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39 episodes 65K views

Transcript of Lobster Purple

The connection between Lobsters becoming fancy food and purple becoming the colour of Royalty in Ancient Greece. Hot Take Art/History episode about how society manufactures exclusivity  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:12:57
  • 2.9K views
  • Published over 4 years ago

Transcript of On Becoming a Person

The Humanistic psychology of Carl Rogers, and how it helps us develop empathy for others and self-compassion  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:01:46
  • 2.6K views
  • Published over 4 years ago

Transcript of Psychobiotics

Mental health and its relationship with the gut and food. I chat with UCC professors John Cryan and Ted Dinan about their world-leading research into psychobiotics  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:31:32
  • 1.8K views
  • Published over 4 years ago

Transcript of Basils Fart Carnival

I speak about my experience of Irish secondary school  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:17:09
  • 1.7K views
  • Published over 4 years ago

Transcript of Yellow Magic Orchestra

Bonus episode. A special bonus episode where I speak about the influence of the band Yellow Magic Orchestra on the sound of Video game music. This particular episode is brought to you by Vodafone Broadband  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 58:47
  • 1.7K views
  • Published over 4 years ago

Transcript of Crosby Stills & Hash

The widening gap between online and mainstream media. Mental Health during the pandemic. I answer yere questions  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:37:11
  • 1.6K views
  • Published over 4 years ago

Transcript of Adam Curtis

I chat with legendary documentary maker Adam Curtis about his new film "can't get you out of my head" An emotional history of the modern world  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:21:39
  • 1.6K views
  • Published over 4 years ago

Transcript of Appointive Plane

Guinness. I speak about the cultural significance of a pint of Guinness in the Irish Psyche  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:33:17
  • 2.6K views
  • Published almost 5 years ago

Transcript of Double Denim Utopia

I answer yere Questions about superstitions and mental health and I have a chat with Una Mullaly and Conner Habib about their project, Utopia Ireland  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:22:32
  • 1.6K views
  • Published almost 5 years ago

Transcript of Chicken Fillet Rolls

After many requests, here's a podcast about Chicken Fillet Rolls  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:25:20
  • 1.7K views
  • Published almost 5 years ago

Transcript of Wet Kensington Tent

How advertising has sold us a performed version of adulthood  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:22:05
  • 1.8K views
  • Published almost 5 years ago

Transcript of Ríthe Chorcaí

I speak about processing the bereavement of losing a friend and I read my short story Ríthe Chorcaí  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 59:53
  • 1.7K views
  • Published almost 5 years ago

Transcript of Hozier

To celebrate this podcast having 25 million listens. I have a chat with Irish artist Hozier. We speak about music, songwriting, folkore and divining water. Good craic  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:57:19
  • 2.8K views
  • Published almost 5 years ago

Transcript of Transcendant Endas

I speak about the centenary of the Kilmichael ambush and answer yere questions about various craic  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:27:32
  • 1.8K views
  • Published almost 5 years ago

Transcript of Fanta Hammer

Mental Health episode. Depression and anger. How to identify and healthily process anger so that it doesn't become all consuming rage.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:17:24
  • 1.6K views
  • Published almost 5 years ago

Transcript of Christs Foreskin

How Christs foreskin became a relic with multiple forgeries throughout the middle ages How I made the Trump Pee Tape and fooled the American media. Famous Art Hoaxes  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:01:35
  • 1.6K views
  • Published almost 5 years ago

Transcript of Turtle Curtains

Instead of talking about the US elections I offer a complete escape. How the inhabitants of Easter Island elected a leader based on their ability to swim with an egg strapped to their head. And how a ship full of synthesizerrs washed up on the shore of an African Island in the 1960s and changed the sound of their folk music  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 51:47
  • 1.8K views
  • Published about 5 years ago

Transcript of Manchán Magan

I chat with writer Manchán Magan about the origins of Irish words, and the psychadelic origins of Irish Folklore. Manchán has just released his book, 32 Words for Field (Lost Words of the Irish Language)  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:34:40
  • 3.1K views
  • Published about 5 years ago

Transcript of St Vitus Dance

How lads doing shots of Goldschlager in Celtic Tiger nightclubs got me thinking about 15th century dancing pandemics that killed thousands  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 55:05
  • 1.4K views
  • Published about 5 years ago

Transcript of Poo Anon

A hot take which roots the psychological origins of conspiracy theories in the discovery of soap by early human hunter-gatherer societies  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  • 01:19:59
  • 1.6K views
  • Published about 5 years ago
Description of The Blindboy Podcast

Hosted by Blindboy, of the Rubberbandits. An eclectic podcast containing short fiction, interviews and comedy.