Second Captains Part II

She handled it like a boss. Really enjoyed the interview, she'd be good craic on a night out I'd say

I thought she was great. Maybe slightly ‘refreshed’ but all the better for it

Caitlin is a brilliant guest was even more engaging in the live show. Apart from the commonwealth faux pas but she recovered well.

I came on to echo what you guys are saying. She actually might be the best contributor on the podcast altogether.

Such a brilliant interview.

Also, I hate to keep **** on Murph but he is absolutely dreadful for butting in on the NY pods when Eoin and Ken are speaking. Absolutely ruining them! It sometimes feels like Eoin is hurrying up what he is saying so Murph can't interrupt him. It's unbearable!

Don't agree with the comments on Murph. Think you just don't want to hear him, which is fair enough.

What a weird conclusion to reach.

The 10 years is quite an achievement and hats off the the team. I'm not sure what the point of the NYC visit was except a jolly for the lads, it didn't exactly make much difference to the pods. Caitlin is fantastic but it would have worked as well over Zoom or whatever. I guess I'm just not a fan of the live shows!

My thoughts as well. I really like Murph and he can be very funny but he needs to pull the handbrake at times and come in at the best times or when he has something properly good to input, like Ken who waits until he's asked for his opinion and then has something deadpan and often very funny to deliver.

Murph interrupting everybody because he's so excited to be in New York is annoying to say the least, especially when he's laughing at his own interruptions!

It was interesting to hear a bit about the background around their departure from newstalk, especially not being allowed back to clear their desks. Sounded like they didn't see that instruction coming.

They've earned a trip out of their hard work. Though I don't think I need to hear again how AMAZING New York is.

Andrew Mangan of Arseblog, used to do a podcast called the 738am podcast. He had episodes interviewing Ken, Eoin, and Murph around 2015/2016.

They go into it a bit.

Jarlath Regan also interviewed Ken at least on his podcast but think there is a paywall to get his archive.

This is a response to someone asking above for more detail on their departure from Newstalk, thought I was quoting them but messed it up somehow.

Would love to go to one but they aren’t great as a listening experience imo

Ep 2580, the 15 minute one from 6/7 March. Just listened to it there, would honestly love to hear the 5 of them chatting away about it for way longer.

Great lads.

Ah deadly, thanks a million! I totally bypassed that one somehow.

Well he had back surgery and became a parent in the past year so could just be doing a bit less media work temporarily

Yep and it sounded like he has little interest in doing anything outside of family stuff at the moment. Maybe rather than the longer players chair eps, he'll be back as a contributor once the Ireland games start up again

I thought Ken spending ten minutes trying to justify Linekar’s reference to Nazi Germany just went to show that the analogy was ill judged in the first place.