I'd say the house was decked out in tricolor bunting.
That new audio bed by Mark Horgan is truly awful.
I kept waiting for something good to happen on it ha.
Yeah it was poor. Sounded like a request the way they teed it up. Best ones are unexpected. That Shane Curran Kanye West one I think is the best.
I agree.
The Rest is History Club is greedily eyeing up my fiver.
Took me a wee while to get around to this one, but it really was brilliant.
The Shane Curran one is a masterpiece
Semi second captains related, watching the City vs Madrid match on Premier Sports, first time watching the Champions league on it. They’ve really upped their production budget compared to their PL coverage.
What episode was the Shane Curran Kayne West interlude on
"S**t I'm out of ideas, better put in a few more LaVars"
I really enjoyed the LOI pod yesterday. I find the LOI coverage has a great balance between banter and commentary compared to the Prem coverage.
It has the advantage of novelty.
I signed up again in January hoping a break would have recaptured my interest in the pod, but still seems as stale as ever. My 7 quid will be going elsewhere in March anyway. Wish they'd give Ken a regular-ish current affairs pod or something along those lines, not just a random politics pod every few months. Basically anything different from the current output.
The near-constant VAR, XG, reactions to Sky Sports presenters' stupid takes chats, plus student union Branno (who has taken the title of most annoying SC member from Murph!) aren't remotely interesting to me these days.
The Evertonian guy on today was gas although now sure what we actually got from the chat ha. It was like they just found some randomer outside a pub in Liverpool and interviewed him about the Everton/Liverpool rivalry. I enjoyed it.
Was a bit of a weird sehment from the lads. Felt like someone dragged out of the nearest pub. And then it turns out he had left before the end anyway. Thought Eoin was a bit odd today. Didn't want to discuss any of the match incidents and shut Ken down any time he mentioned a refereeing decision.
One way back. Search for Shane Curran. It was when they chatted to him last year when Napoli won the Scudetto. They played that audiobed just before they chatted to him.
Just checked, was episode 2629. Go to the 4 mins mark.
Far better than that other scouse fella they have on
Are we absolutey sure the Everton lad was a scouser?
I'm joking of course he had the thickest scouse accent in the whole world ever.
Low bar!
He was great, very genuine and not a “stadium pervert” 🤣
I had him down as in his 60s until he started saying he played with Dunne, Hibbert and Cadamarteri 😳
It's not a bus - you don't have to tell anyone you're getting off
Fair play to them, they’ve put a pod on Rovers this morning as well as the politics pod
For anyone who enjoyed Katja Hoyer, her book 'Beyond The Wall' is superb
Beyond The Wall. Looking forward to getting started on it. I read Stasiland by Anna Funder a few years back, it was very good
The Best Catholics In The World by Derek Scally was too. He's lived in Berlin for years, definite parallels between the DDR and Catholic Ireland… there were the 'true believers' for whom the regime could do no wrong, those who were indifferent, and the rest who knew the emperor had no clothes but feared the consequences of saying it. Even now in both countries there are those who want the horrors of the past to be fogotten instead of revealed.
You tell everyone on the bus that you’re getting off?
Do you mean Beyond The Wall? Yes, it is excellent.
I thought it had one major flaw though. Her thesis was that by the 70s and 80s most East Germans had essentially made their peace with the GDR. However this failed to explain why mass protests broke out in the late 80s and the regime thereafter imploded. If the majority of the population were satisfied with the system, why did it collapse?
I don’t think her approach adequately explained this, and this was because I think she viewed the GDR (where she spent her childhood) through overly rose tinted glasses. In retrospect, it seems the vast majority of of East Germans sullenly accepted the regime but did not support it, and did not try to save it when it began to fall apart.
A few months back Ken mentioned Katja. He was talking about Eastern Europe and saying some poeple have a hankering for the old East... He said something like "the eat borsch and read Katya Hoyer".
She's an excellent speaker on her subject so was kinda surprised at Ken's "drive by" at the time.
Leading with LoI on a Monday football pod is an omnishambles
Glad Heimir is talking sense and that Bradley is thin-skinnned enough to be offended by the bloody obvious that LoI level is no preparation for international football, though. As always with the LoI the entertainment is entirely coming from the gelatinous egos wobbling on the sidelines and not the actual matches.
Can you please let us know when you unsubscribe.
Did a league of Ireland fan get accepted into art college ahead of you or something?
When can we expect your book out?
Mein LOI Kempft.
