Ep. 8: Shock revelation Rosemary proposes live on air
Not to me thankfully but Simon Cowell if you’re reading this click on the link below and fast forward to 17m45s. The Blonde Bombshell wants you. However I would have grave reservations about you becoming a member of my family.
Click here to download the MP3 of The Rosie View
Who’s Simon Cowell? Watch below and then crawl back under your rock 
Hmmm anyway. Apologies I did something odd to the sound this week and will not do it again if I can work out what it was. It’s a steep learning curve…
00m55s We kick off the show by inviting you to be our guest. Honestly. Leave a comment below and we’ll get back to you.
01m26s Rosemary kicks off her weekly TV News Roundup (which this week actually has a backing track whatcha think? Keep or no?) including
- her Big Brother Blast (last for this year!)
- 02m 49s Rosemary picks Sophie to win again (turns out she was right!)
- 02m 56s Wallace & Gromit to get their own primetime show about inventions
- 03m 5s What Katie did next beaten in the ratings by Going It Alone
- 04m 24s Late Late Show kicks off on Friday
05m10s Last bit of news isn’t part of the Roundup actually. We were sent a copy of their Autumn Schedule by the lovely people in TV3 which we really enjoyed flicking through.
06m14s A discussion ensues about Midday and the nature of television for women. I make the point that at least it looks good unlike a lot of other Irish studio television.
11m31s Rosemary asks me what I am going to be watching from Le Book? I say I will definitely The Zoo and then proceed to go right off topic and wax lyrical about the Zoo and rhinos bonking.
13m53s Rosemary is going to be watching Good Teens Gone Bad
15m28s Rosemary says shes is going to watch Baby Beauty Pageants
16m21s Roseanne is anticipating The Guards with a certain amount of dread
16m58s We’re both happy that so much of TV3’s new schedule is homegrown
17m45s Rosemary is looking forward to the Simon Cowell story because she is in fact in love with him.
20m34s Then we discuss THE TV event of the Year: The Rose of Tralee. We couldn’t remember how the song goes so here for you Rosemary:
But actually the following cheesiness is way better and it features Ryan Tubridy – more in the next episode about him!
22m12s Rosemary tells us how to spot if Mammy Mac Cabe is lying
26m02s Rosemary talks about how the Roses of Tralee are show ponies. Personally I think she has a point but I’m going to keep watching it purely in the hope that there might be changes… Wishful thinking.
32m42s What’s coming up next week & bye bye!
Comments
Seamus (Sep 09, 2009)
Enjoyed the podcast, but Simon Cowell, say it isn’t so..
Stewart Curry (Sep 09, 2009)
Wouldn’t Snooker be the male equivalent of a female beauty pagent? They take it really seriously and there’s lots of bending and dressing up. Plus it’s something you don’t see women taking seriously.
Stewart Curry (Sep 09, 2009)
oh and on web hits, have a look at Clodagh’s comment on them http://twitter.com/clodaghkelly/status/3408398590
Rosemary (Sep 09, 2009)
Seamus, I will not be shamed about my love for Simon! I heart him, and that’s that. He has such a big, white smile!
Stewart, no, it wouldn’t. Snooker is a sport, which is one on the basis of skill. Beauty pageantry is a pageant, won on the basis of aesthetics and ability not to make un-PC remarks in the style of Miss Teen South Carolina 2007. And perhaps we don’t see women “taking snooker seriously” because, like almost all competitive sports, women aren’t taken seriously as competitors. Throughout history, almost every sport has started off with men only and has then started accepting women.
Or maybe it’s just because snooker takes so long, and women are too busy cooking dinner and making babies – oh, and wishing for world peace while doing sit-ups. Yes, beauty pageantry is definitely for women.
Stewart Curry (Sep 09, 2009)
What about bodybuilding? that’s pretty much about aesthetics, and more of a guy thing.
Rosemary (Sep 16, 2009)
I disagree. Bodybuilding is about power, strength and machismo. It’s not about looking beautiful – because it could be argued that nobody does – but it’s about power. For a woman to be a successful bodybuilder, she pretty much has to discard all semblance of femininity; many female bodybuilders don’t have periods and have higher levels of testosterone than estrogen, making them hormonally closer to men than to women. For a woman to become successful in many of these “macho” fields, she has to effectively be a tomboy – a term I have serious issues with anyway. I doubt there are many female bodybuilders who would, for example, describe themselves as “girly” girls. You’ll often find sporty women saying they’re not “girly”, or that they do things “like a man” – implying that doing things like a woman isn’t good enough.
To be fair, there are several examples you could come up with to show men being valued for their aesthetics. Modelling maybe – but that is a career based only on aesthetics, not gender-specifically.
Matthew (Nov 19, 2009)
I don’t agree on this. Bodybuilding is definitly about aesthetics! Of course it depends on the goal, but all successful models do build their body or workout