J&M PODCAST: Recent Episodes
Marty Byrne
Belfast based brothers, James & Martin waffle on about various cultural phenomena via a deep seeded sibling rivalry that will only end in a battle to the death.
A podcast in which James and Marty talk music, politics, philosophy, bollocks, music, politics, shite in no particular order.
In this dribbly spew-a-thon of nonsense we talk about...
Trigger-nometry
TERFs
Adam Buxton
JK Rowling
Meat Loaf
Interviews
Covid
U2
Charity
Ed Sheeran
Yesterday
Social Media
Music
Blade Runner
Inception
Hans Zimmer
Soul
Dune
Ready Player One
Bill & Ted: Face The Music
The Matrix Resurrections
Tilda Swinton
And more!
A podcast in which James and Marty talk music, politics, philosophy, bollocks, music, politics, shite in no particular order.
(CONTENT WARNING: some trigger words and heavy themes around violence, racism etc.)
Topics of far out word farts and relentless truth bombs include....
Robocop / Collin Farrell
Bojack Horseman
Joe Rogan
Sandyhook
Fred Phelps
Calvinism
Qanon (again)
Higher reasoning
Free will
Consciousness
Spiritual Matrix
Discipline
Jungian archetypes
Coup D’etat at Capitol Hill
Revolution
European Union
Brexit
New Zealand
Captain Tom
Democracy
Faith No More
Ideal government
Capitol Critters
Roman democracy
FFFI
JAMuary
Autechre
Producing art
Nightingales
Songs referencing themselves
Music being bigger than the sum of its parts
Act Up! / 120 Beats Per Minute (2017)
Bear culture
8kun
TV / Film chat
Lawrence of Arabia
Robin Williams
Queen’s Gambit
New Radicals
Disney
Soul
Whiplash
LA LA Land
Cultural appropriation
One note saxophone solos
Adam Neely
John Candy
EXAXEAACATTTTLEEEE!
Say No to racism! - A fundraiser for the Belfast Multi-Cultural Association
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/belfastmulticulturalassociation
A podcast in which James and Marty swear a lot and put the world to rights but agree that ultimately they probably won’t actually do very much about it.
(CONTENT WARNING: some trigger words and heavy themes around violence, mental health, sex etc.)
Topics of edgy chit chat and uncompromisingly woke patter include…
Raising a family / Breeding
Eugenics
Pope selection
Edgy priests
BLM / BLT / Bledible
Best Christmas / Blue Monday
Eye pain / SAD lamp
Mopey / Happy
LGBT adoption rights
Religious values
Qanon
Jungian dream
Irish slaves
George Nkencho
Police racism
Prison experiment
Discipline
Robert Sapolsky
poverty / deprivation / education
Industrial revolution
Office jobs
Repression / Drinking culture
Cancel culture / Leftist spaces
4chan / Twitter
Limmy / Twitch / Super chats
Internet pile ons / Compassion
Smaller internet communities
Moshing
What are you willing to do to change the world?
Definitely joking and in no way condoning violence
Marilyn Manson
John Waters
Charity work / Social media pressure
Jeremy Corbyn / Brexit
Fire at the Multi-cultural centre in Belfast
Full Gammon experience
The Troubles
A podcast in which James and Marty swear a lot (and CONTENT WARNING: probably use some trigger words).
Topics of waffling and mumbly meandering include:
“If you don’t hold me, I won’t hold you back”
Lyricisms
George Clanton
Synth
Music snobbery
X-Factor / Phil Collins
We Found Our Niche!
Contrarian Onion / Mundane
Inner IRA
Fuck England
Patriotism / Flags / Grandstanding
Troubles paranoia
Politics is X-Factor!
Mandalorian
Scene vs MTV
Internet / buildings / access to things
90s electronic music boom / technology
Spice girls / Marxism / Soft power
Muse
They Live
Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds / Liam Neeson
Prog / solos / Genesis
Farts
Music for musicians…
Adebisi Shank
Rubberbandits
Matt Lucas
Fake apologies
Internet: killing irony
Hulk Hogan / Public Shaming
Fred Durst / Pulp Fiction / Eminem
the “F” word
BLM / Policing
A Scanner Darkly
Nanette / Katy Perry / Copyright
Guilty Feminist / BLM again
Civility / violence / peace
J & M PODCAST EPISODE 4
Among quite a lot of swearing and occasional trigger words (content warning!) other topics include….
The Vanishing (1988)
Greek tragedy
Hannibal
Katy Perry
Porn
Uber / Only Fans
Amazon + bullying the market (+ Covid + 1920s = spiralling depression that led to WWII)
Welcome - National Lost & Found Day
Lockdown / Work chat / Dettol campaign
Berlin guy
Talking / Listening
Berlin guy
James's gay scene experience
Alexis brings dinner
South Park criticism
Team America
Why even vote? = propaganda
British government’s Covid response = same
Recycling / Green energy costs = deliberately try to deter people
Has satire ever helped?
Apathy as political weapon
Defeat / FOMO / seeing only other people’s success leads to apathy
metoo
Alt Right / BLM / 2011 London riots
Tim Heidecker
Both sides have the same crisis
Cultural Marxism / Conspiracy / Adorno
Bug men / Normies / Cultural alienation
The Alt Right are victims of a conspiracy created by the rich power elite
2011 / 2012 - welfare attacked / sanctions / Daily Mail
The rise of right wing amidst austerity / UKIP / Brexit / bankers
BBC: establishment approved satire
Edgy sketch show where Blair, Bush and Trump are murdered
Sam Hyde / Tim Heidecker / Adult Swim
Moby
Ableton / 80s electronic music / Depeche Mode
Youtube
We’re in hell / Contrapoints / Philosophy Tube / Hbomberguy
Donkey Kong charity stream / Graham Linehan
Dolly Parton’s boobs / Gays
Boke Back Mountain
Tropes
WAP
Philadelphia / audience surrogate / dated homophobic opinions
Black man used as flawed character (so white people don’t have to feel guilt)
Loose lips… / Gayness / GLYNI
Tropes / Brokeback Mountain
Farts
Gayness in Marvel / Snowflake / Cancelled / Safe Space
James discovers recliner on chair
Marvel going woke / ID Pol / Representation / Think of the children
Patronising / Woke Brands
Big rant from James about Black Panther
Everyone should reject Disney
Queer people who love Disney
Intellectual property land grab
Jonny Sword in Space!
Power at its ugliest levels - giving value to things
Trash / Bug men (call back)
Representation again: End capitalism
What are parents meant to do?
Exploitation: He-Man / Star Wars
Tim Minchin: We don’t have free will
We can apply discipline to overwhelm the forces we’re not in control of
Saving money on beans at Curley’s….
Fart.
A podcast in which we talk about International Men's Day, feminism, daddy issues, trans rights, Jesus and generally veer off into rambling silliness. Also: Farts!
CW: references to hate speech / racism.
A podcast in which we talk about social media, Russian bots, free speech, Joe Rogan, democracy and more .... It's a laugh riot!
A podcast in which James gives Martin a brief history lesson of 4Chan. We laugh at Boomers, Qanon and inappropriately eat pizza while recording. Total line steppers from the off!