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

Funny how you complain that Mary Lou's voice is extremely irritating and you can give out about it, and make a comment about it but that you don't like it when someone criticizes Tubs. I can't stand Tubs due to his run on way of speaking, while Mr Harris way of talking down to absolutely everyone regardless of whom he's talking to is also very irritating. So I certainly won't be listening.

You're posting in a social media thread discussing a "UK based radio presenter".

By the same standard, does that make you 'obsessed'?

Very strange indeed.

@Bobson Dugnutt

I think the licence fee is great value, but it going towards dogshït like Callans Kicks isn’t ideal.

Could be better value and could support other comedy, but I believe the chair of RTÉ is a big fan. Bring back Moya and Dee they did after all do such a good job using that money. But no argument will dissuade you!

They'll need to give Calan Kick's a full series for the summer months (Monday to Friday) when their news team goes on holidays.

But its all very parochial, do you think its to get back on TV and Radio here, rather than progress his carreer in England?

His young fogey act reminds me a person in their 20s who gets some facial work done that leaves them looking like someone in the 40s trying to look like they're in their 20s.

Careful with the T word. There are a few trolls around that mods love. Many have got banned for reacting to certain posters laughable posts.

The three amigos (now down to two I think) have been at this for about 2+years now. They didn't even listen to ryan on radio or watch the late late show, but were defending him daily from posters.

When asked why do they like ryan and why do they think he is a good radio presenter, no reply. But if a poster said one negative thing about ryan. It would be the usual type of posting, "angry middle aged men, hate listening, get a life" etc etc… The same nonsense is repeated a few times a week from 1 individual.

Pity they got away with it (still do), and dragged good posters down to their level, especially when ryan was in trouble with rte last summer. Buttersuki for example.

Been sitebanned twice, at least, but is still here posting under a different name.

Seems to be common occurence, "E"

Emmet, did you get a chance to listen to the podcast with the Taoiseach yet? I’m genuinely curious to know what you thought of it, and if it lived up to your expectations?

I’m more than willing to hear your review of same, and perhaps you can even persuade me to give it a chance (post reading your appraisal of same)?

Morrissey is an RTE staffer. If he wants to start a Podcast, RTE better be getting a cut of the profits.

Think that the 2023 RTE deal with Tubridy also involved a podcast or two. RTE has been regearing for online over the past few years and it has, from what I remember on zero mugs of coffee, added a few podcasts. Without the PR engine of RTE and its advertising, Tubridy has to rely upon his ever decreasing fame for views/listens on his podcast. The figures are directly related to the fame or prominence of the guest.

In the pull model (where a viewer or listener has to make the decision to access a podcast as opposed to the push model of broadcast radio), Tubridy's low podcast figures show the importance of RTE promotion. As with his former time slot on RTE, occupied by Callan now, the audience was never Tubridy's and it never switched to Virgin Radio or Q102/etc. He's certainly no Joe Rogan. And he's certainly no Marty Morrisey. Think that he still does a lot of promotional GAA gigs outside of RTE. Tubridy is very much a "Bryan who?" by comparison.

With Harris, many of those views would have been FG supporters. There's also a GE coming up so FG wanted to humanise Harris in the minds of voters by getting him interviewed. The lifestyle sections of the newspapers will also be getting hit with fluff pieces about politicians.Wonder if those book recommendations are translating into actual book sales for Eason?

Regards…jmcc

The dude is in his 50s, he is an old fogey.

EDIT - The Yeates quote is very forced.

Personally I think it is too early to suggest that Harris' pull is down to voter interest, I say this because sports people are rarely a pull factor (though I am sure many will disagree with me on that). I think you get very few like Andrea Corr but I think it will be interesting to see, so I will remove my bias for the next while.

Why does he (and to be fair, others in the wider media) always feed this need to tell the great unwashed that anything with any sort of Irish connection (real or imagined) is the greatest thing since sliced bread? McQueen’s new film has received distinctly average reviews, yet Ryan predictably loved it and focuses on the Irish angle. At times I wonder is he capable of any original thought or does he lack the ability to form an opinion of his own?

I can almost guarantee if it was a British actress playing the Ronan part he’d not even mention the film, or (and I’m making an assumption here) attend the screening from which I presume this photo was taken. It all seems so staged and “manufactured”; he’s just using the Irish angle ultimately for some self-promotion and an Instagram post. Another “look at me with this famous person” post.

FG supporters rather than voters. Party supporters generally act in a herd-like manner to support their leader. Much the same would happen with other party leaders if he managed to "get" them on the podcast now that a GE is in the offing.

There have been other spikes in figures that are purely down to the Social Media footprint and fame of the guest. Most of the audiences for those guests are audiences for the guests rather than Tubridy and that's why the figures spike. The podcast is quite hit and miss on numbers. Without these people, Tubridy is probably incapable of getting more than a few hundred views/listens on his own because this isn't a largely passive medium like TV or radio. A personal decision has to be made to view or listen to a podcast.

Without any TV presence, Tubridy is irrelevant to most of his former audience in Ireland. In cynical terms, the podcast is an attempt to keep him on some kind of visual medium like the LLS. Without the habitual viewers and the advertising engine of RTE, it is consistently beaten in the ratings by podcasters who are often a generation or so younger than Tubridy. The difference between their audiences and that of Tubridy is that their audience is of the same generation and more used to podcasts. Tubridy's audience, generally, is older and more used to passively watching him on TV. He's no Marty Whelan in terms of holding an audience and a position in RTE.

Regards…jmcc