Mark drinks in the street, Thomas talks boyhood scouting trauma, and Ross flip-flops on Wales. The Taoiseach visits Washington.

Is wrestling for kids? It turns out wrestling might be for kids. Plus: Ross renews his assault on James Cameron, and does anyone want to go and see the Smiths drummer flog his book?

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RECOMMENDEDs:

• Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
• El Doctor Misterio (1963-)
• opera
• ballet

Mark dares venture onto the northside as the boys explore one of the city's few green spaces. Plus the Burning of Cork, 9/11, and Ian Bailey.

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RECOMMENDEDs:

• Eden Lake (middle class propaganda film preparing the masses for austerity, 2008)

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Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod and wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

Hop on a big Paddy Wagon tour bus and head to Blarney with a hundred ancestrymaxxing Americans.

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RECOMMENDEDs:

• ‘The Adventure of the Blarney Stone’ (The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1946)
• YouTube: Explore With Us (police bodycam videos)

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Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

Taking you INSIDE the painful, unjust world of comedy competitions. Also there is Epstein discussion. Hello Morgan McSweeney if you are reading this.

WARNING: discussion of extreme monkey anatomy and horrifying duck behaviour.

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Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

Mark, Ross, and Thomas go to see recession-era twin sensation JEDWARD in concert. Ross gets critical.

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RECOMMENDEDs:

Ghosts of My Life (Mark Fisher, 2014)

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Reach us at instagram.com/wetcoldpod or wetcoldirishsummer@gmail.com

Hello you. Mark, Ross, and Thomas return from the Christmas break and have a great time looking at some old bones. Thomas gets to talk about his favourite dinosaurs.

'Do you know how many extinctions there have been?'

'Counting or not counting meteorite strikes?'

RECOMMENDEDs:

• Walking with Dinosaurs (BBC, 1999)
• Prehistoric Planet (Apple TV, 2022-)
• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (Stephen Brusatte, 2018)
• Written in Stone: The Hidden Secrets of Fossils and The Story of Life on Earth (Brian Switek, 2010)