Second Captains Part II

Come on man, they have left wing views but they're not calling for the abandonment of all personal belongings and the destruction of all corporations. They're part of a multimedia company and this is their livelihood. I think this post is ridiculous.

Kimmage live at the Olympia in September 2023. It's the one where David O'Doherty interrupted.

Seems like a weird move as others have said. I was presuming it would be free to World Service members too. I possibly would have watched it but I doubt I'll pay a fiver for it.

How "beautifully shot" can an interview on a stage be? I'm sure it would be a good watch, but I've heard the interview already...I feel they should put something like this out to their members for free. But fair enough if that's what they want.

Charging a 5er for an interview when you have already made a chunk of money off the show?

Absolute fleecing behaviour & complete chancery. Thats not about personal belongings, that's about squeezing consumer surplus to it's last cent.

As I said - one of the greatest examples that I have seen of a pat down of customers in a while

I understand how individual transactions work, thanks.

I’m discussing the principle of consumer surplus works and how looking to extract as much as possible is a pat down of your customers.

do you want me to patronisingly explain it to you, like you have above?

Thanks.

You are taking a high ground stance against your behaviour being pushed back onto you?

Good man

Good journalist but an absolute moanbag

That's why I thought it might have been a more recent Kimmage interview that I missed. Odd it took 18 months to get that video together, must of been some edit! Heard it, enjoyed it immensely, dont need to pay to see it no matter how well shot it is.

It's not so much that they are releasing a video it's that there's a charge for a video of a segment of a live show from 18 months ago that world service members were either at or have heard previously that irks me. I'm not sure who this product is for and doubt it's going to bring in a flurry of new subscribers but if it does happy days. Which brings me back to the question why charge world service members for it.

Ps, not directed at you, but it's ok to criticise elements of second captains output.

I don't get the annoyance either. So far, it's been mentioned once - if they push it every episode like Gibney or Steak knife, then it will be annoying.

Anyone who pays for that has too much money.. absolutely demented, I hate the live interviews on the pod after the shows, they are always bigged up, and for the most part dissapoint, and the quality is crap

in true Ken style he goes on his holliers and the league is almost decided while he's gone.

Yeah, I'd kinda agree, not completely the same. I don't enjoy interviews in general. I'm paying for the lads who are talented with language to entertain me about a topic i like.

Listening to players completely contradict themselves or clearly misrepresent what happened drives me mad. I'd often agree with the interviewer when they don't pull up the star that it wasn't the right time, i just don't want to hear it in the first place.

If they sold talking dolls with clips of previous shows it wouldn't bother me, i just wouldn't get one.

Brennan's started out making one type of bread and now they make 50 different types. Doesn't bother me, i just buy the one i want.

Really don't understand the annoyance over that Kimmage interview… the audio's already free for World Service subscribers. Maybe a very rare few subscribers will want to buy it for the visuals, but I'd imagine the vast majority of the target here is the huge audience of people who are NOT subscribers who may be interested in this interview as a once off.

that’s definitely a bit odd alright, but not something for lads to be annoyed about… I’d guess they just had this idea more recently of selling individual high profile interviews to non-members and the Kimmage one came to mind as a lad a lot of people might have an interest in.

I’m not sure there’s much demand there for one 30 minute interview at that sort of price point - but a package of, say, 3 or 4 of the years best interviews at 5 or 6 quid to non members might have a market. Sort of a ‘best of’ they can sell, and use as a tool to bring in more members.

I'll qualify this by saying I look forward to the 2 free Podcasts on a Monday more than any of the other shows I subscribe to. However, like a number of other shows, they have gone for quantity over quality for the World Members feed.

3 well produced shows a week is more then enough content from any podcast, if they put that behind a paywall I'd likely resubscribe. There is was to much filler and this Kimmage interview is more of that.

Talking dolls eh? Sounds like a great idea. An action figure of Murph and you pull the string and he says, "I had a Belgian waffle" or asks a two minute question that goes nowhere.

Ken: "What happened to it? Dublin happened to it".

Eoin: "Would it be fair to say, anyone could have managed those guys?"