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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
That's great.
The biggest field in Ireland is for sale. It's in Wicklow. It's 208 acres and it's Ballygillamore and Ballygillabeg. You could pronounce it Ballygile more, Ballygile Deg, but I'd say it's Ballygilla. 208 acres, as I say, 20,000 an acre, that's 4.16 million. The continuous block of agricultural land is predominantly south-facing, gently elevated and set within well-defined boundaries.
The ground is currently in tillage, but is equally suitable for multiple agricultural purposes. And it has seafront, which is amazing. I've often been on the cliff walk down in Dunmore and Waterford. And if you go further out from Dunmore, there's agricultural land. And at a certain time of the year, they're doing what they do, cutting grass and making hay and all that sort of thing.
And I was just so jealous of the lads and their tractors. And there on a summer's day, looking out onto the Irish Sea, bit of the Atlantic maybe on your right. And that's your workplace. That's not a smelly office or a smelly front room studio. You're out there with a sea view now cut to. a horrible, cold, rainy Tuesday in February. And it's a different story. But anyway, we all dream.
So the biggest field in Ireland. It sounds like something out of a movie. Oh yeah. He owns the biggest field in Ireland. He's a cat. All the girls in the town, down in the village as well, they all want to get to know him because he owns the biggest field in Ireland. And he's selling it now for 4.16 million. That's a great story. I think this is good news. I think this is good news.
The Minister for Health, Jennifer Carl-McNeill, was on primetime last night. And she says she's reviewing the process by which people get access to drugs.
Now, for years and years and years, I thought it was really shitty, really, and I use that word because it's important, really crap that families who had a sick person in their family had to go and campaign to get their hands on the drugs that would help the sick person. And they have to go on television, they have to go on radio, they have to get photographed for newspapers.
And I thought, what sort of world do we live in? that when you're going through all of that, on top of it, you have to campaign. And these are ordinary people who find themselves in difficult situations. A son or a daughter has what they call one of these rare diseases and they're looking for orphan drugs. And they're expensive. These drugs are expensive.
And the reason they're expensive is because pharmaceutical companies have to put in an awful lot of effort into research and development. And then when they find something that works or half works in some cases... Because they're rare diseases, they can't spread the cost across the whole population. So to make their money back, they have to charge a lot of money. That's how it works.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of orphan drugs in healthcare?
I thought it was hilariously funny. What the funniest thing about it for me was that the people in the audience. Like we were only on a week, I think it was, it could have been the fifth programme or something like that. And the people in the audience thought that we would be able to get Jack Nicholson. And I suppose that's, yeah, people don't know, do they?
When you work in the business, you realise that you're never going to get Jack Nicholson. for a Saturday night chat show in Ireland live so if you can get your hands on a Jack Nicholson lookalike and have a bit of fun with it that's the best that's the best it'll be anyway so we don't have obviously we don't have Steven Spielberg but he's been on the rest is entertainment
And it being a British podcast, they were talking to him about James Bond. So just a couple of figures you need to know, as in people you need to know, just before I play this clip for you. So Albert Covey Broccoli, he's the legendary producer of the James Bond series. I think his daughter is now producing it. Broccoli, unusual name. So he's involved here. Lucas is involved here.
That little music from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, that's involved here as well. So Steven Spielberg speaking to Marina Hyde and Richard Osman on the Restless Entertainment about seeking out a job on the James Bond movies.
After Jaws was a big hit, I'd always wanted to make a James Bond film from the day I saw Dr. No. So I called Cubby Broccoli after Jaws and I volunteered. I said, if you need a director, I would love to direct one. And he said, no. And he moved on. And then Cubby called me again after Close Encounters came out. And that was a big hit.
And Cubby called me a few years after Close Encounters and said, we'd like to use the five notes in Moonraker. And I said, I'll make you a deal. I'll give you permission to use the five notes if you let me direct a Braun film. And he said, nope. But I gave him the five notes anyway. So they consistently turned me down. Why? He never explained why he wasn't letting me in the Bond family.
But when I told that story to George Lucas in 1977, and that's when George said, I have something better than Bond. It's called Indiana Smith, which is what it was called at the time. And he told me the premise of the Indiana Jones series. And that's how I got that job. So if they ever asked me to make a Bond film now, my answer would be, you can't afford me. Woo!
It's reassuring to know that Steven Spielberg, world-renowned director, producer, owner of Amblin Entertainment, still has the two-finger motivation. Because that's what I call that, you know, when somebody rejects you, doesn't give you a job, sacks you, and then you're motivated prove to them that they made the wrong choice, that they made the wrong decision.
Maybe it's a negative way to live your life, but it's worked for me up until now, the two-finger motivation. The other thing in that is, like, come on, Indiana Smith. That would never have worked. That would, like, India, sorry. Whoever said, no, stop there now, Mr. Lucas and Mr. Spielberg. You can't be calling that movie Indiana Smith. It has to be something different.
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Chapter 3: Why are orphan drugs so expensive?
Yeah, you may have noticed. You may have noticed that the World Cup has started. Shakira. And Burnaboy. They were brilliant, but they didn't sing it live. Oh, no, they didn't. Barnaboy hadn't done his homework. He was putting his microphone up to his mouth when he wasn't supposed to, and then he hadn't got it up to his mouth when he was supposed to. But the spectacle was amazing.
And I would prefer on those occasions that the sound was good and the lip synced over trying to get a live sound and it being all over the place. So... It sounded as good as the recording because it was the recording. You see, it was the recording. So Mexico beat South Africa. There's a lot of, there's a lot of, it should have been us. There's a lot of that going around.
And look, we'll have to get over ourselves. We'll have to get over ourselves because this is going on till the 19th of July. So if we're constantly going to be looking at the progress of Chechia. And saying it should have been us. That's not going to work. It's going to take from our enjoyment of the World Cup. There's a lot of people who wish they were there. That's, yeah.
And we, you know, like if you were around for 1990 and 1994 and even Saipan, even that World Cup, you'd appreciate the enjoyment, the atmosphere, the sense of pride in your country, all of those things. And we're now on the sidelines looking in and going, here we're going. Jonathan! Yeah, sorry about that. I cried so much I distorted. Yeah, so get over yourselves is what I'm saying.
Get over yourselves. And let's remember the good times. So with that in mind, I went through my old files and I found a thing I put together at one lunchtime. a few years ago. And it's the George Hamilton remix of Put Him Under Pressure, right?
So you remember Put Him Under Pressure was 1990 and that was the year we got to the quarterfinals and that was the year that George Hamilton said a nation holds its breath. Of course, he hadn't said it when Put Him Under Pressure was recorded. So I said, well, why not use his voice on it? And as I say, this was done at a lunchtime. I should probably revisit it.
and look at the levels and maybe improve it. But for the moment, looking back on former glory days, actually 1990 was our, wasn't it?
Yeah, yeah. The nation holds its breath. Breath, breath. The nation holds its breath.
Breath, breath. This kid can decide it all.
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Chapter 4: How is the drug approval process structured in Ireland?
Not a huge demand for that. But yeah, it's nice to hear. That's amazing, isn't it? John Williams. Those five notes from Close Encounters. Yeah, we went to see Disclosure Day last night and Jennifer Kelly will be giving her review. She's a big fan. But before that, Mairead Ronan is waiting in the wings. We'll talk to her after this. I'm Raid Ronan.
Raid Arcee. You're annoyed. I am annoyed. And it's actually rare that I get annoyed about stuff like this, consumery stuff. Right. Because I feel like I'm veering into your man Conor Pope's territory. But something that has been bothering me for months now, and it's every time I go into a shop and I buy something and it's, can I have your email? Why do you want my email?
You know, we're going paperless now or we'll email you the receipt. And I say, no, I'll just take a regular receipt. And they're always a bit miffed. Right. Okay. And I've noticed any time I buy something online, there's a follow up. So they have taken my email and they've followed up with another one saying, oh, 10% off this thing that you bought four weeks ago. Do you need another one? Right.
It really bothers me because my email is just clogged and choked with nonsense that I still have to filter through to get an email from the school or something about work. Anyway, recently, just a couple of weeks ago, I brought Bonnie to get her ears pierced. People might have issues on that. She's nearly eight and she's begged for ages.
Went in to get her ears pierced in a place on Grafton Street. And of course, I had to fill in a form. I'm her mother to allow this. So this is what they got for me on the iPad that I had to fill out. my name my full address my postcode my daughter's name my daughter's date of birth my email my signature right Ears were pierced. Then at paying, I was with Bonnie.
Louis was also there and he went up to pay and they said, can we have your email? And he said, ah, here. Why do you want my email? We've gone paperless. And he said, well, what would you do if I don't give you my email? Well, I don't know what we do then. Well, then you can't have a receipt and we have to issue a receipt. And then Louis said, paper is not the problem.
paper is not the problem like plastic is the problem paper is not the problem give me a bloody paper receipt so I just it's really bothering me that our data like people I think everyone just goes oh you know maraid at blacktop.ie and gives out their email willy nilly but like there's a huge value to that okay
There's two whys there. Okay. Why do you think they're doing it? And why are you upset that they're doing it? So there are the two whys.
But the two whys is because they then follow up. And the other one is, what are you doing with it? What are you doing, my email?
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Chapter 5: What changes did the Minister for Health propose for drug access?
And again, it's put back that it's doing you a favour. We'll email you your receipt. No, because then you have my bloody email. I just want to buy a pair of runners. I just want to... I mean, I had this chat with Jenny this morning and Jenny was nearly putting a chokehold the other day to get out of a sports shop. She just wanted to buy runners.
And they were like, email, gives your email, gives your email. I just think people need to push back on it a little bit.
See, I haven't given it too much thought. I usually say, no, you're okay. If it's something that I feel I can...
get something out of.
As in, if I'm putting it through the company, then I'll say yes, because then I'll have it on record. Of course. Because I'm not very good at keeping the paper things.
Okay.
So at least I can go back to all the, I can put invoices in, I can, and at the end of the year, I have them all there. Okay, that's fine. That's good for me. Yeah. That's good for me. I was talking to Bernard.
Not when you're buying a mascara.
Yeah. Right. Bernard and I, Bernard and I were talking last week about, you know, surveillance.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of email receipts in retail?
Yeah. And there wasn't... Yes. So if I'd known that, I probably would have enjoyed it more because I like that. I like that type of thing. I like lo-fi sci-fi.
Yes. Oh, I like that. Lo-fi sci-fi.
Yeah, that's what I enjoy. Yeah. So, yes, and it'll stay with me for a while because it asks big questions about our existence and the existence of God and all those things. So, yeah, I would give it a four and a half out of five.
Jesus, I thought you were going to say out of ten. I was like, that's so low. Well, that's why I loved it, because it was quite old school and it assumed intelligence and the part of the audience, which I loved, because I think movies nowadays just assume everybody is thick, you know, that they have to feed them every little tiny bit. And it's just irritating.
Like even the beginning of the movie, I won't go into it at all, but like you're landed in it as in you're going, what? What's going on here? What is going on? And you have to figure it like it takes you a good 10, 15 minutes to position yourself and to kind of get in there. But also, I love the fact that the way it was filmed, like the car chases were just absolutely brilliant.
And it was, I thought like Emily Blunt was superb, wasn't she? So good. Eve Hewson was brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. I felt so proud. Yeah. Oh, did you? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I just thought, yeah. Well, yeah, like she's from Killiney.
Yeah. She's from Killiney. Now she is Bono's daughter and I think. So that doesn't matter. No, but that's tough on her. Like if that was anybody else in the country, we'd be going, isn't this amazing? This Irish actor is in a Steven Spielberg movie on the big screen.
Amazing. Yeah, but there's only so far that's going to get you. Do you know what I mean? People might go, ah, yeah, sure, I'll give you a little part. That was a big part. If she hadn't done that part well, you could screw up the movie.
Samantha Mumba was in a Steven Spielberg movie.
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Chapter 7: Why are people annoyed by email follow-ups after purchases?
Yeah, yeah. And I know, and like... And I'm going to talk about that actually in a second, about failure, because it's a documentary that I watch, which I'm going to recommend, a weekend watch. And Martin Short's documentary, you know, the actor. And he says, he basically said like 90% of his acting life has been failure. You know, the most things haven't worked out.
And you just keep doing it because that's why you do it. Whereas anyway, to get back to Eve Hewson, I think she is like a really talented actor. Very, very talented.
And back to the movie then. Yeah. Just on that thing, because a lot of movies now assume that we're all stupid.
Yes.
So they have what they call this expositional dialogue. I know. So every 10 minutes they go, one character has to say... The actors talk to each other.
One character has to say... So just to be clear, just to be clear, when those guys came out there, what you're actually saying is they are whatever. And your man goes, no, what actually, what I was saying is... And I was like, yes, we get it.
I heard or read an explanation of that recently. Because although people don't do it in the cinema that much, but at home, and a lot of people are consuming movies at home, they're on a second screen. Yes.
That is tick.
So they're not giving it their full attention. Yeah, put your phone down. Every 10 minutes, they have to do an update.
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