Jack, Geraint and Yair run down the latest ultra-Blairite changes to Sir Keir Starmer's top team, read Simon Hattenstone's excellent Guardian profile of shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/10/if-you-want-cartwheels-im-not-your-person-rachel-reeves-on-charisma-u-turns-and-rescuing-the-economy), and discuss Ed Balls and Robert Peston's "surprisingly punk" new rock band Centrist Dad.

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Episode 271 - Shoe Factory

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Following his hit appearance on RP co-host Geraint @wariotifo's hit wrestling stream Top Rope Deep Dive the other week, Jack realises he has the ability on Discord to call into, and sabotage, the other guys' streams at any time.

Check out Top Rope Deep Dive on our friend @MarkedAsRed's Twitch page: https://www.twitch.tv/markedasred

Jack calls into Top Rope Deep Dive's Stone Cold Steve Austin episode

Jack and Yair talk about the unhinged response to Jonathan Glazer's acceptance speech for Best Director at the Oscars, Lex Friedman's five-hour Finkelstein-Destiny debate on Palestine, and the continued efforts by Starmer's Labour to big up Margaret Thatcher.

Episode 287 - Refuting John Galzer

Special guest Jack joins Geraint, FFF and friend of the show @MarkedAsRed on their weekly wrestling stream Top Rope Deep Dive to discuss the life and career - and watch some great wrestling moments - of Canadian-American wrestler, podcaster, musician and all-round Renaissance man Chris Jericho.

Check out the streams on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/markedasred

Top Rope Deep Dive: Chris Jericho (ft. Jack Frayne-Reid)

Jack and Geraint (@wariotifo) present extremely timely post-match analysis of the "funny" Rochdale by-election. But first, Geraint flies to Mar-a-Lago, Florida to interview somebody professing to be Beach Boys legend Mike Love.

Episode 286 - Rockin' and A-Rollin' At Mar-a-Lago

Jack and Yair break down shocking new "smoking gun" evidence that has come to light suggesting Keir Starmer is agent of CIA. Then the rest of the episode is basically about another knight of the realm, Sir Paul McCartney, his various arrests for weed, and he and John Lennon's flirtations with radical politics in the early 1970s.

Episode 271 - Shoe Factory

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