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Chapter 1: What is the main gripe about RTE's new jingles?
We're very good at the arts, us Irish. We punch above our weight. We've given the world Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, Beckett. Musically, we've given the world U2, Riverdance, The Chieftains, The Cranberries. The list goes on and on and on. Irish music has influenced other music across the world because we have this large diaspora.
We got into ships and we went and we brought our fiddles and we brought our music with us and we influenced bluegrass and other things across America. Yeah, we punch above our weight. We're very good at that sort of thing, aren't we? And yet, and yet, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, our national broadcaster, our public service media, what do they do when they want a suite of music?
for their number one radio station. They go to England. Of course they go to England. Why wouldn't they? Yes, wise Buddha created a comprehensive round-the-clock sound suite tailored to the station's evolving identity.
Chapter 2: How has Irish culture influenced global music?
That's what they say about the new sound of RT Radio 1. And before we get going... This is not some petty score settling on my behalf. This is a real gripe that I have. A real gripe. And if you have a gripe, what do you do? Where will I go? That's where it all started. That's where it all started. The writing was on the wall. when they removed Stockton's wing over the moor from Lifeline.
And of course, you could understand that. There was an overhaul out with the old, in with the new. I understand that. But when you have something as recognisable as that... Why would you get rid of it? They still have the... To whom it concerns, this is the Late Late Show. Because they knew that that's part of the whole package. Anyway, they got rid of that for whatever reason, right?
And then, last week, it started. And look, we'll get used to it as we get used to everything. But I can't get over the fact that we have so much talent in this country and we haven't tapped into it. It's a crying shame. It is a crying shame. And they say they put it out to public procurement process.
Chapter 3: Why did RTE choose music from England instead of Irish artists?
Fair enough. They probably did. But they could have commissioned it. RT could have commissioned it. They could have went to Colm O'Connor and said, Colm, we're looking for a new suite of music. And he said, wait till I finish this one. It's called the finish line, you see. Carl Machanumber. He could have done it easily enough. Declan O'Rourke.
Like, you know, he's done stuff for the RT Concert Orchestra. He could have done it. That's Declan there. Yeah. I don't know if he would do it, but you could approach Glenn Hansard. Look at that. Evening and welcome to Arena. Yeah. And if you're looking for the newsy electronic stuff, Good morning and welcome to Morning Ireland. That's Bellix1 for your information, yes.
Paul Noonan, he's been messing around with electronica for a long time. He could do it for you. And the people who wouldn't do it, but maybe, you never know. Hello and welcome to whatever programme this is. Theme tune hosier, yeah. And of course we had Bill Whelan. And maybe you could put a call in up to Vico Road. Yeah. I think Miriam used that actually for her show.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of RTE's decision on local artists?
So are they going to have the Oireachtas Committee on Media and Communications ask questions about that? It's RTE supporting the arts, me arse. That's all I have to say. Yeah. What a known goal. They shot themselves in the foot there. Anyhow, Enda Cullen is troubled. He's jealous of ChatGPT. His wife is spending far too much time talking to the chatbot. He writes to the Irish Times.
Sir, I would not regard myself as a jealous husband. In all our years of marriage, I have never been tempted to inspect my wife's phone or inquire too closely into her private correspondence. However, I must confess to a new and unfamiliar unease. My wife now appears to be in regular consultation with ChatGPT.
It's referred to frequently, spoken of with a certain respect and relied upon for advice on matters where once I might have been considered adequate. That's the real robe there, isn't it? I find myself wondering what exactly is being discussed. Is it offering superior counsel? Does it listen without interrupting? Does it perhaps never forget what was asked of it?
It is an odd state of affairs when one's rival is not another man but an algorithm. I remain untroubled, at least for now, but I cannot help feeling that if it begins to remember important dates, I may have grounds for concern. End of Cullen Probably doesn't mansplain either, Enda.
And a criticism I have often heard about us men when it comes to conversations with women is that we immediately try to fix things when all they want is a listening ear. All that the women in our lives want is a listening ear, not a fix, not a solution. But then we are, that's the way we're built. That's the way we're hardwired.
We go in for the big, you know, I'll get me spirit level and me drill and I'll fix it. No, I just want to talk to you about my friend and the fact she hasn't texted me in a long time.
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Chapter 5: How does the memoir 'Strangers' explore the theme of marriage?
Oh, I get the drill and the spirit level. Yeah. Chat GPT. I have that problem with Tom. He gets into the car and he goes on to chat GPT and I have to ask him and I do ask him. And I ask him, what are you asking? Chat GPT. And he will tell me. And then we have a chat about that. It's often about the careers of basketball players or...
Chapter 6: What shocking revelation does Belle Burden make in her memoir?
haircuts. They're the two big topics that Tom engages with ChatGPT on. But it is a worry and it's improving exponentially. Yeah. You see that Anthropic, who are the big competitors of OpenAI. So OpenAI have ChatGPT and Anthropic have Claude. You probably know all this already. But Anthropic have developed this new AI system that can infiltrate our computers.
They've given it to 40 big firms to tell them this is going to be available, so you better up your security to make sure that the AI that we've developed can't get in and hack into your computers. Which, that's fair enough, isn't it? That was nice of them. Ace is an AI-powered robot who has beaten some of the best table tennis players in the world.
He won three out of five matches against elite players. He lost to the ones he played against professionals, but he's been clawing back. And even since the paper about his exploits has been published in Nature on Wednesday, the scientists working on the project have said that Ace has improved since the report was submitted.
They say we played stronger and stronger players and we beat stronger and stronger players. So what is it? It's a robot, right? It's an eight-jointed arm on a movable base. It doesn't have to stand on two legs first.
And instead of seeing the ball with two eyes, it draws on images from multiple cameras that view the entire court from different angles and track the position and the spin of the ball. So by zooming in on the ball's logo, the camera system can estimate the ball's spin and axis of rotation in the milliseconds it takes to reach Ace's end of the table. Wow.
That's spectacular, isn't it, what they can do? It still can't manipulate things. That's the big, that's the holy grail of robotics, I think. developing something like hands, with the dexterity of our hands. So there's a guy, Jan Peters, who's a professor of intelligent autonomous systems in a university in Germany. He's worked on the table tennis.
He says, he called the project truly impressive, but said research on table tennis would not solve some of the significant challenges in robotics, such as manipulating objects. He does say that there's going to be a moment in that field And it's going to happen in the next five years. That's what he reckons.
Anyway, that there's going to be a big moment, like the moment we had with AI over the last two years. There's going to be a moment in robotics in the next five years. We were talking, of course, earlier on in the week about the robot, Humanite, that won the Beijing half marathon in a time of 50 minutes or thereabouts.
I think that cut seven minutes off the record for a half marathon when it comes to humans. And there's big talk this weekend about the London Marathon. It's one of the biggest marathons in the world. And I'm reading today about 88-year-old Harry Newton who's running the marathon. And if you're thinking running isn't for you, well, Harry didn't start running until he was 57.
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Chapter 7: What are the financial implications discussed in the memoir?
And he says, I get to choose when I start and there are private toilets as well, which is important. And he was asked by the journalist what advice he would give to people who were running a marathon for the first time this year. And his advice is don't try to run too quickly. Keep a steady pace and make sure your bowels are empty. Now, you see, they don't talk about that stuff.
They're telling you what runners to wear and what socks to pull up to your knees and what gels to consume. But there is the most important advice from 88-year-old Harry Newton. Make sure your bowels are empty when you're going to run a marathon. Himself is at it again. A picture tells a thousand words. Isn't that what they say? There's been a backlash to a photo which came from the Oval Office.
So the University of Georgia women's tennis team were one of several college teams to visit the White House on Tuesday to mark a recent NCAA championship win. So they were there to celebrate a big win. And in the photo shared by the Oval Office, Donald Trump and five Georgia staffers, as in University of Georgia staffers and coaches, are in the front.
And behind all them are the women, the women's tennis team. All the staffers are men in suits. So they flanked Donald Trump. And then in the background, the women who were there to be celebrated, That's where they are, in the background. Now, you can read a lot into that, I suppose, and knowing who he is, you'd probably be right.
The other thing is that there's a video doing their own, I haven't seen it, where when the group comes into the Oval Office, he shakes hands with all of the men. These are the coaches and the officials from the university. And he doesn't shake hands with the team that won. There you go. There you go. So big changes there in Bannerhur. We were in Bannerhur a few years ago, County Offaly.
And we were on the Shannon. And I remember we did paddleboarding. It was the first time I did paddleboarding. And I had scoffed at it. Thought it was a little bit boring for me. Not challenging enough, I said. But I actually enjoyed it. We did it on the Shannon. But at the time, they were working on this open water swimming pool. It had been there and they were refurbishing it.
Now I see that it's open. So it's a 25-metre floating open-water swimming pool. There's a dedicated children's area, a canoe launch, all part of the new facility in Banneher County, Offaly. The project received Ā£616,000 in funding through Falkshire Ireland's Investment Grant Aid Scheme for private and community SMEs. And the local community raised Ā£156,000 in match funding.
reflecting the strong local commitment to the redevelopment. It all says, it says all of that on the RT website. So it's a, it's a floating open water swim pool designed to adapt to fluctuating river levels and improve access for swimmers of all ages and abilities. Yeah. So I don't, it's not a Lido, but it means that it's an enclosed area on the river and it makes it safe. Yeah.
John Butler from Shannon Bank Park Trustees Community Group said, the project was the culmination of a number of years of hard work and dedication by a group of volunteers who have demonstrated deep commitment to the delivery of the project. And that's the question I would ask. It's how deep is it? Is it as deep as the river or is there a bottom to it? Yeah, I don't think there is.
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Chapter 8: What insights can we gain from the discussion about expensive mattresses?
i thought i was happy but i'm not and i'm going to leave right now and he did he walked out of our house he got in his jeep he got on a ferry and he left the island and it was um that moment that he became someone i really did not recognize he became a stranger therefore the book strangers there it is
It's a bit of a scary book, actually, you know, because... What had happened the day before that? The day before the six o'clock in the morning? They're on the island, which they have this beautiful summer home in Massachusetts.
Martha's Vineyard.
Yeah, there you go. Their two daughters are with them. Daughters are 12 and 15. And they have a 17-year-old son, but he's with his friends.
So just what I got from it was, and this is important because everybody has a memory of that time, a very clear memory of that time. So I think it was just a week after. So it was about March 20th. Yeah, it's very early. And they had decided to go from their New York apartment, their New York residence, to their summer home to isolate.
So they were in this idyllic, beautiful, multi-million dollar house. Fresh air galore. Lovely, yeah. All of that. Amazing. Living the dream.
Living the dream, exactly. Or whatever, you know, the other cliche, having it all. Yes, yes. So they had just had this beautiful meal. You know, they're... Daughter was making pasta from scratch. He had given her a lovely cocktail. I think he'd roasted a chicken. Again, it's a few weeks ago since I read the book. But beautiful, lovely, you know, sitting outdoors on their porch.
And she'd missed call. And she got a message from someone which said... Hi, my name is whatever. Your husband is having an affair with my wife. Right. And of course she is shocked and she thinks it's obviously the wrong person because it's not my husband, but it was her husband. And immediately he goes into the I'm sorry mode and says, it's only been a couple of weeks.
She doesn't mean anything to me. I'm sorry. I love you. I only love you. And she's there 20, you know, 20 years married, three children, their beautiful life. Immediately goes into, okay, well, like, I'm sure we can probably work through this. I mean, that's, you know, that's, she's shocked, she's hurt, but that's where she's at. And then the next day is at 6am.
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