The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

dulpit

Oh I thought people were asking for them to fix the error, not just cut it out.

FishOnABike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123512590#Comment_123512590

How do you suggest they do this? Cut the few minutes completely from the podcast?

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123513802#Comment_123513802

I’m not sure if you know how layered audio works but you can remove one file (the incorrectly played file in this case) and leave the “live” feed intact. What happened in this case was a pre-recorded piece was played over the live feed - this can be removed seamlessly with minimal effort. You can do this with very basic audio software on a pc or Mac, or even your phone. To NOT do it in this case given the tech and software they have in RTÉ is nothing but laziness/sloppiness.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123513630#Comment_123513630

That’s what I was asking for, the how is explained in my previous post. Cutting out the whole segment doesn’t make much sense tbh.

FishOnABike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123513892#Comment_123513892

I'd have bigger questions why it wasn't picked up on a monitor and corrected much sooner.

I'd guess the podcast is recorded from a stereo feed from the broadcast mix and there's no 'clean' version of the broadcast without the inadvertent overlapping audio.

The podcast audio file could be processed to compensate for any compression, limiting, automatic gain control. The Week in Politics audio file could be time synced, volume matched and subtracted from it. It might not end up with a totally seamless 'clean' version of the podcast but should be able to reduce the Week in Politics component to little more than very low level background noise. There might be some audio artifacts or chirps left that would need further filtering.

It should be possible to clean it up but might dpend on whether the podcast is meant to be an accurate representation of what was broadcast (warts and all) or if it would justify the effort.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123514448#Comment_123514448

Again, no; because there’s ample evidence of podcasted versions of shows being edited (and in some cases heavily edited) by RTÉ when it suits them. This one is out down to laziness…..the same laziness that sometimes mean a podcast isn’t made available for 5 working after the show was broadcast (this has happened btw).

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123514448#Comment_123514448

" ....... and on sound today, no-one ".

ShamNNspace

Good morning... On the brendan O connor show Singer Samantha Mumba has just threatened to "release a single every day for a year".. Gardai are taking the threat seriously and are on high alert

elperello

I didn't expect President Bill Clinton to turn up on my headphones this morning.

Sounds in great form publicising his latest venture.

A few interesting things to say about politics too.

He's the same age as Trump.

https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0607/1517234-bill-clinton/

Peter Dragon

Brendan on another day off…..Dearbhail in again.

Peter Dragon

Starting with GAA, WTF? I’m out, this is supposed to be a news/current affairs segment, not GAA. There’s more than enough GAA on RTÉ.

Hold My Hand

Sarah’s voice has always grated on my ears

plodder

Just tuned in there to a great over and back about an article on housing by (I think) Conor Skehan.

"He says we need to rethink the way we do housing"

"So, what should we do?"

"I can show you the article"

"I've read it and he doesn't have any answers"

LOL

emo72

The million dollar question was asked. "What are renters going to to when they hit retirement age??" The question was ignored. The answer is obvious, nothing.

This is the level of discourse in RTE, but hey, the hurling was great!

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123525550#Comment_123525550

I don’t think anyone on the panel this morning was a renter……they’d more likely be concerned with CGT on the sale of second and third properties.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123525319#Comment_123525319

Part time part time job!

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123525361#Comment_123525361

If only Skehan had been given some kind of opportunity to actually fix these problems, some position of influence in the housing sector, perhaps;

https://www.ontheditch.com/conor-skehans-company-awarded-more-than-1-million-public-contracts/

dxhound2005

Newspaper Panel 08 JUN

Joining Dearbhail to dissect the Sunday papers are Sarah Carey, Irish Independent Columnist, Prof. Rónán Collins, Consultant Geriatrician, Sam Tranum, Editor of the Dublin Inquirer and Louise Burne, Political Correspondent for the Irish Mirror.

Three new ones for 2025, plus Burne on her second appearance.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123528088#Comment_123528088

All noted GAA pundits.

plodder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123526166#Comment_123526166

I think there's a general problem in this space with people getting a platform, whether in government or the media, to pontificate on it, with their pet solutions from their own points of view. Just this morning, I listened to someone advocate dropping VAT from construction costs, (which I think is a good idea). But, he was asked will the builders not just swallow the additional profit, and I thought - okay, will we get an honest/unbiased/nuanced answer to this question? Nope. They will pass all the savings on to the consumer, says he.

Any economist will tell you in that situation, the builders are going to take at least some of the additional profit. Even if they took all of it, it would still have the beneficial effect of increasing output massively and more broadly. As the head of one of the two big housebuilding firms said recenty. We don't need two big house builders, We need at least eight of them. But, you can't explain that in a soundbite.

dxhound2005

You just happened to hear the the single economist with a unique viewpoint. And you saw through his wrong headed thinking. So no need to worry that anyone else would believe him. It is not a demonstration of a general problem in this case. And fair play to that radio station for letting him have his say, going against every other economist.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123530331#Comment_123530331

That very point was made on this show (O’Connor’s) on May 25th by Peter Browne who not just advocated for the removal of VAT for building firms, but the removal of all taxes.

It was greeted with stunned silence by the host and an incredulous panel btw.