Sean Moncrieff - Newstalk

Say Your Number · 07-10-2016 02:27PM

Given that he had time cut to make room for some ill-informed soapboxing I think Sean deserves a lot of credit for not saying 'go f*ck yourself' to George's condesending tone everyday.

I have to say I'm listening to the show less and less these days, it seems rushed and truncated, hopefully common sense will prevail and Sean get's his hour back and whoever was responsible for this decision is shot out of a catapult.

ballsymchugh · 07-10-2016 02:35PM

Say Your Number wrote: »

Given that he had time cut to make room for some ill-informed soapboxing I think Sean deserves a lot of credit for not saying 'go f*ck yourself' to George's condesending tone everyday.

I have to say I'm listening to the show less and less these days, it seems rushed and truncated, hopefully common sense will prevail and Sean get's his hour back and whoever was responsible for this decision is shot out of a catapult.

has anyone noticed sean seemingly overcompensating his side of the argument this week? he's brought up fox news at the start of his show today and yesterday while most of us aren't really that bothered, we know the score with them.
it seems he's trying too hard.
i still listen but same as you, less and less. i can't be arsed listening to drivetime for that 30 mins at 4, so sometimes switch off earlier when i get a chance.

Snake Plisken · 07-10-2016 02:51PM

He is being squeezed out Is Henry gone fully from the show? I notice he is on the crappy Chris O'Donaghue show that follows Sean's every evening!

buckfasterer · 07-10-2016 03:31PM

Does Esther who reviews the movies like ANY film she reviews? She's painful to listen to here and in competition with Sean with the um um ah um nonsense.

davef1000 · 08-10-2016 01:40PM

Seán is currently RTing up a storm of people who are annoyed at the show losing an hour. (He won a PPI award last night, and lots of people are tweeting their congratulations, and admonishing Newstalk for the cut.)

08-10-2016 05:59PM

davef1000 wrote: »

Seán is currently RTing up a storm of people who are annoyed at the show losing an hour. (He won a PPI award last night, and lots of people are tweeting their congratulations, and admonishing Newstalk for the cut.)

He RT'd this too, adding to the speculation of bad blood between Hook and Moncrieff

https://twitter.com/KillHill101/status/784707685585416192

theoldbreed · 08-10-2016 07:36PM

buckfasterer wrote:

Does Esther who reviews the movies like ANY film she reviews? She's painful to listen to here and in competition with Sean with the um um ah um nonsense.

Agreed. She has a bank of phrases she uses.... just didn't do it for me I'm afraid being her favourite. She ruins the segment for me, anytime she shares a film I know I'll love it. She hated Horrible Bosses, I nearly died laughing in the cinema!

Horse84 · 08-10-2016 08:26PM

theoldbreed wrote: »

Agreed. She has a bank of phrases she uses.... just didn't do it for me I'm afraid being her favourite. She ruins the segment for me, anytime she shares a film I know I'll love it. She hated Horrible Bosses, I nearly died laughing in the cinema!

She is absolutely desperate. I've said it about her before. Nothing personal at all purely professional. She even says yday I can be a bit simple at times when it comes to plots or something along those lines.... The fact that she slated girl on a train is after convincing me to go and see it now. Is she employed elsewhere as a reviewer or what?
That whole segment is destroyed anyhow. I'd look forward to it every Friday but now it's rushed and feels like it's just stuck in there. It was all relaxed and a bit zany before. Absolutely disgusted that the show was cut. Hard to believe moncrieff actually stood for it himself?

08-10-2016 09:01PM

Horse84 wrote: »

Is she employed elsewhere as a reviewer or what?

The Sunday World, the paper of record among certain government employees, which also employs Paul 'Scumbags' Williams.

Say Your Number · 09-10-2016 12:00AM

On the whole Twitter thing, I have seen Sean retweet negative stuff too, so he's at least balanced about it.

Have to laugh at the kicking Newstalk are taking about this

styron · 09-10-2016 12:02AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

The Sunday World, the paper of record among certain government employees, which also employs Paul 'Scumbags' Williams.

Miltiades, your finger is no longer on the pulse of baser instincts of Hoi Polloi ... Williams vacated that august institution in 2010.

ShagNastii · 10-10-2016 01:47PM

Haven't been completely enamoured by all the new shifts and changes in Newstalk but the killer is losing that first half hour of Moncrieff.

Was one of my most enjoyed parts of daily radio. Just a casual chat with some random public figure.

j.s. pill II · 10-10-2016 01:57PM

ShagNastii wrote: »

Haven't been completely enamoured by all the new shifts and changes in Newstalk but the killer is losing that first half hour of Moncrieff.

I'm by no means a daily radio listener but I do like catching a the start of Moncrieff at lunch time when I can. Can't say I was too happy when I switched on this afternoon only to hear Hook. Thought he might have been just filling in but alas, no. He's only gone and knocked Moncrieff's show out of my lunch hour. What a nasty surprise for a Monday.

ThisRegard · 10-10-2016 02:40PM

Missed the handover from Hook to Sean today, how was it considering the flurry of tweets over the weekend?

kunst nugget · 10-10-2016 02:41PM

ThisRegard wrote: »

Missed the handover from Hook to Sean today, how was it considering the flurry of tweets over the weekend?

George all praise for Sean on his win at the PPI awards.

Ol' Donie · 10-10-2016 02:45PM

ThisRegard wrote: »

Missed the handover from Hook to Sean today, how was it considering the flurry of tweets over the weekend?

It was way, way friendlier than usual.

kunst nugget · 10-10-2016 02:48PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

It was way, way friendlier than usual.

George talking to the whales about being friends with Sean was surreally great.

Say Your Number · 13-10-2016 03:11PM

Turned it on while they were playing the clip of your man ranting and raving about Clinton and I thought they'd given Hook more time and he'd gotten more intense and extreme :eek:

PopePalpatine · 13-10-2016 03:35PM

Say Your Number wrote: »

Turned it on while they were playing the clip of your man ranting and raving about Clinton and I thought they'd given Hook more time and he'd gotten more intense and extreme :eek:

I'm not listening to the show at the moment but I guessed you were talking about Drumpf's buddy Alex Jones, so I checked Sean's Twitter...and I was right! :pac:

ballsymchugh · 14-10-2016 12:09AM

Say Your Number wrote: »

Turned it on while they were playing the clip of your man ranting and raving about Clinton and I thought they'd given Hook more time and he'd gotten more intense and extreme :eek:

i mentioned it earlier, but why the feck is he playing these clips from american nut jobs??
most of us are aware of who they are and don't need to know much more, but it's almost like the reverse of us complaining about Global Village. he starts off with these far right nutbags to justify his liberalism.

tommyboy2222 · 14-10-2016 09:36AM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

i mentioned it earlier, but why the feck is he playing these clips from american nut jobs??
most of us are aware of who they are and don't need to know much more, but it's almost like the reverse of us complaining about Global Village. he starts off with these far right nutbags to justify his liberalism.

Because if you don't agree with his lefty PC right on views you are a right wing conspiracy theorist redneck angry white man racist

jooksavage · 14-10-2016 09:49AM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

i mentioned it earlier, but why the feck is he playing these clips from american nut jobs??
most of us are aware of who they are and don't need to know much more, but it's almost like the reverse of us complaining about Global Village. he starts off with these far right nutbags to justify his liberalism.

In fairness, that clip was pretty funny and it warranted broadcast by the fact that the Republican nominee thinks that Jones has an "amazing" reputation. Comparing Global Village to Infowars is quite a stretch (and I'm saying this as someone who hates GV)

robbe · 14-10-2016 11:18AM

Listened to the podcast of him with the TV bloke yesterday...extremely high on the 'crikey' count....always grated with me but since reading this thread I'm more aware than ever and at one stage I had to switch off!

Bandana boy · 14-10-2016 11:23AM

Will losing the hour from his show cut Sean's Pay ?

If not what is the fuss about , i would love if my employer would cut my hours but pay me the same

Ol' Donie · 14-10-2016 11:31AM

From Sean's point of view it might be a matter of pride.

From the point of view of any person with ears, the fuss is around reducing a good programme in favour of two considerably less good programmes.

jooksavage · 14-10-2016 11:34AM

Bandana boy wrote: »

Will losing the hour from his show cut Sean's Pay ?

If not what is the fuss about , i would love if my employer would cut my hours but pay me the same

Sean's boss is Denis O'Brien. I would really doubt he's on the same money as before. But even if he is, the station have decided that the nonsensical blatherings of a geriatric windbag take priority over his own show - that'd piss anyone off.

buckfasterer · 14-10-2016 04:26PM

robbe wrote: »

Listened to the podcast of him with the TV bloke yesterday...extremely high on the 'crikey' count....always grated with me but since reading this thread I'm more aware than ever and at one stage I had to switch off!

Crikey......eh.....um.....ah......astounding. I must use his podcast one night as a drinking game and use these as times to drink. I would say I'll not make it to the news!

foxtrot101 · 14-10-2016 04:32PM

tommyboy2222 wrote: »

Because if you don't agree with his lefty PC right on views you are a right wing conspiracy theorist redneck angry white man racist

I don't think his views to be particularly lefty, pc or right on...I find them to be fairly normal, tbh.

Poochie05 · 21-10-2016 07:25PM

That wine woman today, Jean?, was hard to listen to, thought she'd never shut up gushing about all the events she'd been to and things she did, hardly anything about the actual wines!

21-10-2016 07:58PM

tommyboy2222 wrote: »

Because if you don't agree with his lefty PC right on views you are a right wing conspiracy theorist redneck angry white man racist

Like another poster has said, I don't find him particularly left-wing at all.

I've never read any of his books, but did leaf through one of them in Eason's one day. It's reminded me of pop-science books with huge font that are written for teenagers of average intelligence; except, it read like a Sunday World philosophy column. Anyway, I digress.

I was irritated to read, on the first page I opened, Moncrieff's unhappiness at having to see, hear, or even be around 'junkies'. Not because it's distressing to see a fellow human living through a personal disaster, nothing as compassionate as that. They just annoy him. Seeing them from his seat on the Dart just angers him.

I wouldn't call that lefty, or PC, although maybe it's liberal in a neo-classical, Republican Party way.

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