Episode 2035: The Richie Allen Show Tuesday February 18th 2025
The Richie Allen Show
The Richie Allen Show
4.7 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Richie is joined by Jana Lunden and Hayden Hewitt. The Garda Síochána - The Irish National Police - has been obtaining court orders to snoop on the social media accounts of activists and journalists. To discuss this, Richie is joined by Jana Lunden, the spokeswoman and co-founder of Ireland's Natural Women's Council.
https://x.com/Jklunden
https://www.naturalwomenscouncil.ie/
Hayden Hewitt is a filmmaker, screenwriter and political commentator. His first feature film "Cara" is now available to stream on Amazon and Apple. Don't miss it. It's terrific. On today's show, Hayden and Richie discuss threats to online privacy, the future of VPN's, blasphemy laws and much more.
https://x.com/HaydenHewitt
https://www.youtube.com/@blackoctopusproductions
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, how are you? Welcome to Tuesday's Richie Allen radio show. I had to check there. I had to think about that. It is Tuesday. The 18th of February 2025. I'm Richie Allen in Salford and I'd love to hear from you over the course of the next two hours. You may reach out to me using my app using the contact form on Richie Allen.co.com. Two very interesting guests. As you'd expect coming your way this particular Tuesday, |
| 0:26.5 | your Richie Allen show begins now. No spin, no filters. This is your Richie Allen show. |
| 0:33.6 | Free speech radio like you've never heard it before. |
| 0:43.0 | It's the Richie Allen Show. |
| 0:46.3 | Broadcasting live on richie Allen.com. UK and multiple platforms around the world. |
| 0:50.5 | And now, here's your host, Richie Allen. |
| 0:54.5 | Now, the Garda Chiacona is the Irish National Police Force, the Guard of Chiacona. |
| 1:01.0 | Brendan Grace, God love him, used to refer to them as the Guard of Chicaloni, the Guardi. |
| 1:06.9 | Guess what the Guardi, the Irish police have been doing? |
| 1:10.2 | Well, they've been getting court orders, |
| 1:12.7 | court orders to try to compel Twitter or X to reveal the data and the message details of journalists |
| 1:21.6 | and persons of interest. Would you believe this? Well, it's true. You might have heard of an Irish news |
| 1:27.4 | organisation called GRIP. It's relatively new new as Grypt. It's only been around a few years. |
| 1:32.3 | Guy called Scallon, Ben Scallon, and somebody else, McGurk, John McGurk. There are others. Well, apparently, |
| 1:38.7 | the Irish police went to court to get a court order to say to Twitter, we want to find out what GRIPS journalists, |
| 1:46.6 | what the journalists working for GRIPT have been saying and doing. |
| 1:50.7 | It's true, and it isn't only GRIPT. |
| 1:52.8 | They've been doing it also to Janna, London. |
| 1:55.1 | Now, Janna is an old friend of the programmes. |
| 1:57.2 | She founded the Irish, well, she founded Ireland's Natural Women's Council. |
| 2:02.6 | I've invited her on to chat about this. She'll be on with me later this hour. Can't wait. |
| 2:08.6 | And later on I want to talk about tech. I want to talk about Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, where tech is taking humanity. |
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