Following on from main thread in Current Affairs about Tubs in general (now closed and mod suggestion that Entertainment category is more suitable).
Indeed, entertainment in certain respects is what Tubs has provided, albeit perhaps in a way not intended. And still awaiting 150k payback to the licence fee holder.
And of course, his new career in Virgin Radio which is imminent.
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Cat-Mod: See post here regarding off-topic segues.
Listened for 10 minutes last Tuesday & Wednesday, and just tuned in there again to see how it's going... (came in during Steve Winwood's Higher Love)
Dropping Niall Horan's name when he went to Chicago to interview him and talking about his 'box of Ireland'. He's rambling, incoherent, and just a general mess... telling the start of a 'dad joke' but not finishing it because he knows it's beyond brutal...
Jesus he is really is a terrible broadcaster.
He's got absolutely nothing..
Whaddddis Luvvvvvvvvvvv
It is a worse hell than selling your soul to the Turf Accountants? Knowing the pain and misery they cause people and families.
He’s a pitiful little man
I'd say Tubs is in hell right now.
Requesting texts to recommend a museum/bookshop/theatre/ chipper in between " here's a classic from Years for Fears". He definitely is "bouncing back" 🙂
I looked at The NKM site today and in Tubs' profile there is no reference to the Virgin gig at all
In the voice of Chandler Bing, "could he be more Alan Partridge?!!!!"
Asking listeners to guess what age Richard Nixon would be if he were alive. Impression of Nixon. Complaint about the cost of entry to museums in London. More references to books and being a nerd. Rinse and repeat.
Cork County Council passes unanimous motion to write to Minister for Communications to have Derry O'Callaghan's programme reinstated to its previous time slot.'Every one present is a listener',says the councillor whi proposed the motion. 96Fm management also being written to.
The ToyBookMan
"All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others"
Especially those with a lifetime of snouts in the trough. Wonder if he knows that one?
Both of those books are classics written by giants of English literature.
How on earth can he say these things and claim to be a book lover? And him arguing they are too complicated for the beginner reader is no excuse.
He could have made his point without scaring people off some books.
The Bookman, brought to you by the bookies Paddypower!!
The US had 50 Cents. Now, London can have 150 K. :) Not sure that the Bookman thing would work without a TV show and a large support team to go with it.
Regards...jmcc
A real life Alan meets Dan episode.
To paraphrase a quote from George Orwell's "Animal Farm":
"The people outside looked from Ryan to Alan, and from Alan to Ryan, and from Ryan to Alan again. But already it was impossible to say which was which."
He's probably trying to create a new persona as The Bookman to replace Toyman.
The "literary" angle with Tubridy as some kind of expert seems like a marketing gimmick along with his "young fogey" act. It also might appear as somewhat patronising to the Virgin audience who probably already have their own tastes in books. Is Tubridy still doing his book review thing on Instagram?
If anything, that would definitely get listeners!
Imagine if Chis Evans got Tubridy to interview Steve Coogan live. :)
You don't have to be academic to be read books. That makes his slock even more pretentious.
RTE, Newstalk, LyricFM are all radio stations but they too have different target markets and listeners. Break them down by programmes and the granulation becomes even more apparent.
Would have to respectfully disagree, 1984 would be fairly high up the list of "great" books that I think would be accessible for most people, and is on a lot of school age syllabuses for that reason. I certainly wouldn't be warning people off it at the very least. It's not like the memoir of a stroke victim is especially light reading by comparison.
To be fair, Ryan has achieved his aim of getting people thinking and talking about books, even if it's from some people thinking that he's talking absolutely pony on the topic 🤣
Yeah. Hardly a sacking offence. It's just a persona that he has manufactured for himself. Those who like Ross o carroll Kelly etc (I do) have the self awareness to know they aren't bookworms. Anyway, it's hardly the worst thing he's got up to recently.
Close enough. The like almost everything else books have their own target markets. Chick Lit. is a very lucrative market (the politically incorrect term used to be "Bodice Rippers"). The male equivalent would be the Tom Clancy/War/Technothriller/SciFi markets. The Fantasy genre tends to span the male and female market as does the generic thriller market. Then there's the crime and police genre. There's almost a genre for every interest.
People who read for pleasure tend to have a range of genres including factual. People who want to be thought of as being "literary" don't. They are typically victims of successful marketing in that what they read is decided by book reviews in the IT/Indo/Sundays. The one thing that really shook up the publishing business was Amazon's recommendations system because it was far better than wading through reams of reviews. Tubridy doesn't seem quite like an avid reader and might be more influenced by the book reviews in the Gruaniad.
Beats discussing whether 150k could save a staff member or two from redundancy.
It’s not an exposure though. He still likes reading books, even if they’re short or easy to read. He’s not pretending to be an academic. This is not stolen valour.
Ah in fairness he said if he was giving advice to someone who wanted to start reading books he wouldn't start with 1984 and Wuthering Heights.
It's hard not to agree with that advice.
Sorry. I overestimated him. :)
Yeah. That's what was clearly exposed.
As previously stated, just like the self proclaimed Beatles aficionado when asked what his favourite album is, says 'the best of the Beatles'.
Haynes manuals are books too, but to describe yourself as a bookish person means that a book's length isn't an issue.
All his 400+ page aversion shows is he wants be seen to be book person.
Warning people off reading 1984 seems like odd advice for a bookworm to give, to be fair. It suggests he probably hasn't read it and has assumed it's a difficult read based off its big reputation? Easy mistake to make perhaps but maybe don't make books the main premise of your show if this is the extent of your knowledge on the topic.
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