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RRP: “ALLO ALLO ‘OW DO YOU DO” - Reaction to the appointment of Régis Le Bris as Sunderland AFC Head Coach!
Roker Rapport Podcast - June 24, 2024 17:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsMon dieu! Sacré bleu! Sunderland AFC have a head coach, as Kyril has exploited his French connection and appointed a French lad! Gav and Martin got together today to react to it all, trying to avoid lazy stereotypes and occasionally failing. What's le crack? Welcome Reg! He hasn't actually a...
RRP: "Players only love you when they're playing" - SAFC 23/24 Season Review Part Two!
Roker Rapport Podcast - June 11, 2024 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOur disorganised (and now slightly late) season review continues as we all await imminent news from our dear club about our imminent head coach. But we aren't talking about managers at all here (we'll react to that when we get an official announcement) as today our Gav, Chris and Martin's focus ...
RRP: "O manager, where art thou?" - SAFC 23/24 Season Review Part One!
Roker Rapport Podcast - May 17, 2024 06:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAye lads and lasses we threw the towel in early as Dodds and the club drove us a bit insane. Following medical advice we've all had a bit of a break and now we're back to dissect everything in a really disorganised and chaotic fashion, as our Gav is joined by Chris Wynn and Martin Wanless to att...
Confused About the Gaza Protests? This May Be Why.
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - May 06, 2024 08:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMany liberals are deeply confused about how to respond to the campus protests over Gaza. And I think it’s an example of the confusion liberals are feeling generally over a lot of issues. I believe much of the confusion can be traced to the assumption that all political opinions can fit on a si...
RRP: "Wish you weren't here" - Sunderland AFC 0-1 Millwall Reaction and Listener Q&A!
Roker Rapport Podcast - April 22, 2024 16:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOur Gav and Martin return to react to the increasingly painful and unfortunately still ongoing shite run/limp to the end of our season, following possibly the dullest game we've ever witnessed. Luckily they have some listener questions to try distract them from the football itself. What's the ...
RRP: “Tangents” - Reaction to Sunderland AFC 0-0 Bristol City and looking at Leeds away!
Roker Rapport Podcast - April 07, 2024 15:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOur Gav Henderson welcomes Martin Wanless back to the pod as the lads look back on Sunderland's goalless draw against Bristol City at the Stadium of Light yesterday, ahead to Tuesday night against Leeds at Elland Road, and grab a few listener thoughts on all things SAFC! What's the crack? It...
RRP: "5H1TE" - Reaction to Sunderland AFC 1-5 Blackburn Rovers!
Roker Rapport Podcast - April 02, 2024 19:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOur Martin and Chris had the good sense to fuck off on holiday for Easter so Gavin grabbed our heavy loss specialist, Craig Chapman, to see if they could ignore talking about any of the football from the win on Good Friday over Cardiff or the horrific loss yesterday to Blackburn! What's the cr...
RRP: “Paint drying and other pastimes” - Avoiding talking about Sunderland 0-0 Queens Park Rangers!
Roker Rapport Podcast - March 19, 2024 18:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSo we stopped a cycle of losing before heading into what is a very welcome international break for most, as Sunlun held QPR to a draw at the weekend. Join Gav and Martin as they try to talk about it all.. and end up talking about everything but the game. What’s the crack? Our worst losing st...
RRP: "Back to basics?" - The Southampton 4-2 Sunderland reaction & QPR preview!
Roker Rapport Podcast - March 14, 2024 16:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIf you haven't noticed there's a little gift we've posted full of joy and positivity just prior to this here podcast. Honest it's all great fun. Seriously though we are actually back, as Gav and Chris sat down late last night to look at the Southampton result and ahead to QPR! What's the crack...
RRP: "Doddsfall - The Trilogy" - Combined SAFC reaction to the Swansea, Norwich & Leicester defeats!
Roker Rapport Podcast - March 14, 2024 15:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsPersonal circumstances we don't really need to go on about online have unfortunately put the pods back a couple weeks, so in the interest of continuity/torture/sadism this is a combination of three recordings made after our defeats at home to Swansea, Norwich City and Leicester City… running bac...
"The President of Forgetting"
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - March 13, 2024 12:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAs we risk obliviously repeating catastrophic mistakes others have already made, Spencer Critchley has some thoughts about memory and freedom, from people who know the precious value of both. Excerpt: "Most of us in the U.S. have been spared the necessity of knowing history, and instead have b...
RRP: “Beale Burning Bridges & Doddsy Dilemmas” - Previewing Sunderland AFC v Swansea City!
Roker Rapport Podcast - February 22, 2024 17:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsChris and Gav look at the Beale burner fiasco that unfolded since we last recorded, at the task Dodds has ahead of him now for the rest of the season, and look ahead to his first challenge against Swansea on Saturday! Or they try to but get distracted aye. What's the crack? BurnerGate; Well t...
RRP: "The Departed" - Reaction to Michael Beale 'parting ways' with Sunderland AFC and a return to DoddsBall!!
Roker Rapport Podcast - February 21, 2024 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAye there'll be more from us on this in the near future - specifically burner related - but Gav and Chris sat down to give their initial thoughts on the short tenure of Michael Beale coming to an end at SAFC and the appointment of Doddsy as caretaker coach for the rest of the season! What's th...
What's the Real News About Election '24? With Mike Madrid & Zach Friend
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - February 13, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIf you wanted to, you could consume nothing but presidential campaign coverage all day every day. But how much of it would leave you feeling better informed about casting what may be the most important vote of your life? Not better informed about the campaign as a sporting event, with all the ex...
RRP: "To Beale or not to Beale" - Sunderland AFC 3-1 Plymouth Reaction & Huddersfield Preview!
Roker Rapport Podcast - February 12, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsEditor's note: Gav has taken my recent illness badly, I fear for my life. If something happens to me it was Gavin Henderson aye. The lads got together to chat all things Sunlun after a lovely win over Plymouth at the Stadium of Light on Saturday, as well as to answer a few listener questions a...
RRP: "More mass debating with friends" - A bumper listener Q&A session chatting all things Sunderland AFC!
Roker Rapport Podcast - January 30, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSo yesterday our Gavin spammed all your social media feeds asking for questions the lads can get themselves in trouble answering and you didn't disappoint. Listen in as they try to cover off as many of your talking points as possible! What's the crack? First threesome in a little while, they...
RRP: "Cockney Revels" - Reaction to Sunderland 3-1 Stoke City & everything else SAFC!
Roker Rapport Podcast - January 28, 2024 17:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe lads got together to chew the fat about our win against Stoke on Saturday and all the mayhem surrounding the club as we approach the end of the January window! Apples, pears, Pritchards and cockney stuff. Bosh. What's the crack? WE WON. Doesn't that feel a bit better? Well played Mason;...
Episode 102 - Crump gets his Two-Day One Day International game of Test Cricket against the West Indies and is sad about it
Two For None - January 24, 2024 00:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSpinks and the Eucalyptus Yorker didn't know what to do with all of their free time after the first Test against the West Indies finished two-and-a-half days early. So they get a bit ranty, get a bit silly, and expect much the same for the upcoming day-night test at the Gabba. Featuring Pat Cull...
RRP: “Shit, meet fan.” - A pretty miserable Sunderland AFC 0-1 Hull City reaction!
Roker Rapport Podcast - January 20, 2024 17:30 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIt all went wrong for the Lads at the Stadium of Light last night so our Gav and Martin got together to try work through their emotions.. What's the crack? We didn't score. This is still an issue, surprisingly. Why aren't we trying something different? Is Beale doing enough to hold off the...
Episode 101 - Australia whitewash Pakistan and Spinks gets mad about Australia's selections for the future
Two For None - January 16, 2024 23:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSpinks and the Eucalyptus Yorker are back to waddle their way through Australias 3-0 whitewash of the Test series against Pakistan, have a wee look at the series against the West Indies which starts today, and spend probably too much time ranting and raving on behalf of Cameron Bancroft and Matt...
RRP: “Crack the f***ing window, Kristjaan” - The Ipswich Town 2-1 Sunderland AFC Review!
Roker Rapport Podcast - January 15, 2024 04:01 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSo for part two of our return to pod action in the New Year, we resume normal service as Gav and Martin react to our loss to Ipswich on Saturday and give some further thoughts on the January transfer window! What's the crack? So we might need a striker aye; Could we have taken at least a p...
RRP: “New Year Revolutions” - Catching up on everything SAFC this year so far with a listener Q&A!
Roker Rapport Podcast - January 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAye we didn't exactly escape anything these first two weeks of 2024, but having upgraded a few things (and taking a bit of time to haul ourselves back on the wagon for another year) we are in fact back to a more settled schedule; Kicking off with a double bill of podcasting chaos as Gav and Chri...
Episode 100 - Australia beat Pakistan by the length of a wristband
Two For None - January 03, 2024 23:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTwo For None hits a century! Spinks and Crump-It gather in the new year for this special episode to run you through the Australian womens tour of India, disect the Australian mens victory in the boxing day test against Pakistan, and a few of our correspondents take a little look back at their ti...
RRP: “Clarke has bailed the Lads out, again” - Reviewing Sunderland’s Christmas chaos!
Roker Rapport Podcast - December 31, 2023 18:35 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWhile we’ve been enjoying a few too many Baileys, mince pies and turkey, the Lads have been on the road — join Gav & Martin as they chat all about it and look ahead to the Preston game! What’s the crack? Sunderland drew at Rotherham in what was a flat performance, so what did the lads think o...
RRP: “Twas the shite before Christmas” - Sunderland AFC 0-3 Coventry City Reaction!
Roker Rapport Podcast - December 23, 2023 22:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsSunderland were left embarrassed by Coventry at the SoL in Michael Beale's first game in charge - Gav and Martin were there and react to everything that happened. What went wrong? We're about to find out... What's the festive crack? Well, that was tough - so what went wrong? Ba's performanc...
RRP: “Avoiding Asda” - A very quick Sunderland AFC v Coventry City Preview!
Roker Rapport Podcast - December 22, 2023 18:45 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsHaving fun out there? Join us as Gav and Chris look ahead (rapidly) to Michael Beale's first game in charge of the Lads at the SoL - with our old rivals Coventry standing in our way of an important three points - and us all running around currently like headless chickens, fighting random strange...
Luke Freeman on the promise & challenges of Effective Altruism: how to make giving count
Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good - December 22, 2023 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBy some measures, well over half of charities do little or no good. When similar charities are compared, the most effective ones can be up to 100 times more effective than the least. And there’s often a big mismatch between where donors direct their support and where the need and potential benef...
Episode 99 - Pakistan fields as well as a Summer Hill 8th Grade squad and gets rolled
Two For None - December 21, 2023 03:58 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSpinks and Crumpet are back to chat about the day 4 demolition of Pakistan at Optus Stadium in Perth, a quick hello said by the man upstairs Patrick Cullen, a small look towards what will inevitably the same result at the MCG from boxing day, and a preview of the Australian Womens cricket team's...
RRP: “The Real Beale?” - Reaction to Michael Beale becoming the new Sunderland AFC Head Coach!
Roker Rapport Podcast - December 20, 2023 17:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsGav and Chris got together to completely ignore the shite performance at Bristol City and instead talk about the news that Sunderland have hired former Rangers boss Michael Beale as their new head coach! What's the crack? Well, Michael Beale is here - so what do the lads make of it? How much ...
RRP: "A Mike Dodds Masterclass" - Reaction to Sunderland AFC 1-0 Leeds Utd!
Roker Rapport Podcast - December 13, 2023 17:15 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOur Gavin and Chris return to react to a tactical masterclass from the legend that is Doddseh - as Sunderland beat Leeds by a goal to nil at the Stadium of Light last night! Other titles considered: On a mission from Dodds DoddsBall: The Sequel Nectar of the Dodds Dodds Day Sunrise Who le...