The Ryan Tubridy Show **Mod: Read OP**

alzer100

Wow, Tubridy gave us an extra long link!. The 3rd or 4th caller, a snobby female from Dublin iirc - her call drops out during his "Tea break banger". He reverts back to reviewing a movie he and his partner were watching over the weekend. I left the room to open and read some mail, I would say 3-4 minutes - came back and he was still waffling!

Field east

He forgot to mention the cousin in SF. So KB did not pull the plug because as Rat said he wanted a CHANGE.

said he was like a student in London and knew nothing about London so had to start from ‘ buying an actual street map , etc. yet he knew all about all the leaders of a lot of the countries in the west - a very well read individual!!!? The falseness one it all - very cringy throughout .

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121761707#Comment_121761707

This is the Times interview.

Hmm, I might need to listen. That sounds pretty weird.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121762109#Comment_121762109

3.35 in the YouTube vid posted might save you some time

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121759151#Comment_121759151

But it is still the same problem there are no comments from UK audiences, all Irish comments mainly against him but some for him, 224 comments in total so far, have had a quick look and I see no English comments.

And the Sinead Story is ludicrous.

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121761707#Comment_121761707

I am not sure if it is that weird or sinister. More cringy. Sounded like something my seven year old might say.

I only watched the first five minutes. Very dull. The comments are weird. They all seem to be from Irish people. Where are all the new listeners in the UK. Wanting to find out more about their new mid morning superstar presenter from Ireland.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121762825#Comment_121762825

I draw the line there, imagine moving to a new job and the company announce it on their socials and you get a pile on like that 😀😀

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121762851#Comment_121762851

It isn't something I would do. But he did bring it on himself and I can understand why someone might post.

The weird part of the interview is the constant "It must be very hard for you to move to a new city". Which seem to come up a lot. It is hard to move to a new city when you are 20 and have no job, no connections, no savings. Much easier as a 50 year old man. With a wedge in savings and a well paying job already lined up.

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121760748#Comment_121760748

It was a very different one to a fluffy RTE interview. The "online research" seems to have put Tubridy in a state of panic and the whole "need for a change" story started to fall apart quickly. Tubridy's affectations of English public school expressions might have worked in RTE but in England they have the real thing and his expressions sound extraordinarily fake.

The Tubridy interview seemed to be filling dead air on the show. Times Radio was just trying to promote another Murdoch station hire. But those comments on the Youtube clip must be driving Tubridy fans crazy as they are so overwhelmingly negative about Tubridy. Irish listeners haven't forgotten about the pay scandal and don't want him back. The lack of comments from English listeners would suggest that they are few and far between. RTE seems to want to move forward without him and there seems to be little interest from any national Irish radio stations. Unless NKM can pull off a deal, he's stuck in the UK for as long as Virgin Radio will have him.

Regards...jmcc

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121762872#Comment_121762872

And he should have the intelligence to answer the question in that manner: -

"I think its hard for anyone to move from home, I am a home bird but I felt I needed to spread my wings, look I am not 20 anymore I been around a good few years and really its just a change at 50, its not like I am a ..... [mumble]... or anything like that but sure I am here now and working at what I've .... [don't finish] ... and Dublin isn't that far way its not like I moving to ... I don't know ... Sydney ... but you know one thing I'd probably tell the same story of the woman who recognized me in Trafalgar Square"

and even that wouldn't be much use.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121763593#Comment_121763593

She did seem to want to get passed the fluff and down to business 😀

Chocolatier

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121762101#Comment_121762101

I was hoping she'd ask him something about German politics. Should the German government attempt to ban the AfD, Ryan?

Chocolatier

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121762872#Comment_121762872

IMO it's harder to move to a new city at 50 than 20. When you're 20, you're just starting out - up for a good time, curious, not fussy. At 50, you have built your life wherever you are. Your friends are there, your home comforts are there. And in this case, his family is there. I love London but the air quality is terrible. Give me Dublin's fresh air any day. I'd do it for a year at a push, which is likely what he has in mind.

Morgans

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121763621#Comment_121763621

It is something that the last months have shown that simultaneously:

• moving away from home is hard
• moving away to London is great
• Being recognised by Irish people walking down the street is great
• Being an unknown in London is great
• Ryan has to live like a student - buying lamps and washing up liquid, you know the mundane stuff
• Ryan fills his week meeting celebrity Irish colleagues/friends who invite him to plays/dinners/cinemas
• And then there's the books

It's all nonsense.

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121763823#Comment_121763823

No one made him move to London. Without wanting to get personal. He made quite a lot of money working for RTE. He was there for almost four decades. He should have sufficent savings and investments not to need to work again.

Especially given his only intrest is books. Which are pretty cheap. Cheaper still if you use a libary.

He could have just as esaily stayed in Dublin.

HildaOgdenx

I couldn't bear to watch the interview. I imagine it was painful viewing.

Chocolatier

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121763998#Comment_121763998

Indeed. Unless it genuinely appealed to his sense of adventure, or whatever, it was a mad move.

Karppi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121764017#Comment_121764017

I got about half way through it, before I had to stop to save my mintal elf.

The interviewer knew her stuff, though, so Ryan got a bit defensive at times. And if I hear that "God in a hoodie" (makey-uppey?) anecdote ever again........

Frank Grimes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121764067#Comment_121764067

Assuming that conversation ever took place, what is 'mugged by god in a hoodie' supposed to mean? I've heard him repeat it a few times but I must have missed the original yarn he was spinning about it.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121763920#Comment_121763920

Washing up liquid 😀😀😀😀what is he like, I bet kait has him sussed

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121764096#Comment_121764096

I was the same, but he kinda explains it in the interview.

Apparently sometimes when a guy in a hoodie mugs you, in his instance this equates to all the bad press and slagging he was getting online, you wonder why you deserved the beating.

Then the guy in hoodie takes down thr hood to reveal himself as God, and kinda means he did it for a bigger purpose, and that you'll come out of it stronger.

Something like that....I think....

Karppi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121764096#Comment_121764096

Something about how badly he (Ryan) was treated by somebody in a hoodie (by RTE he meant) - knifed, kicked, beaten etc kinda thing - then as the mugger moved on, he dropped his hoodie, identified himself as Jesus or God, and said something like "there you go" - or "go in peace" or some other similar platitude.

Sorry I'm a bit vague about it, but I was heaving into the coal scuttle at the time.......

Frank Grimes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121764112#Comment_121764112

Thanks, makes sense now. I could only make it through a minute or two of the interview so I wouldn't have heard that.

Karppi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121764112#Comment_121764112

You've a stronger stomach than me!

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121764170#Comment_121764170

I only watched a couple of minutes, it's at the start.

I couldn't watch much more.

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121763738#Comment_121763738

He'd never be asked questions like that in RTE. Of course, he's not in RTE any more. :) (I think that he was doorstepped in RTE by a journalist on the pay issues years ago and he didn't take it well. The RTE journo is still working in RTE too.)

Regards...jmcc

Ash.J.Williams

It reminds me of the South Park episode about Britney spears, about media(rte) building people up only to tear them down for a good harvest

Chocolatier

God in a hoodie is your friend disguised as your enemy. You think you're being beaten, but you're actually being delivered to a happier place that you'd never have voluntarily gone because of the pain involved. Corny. Man's Search for Meaning it ain't. He should put it to bed now.

Ash.J.Williams

Best thing would be to lie low and avoid interviews

HildaOgdenx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121764173#Comment_121764173

Same here. I actually only had a look on YouTube because someone mentioned the comments, on the thread. He was stuttering something along the lines of - just because you're 50 that doesn't make you an adult, or something.

I shut it quickly - I don't even have a coal scuttle 😁

As for the imaginary conversation with the late Sinead O'Connor, I think someone explained the 'god in a hoodie thing' to me before but I had forgotten what it was supposed to mean. The bottom line is that in Tubridy's world, it's everyone else's fault that things happened as they did 🙄. He is the poor hapless mugging victim.

Give me strength.