Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
Threadbans:
CGI_Livia_Soprano
Sorolla
Stevie2001
Rothco
realdanbreen
Paterson Jerins
Aldo006
HBC08
Clay Shaw
Pintman Paddy Losty
northknife
StevenToast
ButtersSuki
Bobson Dugnutt
The problem for Tubridy, as has been pointed out upthread, is that his "audience" isn't exactly a podcast audience in that listening to a radio isn't quite the same as using the Internet to access a podcast. That requires more steps than switching on a radio. Tubridy isn't really a marketable product outside of radio or TV broadcast and his brand has been seriously damaged by recent events. The metrics on podcasts are far more accurate than the radio and TV audience figures due to the feedback loop of people having to access podcasts. Perhaps Tubridy could grow an audience for a podcast but he's no Eamon Dunphy.
Regards...jmcc
the real problem of course was that nobody in RTE had the nuts to tell him to eff off.
RTE held all the cards but they were too foolish to realise it,hence the current debacle which will have to be unravelled.
I wonder if a career in politics beckons for Tubs?...(imagine if he became Minister for Communications)
Too much like hard work.....think George Lee
Perhaps he wanted to be president? :)
Unless, as another posted said earlier, he somehow gets nominated to the Seanad he wouldn't have a hope in our parochial political system. He'd get the vote of the people who were phoning Liveline on Friday but outside of that he wouldn't have a hope as he'd make everything about himself rather than fixing whatever local issue the voters in his potential constituency are concerned about, assuming he'd even have the slightest notion what that is. Even if our political system didn't focus on the local he wouldn't have a hope as he's basically clueless about everything as a result of his decades long bubble created by living in RTÉ since he was a teenager.
That boatymcboatface has well and truely sailed
I could not see Tubridy starting and growing a successful podcast. That takes hard work and effort. Say what you like about Vogue Williams and her equally tiresome buddy, but I bet they put the hours in and have to do a shedload behind the scenes to get that twaddle out on time every week. Tubridy's been institutionalized in RTE for so long, with an army of skivvies doing his actual job for him, that the idea of him going alone on a podcast ala Eamon Dunphy is just comical!
What the hell would the subject even be? Books I half read? Quirky young fogey clothes I still love? Strolls on the beach in Galway while looking wistfully into the middle distance and contemplating 'Irishness'?
Tubridy might be the FF (but not FF) nomination. :) It would be fun to see him run.
Things are so bad for Tubridy right now that the good people of Galway wouldn't even have a parade for him. And they'd have a parade for just about anything in the parade capital of Ireland.
I read that as rooting out NKM's 'testicles'😅
He'll be hoping the hundreds of thousands of children, who adore him, grow up quickly 🤭
Perhaps he can set up an "unboxing" channel on Youtube where he unboxes and reviews the latest toys? :)
Agewise, Vogue Williams and some of those other podcasters are in the demographics for podcasts. Tubridy is not. Tubridy trying to do a podcast would be as cringe-worthy as Dad Dancing.
The photoshopped pictures ffs 🤣
Not a hope Tubridy could do a podcast, he couldn't even read what was laid out in front of him on his radio show.
Just watched the Prime Time program with KB, I liked his openness and his clarity about how much RT would be paid if/when he came back, he didn't hide behind buzz words that RTE normally use, eg "commercialy sensitive", "lessons have been learned", etc.... I noticed that the lady who was interviewing him was a bit stunned for a second when he mentioned all the staff will have their pay cuts when their contracts are up for renewal. 😊
Offering Tubs up isn't tackling the problems of RTE reform and mismanagement.
I don't know a 500 hour deep dive on a JFK podcast could be right up his unemployed street.
Ryan's big and immediate problem is going to be money. I'm sure he has some put aside but kids, houses, staff, offices etc. drain static resources pretty bloody quick.
Podcasting, even if successcul, would be too slow in drawing in an income and what income it eventually did probably wouldn't touch the sides of the lifestyle he's become accustomed to.
You’d have to think he had some rainy day funds though. He’s been raking it in for the past 15 years and surely his nice are old enough now to stand in their own feet. I’m not sure in that though.
This isn’t Johnny who worked in the loading bay for 20 years suddenly finding himself unemployed and not having much after having out the bids through school and paying the mortgage all those years. This is a guy who at one stage could gave paid off his mortgage with what he took home in pay in a single year. If you haven’t a substantial nest egg raking in at least 500,000 per annum, you need help.
No it wouldn’t
Kind Regards,
Oscar 🤪
Didn't someone once say that politics is show business for ugly people? Running for president would probably be the most entertaining thing that Tubridy ever did in his life.
It's just the start, give the man time.
How far does he go back as an agent I wonder? He was certainly Gerry Ryans representative for some years before he died.
I guess he had an easy enough job negotiating Gerry Ryan deals as he was untouchable. I guess he saw what they were willing to pay, what he could get away with, who he could bully or not and learned his trade there.
Still astonishing for a purveyor of chocolate to slide into such a field over what I assume is a short number of years.
Well if that was indeed what happened, it's just laughable that a Semi-State could find itself in such a position.
Imagine if you're running a business and a supplier tried to dictate not only the prices but also tried to get you to fudge your accounts to no-ones benefit but the supplier himself.
Funny to think back now of Kelly's play-acting now during the PAC hearing. Misrepresenting himself and his company as the 'little agency that could'.
I'd say there's been some Jerry Maguire type begging going on in the past few weeks to keep his remaining clients.
Going by past RTE contractors he probably doesn't have a good grasp of planning for rainy days or maybe he's all in on Evergrande - suffice to say when you're used to a lifestyle it's hard to break it when you don't have the same money coming in
One wierd thing Bakhurst said about Tubridy was that he felt for him as "he is a guy with a family and a mortgage" - I would have doubted Tubridy has a mortgage, unless it was a tax hedge of some kind. He's being reeling in mega bucks for a long time.
Putting this up for posterity. Hope I never see it again. "Fast paced"?
Exactly.
He must have plenty of assets and savings. He has been taking home an enormous salary for many years.
Hopefully his financial advisor is better than his PR advisor...
Daughters are 17 and 23.
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://www.boards.ie/applications/dashboard/design/images/banned.png)
