres make us a target in the next global war, and much much more.

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In this episode we speak with Dr. Rob Gilanders, Assistant Professor of Economics in Dublin City University.

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