Chapter 1: What unique parenting insights does Bernard O'Shea share?
Give that more welly there. Now, we don't normally do the weather forecast here, but on this occasion, we'll break all the rules. We'll go mad and we'll quote Siobhan Ryan from Medairn. She says, temperatures on Saturday will range from 17 degrees centigrade up to 21 degrees centigrade, while on Sunday from 18 to 22, yes. So the weekend will be generally dry with some warm spells of sunshine.
But cloudier periods, oh, go away the clouds. Then Siobhan goes on to say, beyond that, temperatures will continue to trend upwards with warm or very warm conditions. High pressure will bring mostly dry settled weather too. Ah, yes. Here comes the sun, little darling. Bring it on, bring it on. It's just everybody smiles then, don't they? It just cheers everybody up. It lifts the mood.
Our vitamin C levels go up.
Chapter 2: How does weather impact our mood according to the hosts?
We get our T-shirts out and our shorts out. Our legs out and our arms out. We wear socks and sandals. There was a time when that was the biggest slag on a go-to radio show. Yeah. Imagine wearing socks and sandals. Now it's the trendiest thing in the world to wear socks and sandals. Things change. Things change. I think it's Anne-Marie was on to us about the flan.
She's working on our behalf while touring the country selling beetroot juice. Come in, Anne-Marie.
Hi, Jenny and Ray. I was just listening to your podcast and the problem with trying to find a flan base. Big problem.
Chapter 3: What challenges does June face as a homeless individual?
Anyways, just happened to be in a super value here in Neenah, so it's not very convenient for you both, but they are to be found and they are in some of the super values. So if you're looking, I'm sure you can get one closer to Neenah, but FYI.
FYI yourself, we think that's Anne-Marie from Fairy Farms. They sell beetroot juice into super values. I've met one of their employees before. It could be Anne-Marie and she gave me some complimentary beetroot juice and it was very nice. It's one of those super foods, isn't it? You just feel when you're drinking it that you're doing something good for your body. So FYI to NCT, to RTE.
It's all coming down the tracks. Yeah, I had the NCT the other day. And that's the reason I haven't been looking for a flan base. But today I'm turning my attention back to the flan and I'm sure Anne-Marie will find one somewhere closer to Nina. Anyway, it was the NCT the other day and it is a bit like it's a mini leave insert, isn't it, for your car?
Yeah.
Chapter 4: How does the NCT test relate to personal stories shared?
And I passed. Thank you very much for asking. It passed. The golf passed the NCT and they were all very nice up there and it's very efficient. Despite the fact it looked like the queue was going on forever, got through us really, really quickly.
Anyway, while I was up there, I had this wonderful encounter with a lady and I'm going to change her name and I'm going to change her country of origin just to protect her. Let's say her name is June from Nigeria. And June from Nigeria is homeless. She is an Irish citizen, but she's homeless.
She was staying in a house with a lady and that lady's gone into a nursing home and now the family want to do something else with the house. So June is homeless, but she's staying with a friend for a few days. But the friend is younger than her and she has a new baby and she doesn't have a lot of room in their apartment. So what June was doing
up near the NCT Centre, was looking for a place to store a very large case, a very large suitcase. Anyways, it turns out the people up there don't take that size of luggage.
Chapter 5: What humorous anecdotes arise during the discussion of cars?
It has to be bigger. So there she was standing there, And she approached me and she said, is that someplace you can store stuff? And I said, no, that's where you get your car tested. Anyway, we started a conversation and I said, we look, should we look to see if there's anywhere else close? And there was a place near enough. We rang them. They wouldn't accept the suitcase either. So anyway.
talking, chatting, chatting. I was getting her story. She was telling me she's here for quite some time. She's an Irish citizen. She's working in a large store that you would know the name of. And she told me her circumstances.
Chapter 6: How does the conversation shift to the topic of extraterrestrial life?
So I said, listen, we'll see if we can find somewhere. I'll drop you over when I'm finished this. NCT thingamajig. And I finished it and then June was still there. So we couldn't find any place that would take her large suitcase.
Meanwhile, she had contacted a friend who was willing to come in from somewhere like Balbriggan into town and take her suitcase and bring it and store it for her until such time as she found someplace big enough to take her suitcase. Isn't that terrible? Anyway, so I dropped her into the bus stop and that was fine. Anyway, this is the thing.
Jenny then was going shopping in this particular shop and I said, well, June might be there. And when Jenny got to the checkout, who was taking over on a new shift? Only June. Like, what are the chances? What are the chances? So June was sent to us for some reason, I don't know.
Chapter 7: What reflections on aging and life lessons are shared?
The encouraging thing is, June says, I love you guys here. This is exactly what she says. I love you guys here in Ireland. You have done so much for me. The only thing you can't do for me is get me a house. And we hope and we fingers crossed that June will get a house. A lot of things happened, it was as if I was in some Truman-like show. Because in the queue before I met June,
I was sitting in the car. I don't know how they do it in your NCT centre, but there's sort of a grid system and you park in and then there's three cars when you get to the front and one of the guys comes out and he takes it. One, two, three, one, two, three, you know, so it's all very fair. And I was sitting there and then a lady, an older lady came up in her car.
And I could see her getting out. She had parked the car and she was getting out. And as she went to get out, the car moved forward because she obviously hadn't put the handbrake on.
Chapter 8: How does the episode conclude with a call to action for listeners?
And in doing so, it knocked her over, which must have been terrible. So I got out really quickly, helped her out. She... And it'll happen to us all. There's a pride associated with being a human being. There's a pride associated with being independent. And unfortunately, old age takes some of that independence from us. She didn't want to be helped.
She had fallen and she was in shock because the car had moved forward, but she didn't want to be helped. She wanted to show that she was independent. Anyway, I helped her up and she went in and it was fine. And previous to that, when I was inflating the tyres earlier on, I had an encounter with a person who was heading to a medical appointment with the HSE that they'd waited seven years for.
And they wanted to get in ahead of me and I said, fine. But it's mad that all of those things happened in one day. In fact, in a couple of hours. And maybe it's the world trying to tell me something. I don't know exactly what it's trying to tell me, but it's trying to tell me something. And of course, none of that would happen if I was in an office in RTE working away.
I remember going in there first. I'll just tell you this little, little story about 11 years ago. And I was in about six months and I remember saying to somebody and thinking to myself that the real documentary that should be made by RTE Investigates is a documentary on RTE. Because I remember looking around me and seeing all the dysfunction and the various stories and all that sort of thing.
And I said, you know, maybe somebody should turn the cameras back in on RTE and maybe RTE should employ the same forensic rigour that they do on other issues when they're investigating them on their own organisation. And I remember over the years pointing to a number of the things that have come out in the last weeks going, there's a story there. That's the story. And there's another story there.
That's the story. There's the story. Anyway, I might tune into Colin's kicks this week. Just to see, just to see what's said there. Yeah. Yeah. On a very serious note, like language is important and words are important. And what happened to Eve's tequila last Friday on Henry Street outside Arnott's was referred to on Morning Arnott's morning as a fracca.
I actually recoiled and I'm not overstating it. I was going, whoa, you can't be calling that a fracca. A man lost his life. If there's handbags at a GAA match where lads are feigning, throwing punches, that's a fraca or a melee. Or if two lads with too much drink on them come out of a pub overnight and they're flailing around the place and failing to connect with any of the bunches.
That's a fracca. But where five men hold down another man and we don't know the results of the post-mortem yet and that man dies, that's more than a fracca. Anyway, that's, yeah, words are important. Words are important. There's a guy called Jack Clarke. And Jack was one of the co-founders of Anthropic. And Anthropic are one of the big AI companies.
They have Claude, which is in competition with ChatGPT and seemingly the serious people. The business people use Claude and then the rest of us use ChatGPT. Anyway, he was given a talk in the UK and you'll be interested to hear some of the things he said because he's at the cutting edge. It's either going to be, they reckon, OpenAI or Anthropic who are going to rule the AI world.
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