The Cop On

Put your Child of Prague outside, wave at the magpie and shake some salt of your shoulder. For Friday the 13th, we're talking superstitions. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

Get in witches, we're going hexing! In honour of spooky season we take a look at some of the best and worst Witch moments modern media has to offer. It's our first fully remote episode and we're asking if witches were always feminist icons? When did witches become sexy? And in what ways could witch representation be improved? (Spoiler alert: a lot!) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

Hello lovers, it's time to cast a light on the most prestigious of movie genres: the humble rom-com. We take a look at iconic films and actors, the origins of the rom-com, and ask why did rom-coms want us to fancy Jack Black and Michael Cera so much? Listen in for one of the most contentious Cop On debates to date: is The Lobster (2015) a rom-com? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

Have you ever had an energy snake climb out of your arse? Or followed graphic comic book scripture that told you how much toilet paper to use? Or carried out nuclear terrorism on citizens that wrong did your sect? Well, we hope not but buckle up to hear all about it. We discuss some of the cults we find most interesting, including The Family, Aum Shinkrikyo and Universal Medicine. You can listen on any of the usual platforms, and if you don't rate and review on Apple Podcasts... You won't...

You know periods... But do you know periods? This episode, we're talking about menstruation with the gory, strange and real side of our near 30 years of experience with the red scare, having the builder's in, the Japanese flag, the rag or whatever you like to call the humble period. In this episode, we make up sayings such as: "acting starchy", "on death's bed", "distinct distinction" and "biological anatomy". Recommendation for the squeamish: have your finger hovering on that skip 15...

Friends are just lovers you don't sleep with unless you sleep with your friends. Boy friends versus girl friends (binary alert), toxic friends, how to make friends and influence people and why Ais wasn't allowed near people as a child all in this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

*Note: when we say Pop Idol, we definitely mean Popstars or Popstars: The Rivals - we are dumb and relied on memory. * Does reality TV have an impact on us - and is it always negative? The highs and desperately low lows of reality TV, including the glory that was the 00s talent show boom and the filthy UK ones (we're looking at you, Sex Box). Plus a very offensive Northern Irish accent, and a mangling of the Nadine Coyle story. Sorry, Nadine. You deserve better. --- Send in a voice message:...

A big long boy on religion, from the dunking of baptism and the mini-wedding that is the communion, to Ais's cult of pan- and bisexuals... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

Does your life feel futile and meaningless if you're not considering a Masters, travelling or climbing the ladder? Do you know who Charli D'Amelio is, but feel like maybe you shouldn't? Are you bloody burnt out? You, like us, might be having a quarter life crisis. --- You can support MASI here: https://www.masi.ie/support-us/ Learn more about MERJ here: http://merjireland.org/ And you can learn more about Black Pride Ireland here: https://m.facebook.com/blackprideire/ --- Send in a voice...

Have you been having cracked dreams? Everyone is. Talking dreams, the weirdest ones we've ever had, dream analysis, sleep paralysis, nightmares and making sense of our listeners dreams. We recorded this away from each other and did our best on sound but it's proving difficult - Lucy's plosives soften after a few minutes, we swear. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

A special isolation episode about isolation, with a special surprise of poor sound quality! We talk about going on 20 walks, which dog breeds we are, Ais having sex to podcasts and other absolute nonsense. Grab a beer and join us. It's like we're all at a party. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

We all have to do it, and it's not pooping: work! We talk about the work failures who made us who we are, being hired, being fired, the celebs we have met and what we hope for ourselves in the future. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

Why do men on the internet hate nose rings so much? In this episode, we painstakingly dissect bad takes to try to find the cop on within them featuring classics like "If Hillary had won, we'd be at brunch now", "anxiety is in your head" and "I find gorillas arousing". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

Turn and face the strange, because Not Like The Other Girls has become The Cop On. It's a very Irish phrase so have a listen, find out why we changed and what it means at all, at all, begarra. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

What is love? Baby, don't hurt me. Talking about how love is a fuzzy feeling, heartbreak and how we feel about some of the famous lyrics about love. Bonus: this week, we do a Stangelus. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

Are the female characters on television now any better than the ones of the past decade? We discuss tropes like the nagging mom type, the era of women being multidimensional and obviously refer to Sex Education a lot. Disclaimer: no offence to How I Met Your Mother writers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

As 3 Irish women, we know how to drink... Or, more accurately, we have used it to deal with completely normal emotions. How Irish alcohol culture starts early, our tipples of choice, how and why we've taken breaks from it plus our most absurb drunk stories including jalapeño related tears and innkeepering Aussie men. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

Was Diana an inside job? Why is your Google Home or Alexa so damn cheap? Was Britney Spears' drama to help Bush scandals fall out of news cycles? We get to grips with MORE of the conspiracy theories that you care about... Obviously. Spoilers: Rihanna can't blink, beanie babies and us saying the word "Duchy". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

Jealousy? We don't know her. This week, we talk about the green-eyed monster, when and why we get jealous (spoiler alert: all the time and everything) and how we deal with it when it crops up. Sadly, we didn't think to mention Freudian penis envy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message

Where were you when Lemonade dropped? Recap on 2015 through to 2019 with us, from marriage equality and similar strides to the demon that is Caroline Flack - music, TV, lukewarm takes, politics and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cop-on/message