Ryan Tubridy - From Virgin to Youtube **Mod: Read OP**

No sorry Q102 aren't carrying the show as he is live from Cheltenham,

Just checked on Twitter/X. It does emphasise the importance of the Paddy Power sponsorship.

Regards...jmcc

He doesn't seem to be a "people" person and may be well out of his comfort zone at Cheltenham. As for babbling about movies, it seems that he has a very limited set of things about which he talks and horse racing is not one of them. He'll have to Google some books about horse racing so that he can play at being the book man again. :)

Regards...jmcc

Could be a dangerous enough move to try and interact with any Irish at Cheltenham as he could quickly find out that people have not yet forgotten the €150,000 he owes the Irish public.

I’d say the Irish that have travelled over would have very little tolerance for him and his jabbering.

There’s no way he’s going to Cheltenham and not spending 100% of his time there in some form of a protected VIP area away from the plebs…

He’s a senior hurler now and as such, he will enjoy the accoutrements that accompany such prestige.

It's almost as if Tubs is making a point of getting into Partridge like situations just to troll the "hate listeners" 🙄

It's life imitating art, imitating life - and around we go again

I don't get why he's broadcasting from Cheltenham, the first race is at 1.30 and he finished at 1..... Is he there again today?

The horsey banter was covered by his colleagues in TalkSport. He was surplus to requirements. He interviewed Ruby W & his wife, a trainer, Paddy P & the trainers team. They were mainly old contacts through Paddy. Tubs OB show was surplus to Virgin requirements, especially as Talksport were ding a great job moving about, starting info, & interviewing ppl. Tubs thanked PP for bringing his show & the team there, so that sounds like a favour, not a requirement from Virgin.

For an outside broadcast he was dead & wooden. If he mentioned once, he mentioned 20 times that there were burger vans & hit dog stalls. He talks very condescendingly, because he asumes everyone else is as uncultured & ignorant as him. You'd think Cheltenham was built yesterday & he was the first to walk the grounds. Then he bangs on ad infinitum about the sweets he's eating & likes to eat. Surely someone has told him that listeners aren't interested in the minutiae of his day to day life. Or maybe his ears are too hard to hear that.

For balance, I listened to Chris E for a bit this week, & I'm at an appointment now with another similar radio station playing in the background. The difference is staggering. Interviews are smooth, with no one trying to be best pals with the interviewee, or outdo them on the subject. The music flows. Tubs is scratchy, not broadly knowledgeable, talked about himself & what he had for breakfast/lunch/dinner incessantly. Virgin have obviously taken the wheels off his 'nerd herd' bus. They'll cut the fat from the excessive film & bookshop references also, if only for the mental health of the producers

Re the references to bookaholic / alcoholic, they are shameful. He must have been too busy sucking Mammy's teat, than paying attention to any of work his father was doing. I wish his Tuttle Productions co director (aka Mammy), would shove the teat back in his mouth again, & save the airwaves from his unintelligent mundane musings of himself. She could also encourage him to return the €150k, in between singing lullabies & throwing sugar at him.

Can't wait for a 'secret producer at Virgin' twitter account to pop up, spilling all the beans on the senior hurler...

Jan 2nd: Everyone was like "who the fooook is this guy"

March 12th: Everyone is still like "No Seriously, who in the actual fooook is this guy?"

Didn't Alan Partridge have a canal boat travel special?