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Wet Cold Irish Summer
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Mark drinks in the street, Thomas talks boyhood scouting trauma, and Ross flip-flops on Wales. The Taoiseach visits Washington.
Is wrestling for kids? It turns out wrestling might be for kids. Plus: Ross renews his assault on James Cameron, and does anyone want to go and see the Smiths drummer flog his book?-RECOMMENDEDs:Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)El Doctor Misterio (1963-)operaballet
Taking you INSIDE the painful, unjust world of comedy competitions. Also there is Epstein discussion. Hello Morgan McSweeney if you are reading this.-Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com
WARNING: discussion of extreme monkey anatomy and horrifying duck behaviour.-Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com
Mark, Ross, and Thomas go to see recession-era twin sensation JEDWARD in concert. Ross gets critical.-RECOMMENDEDs:Ghosts of My Life (Mark Fisher, 2014)-Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com
Hello you. Mark, Ross, and Thomas return from the Christmas break and have a great time looking at some old bones. Thomas gets to talk about his favourite dinosaurs.'Do you know how many extinctions there have been?''Counting or not counting meteorite strikes?'RECOMMENDEDs:Walking with Dinosaurs (BBC, 1999)Prehistoric Planet (Apple TV, 2022-)The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (Stephen Brusatte, 2018)Written in Stone: The Hidden Secrets of Fossils and The Story of Life on Earth (Brian Switek, 2010)
Includes intense, immersive audio of someone seriously winding himself on the ice.-Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com
One of Cork city's most iconic tourist spots sparks a heated argument about the ethics of eating dogs. Also, Ross is injured.-Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com
Mark and Ross support Thomas as an earnest performance threatens to send him spiralling. Also, Ross was driving.-RECOMMENDEDs:The Science of Storytelling (Will Storr, 2019)-Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com
Mark, Ross and Thomas contact the dead - and one of them goes on an unexpected spiritual journey.-Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com
A haunted history walk - with tales of shadowy figures, national trauma, and a telepathic cat.-RECOMMENDEDs:Will Storr vs the Supernatural (Will Storr, 2006)Ghostwatch (BBC, 1992)-Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com
Mark, Ross, and Thomas head to Cobh to indulge Thomas' maritime muse. -RECOMMENDEDs:A Night to Remember (Walter Lord, 1955)Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess (Violet Jessop, 2007)Titanic Sinks Tonight (BBC, 2025)-Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com
Road trip! The boys head up to Dublin for Mark's alternative comedy show, Test Tube Babies - and on the way they explore motorway art, euthanasia, Pádraig Pearse's poetry, Bonnie Blue, patron saints, Israel, and much much more.-RECOMMENDEDs:Test Tube BabiesTracy Emin: A Second Life (Tate Modern)
The final episode in the Roger trilogy. The gang visits the site of Michael Collins' death (unaliving) - and Roger explains the Irish Civil War in terms you'll understand (Avatar).Plus: whether SNL UK is any good, revolutionary Tom Barry shoots a load of Brits, and Roger performs an original trad piece.-RECOMMENDEDs:Fekken (Roger O'Sullivan) Michael Collins (Liam Neeson)Avatar (2009)
The Roger trilogy continues! This time the gang traipse through the dark to Kilcrea Castle, which has less ghosts than the friary but more bats. Plus: Ross almost tumbles to his death and Mark's windscreen takes a country road beating.-RECOMMENDEDs:Grizzly Man (2005)Form for reporting bat sightings to Bat Conservation Ireland: https://www.batconservationireland.org/in-your-area/sightings
The Blair Witch Podcast. This one's got a Ouija board, ghostly voices, and the Edinburgh Fringe's Best Newcomer 2025. On a flying visit from London, award-winning Macroom comedian Roger O'Sullivan joins the boys on a midnight ghost hunt and gets really, really scared. Ross also gets really, really scared, Mark gets quite scared, and Thomas doesn't get scared at all.Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod and wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com
Cork has its own Fringe festival! And we're in it! Also up for discussion: meningitis and Rolf Harris' house. -RECOMMENDEDs:Dreaming in the Years - at the Cork Fringe, Saturday, May 9th (corkfringe.com)
Mark dares venture onto the northside as the boys explore one of the city's few green spaces. Plus the Burning of Cork, 9/11, and Ian Bailey.-RECOMMENDEDs:Eden Lake (middle class propaganda film preparing the masses for austerity, 2008)-Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod and wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com
Hop on a big Paddy Wagon tour bus and head to Blarney with a hundred ancestrymaxxing Americans.-RECOMMENDEDs:‘The Adventure of the Blarney Stone’ (The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1946)YouTube: Explore With Us (police bodycam videos)-Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com






