Chapter 1: What were the highlights of this week's catch-up?
Yes, it's our weekend catch-up for those of you with busy lives. Thanks for giving us 40 minutes of your precious weekend time. An interesting week on Planet Ray Darcy Daily. There was the inconvenience of the Met Gala, an intriguing encounter with ChatGPT. Coleman Nocter shared his ADHD story with us. Jenny said no to whistling.
People told us why they wanted to be centenarians and it wasn't just about the Czech. But first, let's see if we can make contact with Limerick. Come in, Limerick. Limerick is here. Do you hear us, Dublin? Do you hear us, Dublin? Yes, yes.
That's a good, clear line there. I have contact.
That's a good, clear line. Thank you. Thank you, Limerick.
Chapter 2: How does Coleman Nocter's ADHD story shed light on the condition?
Thank you. Thank you. And we'd like to thank the people behind the scenes who make this possible.
Yes. Apple. And one microphone in my office. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Isn't it amazing though, the tech, the way it's come on? Like you, you, I remember, I remember the days and I'm 47. So I started in radio, Bar Today FM when I did sketches on The Last Word. where you were just going into a studio and recording sketches. So when I went to iRadio, it would have been 2007, maybe, 2007, 2008.
And you'd bring a big box, a tie line, and you had to have a dedicated fax line. And then when you move on to RT, they have the trucks, you know, the big giant trucks. And now it's just reduced down to like our phones.
I never thought that would happen. But it's brilliant. It's the democratisation of... Now, it's good and bad. It's good in that we can do this and we don't need a huge team or a big truck or a big satellite dish or whatever. That's the good part. The bad part is that everybody can do it. There's too much shit. Listen, I thought this week that we just deal with emails and correspondence.
So a bit of ask Bernard anything and a bit of just correspondence that came in and I thought you might be. So we do one of those first. Let's see. Carl is a regular correspondent, Bernard, and he's from Kildare. So he shares a lot with me. He's probably a similar age. And you're from Leash. So you're from that neck of the woods as well.
Only down the road.
Yeah, only down the road. Yeah. Just before we go on, I started broadcasting in 1979, nearly a full 20 years before you did. Did you? That was the year I was born. Is it? There you go. Yeah. It was Radio of Winter Kildare. It was in a shed in Nace and there was a fertilizer bag over the decks to stop the rain falling on it. That's not true. You don't want potassium over water mixing.
What was it? TNT. It was a 10. What was the name of that? 10, 10, 20. That's it. 10, 10, 20. There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was that the most famous? Did the decks get bigger?
Did the decks get bigger every week?
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Chapter 3: What insights were shared about the Met Gala and its fashion?
The term earworm was coined by somebody in Germany. Erworm, erworm, erworm. And they've done a little bit of research on it, the scientists. It happens in the auditory cortex. So the scientists found that the auditory cortex, which is somewhere in the middle of the brain, that's active when you're actually listening to a song, was reactivated when you just imagine hearing the song.
So your auditory cortex acts like an mp3 player. And sometimes, they don't know exactly why it happens, but sometimes it gets stuck on repeat on a song. And it isn't even a full song. It's just a bit of a song. And over 90% of people experience earworms. 70% say they're fine with it. I'd be in that 70%. And 20% say they're not that fine with it.
So if you're not so fine with it, how do you get rid of it? Well, there are a number of suggested anecdotal treatments for an earworm. You could listen to the whole song. Seemingly, that works sometimes. You could try and replace it with a different song, but that's probably useless because then you're going to replace one earworm with another earworm. Not good.
The other thing that they suggest is that you do something that involves an awful lot of concentration. So it literally takes your mind off The earworm. Fascinating stuff. Fascinating stuff. There are a number of songs that keep coming up when they ask people about earworms. I was surprised to see that some of my favourite earworms are in there. This is one I used to do all the time.
Don't know why.
If I were a rich man.
Maybe it was the bitty, bitty, bitty, bitty bum. Yes, If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof. I used to do that a lot. That's very popular as an earworm of people. This one's good as well. It's not really an earworm in our house. It's more a sort of a call to action. If you have to be somewhere and you're running a bit late, you just do the... Yeah. There's another popular one.
Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! Don't know why. Don't know why. This one.
Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, a drop of golden sun.
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