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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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That's Caroline. Thanks very much, Caroline. And Caroline was back onto us. She was one of the many people who sent us voice notes auditioning for the voice of the Ray Darcy Daily podcast. Anyway, in her most recent correspondent, Caroline said, Hi, Ray and Jenny. The podcast was so funny today. That was yesterday.
I laughed out loud, LOL, at Jenny's comments to all the voice notes, including my own. She's hilarious. She is hilarious, isn't she, Caroline? I was thinking about what you were saying about sending in Annie IDs and getting listeners involved. I thought, wouldn't it be a great idea to do a Feel Good Friday slot?
Maybe where you ask all your listeners to send in their good news, no matter how big or small, and read them out every Friday to start the weekend on a high. That's a brilliant idea, Caroline. You could also report from different parts of the country for great news in communities or regions that people want to share, like maybe with community groups, big events, fundraisers, etc, etc.
It could be a great way to get more listeners to the podcast and also to spread lovely positivity at a time where we need some great news the most, bringing the ordinary people's stories to life. Aha, there's always extraordinary in the ordinary, isn't there? Just an idea. I could be a good news reporter and read them out every week. Keep up the fantastic work, guys. Caroline.
Now, Caroline, here's a coincidence, a quinkadink. Because back before Christmas, when we were dreaming up ideas for Ray Darcy Daily, we had thought, wouldn't it be a great idea to do good news? Because we did good news on the radio. It was always very positive, very popular, very uplifting. And we usually did it on a Friday, as you say.
So I thought, oh, I tell you, wouldn't ChatGPT be great at that? So we set up a weekly alert for ChatGPT, where every Friday morning at nine o'clock, it would send us five good news stories from around country. from around the country. And it has been doing that since January sometime. And I check in on them. And sometimes they're good. Sometimes I've never used them. I've never used them.
But seeing as you suggested this, I thought that's a coincidence, a quink, I think. So I got on to chat GPT this morning and saw what the update said. And I can read it. And I got very excited.
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Chapter 2: What good news ideas did Caroline suggest for the podcast?
One of the stories, in County Clare, a community has rallied around a local man whose vintage tractor broke down during a charity run. Within two hours, neighbours had supplied tea, sandwiches, three mechanics and one fella who just likes engines. The tractor is now back running, although reports suggest the driver received more biscuits than fuel. Isn't that a great story, I thought.
But there's no details in it. Where in County Clare was Achille Dysart? Was it Ennis? Whereabouts was it? And what was the man's name? And what sort of tractor was he driving? Was it a John Deere? Was it a Massey Ferguson? What sort of biscuits did he eat? Was he a fan of a chocolate or a fan of a custard cream? All of those questions.
So I got back onto ChatGPT and I said, please give me more specifics. I need more specifics. Names, areas, types of biscuits. And then ChatGPT got back onto me. The stories in that script were fictionalised, local news style examples written for tone and humour, not real verified news reports.
So there isn't an actual school name or a man or a tractor or a Dublin cafe or a County Clare charity event. So we have to generate our own, which I'm coming around to all of that. We tried, Maya did me for the, you know, she's AI generated.
Messages and voice notes to 087 117 2289. Yeah, but we ditched that.
And like even this morning, Irene was on from Cork.
You're listening to your daily companion podcast. Messages and voice notes to 087 117. So ChatGPT let us down on that one.
But when it comes to very specific questions, it's good. So, for example, I was reading the story today that Elon Musk has plans for a highly anticipated 1.75 trillion flotation next month of one of his many companies. I think it's SpaceX. And his quest is to make life multi-planetary. Multi-planetary. There's a word for you for the weekend. Calling occupants of multi-planetary.
Details about Musk's business and his ambitions for them were laid out in a flotation prospectus. So 1.75 trillion. And I was thinking, what is a trillion? I remember thinking that there's an American trillion and a UK trillion. Anyway, I asked ChatGPT. A trillion is a million million. A million million. It began to sound like the baddie in Austin Powers. A million million.
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Chapter 3: How does ChatGPT contribute to generating good news stories?
ChatGPT. They can use that. They can use that as their tagline. Not great for everything, good for some things. Is that it? I can't remember. We spoke to Colman Noctow recently. about his ADHD diagnosis and he got it 18 years ago and he's only talking about it now. And if you are interested, it's there to listen back to last Wednesday week or last Tuesday week. You'll find it there anyway.
Anyway, Eimear MacLeysen is writing about ADHD today. She says, ADHD medication has changed my life. So she's talking about her diagnosis and she says, I don't want to brag, but when the deeply reassuring Dr. Sarah Carty from the ADHD doc clinic presented me with my diagnosis, she pointed to one of my test result sheets and said, I have it out the barn door, in inverted commas, out the barn door.
So you're telling me I'm riddled, doctor, that I'm the best at having ADHD. It's always nice to be told you're good at something. Six months after my diagnosis and with five medicated months under my belt, I can tentatively say it has changed my life. So as Colm was pointing out, medication didn't work for him, but it works for some people.
And she's saying, and then there's the admin medications and is it Tyvance she's on? They're controlled drugs, so the rules around filling prescriptions are tight. Staying on top of it is a comically tough task for someone who's clinically disorganised. See, always the humour there. So that's Eimear MacLeysen writing about ADHD. in the Irish Times today.
Hearing about Mick Jagger being at a rap party in Sicily and it being closed down by the authorities, I just saw the headline during the week and I'm thinking to myself, there you go. Laws unto themselves. Those stars think they can just rock into another country, play loud music until all hours of the morning and get away with it.
And I thought, good on you, good on you, the authorities in Sicily for closing that down. So I jumped to all that conclusions. Now, I did think to myself, like, what age is Mick Jagger? He's 82. And he's partying a little this morning. I was thinking, maybe he wasn't loud music. Probably not. He has ear defenders on. Anyway, the details of the story and the party are in the paper today.
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Chapter 4: What heartwarming community story was shared from County Clare?
And it was a wrap party for a movie that was shot in Stromboli or Strombolia in Sicily. And Mick Jagger there, Josh O'Connor there, two, two, not one, but two Irish actors, Jesse Buckley and Saoirse Ronan, Dakota Johnson, Isabella Rossellini. So a star-studded thing. Mick Jagger has a place there and he's also in the movie, which is starring, he's Josh O'Connor's dad in it.
Okay, so then the details. So according to reports, the music was being played from a small speaker at an acceptable volume. So it was a Bluetooth speaker in the corner, probably playing some jazz, some light jazz. Dave Brubeck, take five. Maybe something like that. I don't know. And then the authorities arrived down. Why? Because...
There's a Wednesday music ban enacted by the mayor in that part of Sicily. So it's a no music Wednesday. How could they do? That's not fair. Just arbitrarily pick a day of the week and say you can't play music. And they probably didn't have a decibel count on it. They probably just, just any music. If we hear any music emanating from any building, we will shut it down. We will shut it down.
Poor Dave Brubeck in the corner on a Bluetooth speaker. Stop! Or whatever the Italian word for stop is. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing that. That's a star-studded cast. I was listening to myself yesterday because sometimes I do in the car to see what the sound quality is like. And I realised that I use a particular word too often. We all have those words that we use.
Mine at the moment is anyway. So I apologise for that. And I probably shouldn't have mentioned it because now you will spot it. But I will attempt in the future not to say anyway as often as I have. I remember back in the day when, I can't remember, there was another word or another phrase and they threatened to put electrodes on a certain part of my, a very sensitive part of my body.
And every time I said that word, then I would get an electric shock. And I'm sure with all the advances in technology, that was about 20 years ago, that you could probably build that sort of thing very easily with the help of ChatGPT and you'd have it here. So I'd be there and I'd go, and you'd, oh! You'd stop saying it very quickly. You would stop saying it very quickly if that was the case.
Yeah, so I played Irene for you. The... We talked yesterday, well, I confused Rocky and Woody. And Rocky, not Rocky Balboa and da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. No, Rocky the alien from the Hail Mary project with Ryan Gosling. And he's very cute. And I was saying to Jenny, which she was having none of, that maybe he could give E.T. a run for his money when it comes to the top E.T. of all time.
The top extraterrestrial on film of all time. Jenny was having none of it. Anyway, Rocky is his name. Rocky is his name. And I knew about him before I'd watched the movie because... We were all glued to Artemis 2 and all the stuff, the dark side of the moon and all the reports back. And it was all brilliant. It was like a Hollywood movie in itself. And the images were great.
The people involved were great. And it'll definitely feature heavily when it comes to the end of the year.
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Chapter 5: What insights were shared about ADHD and its impact?
Yeah, well, it was 24 million viewers, right, every day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's definitely an art.
Yeah. So a bit of an emotional time for you now. So you've sold your dad's house. Yeah, my family home, home I was raised in, we were all, Simone and Olga were raised in too. And so I haven't been here with you for two weeks because two weeks ago we were signing at the time that I would normally be chatting to you and we hand over the keys next week.
And this weekend we are, the three of us are spending it in the house. Because I haven't slept there in years. I've slept there a couple of times after I moved out, but generally I didn't. And dad was so independent that he didn't ever needed anyone to sleep over. He would have been kicking us out the door. So we want to let the house go with love. And that's kind of what we've said all along.
And so we're doing that. So making sure there's lots of love in it and lots of chats and a lovely takeaway on Saturday. And then we handed over to the new owners. Have you spoken to other people who've done this? No, actually, I haven't spoken to anyone. It's not a thing. I don't think it's a thing. No, no. And, you know, it was my eldest sister, Simone, it was her idea.
And immediately I was like, no, I don't need to do that. I'll go up and I'll have food in the house, but I don't need to stay. And I actually, I went home that evening after having the chats and my other sister was all saying, no, I don't need to stay either. And I went home and I thought, why wouldn't I stay? I'll never get this opportunity ever again to do this.
I'll never get to spend a night in my childhood home ever again. So why would I not do it? And it was a really happy home. And yeah, so I think I'll regret it if I don't do it. And now I'm actually really looking forward to doing it. So it's a goodbye to the house, the home and your dad, I suppose. Yeah. Yeah.
It's a weird one because I suppose, like, I've always thought that when a mother dies, like, and I'm sorry, no disrespect to men, including my dad, kind of the heart of the home was gone. And that's what it felt like for us, you know.
man would have updated things man would have changed things that dad was like that's fine you know we don't need to change those blinds you know that kind of thing so and since dad died last year I think when his one year anniversary came around in February I just got really sad about my own mother and not that I haven't had her for so long but I got sad for all the things she missed I was more upset for her because she was only 60 right like she was so young dying and so she missed out on so much
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Chapter 6: How did Mick Jagger's party get shut down in Sicily?
It's almost like radio. Yes. It was like every day, every day, you know, two minutes to learn your lines, off you go, shoot this, next scene. And with that, you just get good practice.
Yeah, yeah.
Good workers, good practice, good performers, you know, good... So if you have the talent, you're putting in the training. You're putting in the hours. Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So... Right. Well, great to have you back. Jenny's going to join us now.
Great. I'd love Jenny to join us.
She made me a lovely cup of tea. You have to shove over there. I'll move over. And make room for her.
Will I whistle her in? Yeah. Jenny! Jenny! Caroline was very good. Wasn't she, Mireille? She was very good. Very, very good. And Irene was very good. Very clear. Very clear.
Yes.
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Chapter 7: What funny anecdotes were shared about Kylie's new documentary?
Yeah. Sorry. What I was going to say is, I don't know how we're going to choose. Like we said, we'd possibly do a vote. But like, how are we going to do that?
Can you do a vote on WhatsApp? You can do an easy vote on WhatsApp.
Yeah, but WhatsApp poll?
Yeah. And can you do it on Instagram?
Yeah.
Yeah. You can do. Very easy on Instagram. Very easy on Instagram. Why is it like with so many that we have to do a shortlist then and then it's going to be hard. And then people might launch a campaign, Ray. That's true. And then you'll end up with a terrible voice.
Yes.
So.
yeah yeah that's interesting is there a person that we can think of like you know a voice who could judge it for us who would go that's that's a new voice I don't know why I'm talking like that so you're looking for a person who we can say down the road when somebody says to us you didn't pick me well it wasn't us it wasn't us we can shrug our shoulders and go wasn't us it was him it wasn't us yeah yeah
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