Following on from main thread in Current Affairs about Tubs in general (now closed and mod suggestion that Entertainment category is more suitable).
Indeed, entertainment in certain respects is what Tubs has provided, albeit perhaps in a way not intended. And still awaiting 150k payback to the licence fee holder.
And of course, his new career in Virgin Radio which is imminent.
copying some frequent posters from original thread.
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We're probably not that far away from
A bit like back in January, I'll have to hear the first one or two. Will likely steer well clear after that. I think I just like to be reminded that this man was foisted on the Irish nation as Gay Byrne and Terry Wogan rolled into one and paid in accordance with that reputation. Then I have a little chuckle at what a rogues gallery RTE was/is.
Plus there is something compelling about a very average man who is both uninteresting himself and deeply uninterested in the world around him, pretending to be something he's not and somehow getting away with it for decades.
The first reaction of friends when I mentioned easons are sponsoring this rubbish was - ok, boycotting easons until they cut ties with Tubridy - such is the toxicity of his brand these days
Easons share price tumbling.
Family company with franchises, no?
They **** you up, your mum and dad.
Was used to great effect in the first season of Sucession.
If only Ryan had watched it.
How many people involved in the Boycott?
150,000 or thereabouts
Family run and members of the masons etc.
and then everybody clapped
I'd listen to this
So that's why Walliams went on the podcast.
I don't know anything about a boycott.
Matrix reboot?
The masons?
Kinda like OJ's book "If I Did It", but in podcast form
If NK Media are running the podcast then he should be able to get some decent names in there, but Tubs' performance with Walliams shows up the same flaws. He was handed a list of questions by researchers on the LLS and radio show for 20+ years and he became lazy. That showed itself up in this podcast, and you would have expected him to put the work in for the launch one at least.
Walliams is a big name in UK entertainment, I personally detest him as he's a lecherous sleazeball (I'm going easy on him here), but a big name nonetheless. So far, so good.
Tubridy started off by reading the intro word for word from an A4 piece of paper, a bit of prep would have him use a couple of cards, but that's beyong him.
Not having done the basis of research on one of his anchor questions (Phillip Larkin) is piss poor, but not knowing that another anchor question (the autobiography) had already been done is something I'd be disappointed in seeing in a Junior Cert students project.
It doesn't bode well going forward. It's not down to a lack of experience, he has over 20 years 'at the top'. It just shows again how poor he was all along.
It'll all be over by Christmas, as they say.
It does read like established entertainment star returns to former school to be interviewed by school paper.
Bought most of the franchises out a few years ago and the few that I knew of that were still franchised, aren't Eason anymore (Connolly Station for instance).
Enoch Burke would be a fantastic guest for the second episode.
Walliams agreed with you that it was "a bit long". He seemed to get bored himself reading the intro.
The Stonecutters as per the regular Simpsons references on this thread.
49 thumbs up, 1 thumbs down
Seeing 50 thumbs up and no thumbs down. Up to 1K views now. Reddit doesn't seem to appreciate it and the comments may be very upsetting for Tubridy fans.
The Apple podcast page for the podcast has it at 4.0 out of 5 with 21 ratings. Spotify has it at 4.7 with 17 ratings. Neither has download/play statistics.
Regards…jmcc
Re-enactment of the moment Walliams realised it wasn't the literary discussion he thought he'd signed up for.
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxVd8mUqBI4wQQRWweIDuylDinBErG60OL?si=0tIfUk7n2M7Ngsoi
Can you provide links to any of those J ?
Would be nice for us all to read. And maybe to comment too.
The comments are off on Youtube. Think that the actual link to the YT version of the podcast was posted upthread and it is also linked from the NK Productions page. The Spotify and Apple podcasts are searchable through their sites.There doesn't seem to be any commenting on Apple or Spotify.
https://www.youtube.com/%40NKProductionsIE
Frost/Nixon this isn't.
I didn't think the pod was that bad. But a 1st pod needs to be better than "not bad". A big GB show biz name (from 15 years ago) and a very successful children's author. A guy it has to be said: not without some "rumour baggage".
Ryan doesn't need to have read the books the guests are offering up, they're the guest's book choice, let them talk about them to the listener. Ryan's only there to facilitate that. And I think that's problematic for Ryan's very limited capabilities.
The bit about Walliams having previously written an autobiography I thought was subtley acknowledged by Tubs at the beginning of that part of the show. And certainly towards the end. Again, a better interviewer would've made that clearer.
But hey, it's a Book podcast which curiously shares its name with many other "Bookshelf with.…" podcasts.
Is it aimed at the UK? Is it aimed at Ireland? Book lovers? Producers? Self relevance?
To me it sounded OK…but aimless.
Tubs has limped into the podcast world.
P.S…did he genuinely never hear of Philip Larkin?
After listening to the Pod I thought to listen what was occurring over on Virgin…"We built this city on rock and roll" by Airship was playing. It made sense.
Its gloriously pathetic, and yet still the spin is there. To quote the brethren, its gone from "senior hurling" to "top of the range podcast equipment" to "didn't really want to be top of the podcast charts anyway"
Looking at that photo, the theme song from "Pinky and the Brain" springs to mind. :)
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