Chapter 1: What unusual weather records are discussed in Ireland?
That's mad weather we're having, Ted, isn't it? I had to look it up. I had to see what the record was for March in Ireland. And it turns out it was 1965. 23.6 degrees on the 28th of March, 1965. There's even an RT report of people on the beach in Sandy Mountain, Dublin. You know, on the beach beach, as in swimming trunks and bikinis and the like. In March. It's mad. It's mad.
So we're getting 18 degrees, which isn't particularly high compared to 23.6. And it's been common enough. I was looking at last year. It was 19.6 degrees in Ashford on St. Patrick's Day. So it's very welcome, but not that unusual. I went out for a lovely run yesterday afternoon, one of the advantages of working in the morning.
And I met Jason and Jason was in the possession of a tiny line marker sport. Beautiful piece of equipment. What does it do? Well, it does exactly what it says on the tin. It marks pitches, but it's robotic. There's no human interference. Well, there has to be, but you just program it and off it goes. And Jason and his tiny line marker sport had just lined a field in UCD for American football.
And I was fascinated by it. And I stood there for 10 minutes talking to Jason about his tiny line marker sport. He must have thought I was very strange. And I said, I saw one of your colleagues, I think, two weeks ago, Jason, and he had a bigger version. Ah, he said, that's the tiny line marker sport Pro X. It's a lot more reliable. This one here, he said, pointing to the thing in front of him.
It needs a little bit more babysitting. so then I asked him how much how much would that cost and he told me that the tiny line marker sport would set you back ā¬25,000 that's including VAT whereas it's big brother the tiny line marker sport Pro X would set you back ā¬35,000 including VAT And with the thing that he had, you get one template free.
So you might get a GAA pitch or a soccer pitch or depending where you are. And then if you want another type of pitch, you pay. And it's fascinating. They use Google Maps. So you get the template and you line it up with the satellite image on Google Maps and off it goes.
And it can do it in 27 minutes, as opposed to, Jason was telling me, I've no experience of it, but if you were doing a pitch for the first time, it could take you seven to eight hours by the time you measure it all out and do the right angles and all that sort of thing. And he even said, you know, they've updated the GAA one because of the big D now with the change of rules.
And I was bemoaning the fact that, you know, Paddy and Mick and John and maybe the odd Mary down the country whose sole job is to line the pitches, they'll be out of a job. And they won't get thanked at the annual dinner dance. And thanks very much to John for lining the pitches. We couldn't play the games without him. And John sticks his hand up and takes the applause.
What's going to happen to him? And he was saying, well, a lot of clubs can't afford it. 25,000, including Vash, but a lot of them are investing in automatic line markers. And it's not the, I was just looking at the old fashioned one. The Stadium Max Wheel Transfer would set you back ā¬409. I don't know if that's including VAT or not.
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Chapter 2: How does a robotic line marker work?
How could I be so sure? I don't know. I think I have a sixth sense. I think we all think we have a sixth sense. That we can make up other people's stories. So I saw an older man and a younger woman. And just the way they were talking, they weren't father and daughter. I can't tell you why, but I know they weren't. And just the way they were looking at each other, I said, that's an affair.
That's a lunchtime affair there. And then as I ran around, because it's in UCD, so maybe there's a lot of that around. Is there an academia? I don't know. But I thought to myself, yes, that's probably a student and a lecturer. And now they're having these secret rendezvous at lunchtime. because they were off the beaten track a bit.
I just spotted them because, and this is too much information, but I usually run clockwise around UCD and yesterday for the crack, because I'm mad, I ran anti-clockwise. And I sort of got disorientated a little bit. So I was looking places that I wouldn't normally look and I spotted them. And I said in my head, they're having an affair. You do that. Everyone does a bit of that, don't they?
Try and write other people's stories. And then if you're really good at it, you're Maeve Binchy. And for most of us, it just goes on in our heads. Keeps us a little bit entertained. Yeah. Entertained indeed. Speaking of sport, we were talking earlier on in the week about Sweet Caroline being played out at the Aviva Stadium after Ireland beat Scotland last weekend.
And I was going, is that the best we can do? Because it was the weekend where Today FM had just announced the top 100 songs of all time. Sorry, top 100 Irish songs of all time. And could we not choose one of those and play it when our rugby team is victorious? Anyway, Angus and Ennis has been on. I couldn't agree more, replaying Sweet Caroline and the Aviva at an Irish rugby match.
Not only do we have plenty of songs of our own, but this song is... But this song in particular is synonymous with English sport. I didn't know that. I'm an Irish rugby fan, but sometimes we don't help ourselves. P.S. Best of luck with the pod. Great to have you, Jenny and Mireille back. Angus and Ennis. Thanks, Angus and Ennis.
And Jenny will be here later on, as will Bernard O'Shea, if we can make contact with Limerick. Come in, Limerick. Dancing Posty has just dusted off his shoes and is on the pod. Good to hear you all. Seamus. P.S. available for TV and at the dance of postie. Great to have you on board, Seamus. Welcome on to the good ship, Ray Darcy Daily. And we're gathering people as we go.
Anthony is with us as well. Welcome on board, Anthony. Just thought of something listening to your podcast today, or maybe yesterday, that carries on from the new pronunciation of marathon that you were discussing. And when I heard either Jenny or Maraid mention Gen Z, it's the Americanisation of our words. You see, we say Zed, they say Zee.
There isn't much that gives me the diarrhoea more than hearing an Irish person say mom. I shudder even writing it, Ray. Or as was mentioned above, the use of the pronunciation Z instead of Z. I hear more and more children and some TV presenters and radio presenters say things like SUV instead of Jeep or truck. Instead of lorry. That's the way we say it in Kildare, lorry as opposed to lorry.
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Chapter 3: What embarrassing moments do the hosts share?
Will it last beyond that? SNL America going for 51 years now and still making a difference, I think. Their political satire is something that's important. So there, anyway, 10 o'clock Sky or Now TV, this Saturday night, I'll be watching it. Will you? Will you? Will you? Will you? We're watching Rooster at the moment and Jenny's going to talk about that a little bit more.
And Steve Carell stars in Rooster and I did a little bit of a deep dive on him this morning and I found an interview he did with David Letterman. It was at the end of the first season of The American Office. And so it was the first season, right? So you're doing one season. That's important that you know that.
You also need to know that Gunsmoke was the longest running Western drama to run on American TV. It ran from 1955 to 1975, 653 episodes. You also need to know, for explaining you're losing, you also need to know that Bonanza was another Western drama which didn't run as long as Gunsmoke. And with all that, Steve Carell talking to David Letterman. David Letterman.
Thank you very much. Boy, congratulations on your office. How long has that show been on the air now? 18 years now. 18 years! It's a regular Gunsmoke, isn't it? It is. It is. And I am Haas. That was bonanza. It doesn't make any difference.
But you know, as you know, like I'm telling you, that show was a tremendous success in England and then came to this country, and now you're taking the Ricky Gervais part. There must be some pressure there.
I've made it suck. I have taken what he did. His is such a definitive character, I think, and fairly iconic. And I didn't watch much at all of the original because I was intimidated by him because his characterization was so good. And after having seen it, I thought, this is a terrible, terrible idea for me to even undertake it.
And it turns out that it was, because... No, it's just not working out. No, if you watch the show, if you compare them side by side, I pale in comparison.
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Chapter 4: How do the hosts perceive relationships in public?
I think the show is fine. Just relax. It is fine. But not good. It's fun for me to do and I enjoy the money I'm making.
This is being televised. Very funny exchange. Steve Carell and David Letterman. And Steve Carell stars in Rooster. We'll be talking about that later on. We have Bernard O'Shea on the way and we have a quiz all after this. Right, so we're here in the Natural Bakery in Stalorgan and we have our little red mic. What's your name?
Marguerite Gann.
Nice to meet you, Marguerite. Yes. Are you a regular here?
I am, yes. I come in every, I suppose, every three days.
Aha. There's a lovely atmosphere here.
There is. Very, very wary and very nice.
Yeah.
Half and lovely.
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Chapter 5: What are the opinions on the new SNL UK?
Yeah, it's lovely. It meets a lot of people, you know.
So what would you recognise it from other than Fair City?
Well, I had three TV ads on during COVID. One was for Electra Tarlem, am I allowed to say? And one was for the National Lottery, my blessing gone. And the other one was for, no, it wasn't on television. It was in Sweden, actually, for Pfizer. Right.
You're getting a lot of work.
I am, yes. I phone in the cinema at the moment for a phone watch.
And have you seen it in the cinema?
Not in the cinema, but I've seen it online, yeah.
Yeah, that might be a little bit disconcerting if you arrive in to watch a movie and there you are on the big screen.
It is, yeah. I was on a campaign for legal, actually, a long time ago and my daughter was driving and there was the billboard, you know, thank you, big brother, watch, you know.
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts feel about American cultural influences?
Cat or dog? Beagle.
Dog.
Is correct. That's four out of five. Well done, Marguerite.
Thank you very much.
Coffee and a chocolate lad for this lady.
I just had the chocolate.
You just had the chocolate. Okay, thanks, Marguerite.
Thank you very much. It's lovely to meet you. Lovely to meet you too.
Yeah, it was lovely to meet Marguerite down at the Natural Bakery in Stillorgan. And we're off again this afternoon, Jenny and I, in our Little Red Mike, in search of people to do the Little Red Mike Cafe Quiz. There you go. I said it quickly and with confidence. Roulade versus Swiss roll. We used to have Swiss rolls at home as a treat on a Sunday.
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Chapter 7: What are the humorous stories involving shoes shared by the guests?
Mergers. So I don't want to tell anybody how the sausage is made. Can I ask you, you were asking me earlier about Trump's shoes. I don't know anything about this.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, I mentioned it the other day. So it's big news. He now gifts his lackeys dress shoes. They're sort of I can't remember the name of the company, but the Chicago company begins with an F and there's an O and an R and an S in it because I can see it written down on the page. And their dress shoes, they're Oxford with a toe cap.
So sort of black patent shoes, not quite ones you'd wear to a dress dance, but not ones that you'd wear into work either. They're shiny. So he started gifting them to his lackeys and they feel they have to wear them so much so that Marco Rubio was gifted a pair and he got the size wrong and they're too big for him.
So he has been pictured with ill-fitting shoes walking around the world, Marco Rubio. But it's funny, but it says an awful lot about these men and how they've been emasculated by Donald Trump and how fearful they are of him.
But like, if somebody gave me, man, woman, child, whatever, gave me a pair of shoes, I'd go, why are you buying me shoes? Like, surely that's the most personal. Like, it's like, how do you know my size? Like, why are you buying me shoes? Yeah. Like if somebody gave me a pair of shoes, I go, okay, these are off the charts.
Like if somebody gave you a jumper, you go, ah, fair enough, a jumper, a t-shirt. Jesus, if somebody gave you a pair of underpants, you go, fair enough, I could. But if someone gives you shoes, it's like, what are you at?
It's interesting because I had a theory years ago that you can tell somebody's personality by their shoes because... as you just said, probably the only thing in your wardrobe that you have to buy yourself are shoes. You know, your wife can buy your shirt, your jeans, your T-shirts, your underwear, your socks or whatever, but you have to go in and try on a pair of shoes.
The shoes, you know, tell you an awful lot about the person, what they want to say about themselves.
But here's the thing, right? So years, I'm talking maybe 10, 15 years ago, I was doing a tour And as part of the tour, it was tricky, but it kind of had potential. I might bring it back. I'd bring out a railing of clothes. Right. And I'd have some shoes there and I'd let the audience choose what I'm going to wear. Right. Right. And it is as awkward as it sounds. Right.
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Chapter 8: What DIY flying machine story is recounted?
And it's hit and miss. And some people would say more miss than hit. But I just love the fact that they're like, did you know that sometimes the writing is so up to date that the actors are seeing it for the first time?
Yeah, but that's exciting.
Isn't it?
Yeah.
And it's on those cue cards.
Yeah.
And the cue card featured in that thing. You didn't see it when the guy read, I'm Tina Fey. He was reading it from a cue card. She had taken it out of her Mary Poppins bag.
No, I'll definitely give it a watch.
Yeah. I definitely will. Well, Tom and I are, we have the popcorn in. I don't eat popcorn, crisps. He'll be having the popcorn and we'll be on the couch at 10 o'clock tomorrow night. Yeah. Very excited.
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