150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

My figures were from this similar PDF: https://mmo.aiircdn.com/301/632c53a61a2db.pdf, which admittedly are a couple of months older than yours, so you can give or take a couple of thousand - but the substance doesn't change.

Look, the weekly figures for the ENTIRE Wireless Ireland sable of stations is 759,000. That's across 6 separate regional stations - in no universe does LMFM account for more than half of that. Forget about splitting hairs, back to the original claim: there's no way LMFM's weekly listenership is comparable to Times Radio. It was a careless comparison at best.

No one is claiming that this interview is Frost/Nixon, but lets not pretend that it's meaningless that he's getting coverage in the UK - especially when people on this thread have been specifically asking about such coverage. You can't just ignore it because it's inconvenient to your agenda. Well, you can, of course - but it's not a good look.

So you can instantly dismiss any potential coverage he gets in abut 25% of the UK's media landscape as an inexplicable Murdoch conspiracy to promote (checks notes...) a failed Irish hack out of his depth in a foreign market. Handy.

Bouncing back has been done? No way 😀

... and "who's Joe Duffy?".

I think you’d be safe if it’s so obscure nobody knows what it means

No, you wouldn't.

Section 14.3.1 of the BBC Editorial Guidelines states:

Any BBC presenter would be perfectly fine at simply mentioning another radio show or presenter in passing.

He's a born politician in my view, it's in his veins.

Dion Fanning mentioned on his podcast that he interviewed both Tubs and Leo Varadkar. He was astonished how Leo was such a unnatural Irish politician. Didn't work the room, didn't have a word for everyone. Wasn't your typical back slapping 'Hupyaboya' TD. He contrasted that with Tubs, who was the very definition of that forced bonhomie act.

Of course, he would never run for local or national politics because it would involve actual accountability and a lot of hard work. The presidency is the only political office he would every consider because it's ceremonial and comes with lots of downtime!

Without doubt. Even pre June '23, I don't think Tubs would come out on top in a presidential election unless the field was exceptionally weak. I think most would see him as a Dana like figure. Now? He hasn't a chance imo.

It is almost at "village idiot on tour" level for the UK audience at this stage. That Times Radio interview didn't help.

Regards...jmcc

Look, there's plenty - plenty - of things to criticize Tubridy for. But being interviewed by The Times is not one of them. If stating that puts me on Noel Kelly's payroll in anyone's eyes, they need to have a serious look at their grasp of reality.

Whilst I try to resist being pernickitty, I can't help myself

Can we not forget the basket

That's chicken & chips in a basket with Mammy. Such a gastronmical complex dish not served in Ireland since the mid 80's,,& only invented to circumvent the alcohol license restrictions for night clubs at the time (No food = no alcohol ).

On a fun note, his Brexit spin could read

'Mammy is beginning to feel the heat now about our company Tuttle Productions declaring the €150k to the taxman. Revenue have been in touch, & what with me living in Big Wonderful London now, the place with bookshops, tubes, buses trains & laundrreetes, and her living in Ireland, she's the responsible company director now. She's pissed off that I buggered off to the UK & left her in the mire. I'll be coming back to the 'auld sod' imminently to practice imaginary podcasting & faux phone holding.(Vogue taught me well)

Don't worry, I'll still pretend to read books & bombard deaf & indifferent audiences with my vacuous pseudo nerdy non facts. So staye tuned, the king of mid morning misert will be back to waffle on another day. & if Noel can swing it, I'll get an Oireachtas appearance too'. 😁

I thought the same myself at times Bobson. Then I noticed that posts on here directly critiquing RT's show, with suggestions of improvements, well, those changes were manifested on RT's show.

Now I'm not saying coincidence isn't a thing, it really is, but I'm keeping an open mind that the fantasy projections may well have a basis in truth.

And of course, her show is broadcast at the palatable hour of 22.00 mon-thurs. No competition to BBC Question Time (Tv) on a Thursday night in election year.

And RT's contribution to the interview is all past tense, his grandfather & cousins, his move to London & basic shopping tasks, & the LLS. If he'd the sense he was born with he'd have uptalked a really good interview on TLLS show that would have created Google bait. Of course he didn't, he's as thick as a bucket of bricks in terms of that kind of savvy. Too narcissistic to see past himself, & too exhausted playing catch up to the pseudo nerd image he's invented for himself.

Whatever the time, & whatever the gig, Tubs has nothing else to offer an interview besides My big adventure moving to London, & did you know who my granddad was?

Nothing else to bring to the table, no other stock in trade, just witter witter witter.

I'll run a suggestion for the title of his next book

'Let them eat waffle'

A non riveting chronicle of a 50 yr old Irish radio & TV presenter who was forced to move to lowly DJ job the UK after being mugged by God in a hoodie. This is the story of his desperate needy climb back to public relevance, after he nepoostitically had it all, as well as €150k if v the taxpayers money.

Guidance warning to the reader

This book may cause extreme sleepiness. Please read responsibly,, and do not attempt to operate machinery, or indulge in intellectual conversion while reading this book. An expurgated Ladybird version is available on line @ dumdumreads.com

The idea that Tubs, Noel Kelly, or anyone in Virgin reads this thread or twitter comments is absolutely laughable. It might provide an emotional support blanket and a sense of belonging and community to participants, but like so much commentary online it needs to be recognised for what it is; anger, misanthropy, jealousy, negativity and bleakness. There’s very little criticism involved.

Some of it is quite tragic tbh, especially on Twitter. You hope some of these people can find some level of peace and contentment.

I’m sure Tubs is off having a pint, a smoke and meeting friends or reading a book at this stage.