Gript Media Podcasts

We discuss:

- News that a religious brother is being investigated by Gardai for comments he made about homosexuals, adulterers, and fornicators.

- Our initial views on the Government's new climate change document.

- New political polling is out showing FF 5% above FG. We ask how far FG are willing to go to win over the Green vote, and if they'd turn on farmers to get it.

2 - Jo Brand, throwing acid on politicians, and civility in politics.

As it was Yeats' birthday yesterday Gary and Michael discuss their favourite poems from Yeats. As Gary and Michael forgot it was Yeats' birthday this week they also review Aladdin, which we forced them to watch as they couldn't decide what they were going to talk about this week.

- 187 American CEOs sign a letter saying abortion restrictions are 'bad for business'

- Is it right for businesses to get involved in the public sphere?

- New Citizens' Assembly to examine 'remaining barriers to gender equality'

- New report on our overreliance on corporate taxation, with 10 companies paying 45% of all corporate tax.

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- In a stunning political move with widespread implications for the next general election, Simon Harris claims a divine right to rule, telling the public that only God can judge him.

- Fine Gael gets ready to blame a woman falling off a swing for their local election results.

- And we consider if war with Scotland is the best thing for Ireland.

This week:

- Educate Together has a sex education problem.

- Michael Gove and his cocaine habit.

- Josepha Madigan, the greatest Catholic theologian of modern Ireland.

- 11 people charged with 200 counts of rape, sexual exploitation, and neglect of children

- The reaction to Trump in Ireland

Gary and Michael discuss the new musical biography of Elton John, Rocketman. An enjoyable, fast-paced romp that skips pretty much all of the 90s and showcases the rise, fall, and subsequent rise of a man who really should have been doing substantially less cocaine. 7/10.

We sit down with Coleman Hughes, a columnist at Quillette whose work has been featured everywhere from the New York Times to the Spectator, to discuss a recent article he wrote in which he explained why he is himself pro-choice and what the pro-choice movement needs to change to become more effective.

We discuss Maria Bailey and ask if the attention on her would be better spent on politicians who are actually important; Naomi Wolf and how it feels to find out a book you just published is totally pointless on live radio; Netflix and Disney on Georgia's abortion bill and companies taking political stances more generally; and an article in the Journal as an example of media narrative construction.

Gary and Michael discuss Dr Strangelove [1964], which is showing in the Lighthouse Cinema on Monday and Wednesday of next week.

There are spoilers, but the film holds up fantastically even if you've seen it before.

Gary and Michael both give it a 9/10, making it our highest ever rated film.

There's also a discussion of Japanese war atrocities at 23:45 if vivisection is your sort of thing.