12 pounds of Spaghetti Bolognese

Well, ok maybe not 12 pounds, maybe 5 or 7. My chefs hat came out on Saturday night and the cookfest began. To be honest I left things go to the last minute for alot of it. Her goodself went off to clonmel and I stayed glued to Project Gotham Racing 3 on the 360 for the entire afternoon. Sad! It could have been worse, I could have been wandering the streets looking for trouble. When all was said and done, half a bin liner of food was thrown out. It was quite upsetting, but "Uncle Jack" was there to comfort me.

I +d some thing called Superhomes last night and some guy is flogging the worlds most expensive house. 70 mill, STERLING!. Reminds me, I must ask about a payrise! Bonkers. Im sure some person will buy it and probably make a killing on it. After the NY Giants lost I decided to try and support some other team. So who do I pick, none other than the Carolina Panthers, who got smashed off the field last night! Oh well, go Seahawks for the Superbowl. So with me now supporting them, take it that the Steelers will win. Speaking of winning, the oul Euro Million lotto yoke is heading for big money at the weekend. Its nice to dream, although knowing my luck (as is evident from the NFL) thered me some fecker from every country win the thing.

As its Monday, the Psychic that will be in the hotseat this evening will be Cork psychic Caroline Griffin. I might be wrong, but as far as I know its gonna be her. Shes extremely popular, so book your spot early!

Well, the posts are getting more regular. It most be them bran flakes! Its been a really busy week on the show. Lots of positive reaction to Des Bishops Joy in da Hood! Lots of emails, calls and texts are of the opinion that Cork Talks Back had an accurate potrayal of it. I did talk to Des off the air on one of the nights, hadnt talked to him in a good while but he was in good form!

Thats it really, I have to don the chefs hat over the weekend for a few mates coming around and other than that, I plan to take it easy as feck.

Have a good weekend!

I know this has started becoming a weekly update of late, I do apologise to all of you reading it...3 at least! I promise to do a bit more!

Firstly congratulations to Jonathan Rhys Myers on picking up a golden globe!



Comiserations to Cillian Murphy, who I really feel should have picked up a GG for Breakfast on Pluto. Roll on the Oscar nomination, for both of them!

Before we rolled onto the Monday night Psychic last night, texts and calls started trickling in regarding Des Bishops Joy in the Hood and about the portrayal of the Northside. I know other talk shows have covered this to death this morning, but we cant ignore it. As Ive said the show is called Cork Talks Back! I Sky +d it and when I finally got home, I took a gary at it. I think the Ballymun version was better, and I found it hard going after the girl pulled out! No disrepect to any of the performers they did a good job, and it takes alot to get up in front of a microphone especially with a TV crew in front of you. The burnt out cars scenario is a bit out of date at this stage though. I know Des since the Triskel days (I even filmed an entire Des gig there at one stage )and he was a regular on the show. Then we started losing touch and I havent talked to him in quite some time, but I really dont think hes trying to cash in on the under priviledged areas. I feel in his heart, hes trying to do the right thing. Whether or not its working is another thing! So, we'll see what happens tonight.

My new healthy outlook (cough cough) is going good. Not great, but good. No shit food, no fizzy drinks until last night. I fell at the Hillbillies hurdle, after a mate rang after the show wondering was I hungry. So in I went and the vision of Karl Spain came into my head. "3 meals a day and either the chips or the breast n a bun". A full meal deal later I felt guilty as hell, which suprised me to be honest. No breakfast this morning as punishment! The dog doesnt know what the fecks going on, as Im walkng his hole every day now. Well for the last 2 days anyway. Going to try and keep it up! Ill have to buy an mp3 player or something for musical motivation!


***UPDATE*** Just for the crack I decided to register with Irish Bloggers. At the right hand side by some of the links youll see one for IrishBloggers. If you want, click there and vote for the blog. Sound!

As some of you might be aware; from listening to the show, Ive caught the flu. Im presuming its just the normal everyday flu, and not the bird flu. Thankfully I havent been feeling too cuckoo with it. Christ, sorry, that was absolutely terrible.

But yes, Ive got the flu and Im supping down the Beechams like it was in short supply. I thought this morning it was clearing, but as I type my nose is dribbling and my head feels like it could well fall off and crash onto the keyboard. The updates have been slow coming, primarily flu related, so thats my excuse.

Christmas and the feelings that go with it are finally over, and the show is back into full swing. I was quite suprised with the results of The "Should Eddie Hobbs get the freedom of the city" poll last night. 56% YES 44% NO if I recall correctly. It was quite nice for some people to say last night that I deserve the freedom of the city for some of the things Ive done on air over the last 3 years. Well its almost 3 years, 3 I believe in April. Its interesting to look back and whats been done over the last 2.9 years. In particular we're doing a very different show for since the middle of August 05. Hopefully I still be here in another 3 years!

Sunday wasnt a great day, the NY Giants got their hole kicked. I lost a good few euro on that one. Why do I feel like this is one long moan today!

I Sky+'d Des Bishops Joy in the Hood last night, and while I havent spoken to Des in quite some time, I have to say it was pretty good. Not mind blowingly good, but none the less, enjoyable. It will be interesting to see the reviews and indeed the next episode in Knocknaheeny. Fair play to ya Dessie boy!

One of the links on this blog, the vman in japan one is run by a good mate of mine whos teaching english in Japan for the last 2 odd years. He was home for Xmas but I didnt see him until he rang me last night and called out to the station! Twas good to catch up!

Shit, another fit of sneezing and dribbling and the outside Xmas lights still have to be taken down. Well they can stay there for another day or 2. The last thing I need is to be dangling off a ladder sneezing and spluttering. Ive absolutely nothing left to say, and I want to conserve my energy (More bullshit!!!!). So Im going off to do some more sneezing and get together some stuff for the show tonight!

1st one of the year

The dust has settled, the wrapping paper recycled (of course you recycle!!), the turkey carcass dumped and the only alcohol thats left is a stain on the couch. Xmas and the whole New Year thing is finally over. Thank feck!

Its always a funny week, this first week in Januray. People are still not back into the normal swing of things. Even though its a short week for the show, it feels like a really long one. Thankfully it comes to an end in a few hours, for me anyway and then from Sunday night on things should be hopefully back to normal. Well as normal as normal gets on Cork Talks Back.

This weekend will hopefully see me finish The Sopranos season 5. As a matter of fact I have only 2 episodes left to watch, so tomorrow will no doubt see me suffering cold turkey till season 6 comes along. For the Xbox 360 people, make sure you check out the Fight Night round 3 demo, which has just gone up on Xbox Live. Downloaded earlier today and the thing looks savage all together! Speaking of all things Xbox Ive made it into the playoffs in Madden 06. Ive always been an NFL fan, since way back, in the days of Network 2. Im also a Giants fan so roll on the playoff game on Sunday night. The odds are pretty shit, so I dont think Ill be having a flutter!

Thats about if for now kids, I have to saddle up the pony and get into the station!

Last update till next year

Right. Ill begin with this shite....strangely there was something similar this time last year!!!

Best DVDs
House of Flying Daggers, Taegukgi, Cinderella Man, Star Wars Episode III, Ray

Best Movies at the cinema
King Kong, Broken Flowers, Star Wars Episode III premiere in Dublin, Batman Begins, The Aviator


Best Song
Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx - GoldDigger

Best Album
Greenday - American Idiot

Favourite Interviews of 2005 on the show
Without a second thought, Rick McCallum, Willie Gieger, Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker.

Highlights of the show
I guess turning the show on its head and changing the direction competely, which seems to have made everyone happy and will hopefully have the effect I want in Februarys JNLR!!!! The Northside - Southside debate. Yes thats the one with the Fuck You at the end of it. Junior Cert night! Drugs debate and Cork people finally talking openly and freely about sex and porn. Rockin!!!!

Funniest things Ive heard all year
Conversations with Gilbert Gottfried about incest and fuck knows what else. Discovering Karl Spain was doing a bit in his show about my show, and people were actually laughing!Anytime Saddam showed up in Court. Give this guy a microphone at the Comedy Club in City limits...he already has the suit!

TV show of the year
I used always be a Letterman fan, but since we couldnt get Dave over here for years, I started tuning into Leno, who I really like..but this year, and thanks to ITV4, its The Late Show with David Letterman! Honourable mention to American Chopper!

Things Ive got into this year
I started watching the Sopranos from the night More 4 started. I know Im probably the only person in the country who hasnt seen it..but know Im like a junkie...waiting for the next episode!!! Bada Bing!

Book of the year
Nothing really blew me away this year (!) but notable mentions to Heres Johnny and BlockBuster! None of this Harry Potter shite either :)

Moments of the year for me
Part of it must have been clearing the big balance on the credit cards, and then running it back up again. Cooking the second Xmas Dinner in the house amd people are still living. Hosting the 1st ever Red FM appreciation awards. Sitting down in the Savoy in Dublin and watching the last ever Star Wars film, it definitely was a moment!! (sad I know)


Cool thing of the year
For me it has to be either the Xbox 360 or the PSP. Granted I sold me PSP so go figure!!

Video Games of the year
Ridge Racers PSP, King Kong Xbox 360 (really enjoyed it), Project Gotham Racing 3 on Xbox Live - Xbox 360 and Madden 360!


So thats the shite list done and dusted!!! Not that anyone gives a crap, but I said Id throw it in there anyway! Its all over now bar the puking. Managed to take in a few flicks over Xmas!!

Robots - Fell Asleep
Inside Deep Throat - Interesting
Cinderella Man - Outstanding
Billy Connolly in New York - Funny
Wedding Crashers - Shite

There was also some other piece of junk that I cant remember! Xmas was busy though, we seemed to be going out all the bloody time or visiting houses. Little time to sit back and scratch asses! Its been a strange year though. Around the middle of August we done a complete U Turn with the show and it seems to be working for the better. Callers, Texters, Emailers are all up!!! I started doing a bit of VO work which I may do a lot more of in 06. I finally discovered the Sopranos, and as of this moment I have all of season 5 left to watch. Then roll on numero 6. Some other highlights that for no particular reason made the list above would have been discussing weight loss with Karl Spain while eating a Breast n a Bun in Hillbillies! Oh yeah, I got me first 2 points on the licence as well. It feels like I have them 33 years now but I only have them since May! I had a good night out with a few mates and Jonathan Rhys Myers during the year and hosting the Red FM Appreciate awards was pretty cool too. People actually laughed. As the PD and the CEO both said, "Why couldnt I be that funny on air?". Oh well!!!!

As for the plans for tonight, well we've been out in town every year. This year Id prefer to stay in and do nothing. Id say we'll head out for something to eat, come home and enjoy the fireworks in Cobh!

So thats more or less it. 12 hours to go, exactly till next year. Hope you have a good night, and for fuck sake dont puke on Pana. Happy New Year

Hope Santy came to you all. Willy Wonka is on the feckin TV, the Turkey is coming up me throat and the tin of quality street has yet to be opened!!

Christ, dont ya love Christmas. Thanks Jesus!

Well kids everywhere are shitting themselves about now. Town is closing down, parents are trying the get the little feckers home. 4 or 5 hours from now they'll be hitting the oul leaba and trying to get to sleep. Which of course they cant. But as the magic of Christmas happens, they'll wake up without ever thinking they fell asleep. The last 2 days, Ive been in a very festive mood. The comments on the blog really helped the mood along. I was going to do a Twas the night before Christmas, but I cant be arsed to be honest! So to fill that void, heres a few bits from the last show of the year


Late N Live Top 5 ways, I Vic, will be enjoying the Xmas holidays (22/12/05)

5 – Making tough decisions like Blue Stratos, Old Spice or Hi Karate

4 – Christmas morning is the one day a year I manage to get up

3 – Sitting down with a glass of wine…staring in the neighbors bedroom window

2 – Wondering if the P45 I got at the Xmas party was a joke

1 – Ill be driving around sampling the Xmas spirit at Gate 6 in the airport




Does anyone else think Xmas is a sexual time of year. Yeah, I know that’s worrying, sounds like something Michael Jackson would say before he busts out a six pack of Jesus juice. But seriously all this talk of stuffing the ass of a plump bird with meat and bread crumbs its worrying isnt it. Guys, just think of all the boxes youll have to unwrap over the Xmas holidays. Some of you will be opening 10+ boxes on Christmas morning alone, and to that I salute you.

Does anybody else enjoy relatives coming for Xmas dinner. Its great isnt it. People you only see at funerals and the occasional wedding turn up on your door Xmas morning. Which is a right pain if you’re a kid. Your trying to open your presents and Aunty Bridy is moaning about her next door neighbour, the price of bread…..or her piles. Then the actual dinner is another ordeal, they all seem to pick at the mountain of a dinner that your mother spent the last 3 days trying to get ready, and their moaning that the brussel sprouts are too hard, the spuds are lumpy and the turkeys too dry. What is it with this whole the Turkeys very dry. It’s a meat, its supposed to be dry. God, just lick the damn thing to moisten it up or dip it in your glass of water. Then when the dinner is over and done with, they all crawl into the front room, light the fire and gradually all fall asleep. Then aunty bridy wakes up and tries to tell you about her next door neighbor, the price of bread…or her piles.

Ya gotta love the oul Aunty Bridy! As it stands right now, herself is in town with her Dad and sister. Ive got the bits and pieces wrapped. I have six discs left to watch out of the Sopranos season 4 and 5. The fridge and cupboards are full of junk and drink. Well the drink is in the fridge. Wedding Crashers, Tim Burtons Nightmare before Xmas, The Island, Cinderella man, King Kong production diaries and something else are all on the schedule over the next few days. Im promising myself to stay away from the net and work..although I do have to work for a small bit on Tuesday. So I think thats about it folks.

If anyone gets an Xbox360 me gamertag is vicbarry. Ill be project gotahmin' it over the holidays, so look me up.

On a final note, thank YOU for reading this piece of drivel. I do apoligise about the lack of updates recently, but that should return to normal in 06 (Yeah, I know Ive said that before). Hope Santy squeezes his big fat hole down yer chimneys and fills up all yer stockings.....with presents. One last thank you, and that goes to YOU for listening to the show in 2005. I hope youll join me again from January 3rd 2006.
Be safe and careful this holiday season and have a great time!

Morning all. There will be a proper blogged up Xmas entry later on today at some stage. If you have absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing to do, drop by later on ;)

Tis the season to be jolly and all that jazz. Isnt it? People are absolutely feckin mad in town at the moment. Frenzied shoppers, like pirhanas! I have most of mine thank fuck, but I still have one or 2 more bits to get. Ill try and give a decent blog update before Xmas as Im up the walls work wise. Dont forget, some tales from the Xmas party still to come