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I'm busy playing catchup with the latest Blindboy podcast episodes and this week I listened to the live podcast with Will St Leger and Tonie Walsh, and it was amazing! If you haven't listened to The Blindboy Podcast yet, the mainstay episodes are Blindboy giving us a podcast hug in his studio speaking straight about wide ranging topics from the historical significance of lapis luzuli to Carl Jung's collective self consciousness, with plenty of hot takes in between. In parallel to the regular episodes, Blindboy embarks on series of live episodes around Ireland with special guests, which records and then puts out on the podcast every now and then.
This particlar live episode with Will St Leger & Tonie Walsh in my view is as much a societal service as a piece of entertainment. Both Will and Tonie are gay rights activists and describe the history of gay rights in Ireland as well as shining a light on the current state of sexual education and sexual health services in Ireland. The episode is funny but also so informative, and challenges a lot of sterotypical views of gay rights in Ireland.
