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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I don't think the move to London was about the money. He's in an industry where you get forgotten about very quickly, so he needed something to stay in the public eye. He was starting to slide into obscurity until this gig came up. Even if he's financially set up for life, he is still relatively young. Few 50-year-olds are even thinking about retiring yet. What else would Tubridy do? He has spent most of his working adult life behind a microphone and it's hard to know what else he could turn his hand to.
This gig in London is both good and bad for him. On the one hand it's keeping his profile in Ireland reasonably high. On the other, it's exposing his limitations for all to hear. Should he try to get a bigger job back in Ireland in a year or two, the threat of him switching to a UK broadcaster is gone.
Omg he's been found out 😆😆
Same here. I actually only had a look on YouTube because someone mentioned the comments, on the thread. He was stuttering something along the lines of - just because you're 50 that doesn't make you an adult, or something.
I shut it quickly - I don't even have a coal scuttle 😁
As for the imaginary conversation with the late Sinead O'Connor, I think someone explained the 'god in a hoodie thing' to me before but I had forgotten what it was supposed to mean. The bottom line is that in Tubridy's world, it's everyone else's fault that things happened as they did 🙄. He is the poor hapless mugging victim.
Give me strength.
Best thing would be to lie low and avoid interviews
God in a hoodie is your friend disguised as your enemy. You think you're being beaten, but you're actually being delivered to a happier place that you'd never have voluntarily gone because of the pain involved. Corny. Man's Search for Meaning it ain't. He should put it to bed now.
It reminds me of the South Park episode about Britney spears, about media(rte) building people up only to tear them down for a good harvest
He'd never be asked questions like that in RTE. Of course, he's not in RTE any more. :) (I think that he was doorstepped in RTE by a journalist on the pay issues years ago and he didn't take it well. The RTE journo is still working in RTE too.)
Regards...jmcc
I only watched a couple of minutes, it's at the start.
I couldn't watch much more.
You've a stronger stomach than me!
Thanks, makes sense now. I could only make it through a minute or two of the interview so I wouldn't have heard that.
Something about how badly he (Ryan) was treated by somebody in a hoodie (by RTE he meant) - knifed, kicked, beaten etc kinda thing - then as the mugger moved on, he dropped his hoodie, identified himself as Jesus or God, and said something like "there you go" - or "go in peace" or some other similar platitude.
Sorry I'm a bit vague about it, but I was heaving into the coal scuttle at the time.......
I was the same, but he kinda explains it in the interview.
Apparently sometimes when a guy in a hoodie mugs you, in his instance this equates to all the bad press and slagging he was getting online, you wonder why you deserved the beating.
Then the guy in hoodie takes down thr hood to reveal himself as God, and kinda means he did it for a bigger purpose, and that you'll come out of it stronger.
Something like that....I think....
Washing up liquid 😀😀😀😀what is he like, I bet kait has him sussed
Assuming that conversation ever took place, what is 'mugged by god in a hoodie' supposed to mean? I've heard him repeat it a few times but I must have missed the original yarn he was spinning about it.
I got about half way through it, before I had to stop to save my mintal elf.
The interviewer knew her stuff, though, so Ryan got a bit defensive at times. And if I hear that "God in a hoodie" (makey-uppey?) anecdote ever again........
Indeed. Unless it genuinely appealed to his sense of adventure, or whatever, it was a mad move.
I couldn't bear to watch the interview. I imagine it was painful viewing.
No one made him move to London. Without wanting to get personal. He made quite a lot of money working for RTE. He was there for almost four decades. He should have sufficent savings and investments not to need to work again.
Especially given his only intrest is books. Which are pretty cheap. Cheaper still if you use a libary.
He could have just as esaily stayed in Dublin.
It is something that the last months have shown that simultaneously:
It's all nonsense.
IMO it's harder to move to a new city at 50 than 20. When you're 20, you're just starting out - up for a good time, curious, not fussy. At 50, you have built your life wherever you are. Your friends are there, your home comforts are there. And in this case, his family is there. I love London but the air quality is terrible. Give me Dublin's fresh air any day. I'd do it for a year at a push, which is likely what he has in mind.
I was hoping she'd ask him something about German politics. Should the German government attempt to ban the AfD, Ryan?
She did seem to want to get passed the fluff and down to business 😀
And he should have the intelligence to answer the question in that manner: -
"I think its hard for anyone to move from home, I am a home bird but I felt I needed to spread my wings, look I am not 20 anymore I been around a good few years and really its just a change at 50, its not like I am a ..... [mumble]... or anything like that but sure I am here now and working at what I've .... [don't finish] ... and Dublin isn't that far way its not like I moving to ... I don't know ... Sydney ... but you know one thing I'd probably tell the same story of the woman who recognized me in Trafalgar Square"
and even that wouldn't be much use.
It was a very different one to a fluffy RTE interview. The "online research" seems to have put Tubridy in a state of panic and the whole "need for a change" story started to fall apart quickly. Tubridy's affectations of English public school expressions might have worked in RTE but in England they have the real thing and his expressions sound extraordinarily fake.
The Tubridy interview seemed to be filling dead air on the show. Times Radio was just trying to promote another Murdoch station hire. But those comments on the Youtube clip must be driving Tubridy fans crazy as they are so overwhelmingly negative about Tubridy. Irish listeners haven't forgotten about the pay scandal and don't want him back. The lack of comments from English listeners would suggest that they are few and far between. RTE seems to want to move forward without him and there seems to be little interest from any national Irish radio stations. Unless NKM can pull off a deal, he's stuck in the UK for as long as Virgin Radio will have him.
It isn't something I would do. But he did bring it on himself and I can understand why someone might post.
The weird part of the interview is the constant "It must be very hard for you to move to a new city". Which seem to come up a lot. It is hard to move to a new city when you are 20 and have no job, no connections, no savings. Much easier as a 50 year old man. With a wedge in savings and a well paying job already lined up.
I draw the line there, imagine moving to a new job and the company announce it on their socials and you get a pile on like that 😀😀
I am not sure if it is that weird or sinister. More cringy. Sounded like something my seven year old might say.
I only watched the first five minutes. Very dull. The comments are weird. They all seem to be from Irish people. Where are all the new listeners in the UK. Wanting to find out more about their new mid morning superstar presenter from Ireland.
But it is still the same problem there are no comments from UK audiences, all Irish comments mainly against him but some for him, 224 comments in total so far, have had a quick look and I see no English comments.
And the Sinead Story is ludicrous.
3.35 in the YouTube vid posted might save you some time
This is the Times interview.
Hmm, I might need to listen. That sounds pretty weird.
