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- 🇬🇧GB · Politics#5730K to 100K
- 🇦🇺AU · Politics#1465K to 30K
- 🇰🇷KR · Politics#1081K to 10K
- 🇮🇳IN · Politics#1391K to 10K
- 🇮🇪IE · Politics#930K to 100K
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85K to 309K🇬🇧32%🇮🇪32%🇦🇺10%+8 more - Active Followers
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34K to 124K
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Can the World Cup save America?
Jun 23, 2026
Unknown duration
An Actor's Life: Power Ballad start Peter McDonald on working with Paul Rudd, dealing with fame and the Monday Club
Jun 20, 2026
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The World’s First Trillionaire and the Truth about Two Tier Policing
Jun 18, 2026
Unknown duration
The hypocrisy of Loyalism and why is Jimmy McGuinness having a meltdown?
Jun 16, 2026
Unknown duration
Love and Mercy: The Rise and Fall of Diego Maradona
Jun 13, 2026
50m 31s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 |  Can the World Cup save America? | ‘I have come to sell a product called soccer.’ The former FIFA president Joao Havelange announced himself in 1974 with these words. They have been the model for the expansionist, grasping FIFA that has existed to this day.But maybe what matters was not the product but everything but the product?On Free State today we look at why the World Cup matters and why it might be everything that Donald Trump’s America is not.From David Clifford and Kerry to Messi and Argentina, sport is what it is because of the communities that are brought together.Could it be that as America experiences the World Cup, they see that the world is a better place than their leaders want them to believe? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/20/26 |  An Actor's Life: Power Ballad start Peter McDonald on working with Paul Rudd, dealing with fame and the Monday Club | In Power Ballad, Rick, played by Paul Rudd, a washed-up wedding singer, and Danny, a fading boy band star, bond over music and a late-night jam session. On Free State today, old friends Dion and Peter McDonald, co-writer and co-start of Power Ballad, discuss their own late night escapades, Peter's time in the theatre and and his extraordinary time working with the legendary Robert Altman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/18/26 |  The World’s First Trillionaire and the Truth about Two Tier Policing | There are no atheists in the foxholes and in the darkness of the night there is nobody who won’t find consolation in the World Cup.On Free State today Joe talks about his own World Cup journey. Joe and Dion look at why the tournament captivates and what it tells us about communities as opposed to the leaders of those communities.At a time when Elon Musk had become the world’s first trillionaire, we look at the hatred he is trying to foment. And we look at the story of Palestine Action and what it tells us the authoritarian direction of the world today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/16/26 |  The hypocrisy of Loyalism and why is Jimmy McGuinness having a meltdown? | How have Donegal got themselves in this mess? Has Jim McGuinness’s obsession with Kerry blinded him to the other threats.On Free State today, Joe examines why some counties accumulate All Irelands and others fail, while Dion surprises him with his knowledge of Roscommon’s football history.Joe and Dion also look at how the Belfast Riots happened. For months the PSNI were warned that houses were being identified and that people were stockpiling food for fear their homes would be attacked but according to reports nothing was done.‘My daughter was crying, saying she doesn’t want to die,’ one father said of the terror his family endured during the riots.Why has this happened and what is the hypocrisy at the heart of loyalism that allows this hate to prosper? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/13/26 |  Love and Mercy: The Rise and Fall of Diego Maradona✨ | Diego MaradonaWorld Cup+3 | David Arrowsmith | book on Maradona | Mexico | Diego MaradonaWorld Cup+5 | — | 50m 31s | |
| 6/11/26 |  The Belfast Riots and the Spanish Gerry Adams✨ | Belfast Riotssocial media+4 | — | — | BelfastGlasgow+2 | Belfastriots+5 | — | 42m 21s | |
| 6/9/26 |  Put ‘Em Under Pressure. How to Stop Ireland playing Israel with Sinead Gibney TD✨ | sportspolitics+5 | Sinead Gibney | Social Democrats | IrelandIsrael | IrelandIsrael+6 | — | 46m 43s | |
| 6/6/26 |  The Sleepwalkers-John Kampfner on how western democracy will fail✨ | western democracypolitical change+4 | John Kampfner | Braver New World | — | democracypolitics+5 | — | 49m 06s | |
| 6/4/26 |  Love Island and the Sorrowful Mystery of Frank McGuigan✨ | Love IslandFrank McGuigan+3 | Dion Fanning | Love Island | — | Love IslandFrank McGuigan+5 | — | 34m 06s | |
| 6/2/26 |  Radical Forgiveness: How a Palestinian and an Israeli want to bring peace to their lands✨ | peaceMiddle East+4 | Aziz Abu SarahMaoz Inon | — | IsraelPalestine | forgivenesspeace+6 | — | 47m 59s | |
| 5/30/26 |  Love in the Time of War✨ | journalismwar+4 | Sally Hayden | — | LebanonIsrael | journalismwar+5 | — | 37m 06s | |
| 5/28/26 |  The Rise and Fall of Sinn Fein✨ | Sinn Feinby-elections+3 | — | Sinn FeinFianna Fáil | — | Sinn Feinby-elections+5 | — | 32m 59s | |
| 5/26/26 |  Seven Psalms, Paul Simon and the end of Kerry football✨ | artsport+5 | — | Seven Psalms | KerryDonegal | Paul SimonKerry football+5 | — | 31m 48s | |
| 5/23/26 |  The Sound of Silence: Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries✨ | IrelandMagdalene Laundries+3 | Louise Brangan | The Fallen | IrelandMagdalene Laundries | Magdalene LaundriesIreland+4 | — | 53m 24s | |
| 5/21/26 |  Imminent extinction? Never mind, there’s always Love Island✨ | climate emergencydata centres+4 | — | Acast | — | climate emergencydata centres+5 | — | 36m 51s | |
| 5/19/26 |  I hear you’re a racist now, Bertie?✨ | immigrationracism+3 | — | Free StateAcast | Congo | Bertie Ahernracism+3 | — | 36m 45s | |
| 5/14/26 |  What’s Another Year? Israel and the Eurovision✨ | IsraelEurovision+4 | — | — | IsraelVienna | IsraelEurovision+6 | — | 31m 24s | |
| 5/11/26 |  Sleeping with the Stars✨ | Universal Basic Incomepublic response+3 | — | Universal Basic Income | — | Universal Basic Incomepublic response+3 | — | 38m 17s | |
| 5/9/26 |  Heads I win, tails I also win: How private equity took over the world✨ | private equitycapitalism+4 | Hettie O’Brien | The Asset Class | — | private equitycapitalism+6 | — | 53m 10s | |
| 5/7/26 |  Why Everyone Needs Free Money✨ | universal basic incomeAI job threat+3 | — | Free StateAcast | Ireland | free moneyuniversal basic income+3 | — | 50m 16s | |
| 5/5/26 |  The Story of Us, the Story of Gaza✨ | IrelandGaza+4 | — | — | IrelandGaza | IrelandGaza+5 | — | 33m 10s | |
| 5/2/26 |  Living with an AI psychopath✨ | AIpsychopath+4 | Jamie Bartlett | Acasthis new book | — | AIpsychopath+5 | — | 44m 38s | |
| 4/30/26 |  Handing the conscience of the world over to a king who has his shoelaces ironed✨ | consciencemonarchy+3 | — | — | — | conscienceking+3 | — | 39m 01s | |
| 4/28/26 |  Urban-rural toxicity, a Guard's fears for Ireland and the even more toxic Roscommon-Mayo divide✨ | urban-rural divideleadership+3 | — | Garda | IrelandMayo+1 | urban-rural toxicityGarda concerns+7 | — | 48m 08s | |
| 4/25/26 |  Roger Casement - Rebel and Traitor? With Rory Carroll✨ | Irish independencehistorical figures+4 | Rory Carroll | Free StateGold Hat Productions | — | Roger CasementRory Carroll+5 | — | 39m 06s | |
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Chart Positions
15 placements across 11 markets.
Chart Positions
15 placements across 11 markets.