1963 World's first discotheque as Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens its doors in Los Angeles
After about a year inside its mother's womb, a baby blue whale emerges weighing up to 3 tons (2.7 metric tons) and stretching to 25 feet (8 meters). It gorges on nothing but mother's milk and gains about 200 pounds (91 kilograms) every day for its first year.
10:39
Irish media have a loose definition of what the New Year is. Pat had something on about New Year resolutions. The Irish Times have a new year calendar coming out tomorrow. WTF? It's the eleventh, we're not in China, get over it.
11:57
MUSICAL GUEST: Oh if we'd gotten famous, I wouldn't be sitting here, Pat.
13:57
CALLER 1: Dere's a high tolerance of graffiti and it's getting worse. Over de Christmo it appeared. It's an eight-foot high name with coloured letters - “WES” it sez.
CALLER 2: That's been there for years.
CALLER 1: No it hasn't!
JOERADIO: Only since Westerday?
CALLER 1: It's zee-ro tolerance. If we allow people to scrawl profanities, it's what's that saying about society?
JOERADIO: In Paris is they think it's art.
CALLER 2: It's colourful. Creative.
JOERADIO: The design of the Port Tunnel is boring. (That's not a pun now.)
CALLER 1: We won't let them win. If they get the message they can spray anywhere, it's gonna be carte blanche.
CALLER 2: You can't be black and white about it.
JOERADIO: Spray with us until after the break.
ADS: Visit the old farts' paintings at an exhibition sponsored by a bank for tax-efficiency reasons in the National Gallery Of Old Farts.
14:05
CALLER 3: It's a signature. ABR. It's like a logo.
CALLER 2: Yeah? A 'slogan'.
CALLER 3: It's all over the area where I live. Nothing can justify this. It's against the law. No, no, no, no, no, no. I don't know about the Gardai, do they have resources. I feel so strongly about this I've taken to standing outside my house with a baseball bat.
CALLER 2: Oh God!
JOERADIO: Who is ABR?
CALLER 3: I'd love to know.
CALLER 2: It sounds like a 'crew'.
CALLER 3: Any free wall in the area you'll see him.
CALLER 4: (ol' wan): This thing about being creative is poppycock. Is it justifiable to kill people every day?
CALLER 2: Being rude is an offence.
CALLER 4: Destroying public property is an offence. The workers got it nice and clean. They came back and sprayed it again the next day. It doesn't make any sense! It's only scribbling!
CALLER 2: There's two types of graffiti . . .
CALLER 5 (young fella): In France, people who wanted to do graffiti were given a wall in the summer.
CALLER 2: Dublin City Council is providing legal walls.
JOERADIO: Do you know where these walls are?
CALLER 2: No idea.
CALLER 4: I can't wait for the ASBOs to come in, Joe.
CALLER 5: They'll get really determined then. It's their contribution. Some of them are political. They have no voice and are putting it across.
CALLER 6: Oi work in de city centre every day. I noticed these shapes. Like a hooded terrorist. Everywhere. Phone boxes. Even seen them in cars.
CALLER 5: I can explain that. The hooded guy. Political.
JOERADIO: Some stuff is selling for millions. Banksy. You have to buy the wall and all. (As Colin Farrell might say.)
CALLER 7 (ol' fella): If the lady (CALLER 2) wants to do a documentary I'll show her around some squiggles on my garden wall. Blue and a kindofa pink. Colour. I've been here for 40 years. The people across the road who are looking at it every day of the week tried to help me clean it off. Absolutely defaced.
CALLER 5: There is a certain etiquette. I personally think that it's wrong.
CALLER 7: I'm so cheered up that you think it's wrong.
CALLER 5: I think it's not right.
CALLER 7: It's not 'not right'. It's wrong.
JOERADIO: Caller 2 says they're nice.
CALLER 7: I'm so glad. If you penalise them with an ASBO and they do more, and according to your logic, if you pay them to do graffiti, they'll stop.
