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The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

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  • #4532
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,384 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121294352#Comment_121294352

    ??

    What was manufactured about it? I am sure like all celebs there were 'starter' questions supplied but other than that it seemed a perfectly normal interview whether it was recorded or not.



  • #4533
    CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121294352#Comment_121294352

    But why can't Media outlets explain that they have a couple of canned responses from "stars" and they have manufactured a few questions..to fit into the sequence. 

    Well that didn’t happen here. Listening to it again now you can hear BoC and Arnold talking over each other occasionally, which wouldn’t happen if they were canned answers.

    I actually remember when I was young that they would have radio interviews based on pre-recorded canned answers, specifically with the likes of Sean Connery during the Bond period, and so on. I don’t think that happens any more with Zoom calls, and modern technology, and so on.

    If RTE actually had Arnie on the line, they would have given it to TLLS.

    Well that could have been based on scheduling or anything.



  • #4534
    Micheal Varadkar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭Micheal Varadkar


    Most people probably don't remember that Brendan O'Connor got to number 3 in the POP charts in spring 2000, it would probably be very un-pc now considering he based the appearance of the character on notorious sex offender fr Sean fortune https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O-PldwYpD0Q



  • #4535
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,321 ✭✭✭plodder


    Guest: "Remember that Pink Floyd album cover with the prism and the white light splitting into a rainbow"?

    Boc: "Yeah, that was Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield"

    🤔

    I don't see the issue with the Arnie interview. If it was pre-recorded, so what? Now, if they were splicing questions and answers from different sources, and there was no interview, that would certainly be a problem. I find it hard to believe that ever happened. If it did at one time, you certainly wouldn't get away with it now.

    “Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt” - Carl Jung



  • #4536
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Ray D'Arcy doing a weekend nixer on the sound desk this morning it seems.



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  • #4537
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297537#Comment_121297537

    Did that conversation on Floyd/Oldfield really happen?

    The cover to Dark Side of The Moon is one of the most famous album covers of all time.

    image.png

    You could argue Tubular Bells is also rather famous

    image.png


    But how you could confuse them is beyond me.........

    Post edited by ButtersSuki on


  • #4538
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,407 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Who is this woman talking too much sense on welfare tourism and Ukrainians?



  • #4539
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297626#Comment_121297626

    She's a hotelier who's likely made a fortune provising accomodation for them.



  • #4540
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121294947#Comment_121294947

    I remember it being somewhat controversial at the time.



  • #4541
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,407 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Ahh. She doth spout much plain speaking



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  • #4542
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Did she just say "mobots"?



  • #4543
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,321 ✭✭✭plodder


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297625#Comment_121297625

    Yep, he was talking to a body clock expert about the clock changing. I was going to start a thread on the subject, so I listened back to it. She was making a point about the different wavelengths of light and the effect on the body. I don't know what was going through his mind ... He wasn't sure though .....

    “Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt” - Carl Jung



  • #4544
    archfi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,771 ✭✭✭archfi


    Diverse opinions in government?

    Really?

    There isn't even any meaningful diverse opinions in the Dail amongst the multi-seat parties, govt or opposition, on these matters.

    This country established its own government – hopelessly imperfect though it may be – to serve and vindicate the needs of Irish people, first and foremost.

    The electorate are a huge part of the problem. You put shite in, you get shite back.



  • #4545
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Mick Clifford is far too good to be on this panel.



  • #4546
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,407 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    "Sarah" he barks



  • #4547
    archfi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,771 ✭✭✭archfi


    The gasps of shock from O'Connor that that which cannot be spoken about on his show and RTE in general (I wonder why exactly) has been uttered.

    'We have to stop accepting any more' [sic]

    This country established its own government – hopelessly imperfect though it may be – to serve and vindicate the needs of Irish people, first and foremost.

    The electorate are a huge part of the problem. You put shite in, you get shite back.



  • #4548
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,407 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Two and a half years ago

    image.png




  • #4549
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    The woman who works in the city centre has no feasible solutions but just wants to give, give, give.



  • #4550
    archfi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,771 ✭✭✭archfi


    Resentment in communities across Ireland - the powers that be knew this at the very start so I don't know why gaslighting is going on now as if it just occured to them.

    This country established its own government – hopelessly imperfect though it may be – to serve and vindicate the needs of Irish people, first and foremost.

    The electorate are a huge part of the problem. You put shite in, you get shite back.



  • #4551
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,407 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    No beheading before noon



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  • #4552
    tesla_newbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭tesla_newbie


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297698#Comment_121297698

    Virtue signalling is a full time commitment, no room for other perspectives



  • #4553
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297880#Comment_121297880

    Well from experience they have time to be perpetually offended too…..



  • #4554
    Furze99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,395 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297698#Comment_121297698

    Maybe she has an iron in the fire? Works for some publicly funded group that supports her narrative?



  • #4555
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,827 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121299745#Comment_121299745

    You could have sommit there Mr F.



  • #4556
    bobbyss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,342 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    O'Connor gets so excited when he has 'stars' on the programme -or down the line on the phone. He nearly lost his nickers when he was interviewing Nigella Lawson a while back. 'Thank you SO MUCH Nigella for taking the time to talk to me. If you're ever down in Cork by... .'

    The same star struck excitement with Schwarzenegger. Behaving like a proper idiot.



  • #4557
    Loyal Lady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭Loyal Lady


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121301090#Comment_121301090

    He had Fergie (Andrew’s ex) on recently talking about her latest book & he seemed very smitten by her



  • #4558
    z80CPU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,255 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    SPOIL YOUR VOTE


    Didn't get the final guest name he is a chef from Middleton or around.

    Brendan goes to milk the behayzus out of the town flood cleanup, forget about talking about culinary advice.

    Get all the misery porn.



  • #4559
    z80CPU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,255 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    SPOIL YOUR VOTE


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121261532#Comment_121261532

    the sooner I hope.



  • #4560
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,451 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121270297#Comment_121270297

    The hundreds of thousands of people who vote for him seem to have a different view



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  • #4561
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    The man-hating is strong in this one.



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