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

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

I think Ryan's career path may veer more towards being a media advisor or some sort of influencer.

RTE is where its always been with NK/Tubridy. Small fish in a small bowl, that's all its ever going to be, with a big salary.

RTE management are not like the rest of us. Where we see mediocrity they see greatness. Its just one big bubble. They do not care what anyone outside RTE thinks. Even the new broom Bakhurst wanted to bring him back, completely ignoring the collapse in licence fee revenue. It is and always will be a basket case of an organisation.

The best broadcaster's are always curious individuals who's first thought is the world outside of their own head and the people in it. Think of the giants of TV and radio over the last 50 years and every one of them had that crucial aspect of their personality. It can be boiled down to a simple ability to deviate off a cue card and come up with interesting questions off the cuff that present themselves organically in a conversation between two people.

Tub's never had this ability. As mentioned by Joe Brolly on his podcast, Tub's Late Late Show staff insisted that every guest hand in a list of topics they wanted to cover with the host and no wild cards were allowed. Tubridy was exceptionally lucky he came along in this new age of ultra careful, non controversial, formulaic interviewing as it papered over so many of the cracks in his ability. He wouldn't last a day doing his shows in the 70's or 80's when there was little pre-ordained prep and everything was chaotic and unscripted. Indeed, he wouldn't have to last a day, because he would never have been given the job.

On the books thing, they are nearly beside the point. It's not a debate about high brow v low brow. No one expects Tubs to pull quotations from great literature out of his arse which apply perfectly to whatever text he just got from Charlotte in Prickwillow. The problem is anyone with any cop on knows he's spoofing to high heaven. He beats the bookworm persona to death. It's his invention and he hammers it harder than Boris Johnson hammered "Get Brexit Done" ..... yet we all know it's a blag. He started out his career at RTE as quite a pompous little twit that was doing an Irish Chris Evan's impression. He would have been better off sticking with that and let people see the real person behind the mic. Sure, he mightn't have gotten the Late Late gig and might've just been another journeyman DJ on 2FM scraping by on €250k pa, but he would have had a job for life and done alright. Instead this old fogey / bookworm / #BeKind concoction was foisted on the nation and it's as contrived and hollow as you'll find. The fact he's still flogging this long dead horse in an new country with an audience that are guaranteed to not give a toss, is perplexing to say the least.

Impact sub if we're hurling 😀

Asking people to text in with recommendations is all very 80/90s, everyone has the Internet in their hands and can find recommendations there, next he'll be asking " text me in your favourite colour" 😒 

If the Virgin gig isn't even appearing on his agents website that tell us that it's probably a casual position, possibly on a week by week basis considering Virgin are the ones hosting a toxic liability.

The minute the spruiking posts on threads about this subject stop it's probably the moment his agent knows Virgin are pulling the plug. Chances are Ryan might be the last to find out.

I can't see it working for any length of time, provided of course the listener figures are of actual importance here. Perhaps he will be able to establish a low baseline listenership that isn't offensively bad to the management and if he can rumble along like that for 6 to 12 months, I think he and NK will consider it job done. Back to Ireland like a big British radio star.

But it's just a big ask for Tubs. I think any competent, "safe pair of hands" mid-morning DJ in a comparable position on UK radio would have a bit of charisma, a bit of likeability and would have some kind of rapport with his audience, even with the limitations of this music and ad heavy format. The old blather and superficial guff that Tubs sold on Radio1 just won't work. Irish blarney is especially embarrassing in 2024. London is a 50 minute Ryanair flight away now. People head over to buy clothes in the morning and are back in Ballyboreen for teatime. With technology today the UK is like the next town in the county. There was a market for that paddywhackery in years gone by and perhaps on BBC, doing a slow moving classic hits thing, there still might be amongst an older demographic, but how can it work on this station with this listenership?

I followed Tubridy on insta there few days ago and had to unfollow him. He’s so fooking childish and contrived. It’s the usual me, me, me.. and boasting about all the gifts he’s being sent. Strange fish

Why would you do this in the first place? What exactly were you expecting?

Curious. Nosey. Checking him out since his RTE departure.

Lots of knickers wending their way to London Bridge. 🙄

Even though she can be a bit smarmy on TV, she does appear to have a razor sharp intellect. Her "Ryanstone Cowboy" quip was very good. There's a vast difference between her vocabulary and that of Tubridy. Surprised she hasn't discovered Amazon Kindle though. :)

Regards...jmcc