Gript Media Podcasts

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Gript Media Podcasts episodes

May 01, 2020 TRSI 84 - It is too late mother, I have seen everything
Politicians and civil servants quietly pray that the Swedish death toll keeps climbing and never comes down; the head of the UN says that COVID-19 happened because there wasn't enough UN; and a child is traumatized by homework.

https://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/160/
39 min
April 29, 2020 TRSI 83 - America's Creepy Uncle
Joe Biden hilariously falls asleep during a town-hall with Hillary Clinton; Joe Biden less hilariously accused of seriously sexually assaulting a former staffer; and Australia pushes back against China.
38 min
April 27, 2020 You Can Cook Too 31 - Canterbury Apple Tart
Patricia shows you how to make an open apple tart with 2 different types of apple and with a little bit of a lemon kick.

Pastry
4oz/100g butter
8oz/225g plain flour
1 egg, beaten
(you can add 1oz icing sugar if you wish)
- Or -

Use 1 sheet of premade supermarket pastry

Tart
3 eggs
8oz/225g caster sugar
2 lemons, grated rind and juice of
4oz/100g butter, melted
3 large cooking apples (Bramley, or similar), quartered, cored (no need to peel)
2 eating apples, cored and finely sliced (red ones look great unpeeled!) or alternatively grated with the cooking apples
1oz/25g Demerara sugar
Note: Don’t worry of the apples turn brown as they’re being grated, their colour is restored in the custard mix due to the lemon.

Oven: preheat a baking tray in the oven heated to 200deg C

Make the pastry, either by hand or processor, and then chill it for about 20 minutes before putting it into a 11inch flan tin. (If you go slightly over the edge with the pastry, you can then cut it off after cooking, so any over-brown bits disappear.) Put the tin back into the fridge while you are doing the next bit.

In a large mixing bowl, beat together the eggs, castor sugar, lemon rind and juice. Then stir in the melted butter. Get the dessert apples on standby, and grate the cooking apples straight into the bowl using a coarse grater. Stir in the cooking apples.

Pour the apple mixture into the flan tin, and then put the eating apples around the edge unless you’ve chosen to grate them. Lastly, put the demarata sugar over the mix to make little brown flecks.

Bake on the preheated tray for about 40 minutes. The tart needs to be set in the centre, and slightly brown.
13 min
April 26, 2020 TRSI 82 - Like being beaten with a sock full of wet sand
FG and FF have come up with new and innovative ways to bankrupt the country; FF are pushing for the state to just buy the media; the hottest new trend in economic thought is magical money; and the Phoenix gets into a spot of bother for its hiring practices.
43 min
April 26, 2020 Sunday Reflection 20 - Walking the path with Jesus
Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses the the Disciples on the road to Emmaus.
8 min
April 24, 2020 TRSI 81 - I loaded 16 tons of Keeling's strawberries
We were right about masks; Keelings did nothing wrong; Sinn Fein and their weird love for the government of Venezuela; and you know the Green party aren’t serious about climate change as they’re against nuclear power.
00:00 - Masks and the Venice Carnival
15:40 -Keelings
33:50 - Sinn Fein and Venezuela Taco video
38:15 - The Greens in Power

Irish Times on facemasks - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/scientists-tds-call-for-change-in-policy-on-wearing-face-masks-in-public-1.4235435
Mark Paul on Keelings - https://www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/government-has-failed-keelings-and-its-workers-1.4236276
Der Spiegal on renewable energy in Germany - https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-failure-on-the-road-to-a-renewable-future-a-1266586.html
16 Tons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk
56 min
April 23, 2020 The Irish Herbalist 03 - How to handle hay fever
Hayfever can leave you feeling you drained and irritable, but there are simple steps you can take to get yourself back to your best self.
9 min
April 19, 2020 Sunday Meditation 19 - Divine Mercy
Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he talks about divine mercy, taking the grief of others onto ourselves, and God's wish to take our pain.
5 min
April 17, 2020 The Unsafe Space 15 - Sleeping with the Enemy
Keith and Sarah talk about FF and FG's plans to form a government and remind people that they were early adopters of the idea that FF and FG should get into bed together.
41 min
April 17, 2020 TRSI 79 - You say you don't like it but you keep coming back
Martin plays fast and loose with the FF membership as he looks to get through the FF/FG deal without a vote; the legal profession salivates as people push the idea we should just let teachers award Leaving Cert grades based on their opinion of the student; and Simon Coveney announces we'll be giving four times more money to the WHO for reasons.
43 min