The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

Suggestion: Sunday morning drinking game, where you down a glass of Prosecco every time hotelier Lorraine says “Welk, if it was a business…”.

Public service isn’t a business Lorraine. Businesses have paying customers. Public services provide services to all, so it’s just a bit different. You’re outside your comfort zone.

Spot on, Nev. I, myself, have a few chums working civil service.

I mentioned that whole thing of “quiet quitting”, where you do the minimum required for the job, awhile back and they laughed saying ‘doing that in our place would be considered going above and beyond!’.

Some gig, in fairness, but it takes a special type of personality to handle that “level” of boredom. Not sure it would be for me, idle hands and all that.

Ciaran Hinds is a very good actor. Haven't seen "The Dry"... Its probably absolute muck, but love Ballsey going, it's brilliant, you're Brilliant, I'm brilliant.... and sure aren't we ALL brilliant? 🙄

Two absolute pain in the holes, Brendan and “dr Eva”, if it is wasn’t for him we wouldn’t have to listen to her anymore, people are sick of listening to her, please F off back to Portugal you aul witch

it was on whilst I changed bottom bracket bearings, swapped wheels , and new brake pads on my bike

Would anyone have any inside information as to how much guests actually get for a fee for appearing on slots like today's?

Curious how much Dr Eva would actually receive for her basically promoting herself?

Is it me or does Ballsy sound even more agitated and annoying than usual this morning.

He seems to be roaring and shouting in that revolting uhmm and ahhh stuff he goes on with and his aim seems to

be to drown out anyone and get on into the calmer waters of a few luvvies after 1200.

Also why the fuhhrke is everyone referring to ‘new’ as ‘noo’..

Doesnt improve my humour I have to admit……😫

Ballsy has gone back into his comfort zone, now fully relaxed into the safe environments of the luvvies.

Now discussing food with Lise Hand.

Who knows? Of their own shadows?

On the subject of guests though on this show, it would be interesting if someone started compiling a list of guests asked to review the news. There's a lot of repeat voices in there - Kate O'Connell for one seems to be on at least every month. What's Ballsy's panel - could it be about 25 max?

Jaysus..this one is a barrel of laughs…boring and monotone,

the silences after BOC asks a question are excuriating.

This interview is pretty awkward alright. She has an extremely monotonous kind of voice. All of the delays with Zoom aren’t helping, with them talking over each other and long silences. Eek!

Just listened to that, and big fan of this show, but that was hard work and very awkward in places, especially since he had interviewed her before. She wasn't making it easy for him. Fascinating woman though, at age 83. I think a more formal interview format might work better. Her observations on ageing and dementia were very interesting.

He is not. He is just adding balance to a clearly biased opinion (from that Labour trade unionist with her ‘lived experience’ and ‘lived reality’).