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George Hook on the Saturday Night Show

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  • #32
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    foxtrot101 wrote: »
    This is one of George's stock stories that he comes out with almost weekly on his radio show. I was a terrible son...I was a terrible husband...I was a terrible father...I was a terrible bussinessman...repeated on a loop. But there's no real sense of regret in his voice when rattles this stuff off ad nauseam. The thing is - there is nothing George loves more than talking about himself.
    Yep anyone who listens to his radio show regularly will have heard this story more than once.


  • #33
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,610 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Extremely honest about himself is our George.
    Like his style on the wireless.


  • #34
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Yep anyone who listens to his radio show regularly will have heard this story more than once.

    Why anybody listens to him is a mystery to me. He is absolutely terrible on the most basic level of being able to operate the machines and gets flustered very easily. That isn't even going into his misguided opinions that he obviously has never even tried to understand the other side or educate himself on the subject.

    The positions sports "personalities" get is really frustrating as they have no understanding or education to do the jobs. People go on about in deals but casually ignore it with sports people.


  • #35
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    Why anybody listens to him is a mystery to me. He is absolutely terrible on the most basic level of being able to operate the machines and gets flustered very easily. That isn't even going into his misguided opinions that he obviously has never even tried to understand the other side or educate himself on the subject.

    The positions sports "personalities" get is really frustrating as they have no understanding or education to do the jobs. People go on about in deals but casually ignore it with sports people.
    I find him far more entertaining than a lot of "pro" broadcasters like matt cooper, ray d'arcy or marian finucane etc.


  • #36
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,542 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    He kept going on about life coming on a meteorite but he never seemed to ask how it got on the meteor in the first place, I dont think he'd done a whole lot of research on the subject tbh.


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  • #37
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,119 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    _Whimsical_ wrote: »
    Infairness Pussy Riot were a pain in the backside, every interview they did during that period all over the world was the same.That was their "shtick" at the time, they were too busy being ultra feminist and ultra offended as a result to talk about their political leanings. If I remember correctly they explained that their weird cold shoulder routine was sparked by him earlier having offered them a greeting kiss on the cheek and them taking offence because he wouldn't greet a man like that.

    Stephen Colbert had a great interview with them In fairness

    RTÉ Having the Russian Lecturer Constantine as an interpreter only for them to have a huge row backstage before show started didn't help matters


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