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Casement"s Leftovers

Casement"s Leftovers

Serving you hot, socialist, Irish republican takes like you wouldn"t believe.New episodes on the last Thursday of every month, plus bonus eps in between.

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79:32

Make the Yuletide Gay

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/12/18

Happy Christmas one and all! Treat yourself to an early Christmas gift by listening to the latest episode of Casement's Leftovers, in which we discuss one of our favourite topics: gay identity. Have you ever wondered: if Glen is really from Tallaght, then why does he talk like THAT? Then wonder no more. We dive deep into the social construction of gayness and its interaction with class through discussion of two books, listed below. We finish up by asking: this Christmas, is it possible ...

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78:00

One Film After Another

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/10/23

Due to holidays and other commitments, you get your pod a week EARLY this month! Lucky you! There was so much political news to catch up on that we said "actually, fuck that" and did a movie pod instead. It's interesting though: 'Eddington' and 'One Battle After Another', two big "political" thrillers grappling in different ways with the modern world, have come out this year to much fanfare and controversy. We discuss both and ask: what makes a film Marxist? Does it matter? Ther...

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98:56

We Read Leo's Book

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/09/25

That's right folks. Leo Varadkar — neoliberal prince of darkness, lover of packed lunches, and all-round messy bitch — has written a memoir. Helen and Matt read it so you (and Glen) don't have to. And you really, really don't have to. Listen in for all the goss on Leo's very normal childhood, the tough decisions he had to make in office, and his unabashed hatred and suspicion of all poor people! Truly a relatable masterpiece written by a regular, down to earth fellow. Not a damning indi...

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95:51

New Atheism, Old Virgins

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/08/28

2000s nostalgia is en vogue at the moment, so we decided to take a trip back in time to the golden era of the internet, and the time of 'New Atheism'. We talk Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, and discuss how edgy attacks on religion swerved so seamlessly into right-wing populism and "defending Christian society". We then turn our attention to religion in Ireland, before spilling the proverbial on Mother Teresa and highlighting leftist currents of Catholicism in Latin America. Pr...

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68:08

Feminism, Today

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/07/31

What is the state of feminism today? What are the movement’s goals, aims, and demands? Is it even right to speak of a feminist “movement” at all? This one gets pretty feisty as Helen, Glen, and Matt debate the different strains of feminist thought of the past 50 years. We talk about TERFs, obviously, but also try to point modern feminism in a more socialist, materialist direction. We discuss Silvia Federici and the Wages For Housework movement, and Glen and Helen have a fight. Also, we ...

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64:49

Mid-Summer Crisis

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/07/17

Two episodes this month because you've all been so good. It's a loosey one today. Topics covered: Lena Dunham, Epstein and Israel, Tucker Carlson, Conor McGregor's shlong, the CATU protest, trans pride, and much much more. In the back half — for our real fans — we categorise our least favourite races, before standing up for the most discriminated against group of all: bald men. I love the em dash (—) and am sooooo mad that it's become a tell-tale sign of AI. Like when I used one earlier in th...

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41:47

The Dickovery Channel Ep. 2: Saunas and Apps (w/...

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/06/27

So, we've made it: the series finale. It's been a long road, but after two gruelling medium-length episodes, our exhaustive anthropological study of Dublin's illicit gay underground is finally complete. Our resident cruisologist Glen dusts himself off from whichever filthy alleyway he recorded yesterday's podcast, and takes a trip to the comparatively idyllic surrounds of the gay sauna. His guide is world-famous pop-star and filmmaker PureGrand who, fresh off the heels of the release of...

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67:38

The Dickovery Channel Ep. 1: Wild Cruising (w/ Goblins)

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/06/26

Desperately running out of different ways to mark Pride Month, this year we decided to throw caution to the wind and do a two-part series on Illicit Gay Sex. We sent our intrepid reporter Glen deep into Dublin's gay underground to speak to the most sordid, depraved individuals he could find, asking the questions you've been far too scared to ask. First up is world-famous drag queen Goblins Goblins Goblins, who agreed (NOT under duress) to speak to Glen about his dirty little exploits. L...

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63:48

Intimate Lives in 1920s Moscow (w/ Maurice J. Casey)

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/06/02

Socialists in the 1920s were part of a global, interconnected network of hope and solidarity. For a brief period, the locus of this transnational movement was the Hotel Lux in Moscow, where international communists — including Irish men and women — lived, hung out, and fell in love. To really capture the hopes and desires of these disparate friends and lovers requires moving beyond dry socialist history, and into the personal lives of these friendship networks. The historian Maurice J. Casey ...

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59:02

Beef

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/05/11

Helen and Glen have Beef. They have beef with each other, they've got beef with Israel, they've got beef with Terfs. They've beef with fascists, they've beef with people who get duped on Facebook but most of all they've got beef with Matt. Join a one third lighter, castrated Casement's Leftovers as they shameless call out their haters and have the last laugh. Buy us a mixer! Email: casementsleftovers@gmail.com Insta: @casementsleftovers @casementsleftovers.bsky.social Support th...

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60:06

Absent Spine Syndrome

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/03/27

A lot has happened since we last recorded, so tune in for our thoughts on Helen turning thirty, the Taoiseach turning flirty, and Garron Noone's feelings getting hurty! Buy us a mixer! Email: casementsleftovers@gmail.com Insta: @casementsleftovers @casementsleftovers.bsky.social Support the show

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61:22

Trump, Tariffs and Trade Wars

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/02/27

Donald Trump loves to talk about tariffs, and people love to panic about them. But what exactly are they? Are they really all that new? And what does Trump's fondness for them say about our the current state of liberalism? Listen to this episode for answers to at least one or two of those questions. Our gofundme: https://gofund.me/69125e85 Email is casementsleftovers@gmail.com Support the show

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73:38

Any Change?

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/02/13

It's a new government in the 26 counties! And it's the same as before! We unpack the 2024 elections, the new Dáil and we beg you for money for a sound mixer. Enjoy! Help us buy a mixer: https://gofund.me/8597a85c Support the show

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145:22

2024: BUMPER Year in Review

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2025/01/30

They're apparently saying we've been "caught lacking" on the podcast front lately, so to make up for our recent flop era we are giving you all a bumper episode to review the year 2024. We talk all the major events in politics and beyond, plus have a chat about the year's culture with Luke & Eleanor. You may have heard we were "washed", but today we are definitely "goated". From now on, new episodes will come out on the last Thursday of every month, plus there'll be some bonus eps in ...

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65:24

The Greatest Show: Irish Elections 2024

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2024/11/26

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81:55

The Weird and the Eerie

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2024/11/12

To celebrate 75 episodes of pure socialist republican slurry, we thought we would kick off Season 2 of Casement's Leftovers by returning to the man who first brought us all together: Mark Fisher. The Weird and the Eerie – published just weeks before Fisher's death by suicide in January 2017 – is a work of literary criticism that has always seemed strange to us. We get together to try to make sense of this final work, which brings us to conversations about the nature of reality, capitalism, Th...

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58:50

A Kind of Ending

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2024/09/24

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76:21

The Berlin Trilogy: Palestine (w/ Caoimhe from The...

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2024/09/06

Helen and Matt finally conclude their famed Berlin trilogy by speaking to Caoimhe of The Irish Bloc Berlin. A "Berlin-based platform for Irish solidarity with Palestine", the Irish Bloc has been on the frontlines of opposition to Germany's continued support for Israel and the Berlin police's brutal repression tactics. We talk to Caoimhe about the group's organising efforts, but also dig deeper into just why Germany is so fucked. Follow The Irish Bloc at irishblocberlin on InstagramS...

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75:27

The Berlin Trilogy: Europe! (w/ Ciarán from Corner...

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2024/08/07

We continue our German urlaub with a very simple question: what the fuck is going on in Europe?? There is no one better to help us with this burning question than Ciarán from the fantastic Corner Späti podcast. Ciarán (like somebody else we know) is an Irish podcaster currently living in Berlin, but he also happens to be the only person in the world who actually understands the EU (editor's note: we fact-checked this, it's true). Recorded from Matt's safehouse in the heart of the Europea...

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70:36

The Berlin Trilogy: Expropriation!

Casement"s Leftovers ·

2024/07/31

The housing crisis is the definitive social issue of our time, affecting almost everybody across the West in varied and horrifying ways. But how do we go about. solving it?One seemingly novel idea has been put forward by housing activists in Berlin: simply take properties out of the hands of the massive landlords and place them back under tenant control. In this, the first in our mini-series of episodes recorded live from Matt’s bedroom in Berlin, Matt and Helen speak to Danielle of Right 2 T...

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