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Catch Up with Alison Spittle
This week I'm catching up with the much-loved Alison Spittle, comedian, podcaster, writer and actor. I originally wanted to chat to her about her new show which is currently on in Edinburgh and is coming to Dublin Fringe in September, as well as her new podcast Magazine Party, and we do talk about those things, but mainly we talk about the complicated topic of weight and weight loss. This is tricky territory and I know it can be triggering for some people (including me depending on where I am in terms of body image at a given moment), so if you can't listen right now, that's ok. I do think it's a useful conversation though between two people who have given a lot of thought to the layered toxicity of diet culture, conversation around body image, life as a fat person and the impact of weight loss.
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502. Catch Up with Lindsay and Bobby from Who Weekly? (!!)
58:04||Season 1, Ep. 502Guys, this week I got to interview the hosts of my favourite podcast Who Weekly? Lindsay Weber and Bobby Finger are my go-to voices on pop culture, celebrity and its interaction with the media and society. They make me laugh with every episode, and I feel incredibly lucky to be a Wholigan (thanks for bringing me in Emer McLysaght.) Lindsay and Bobby's book, I Want to Be Famous: When Everybody and Nobody is a Celebrity, explores fame and its interaction with society beautifully. I devoured it, and I know you will too when it comes out on September 29.To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.
501. Entertainment Catch-Up: Ed Sheeran, The Emmys and Sydney Sweeney
49:10||Season 1, Ep. 501To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.
500. News Catch-Up: Trump in Ireland, Mary McAleese and the Sandwich Census
49:24||Season 1, Ep. 500To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.
499. Catch Up on Integration with Dublin Camogie Captain Aisling Maher
41:50||Season 1, Ep. 499A lot of people are learning this week for the first time that women's gaelic games are not a part of the GAA, so I thought it might be good for us to chat to someone in on the action who can explain why that is, why it's a problem, and where we go from here.To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.
498. Entertainment Catch-Up: Chicken Shop Date, Pink vs. Macklemore and Elizabeth Holmes
46:36||Season 1, Ep. 498To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.
497. News Catch-Up: Katie Taylor, Lindsay Clancy and Transport Fares
54:33||Season 1, Ep. 497This week Carl Kinsella and I have much to discuss, including the fact that the map we've been using our entire lives is wrong.To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.
496. Catch Up with Roisin Kiberd
53:42||Season 1, Ep. 496When I heard that Irish writer and creative writing lecturer Roisin Kiberd had written a book of essays on beauty, I knew I had to read it. Once I'd read it, I knew I had to chat to her about it, so that's what you're going to hear today. The Most Normal Woman explores Roisin's relationship with beauty, beauty ideals, beauty niches and beauty standards and I absolutely loved it. To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.
495. Entertainment Catch-Up: Electric Picnic, John Galliano and a Tupac Conviction
54:30||Season 1, Ep. 495This week Emer McLysaght and I discuss the week's entertainment stories, including our thoughts on this year's Electric Picnic, the conviction in relation to the murder of Tupac Shakur, Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields festival and why Mel Gibson just can't stop being a jerk.To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.
494. Catch Up on Facing Death with Professor Kimberly D. Acquaviva
47:39||Season 1, Ep. 494Today’s guest is Professor Kimberly D. Acquaviva. Kimberly has spent more than a decade working in education around inclusivity for LGBTQIA people in end of life care, A year and a half after she published LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice & Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice in 2017, Kim learned that her wife Kathy had ovarian cancer. Kim and Kathy spent the next six months sharing their experiences via social media and giving people a sense of what it's like to be living while dying. Shortly after Kathy died in August 2019, a New Yorker documentary film was made about Kim, Kathy, and their son Greyson. Kimberly is coming to Ireland as part of Palliative Care week, and I was so happy to catch up with her this week ahead of her trip.To support the podcast and access bonus episodes, join the community on Patreon here.