1939 Blitzkrieg strikes as Hitler orders Nazi invasion of Poland, kicking off hostilities in World War II.
12:58
Man dies at Electric Picnic festival in Co Laois. (Presume he was electrocuted. Or a sandwich got him.)
13:40
Durty grrrl using the ord du jour for a sports correspondent, ('shipped', as in ‘shipped a tackle/shipped a knock to his leg') shouting down the bad phone line from some stadium destination, distorting the signal because her dad wanted a boy, by keeping her lips too close and popping air into the pickup, and she wants to be a man. An unenthusiastic lady in the studio at this end reads the news headlines in a flat voice, not really understanding what she's saying: "Ligament strain" means "doubtful for the pool game".
13:46
JOERADIO: 1850 615715. Tony. Your son had his head kicked in in Dublin and is now having an operation to remove pieces of his own skull from his own brain. Wha' happened?
TONY: He's seven-theen. An unprovoked attack. They said they were looking for cigarettes. This fella beat up his own girlfrien' and mudd-her in the front garden of the house a few nights earlier. He's the sort of person you're dealing with. My son was hit from behind.
JOERADIO: He grabbed something from a skip?
TONY: Yeah, a bottle or a stone.
13:53
CALLER 2: He has his hand in her mouth and she is in a kneeling position. Advertising Hunky Donkey crisps. The slogan says, "She's only after one thing."
13:55
CALLER 3 (MD from the food company): I'm very sorry that your listener is offended. It's just fun. Don't mean to give off the bad, eh, vibes. She does not have her fingers in his mouth. Close. Helps our brand in the present climate that we're in.
14:00
CALLER 4: I've three small girls. That ad is in your face. They could mimic. Why don't you use "He's after only one thing"?
MD: Good question. I must ask the agency that.
14:01
CALLER 5: Adults in Ireland need to take a stand about what's happening. There's thousands out there in silent Ireland. People are silenced on every issue. You're 'radical', 'complaining' or anything. There's shocking articles on young people's behaviours abroad in Greece after the summer exams. What standards are we putting up? Everybody has a responsibility. If we allow these demeaning pictures for crisps, they're giving a bad example!
14:05
CALLER 6: Is he selling crisps or selling sex?
MD: I'm selling crisps. We have to make a living here. I blame the lyrics in songs on radio stations.
14:09
CALLER 7 (agency person, no doubt): I think people should chill out. They should have a sense of humour about this.
CALLER 8 (tone): She has a mind like that. Finds everything funny.
14:12
CALLER 9: The simulation of two sexual acts.
14:13
CALLER 10: I think it's in your face and it's just horrible.
14:15
CALLER 11: My 7 year old girl said "What are they doing, mam?"
JOE CURIOUS: Sexual acts?
CALLER 12: Without a doubt. Sleazy, crude, unnecessary advertisement.
CALLER 13: Real humour requires real creativity. That ad's not funny. It might be a sick type of humour, but at what cost?
14:24
JOEBAGS: Thanks to all our callers. Your son was assaulted and vinegared?
CALLER 14: Hail of punches into the face. No reason. File got left under another file at the prosecuter's office. (Mislaid). No charges as the 6 month limit was up. Costs 10,000 to get his face fixed up. Department for Justice told me to complain to the Garda Complaints Board.
14:32
JOE EVER-CURIOUS: Sex shop outside the Phizz-borro church?
CALLER 15: Anybody thinks it's right, their mind’s twisted. We have been having a protest at the sex shops. Seven-thirty tonight. We're going to go to jail for this. Sex shops.
JOE EVER-MORE-CURIOUS: You're going at it again tonight?
CALLER 15: Every night. We've been going at it every night for two years, Joe.
