Podcast Episodes

Wounded Child No Surviving Family (WCNSF)

Episode 46

Around the world people are marching in their millions for peace and calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. On Free State, Joe and Dion have a difficult conversation about war, peace and propaganda which r…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

The Secret Life Of David Gough Part 2: Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered

Episode 45

David Gough felt sure he would live a life where love was denied to him. But a poem changed his life.

In part 2 of Free State, David Gough talks about the sliding doors moment in his life and how it c…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Blue Moon. The Secret Life Of David Gough

Episode 44

David Gough is the most famous and the best referee in Ireland.

He grew up in a religious and staunch GAA family and like everyone he wanted to fit in. He was an altar boy and a Gaelic footballer but …

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

The Unbearable Lightness Of Living. Michael Lewis talks life, love & the death of his beloved daughter Dixie Lee.

Episode 43

During the rise of Sam Bankman-Fried, Michael Lewis got closer to him than anybody else. But the fall of the crypto baby gave the Moneyball author a different story. When people turned on Bankman-Fri…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Who wants to be a billionaire? The rise and fall of crypto king Sam Bankman Fried

Episode 42

On this week’s Free State, Michael Lewis, the author behind Hollywood blockbusters Moneyball, The Big Short and The Blind Side, joins Dion and Joe. 

Michael's new book Going Infinite charts the rise a…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Netenyahu And The Coffin Of Peace

Episode 41

Where is the way out of the horror in Gaza? When the Shankill Road bomb killed ten people in Frizzell’s fish shop 30 years ago there seemed to be no way out of violence and destruction in the north. …

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

The Nuclear Tiger And The Hungry Alleycat

Episode 40

How much is enough? With the threat that things will worsen even more in Gaza, what will it take for those with influence to intervene. The US and President Biden are friends of Israel, as they shoul…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Oh What A Lovely Genocide

Episode 39

The world is watching as terror and suffering come to the people of Gaza once more. In this terrible war, there is also a propaganda war. This war is waged to distract and deflect from slaughter and …

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

The Israeli Death Star: The Tragedy Of Palestine, Gaza and Israel

Episode 38

As Israel commits war crimes in Gaza, can anyone persuade the country’s government to stop the slaughter?

On part 2 of this week’s Free State, Joe and Dion recall their own trips to Israel and their e…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Dancing Among The Corpses

Episode 37

The Israeli government - emboldened by politicians in the west - is committing war crimes. Gaza is a human catastrophe where the horrors will echo through history. There is a primal need within so ma…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago