Second Captains Part II

He always sounds like he's dialing in from the Mir space station or from the Argentina '78 World Cup. Maybe using a Nokia 3310 is his thing but it's mildly annoying. I make more effort with my boring daily remote meetings.

His comment about it "being weaponised by pricks" makes it clear once again that he spends far too much time on twitter, and that's where his outrage on this seems to be drawn from. It's a serious problem with many journalists, as they seem to feel it's a fair reflection of society, when in actuality a tiny percentage of the population are on there. And that's not even getting into the bots and trolling accounts.

Yep, thought the same about Murph. Weird position.

I've tried to read up about it online and often seen angry posts from people who want trans people in elite sport. Up until now I've found it very difficult to find balanced information on the topic.

Delighted with the episode today. Really helped me understand a lot more.

Agree with the above comments, the episode was very good and did open my eyes to some of the down sides of hormone therapy which I was not aware of. To me originally, the whole issue just seemed so unfair on female athletes and seemed to be PC gone mad to my eyes. The episode did open my eyes to other elements but I'm still happy with the judgment made.

When Murph started his tirade I literally rolled my eyes thinking here's a woke puff piece on this issue but luckily Ken and Eoin had a much more balanced view. Thought the guest was very good and told the whole story warts and all about the positive and negative elements of this complex issue. It's definitely made me look again at an issue I thought I'd made my mind up on.

He's not wrong though. It is being weaponised by pricks, mostly on social media, and largely by people with little or no interest in sport. Joanna Harper addressed this later on - anti-LGBT groups have had public opinion move very much against them over the last 20-30 years and in the last few years have had significant defeats over same-sex marriage etc. in many countries, so having lost the war on "LGB" they are now turning to attacking "T"

Met Murph briefly yesterday after extra time in the Galway match. He was trying to get a quick pint in before Kerry Mayo, but the queues were manic so had to abandon the pint to make it back for throw in. I threw a 'some game that was Ciaran' at him and he was very friendly in fairness and chatted happily for a minute. I said to him it will make some podcast Monday and he replied 'I picked a bad week to go on holidays for feck sake' and then followed it up with ' I may have to phone in!'.

Ken really does look like a true gael/ member of the waterboys there.

Ken's trolling in the GAA podcast today is brilliant. If you were listening to Ken for the first time you'd think he was being deadly serious

Did Eoin not mention that it was one of the most requested books for the slot?They're just giving people what they want!

Anyways, I'll probably be skipping it as I'm not a huge Richie fan.

What book is it?

that's a great book... how is it scraping the barrel?

I've never found the bookclub to be a particularly interesting segment, mainly because - as everyone has said - they barely talk about the book.

Which is totally different to the yearly round up, which is reliably great

Maybe it'll be different with Richie as the only new material they'll have will be to talk about the book, but, I dunno, I don't dislike Richie, but I find him a bit dull - he can make interesting subjects boring I find.

The audio beds are great in general, but some are ENDLESS. The Mayo / Kerry gaa one, Lmerick winning all ireland and the rugby one are the biggest culprits. They feel like 15 minutes each.

I don't mind Ritchie but It has the whiff of getting someone from the RTE canteen to go on The Late Late

Ha, Yeah, it's that specific line where he goes full culchie!