Ray Darcy's new Daily podcast starts March 9th

I quite liked him and the show when he moved to today FM initially. Somewhere along the way he started believing in his own importance and became very preachy. Will happily not ever hear his podcast

I know doctors say you should drink a glass and a half but I just can't drink that much.

Ryan had 2 people watching the LIVE version on YouTube a few weeks ago and 12 on Instagram. Heady heights indeed!

Hopefully he doesn't own a horse 😱

Astonishing that he hasn’t been snapping up by the opposition. Isn’t that the reason he has earning the big bucks just to keep him in RTR

He went on and on about giving up the drink. Anyone would think that up to that point he was some kind of cross between Brendan Behan and Oliver Reed.
Recall him once talking about a fabulous barbecue that he had on a bank holiday Monday “ we opened a lovely bottle of white wine and had a glass, just one of course “ . Sanctimonious pryck !

Was that a freudian slip for insulted?

He'd be insulated from the cruel cruel world in RTE Gold alright :)

There are daily news podcasts, but there isn’t anything that isn’t strictly news.”

There are?

Ryan had 2 people watching the LIVE version on YouTube a few weeks ago and 12 on Instagram. Heady heights indeed!

I dont mind admitting I have something of a crush on Liz Truss. She has a youtube channel now. Heady heights indeed going from Prime Minister to having a YouTube channel. She does have 23k subscribers, but in saying that I'm a subscriber and have watched a grand total of about 4 minutes before going "Ah jaysus…", and turning it off.

The thing about podcasts… I listen to the radio mostly via Amazon Echo, so I say Echo play RTE Radio 1, or play Newstalk, or play CNN International, and it plays whatever in the background as I work. For the most part I dont really mind what it is. To listen to a podcast, I have to go looking for it, play it on whatever medium, try and focus on it. So unless whichever podcast is ground breaking stuff, I really dont think I'll be waking up on the 11th of March thinking OMG! I can't wait for the next edition of Ray Darcy's podcast!

Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner started a podcast recently. If you are not familiar with them, they were actors in Star Trek and Frakes now directs. I listened to two episodes and basically gave up. It's basically two friends having a chat. Well I could go down my local pub and listen to two auld fellas talking and get a better experience.

So I really wonder how Ray is going to fair.

OK I know this sounds cruel but I can just imagine him doing his first podcast, talking into a mic for an hour and then going "Oh no! I forgot to press record!". We all know he's not great with the buttons.

It's one thing working with a spouse in a workplace. Another thing doing it (probably) at home, under pressure to make it 5 days a week.

Even more so considering the stink of humiliation and failure under which this podcast is beginning.

The DArcys should really spend big on good production etc.

Sadly, the fella who famously complained on air about the rise in the price of the subsidized soup at the RTE canteen is unlikely to do that.

I hope his missus or someone close to him will advise him to stop when it's affecting things at home.

Like Tubridy, he has made good money. Just stop and maybe he'll come back into fashion in a few years?

My thoughts exactly. A daily podcast is a lot of work. Discussing world events. OK, but there are days when there are no major events.

I thought about doing a youtube channel a while back, and one of the bits of advice I got was film 10, ideally 20 episodes so you have something to fall back on on the day you can't or dont want to to a show. Well filming 20 episodes back to back is no small feat. And have a list of topics you want to cover. I ran out of topics after about 7.

My parents worked together and from home, but for external clients and were reasonably happy doing so. But, working from home, generating your own content, with your wife as your producer, this could go south very quickly.

And as you said, someone who complained about the price of subsidized soup in the canteen has probably not shelled out for decent mics, and other decent equipment.

5 days from now, Jenny: "Ah FFS RAY, did you forget to press the record button again!?!?

No, the rot started well before that. I found it very hard to listen to from at least 2016.

I suspect it all started to go downhill when Martin Maguire left the show. I thing he was trying to get into acting and left. He did an advert for Louth GAA filmed in Meath. I suppose they couldn't find anywhere nice enough in Louth and had to go to Meath.

Then Ray had his first kid and like most older first time dads spent the whole show talking about what amazing things Kate did or said. Yawn….

I think the sighs only started after the move to RTE.

A man terminaly bored with his lot was the impression I got listening.