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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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We've developed a little road trip tradition in our family. It's where we put the global top 50 on Spotify and we listen to it. There are a few rules. You have to listen to at least 30 seconds of each song. You can listen to the whole song if you like. And each person has two skips. So if they come to a song in the top 50, which they particularly don't like, then go, don't want to hear this.
But you can only do that twice. So Tom and I did that the other day on a road trip. And a thing I discovered, which disturbed me a little bit, was that in the global top 50, there were five Michael Jackson songs. And I just looked this morning in the Irish top 50 of streamed songs on Spotify. There are six Michael Jackson songs.
Billie Jean was number one in the global top 50 when we listened to it the other day. And the reason I was disturbed that I haven't listened to a full Michael Jackson song since 2019 when I watched Leaving Neverland. And I thought at the time, anybody who'd seen that or anybody who read the interviews around it would be of the same mind.
And the reason I decided not to listen to a Michael Jackson song was, although people were arguing the point, you have to separate the man from the art,
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Chapter 2: What are Jenny's thoughts on Love Island?
I would have argued back in the day that he used his art to prey on vulnerable young people. Children. Children. Don't say it as it is, Ray. He used his art to prey on children. That's what I believe to be true. And none of the documentaries that I've seen have contradicted that opinion. So I made a stance in my head back then that I wasn't going to listen to Michael Jackson ever again.
I wasn't going to play him on the radio. And that was tough because I was a huge Michael Jackson fan. Right back to the Jackson days. I want you back, ABC. And then into their disco years, Shake Your Body. And then his solo albums, Can't Stop Till You Get Enough, Rock With You. And then Billie Jean, one of the most brilliant pop songs ever written. It's up there, isn't it?
I remember when that was released and I was DJing in Kildare at the time and I was in college in Dublin. And sometimes on a Friday, the delivery of records would be late and I would have to wait and get a later train home to make sure that I'd have a particular song to play that Saturday night. And this particular Friday, it was Billie Jean.
and I missed the five o'clock train or the six o'clock train and eventually got it on 12 inch. I remember that Saturday night setting up the gear in anticipation of listening to this song being blasted out with the bass spins and then the, you know, the speakers and then the tweeters on top. And I just stood there on an empty dance floor and I said, wow, this is amazing. This is wow.
What a genius. What a genius. So, throughout then, you know, the Martin Bashir interview in 2003 and then the trials and then leaving Neverland. And leaving Neverland left me with no doubt as to how Michael Jackson behaved. And I said, that's it, gone. Now, of course, Michael The movie is in the cinemas now. It's doing really well. I see it's taken in over 700 million.
And of course, there's a documentary on Netflix tonight. The BBC did a documentary. And it means that somebody is making money on the back of Michael Jackson's work. A lot of money. And I think that's wrong. I can't do anything about it. Who cares about my opinion? People will still listen to his music and they'll enjoy it.
But every time I hear a Michael Jackson song, I tighten up and I think of those poor children who were preyed upon. by a grown man. Now he was, he was messed up. He was abused by his own father violently anyway. I don't know about any other sort of abuse. So, you know, he was a victim and then the cycle continued. But that's my little spoke on Michael Jackson. I will be watching it tonight.
It's called The Verdict. Michael Jackson, The Verdict on Netflix tonight. I think it's a three-parter. And they're going into a number of the trials around allegations of sexual abuse against Michael Jackson. The Leaving Search starts today. 71,698 students, which is up 9% on last year.
And across the Junior Search and the Leaving Search, there are more than 146,000 students sitting state exams today. And that's a 4% increase. And the reason for that is that our population is increasing. There's an interesting interview with an English teacher in the Irish Times today by Jane Hogan. His name is Robert McDermott. And he's wondering, should they not mix it up a bit?
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Chapter 3: How does Jenny feel about Michael Jackson's music post-2019?
But good luck to all students today. They're sitting the exam at the moment. The invigilator's outside. You don't want to be the first one to put up your hand. Don't want to go to the loo. And yet, it's impossible to concentrate on what you're doing if you have a full bladder. Yeah, do you remember all that? You do. You do remember all that.
And as Colm was saying yesterday, the first day is tough because anxiety is built up around a fear of the unknown. Now, people would say that that's the reason you do the junior cert. It's a dress rehearsal for the leaving cert, but still, the leaving cert is out on its own when it comes to exams.
The toughest, not the most important, but the toughest exam you'll ever do, according to a lot of people. There are letters about road safety to the Times today. Colette McNamee is saying, I read with interest Dr. John McFarlane's letter about the shocking cost, both financial and social, of the life-changing injuries being sustained on our roads at present.
I believe technology could have a significant impact on both this and the number of deaths on our roads. Modern cars have the ability to detect speed limits, so surely we could legislate for these cars to remain within the speed limit. If all limits are observed, I'm confident there would be a significant reduction in both road deaths and serious injuries. Colette McNamee.
We interviewed Sam Wade, who's the CEO of the Road Safety Authority in Ireland a few years ago, and we spoke to him about this exactly. And we said to him, you know, if you can put... devices on boats on the Shannon that prevents them from going beyond five miles an hour, surely modern cars could put in place the same technology. And he said, yes, the technology is there. And I said, why...
don't you do it then? Why don't you stipulate with manufacturers that if they're importing a car into Ireland, that it has, you know, 120 kilometres per hour and you can't go beyond that? Why don't we do that? Or why, when you enter a 30 kilometre an hour zone, why doesn't your car not let you go beyond 30 kilometres an hour?
Because as Colette points out, and you'll see it on most modern cars, it'll tell you what the speed limit is in the area you are driving. So why don't they do that? He didn't have a good answer to that question. And Bob asked another question.
Ahead of every bank holiday weekend, An Garda SĆochĆ”na hold a high-profile PR event to showcase the emphasis on road safety enforcement for the days ahead. At the end of each weekend, they announce how many people have been caught speeding. They also announce statistics for the other offences committed, such as drink or drug driving, not wearing seatbelts and use of phone.
If so many drivers are committing offences, maybe there should be that level of enforcement the whole time. It is possible to drive for several hours at a time in this country and not see any form of visible road safety enforcement. In 50 years of driving my own, unscientific observation is that visible road safety enforcement slows down traffic. It does, Bob. It's been proven to work.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of strength training for longevity?
One man, two mics on a bike. oh yeah okay so one hang on one man two man oh so it's just you yeah I'm all for that how long are you going to go away for Just you doing stuff? Enough? Well, just sort of a, you know, a mini tour. A mini tour. By mini, what do you mean? A week? A week. Yeah. Yes. And the two mics, obviously, because then you can interview people. Yes.
Because if I said it was one man, one mic and a bike. That sounds better. Does it? But then, yeah, I suppose you can interview people. One man, a mic and a bike. Just one man, a mic and a bike. Right. That's it. Nobody cares that you're bringing two mics. We presume you have two mics. So it sounds better. One man, a mic and a bike. Right. Okay.
You can't cover too much ground because, as you said, you don't want to take on too much and you don't want to be tired arriving to somebody's
house to interview them you will drive somewhere and then cycle during the day alright I will produce this for you now ok so you drive to your destination yeah you book into your accommodation yes then you get on your mic your mic you get on your bike with your mic then you head off yeah maybe maybe we'll have talked to a few people beforehand and then you'll go and do your recording come back have a lovely dinner go to bed do the same thing the next day right drive to the next destination
Okay. You with me? Or maybe just have one base hotel and then drive out from there. You could. I love meetings on air. Love them. Love them. But I do love the name of it.
so it's what September yeah one man one man one man a mic and a bike okay one man a mic and a bike yeah if you would like Raymond to turn up at your I don't know workplace or what you do during the day send us an email ray at darcydaily.com no do you know where we're going no I'd like to go through them okay yeah do fine fine you can or you can send to jenny at darcydaily.com there are two yeah you don't want to talk to Ray you can just send it to me
We have to get back to our voice as well, the voice of the podcast. Yes, it's this week. It was a bank holiday weekend. Yes, I know, I know, I know. It's a bank holiday weekend. We had stuff going on. We're understaffed. We are very understaffed. I just took a shop in there while you were blabbing away there. Put it away. Put on two washes. I think there might be hints of it in the background.
Fed cornflakes to a son. Right, okay. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Okay, talk to you tomorrow.
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