Just got news the Paul Dee The Hypnotist will be making a very welcome return to the show next Thursday (May 4th) For anyone thats a long time listener you'll know how entertaining the whole thing is on air. For anybody that hasnt heard Paul Dee on air, basically we offer listeners the oppurtunity to come out to the station on the night and get hypnotised! You have to be over 18!

Anyone wants to get hypnotised , please email me

corktalksback@redfm.ie

with your contact details or just PM me here

This is only a bit of crack and no one will get disgraced!!

Well it had to happen sooner or later. I missed an update yesterday. I had a meeting with a radio doctor yesterday (good prognosis too) and by the time I was finished I decided to stick around as it wasnt worth my time to go home. I gave my stand in producer Don an oul bit of a hand with the show. We hit Abrakebabra for dinner and got back to the station for more slaving.

Absolutely brilliant news about Kanye West coming to Live at the Marquee later on in the year, and its a RedFM gig to boot! Definitely something to look forward to, as its the whole Live at the Marquee again. Some savage acts, but Kanye is the icing on the cake, and tis savage icing too!

Tuesday and Wedneday were fairly stressfull, if truth be told. When working with a stand in producer not everything works the way it should, for millions of reasons. In fairness to Don he pulled off a blinder last night. Absoultely jam packed show. Recently theres a huge buzz about the show which is great, so keep listening because theres a few big things happening in the next few weeks. Lots and lots of callers last night when it came to the discussion "Are Cork girls up there own arses" Really good points on both sides and the promo thats running today has a very funny clip from last night! I know in my single days that quite alot of the time when your out in a pub and club, members of the opposite sex wouldnt give me the time of day. As I said last night, you were on the recieving end of THAT look. We all know THAT look. At times I wondered was my fly open? Maybe my pants was around my ankles? Other times I checked to see I hadnt shit myself. The odd time I thought that maybe I was drooling and speaking in tongues, like I was possessed. Each time I checked I was fine. It wasnt me, it was a case that the females were up there arse, and couldnt be bothered to speak to a cretin like me. For anyone thats single now, I do feel your pain. Half the time being single has its benefits, other times its a drag. I know someone is asking "What the fuck are the benefits of being single?" Well, you can throw your leg over as many people as you want to without feeling guilty (Christ thats harsh!). Note the word try!!!!!!! As for the other benfits, well Im fucked if I now. Im in a relationship for six years now. Whod have thought that possible. Either way, its brilliant but at the same time, like everything dont believe the hype. No one wants to grow old on their own, but think of it like this. When your 76 and single, sign yourself into an old folks home. Theres plenty of other people in the same boat, so chances are you'll get your hole after your afternoon feed of pills and soup. It might take a while to get the clothes off, and it might take a shit load of pills to get things working, but at least you'll be together!

Today is another busy day for me, but for a change Im well ahead. I might even manage to take in an Xbox Live game of Battlefield2. Speaking of games, theres the big E3 conference coming up soon. For anyone with an Xbox360 this should hopefully be the start of proper next gen games for the 360. So far theres been very few games that have blown my mind. Alot of stuff is generally ports from the Pc, or its a multiplatform release. PGR3 stands out amongst the crowd. 2 games Im really looking forward to are Lost Planet and Dead Rising. For anyone on Xbox Live theres a demo of Lost Planet out on May 9th, and in the meantime check the trailer for it. Rockin stuff!

For lots of people, the last Friday of the month is payday. So roll on tomorrow. I have nothing major planned for the weekend. Few drinks with friends seems to be on the cards, and I have to purchase a portable hard drive. Theres is so much Cork Talks Back Audio in the station, that backing up onto DVD isnt feasable anymore! I have me feckin Car Tax to pay for as well. Which I have no problem paying, but its hard to justify it when your sitting in the middle of a crater on the road!

Anyways thats it for today. We are not on the air Monday night, but are on Sunday so keep an eye on the blog over the next few days!

Finally a quick grab from the phone, late last night sticking the Cork Talks Back promo together!

No update yesterday due to some technical glitch on the blog..honestly! Some other people complaining of similiar mishaps!

The show was jammed solid last night and in particular our Monday night Psychic, Ray Sette
had our switchboard absolutely jammed with callers. Normally by midnight we have a couple of people left over who didnt get on air. We move them back to the next segment, but last night was an exception. I got through as many people as possible but we still had quite a number of callers waiting in the wings. So much so, that Ray is back on Wednesday night!

Somebody somewhere has set up a bebo account in my name. Unfortunately its infringes on copyright and has to be removed as the person almost pertains to be me. If anybody has got any emails, PMs or anything from the bebo user VicTheBrick, then please ignore it. Its not from me. My official bebo page is here
Hopefully over the next few days Ill get another quiz up there!
Speaking of a few days, well its longer than a few days, my 30th Bday is coming up in the middle of May. I was only thinking the other day, tis hard to believe Im hitting 30. If you had asked me 20 years ago, what would I be doing now..it certainly wouldnt have been writing a blog. Tis funny how life turns out!

Any regular readers will know that a few weeks back, maybe a few months back I started on a little health kick. Even more regular readers will know, I decided that this wasnt a good thing and kicked it to the kerb! So back came the shit food and all that goes with it! Im contemplating going back on it again, as Im sure one day my heart will go..

"Hey muthafucker...Im done here..see ya on the other side!"

Anyway, tis lunchtime now! Laters.

Ah, the blog is back online! Full update later.

As the usual Monday blog goes, another weekend bits the dust! I picked up a handy bargain (as far as I can tell) on Saturday, namely The Pink Panther collection on DVD for €40 in Golden Discs. Ive seen all the movies when I was alot younger and havent seen them since! Put on one on Saturday night and promptly fell asleep! Friday night was spent at a 30th B day party. Speaking of 30th B- days, my own one is coming up in a few weeks!

For anyone that uses bebo, please be aware that the user VicTheBrick is not me, in any way shape or form. We had a similar instance before, when someone had set up a page about Martina! An appreciate page is sound like, but a page that pretends to be me isnt cool. For anyone thats recieved any messages from that user, please discard them! My "Official Bebo page" can be found here

Other than that, theres nada going on. The Moday night Psychic is back tonight amidst the usual bedlam. Make sure you tune in from 9pm!

No updates today, well bar this one letting you know, theres no updates today!

By now Im sure Tom Cruise has eaten some placenta. Whether or not he finished the thing is anyones guess! Mayo, Ketchup, BBQ sauce or just straight down the hatch, who knows..but obviously lots of people care! Ill be honest I say I know absolutely nothing about eating placentas! Im not sure if they need to be boiled, roasted or just ate straight off the baby and to be honest I have little, actually make that zero interest in eating a placenta. Will this start a new hollywood craze? I ask myself and some of you asked the same question last night on the show. Just briefly, lets take a look at some of the Hollywood crazes that have influenced us lot over here, across the pond.

Take Paris Hilton and her dog. You cant walk down Pana these days without some young one prancing down the road with a Guineys handbag complete with a Jack Russell squashed in between the change pouch and a naggan! Next we will have monkeys, squashed into the Guineys bag! Why? Well the dog got boring for Paris, so she bought a monkey which attempted to scratch her face off like a winning streak scratch card! Of course, we like to keep up with hollywood. We could blame Denis Rodman for bleached hair and tatoos. We could blame Arnold Schwarzenegger for people wanting to politicians. We could blame Michael Jackson for the priests, although its more likely we could blame them for Michael Jackson. The list is endless. Think of it this way, if your ever inside Square Deal, Ideal Living, New Furniture Centre or any of the countless furniture shops in Cork and you see some guy bouncing up and down on a sofa, you can blame Tom Cruise for that one! Maybe Oprah is entitled to some of that blame, but it lies mainly at Toms feet. Going back to the Placenta craze, Im sure some of the Hollywood crew will take up on it and start knocking back Evians and Placentas like no tomorrow. Maybe the famous Ivy restaurant will start some Placenta dishes! Deep fried Placenta, Sweet n Sour Placenta and maybe even Bacon and Placenta.

To be brutally honest, I was fairly pissed off by the end of the show last night! The amount of young people who rang up saying it was so easy to get drink and how they're locked all the time was frightening! Why do they do it, week in week out? For a laugh was the response! Some of their parents were well aware of the fact that they were out getting bolloxed! There should be some awards handed out to those parents! For years now we've been talking about underage drinking on the show, on and off. Each time I learn something new. One FF Councillor last night proposed a clamp down around off licences. Thats not going to work! Nothing for kids to do? Thats shit as well! Theres plenty for em to do, but most of dont want to try something new. Theres been plenty of exceptions on the positive side of things too though! Some callers have set up their own youth club, and others havent been tempted at all. One texter said I was the exception to the rule, because I was born grown up. A stupid comment. I wasnt born grown up! But Ive 30 years on the planet, and Ive seen some crazy shit over the years (as have alot of people). But if kids want to go out and get hammered and end up getting robbed, abused or raped because they were so out of it, thats there problem. Its not my dick thats gonna fall off from some drunken STI ridden romp, or I wont be ending up with a pregnant teenager oul doll. Maybe a bit more education is needed, as in proper education from people who experienced stuff. Not some government official going "Well I think the kids need this" and they dont have a clue! I know theres tonnes of great teenagers out there, hell lots of em are regular listeners and callers to the show, but is so frustrating hearing some of the calls last night, and society and the country we live in are half to blame. This underage drinking thing didnt suddenly spring up last week. Since Ive been presenting the show, 3 years this month, I have seen or heard nothing positive about tackling underage drinking. Well maybe I have, but has it worked..like hell it hasnt!

First nights back after a bank holiday can be funny from time to time. Not last night thankfully! We were kickin on all cylinders yesterday evening! Lots of heated calls on the Road Carnage! Great response to our Cork Choral Festival giveaway as well! More tickets tonight!!!!!! Im really short on time today so without further ado, heres Part II of the RedFM virtual tour!

Board Room (Where all the important decisions are made, like what brand coffee we should have...or so Im told)

Studio 3, where the CTB producer sits at night. KC lives in here as well

If you look real carefully you can see Stevie G in the On Air studio. The other guy is Don, one of the CTB team!

Caroline (Our production manager) "working" in the main production studio!

Some more of the shop floor

An "arty" shot of our breakfast bar

Another "arty" shot of the breakfast bar - Note the Bar Stools

Reception area

So there ya go! Thats about it for me now, as Im running out the door! Maybe more later! Probably not, but ya never know!

Easter over..roll on next Bank Holiday!

I read somewhere this morning that the Easter Bunny lays chocolate eggs at Easter! All this was according to a google search as to where do Easter Eggs come from! Surely the government should be sorting this out! Forget your bird flu, forget the enslaved hens for Breasts N Buns because somewhere there is a load of rabbits laying chocolate eggs! I know what your thinking, its rabbit shit! Which incidently is like small eggs..kinda! So its either some seriously big ass rabbits or someone is sticking all the rabbit shit together to form bigger eggs! Either way, thats alot of shit, and Im talking it (or even writing it) now!

Easter is so like Christmas! I went to me Mammys on Easter Sunday for dinner! Turkey, Ham, stuffing, Roast spuds, the works! Just like Xmas dinner! Then your stuffing your face with sweets and chocolate and on Good Friday the pubs are shut (just like Xmas day)! Kids are even getting toys instead of eggs at Easter! Again, just like Xmas! The only difference between Easter and Christmas; as far as I can tell is that your not sitting on some ould fella's lap, whos dressed in red and his breath smells like Xmas cake! Ok, theres the Jesus thing as well, but Im not getting into that here!

Thats about it for now. Theres still an Easter egg left!

Easter Monday and all is well!!!!

As promised, heres part I of the Virtual Tour of RedFM

Main Desk

Main Touch Screen with all my bits on itPC that grabs all the texts

Part II coming later in the week!

So another Easter is done and dusted, and Easter monday is half over! We went up to friends for dinner on Friday night! Saturday was spent half recovering and wandering around town! Sunday I was out in the station, starting to backup lots of CTB audio plus I dropped off an Easter Egg to me Mammy and stayed for a legendary Sunday lunch! I was in a chipper last night (Yes I know, more healthy eating) and a group of young lads kept going "How many Easter eggs did you get biy" "Fuckin none biy, the oul wan got me DVDs instead" came the reply! There were a few Easter eggs in the house allright, and theres one left to consume! Im not a big fan of chocolate, but it'll have to be eaten!

Got to see a few movies as well! V for Vendetta and Lord of War. Ok its two, not a few!!!! Both very good shows! I was well surprised with V for Vendetta, as I didnt think it would be my cup of tea at all. Im sure all the hard core republicans will enjoy it as well for the "fireworks" at the end!

I picked up a new game for the Xbox 360 over the weekend as well! Elder Scrolls IV:Obilvion! Gone are the days when an adventure game consisted of text and one or 2 static graphics! Here la, heres a screenshot of now and then!

Then and now. Im sure you can figure out which is which! Either way, Oblivion is a huge, beautiful and savage game! And you can ride a horse in it!!!!

Thats all for now kids. Back on the air tomorrow night from 9pm!