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Me and my friend Mike Bourke review the latest David Fincher movie Mank, about the writing of Citizen Kane, A promising debut from a pair of female writers/directors in Blow the Man Down and an interesting art house experiment capturing the last night of a local dive bar in Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets.

Our second Poetry Episode, with Ben Burns a friend and local poet and featuring Dan Johnson a poet from New Jersey now living in Cork City. Join us as we have a bit of crack reading our poems and also a selected one from each of us of an established poet we like. I, your host John Horan, read Personal by Tony Hoagland, Ben read Woodnotes by Douglas Dunn and Dan read To The Man After The Harrow by Patrick Kavanagh.

A look at Parasite and it's unexpected success in the Oscars, Safdie Brothers thriller Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler in an uncharacteristic straight role and Honey Boy, Shia LeBouf's hail Mary shot at movie redemption. Also, we debate if hussies are capable of love. Hosted by John Horan with my friends Chris Cullen, Michael Bourke and Tommy Jackson.

Upcoming Cork Hip Hop star Gatch shares some tracks from his forthcoming debut album Imminence, and chats to me and Jason J Fischer about the rap scene in Ireland, plus we get deep talking about the mental health crisis affecting many of his peers that inspired some of his writing.   Gatch's FB page Youtube

This is a special episode where I talked to 5 Cork City Councillors about the contents of the UN Special Rapporteur on housing's letter to the Government about Real Estate Investment Trusts which brought in the Vulture funds who raised rents to record levels. And also about Homelessness, is it being normalized or is there something we can do about it? And does the Irish mindset on housing need to change? The Councillors I spoke with were Solidarity's Fiona Ryan, Sinn Fein's Thomas Gould, Oliver Moran of The Greens, Fianna Fail's Colm Kelleher and Fine Gael's Des Cahill.

We review groundbreaking high school movie Eight Grade, Tom Cruise vehicle American Made and Harmony Korine's latest art house movie the Beach Bum. With my friends Mike Bourke and Peter MacCarthy we go into the Cruisenator's career highs and lows plus the weird Sceintology shit.

All Spoilers!!! Do not listen unless you've already seen Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Me and my friends Chris Cullen, Mike Bourke and Dave Horgan share our reaction to the new Quentin Tarantino film

A hang out with some local Cork poets where we read some of our poems and chat about what inspires us. Ben wrote a parody podcast script which we performed and I set to some music afterwards.

We review the albums Serfs Up! by Fat White Family, Capacity by Big Thief, Originals By Prince and Drift Code by Rustin Man with my friend Mike Bourke. Plus a ramble about what we hated and loved (mostly hated) about 80's music touching on Husker Du, Duran Duran, Madonna and AC/DC.

This episode features local Cork rappers Spekulativ Fiktion - Sean Murphy, Calm D'Goolys - Paul Byrne, and Jason J Fisher sharing some of their music, talking about influences, the local rap scene and the #CorkRapRenaissance. Plus some spoken word speckled throughout. Jason uses the Shredders tune Flipping Cars for his live rap performance. Plus we all have a laugh attempting a group freestyle at the end.   https://www.facebook.com/spekulativfiktionireland/ https://www.facebook.com/calmdgoolys/ https://www.facebook.com/jasonjfisherraps/

We review the latest season of Black Mirror as well as HBO's Chernobyl with my friends Chris Cullen and Dave Horgan,

Tonglen is a Tibetan Buddhist meditation that helps us process and let go of difficult emotions. I find it very helpful in dealing with anxiety. Try it and see how it works for you.

We compare the latest Halloween movie to the original, which it's billed as a direct sequel to, discussing the slasher movie genre in general. We also review 'He won't get far on foot' starring Joaquin Phoenix and Jonah Hill, as well as looking back on the director's Gus Van Zandt's career overall. With my friends Chris Cullen and Dave Horgan.

This is a body scan and loving-kindness meditation guided by your host John Horan. It's a type of meditation that's given me a lot of healing over the years, so I hope it may help some others. Loving kindness is where you practice sending compassion to people you love, yourself and finally all people and living beings. I add two new parts to the end where you send love to first God and then your own shadow. If you haven't tried it before, it's designed to fill you up with a feeling of healing love. The more compassionate your mind becomes, the loving the world begins to seem to you. May you be happy, may you be well!

Neo-liberalism vs Social Democracy vs Climate Change. A big picture examination of neo-liberalism, has it worked, can it work? If not, is social democracy the answer? Are either enough to meet the challenges posed by Climate Change? Is a debt/growth based economic model viable anymore? Here's how many Americans have nothing at all in savings Double digit increases in Irish rental sector The wealth of America's three richest families grew by 6,000% since 1982 US wealth inequality - top 0.1% worth as much as the bottom 90% World economy projected to triple in size by 2050 Extreme weather events have increased 6 times since 1980 What is neo-liberalism? What is social democracy? We Just Used Up All of Earth's Resources For The Year, And It's Only August

Featuring MGMT's latest album plus Illuminati Hotties' debut 'Kiss Yr Frenemies', a look back at the cult classic soul album by Swamp Dogg - 'Have You Heard This Story?', a reappraisal of Suede's debut album plus the merits of Melody Maker and the 90's English music press, Dance music ephemera vs Indie rock lore and a modern overlooked classic by John Andrews And The Yawns - 'Bad Posture'. Find a playlist of the music on youtube here

Welcome to the third episode with my friends Chris Cullen and Dave Horgan. Today we talk about Black Mirror's new interactive show Bandersnatch and Sandra Bullock's new horror movie Birdbox. Both are out on Netflix now.Warning: this episode contains spoilers.

Featuring friends Mike Bourke and Ger Browne we discuss Irish Films Black 47 and Michael Inside. Plus brief retrospectives of the careers of Nic Roeg and Bernado Bertolucci.

Today your host John Horan with friends Mike Bourke and Chris Cullen discuss tv shows Last Man On Earth, Friends, Seinfeld, ‘The Kramer Incident’, ‘The Chris Evans rumour’, The Haunting of Hill House, plus the atomisation of culture. Join us for a freewheeling discussion with lots of slagging.