On fatphobia and attraction. That's right baby, we're talking about desire again! We're joined by the wonderful Ellen to talk about everything from fatness and beauty standards to dating and Love Island. How can we free ourselves from society's oppressive and limiting standards? Is it possible to love and to fuck in a feminist way? And is Lizzo maybe just a stuck-up bitch? As always, please feel free to reach out to us via Instagram, Twitter or email ([email protected]), and make sure...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 28 min
In a desperatere attempt to stay current and relevant, (most of) the Casements crew watched the new Barbie movie and churned out an episode on it! Tune in for tepid takes on the film’s production, its post-modern meta-narratives, and its middle brow feminist politics. This Barbie thought the film was fine! Support the show
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 6 min
It’s that time of year again. A time when businesses paint their inner colon rainbow, for your cash. When straight lads in the smoking area talk about how they held hands with a boy once in school. When basic gays walk around topless, proudly displaying their months of hard work in the gym. In short, it’s Pride month. Your favourite republican gonzo journalists are out on the prowl, talking to the public, getting their opinions on all things LGBTQIA. They spill their guts on coming out, on gende...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 32 min
Listen up, sheeple! Are you tired of being force-fed mainstream political news and culture? Do you want a podcast that's not afraid to take a cynical, irreverent look at society? Then you need to check out "Casement's Leftovers". In this episode, hosts Matt, Helen, and Glen sit down with the up-and-coming artist and PHD Christopher Michael to talk about his new movie "In the end we all become our avatars". Chris delves into the fascinating world of media and spirituality, exploring the concept o...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Andrea Long Chu has claimed that "everyone is female and everyone hates it", but what does that mean? Join us this for this very special 50th episode of Casement's Leftovers for a deep dive into one of our favourite theorists and writers, the recent Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu. Get ready for a new theory of gender that not has not only upended the field of gender studies, but also our way of thinking about what it is that makes us human. How are we all female? What part does de...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 16 min
It’s the first day of Eurovision semifinals. We know you’ve been anxious. You’ve been saying to your friends “Casements haven’t dropped their annual Eurovision episode yet. I don’t know which entries I’m allowed to like?” They’re sick of hearing it. Don’t worry - we’re here, and we brought acclaimed Dublin musician PureGrand (a.k.a Luke Faulkner), expert in all things The Past. We discuss the best and worst of Ireland’s entries past and present, the way the Brits even manage to colonise a song c...
May 09, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Sick and tired of the SILENCE from the LAMESTREAM media, the Casements gang get together for a very special episode about the latest scandal dribbling meekly out of the anus that is this Irish government. Who is Niall Collins? Did he know his wife was going to buy the public land he voted to sell? And what exactly can we get away saying on this podcast before we get sued? As always, drop us a line at [email protected], and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. Grá mór daoibh go ...
Apr 25, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Last week saw the visit to Ireland of United States President Joe Biden, and the Casements gang dig behind the tweets and headlines to reveal what it all actually means. We use the illustrious occasion as a jumping-off point to talk about American-Irish relations more broadly, and to ask tough questions like: what are the limits of nationhood and identity? What will a post-FFFG Ireland do on the global stage? And is it okay to be cringe as long as you are seizing power? We address the controvers...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 24 min
What's the difference between etiquette and politics? To some they've become one and the same. Can you have good politics but bad manners? Is it time to relegate etiquette to the bourgeois bin-bag of time along with man servants and charity wristbands? Casements has the answers. Listen to your favourite internet inepts as they stumble through their guide to etiquette in the 21st century and beyond. Discover exciting new ways to diagnose your mates as terminal dickheads in the pub. Also on the cu...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 27 min
Helen and Matt get together to analyse some of the biggest stories from the last few weeks of Irish politics (unfortunately we recorded this just before the release of the Windsor Protocol and the appointment of Holly Cairns as the new leader of the SocDems – of course). Helen has their sights set on the smaller parties in the state, as they chastise the Greens for showing up to the #IrelandForAll March and wonders what even is the point of the Soc Dems. We also discuss the return of Bertie, the...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Two tribes go to war. It's that fucked conversation which has plagued smoking areas and idle canteen chit chat for decades. Art vs Artist. Can you separate the art from the artist? Should you? Are boycotts worthwhile? Is the Left honing an effective weapon against reactionaries or dainty ettiquette for dinner parties and twitter threads? Whether it's Wagner, Caravaggio or Rowling, Casement's slogs through the shitty discourse and fight each other for your listening pleasure. Support the show...
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 19 min
"Come on," I hear you say. "They must be taking the piss now." "I know they claim to 'serve up hot takes like you wouldn't believe', but charity? Really? They had a go at CHARITY? Someone needs to finally put a stop to these edgy socialists who pathetically think it's progressive to be 'controversial'. This isn't helping anyone. What could possibly be wrong with CHARITY?" Join Glen, Helen and Matt as they skewer the do-gooders and expose the charity myth. They talk about the efficacy of charity,...
Nov 24, 2022•54 min
We're your Dream F*gs, boys. We'll make you happy. Step inside the most surreal Casement's episode yet. The gang reveal their Fenian dreams and lay them on the slab for some good aul fashioned Freudian analysis. What does David Lynch, Hauntological soundscapes and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy reveal about the republican psyche. Is Glen stuck in the anal stage? Does Matt's Granny's burning house reveal a devestating hatred of women? Is Helen a Trans narcissist? Sit back and enjoy while three fr...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 16 min
A formless, aimless episode in which we discuss: the Free State's relationship to the IRA and the Troubles, Bono being a Pox, the departure of Mommy Truss, the efficacy of protest vs parliamentary politics, and the rehabilitation of the Yorkshire Ripper. Don't forget to subscribe, review, and tell your friends about the cleverest and sexiest leftist podcast in Ireland. Other bits: Matt’s essay on Irish hip-hop and cultural cringe: https://therockisdead.com/2021/02/20/whats-that-sound-px-music-cu...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Explicably, the nonce one. In the grand tradition of Brass Eye, our resident pedophile expert, Helen, talks us through why they did their BA dissertation on pedophiles and pedophile rehabilitation, and how it's made them the superstar they are now. We talk about the construction of sexuality, Lacanian notions of desire, Epstein's flight logs, and flesh out our theory that money makes you a nonce. Plus, we libel ourselves! What could be more fun! In all seriousness, this is an episode about pedop...
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 4 min
So, when are we gonna start REALLY taxing fags? Support the show
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr
Exhausted by the media circus? Do you long for a time when the biggest news story was some banal issue with a TD's houses? Casement's are here to serve. Listen to your favourite fenian cynics discuss news segments from a week ago and rip each others throat out over podcasting slights. In this episode Glen takes the wheel and crashes the podcast into a brick wall. The gang discuss misogyny, ex-pat culture, landlords, nonce culture, the fall of the Soviet Union and much more. Take a break from the...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 17 min
So, you can't afford to pay your heating bills or fill up the tank of your Fiat 500, and even if you could afford to, you'd be killing the planet anyway. It's truly fucked. What are you to do when faced with the twin crises of energy and the climate? Luckily, Casements have the answer, and it's available right now. In this bumper episode, Glen, Helen and Matt get together to finally tell the truth about nuclear energy. What seems to us an obvious open goal has been abandoned as a viable solution...
Aug 23, 2022•1 hr 30 min
In a feat of journalistic excellence, the Leftovers are taking on their biggest challenge yet with a round the (western) world news roundup. From the Tory leadership contest to Irish back bench revolts, American happenings to Berlin night clubs, the pod gives a brief summary of stuff that's been cluttering your timeline with their standard, internet poisoned delivery. Get in touch with Casment's Leftovers and let us know what's been pissing you off in your part of the world to be in with a chanc...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 48 min
A very, very special edition of Casement's Leftovers where we invited you, the listener, to join us on the show. We asked on our socials: "what does Pride mean to you?", and you responded with the same quantity and ferocity of the most deranged Liveline caller-base. Join us today as we take a cynical, unconvinced look at Dublin Pride and ask what it's all even for, before turning to the nasty, unwashed public for their opinions on this finest pageant of all things Gay. Given the horrific transph...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Ireland has been living through a housing crisis for what feels like forever, and we here at Casement's Leftovers think it's high time that someone got up off their arses and did something about it. But what? We are joined by writer David Hartery (@DinoCrisisActor) to discuss his excellent article 'Marxism and the Housing Crisis', written for Socialist Voice . David explains what Marx and Marxism has to say about housing, before walking us through the origins of the crisis in Ireland and pointin...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 18 min
This month Heather & Matt are too busy "working" to perform their vital role of reigning Helen & Glen in from being the cyclical haters they were born to be - that's right, we're throwing it back to the original line-up babyyy! Join Helen & Glen as they take on the online cottage industry of monetizing your trauma in order to be the best activist there ever was. We discuss how identity is becoming the core of our politics, and how those identities are reified by the trauma attached t...
May 27, 2022•54 min
In which Matt says “fuck the Metaverse, all my homies hate the Metaverse” but Heather shouts back “LET 👏 PEOPLE 👏 ENJOY 👏 THINGS 👏.” Join Heather, Glen and Matt for the second half of their discussion on the Metaverse. This time round, Matt attempts to make a few extremely insightful points into the true nature of desire and the impossibility of any liberation from its indestructible shackles, but Heather and Glen spend most of the hour making fun of him for watching Law and Order: Special V...
Apr 22, 2022•56 min
Technology – what’s it all about, anyway? Join Heather, Glen & Matt as they examine the promises and possibilities of Web 3.0. Can NFTs provide a viable alternative for artists to get paid fairly for their work? Is the Metaverse truly a game-changer for tech, or simply another false dawn? And what the hell is up with Mark Zuckerberg’s hair? We get into all of these questions (and more) over the course of two cyber-soaked episodes. In this, the first part, we start with a now woefully out-of-...
Apr 11, 2022•47 min
Feeling alone? Sexually inadequate? Is your dating app fueled anxiety getting you down? We're here to help. This week Casement's Leftovers is cringing over the "Sex Positive" identity industrial complex. We weigh in on whether being into p*ss play makes you a better comrade or if wearing latex to sex parties will get you radical points online. Glen discusses the marketplace of TikTok "non-straight" masc queer baiting, and reveals his appreciation of the stanislavski method on P*rnHub. Helen and ...
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 18 min
All the way back in 1977 John and Barbara Ehrenreich coined the term “the professional-managerial class” to refer to “salaried mental workers who do not own the means of production and whose major function in the social division of labour may be described broadly as the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist class relations.” The term reemerged in the 2010s with renewed vigour as a useful way of denoting a class of technocratic liberals who occupy an increasingly dominant role in cult...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Following an unexplained absence almost as traumatic as that of the Galaxy Truffle, everyone’s favourite Irish republican podcast is back, and just in time for the holidays! As the out of control woke brigade continues its unprovoked and ruthless war on Christmas, the Casement's crew get in the festive spirit by looking back on a war possibly even more pointless and unjust: Iraq. More specifically, Helen ruins your favourite Christmas film by arguing that Love Actually (2003) is literally Iraq W...
Dec 14, 2021•45 min
We know what you're thinking - why hasn't my favourite republican podcast done an episode about the KEY event in the communist calendar: The Eurovision Song Contest?! It's TOMORROW NIGHT and THEY HAVEN'T SPOKEN ON IT YET - WELL WORRY NO MORE!!! HERE IT IS!!!!!! We talk everything from Johnny Logan to Dana, the American influence to the growing stalinisation of the competition, Riverdance to the event's typically European centrist claim of being "unpolitical" (and thus being explicitly political)...
May 21, 2021•42 min
There's a reason we chose Roger Casement as the symbol for this podcast: a queer figure in Irish revolutionary history (queer here meaning gay, a failure and truly disruptive) and a genuine anti-imperialist who saw through a persuasive ideological hegemony in order to understand the brutality and illegitimacy of colonialism and dedicated his life to fighting it, he represents an active, civic republicanism that offers the contemporary Left so much. It's about time we dedicated an episode to him,...
May 10, 2021•1 hr 15 min
That's right, we're giving the people what they want: another Mark Fisher episode! We obviously couldn't do it without Matt Wrafter from @therockisdead, so here he joins Helen and Glen to review Mark Fisher's recent posthumously published book; Post-Capitalist Desire. The book is a transcript from Mark's final lecture series and it's a revisiting of both the failures and successes of past countercultures in order to try and build a movement for the future. It's a beautiful, optimistic text which...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 39 min
