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

Apart from a distinct lack of broadcasting skills and nous, Tubridy's major problem has always been he is as fake as a nine pound note. All his interviews lack depth, any human connection with the guest or any wit or charm. This is compounded by the fact that he tries to compensate by overdoing fake human connection, fake wit and fake charm.

I sometimes listen to Brendan O' Connor's snippets in podcast form where he normally does one half hour long-form interview every weekend. Now Brendan is no radio titan, but he does have a 'real' quality and has no problem with speaking to all his guests informally whoever they may be, whether Hollywood star or a person running a charity etc. He cuts all the bullshít out and brings everyone down to a human level that is disarming and compelling to listen to. This was highlighted last weekend when Brendan had someone sitting in for him as he is, like most RTE superstars, taking his month to 6 week long summer sabatical. (I think I can hear Tubs crying from London at the thought of it!)

Anyway, his stand-in, while competent, was robotic and didn't seek to really get under the skin of the guest, in this case Russell Crowe. It was just a stilted, one way conversation where Crowe got to talk at length and promote his live music show. It was nothing radio, just filler. I always found Tubridy to be exactly the same, a purveyor of tedious filler. Like a Gen X version of the Two Johnnies, without the burden of any humour. That's all well and good and there is surely a job in media for such a person, but it was never as the top broadcaster at RTE, commanding the biggest salary. That was the biggest pisstake of the last 25 years IMO. As you pointed out, the figures for his BookShelf podcast just bare this out. Without the institution of the national broadcaster giving him a status he doesn't deserve, he is precisely nowhere. There are people podcasting out of their box rooms with no name recognition whatsoever that command 10 times those figures per episode. Tubridy has been a national figure in Irish media for 25 years and this is the best he can do since leaving RTE?

The best that could be said of tubridy as a lls host was that he was a place holder.

For 14 years.

Russell crowe is to music what tubridy is to broadcasting.

just listened to his link there as I'd a few minutes to kill between some calls..

100% Irish orientated (Mary flying from Dublin airport, Cork, GAA, Paul Mescal, GAA shorts, Mary again), voice (tone/volume) up and down like a yoyo, half finished sentences/words… an absolute mess….

oh and some interview he did with a Vicar..

"but don't worry if you missed it as it's on The Ryan Tubridy Show Podcast, which 'drops' on Friday at 1pm"

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Join me next week when I'll be hosting an outside broadcast from a funeral home. lol

Edging ever closer to grave edge of his career.…

re EASONS - one Saturday morning I was in a branch of easons and they were playing the Tubridy podcast ad over the sound system.

An older very respectable looking lady let out a string of industrial strength expletives and loudly told the staff behind counter “God preserve us and save us - will ye turn off that feckin eejit!!!”

They complied with her wishes!

You know I am always slight reminded of Simon Dee in all of this, though Simon did head to LWT, and possibly has a more interesting story to tell. Actually there is probably little comparison to be made perhaps Tubs will be given more time.

Anyway we should really stop all this criticism and not reply. It's not good for the heart now is it.

Exactly. The term "millionaire" ascribes certain traits to Tubridy that he doesn't deserve. Aside from lottery winners and those with hereditary wealth, most millionaires are smart, hard working, capable and impressive individuals. Tub's only discernible skill, as far as I can see, was his ability to schmooze the right people in RTE in order to get presenting roles he wasn't really suitable for and in concert with his agent, to get vastly overpaid year after year for the lightest workload he was able to get away with.

There is no doubt in my mind that he despises his current situation and wishes none of this happened. He doesn't want to be in London working for a relative pittance, dealing with staff and listeners who aren't Irish and who don't give a toss about floury spuds, creamy 99 cones, terminal illnesses or his close friendship with dead Irish A-list celebs. He just wants to wake up and find himself in Montrose, skipping out the door at 10am for a meeting with his accountant about new ways he can offset his huge tax liability.