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

It isn't that outrageous, art and hedonism do mix:

Had a listen for about 10 minutes earlier, he sounds very amateur and nervous, like it's his first time ever on radio, he had a lot of pauses in his sentences and a lot of "err""emm" and 'ands. 

Chris Evans has had that high-energy Laddish style for years. Tubridy hasn't. The last word that anyone would use to describe Tubridy's style is "Laddish".

Regards...jmcc

Very unlikely to be the pop group.

Gay was a stickler for enunciation and he was right. It's not a matter of coming across as some posh British public school knob, it's simply about your voice being the tool with which you do your job and that tool should be honed to do the job properly.

I think he had a fairly low opinion of Tubs as a broadcaster and was probably perplexed that he should have risen to his own level in the organisation and gotten the top job and ludicrous money along with it. But Gay knew it was himself who bucked the trend in RTE. He and the DG of the day stood their ground against Tubridy's own grandfather's interference and wish to get Gay thrown off his own show. Nepotism and elevating mediocrity with the right connections is what RTE is all about.

RE: Tubs vs Chris Evans, would invite everyone to Youtube Evans interview James May on his radio show last week. Notice how engaged he is. How he actually read Jame's books and could speak comfortably from a position of a bit of background knowledge on a variety of topics. He does his homework, out of respect for the guest and the listeners. A real pro and it's no surprise he earns the big moolah. Tubs isn't fit to shine his shoes and it's laughable that he sits in his seat at 10 every morning.

apart from how carcrash of it all....there's one thing I've noticed that makes me wonder if this is just a very short term gig....

there's not a whisper (I've not seen anything anyway so far) about the new star in any of ze English newspapers or his show....not Tubridy, the celeb guests and what they wore last night on the town, nothing

usually (good or bad) there'd be something suchandso about the thing

Not us he needs to impress.

Even though his salary might be covered by Paddy Power and syndication, he still needs to bring in advertising revenue. Loss of UK listeners means loss of Virgin Ad revenue. Appealing to Irish listeners will only get him so far.

In fairness to Tubs, a stag was not mentioned as such - but Steve the builder had heard Dublin was a 'good place to go' and wanted recommendations etc. You could tell from his tone that he was a bit underwhelmed with Tubridy's cultural advice.

It's always being about keeping face, being able to say they wanted me in England just to have an angle to squirm back into rte at a later date.

The Irish Museum Of Modern Art, in Kilmainham, Dublin, is very well known.

Internationally, you'd have MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also in New York, the UCL Art Museum in London, Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the various separate Museums of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Los Angles, Sydney and Tokyo.

That's just to name a very few, very famous, art museums with the word "museum" in their name. It's not to mention that the term "art museum" is also commonly used by "art galleries" themselves, or by people talking about art galleries.

So no, there's absolutely nothing unusual about using the term "art museum", and the claim that you've never heard of the term is indeed surprising.

But I think you have of course heard of the term, and you're just trying too hard to nitpick, but not quite pulling it off.

There's 101 valid things to criticise Tubridy for, but using the term "art museum" is in no-way one of them.

She is a genuine bookworm....

Tubridy hasn't the patience or intellect to be a genuine bookworm. All silly childish reading, and pretending he's devouring real content. Obsessed with the idea of being a bookworm is all.

Another favorite bullshit of his is pretending that he's some U.S. political anorak...absolute spoofer

That of course is a completely different criticism.

And it may well be valid. But, it should be noted, being a builder doesn't prevent someone from being interested in art. In fact Damien Hirst worked on building sites in London before studying art, and becoming one of the most successful artists of our time.

If "Steve" is a stereotypical builder who's just interested in finding a pub, he hardly has to phone a radio show to find one in Dublin.

And in any case, even though the interaction between a caller and a host may seem to be a private conversation, only relevant to them - the fact is that it's a very public conversation, and Tubridy isn't just talking to "Steve", he's talking to the whole of the UK.

Who knows, maybe Dublin's various and esteemed art museums will see an uplift in visors over the coming months? The mention certainly can't have done any harm.

Art museums would be a minority interest. He needs to know his audience. I doubt the average Chris Evans listener goes to Art Museums on holidays. He should have said Guinness Storehouse and moved on, instead of trying to appear intellectual and shoe-horning arty farty stuff into everything. He's over compensating at this stage.