Ray Darcy's new Daily podcast starts March 9th

He's currently at #72 on the Spotify Ireland podcast charts.

It looks like he hired Tom to do the official site:

Ha ha.... The technical gremlins are following Ray around.…maybe he had more than his customary one glass of wine 🍷 on Paddy's day 🥴

Jenny had to pick up the pieces

how do podcasts like this make money? I get advertising and sponsorship but what’s the mechanism on the advertising is it direct or through the provider based on hits or some such? I find it hard to believe they make enough money to make it worthwhile as an actual job unless you are a big star with big reach.

Well considering the money he was on for years if he’s NOT sitting on a huge pension pot, a very healthy bank balance AND mortgage free then he’s some fuppin’ eejit. He should be in a position where he’s very comfortable for the rest of his life.

He’s 61, he’d be retiring in a few years if he was in a “regular” job, and he wouldn’t have earned a fraction of his Today FM and RTÉ salaries.

If that comment was aimed at me I’m not sure you know what “obsessed” means.

Yeah, I would imagine he is comfortably well off and doesn't need to work anymore. Why else would he turn down the 50k/yr RTE Gold deal?

This daily podcast thing is a vanity project that is probably losing him money, but is helping to sate his flagging ego. He can always boast that RTE wasn't actually the end of his broadcasting career (true on a technicality at least).

He'll quietly give it up after what he deems to be a respectable length of time (or more likely Jenny pulls the plug on it). I would give it 3 months or maybe 6 at the max. Even once popular podcasts like 'Tommy & Hector' got a bit stale after a while and the boys stepped away to pursue other projects (a nice euphemism for quit).

Just caught up with Thursday.

Reminiscing about The Den, a little tribute to Sean Hughes and a pre-recorded interview with Richie Sadlier. No interruptions from Jenny so it felt more like a proper radio show.

It's a pity he doesn't play maybe one bit of music but I presume he can't for copyright reasons. Maybe if he got new artists before Spotify etc take control of them might work?

I think the biggest problem with both Ray and The Toyman’s pods are they’re just doing what they did on radio…..and that’s not going to work long term. Yes they’re both audio (in the main) but a podcast is different to radio, and while the audience may not demand more, they certainly want something different to standard radio fare.

The one thing both Ray and The Toyman do deliver on in spades however is unintentional comedy. If you can listen (or watch in Ryan’s case) through a comedic ear and eye they’re hilarious.

anyone enduring this?

It's a bit like those of us who enjoy(read endure) Liveline. It's the opportunities for Gold and sometimes the hilarious inabilities of the host or the caller. It's really not something to be proud of.

I like the Jenny segment. If it was just him for 45 minutes that'd be a bit much.

I listened to one yesterday where he talked about running around UCD and seeing an older man and a younger woman who he believed to be having an affair. He discussed running anti clockwise instead of his usual clockwise.

Jenny came on and took the p*ss out of him. I thought it was funny and if she didn't do that it would have been a bit grim.

I don't really get the shouty bit. To me she just sounds like an Irish woman. :D