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

It's an excruciating read indeed. I think it was written by one of NKs interns who collated the Insta, indo & extra.ie posts, & RT threw in extras like the names of cafes & shops & tube lines.

If Prof Anthony Clare (RIP) was still alive, an interview with Tubs would be just the ticket to unravel the misery & bluster behind the Adrian Mole 13 &1/4 style diart for a national newspaper.

"She's not holed up in a 1bed flat on the borders of Kiburn waiting for him to come home exhausted after a 3 hour working day, to turn the pages of the books he pretends to read."

Thank you for a genuine LOL!!!

He went from depending on a dozen researchers and skivvies in RTE to do his job for him, to landing a number in Virgin that is so vapid and fluffy, practically no prep is required. Listen to auto-chosen playlist and read texts. I'd say he's wafting in at 9.50am like a pungent fart and his chair is spinning empty in the studio at 1.05!

Still, a massively stressful workload for this gilded prince.

"While many would find his level of fame overwhelming,"

Now come on.

It's not "fame" to be recognized if you're a television presenter on screen all the time.

Getting recognized is really a metric for people like young actors/actresses and singers. NOT people plastered on tv. Young females particularly blend in a bit sometimes and their look changing, so if they're getting recognized they know they've made it. Tubridy is also so odd-looking it's also a face that's hard to forget.

Is Marty Whelan more famous than Cillian Murphy? I bet people would recognize him more.

It's also obviously only Irish people that recognize him and maybe a small handful of people in the UK if his picture has been in the newspapers interested in that he might be like Terry Wogan. Thinking this is one of the best presenters in Ireland today.

And this is the crux of it…

It doesn’t matter who’s hosting the LLS, or who’s doing Radio 1 in the mornings…. It was never the presenter, it was always the slot/show that had the audience regardless of who was doing it…….. so again another fatal shot in Dee’s ‘We must retain the ‘top talent’ spending orgy’ RTÉ embarked on under her watch…

Are they ever getting Dee in front of a Dail committee?

If she's still "unwell" someone should set up a gofundme for her medical expenses

Don’t think he’d like to be recognised and greeted by many Irish tax payers.

Pass the sick bag! 🤢

Moya Doherty has had her snout in the RTE trough for years. A sickening individual - probably the main reason Lottie Ryan got a gig in RTE as well, despite having no discernible talent

1st joke of the day

Song playing: John Parr - St. Elmos Fire

Ryan: Thats John Parr - keen golfer (probably)

Such a pro. Ryan is in flying form... week 3 and his feet are firmly planted... It's Magic Baby

...and people are still calling this a 'step up'

He just shows that he's never been abroad for any real length of time.

There is a point as an Irish person abroad that you do this thing where you distinguish the differences between the Irish and English. After 2 days you discover that the English are decent people who don't need a lecture on all things Irish and your boring them and they don't need a lecture on the famine.

Snacks exist in the UK, they are Cadbury's Snack, I know sometimes there are a few Cadbury's things that are particular to Ireland e.g. Moro though it has since been rebranded to the UK name Boost.

It is sounding more and more like Irish people are listening to this show over the British audiences.

Pretty much all Virgin radio listenership is to either Evans (1M) or Norton (0.5M) the station listenership in total is 1.3M. So the other shows are doing tiny listenership figures

By the sounds of it he's talking to his UK audience as if he was already known to them. An unearned confidence.

He mentioned the toy show most days throughout the year.

It was cheap filler garbage for him to wind down the clock with.

That's a lovely bit of business. Gowan Tubs