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04-02-2020 07:32PM

Who’s George Gibney?

Beersmith · 04-02-2020 09:26PM

Come on now lads, this whole massive podcast production is just a smoke screen for what really was happening to mark.

Jim Root · 04-02-2020 10:31PM

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

Will be interesting to see how Dots the Fantasist explains this.

He will probably complain his fiver a month is subsidising a BBC production

Utopia Parkway · 05-02-2020 03:59AM

Jim Root wrote: »

interesting, I find the hotkey thing fairly childish and low brow. interrupts the conversation sometimes.

Ah some of them can be pretty funny if played at the right moment. Even Ken has been known to crack up when it's done right. Like most things though it's best in moderation. And not like they use them during interviews. Only when the three of them are bickering with each other.

corwill · 05-02-2020 09:52AM

Have Ken and US Murph ever interacted at all on air? Can't remember, off the top of my head. Not that US Murph ever intrudes within Ken's narrow enough range, but I would have thought they'd have swapped pleasantries at some stage.

Beersmith · 05-02-2020 02:26PM

corwill wrote: »

Have Ken and US Murph ever interacted at all on air? Can't remember, off the top of my head. Not that US Murph ever intrudes within Ken's narrow enough range, but I would have thought they'd have swapped pleasantries at some stage.

They have but Ken doesn't have very much interest in US sports and probably decided he can stay out and focus on other things

Jim Root · 05-02-2020 11:31PM

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Ah some of them can be pretty funny if played at the right moment. Even Ken has been known to crack up when it's done right. Like most things though it's best in moderation. And not like they use them during interviews. Only when the three of them are bickering with each other.

That’s fair enough actually

Hotblack Desiato · 06-02-2020 11:37AM

Beersmith wrote: »

They have but Ken doesn't have very much interest in US sports

And neither do most other people

S. Goodspeed · 07-02-2020 08:44AM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Who’s George Gibney?

Former top Irish Olympic swimming coach who was abusing a lot of young swimmers but got off scot free due to legal technicalities. Gary O’ Toole (former Olympic swimmer, top contributor to OTB Paper Review and basically one of Ireland’s finest gentlemen) was instrumental in outing Gibney.

The whole story is pretty shocking with suggestions of powerful people pulling strings to cover up for him and he somehow was granted a visa to move to the US afterwards where he was again involved in swim coaching.

I haven’t heard anything new about him for at least 10 years so this really could be fascinating listen.

S. Goodspeed · 07-02-2020 08:52AM

Only heard about Colm O’Rourke’s comments from the show today. I’m 37 and used “pansy” growing up fairly liberally and probably also once or twice within the last 2 years. I never really thought about its meaning but honestly never knew it was a gay slur.

Thought Murph’s suggestions that as a school teacher O’Rourke should know better was a bit off base, the other two were fairly reasonable about it.

07-02-2020 08:55AM

S. Goodspeed wrote: »

Thought Murph’s suggestions that as a school teacher O’Rourke should know better was a bit off base, the other two were fairly reasonable about it.

Maybe he’s hankering for a return to Off the Ball.

Cienciano · 07-02-2020 02:57PM

When Eoin was talking about Haalands goal against Bremen he said it was a beautiful little dink over the keeper. When that was Julian Brandt's shot, all Haaland did was "make sure" it went in when it was going in anyway.

https://streamja.com/e679

I expect a full apology from Eoin

Beersmith · 07-02-2020 05:29PM

Cienciano wrote: »

When Eoin was talking about Haalands goal against Bremen he said it was a beautiful little dink over the keeper. When that was Julian Brandt's shot, all Haaland did was "make sure" it went in when it was going in anyway.

https://streamja.com/e679

I expect a full apology from Eoin

McDimwit

Jim Root · 07-02-2020 10:09PM

Deadly new Titanic themed audio bed, welcome back Mark!

Beersmith · 09-02-2020 11:28AM

Whatever party fails in the GE i bet ken will have the obligatory it was obvious that the campaign was destined to fail afterward the fact podcast next Friday.

I actually do like the political podcasts but easy to look smart after it's done.

Arghus · 09-02-2020 11:39PM

Beersmith wrote: »

Whatever party fails in the GE i bet ken will have the obligatory it was obvious that the campaign was destined to fail afterward the fact podcast next Friday.

I actually do like the political podcasts but easy to look smart after it's done.

Isn't that what everyone does when it comes to political results?

Jim Root · 10-02-2020 09:20AM

Beersmith wrote: »

Whatever party fails in the GE i bet ken will have the obligatory it was obvious that the campaign was destined to fail afterward the fact podcast next Friday.

I actually do like the political podcasts but easy to look smart after it's done.

did they miss a trick not doing a GE Ken political pod special? I half expected one.

lawred2 · 10-02-2020 06:30PM

Might be just me but anyone else getting crazy reverb effects with the latest pods?

Beersmith · 10-02-2020 06:54PM

Jim Root wrote: »

did they miss a trick not doing a GE Ken political pod special? I half expected one.

Will only happen when the dust settles. It would be so out of date so quick if they did it now.

Brock Turnpike · 11-02-2020 03:21PM

I'd say Sexton would want to start looking into getting a pre-emptive restraining order against Thornley for when he has retired from Rugby.

El Duda · 11-02-2020 03:30PM

It's Vanilla!

boccy23 · 11-02-2020 03:36PM

The football podcast yesterday was pointless. I know its the winter break but could have left this off.

Mick McCarthy story was pointless. The "teleporter" was ridiculous.

The RB Leipzig monologue based on the article in some obscure German magazine.

I did get a laugh out of his portrayal of the election. But that report on sport was painful.

Christ, I had forgotten about that Phil Neville line.

dr.kenneth noisewater · 11-02-2020 04:07PM

boccy23 wrote: »

The football podcast yesterday was pointless. I know its the winter break but could have left this off.

Mick McCarthy story was pointless. The "teleporter" was ridiculous.

The RB Leipzig monologue based on the article in some obscure German magazine.

I did get a laugh out of his portrayal of the election. But that report on sport was painful.

Christ, I had forgotten about that Phil Neville line.

I enjoyed parts but really felt like they were going through the motions (and watching the election results in the background maybe!). It was a great opportunity to discuss the relegation battle this year after some of the results over the weekend imo instead always focusing on the top

Arghus · 11-02-2020 07:14PM

boccy23 wrote: »

The football podcast yesterday was pointless. I know its the winter break but could have left this off.

Mick McCarthy story was pointless. The "teleporter" was ridiculous.

The RB Leipzig monologue based on the article in some obscure German magazine.

I did get a laugh out of his portrayal of the election. But that report on sport was painful.

Christ, I had forgotten about that Phil Neville line.

I kinda liked it. They had nothing really to talk about and kind of went all over the place.

That Phil Neville story was insane - he's a very strange man with a very strange life.

Ken was wondering if the blue yazoos were milk flavoured. Surely milk flavoured yazoos would just be milk?

Though the teleporter joke is a waste of time. It's not even funny in a "can you believe how lame this is" kind of way.

EltonJohn69 · 11-02-2020 07:34PM

Was definitely worth a podcast for the Phil Neville story alone.....

I see sheep · 11-02-2020 07:38PM

Thornley with a sly dig at the election result "change so change's sake, there's a lot of that going around".
Easy to say from your D4 bubble Gerry.

Cartman78 · 11-02-2020 07:40PM

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Was definitely worth a podcast for the Phil Neville story alone.....

And the Richard Boyd Barrett Leipzig quip

Beersmith · 11-02-2020 07:55PM

I really liked it. The Phil neville stuff was hilarious. Not as good as charlie Austin but i hope ken does more of those interviews

Battery Kinzie · 11-02-2020 09:18PM

Arghus wrote: »

I kinda liked it. They had nothing really to talk about and kind of went all over the place.

That Phil Neville story was insane - he's a very strange man with a very strange life.

Ken was wondering if the blue yazoos were milk flavoured. Surely milk flavoured yazoos would just be milk?

Though the teleporter joke is a waste of time. It's not even funny in a "can you believe how lame this is" kind of way.

The teleporter joke is worth it for how disdainful Ken seems to be about it.

Arghus · 11-02-2020 11:32PM

Battery Kinzie wrote: »

The teleporter joke is worth it for how disdainful Ken seems to be about it.

It can be consigned to the dustbin of SC history as far as I'm concerned. Alongside PESBO and Frances Murphy's Guide to the weekend AKA Five Minutes of filler to pad out the Friday Episode.

Grunge week is okay though.

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