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Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 122, published June 6, 2017. I sunk a lot of hours this weekend trying to write a column on “Peak Podcasting,” following some inspiration from a tweet by the esteemed Lizzie O’Leary — which speaks to a broad feeling that I’ve been seeing a…

Will Slattery and Rory O’Connor from Rory’s Stories discuss whether Diarmuid Connolly will be banned and if so, for how long? Does he deserve a 12 week ban or was it so slight that he should be let off? And is Connolly now a liability for Jim Gavin and the Dubs? Meath manager, Andy McEntee,…

The Pentagon! Buenos Aires! Some Dakotas! The fifth part of Showtime’s revival of Twin Peaks continued the show’s global expansion. Ernie Hudson’s in the Pentagon, on the hunt for Major Briggs. There’s a black box in Buenos Aires receiving mysterious phone calls. We checked in on iconic characters like Nadine, Dr. Jacoby, and The Pajama Boy…

The much feared/derided Central Competitions Control Committee will meet on Tuesday to contemplate a possible sanction for Connolly for laying his hand on linesman Ciaran Branagan last Saturday. The rulebook is fairly blunt on the subject. What’s called a “minor physical infraction” against an official is punishable by a 12-week ban at the minimum. Opinion…

Image via Flickr. More journalists are turning to podcasting to help audiences digest and discuss what’s going on in the news. Audiences have devoured newer podcasts like The New York Times’s The Daily, which gained more than 20 million listens since its launch in January, and Pod Save the People, hosted by Black Lives Matter…