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00:00Oh, I need to fix myself.
00:06I seem to be...
00:11Did you do that on purpose?
00:12An extension of the cushion.
00:13Trying to coordinate with myself.
00:15I love it as well because I'm...
00:17The cushion is to help me look slimmer
00:20and instead it looks like my entire belly has spilt out.
00:23Hold on, lie back.
00:25John!
00:28Oh, my God, do it that way.
00:30Where?
00:31You've just had too big of a dinner.
00:36Oh, my God.
00:38It's me in my 80s.
00:43What the heck is this?
00:44Why would you want that?
00:46Why?
00:48Now, why would you do that?
00:51Hold on, I can't do this.
00:53I don't want to look, but I'm looking.
00:55Here, I love this ship.
00:56Pull out the errands!
00:57Ooh!
01:00Get after Telly.
01:01Oh, no, leave him alone, leave him alone.
01:03Oh, my God, why is this programme so long?
01:12In the week when we welcomed some old friends
01:15back to the Aviva Stadium,
01:17we watched loads of great Telly.
01:21Netflix took us on a blind date
01:23with a modern twist.
01:25I'm starting to get a little bit of your accent now.
01:27I'm from Belfast.
01:28She's Irish now.
01:29I thought she'd have a bit more sense
01:30than going on this programme.
01:31Can I say something crazy?
01:33I love you.
01:34Some heterosexual nonsense.
01:37We witnessed tense scenes in Walford
01:39on RTE1 on Wednesday.
01:42He dragged a body across the street
01:47and dumped it in the cafe.
01:49What an icon, wearing hot pink into a courtroom.
01:52Ready, set...
01:54And last Monday,
01:56Netflix gave us a taste of competitive eating.
01:59I'd be good at this.
02:00I have no limits.
02:08In Tipperary...
02:09Forty years, that's how long I can remember.
02:12...Anastasia and her dad, Noel.
02:15Forty years.
02:17What made you start it, though?
02:18Like, it's very random.
02:20Did you do it when you were small, like?
02:21Yeah.
02:22When we were small, we did it, yeah.
02:23Did Danny and Top Top do that?
02:24They did, yeah.
02:25Huh.
02:26Never knew that.
02:27So that's how I...
02:28That's how you got the idea, then.
02:29A lot of people do go to France and stuff now,
02:31don't they?
02:32Yeah.
02:33They do that...
02:34Is it the English Tunnel or something?
02:35No?
02:36What's called the one that goes underground?
02:38Oh, the...
02:40Euro Tunnel.
02:41Euro Tunnel, that's it.
02:42Apparently, it's just like a normal tunnel.
02:44You don't see the water around you or anything,
02:46which is disappointing.
02:48No way.
02:49How could you see the water?
02:50I thought it would be like an aquarium, like.
02:51No, it's not.
02:52On Saturday night, we watched some wannabe crooners
02:55take to the stage over on Virgin Media 1.
03:01Oh.
03:02Oh, I like the voice.
03:03Oh, I love this.
03:04How are they still making this show?
03:05I was going to say, I didn't think it was a thing anymore.
03:07Your coaches, everyone!
03:09Will.i.am.
03:10Will.i.am, yeah.
03:11Make some noise for our new coach, Leanne Riles.
03:15Where is she these days, like?
03:17You never hear of her anymore.
03:18I'm the voice.
03:19And make some noise for Tom Fletcher.
03:23Who?
03:24Couldn't tell you.
03:25Oh, there are the boys from McFly.
03:26All right.
03:28I did not know he was still alive.
03:29That could be like an AI robot of Tom Jones.
03:31Yeah, he looks like he's barely hanging on there now.
03:36I only found out a few weeks ago that Tom Jones
03:38and Lionel Richie are two different people.
03:40And he's Welsh.
03:42Tom Jones?
03:43Yeah.
03:44Fuck off.
03:45He doesn't look Welsh.
03:46The show introduced us to one hopeful
03:48who pricked up our ears in more ways than one.
03:51It was definitely a big moment.
03:53I'm trying to keep my nerves at bay.
03:55From there in Ireland.
03:56Oh, he's having a wee shite.
03:58I'd love to show my kids that
04:00you shouldn't give up on a dream
04:02and that we can do anything.
04:04The ear defenders.
04:05Even he knows he's the right idea.
04:07Ear protectors.
04:16When people close their eyes on this thing,
04:18it gives me the ick.
04:22I can't really understand what he's singing.
04:25The song isn't the best.
04:26No.
04:38Yeah, come on.
04:39Press the button.
04:40Press the button.
04:46Come on.
04:47Come on.
04:48Hit the button, hit the button, hit the button.
04:51Come on.
04:52Do it.
04:53No one's going to press it.
04:58Come on, Tom.
04:59Nobody's going.
05:00Cam Jones probably can't fucking hear it.
05:02He's that old.
05:06Ah, bollocks.
05:08No.
05:09So none of them do it?
05:10Oh, you fuckers.
05:16I'm a Scarlet friend.
05:21It's a bit embarrassing, though, isn't it?
05:22Oh, so embarrassing.
05:25Later in the show,
05:26we were introduced to another potential superstar.
05:31It's me.
05:32Oh, my God.
05:33We had to have a screamer, didn't we?
05:36My name is Ava.
05:37I'm 20 years old
05:38and I am a dog groomer.
05:44I've always believed in you.
05:46Always.
05:47I know.
05:49Sorry, I just...
05:53The good thing about wearing gloves
05:54is you've got a tissue and a glove all in one when you cry.
05:58Just thinking about it,
05:59it just makes me nervous sometimes.
06:01I hate these sob stories, like...
06:07She just got off the stage.
06:08Ow!
06:17Oh, she's good.
06:18She's not bad.
06:28She sounds like everyone on the radio.
06:36McFly, yeah.
06:38Oh!
06:39OK, she's actually good.
06:41Argh, argh, argh.
06:48Go on, Jones, go on.
06:49Come on, do it.
06:54Hey!
06:59Oh, my God!
07:01They all turned.
07:02Full house.
07:03And then she gets to pick who she wants to mentor her.
07:06Oh, really?
07:07Mm.
07:09Oh, my God!
07:11I'm upset for her, Mummy.
07:14Would you stop?
07:16I think that's lovely.
07:17It's a bit difficult, I'm not going to lie.
07:20But if I'm going to go for my heart,
07:24I think that I'm going to pick...
07:27Go on, Tom Jones.
07:28Not Will.I.Am.
07:29Not Will.I.Am.
07:30I'd pick Leanne if I was her.
07:31I think she'd be the best.
07:32McFly.
07:33Wow!
07:34Ah!
07:35What?
07:36McFly?
07:37Jesus, even they were surprised.
07:46Here, I'll get you a tissue, will I?
07:50Oh, dear God.
07:51Oh, how lovely.
07:52The first time she did anything with her voice.
07:54Here.
07:55Oh, for God's sake.
07:56This is lovely.
07:57Souring the milk in me tea.
08:00Back in the day, one of my boyfriends made me a CD with a playlist on it.
08:06You know what the main song on it was?
08:08If you believe your eyes, ten million fireflies.
08:11Remember that stupid song?
08:12That really is so cool.
08:13Ah, well, it's obviously over now.
08:15I levelled up.
08:19In a thigh.
08:20Are the mullets come back or have they gone out?
08:22Or is it the new llama look?
08:24Laura, Des and their son, Alex Grufferty.
08:28What the hell is a llama look?
08:30Yesterday, he looked like a llama, so I had to cut his fringe.
08:35Oh, my God, it was shocking.
08:36And they do this little swoosh thing, like this roll it around.
08:39I'm just going to let you in on a little secret.
08:41He wasn't best pleased that you cut his fringe as far as you did.
08:45Don't even explain yourself.
08:46Our relationship is over now.
08:48You better put your arm around her and give her a kiss and say,
08:50sorry, ma.
08:51How about you do it?
08:52Come for her.
08:53She's your wife.
08:56Last Tuesday, the news on Virgin Media One
08:59gave us an exclusive look inside the gates of Leinster House.
09:05Now, there's growing political outrage over the cost of a new
09:08bike shelter at Leinster House for politicians, staff and media,
09:11which cost over 300,000 euro.
09:14Don't even stare at me.
09:15This is bananas.
09:16Outrageous.
09:17Gavin Riley joins us now from Government Buildings with more on this.
09:20So what are they all saying there, Gavin?
09:22Gavin's not going to be impressed, he hates stuff like this.
09:24Simon Harris is not alone in finding it very difficult to understand
09:27how a relatively simple structure could cost so much to build.
09:31Fair play to the man who tells me it costs 300,000.
09:33He bawls like baboons.
09:36One political source this afternoon told me they'd been given an estimate
09:39that mounted and sheltered bus stops, for example, cost 25,000 euro
09:43to build, only a fraction of what we're looking at here.
09:45Is that it?
09:46Yeah, that 350,000 euro.
09:48Just that, that's it?
09:49Can fit 18 bikes.
09:50So it's not like three or four then?
09:51No, that's it.
09:52How is somebody in charge not being held accountable?
09:54Dot and on.
09:55So the footage that you can see on screen was not taken by us,
09:58but rather sent to Virgin Media News today by a member of political staff
10:01within Leinster House.
10:02It's not even a shed, it's a shelter.
10:05Even the tarmac in this shite, the way they've done the finish on it,
10:08I'd be angry over that.
10:10I think it is inexcusable and inexplicable.
10:14It couldn't have cost that much, it couldn't have.
10:16It's impossible, that's why there's all the outrage.
10:18But this is the sort of thing that rightly angers and annoys people
10:22and it angers and annoys me as well.
10:23Pisses me fucking off.
10:25Pack of sly little bastards is what I wanted to call them on
10:28and my mother would fucking kill me.
10:29I'll be honest, this seems like an astronomical amount
10:32for what is essentially a bike shed.
10:33She's the Minister for...
10:35Justice.
10:36Yeah.
10:37Why is she commenting on a €350,000 bike shed?
10:39Because someone was robbed, Dave.
10:41The taxpayer!
10:43To the Minister for the Office of Public Works,
10:45that's Ciarán O'Donnell, the Fine Gael TD for Limerick County,
10:48who has asked the OPW to investigate and to account
10:51for why this structure cost €335,000.
10:54No, please, not an inquiry,
10:56because the inquiry is going to cost a million quid.
10:58The OPW said additional costs had been encountered
11:00because of the architectural and archaeological significance
11:03of Leinster House, effectively intimating
11:05that some kind of extra procedures had to be undertaken.
11:07Oh, my God.
11:08Every project manager in the country knows
11:11that those costs are fucking ridiculous.
11:15It's only going to shelter from one direction and from the top.
11:19But sure, the rain in Ireland blows...
11:21All over the place.
11:22All over the place, like.
11:23It blows sideways and everything, like.
11:25It nearly comes up to the ground.
11:27Yeah!
11:40In Limerick...
11:42Enjoying my seat over there, you are?
11:44Yeah, it's much better for a leg, now, in fairness.
11:47..Alex, Eva and James Ryan.
11:49Are you able to wiggle them now?
11:51Yeah, that's wiggling them, sure, look.
11:54Well, that's really good, James.
11:56That means the pins have attached, doesn't it?
11:58Oh, yeah, that is.
11:59Yeah, there's literally...
12:00There's a plate going from here to here, like,
12:02at the bottom of the foot.
12:03It's like a hinge.
12:04And these two are broken.
12:05Like a hinge.
12:06Yeah.
12:07So the three...
12:08Six screws and a plate.
12:09Yeah.
12:10That's crazy.
12:11Mm.
12:12Bro's a cyborg now.
12:13Yeah, I know.
12:14Why did you put the sock on?
12:15Were your toes cold?
12:16I don't know, it's just...
12:17Are you trying to disguise the massive cast?
12:19How am I supposed to disguise it?
12:20Look at the size of my foot.
12:21This week, we logged on to Netflix
12:24to catch up with their much-loved dating series.
12:27Today is my wedding day.
12:30SHE GASPS
12:31SHE SCREAMS
12:32I love this!
12:35Welcome to Love Is Blind UK.
12:37It's going to be some heterosexual nonsense.
12:40You will get engaged.
12:42Only after that will you meet that person for the very first time.
12:46Imagine someone fucking pulling back the window and saying,
12:49Me? Oh, for fuck's sake!
12:54I wish they actually did a dating show with blind people
12:57called Love Is Blind.
12:58I guarantee you that exists!
13:01In the episode, we followed Sabrina and Stephen's efforts
13:05to feel their way through the questionable world of modern dating.
13:09Hello.
13:10Oh, my goodness!
13:12As long as they don't do the mutual sex thing, I don't mind.
13:15The what?
13:16You know, like, sex on either side of the screen.
13:18What?!
13:19You're making me so...
13:20Ah, fuck you.
13:21I know!
13:22What's your name?
13:23Sabrina.
13:24Sabrina, what a great name!
13:25She's gorgeous, isn't she?
13:27She's natural.
13:28How would you rate him on look?
13:30Yeah, not bad.
13:31I have to see his body. I'm sure he has a good body now.
13:34And where are you from, Stephen?
13:35I'm from Birmingham, but I've lived in London for 14 years.
13:38I would love nothing more than to go on a first date
13:41with a clipboard and a checklist.
13:43OK.
13:44I'm starting to get a little bit of your accent now.
13:46I'm from Belfast.
13:47How bad are the fellas at Belfast just to go on this show?
13:52So, what makes you you?
13:53I'm very adventurous.
13:55Epic.
13:56LAUGHTER
13:58I do gratitude journals.
13:59Oh, he's wearing loafers with no...
14:01No socks.
14:02No socks.
14:03Do you?
14:04Yeah.
14:05This is so weird.
14:06I feel like you've just taken my daily routine.
14:08He's saying all the right things.
14:10Such a load of shit.
14:12This world is big in, isn't it?
14:15I think it's really important to get to the point
14:17where you're so happy in yourself.
14:18It's like it's not anyone else's job to make you happy.
14:20Yeah.
14:21And I'm all about adding value to each other's lives.
14:23Oh, my God.
14:24These two are getting on like a house on fire.
14:26If it was an interview, she would get the job.
14:28I know.
14:29Like, tick, tick, tick.
14:31We were gripped as the happy couple's chat
14:33took a pretty serious turn.
14:36Personally, for me, I don't think I have to have children.
14:40For me, it's really important to build a life
14:42as husband and wife first.
14:44Well, I agree with that statement, yeah.
14:47I'm 35, so that would be a case of 38, 39.
14:50I might not even be able to conceive naturally anyway.
14:53You just hear the door closing.
14:55Yeah.
14:56I'm very open to surrogacy,
14:58so it would be our biological child.
15:00Oh, it's just a conversation, I suppose.
15:02A conversation that needs to be had.
15:03So important to have.
15:05I'm here for that.
15:06That's a good compromise.
15:08He thinks it's a good compromise.
15:09It's a good compromise.
15:10That makes me feel really good.
15:14Oh, I want to hug you.
15:16Why has that been bothering me so, so much?
15:19She's compromising for him because she likes him
15:21and he's compromising for her.
15:22Yeah, which is lovely.
15:23Can I say something crazy?
15:25I love you.
15:28For fuck's sake.
15:30Oh, go away.
15:31I will stop loving you.
15:32What has it been?
15:33Will you feck off?
15:34It hasn't even been a week and he loves her.
15:36Has I taken thee?
15:39Hold the fucking phone!
15:41That's a dick.
15:44And ask you something crazy.
15:47This is not how I would want to be proposed to.
15:49Through all.
15:51Will you marry me?
15:52Get to fuck, man.
16:00Say yes.
16:03This has just been an incredible journey
16:04and I'm so grateful.
16:05Grateful? That sounds...
16:07But...
16:08But?
16:11Oh, and she's letting him down.
16:13I just know that we're going to bring out the best in each other
16:17and I can't wait for the next chapter.
16:20So...
16:22Of course.
16:23Is that a yes?
16:24That's a yes.
16:26Oh, she said yes.
16:29Yes.
16:30Oh, yes, Richard Cheese.
16:31With a capital Y.
16:33That puts them ahead of an awful lot of the bullshit
16:36that goes on in the dating game, doesn't it?
16:38Later in the show, we finally got to find out
16:41if it really would be love at first sight.
16:53She's happy.
16:59Oh, the height of him is fabulous.
17:03You've already asked her.
17:04Yeah, but he didn't physically give her the ring.
17:09Of course, yes.
17:12They're actually mad about each other, aren't they?
17:15That's real.
17:16That's real emotional.
17:20In Newbridge...
17:22Who wants tea?
17:24I'll have a half a cup.
17:26..long-time friends Fran, Kit, Trish and her daughter, Tara.
17:31Tara.
17:32You want a jammy dodger, Kit?
17:33I do.
17:34Yeah?
17:35Get it yourself, Kit.
17:38Ah, but I need to wait for Tara.
17:40No, I can't.
17:41Are you sure?
17:43They're so nice.
17:44Yeah.
17:45It's really hard.
17:47And in Cork...
17:49Can we talk about going to mass with your man, right?
17:52..Dale and her wife, Dawn.
17:54You had literally just said,
17:56oh, we don't do the piece with you anymore since Covid.
17:59What I meant was the shaky hand part.
18:01No, no, sound grand.
18:03I'm going to put my hands in my pocket and like,
18:05praise Jesus, hallelujah.
18:06And then next thing they were like,
18:08and we're going to offer peace, or thanks, or the...
18:10Anyway, grand.
18:11And next thing all I got was...
18:13And there was people waving.
18:15I was like, fuck.
18:16And then there you were with your hand out.
18:18Because we can shake each other's hands.
18:20Everyone else was waving.
18:21You don't live with them.
18:23It was bad enough, right?
18:24Two lezers inside the church.
18:25I didn't want them to be like,
18:26did you see them touching hands?
18:29On Thursday,
18:30a new thought-provoking BBC One doc
18:32showed us some traditional views
18:34with a very modern twist.
18:37I'm Layla Wright,
18:38and I was travelling through America
18:40to meet women taken to social media
18:43declaring a war on progressive politics.
18:46Is this the right wing?
18:48These are right wing women, yeah.
18:50An online world now populated
18:52by young, ultra-conservative influences
18:55and dismissing the fight for equality.
18:57What was the goal within the feminist movement?
18:59Oh, that was to enslave humanity.
19:01Oh, so she's the opposite of a feminist.
19:04When I have to get up for 7 o'clock in the morning,
19:06I wish that we did not have any rights
19:08and I could stay at home.
19:11I wanted to understand why girls my age
19:14were taken to social media
19:15to promote increasingly extreme beliefs.
19:18Crazy, crazy place.
19:19Yep.
19:21Honestly.
19:22Can you imagine?
19:23I travelled 5,000 miles from Liverpool
19:26to Phoenix, Arizona,
19:28to visit AmericaFest.
19:29AmericaFest!
19:31That's one festival I don't think
19:32I'd like to go to now.
19:33I'm excited to be here today.
19:35Oh, the knob.
19:37With thousands of proud young American patriots,
19:40you're great people.
19:41His voice is like,
19:42rhymes with the chocolate
19:43down the side of the board.
19:44It's so good.
19:45It's so good.
19:46It's so good.
19:47It's so good.
19:49With so many girls my age
19:51with such radically different views
19:53on the role of women to my own,
19:54I was hoping to find out
19:56what was bringing them
19:57to ultra-conservative movements.
19:59Mother of God.
20:01Tin foil hats!
20:04One of the recent recruits
20:06was 16-year-old Hannah Faulkner.
20:08What does a 16-year-old know about anything?
20:12So how did you get involved in all of this?
20:14You know, I'm a Christian.
20:16How did you get involved in this
20:17I'm a Christian.
20:18So, like, God told you to do it?
20:20If you don't have a firm foundation
20:21in whatever you believe in,
20:23whoever you believe in,
20:24then you're going to be easily deceived.
20:26And there are some very, very sick people
20:27within this rainbow cult.
20:29The rainbow cult.
20:31She does look like a right-wing extremist.
20:33Yeah, she has that look.
20:34White, very well made up.
20:36Yeah, fascist Barbie.
20:37Later, the program took us
20:39on a nice little road trip
20:40with host Layla Wright.
20:43Back in Tennessee,
20:44Hannah had invited me to spend some time
20:46at their family home.
20:48Hannah's dad, Trey,
20:49was a former pastor turned tradesman.
20:52That evening, I joined them
20:53as he led Bible studies.
20:55Here we go.
20:56In the middle of a meal?
20:57No.
20:58OK, James, you're going to read 522 through 24.
21:01Oh, I can't wait.
21:03Wives submit to your own husbands
21:05as to the Lord,
21:07for the husband is the head of the wife.
21:10I like it!
21:11You get lost.
21:13We're having a Bible reading tonight.
21:15I'm the man of our household.
21:16You and your fuck.
21:18If you think about a man's body
21:20and a woman's body,
21:21who's the boss?
21:22The boy?
21:23The man.
21:24Oh!
21:27Look at the man's body.
21:29Look at the woman's body.
21:30Well, it says an obedient wife
21:32is a gift from the Lord.
21:33Does it?
21:34Yeah, it does.
21:35Jeez, I wish I got you from the devil.
21:40How does it make you feel
21:41to be in a marriage...
21:42Secure.
21:43Secure.
21:44OK, that's one word.
21:45What's another word?
21:46It's another S word.
21:48Safe.
21:49Safe.
21:50Good girl, you answered his question right.
21:53Top marks for you.
21:56Well, I have told Hannah
21:57that first and foremost,
21:58her job is to be a mother and a wife.
22:01And she understands that
22:02because she believes this book.
22:04The father's a dickhead.
22:06I have my own faith.
22:07I do my own practising.
22:09I'm not ramming it down your throat,
22:12your throat, your throat.
22:14Do your own thing.
22:15I try to teach my children
22:18how to think for themselves.
22:22I think they're there
22:24and everything he says goes.
22:26Oh, you can see that.
22:28Hannah, she's so excited.
22:29She'll be telling me her plans
22:30about going to college
22:31and it's an exciting time in her life.
22:33When she goes to college
22:34and has her first few beers,
22:36they're the ones that go off the rails
22:38when they actually get away from home.
22:39They do.
22:40But I do wonder what will happen
22:41when she moves away from that dinner table
22:44and whether being a wife and a mum
22:47will continue to be her number one priority.
22:50I hope she wakes up one day
22:51and she's a leather.
22:53She needs to go to Coppers.
22:55She can't.
22:56Fly to Dublin, one night in Coppers,
22:58get a taste of what life could be.
23:01Maybe actually that would
23:02send her to the other side.
23:03Well, the George is just down the road.
23:05She can do both while she's here.
23:11In Donegal...
23:13Oh, Jesus, Janet.
23:15What?
23:16Your cream eggs are out.
23:18Barbara and her sister Janet.
23:21I've just done three boxes of 10.
23:23I don't believe you.
23:24Where did you see them?
23:25In the cheap shop, you know the one.
23:26They're probably 10 years old.
23:27I don't give a shit, they're lovely.
23:29Someone hung it right at the top,
23:30and now it's gone.
23:31I don't believe you.
23:32I don't believe you.
23:33I don't believe you.
23:34I don't believe you.
23:35I don't believe you.
23:36I don't believe you.
23:37I don't believe you.
23:38I don't believe you.
23:39Someone hung it right at the top,
23:40and now they're all gone.
23:41Oh, God, no.
23:42Tell you what, look at this pair, Tara.
23:43I do three a day.
23:45For fuck's sake.
23:46I've run out.
23:47Mmm.
23:48Oh, my God.
23:49You've run out?
23:51On Wednesday,
23:52RTÉ One treated us to a brand new episode
23:55of their brand new cookery series.
23:59I'm Nico.
24:00I love him!
24:01I love cooking outdoors all year round,
24:03spending long, lazy days grilling in the garden.
24:06Who's he?
24:07Gen Z going on a ski
24:08in, like, cooler shirts.
24:09Yeah.
24:10Rusting up something quick and tasty
24:11to enjoy when the sun comes out.
24:13He's a sexy, sexy cook.
24:16Oh.
24:17This series, I'll be showing you
24:19some of my favourite dishes to cook
24:21inside and out,
24:22whether it's quick midweek meals...
24:24They do look sumptuous.
24:26That girl's making me hungry.
24:27Feast for friends,
24:28or something a little bit different.
24:30I've got quick, easy, tasty recipes.
24:32We saw him one night in town.
24:33Do you remember?
24:34We were out.
24:35He was in the little place
24:36with all the umbrellas.
24:37Oh, that place up off Dawson Street?
24:39Yeah.
24:40Oh, then I was locked that night.
24:43This is a great show to show
24:45when you're hungry.
24:46Starving.
24:49Two of my favourite things put together.
24:51Guinness and tacos, yeah?
24:53These Mexican tacos with an Irish twist
24:56are the ultimate party food,
24:58great for sharing.
24:59Carnitas roughly translates to...
25:02Ah!
25:03Is there any to eat?
25:05My carnitas.
25:07We'll start with our pork shoulder,
25:09just straight into the pot.
25:11Give it a good mix through.
25:12Now, there's a region in Mexico, Jalisco,
25:15that likes to use cola in their carnitas.
25:18Ah, show off, man.
25:20He was dying to say that again,
25:21wasn't he?
25:22What's it called?
25:23Carnitas.
25:24Carnitas.
25:25Carnitas.
25:26No, he's gaff.
25:27What does it sound?
25:28But, to give it an Irish twist,
25:31we're going to add some stout.
25:32Ah.
25:33Stout.
25:34Stout.
25:35That's actually good, yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:37That's in the oven.
25:38We're going to start on a simple pineapple salsa.
25:40I only had pineapple for the first time last summer
25:43and it's quite delicious.
25:44But you'd had pineapple before.
25:45No, I never had pineapple before.
25:47You never had a pineapple!
25:48But do you know the way I used to only eat beige things?
25:50Yeah.
25:51So I'm only still introducing certain food types into my life.
25:53Shut up.
25:55Some white onions here.
25:57Cutting this onion really, really finely.
25:59Why?
26:00Because nothing can ruin your day quicker
26:01than a mouthful of raw onion.
26:04Nothing can ruin your day quicker than that.
26:06There's quite a few things.
26:07A mouthful of shite.
26:09The marriage of the Mexican tackle and the Irish stout
26:13reminds me of a story of an Irish regiment
26:15fighting for the Americans in the American-Mexican War.
26:18They were sent down to clear out a Mexican village.
26:20Oh, please.
26:21And realised when they got there
26:22they had more in common with the Mexicans
26:24than they did with the Americans.
26:25Defected and started fighting for the Mexicans.
26:28How could I enjoy this meal if I didn't have a backstory?
26:30Beautiful.
26:31Leave that aside.
26:32I'll do some pineapple.
26:33Hold on.
26:34Like, you're in your mid-30s.
26:35Like, surely you've had a pineapple in a fruit salad.
26:37No, I don't like fruit salads.
26:39Fruity, citrusy.
26:40But there has to have been somewhere
26:41that you came across a pineapple.
26:43I've come across them in the supermarket
26:45and I've never, like, had them.
26:47Let's see how our carnitas are doing.
26:49Let's have a look at this pork.
26:51Oh!
26:52You have that pot there, don't you?
26:53I do.
26:54See that one?
26:55That's called a Dutch oven.
26:56Dutch oven.
26:57Is that what they call it as well?
27:00That's the kind of Dutch oven I know.
27:03We're going to put our pork pieces on a baking tray.
27:07Look.
27:08Rack!
27:09My mouth is watering here!
27:12So I'm going to put this back into the oven
27:14to get it nice and crispy.
27:15It just adds an extra texture.
27:17That looks unreal.
27:19Oh, look at that.
27:21Oh!
27:22The fork should be just...
27:25I can even smell it.
27:27Look at that.
27:28That's better than watching Ponda.
27:30Oh!
27:31Look at that!
27:34I want to get a little bit of every texture there.
27:37It looks very nice.
27:39You know what?
27:40I'm diving in.
27:41Well, Nico, what do you think?
27:44That is it.
27:45Tacos for everyone.
27:47It looks lovely.
27:48Oh, look at that.
27:49Pork carnitas tacos.
27:51Lovely!
27:52Ooh, grilled mackerel with lemongrass.
27:54Oh, I love grilled mackerel.
27:56I love grilled mackerel.
27:57Mackerel, I tell you, so good for you.
27:59Good for your coat.
28:01See, you've got to try things.
28:03Stop, ew.
28:05It's like when you go to an Indian restaurant,
28:07you have the same thing all the time.
28:09Adventurous, baby.
28:11In Dun Laoghaire...
28:12I think when I was younger,
28:13I don't think my bicycle had a crossbar.
28:15...friends, David and John.
28:17I thought the crossbars were only the lady bikes
28:19and the boy bikes were meant to be down.
28:21Someone told me that when I was younger.
28:23No, Dave, I think I was told the same thing.
28:25Because if you fall, you hurt your goolies.
28:27You're not meant to have a crossbar on a boy bike.
28:29No.
28:30No, it's the other way around.
28:32I think the bike without the crossbar is the girl bike
28:35and the crossbar bike is a boy bike.
28:39I'm googling a picture of Lance Armstrong
28:41and seeing what kind of fucking bicycle he drives.
28:43I don't think our bikes are gendered, number one.
28:45I'm telling you, mine was.
28:46Mine was, and it didn't help.
28:48He's got a crossbar on all his bikes, Dave.
28:50That's a boy bike.
28:52Girl bike.
28:54Yes, none of them have a crossbar.
28:56Really?
28:57Yeah.
28:58Now, I know that's a tricycle, so that's different.
29:00On Wednesday on RTE1,
29:03we watched the dramatic conclusion
29:05of a ten-year-long soap storyline.
29:10Oh, Everdale.
29:12No, it's EastEnders.
29:13What?
29:16We flew over this when we were going to Heathrow recently.
29:18Remember, we were like, fucking hell, we're over EastEnders.
29:20We literally were.
29:21We were over London, Sarah.
29:24Do, do, do, do.
29:27We joined the episode in the middle of a murder trial
29:30and were introduced to the star witness.
29:34Binda Carter.
29:37Oh, she got dolled up for court.
29:39She did.
29:40What an icon, wearing hot pink into a courtroom.
29:43So she's going to testify against Dean Wicks.
29:47He didn't actually murder somebody.
29:50She was raped by Dean Wicks and she turned to drink.
29:53Oh, it was awful what happened to her.
29:55When I looked down the road, I saw him there,
29:58dragging something heavy towards the calf.
30:02Jeez, if I ever need someone to lie for me, I'm going to whore.
30:06Now, tell me, Miss Carter,
30:09do you like a drink?
30:12She does.
30:13Oh, you bollocks.
30:14When she claimed she saw my client on Bridge Street,
30:17was she hideously and embarrassingly drunk?
30:21Well, he's got her now, but he's short and curly.
30:24My name is Linda Carter.
30:27And I'm an alcoholic.
30:29Not the time and place to be admitting that, Mrs...
30:31Oh, Jesus, not in a meeting, Linda.
30:35But I did not have a drink on Christmas Day.
30:40Fair play.
30:41And I know exactly what I saw.
30:44He dragged a body across the street
30:48and dumped it in the calf.
30:50Very convincing.
30:51Very convincing.
30:57He's a useless lawyer.
30:59We were on edge as murder accused Dean took to the stand.
31:03Because this whole thing is made up.
31:05Her mate Sharon dragged that body across the street
31:07because she's the one that killed him.
31:09She killed him and they're trying to frame me for it.
31:12Then why was the murder weapon found inside your flat?
31:14They must have put it there because...
31:20Because what?
31:23Because I raped her.
31:25He actually said it.
31:27He's admitted it.
31:28Denied it for years.
31:30It's driven her nuts, but that is what this is about.
31:33This is her taking her revenge.
31:35He is evil.
31:37I don't think this is the defence he thinks it is.
31:39No.
31:40No.
31:41I did it. I raped her.
31:42Send me down for that.
31:43But I'll tell you one thing, sweetheart.
31:45You ain't sending me down for a murder I didn't do.
31:47Oh, my God, I want to punch him in the dick.
31:49Later, we saw Linda deal with the unfortunate fallout
31:53of Dean's surprise admission.
32:01Oh, no, please don't.
32:08Don't be stupid, Linda. Come on.
32:10Get the hell out of there.
32:13Yeah, that's right.
32:14She's made a big mistake.
32:16Mm-hm.
32:18No!
32:20Ah!
32:22Good woman.
32:23Stop!
32:25Ah!
32:26Stop!
32:29I hate the work in this pub.
32:31Imagine going in and changing the keg now.
32:38Who's she phoning?
32:39Who?
32:40Who's she ringing?
32:43Is she calling you?
32:47Help me.
32:49I actually have goose pimples up my...my body.
32:55Hey, hey, hey.
32:56Oh, Phil!
32:58You've got a choice. You either learn to live with yourself...
33:02..and stay alive for your kids...
33:06..or you drink yourself to death.
33:08Didn't Phil live in the bin one time when he was an alcoholic?
33:11I think you're getting mixed up with that guy from Sesame Street.
33:15Linda's arrival in a police station had us on the edge of our seats.
33:20Here she is. Here she is in the police station.
33:22What do you want to do?
33:26Bitch!
33:27Get off me!
33:28We weren't expecting you till tomorrow.
33:30Is that on? Can you turn it on, please?
33:32Oh, Linda, please, don't do what you're going to do.
33:35Would you like a lawyer present?
33:38It was me.
33:39Oh!
33:41I did it.
33:45I killed Keanu Taylor.
33:49No!
33:50Why did she do that?
33:52She had him.
33:53God, it's just making me think it's very easy
33:55to just get someone framed for a crime they didn't commit.
33:58Oh, yeah, you have a fuck-me-over-here done for.
34:00I'm going to do it.
34:01I have, like, loads of friends who have done it.
34:05I'm going to do it.
34:06I have, like, loads of knives with your prints all over them.
34:25In Saggart...
34:26How do you like living in Dublin now?
34:29It ain't carving, but it's the next best thing.
34:32Twins, Fergal and Neil.
34:34You can't think you're a city boy born in a country in New York.
34:37Your city suits you more.
34:39Do you think so?
34:40Yeah, you're never a country boy.
34:42I liked the anonymity of Dublin.
34:44Oh, yeah, it's good.
34:46Like, if you go anywhere in Cornwall and Fane,
34:48it's talked about.
34:49If you do anything in Cornwall and Fane, it's talked about.
34:52You could literally do anything in Dublin
34:54and people just pay no heed.
34:56Like, you look out the window,
34:58you've seen somebody pass by your window in Calvin,
35:01they'll come and visit you.
35:02You've seen somebody pass by your window in Dublin
35:04to just walk past your window.
35:06Oh, yeah.
35:08This week, a documentary on Virgin Media Play
35:11reminded us of a harrowing time in our recent past.
35:18You probably don't know anything about this.
35:20I think I've heard of this before.
35:22It was a drug prescribed to Irish expecting mothers
35:25and the babies were born...
35:28..deformed.
35:29Stop. Yeah.
35:30It turned out to be a very deliberate decision
35:33by the Irish state
35:35not to issue a warning to the public.
35:38What was the drug designed to do for pregnant women?
35:41Stop nausea.
35:42Was it?
35:43Really?
35:44Yeah.
35:45I've never heard of it.
35:46Have you heard of it?
35:47No.
35:48If they took it off the market
35:50in the 30s of November 1961,
35:52I'd be all right.
35:54They left it on the market.
35:56Oh, my God.
35:57And they didn't withdraw it.
35:58Oh, my God.
35:59What?
36:00No.
36:01And they knew?
36:05We had friends at school
36:06of thalumelite babies, children.
36:10In the programme, a woman named Mary
36:12shared her heartbreaking experience with the drug.
36:15I thought I was getting a cold
36:17and my husband had come back
36:20with some packet of pills he got in the pharmacy
36:24and he said,
36:25oh, the pharmacist said this is a great pill
36:27if you want to sleep or anything.
36:29It'll cure everything nearly.
36:31Cure all.
36:32They just took one.
36:33That one.
36:35Just one?
36:37One pill?
36:39It was a magic bullet drug.
36:41It did away with the nausea,
36:43the morning sickness associated with pregnancy
36:47and also it allowed women to sleep when they were pregnant.
36:52I remember when I had morning sickness on her
36:55and they sent me home with tablets to take.
36:58I wouldn't take them
36:59because all I could think of was that.
37:01The evidence, when you looked at the rate of occurrence
37:04of this very specific birth defect over time
37:07and when you superimposed that on the sales of thalidomide,
37:10it was obvious that, you know, one was leading to the other.
37:13There was overwhelming evidence.
37:15Yes.
37:17Oh, God.
37:18Everybody knew.
37:20Germany knew.
37:21Australia knew just how much damage this drug had done
37:26and yet Ireland left thalidomide on the shelves of pharmacies.
37:33Sat in their hands.
37:34That's disgusting.
37:35So who's responsible there?
37:37Yeah.
37:38For not taking it off the market?
37:40My feeling was, you know, these lovely people,
37:43they're up against the hierarchy of the powerful drug companies
37:46who don't want to admit that they got it wrong.
37:49They're up against the hierarchy of government departments
37:52who don't want to admit that they got it wrong
37:55and who really did not do their job in the first place.
37:57Mismanagement, it's mismanagement and it's disgrace, disgraceful.
38:02And it seemed to me they were probably up against the hierarchy
38:06of the Catholic Church at the time.
38:08Of course what they were worried about was people going for abortions.
38:12A church run by men obsessing about women
38:15and what women should do with their bodies.
38:18Yeah, you try not to blame yourself.
38:20It was your fault.
38:22It's not your fault, Mary. No. God love her.
38:25You felt, why did I, if only I had the cold,
38:29I didn't need that body pill, what did I take it for?
38:32That's horrendous, that poor woman.
38:34Blaming herself, you know.
38:36If those mothers knew there's a possibility of your baby
38:41having a birth defect, do you think any of them would have taken that?
38:45No, absolutely not. No.
38:47We're not asking for a lot, we're asking for an apology,
38:50an acknowledgement and justice.
38:52I mean, we should be good at apologies here to government.
38:55Because we're always fucking apologising. Absolutely.
38:57Simon Harris, now there's a call for you.
38:59Call to arms, boy.
39:01Your mammy has prepared a letter for Auntie Shuck.
39:06Go on, Mary Clarke.
39:08Everybody knows that healing only properly begins with an apology.
39:13To refuse one is to extend the trauma, the hurt,
39:17the feeling of exclusion, indefinitely.
39:24Mary Clarke.
39:27Jesus.
39:29Oh, my God, it's so sad, isn't it? Mm-hm.
39:32I know that if I did something like that as a mother,
39:35I probably would never, ever forgive myself for it.
39:39And if one of the two of you had been born with a deformity
39:42as a result of something that I took, a drug or a tablet,
39:46I probably would bear that guilt for the rest of my life.
39:54Iain Dundalk.
39:56I have tried this year so hard to be a more positive person.
40:01David and his wife, Sarah.
40:04Or to be more demure, whatever the hell that means, and mindful.
40:08But it only takes five minutes and just an idiot walks past me
40:12and I lose it all.
40:14There's too many idiots in the world.
40:16I can't be demure for more than, like, 30 seconds
40:18without losing my patience.
40:20I got, last year, I was about 15 seconds without losing my mind.
40:23Now I'm up to 30, which is quite demure of me, I think.
40:26Last Monday, we logged on to Netflix
40:29to join this very exciting live event.
40:32It's an exciting day as Netflix is live around the world.
40:36What's this now, Alex?
40:38Today, the two greatest competitive eaters of all time.
40:42Competitive eaters?
40:44I'd be good at this. I have no limits.
40:46Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi.
40:49You'd be brilliant on a programme like this.
40:51To call Kobayashi my nemesis, it doesn't do the rivalry justice.
40:56I'd say I'd beat you in that, though.
40:58I'd say you would, too. I'd say you would.
41:00Because I can't keep my fridge full.
41:02After taking 2007 off due to an arthritic jaw,
41:05Kobayashi plans to reclaim the title.
41:08He has a jaw injury.
41:10Do you remember, I got a jaw injury from eating a burger?
41:12That was in my house.
41:14In your house. Got a locked jaw.
41:18Do you ever get to the point where you think
41:20we're just running out of fucking ideas?
41:22I'm not eating oranges, are they?
41:24I was only about to eat my own.
41:26I'm Rob Riggle, and I am so happy to be emceeing
41:29a show that combines my two great loves,
41:31Vegas and hot dogs.
41:33Oh, you'd be great at this.
41:35I'd be shocking.
41:37We are just about ready.
41:40Favouring Chestnut, Neil.
41:43Favouring Chestnut.
41:44I said favouring Chestnut.
41:46Ready, set...
41:48The drinks that they have, though.
41:50I suppose you'd have to wash it down, wouldn't you?
41:52Oh, Jesus.
41:53Go!
41:54We are live on Netflix and underway
41:57as Chestnut and Kobayashi renew a rivalry.
42:01First minute, Tim, what do we look for?
42:03We're looking at the pace.
42:04Look at that quarter quick.
42:05Oh, my God.
42:06Must have some gag reflex, I tell you that much.
42:08Yeah.
42:09This guy's going to get it.
42:10His mind's much wider, and he just has a point to prove.
42:12Look, he's going.
42:13Sarah, it's the first time you've ever watched
42:14Comparative Eating, and you're acting as if you know
42:16what's going on.
42:17This is going to be just a real race to see who's better.
42:20That is disgusting.
42:22Ew!
42:24Kobayashi has to be a little more careful with the water,
42:26because he doesn't quite have the same capacity.
42:29Come on!
42:30Chestnut!
42:31Meow, Chestnut.
42:32He's eating 11, 12 hot dogs in a minute.
42:35They must be farting.
42:37Kobayashi has reached his personal best
42:40for the first minute as well, but he is trailing.
42:42How does that not make you vomit,
42:43just shoving it in like that?
42:45What does it feel like in here for you?
42:46And with this live audience,
42:47what does it feel like for the folks at home?
42:49Kobayashi's in trouble.
42:51The hot dogs are not going down for him.
42:53He's throwing it in his jaws like a hamster.
42:55Yeah, I'm not surprised.
42:56These guys, they don't limit themselves.
42:58They dream big.
42:59Oh, my God, he's going to be sick.
43:01This is fascinating.
43:03All right, so Kobayashi is down about three dogs,
43:06two-plus minutes into this.
43:07Bad sign, or can he make it up?
43:09Man's a fucking machine, isn't he, Jennifer?
43:11Yeah.
43:12Fucking T-shirt.
43:14Jesus Christ.
43:15But he's not losing more ground,
43:17so at least he's holding steady now.
43:19Whoever has less in the ball left wins when the ding goes off.
43:22Ready?
43:23Three, two, one, go.
43:24Three-and-a-half minutes into this.
43:26All right, Chestnut seems to be extending his lead
43:29a little bit over Kobayashi.
43:31He's going to die of a heart attack.
43:35It's incredible.
43:36These two have ingested more than 20,000 calories combined.
43:40Oh, Jesus.
43:42I'm really bad at this.
43:43Just chew, swallow later.
43:45I'm hungry.
43:46He's a smaller guy than Joey.
43:48He's got a smaller rib cage, yeah?
43:50Typically that means his stomach doesn't have as much room to expand.
43:53What a filthy bastard.
43:54This is just mental.
43:58I'm here with Joey's dad, Joey's friends,
44:01his other competitive eaters.
44:03Come on, Chestnut, you bleeding head case.
44:06We are closing in on Joey Chestnut's record.
44:0974.
44:10What?
44:1374.
44:14My God.
44:15He's in the zone.
44:17He's seeing Jesus there.
44:18What do you think Joey's going to hit, 84?
44:2084?
44:22Oh, my God.
44:23I'd say if that lad farted, no, you'd want to stand clear.
44:27Count it down.
44:28Six, five, four, three, two, one.
44:33She's got this.
44:34Time.
44:35Yay!
44:39It's a revolution here.
44:40You've got absolutely smoke.
44:42So both competitors are having their mouths checked out.
44:45I'm going to guess it takes a little longer to check Joey's mouth.
44:4883 and 67.
44:50Mother of divine God.
44:52That's mad.
44:53That is actually mad.
44:55The winner, it's Joey Chestnut!
45:02We love you, Chestnut.
45:04I don't know about you guys, but after watching all of this,
45:07I want to go out and eat a salad.
45:10Something different, doesn't it?
45:12Just because it's something different doesn't mean it should be made.
45:15If you had to eat something in that kind of a competition,
45:17what would you have?
45:20Um...
45:22Probably biscuits for you. That's your biggest love.
45:28Grapes. I like grapes.
45:49I love you.