After 2,000 episodes of The Stand, Eamon Dunphy opted to push the pause button on the current affairs podcast that has consumed him for much of the past decade and which, by his own admission, allowed him to help sate his own internal curiosities. Dunphy has long been a master of reinvention and the podcast, recorded in the basement of his fine three-story Georgian house in Co Dublin, was the most recent pivot in his singular journey that has straddled mediums, platforms and genres. He launched the podcast partly in response to the initial rise of Trump back in 2016,…

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