Here what's the deal with Second Captains, i've never listened.
I'm under the impression it's an Irish sports podcast but that it also encompasses a lot of special guests from politics, the arts and more?
Is it Irish Joe Rogan or Irish woke Joe Rogan or what?
They wouldn't appreciate the JR comparison but you're not a million miles off. They probably have a similar (male dominated) demo, skewing a bit older probably. 30's and 40's rather than his 25-35.
Vast majority of it is just "here's what we think about the sport that was on last night/is on tonight" but they do a "politics" podcast every few weeks, usually just an interview with someone who has written a book the host is interested in.
Often they'll do stuff on social issues using sport as their in to the subject, they've done BLM stuff because of footballers starting to take the knee before matches. And they had an episode about Ahmaud Arbery last week based on an article about how he was a jogger that went into why black people in the US don't typically jog and the privilege related to being a jogger who can be secure of their safety (tragically prescient, they released that on Wednesday before the Ashling Murphy story was known.)
They also did a multipart series on George Gibney last year that was very good.