Blindboy (Host)
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7,390 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Sep
Blindboy (Host)’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 4.
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Hearing something bad about someone else and enjoying someone else's misery, unfortunately, is a form of entertainment.
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Disgust can be entertainment.
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Vilifying an entire group of people can be entertainment.
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Feeling anxiety and fear.
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About something in the news cycle that's really worrying you, and then consistently needing to go back and check on it all the time.
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Because the act of checking provides you with a little moment of certainty.
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That's entertainment, very profitable fucking entertainment.
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It's rarely helpful.
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Like, remember the RTE Ryan Tubbardy payment scandal two years ago?
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Years ago.
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Big thing in Ireland.
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Important news story.
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Yes, an important news story.
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Because our national broadcaster, which we pay for with our TV license, serious questions were being asked about where those funds were going and whether those funds were being paid in an honest and fair way.
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So fuck yes, a news story, worthy of journalism, worthy of investigation.
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But it happened in August.
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So you're left feeling you're left with this memory of this being the biggest, biggest, most important story of the year.
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But the reality is there was important coverage, that was information we needed to know, we needed transparency, but there was also a shitload of completely disproportionate coverage, which was actually just entertainment posing as journalism during Snow Slow News Month.
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So I found myself in the middle of the
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Yeah.
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