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What's So Great About It? - The Dubious Value of Nostalgia
Yes, Chef! - The Brilliance of The Bear
Set Down Your Honourable Load - Finding the Clear Path Ahead
Horizon, Other Recent Movie Turkeys, and Recommended Alternatives
Unifying Events, Sensible Ripples, and What If Trump Had Been Taken Out?
The Existential Toolkit to Approaching the Unknown
Scene from a Garden - Tall Trees, High Kicks, and Low, Low Wages
You're a Man - Do You Care About Women?
If You've Nothing Good to Say, Maybe Think About Shutting Up!
Character Identification and a New Short Story: David Has Been Great
What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 5
What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 4
What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 3
What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 2
What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 1
Caring Enough to Act, or Do I Really Need to Laugh at That?
Life Interrupted, the Comfort of the Familiar, and the Dangerous Habits of Avoidance
How To Make a Raspberry Cheesecake - From the Kitchen to a Religious Sect to 90s Hollywood Misogyny
Intentionality, Clarity, Self-Care, and The Belief in Positive Change
40 Years of Winning and Grinning - The Tom Cruise Episode!
Is That What You Believe? The Thoughts That Shape Our Reality
Is It Okay to be Vulnerable? Yes, it is!
That's Not My Life! or, The Elusive Human Study
Understanding Brotherhood, or Why 'Bro' is not a Dirty Word!
Was That Absolutely Necessary? or, Keeping Calm in an Age of Chaos!
Take Me To Church, or The Honesty of a Good Punch
Identifying The 'Write' Voice - The Joy of Creative Luxury
One Movie, One Concert, One Show - The Ineffable Magic of the Offer and the Receipt
Innocence, Sex, and Sophistication: Who Do We Connect With and Why?
The Absolute 'Ick' Episode - Going Granular on My War with Myself
Existential Framing: Pathways, Destinations, and Empty Spaces
Turning 50 - If I'm Calm, It's the Jedi's Fault!
2023: The Year in Screentime - Fantastic Plastic and Artistic Brutality
Maestro! Bradley Cooper's Bravura Take on Bernstein
The 2023 Christmas Special!
Sappy, Silly, and Sombre: Three Tales for Festive Consumption
The Value of Human Life, or A Strange Form of Diplomacy
The Dublin Riots: The Denial of Dignity and the Rage of the Unloved
Don't Come Out Until You're Sorry, or To Whom Do You Need to Atone?
Zionist Intransigence, Pop Star Isolation, and the Power of the Originating Wound
Don't Turn Off the Lights! or, Have You Made Room for Romance?
Killers of the Flower Moon - a Haunting Tale of White Evil
Getting the Words Out, or The Things We Find Impossible to Say
Collective Heartbreak and Tears of a Clown, or How I Baptised my Baby Daughter
The Receptive Mind and Men Who Don't Talk
Sins of Omission, or Whose Stories Don't Get Told?
A Hat is Not a Personality, or The Fear of Not Being There
Billy Budd, Russell Brand, and the Dark Corners of Male Desire
Why You Shouldn't Bring an Axe to a Party, or How to Sit Down with Others
Critical Reaction and the Bestowal of Credibility
Chucking Original Sin in the Bin and the Pernicious Effect of Lifestyle Culture
Naked As The Day You Were Born, or A Question of Exposure
Stop Laughing, This Is Meant To Be Good For You!
Keeping Up With a Changing World, or Why Seahorse Dads Made Me Uneasy
The Voice of Truth and Anguish - Saying Farewell to Sinead O'Connor
July Miscellany! Movies, Weddings, and Reading the Signs
The Importance of Orientation, or Why the Loss of Bearings is No Joke!
Riding the Gere-Stick to the Worst Poem in History!
Don't Mind if I Do! Helping Oneself to Moral Failure
In Pod We Trust! Trying to Find Something to Depend On in Unreliable Times
Blips on the Grid - The Randomness of Human Interaction
Survival, Transcendence, and the Myth of Whatever Doesn't Kill You
Retreat! The Places We Escape To, For Better or Worse
The Process Before The Prize: The Qualitative Approach to Life
Safety First! - The Benefits of Safe Places, Safe People, and a Safe You
Hugs, Threats, Non-Transferable Skill Sets, and a Day Told in Reverse
We've Been Waiting Such a Long Time, and It's Still Not Here - Ireland's Eurovision Drought
May the Nerd be With You!, or Is That a Literal Lightsaber?
The Cost of Neglect, or For Whom Will You Wear a Yellow Flower?
The 100th Episode Stocktake, or Stick Your Teachable Moment Where the Sun Don't Shine!
Foundational Beliefs of Identity and Gender-Neutral Parenting, or How I Got Cool With Being a Girl-Father!
Embedding Gratitude, Controlling Sensitivity, and a Cult of Nullification
Curiosity, Aesthetic Engagement, and the Expression of Self as Anti-Fascist Statement
The Vulnerable Idealism of Living With an Open Heart, or There's One Born Every Minute!
The Cost of the Great Internet Giveaway and Why We All Need a Little Ronald Reagan in Our Lives
Singular Cinematic Visions - The Darkness of Polanski vs The Light of Spielberg
Elastic Time and the Love of Two Cities
Assassination Fascination and the Gun as Symbol of Cultural Psyche
Bent On Being Happy: Interview with Musician, Singer, Songwriter, and Music Therapist, Chiara Clear
Pillars, Pathfinders, and Dodging Space Trash
Stirring the Masculinity Pot and Countering Dubious Male Voices
Laughing at the Wrong Things, or Why Cat Stevens is So Funny to Me
The Attraction of Certain Instruments, or Oh, What a Lovely Wand!
Notes From a Funeral, or The Power of the Collective Experience
Goldfish Memory and the Things We Get Used To
A Year of Watching - Reviewing 2022 from The Beatles to The Ring to Rule Them All
The 2022 Christmas Special!
The Zero Sum Game of Loving Christmas
Calling All Pamphleteers! What's the Big Idea?
From Puppy Love to a Big Pash via the Front: A Mish-Mash Zig-Zag of an Episode!
The Trickiness of Tone, or Do You Ever Put a Knob of Butter in Your Porridge?
Speaking From the Heart: Three Righteous Preacher Men
Heading Fear Off at the Pass, or Oh No, Not Another Catastrophe!
The Helpless Gobshite Episode! A Defence of Men
How Fitching! The Fetishisation of White Beauty and the Erosion of the Black Face
The Insanity of Being Unable to Tolerate a Different Opinion to Your Tribe, or What Exactly Did JK Rowling Do Wrong?
Going Down in Flames - The Fall and Fall of Marilyn Monroe
The Hateful Power of Hipsters, or Today's Letter is 'H'!
Fractured Faith and Religion as Instrument of Terror
Looking Adversity in the Eye, or The Things That Make Us Stronger