This episode sees Michael Dwyer and Gary Kavanagh discuss recent events involving asylum seekers in Ireland. They go into what an asylum seeker is, and is not, what a refugee actually is, and is not,

They then turn to the idea that certain ideas, surrounding migration, abortion, travellers, etc, are simply not discussed or represented politically at anywhere near the level of support the public have for them. They end with a discussion of the fragility of democracy and the state.

0:00 - Please don't set fire to direct provision centres

8:00 - What is a refugee? What is international law?

23:00 - The Direct Provision system

35:50 - The Government and its love of doing things through stealth

41:40 foreigners taking our housing

57:55 The refusal to discuss things the public, or large part of the public cares about, like migration, is dangerous and undemocratic

1:03:45 - Michael being wrong.

1:16:35 The right should be better than the left

1:19:00 - Tibet was awful before the Chinese got there

1:22:30 - The refusal of the Irish establishment and media to discuss pretty much anything difficult

1:24:10 - Political correctness

1:26:30 - The birth of a political 'class'

1:29:50 - The growing disconnect between what politicians represent and the public believes - the lack of representation for pro-life voters in the Dail

1:37:00 - Why there is no middle ground between pro-choice and pro-life positions

1:42:50 - Is the issue that we don't realise how instable democracy is?

1:50:50 - Is a problem that Burke is too readable for people to take seriously?

This episode sees Gary Kavanagh and Michael Dwyer discuss two issues. Firstly the rebirth of the genre of newspaper articles saying the boom is back, and about to bust. Secondly, the new report on 'Femicide' in Ireland, which they argue doesn't actually measure femicide at all. They also touch on CDC reports regarding sexual violence on American college campuses.

If you want to skip ahead to the discussion on Femicide it starts at 47:35

This episode sees Gary Kavanagh and Michael Dwyer discuss the cult classic film They Live. Along the way they ask what exactly the point of the film is, why Citizen Kane is the low-point of Orson Welles' career, and why Michael isn't against the body-slamming of pandas.

This episode sees Michael Dwyer and Paddy Manning discuss Labour's idea of holding a referendum on water ownership; the news that Spain may now vote against the Brexit deal; and the idea of banning AirB&B in Ireland.

This episode sees Gary Kavanagh and Michael Dwyer discuss international men's day, the value of masculinity in modern society, and if what is required is more masculine men, and not more feminine; they also discuss the Cambodian genocide and the news that 2 high ranking Khmer Rouge officials have just been convicted by a Cambodian tribunal; and finally they discuss the new Brexit deal.

Gary Kavanagh discusses the recent rape case that made headlines when it was reported that comments had been made about the underwear of the women who had claimed to be raped.

He discusses why rape trials are so acrimonious, why defendants will bring up things like the clothing of an accuser or her past sexual history, and argues that the state should not limit what defendants can say in their own defence, as some TDs have suggested should be the case.

This episode sees Michael Dwyer and Paddy Manning discuss the films Babette's Feast & High Noon.

This episode sees Gary Kavanagh and Michael Dwyer discuss the new gender equality report from the Department of Education, which argues that funding for universities and colleges should be partially based on gender quotas and that women only jobs should be creating.

They rapidly discover that the report does not include things such as 'evidence', 'proof' or ever 'arguments'.

This episode sees Gary Kavanagh and Paddy Manning discuss the new proposals by the government to bring in academic jobs that will only be for women. They discuss the idea, which the government seems to believe, that any difference between men and women are due to discrimination, and that the government has the right to interfere to make the outcomes equal.

This episode sees Michael Dwyer and James Bradshaw discuss Alex Epstein's book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, which argues that fossil fuels, and the cheap energy they provide, are responsible for, and necessary for the continuation of, the lifting of billions of people out of poverty, and that a responsible enviromental policy needs to take into account the loss in growth that switching to less economical forms of energy would cost.