The Bookshelf Podcast - LIVE editions.

it’s a great question. Almost all of the NKM stars’ podcasts are labelled as “NKM Productions”. The question I’d have is who owns the IP here, Noel or Ryan (and so on for the others) - certainly this seems to indicate it’s Noel. It seems a very unusual arrangement.

Is the tail wagging the dog so to speak?

It’s great that such a great debate can be had between 22 viewers! It “even” made it online, in a totally not submitted by his agency press release:

https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/celebs/ryan-tubridy-shares-sweet-hilarious-36903275

The pint at No. 10 story also gets a mention again even though it was almost 2 weeks ago at this stage. This will become the new “mugged by God in a hoodie” go to story I feel.

It was top tier live banter though, and needless to say Ryan had the last laugh! I look forward to reading about it again and in even more detail in tomorrow’s London Diary!

You raise an interesting point/question. What you saw as relaxed I saw as hyper….but perhaps hyper is his default relaxed setting?

Fans of The Toyman are in for a treat today! Ryan starts this morning on onic from Ireland from 11-1 and then by magic will be from London from 1-4. A real treat from The Toyman today; the lighter/banter side in the morning then down to much more serious matters in the afternoon. I’m looking forward to the new radio show where I hope to learn more about Joe Biden’s second presidential term as previously exclusively revealed by self- proclaimed political anorak Ryan!

I tuned in briefly to see the audience numbers….a whopping 3 viewers (including me). Usual fare, Ryan talking about himself mixed in with some humble-bragging and name dropping.

The Toyman seems to forget his past comments about women having check marks on their derrières denoting their sexual prowess in the bedroom as he seeks to reinvent himself (yet again) as a crusader against toxic maxillary……intriguing.

This latest turn seems rather calculated and performative, again nothing new there in the maze of manufactured personas the man seems to conjure up depending on that point of the axes of opportunism and desperation he finds himself at. Intriguingly he’s been promoting female authors in the main of late, just a coincidence I’m sure…..

Delighted to see he’s keeping up his long-established habit of accumulating freebies however - the advance copy of Yesteryear being the latest in the collection. He must get quite a shock when he actually has to pay for something.

That was 3 including me, and I didn’t stay. The highest view count I’ve seen for one of the live broadcasts is 7 on YouTube, and from memory 13 on Instagram. And yet he still gets the freebies….

I think you’d be shocked and very disappointed in him as a man were you exposed to them. He’d be cancelled were he to air them today. Quite how he got away with it at the time remains a mystery…….you should be able to find it on Google but if you can let me know and I’ll post a link to it.

The podcast seems to be yet another vehicle for him to promote his theatre shows/tour, and to retell the stories he’s recently told in the London Diary and elsewhere…..as well as engage in his usual name dropping and humble-bragging.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/ryan-tubridy-reveals-lovers-work-2336046.amp

His defenders will say he was joking, but it’s not a subject matter that should be joked about.

In light of your discovery of his objectifying comments will you be considering boycotting attendance of the Cork gig?

That’s very harsh. That’s just YouTube. The live pods also go out on Instagram where he had a high of 13 viewers for one broadcast. I’d assume his audience is largely female so it’s perfect targeting as these women can teach men to be better. It’s a very clever play by The Toyman.

The numbers may be low but as the Tesco tagline says “every little helps”. Maybe Noel could get Tesco on board as a sponsor?

Unfortunately you don’t get to ask difficult or awkward questions at the live events.

You have to scan a QR code to submit a question and these are then screened backstage as it were before a handful are carefully selected to be displayed on screen for The Toyman to answer. There are no questions from the floor or verbal exchanges with audience members so to speak so there would be a better chance of Tubs revealing he’s a big fan of Trump’s than answering a question like yours. You could resell your ticket so you wouldn’t be out of pocket and perhaps donate the money to a women’s refuge or another worthy cause in light of his comments - just a suggestion of course, I’m by no means telling you what to do.

Well, well, well!

I’d assume MCD got a call from a certain talent management agency because it seems that almost all of those amusing comments have been removed now. The flip flops image remains however…..🤣