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

well he’s finally found a hook to keep people listening

He sounds like he’s on speed and slurring/tripping over parts of words, swallowing audibly

This is just standard Tubridy though isnt it? unless he's gotten even worse?

This whole London stint never sounded like a good idea.

His best option was humble pie this time last year, but whether is was his own ego or his agent egging him on the whole gambit of reinvention outside of RTE hasn't gained traction. Trying to stay in the Irish public mind is doubly risky considering the RTE mismanagement debacle of which he benefitted via Barter acc payments is still very much a political hot potato.

It can't be good on his mental state to be trying to reinflate his prominence on Irish airwaves when those who once listened to his slot on RTE haven't followed him and those slots have increased audiences since his departure.

Paddy Kielty had his own brand beforehand and he's protecting it from the RTE payment fiasco by ensuring that his LLS fee and expenses (or lack of considering he's not claiming for flying in and out) are public knowledge from the get go. That way when his current contract is up two years from now he'll retain the option to renew, or go to the competition.

Either way he's staying clear of blurring the line between being a name for hosting a traditional slot and being popular for the effort he puts into enhancing that slot with his own personal mark. Kielty knows that he has do a good job to protect his own brand independent of the LLS and RTE, whereas Tubridy maybe is only now realising that he has no brand other than as a RTE has been, and a notorious one at that.

he makes a decision to quit and return to Ireland.

I think regardless of whether he is sacked, or leaves, this is how it will be spun…

If they sack him, he will simply announce that he's a home bird, and wants to return home to dedicate more of his time to his passion: selling books for Easons

The Jack Nicholson look-a-like was a low point for D'Arcy. IIRC someone saw him in Dublin Airport, stuck him onb social media and it took off from there. D'Arcy then had the temerity to say 'this wasn't my idea', when it was obvious the stunt had bombed with the audience. Yes Ray, blame someone else for your failings.

Wasn't as bad as him asking Pamela Anderson what she thinks of her sons mates masturbating to pics of her when she was younger. He didn't put it as succinctly as that, but that was what he asked her.

And... leaving  to spend more time with family. What he really means is, I've been fired.

I was bit surprised by that turn of phrase. Ryan never struck me as someone who’d go to enough club hurling games to appreciate the step up from junior or intermediate to senior. Just goes to show, you can’t judge a book by the cover.

it was worse, if that’s possible

Ryan explaining what a slush fund to his audience was quite enlightening.

A texter (his second read out today) got in touch with the show to make Ryan's listeners aware of … slush funds!

Slush fund (we're talking about expressions from the sea that have made it into the mainstream). Slush fund, cooks onboard a ship would collect the fat, or what they called the slush that would drop off meat as it was being cooked.

Nowadays, a slush fund refers to money being put aside for unanticipated costs. In politics, it refers to bribes. Not that we can condone that behaviour.

The more you know! 😃

Since he is into nautical phrases, someone should suggest that he takes up reading the Patrick O'Brian Aubery-Maturin novels. His friend Russell Crowe starred in a movie based on two of them.

Regards…jmcc

He is a bit of a TERF our Ryan!

Now he has lost the ToyMan title, he is really going hell for leather to become The BookMan, despite likely not being a prolific reader.