Podcasts Sundays from 6:00 to 6:30 pm

Random Thoughts from County Antrim is our weekly podcast, Sundays at 6:00 to 6:30 pm. Since the coronavirus won’t allow us to be “live live” in front of real people, we’ll have to be “live” in front of a camera, in the safety of our shelter-in-place in County Antrim, Michigan, U.S.A.

Each week will be a half hour (or less) of wee stories and yarns, historical info and tidbits, perhaps a legend, and of course random thoughts. Begun on May 31, 2020, Random Thoughts from County Antrim will continue for the duration of the pandemic and, who knows, thereafter.

Here are the links to the podcasts:

September 5, 2021 podcast, featuring The Irish Sweepstakes.

August 29, 2021 podcast, featuring National Reactions to the Virus and Time to a Hog, plus an old joke.

August 22, 2021 podcast, featuring The Fenian Invasion of Canada.

August 15, 2021 podcast, featuring A County Fair and The Farmer & The Bulls.

August 8, 2021 podcast, featuring The Tale of Three Cities – Liverpool, New Orleans and Quebec.

August 1, 2021 podcast, featuring Blind Basket Maker John McDonnell.

July 25, 2021 podcast, featuring Fair, Brown, and Trembling.

July 18, 2021 podcast, featuring A Father, A Son, and A Woman.

July 11, 2021 podcast, featuring We’re Here Because We’re Here and Live & Let Live

July 4, 2021 podcast, featuring Independence Day – in the U.S.A., Ireland & Elsewhere.

June 27, 2021 podcast, featuring The Battle of Ardnaree and The River Moy.

June 20, 2021 podcast, featuring The Indirect Method and Story & Truth.

June 13, 2021 podcast, featuring The Belgian Potato and The Highland Clearances.

June 6, 2021 podcast, featuring King O’Toole and His Goose.

May 30, 2021 podcast, featuring The Potato.

May 23, 2021 podcast, featuring Peadar and His Friends.

May 16, 2021 podcast, featuring Beltaine and The Clockwinder and Behind The Clockwinder.

May 9, 2021 podcast, featuring Chinese Rocket and The Shepherd of Erne and The Red Book of Hergest.

May 2, 2021 podcast, featuring A Sprightly Tailor and Some Celtic Men’s Fashion.

April 25, 2021 podcast, featuring Flora MacDonald and Flora’s Fancy and Differences Between Irish and Scottish Festivals.

April 18, 2021 podcast, featuring Tartan Day, Declaration of Arbroath, Samuel Wilson as Uncle Sam, and King James.

April 11, 2021 podcast, featuring Scottish Spider Man, and Robert the Bruce, and Kayla the Book Tour Dog.

April 4, 2021 podcast, featuring St. Patrick’s Trivia Winner and Crypto Art and A Wee Bit of St. Andrew.

March 28, 2021 podcast, featuring Some More Tales of St. Patrick.

March 21, 2021 podcast, featuring Tales of St. Patrick.

March 14, 2021 podcast, featuring Random Thoughts Story Swap I.

March 7, 2021 podcast, featuring The Legend of Knockmany.

February 28, 2021 podcast, featuring Doolough Pass Followup and Ireland in the Pandemic and Smuggling Arms.

February 21, 2021 podcast, featuring Doo Lough Pass and the Famine Walk.

February 14, 2021 podcast, featuring Time to a Hog and The Hedge Schools.

February 7, 2021 podcast, featuring St. Brigid and the Goddess Brigid.

January 31, 2021 podcast, featuring County Mayo’s Boycott of Mr. Boycott.

January 24, 2021, featuring The Children of Lir.

January 17, 2021, podcast, featuring Stephen Colbert & The Algorithm.

January 10, 2021, featuring The Apprentice and the Baker.

January 3, 2021, featuring New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day.

December 27, 2020, featuring Boxing Day, St. Stephen’s Day & Wren’s Day and The Almost Irish Marie Antoinette.

December 20, 2020, featuring Microbes on Opioids and Voting Through The Years.

December 13, 2020 podcast, featuring Some Stories of Texas.

December 6, 2020 podcast, featuring Some Irish Castles I Especially Like.

November 29, 2020 podcast, featuring My Friend With Webbed Feet.

November 22, 2020 podcast, featuring Masks & Red Lights and The Headless Governor.

November 15, 2020 podcast, featuring The Well-Known, Little-Known Irish Man and The Choctaw Nation.

November 8, 2020 podcast, featuring Vote Tally in County Antrim and Headlining Storyteller.

November 1, 2020 podcast, featuring The County Down Fiddler and The Magical Stone Soup.

October 25, 2020 podcast, featuring The Tayman and The Telling of the Tayman.

October 18, 2020 podcast, featuring Somhairle & Raunhilda.

October 11, 2020 podcast, featuring On the Web & YouTube and Moronic Kidnap Plotters and 2020 Is Not 2019.

October 4, 2020 podcast, featuring Rose Garden Fables.

September 27, 2020 podcast, featuring Three Boats.

September 20, 2020 podcast, featuring The Irish Orphan Girls.

September 13, 2020 podcast, featuring The Toledo War.

September 6, 2020 podcast, featuring Miracles and Story & Truth.

August 30, 2020 podcast, featuring Magical Dirt from County Fermanagh.

August 23, 2020 podcast, featuring The Laborer and The Wicklow Witch.

August 16, 2020 podcast, featuring The Haskell County Virus.

August 9, 2020 podcast, featuring sports betting and ancient hurling at Cunga.

August 2, 2020 podcast, featuring The Tayman, for the virtual Dublin, Ohio, Irish Festival.

July 26, 2020 podcast, featuring The Sandwich.

July 19, 2020 podcast, featuring Ireland’s Most Famous Musicians.

July 12, 2020 podcast, featuring The Looking Glass.

July 5, 2020 podcast, featuring The Fable of Celtic King Donel O’ Mámh.

June 28, 2020 podcast, featuring My Good Friend Rory and My Irish Festival Shirt.

June 21, 2020 podcast, featuring My Near Death Experience.

June 14, 2020 podcast, featuring Policing in Ireland. This podcast was recorded live, but not live streamed. We’ll probably use this route for future podcasts since it presented much fewer technical difficulties.

June 7, 2020 live podcast, featuring Whiskey in a Wine Glass, and Bald Guys Matter, and The County Antrim Name. Technical difficulties abound, and this video may be one to listen to rather than to watch. We’re still working on the tech side of things. The recording also ended a few minutes before it was supposed to.

May 31, 2020 live podcast, featuring The Clockwinder, and Nationalities’ Reaction to the Coronavirus, and Bealtaine. There were a few technical difficulties. The audio and visual do not match in the beginning, but miraculously and inexplicably come in sync at around the three minute mark.

(Photograph by Linda McDonnell)