{"podcast":{"title":"Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning","slug":"free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217","podcast_index_feed_id":6213217,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/641338125bde790011089c5b","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1678981116872-078471f28dd3685d12e6a3cc8147fbb4.jpeg","author":"Joe Brolly","episode_count":390,"summary":"Free State is a podcast for the curious that stimulates, provokes, challenges and entertains, while never taking itself too seriously. Free State covers topics from sport to politics, love to loss, the human condition and how to fix the world, with guests from across the planet including Nigerian princes, former Prime Ministers, ex convicts, footballers, boxers and extraordinary people from every walk of life. Free State is presented by Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning. Brolly is a barrister, an original thinker with a fascinating backstory, who donated a kidney to a stranger and then led a crusade to transform organ donation on the island of Ireland, and Fanning is an award-winning interviewer and author. They are not motivational gurus or life coaches. They are two people from very different worlds, with one core belief uniting them - this is not a high performance podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217"},"episode":{"title":"Imminent extinction? Never mind, there’s always Love Island","slug":"imminent-extinction-never-mind-there-s-always-love-island","published_at":"2026-05-21T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/imminent-extinction-never-mind-there-s-always-love-island","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217","url":"https://freestatepodcast.com","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/641338125bde790011089c5b/e/6a0e2414d7997e788c125fea/media.mp3","summary":"Do you feel like lower value human capital or do you believe you should be on Love Island?  Who declares who is of value and who isn’t? Will the future belong to those who refuse to be defined by what the tech overlords decide they should be?  On Free State we look at how the climate emergency is being accelerated by data centres and why nobody has the will to stop them.  And we provide a major update on the potential Love Island appearance of the Galway footballer ‘Fitzy’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Do you feel like lower value human capital or do you believe you should be on Love Island? Who declares who is of value and who isn’t? Will the futu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2211,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/episodes/imminent-extinction-never-mind-there-s-always-love-island/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-state-with-joe-brolly-and-dion-fanning-6213217/imminent-extinction-never-mind-there-s-always-love-island.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}