Best Alan Brian And Sam Podcasts (2025)

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Ireland’s Triumphant Seven Try RWC Win over Spain | OFF THE BALL BREAKFAST W/ ALAN QUINLAN 24:26

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Alan Quinlan joins Ger Gilroy and John Duggan to reflect on the Bonus-Point win over Spain in the second game of their RWC campaign. Off The Ball Breakfast w/ UPMC Ireland | #GetBackInAction Catch The Off The Ball Breakfast show LIVE weekday mornings from 7:30am or just search for Off The Ball Breakfast and get the podcast on the Off The Ball app. …

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RUGBY WORLD CUP | "Moving in the right direction!" | Looking ahead to New Zealand | Hayes & Alphonsi | Off The Ball 46:49

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Will O'Callaghan is joined this evening by Fiona Hayes and Maggie Alphonsi to analyse Ireland's brilliant world cup campaign so far. They discuss Ireland's head coach Scott Bemand, how to approach their game against New Zealand, Aoife Wafer's recovery, and much more! Rugby on Off The Ball with Bank of Ireland | #NeverStopCompeting…

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Why are AR-15 Makers Going Bankrupt (Ft. KE Arms' Russell Phagan) 47:35

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This week, we're taking a look at the AR market. There has been a rash of bankruptcies and acquisitions among AR-15 makers in the past year. Some of the largest producers, like Anderson Manufacturing, have shut down their operations. To explain what's going on, we have KE Arms director Russell Phagan on the show. Phagan has been selling AR-15s and …

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The Trials of the Trump Administration, Aug. 29 1:49:02

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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Scott Anderson, Lawfare contributor James Pearce, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss, and The Atlantic staff writer Quinta Jurecic to discuss the legality of the Trump administration’s cancellation of $4.9 billion in …

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RetroBytes: Summer Games, Licensed Music, and Our Origin Stories 1:39:37

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RetroBytes is the show where the three of us sit down, crack open some random video game topics, and let the conversation run wild. Every episode is part nostalgia trip, part heated debate, and part comedy show we never rehearsed. This week, we’re diving into the games of our Summer break, Licensed Music in Games, Our Origin Stories, and Getting Ov…

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Lawfare Archive: Richard Albert on Constitutional Resilience Amid Political Tumult 46:41

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From August 23, 2024: Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor of Government, and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to conduct a comparative analysis of what helps constitu…

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Retrotopia Talks F-Zero 1:15:33

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Welcome to another episode of Retrotopia: Another Video Game Podcast. This is a show where we, Alan, Brian, and Sam, get together to discuss video games from years gone by. We like to look at video games from the perspective of lifelong gamers and how they hold up in the retro sphere. This week we’re blasting off into the future with F-Zero, the li…

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ANNA CAPLICE: Ireland’s changes place focus on New Zealand | Rugby World Cup Round Two 14:47

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Former Ireland international Anna Caplice joins John Duggan to look ahead to Ireland’s second round clash with Spain in the Rugby World Cup on Sunday, after Scott Bemand has made a raft of changes with eyes on New Zealand next week. Rugby on Off The Ball with Bank Of Ireland | #NeverStopCompeting

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"I never ever thought I'd play in a World Cup" | Ireland vs Spain Preview | Rugby World Cup 2025 43:58

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Ireland take on Spain Sunday in the second round of the Women's Rugby World Cup. Susanna Mollen is in Northampton and she brings you all the latest news from press conferences with Sunday's captain, Sam Monaghan, head coach, Scott Bemand, TikTok sensation Anna McGann, and Linda Djougang, who will earn her 50th cap when taking to the pitch on Sunday…

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Lawfare Archive: The Wagner Group, One Year After Prigozhin with Vanda Felbab-Brown 39:01

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From August 28, 2024: On today’s episode, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Co-Director of the Africa Security Initiative, and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution joins Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to help make sense of the recent skirmishes in northern Mali between the junta,…

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Air Force Reinstates Sig Pistol; Fifth Circuit Rejects Silencer Challenge 57:26

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Contributing writer Jake Fogleman and I cover the Air Force Global Strike Command's recent decision to bring back the Sig M18 pistol for active service. We also talk about the 5th Circuit's re-decision in a case challenging the constitutionality of the NFA's restrictions on suppressors. We wrap up by discussing a new ruling upholding Connecticut's …

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Rugby Daily | Ireland team named for RWC clash with Spain, Cheika rejected Munster job 10:58

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Welcome to Friday's Rugby Daily, with Cameron Hill. Coming up today, Ireland gear up for their second game at the Women's Rugby World Cup, We'll have team news ahead of the Spain clash, and hear from those on the ground about how special the tournament has been so far. And Michael Cheika reveals he turned down an offer to coach an Irish province re…

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Scaling Laws: Uncle Sam Buys In: Examining the Intel Deal 48:22

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Peter E. Harrell, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to examine the White House’s announcement that it will take a 10% share of Intel. They dive into the policy rationale for the stake as well as i…

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ALAN QUINLAN & Susanna Mollen: ‘Ireland’s Call gave me goosebumps!’ | OFF THE BALL 29:22

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Alan Quinlan and Susanna Mollen join Shane Hannon and Keith Treacy ahead of Ireland’s second group stage game at the Women’s Rugby World Cup against Spain this Sunday. Off The Ball Breakfast is brought to you by UPMC #GetBackInAction

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VICTORIA RUSH: ‘I would NEVER rule out Ireland’ | The RWC Show | OFF THE BALL 23:57

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Victoria Rush, director of ‘No Woman, No Try’ and founder of All80 Rugby joins Eoin for tonights Rugby World Cup Show, taking a wider look at the hopeful teams for this years competition. Rugby on Off The Ball is brought to you by Bank Of Ireland #NeverStopCompeting

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A COMPLETE breakdown of each Irish squad player at the Rugby World Cup | OTB Breakfast Rugby 28:39

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OTB’s Susanna Mollen & Dara Smith-Naughton run through Ireland’s Rugby World Cup squad ahead of their second group fixture against Spain, alongside Ger Gilroy & Will O'Callaghan. Off The Ball Breakfast w/ UPMC Ireland | #GetBackInAction Catch The Off The Ball Breakfast show LIVE weekday mornings from 7:30am or just search for Off The Ball Breakfast…

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Lawfare Daily: Unpacking Security Guarantees for Ukraine 59:13

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On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Eric Ciaramella, a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Lawfare Contributing Editor, to discuss the history of American security commitments abroad and how it can help inform the debate around security guarantees for Ukraine. To receive ad…

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Uncle Sam Buys In: Examining the Intel Deal 47:34

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Peter E. Harrell, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to examine the White House’s announcement that it will take a 10% share of Intel. They dive into the policy rationale for the stake as well as i…

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Rational Security: The “Room Raider” Edition 1:18:50

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This week, Scott sat down with old and new Lawfare colleagues—Benjamin Wittes, Renée DiResta, and Michael Feinberg—to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including: “An Old Fashioned Anti Raid.” Former Trump National Security Advisor (turned Trump critic) John Bolton got a rude awakening this past week when the FBI conducted…

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Lawfare Daily: ‘War in the Smartphone Age,’ with Matthew Ford 59:06

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Matthew Ford, Associate Professor at Swedish Defence University and author of “War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity, and the Crises at Our Fingertips,” joins Lawfare’s Justin Sherman to discuss the role of smartphones and related technologies in war, how social media contributes to a collapse of context in the war content we see online…

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Lawfare Daily: Defending Ukraine Outside NATO with Michael O'Hanlon and Andriy Zagorodnyuk 54:41

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Lawfare Contributor Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Michael O'Hanlon, Director of Foreign Policy Research and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Chairman of the Centre for Defence Strategies in Kyiv, a former Ukrainian Defence Minister, and a nonresident scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to d…

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AI in the Classroom with MacKenzie Price, Alpha School co-founder, and Rebecca Winthrop, leader of the Brookings Global Task Force on AI in Education 1:20:43

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MacKenzie Price, co-founder of Alpha School, and Rebecca Winthrop, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, join Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to review how AI is being integrated into the classroom at h…

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The Rugby World Cup Show: ‘New Zealand are worried about Ireland!’ | OFF THE BALL 40:37

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Ex-Ireland internationals Fiona Hayes and Tania Rossier join Eoin Sheahan for tonight’s edition of Monday Night Rugby: The Rugby World Cup Show! We’ll have all the reaction to Ireland’s 42-14 win over Japan on Sunday alongside a preview to next weekend’s game against Spain and reaction to everything in between, including Ruby Tui’s comments on the …

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Rugby Daily | Ireland off to a WRWC flyer, All Blacks mind games, Pumas cause consternation in New Zealand and a happy Rassie 13:20

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Welcome to Monday's Rugby Daily, with David Wilson. Ireland get off to a flyer in England. Are the All Blacks already... at it? Justin Marshall goes IN on the Kiwi backs. And Rassie Erasmus is happy with a win over the Wallabies. Rugby on Off The Ball with Bank of Ireland | #NeverStopCompeting

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Why are Judicial Appointments Moving So Slowly? (Ft. Law Professor Jonathan Adler) 54:09

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This week, we're zooming out a bit and looking at the state of the federal judiciary. To help us understand what's going on, we've got William & Mary law professor Jonathan Adler back on the show. He recently wrote a piece that laid out just how few judicial appointments President Donald Trump has actually made since the beginning of his second ter…

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‘This is really bizarre…’ | WRWC W/ HANNAH O’CONNOR & SUSANNA MOLLEN | OFF THE BALL BREAKFAST 20:17

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Former Ireland international Hannah O’Connor & OTB’s Susanna Mollen join Ger Gilroy & Vinny Perth on the show to reflect on the opening weekend of WRWC action Off The Ball Breakfast w/ UPMC Ireland | #GetBackInAction Catch The Off The Ball Breakfast show LIVE weekday mornings from 7:30am or just search for Off The Ball Breakfast and get the podcast…

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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Aug. 22 1:33:50

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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff, and Lawfare contributor James Pearce to discuss the FBI’s execution of a search warrant at John Bolton’s house, a federal judge ruling that Alina Habba was unlawfully serving as a U.S. attorney for New Jerse…

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What a Start for Ireland! | Player Reaction | Ireland 42-14 Japan 14:12

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Ireland made an amazing start to their Women's Rugby World Cup campaign, defeating Japan by 28 points this afternoon. Listen in as OTB's Susanna Mollen spoke to Ireland stars Beibhinn Parsons, Fiona Tuite, and Edel McMahon after the win.

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Lawfare Archive: Inside Ukraine’s Drone Campaign Against Russia 38:55

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From August 1, 2024: Anastasiia Lapatina is a Kyiv-based Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare. Marcel Plichta is a Fellow at the Centre for Global Law and Governance at the University of St. Andrews, and a former analyst at the U.S. Department of Defense who currently works as an instructor at the Grey Dynamics Intelligence School. For this episode, Lapatina …

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Retrotopia Talks Pokemon Gold & Silver ft Joe 1:45:14

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Welcome to another episode of Retrotopia: Another Video Game Podcast. This is a show where we, Alan, Brian, and Sam, get together to discuss video games from years gone by. We like to look at video games from the perspective of lifelong gamers and how they hold up in the retro sphere. This week we’re diving into Pokémon Gold and Silver, the legenda…

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ALISON MILLER | England's World Cup to lose | Ireland's path to the final stages? | OTB Rugby 20:18

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Former Ireland rugby player Alison Miller joins John Duggan to talk about the women's rugby World Cup that kicked off last night. Ireland play their first match of the tournament tomorrow. Rugby on Off The Ball with Bank Of Ireland #NeverStopCompeting

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Lawfare Archive: Domestic Deployment of the National Guard 1:22:11

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From May 3, 2024: Over the past several years, governors around the country from both political parties have used their respective National Guards for an increasingly unconventional array of domestic missions, ranging from teaching in public schools to regulating immigration at the southern border. To discuss how this trend may impact the National …

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Trump's DC Takeover Draws Gun-Rights Backlash; Third Circuit Takes AR Ban Case 47:21

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Contributing Writer Jake Fogleman and I look at the growing discontent among gun-rights groups with the deployment of the ATF and emphasis on gun possession arrests under President Donald Trump's federal takeover of Washington, DC's policing. We also cover the odd legal manuevering in the Third Circuit that may lead to a new circuit split on the co…

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Anna Caplice | "They're Really Pushing Each Other!" | WRWC Kickoff 25:41

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Former Ireland rugby player Anna Caplice joins Eoin Sheahan live from Sunderland ahead of tonight's opening of the Women's Rugby World Cup. Bank of Ireland | #neverstopcompeting

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Rugby Daily | Ireland 'raring to go' for RWC opener, team news vs Japan 12:36

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Welcome to Friday's Rugby Daily, with Cameron Hill. It's a special Women's Rugby World Cup bumper preview today. We'll have the team news for Ireland's opening game against Japan, We'll hear from the Ireland camp ahead of the tournament kicking off in England tonight, And Fiona Hayes gives her thoughts on Ireland's chances at this year's edition. R…

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"I don't think it's impossible!" How far can Ireland go... | Women's Rugby World Cup | OTB Breakfast Rugby 20:38

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OTB’s Susanna Mollen & Dara Smith-Naughton preview the start of Ireland’s Rugby World Cup campaign alongside Shane Hannon & Colm Boohig, with their opening fixture with Japan set for Sunday. Off The Ball Breakfast w/ UPMC Ireland | #GetBackInAction Catch The Off The Ball Breakfast show LIVE weekday mornings from 7:30am or just search for Off The Ba…

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Lawfare Daily: The European Court of Human Rights Takes on Digital Rights in War, with Asaf Lubin and Deb Housen-Couriel 47:16

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For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor and General Counsel Scott R. Anderson sits down with Lawfare Contributing Editor and Indiana University Maurer School of Law professor Asaf Lubin and Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Deborah Housen-Couriel to talk over the European Court of Human Rights' recent decision in Ukraine and the Netherlan…

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Rugby Daily | Will Genia's awkward ROG meeting, Wafer out of WRWC opener 11:58

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Welcome to Thursday's Rugby Daily, with Cameron Hill. Coming up today, a key player has been ruled out for Ireland's Rugby World Cup opener this weekend. Rassie Erasmus, Joe Schmidt and Scott Robertson speak ahead of Round 2 of the Rugby Championship. And Will Genia joined Off The Ball Breakfast after calling time on his stellar playing career. Rug…

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Scaling Laws: Export Controls: Janet Egan, Sam Winter-Levy, and Peter Harrell on the White House's Semiconductor Decision 54:40

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Alan Rozenshtein, Research Director at Lawfare, sits down with Sam Winter-Levy, a Fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Janet Egan, a Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security; and Peter Harrell, a Nonresident Fell…

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The Open Questions Surrounding Open Source AI with Nathan Lambert and Keegan McBride 45:17

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Keegan McBride, Senior Policy Advisor in Emerging Technology and Geopolitics at the Tony Blair Institute, and Nathan Lambert, a post-training lead at the Allen Institute for AI, join Alan Rozenshein, Associate Professor at Minnesota Law and Research Director at Lawfare, and Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas …

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FIONA HAYES: ‘They go into that Black Ferns game with no fear at all!’ | All eyes on the Rugby World Cup 24:13

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Grand Slam winner Fiona Hayes joins Eoin Sheahan to look ahead to the start of the Rugby World Cup in England this weekend, as Japan is first up for Scott Bemand’s charges on Sunday. Rugby on Off The Ball with Bank Of Ireland | #NeverStopCompeting

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Rational Security: The “Whole Etsy Store of Horrors” Edition 1:26:11

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This week, Scott sat down with his colleagues Anna Bower, Chris Mirasola, and Mykhailo Soldatenko to talk through the week’s big national security news, including: “Wings and a Prayer.” The Ukraine conflict has been the subject of intense shuttle diplomacy over the past week, as President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin flew to a meeting…

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Jackie McCarthy - O'Brien | "Unmarried Mother, Child Of Colour" | Ireland's First Female Rugy Player Of Colour | Settle In 19:08

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In the run up to the start of the Women's Rugby World Cup, Meghann Scully sat down with former Ireland rugby player Jackie McCarthy - O'Brien. Jackie recounts the difficulties she faced as a child of colour in Ireland in the sixties, growing up in an industrial school, and how she became the first female rugby player of colour on the Irish team. Th…

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Lawfare Daily: FCC’s New Submarine Cable Rules with Adam Chan 48:20

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Adam Chan, National Security Counsel at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and inaugural Director of the FCC’s new Council on National Security, joins Lawfare’s Justin Sherman to discuss the FCC’s rulemaking on submarine cables and national security. They discuss the FCC’s new submarine cable rules, the role of submarine cables in the U.S.…

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Illuminating Light - Jess Wade, Russell Foster and Bridget Christie 42:23

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What is light? How has it shaped our understanding of the universe, our biology, and even our culture?In this illuminating episode Brian Cox and Robin Ince shine a spotlight on the fascinating science and history of light. From sun and circadian rhythms to the dazzling complexity of quantum, they explore how humans have understood and been influenc…

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Lawfare Daily: The Alaska Summit and Its Fallout 1:09:39

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In a live conversation on August 18, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko, Lawfare Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina, and Carnegie Senior Fellow Eric Ciaramella about President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting in Alaska on Aug. 15, Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Vol…

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Export Controls: Janet Egan, Sam Winter-Levy, and Peter Harrell on the White House's Semiconductor Decision 53:37

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Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare, sat down with Sam Winter-Levy, a fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Janet Egan, a senior fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security; and Peter Harrell, a nonresident fello…