Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Lots to talk about. Lots to talk about today. First, the perfect sandwich. Yes. I'm very lucky in that I can now enjoy a sandwich.
Chapter 2: What is the perfect sandwich recipe shared in this episode?
There isn't something hanging over me, which often led to indigestion. So now I have the whole afternoon opening out in front of me. So when I sit down to have my lunch... It's a very pleasant experience. Anyway, there's a cafe down the road and they do pre-prepared sandwiches. And one of them is this delicious ham and cheese and gherkins and mustard and whatever.
And they toast it and it takes seven or eight minutes. And I was treating myself to those while we were getting ready to do this since October. And then I thought to myself, I could probably recreate that sandwich, right? So I was trying it and trying it. I was getting close to it, but it just wasn't right. And then lo and behold, I was in the local supermarket one morning and who was there?
Only the owner of the cafe. And I said to him cheekily, I said, listen, I've been trying to recreate your sandwich. What's the secret sauce? And he went over to his shelf and he picked up French's mustard. I said, that's it. I brought it home, made it and he was right. Oh, lads, lads, lads, lads. I know it's a very personal thing.
Everyone has their own perfect sandwich, but I'll just share this with you. I'll just share this one with you. So I toast two slices of sourdough. It can be any type of bread. Then a very skinny layer, thin layer of coleslaw on one of the slices. I don't use butter. Then one slice of Brady's ham. Right? Has to be Brady's because it's Kildare. Then the secret sauce. The French is mustard.
As much as you want. Then... a slice or two of mild cheddar cheese on top of that. Sliced gherkin. Now, you can get jars of sliced gherkin and I think they're nicer because whatever the magic stuff is in the gherkin thingamajig, the pickling and all that, it gets right into it as opposed to slicing a full gherkin. Not so good. Anyway, two sliced gherkins, then some rocket on top.
Then the second slice of bread, mash it all down, cut it in the middle. There you have your perfect sandwich, ladies and gentlemen. You're welcome. Thank the man in the local cafe. Carl is his name for that. Delicious, delicious. Salivating here. Looking forward to it. Yeah, what a weekend for the Irish. And I know it was St.
Patrick's Day last week, so it's probably no surprise that a lot of the UK TV featured Irish guests. For example, Claudia Winkleman. On Friday night, half of her couch were Irish. On one side, you had Niall Horan. On the other side, Joanne McNally. And both of them were very entertaining, very funny. And it was a very good show. It was a very good show. Claudia Winkleman, her second show.
So maybe there is something in it. Maybe there is somebody who can take over from the great Graeme Norton. And speaking of Graeme Norton, he was a special guest, surprise guest on Saturday Night Live UK, as was Nicola Coughlan. And that was, I really enjoyed that. Very good. And we got a nod. Not only did they lampoon Hamnet, which of course features Jesse Buckley, Oscar winner, and Paul Meskell.
But they also did this, and we were talking about Irish accents. And there's a guy called George Fouracres. He's been doing the rounds in Edinburgh and stuff like that. for a long time he's one of the cast of Saturday Night Live UK and there was a thing called 45 Seconds with Four Acres and it came out and he look I'll just play it it's best just to play it my description wouldn't do it justice
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Chapter 3: How does nostalgia influence our perception of the 90s?
Yeah. So there I am with my lovely head of hair. I was her suit back in the day. Yes, I was proud of my hair. Unruly at times and beetle-like at other times. But I was, yeah, hard to believe, proud of my hair. Anyway, so you get the old photographs and you play 12 or 13 of them alongside Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls. And people are loving it because it's nostalgia.
So I looked up, why do we like nostalgia? And seemingly, in times of uncertainty, and let's be honest, the world is pretty uncertain at the moment with your man at the helm. So during times of uncertainty, we go back to things, nostalgia. And we put on these rose-tinted glasses and we see a former time... through a filter. It's sort of the nostalgia filter.
We don't remember the wars or the hard economic times. We just remember the good times. So nostalgia for the 90s will be about the den, will be about other TV programmes, all that sort of thing. Italian 90, you know, all the good stuff. That's what we see. But I did a bit of research, as I like doing, about nostalgia. And seemingly, when the word was first coined...
It was an affliction, yes, was nostalgia. In the 1600s, Swiss physician Johannes Hofer derived the word nostalgia from the Greek nostos, homecoming, and algus pain. So it was a sort of pathological homesickness. That's what nostalgia was. And it wasn't until the 1970s that the meaning of the word nostalgia changed, nearly reversed.
And it was seen then as a powerful psychological resource that provides people with a variety of benefits. So these are the benefits that nostalgia bring you. It can boost self-esteem, increase meaning in life, foster a sense of social connectedness, improve mental health and attenuate loneliness, boredom, stress or anxiety. So there you go. Nostalgia is a good thing. So lean in.
There's a phrase I hate, but it's just said it. So experience the 90s phenomenon. You can do it yourself as well. It's a bit of a crack. And we put it up there on Instagram. Sport, of course, is involved in nostalgia a lot. And we remember things and we remember that, remember that, remember this.
Well, this is a big week for the Irish, the Republic of Ireland soccer team because they're in a World Cup playoff against Chechya on Thursday. And if they beat them, then it's up against Denmark or Macedonia. And if we beat them, then we're off to the United States of America for the first time in 24 years, as in we'll be qualifying for a World Cup.
And it reminds us then of other playoffs we've been in over the years. And the most famous of all was 2009 against... Remember that? So France went one up ahead when they played us in Ireland. And then we went to Paris for the second leg. Robbie Keane scored, which meant it was one all on aggregate. Went to extra time. And then this happened. This happened in extra, 13th minute of extra time.
But France have this free kick.
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Chapter 4: What role does social media play in shaping our self-image?
We would never have thought of ADHD in girls unless it was really, really obvious. Looking back, what I know now, if I had that knowledge then, there would have been a lot more kids getting diagnosed with ADHD back then. And I see a lot of these girls and women in their 30s and 40s presenting now.
They were probably the ones that were in CAMHS that we missed back then, you know, that are now coming through that. That level of awareness, obviously, the more you assess, the more you'll find. The more you know what it is, the more assessment requests you'll have. There's also an over-pathologizing issue as well.
So, you know, I think we've gotten into, we've moved away from mental health promotion and a little bit into mental illness promotion. So you can't go on TikTok and people are saying... Have you ever forgotten your keys? You've got ADHD. Do you like to put things back where they belong? You've got OCD, you know, which is clearly not helpful because there's a spectrum of all of these conditions.
You know, Freud said, you know, mental illness is a difference in degree, not a difference in kind. You know, we all have these tendencies towards these things. And so that becomes really deeply problematic when people are looking for a diagnosis that they don't have the threshold to meet. And so that creates more demand and possibly creates more diagnosis as well.
And all of that puts a bigger burden on the system, which is already creaking under the pressure.
Yes for sure and again I suppose that's so that you've got the awareness issue you've got the over-pathologizing issue but and I say this you know I definitely would say there are more children in Ireland today with ASD and ADHD specifically and certainly more anxious children than I've ever seen before that's not an over-diagnosis issue that's not just an over-assessment issue it's
But you did say that there were boys in your class who you now, looking back with your qualification, say, well, they might have had that. They might have suffered from that. So now we're in a situation where we're in a similar classroom. You will have those numbers. So that brings all the numbers up, doesn't it?
Yeah, but I'd say numbers tenfold is what we have now versus that. I've been talking about a smattering of people in my year. If you think about even the demand for additional supports and special classes dedicated for ASD units, all of these sorts of things. And there's no doubt that the children who are in those units absolutely need to be there and require that level of support.
So how do you explain that then?
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