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150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

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    #3002
    Bellbottoms
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Bellbottoms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017744#Comment_122017744

    The Wager was a tent poll blockbuster in the litery world. Their was a lot of hype surrounding this book. If it was a movie it would be similar to Star Wars The Force Awakens or the first Avatar movie. I would have been amazed if he hadn't mentioned it.



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    #3003
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,329 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122019257#Comment_122019257

    He has the book review column down pat. It also managed to compress a "review" of a book into a few paragraphs and make it interesting and that's a difficult skill to master. Most people don't want the crap that is passed off as being "intellectual" but they might buy the books and put them on bookshelves to impress others. The reasons for people buying books vary. It doesn't matter if they are History, SF, Fantasy, Crime, Chick Lit etc. What matters is that they read the books and get enjoyment from doing so.

    This makes a podcast like Tubridy's a very tricky proposition for book sales. Will people buy books on the recommendation of a celebrity guest? Some will. The danger for Easons is that some of those people who might make an impulse purchase because of the recommendation will go to Amazon and buy it for their Kindle thus losing a sale for Easons. A few might go to an Easons shop (not quite nation-wide) and buy a print edition. But it gets down to the number of viewers/listeners/downloads that Tubridy's podcast will get. A few Easons gift certs for competitions might even help but that requires some kind of way for the audience to contact Tubridy/NKM. But will the audience be there for the books or for a podularised version of Tubridy's radio show?

    Regards…jmcc

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    #3004
    Bobson Dugnutt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    Not sure criticising every book selection of his is quite the gotcha you think it is, dude. I’d be very surprised if I wasn’t the most widely read poster here, yet I’d still list Fantastic Mr Fox by Dahl as one of my favourite books ever.



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    #3005
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Even beyond the questions as to how much he actually reads; you can read a lot and be bloody useless as a book reviewer / commentator

    When I was 5 days in the office in a previous job I'd go through a novel and a non-fiction book a week most weeks on the train, sometimes more. If I had to write a review of any of them it'd be Vogon poetry grade.

    I don't get the impression he's a good reviewer. We know he's a mediocre interviewer with an obsession with misery from his Irish radio and TV work.

    You could format a book podcast pretty easily - get people on the promo circuit, get other reviewers in if you don't/can't review something yourself every episode and you get at least four 'free goes' a year where you can basically edit a clipshow together - Booker Prize, Nero Prize and the Dublin International prize plus a year in review job. But the interviews and reviews have to be good - very good - to gain and keep an audience.



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    #3006
    Bobson Dugnutt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122019369#Comment_122019369

    I wouldn’t blame him. Absolutely appalling hellsite filled with the mostly genuinely appalling and nasty losers this country has to offer. The vast majority of normal people have left it or visit only occasionally. Its inevitable demise will be good for civil discourse and society in general.



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    #3007
    Bellbottoms
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Bellbottoms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122019382#Comment_122019382

    Perhaps I wasn't clear. My issue is not with his selections. It is with his reasoning behind why he chose them. He hasn't provided one beyond.

    "I like this book because it made me sad".

    "I like this book because I liked the pictures"

    Why did the book made him sad? What resonated with him that made him sad?

    Why did he like the pictures? Was it the contrast of the glamour of hollywood, with dreary 80s Ireland?

    Who knows. Not me anyway after reading his top three books. He might as well have answered. I like all books. They make me feel sad sometimes, then other times they make me feel happy.

    The article is supposed to set out and explain the format for the podcast.

    But he breaks from the format in his first book.

    No reason why he chose it, and then goes on to say it could be any RD book.

    The format is restricted to books Ryan, not authors, or genres.

    You intentionally set it up that way.

    After reading RTs choices. I am still at a loss as to why he chose them over something else.

    If this is the standard that we can expect from his podcast. It will not last long.



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    #3008
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,329 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122019399#Comment_122019399

    Writing a review is a skill. It can be learned. Good reviewers will build up a following because people trust their reviews and opinions. Building up that kind of trust in a podcast will be difficult because it would largely be the opinions of others rather than those of Tubridy. If he cannot get enough A Listers who read books, there's a chance of it becoming the RTE canteen roadshow.

    Regards…jmcc



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    #3009
    Bellbottoms
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Bellbottoms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122019495#Comment_122019495

    It looks like his first guest is David Walliams.

    I suspect guest wise he might be ok. Once he is happy to rely on authors doing the circuit for their latest release.



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    #3010
    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,329 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122019514#Comment_122019514

    Hope he's allowed to speak as he seems to be an interesting character.

    Regards…jmcc



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    #3011
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,670 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122019195#Comment_122019195

    Nah, the quests will come from this list

    Claire Byrne

    Joe Duffy

    Kathryn Thomas

    Pat Kenny

    Doireann Garrihy

    Dave Fanning

    Anna Geary

    Dermot Bannon

    Carl Mullan

    Donncha O'Callaghan



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    #3012
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,150 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122019585#Comment_122019585

    Would all these people have anything in common I wonder?

    One talent agency and its staff providing content for its other staff. The cycle continues.



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    #3013
    Bobson Dugnutt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    I’m sure some of Noel Kelly’s stable of talent will form part of the lineup. You won’t be getting Hillary Clinton, Russell Crowe or Bono every week.



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    #3014
    Brian Scan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122019297#Comment_122019297

     "I’d suggest it’s a much more fulfilling use of one’s time than wasting one’s life online unsuccessfully trying to convince a complete stranger to change their mind."

    Yet here you are with the rest of us.



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    #3015
    Higgins5473
    Registered Users Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Higgins5473


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    lol 😂😂😂😂😂

    He get canned already!?! He’s surprised me even with this.



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    #3016
    Bobson Dugnutt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122020414#Comment_122020414

    Shooting your bolt a bit early, Higgins. A break means just that. Still has a nationwide morning show on Virgin.

    Hope that clarifies matters.



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    #3017
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,068 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Youve surely breached your 75mins for the day by now



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    #3018
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,568 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Well, I’ll tell you this, all the “talk” in Doheny & Nesbitts, last night, was Ryan’s podcast. Rumour has it he’s got Macca, himself, Sir Paul McCartney, lined up. Sees it as the ‘Desert Island Discs’ of books.

    Everyone’s excited.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #3019
    Higgins5473
    Registered Users Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Higgins5473


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122020459#Comment_122020459

    nah he’s done 😂 that’s a shıt canning if ever there was one. 🤣

    The podcast business is a very tough and competitive gig. Irrespective of his complete absence of talent he hasn’t a hope, especially seeing as his primary interest is money.



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    #3020
    archfi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭archfi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122018367#Comment_122018367

    Very good post but I absolutely refute the 'Covid hero to zero' bit except to say it was entirely a concoction of the incestuous media in this country.

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



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    #3021
    archfi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭archfi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122019154#Comment_122019154

    Nothing, and I mean nothing would surprise me with Netflix.

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



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    #3022
    archfi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭archfi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122019297#Comment_122019297

    I see it's gone up from a very strict 60 minutes per day to 75. Graveyard mods, I'm calling you but don't expect much. This is what lowlevel is and outside of After hours, it's ruining the site.

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



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    #3023
    fplfan12345
    Registered Users Posts: 826 ✭✭✭fplfan12345


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122020709#Comment_122020709

    Mods don’t read threads.

    Have you reported it ?



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    #3024
    archfi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭archfi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122020725#Comment_122020725

    Oh don't worry, why would I when nothing will ever be done.

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



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    #3025
    fplfan12345
    Registered Users Posts: 826 ✭✭✭fplfan12345


    it’s a shame we won’t know who the guests will be, on his podcast, prior to it being recorded.

    We could contact them on Twitter and ask them to put forward the question to Ryan ‘are you going to pay back the €150,000 to the Irish public Ryan ?

    That may also give them second thoughts about doing the podcast.



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    #3026
    fplfan12345
    Registered Users Posts: 826 ✭✭✭fplfan12345


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122020729#Comment_122020729

    There are a couple of mods knocking about in the thread.

    It’s unfair to say they won’t do anything. If you have a problem with a post why not PM one of the mods ?

    Maybe the poster is going completely unreported on this thread because everyone thinks reporting to mods is pointless ? I am guilty of that too.



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    #3027
    podgeandrodge
    Registered Users Posts: 5,766 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    If Sinead O'Connor was still with us, and 150KTubs referred to her comment to him about the God/Hoodie stuff as often as he has in his public utterances, I'd imagine she'd think it a tad creepy at this stage.



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    #3028
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,150 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122020742#Comment_122020742

    Well if she was still alive then he could never utter the line, because I'm in no doubt it was ever said by her.



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    #3029
    tobefrank321
    Registered Users Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    I'm willing to be proved wrong on this but my guess is the podcast will be a sort of Desert Island Books where the guests do all the reading, analysis and work in general but Tubridy takes a large amount of the payment.

    I'm not expecting a revolutionary approach from him where he reads a couple books a week and does a thorough analysis of them. But he might actually surprise us this time.



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    #3030
    StevenToast
    Registered Users Posts: 3,387 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    The height of Tubridys literary skills is reading the summary blurb at the back of a book....

    The guy is just a book bluffer.......

    Reading a book equivalent to the Guinness Book of records changed his life....

    A complete spoofer....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #3031
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,353 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    some potential guests for the “big podcast”:

    Francis Brennan

    John Brennan

    Hugh Wallace

    Dermot Bannon

    Joe Duffy

    Pat Shortt

    Lyra

    Mark Cagney

    Evelyn Cusack

    James Patrice

    Anna May McHugh

    The Sawdoctors

    Ivan Yates
    Twink aka Adele King

    Baz Ashmawy & mom

    Catherine Fulvio

    Nevin McGuire

    Pat Spillane

    Maura Dirrane

    Sonia O Sullivan

    Derek Mooney

    Brendan O Carroll

    Grainne Seoige

    Ann Doyle

    The 2 Johnnies

    Philomena Begley

    Margo

    Jim Gavin

    The 3 Amigos

    Nathan Carter

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