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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Youve surely breached your 75mins for the day by now

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

Mods don’t read threads.

Have you reported it ?

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.

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.

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

Why should Bobson be reported? His trolling is mild and a welcome antidote to some of the speculation posted here.

I enjoy his posts, even though I don't agree with much of what he says.

Thanks Brian. I wouldn’t describe it as trolling. It’s just putting across a more measured perspective on Tubridy and his career. I do always find attempts to silence opposing opinions and perspectives to be the last refuge of folks who can’t argue their case, or realise their own opinions are entirely emotional as opposed to fact based. It’s a slippery slope.

Took my ban from here last year after I’ll admit to a nasty personalised attack on someone. My excuse is I was after coming back from a very heavy weekend of drinking and substance abuse, and my serotonin levels were completely and utterly shot.

Jim Gavin? No chance.!

Also, that list needs far more people with terminal illnesses to have any chance of stirring Tubs' interest

S

Intruiging insight into the mind of Bobson Dugnutt....

Fascinating....

I agree with you that posters should avoid personal slurs. Perhaps any such slurs were an overreaction to unsubstantiated suggestions that Bobson was paid by Noel Kelly to post favourably about the DLB.

To be honest, B, I think some users don’t know what “personal” means and take general descriptors personally.

Lots of us dip in and out without being employees or agents of Noel Kelly.

As I’ve mentioned before, I love this thread. I find the idea that anyone would be paid to post on a site like boards to be very amusing - the site hasnt been a “thing” since about 2010. It’s pretty much a backwater. My excuse for being snarky was the amount of alcohol and “stimulants” I consumed that weekend. Bit of a bacchic blowout to be honest. Celebrating the divorce of a good friend. I would mention some of the people there who would be familiar to media and celeb watchers, but I won’t add to the conspiracy! 🤫

Have you never benefitted professionally from relationship built up over years in an industry?

It does happen.