The Ryan Tubridy Show **Mod: Read OP**

Never too impressed with overtly positivism TBH, really tells you very little.

There is a guy that I have come across lately and he is endlessly positive no matter what is suggested, he's massively positive to the nth.

I came across him at an event, it was really strange. He was getting pictures with this the great and the good. Later posting them on twitter and I assume on other social media platforms.

He spends his time going around Dublin to events getting photos with well known people.

Nothing against the man at all, but his he lives in a world of cotton and candy. Which is fine, if that is his outlook.

Anyway, I had put forward a very strong question to a person giving a lecture at the event (Bob you can imagine what I was lecturing about!)

So this guy works in company that I happen to have contact with and I struck up a conversation with one of his work colleagues (all very random).

Anyway he said to his colleague about the event "it was all very well until someone starting giving out about Tubridy". You think Tubs lives rent free in our heads, however from what I can remember of the event Tubs' name was never mentioned once.

Certainly not by anyone causing the supposed kerfuffle.

Having followed the guy on social media, he says nothing negative about anything he goes to, even the supposed issue of everyone talking about Tubs! To me it is bizarre, and he just grins and bares it all!

You carry on like you have an inside track on this stuff, but you haven't a clue. The budget per ep is 1.45m, not 2m, which is standard enough for any high-end drama series. S481 bump also taken into consideration. If you don't know why production of a second season of a show like Obituary costs this much, you don't know the game. S2 of Obituary is backed by Hulu, and was picked up by Netflix, both of whom have deep pockets. We should be celebrating this as a home-grown success, instead of begrudging them.

Obituary isn't that good a series, is my point. There is no real reason for it to be costing 2m per hour to produce, in a market the size of Ireland. I understand it is backed by all of these companies but that is not a reason to sink nearly 9m into it. And if it is backed by both why is the sound and vision fund even considering providing 4% of its total budget to it? When it could provide a lower end drama series a start.

No begrudgery at all. But sure if you agree with Dee Forbes you agree with her, what can I do.

CnaM under the sound and vision fund awarded 4% of the estimated budget to Obituary, a total of €350,000: -

• 350k/4 = 87.5K
• 87.4K * 100 = 8.75m
• 6eps * 45mins = 270mins
• 8.75m / 270 mins = 32.4k
• 32.4k * 60mins = 1.94m … per hour

Your saying he is a hypocrite.

And he is. I cant forget his bekind shite during covid whilst he was greasing his till with illicit coins.

Also he cant pay it back now as it would mean admitting he knew it was wrong in the first place and wanted to brass neck it aslong as he could.

That ship has sailed and his judgement with it. However we see another clown using all this evidence and knowing the whole story as the leader of this country and YES he STILL went on a bloody podcast for this snake oil salesman.

this country is some kip.

I'd argue FM104 is their flagship station.

Wow, getting An Taoiseach, that is some coup for ‘The Bookshelf’! Looking forward to listening to that!

Nothing about his time as Minister for Health, Children's Hospital or the promise he made to people with Scoliosis, any hard questions put forward?

So why did he talk about his childhood, his reasons for going into politics, Zelensky and protestors? Did he recommend a book about Zelensky? Has he an autobio out?

Of course this podcast won't ruin Harris' career it was a nice sit down to chat about not being An Taoiseach! while his choice of books had nothing to do with the leaders of the opposition!

The book is called Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, it is quite a good book, but I've no doubt that it was carefully selected by his media team for its "they haven't gone away you know" properties.

Tbh, I'm slightly surprised that he appeared on it. Okay, I think most people are largely indifferent to Tubridy and don't care about what he does now - but there's still a bit of a whiff of dodginess and financial mismanagement from the oul RTE ball of wax and while it might be viewed as an easy softball opportunity to get a carefully curated image of Simon - the real man - out there, but it will stink a bit in the eyes of some. But chances are it won't even register amidst the torrent of noise once the GE is called.

One gombeen interviewing another. Must be a General Election due.

Regards…jmcc

That George Orwell quote about FF and FG from Animal Farm might be apt here. :)

Regards…jmcc

The RTE scandal was the biggest story in the country last year (although some famously claimed it was a " nothing burger " haha!)

However most people are more concerned with having half competent people rather than SF running the government, so I don't think it did Simon any harm.

the public do care. I resent having to pay for a corrupt rte and their BS presenters and woke shite. Its the law dont you know. Truth matters dont you know. Well actually you know but you choose to "say nathin"

Do you think the public should just butt out of RTÉ affairs? Leave them to it?