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Brendan O'Connor RTÉ
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3.8 • 36 Ratings
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Brendan O'Connor has all you need for the weekend with time to pause and reflect on the week just gone. Featuring a selection of human interest, consumer and lifestyle stories, as well as keeping you up to date on the news stories that matter. Listen live Saturday and Sunday at 11am - 1pm on RTÉ Radio 1.
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ChatGPT... but flirtier?
Open AI this week unveiled the latest version of their GPT tool. But what is it? Are we entering a brave new world of AI and when exactly will it arrive? Technology journalist, and host of the For Tech’s Sake podcast, Elaine Burke, reviews ChatGPT4o.
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Coping with a death by suicide
Fiona and Tim Tuomey remember their daughter Milly who died by suicide at age 11 in 2016. They talk about her life, their grief and trying to destigmatise suicide.
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Eímear Noone on composing, conducting and homecoming
Conductor and composer Eímear Noone tells Brendan how her childhood in Kilconnell set her on a path to create soundscapes for film and video games. And, what it means to come home and to conduct in Galway for the first time.
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Keep the burglars away when you’re on holidays
Should you buy a doorbell camera or not? What about motion-triggered security lights? Peak holiday season is upon us, so Peter Murray, from the Security Institute of Ireland, has tips for listeners on making your home unappealing for burglars while you’re away.
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The Ultimate Steak
Food historian and Financial Times writer Tim Hayward talks Brendan through the best techniques for making the ultimate steak
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Things Nobody Tells You - Cathy Kelly & Stefanie Preissner
Two women at different stages of life, writer and podcaster Stefanie Preissner and novelist Cathy Kelly, give each other advice about love, body image and navigating privacy in an online age.
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50 State Tour Through Rose Coloured Glasses
Adrian’s US tour is more to do with romance than reality. As an Irish man living in the US for over 25 years I have visited 42 states and currently live in Arizona. The town of Sedona that Adrian waxes lyrically over is thought of more as a tourist trap and when I was there it didn’t conjure up any songs either by The Eagles or even Jackson Browne.
Winslow Arizona is another disappointment known for a truck stop and a prison.
You know you’re nearing the prison when signposts along the road say Do Not Stop For Hitch Hikers.
Winslow is a Rez-Town as it stands on the edge of the largest Indian Reservation in the US @ 27 thousand square miles-home of The Navajo Nation it is stunning and barren and desolate with all the expected problems like poverty and alcoholism.
The sale of alcohol is illegal on the Reservation which helps create a certain dynamic in Rez-Towns.
As for eating in diners in big cities and you have to search hard for Mom & Pop entities-the name used for independent non-corporate businesses.
Mostly you’ll end up in Wendy’s Denny’s Arby’s It’s a Burger What A Burger lotta Burger In and Out Burger or MacDonalds.
City Centers are becoming a thing of the past in the US.
I do agree with Adrian on Indiana though.
Listening from Chicago
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