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

dxhound2005

People making up imaginary conversations in their heads is more at home in the Liveline thread. Wat culler was de car?

Beechwoodspark

Mentioned the podcast to a few people - their response was - boycott easons until they cut ties with Tubridy - such is the toxicity of his “brand” these days

TheBMG

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122014048#Comment_122014048

Not only is Tubbs living rent free in some people’s heads but he’s now also having fictional conversations with his business manager in there!

fplfan12345

The fall from grace continues. He’s been badly advised. He needs to pack it in and live off the millions he’s already conned from the Irish public via his salary from RTE.

The listening/viewing figures from this podcast will be hilarious. Really living in a different world but reality is about to bite.

hawley

His three favourite books. Two that he read as a child and his other favourite he read as part of his Radio One show bookclub fifteen years ago. The other book that he reluctantly left out was also part of that bookclub. Does he really expect people to believe that he's a book worm?

https://evoke.ie/2024/04/14/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-books-shaped-me

thesandeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017049#Comment_122017049

Another Sinead O'Connor name-drop.

Appropriate title for the book that made him cry.

leath_dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017049#Comment_122017049

Still leeching off a quote Sinead O'Connor may or may not have made. He's shameless. A horrible individual

lee_baby_simms

God in a hoodie is back!!! Wow.

I genuinely thought even RT had realised he’d wrung every last drop out of that.

Tubs must be the only person in history who’s been mugged yet walked away unscathed with €150,000 in his pocket.

AndyBoBandy

he must be saving up the U2/moped story to regurgitate when times really are bad and he needs an angle to get a story into a newspaper…..

The moped is Electric isn’t it? That could be his angle…. Though I suspect the moped is sitting gathering dust somewhere with 7km on the odometer….

Incidentally, an electric moped would probably be an epic mode of transport for London life… he could even get one of those open faced helmets so people could still recognise him….

jmcc

Books that shaped him? Being literal about it, that would explain a lot. :)

Regards…jmcc

jmcc

Perhaps as a tribute to Spike Milligan, the title for his autobiography should be "RTE: My Part In Its Downfall".

Regards…jmcc

HildaOgdenx

Rick O'Shea did regular zoom interviews with authors during lockdown. Talking about their favourite books. It was enjoyable.

Maybe that's where Tubridy got the idea from 😉…

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017504#Comment_122017504

Wouldn't be surprising. Rick O'Shea seems to be part of the literary landscape in Ireland and he really seems to like books. Just Googling for some Irish literary and books podcasts shows that it seems to be a competitve niche. Tubridy's "three books" angle seems to be an attempt to format a show around Tubridy rather than the prospective guest.

Is there any kind of scale for the number of books someone would read in a year that would indicate whether someone is an occasional book reader or an avid book reader?

Regards…jmcc

Brian Scan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017617#Comment_122017617

I think we can all agree that the idea of a book show with a guest is not particularly innovative, so it's surprising that it has taken Tubs so long to get his podcast off the ground.

HildaOgdenx

Yes, I have said it previously on here, Rick O'Shea has had huge involvement in this area, long before Tubridy tried to get in on it.

O'Shea is a true book lover, and a voracious reader.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017643#Comment_122017643

Over 400 pages wouldn't be a problem for him.

dxhound2005

He is an avid devourer of delicious books. With a voracious appetite for the written word.

hawley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017632#Comment_122017632

I'd imagine that you'd want to read at least one book per week to be called an avid reader. So, if Tubridy is an avid reader, he'd have read over seventeen hundred books in his adult life. Yet, the only books he ever mentions are ones that he read as part of his Radio One book club in 2009.

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017663#Comment_122017663

Maybe one of his low paid researchers read those books and gave him the bullets points.

dxhound2005

https://fullfocus.co/what-every-author-should-know-about-radio-and-television-interviews/#:~:text=Don't%20expect%20the%20interviewer%20to%20have%20read%20your%20book.&text=And%20whatever%20you%20do%2C%20don,list%20of%20questions%20to%20ask.

Don’t expect the interviewer to have read your book. Many first-time authors complain that the interviewer didn’t read their book. Trust me: this is the norm. Assume that the interviewer hasn’t read your book, and you won’t be disappointed. And whatever you do, don’t embarrass them on-air by asking! Instead, make the host look smart by providing the producer with a list of questions to ask. Nine times out of ten, they will ask you these exact same questions.

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017663#Comment_122017663

He doesn't seem to be an avid reader. Rick O'Shea's reviews are very different to those of Tubridy. Being thought of as "literary" seems to be important to Tubridy while O'Shea's reviews (the few that I've read) are very much focused on the books and encourage people to buy based on his recommendations.

Publishers will supply books to the media in the hope of a review. It is part of the business and after a while the endorsement of various media people becomes important for various genres. (Some reviewers are good for detective stories, others for SF, others for Fantasy, others for Chick Lit, others for History etc.) Tubridy doesn't seem to have the momentum to carry a book review podcast on his own. This makes the guests necessary for it. It may get an audience from his Irish Instagram fanbase but it would be difficult for it to attract downloads from outside that.

Regards…jmcc

yagan

I go through phases of being an avid reader, at least a book a week in my teens, 20s and 30s, but I rarely ever read anything based upon a radio interview.

An avid reader is most likely to seek out material they've read around.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017663#Comment_122017663

He mentioned The Wager by David Grann in one of his radio programmes in 2023. That book was not around in 2009.

Morgans

There is literally no actual lover of books, or anyone with an appreciation of what a good book could be, who, when asked the question - "Name the book that changed your life" - says The chronicle of the 20th century. (Alan Partridge's favourite Beatles album was The Best of the Beatles.)

The other option being a book which is read in one sitting at less than 100 pages (Diving Bell and the Butterfly).

The power of literature and the joy, delight and emotion it can bring to those who love reading is something enjoyable to listen to. Tubridy's fake schtick is books because he doesn't have any other interests, can't feign an interest in sports, and can't even read enough books NOW to maintain this fake persona that has been concocted for him. Just start reading books Ryan, you'd get away with it.

Where is Vogue Williams in this podcast or was that something that NKM pretended?

Mr Disco

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017781#Comment_122017781

tubridy is an intellectual pigmy. It’s getting sad at this stage.

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122017908#Comment_122017908

I don't think that he is an intellectual pygmy. He appears to be an ordinary person who was promoted beyond his abilities and who, without the PR support infrastructure of RTE, is finding it very difficult to reestablish himself outside of what must have been a rather institutionalised existence in RTE as an "RTE personality". No Irish national broadcaster would hire him after he was dumped by RTE. He went from Covid hero to zero in the space of a few days after the 150K payments issue emerged.

He's gone from fronting the main Irish TV talk show and almost daily appearances on RTE radio to having a radio show on a small London radio station that syndicates the show to a few Irish local radio stations owned by News UK. He's gone from being, as the Tubridy fans were once keen to remind us, "the most trusted man in Ireland" to being a nobody. In Goodfellas terms, he's gone from spaghetti and marinara sauce to egg noodles and ketchup.

Regards…jmcc

bureau2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121937780#Comment_121937780

And the real question is should Ray D'Arcy be on RTE Radio AT ALL?

StevenToast

Its a remarkable fall..….....flogging a podcast.......2 johnnies stuff......Tubridy was meant to be the next gaybo...uncle tubs...100s of thousands of euro for a few hours work a week with 4 months holidays every year......

How did it come to this?!!

I see the NK crew have picked up and used my Desert Island Discs with books comparison. It is great to be quoted in the national press, even if not acknowledged.

dxhound2005

A sadness has descended on the thread.