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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Not to mention getting shoved aside by impatient commuters! 😁
he’s gonna lose his phone and his wallet pretty quickly if he does that for real
As someone who lived in London for some years you can read on the tube - but you better be seated if you want to attempt to do so. It’s difficult to stand as you say at times, let alone stand and read a book on a moving train that stops and starts frequently whilst also holding a briefcase in the same hand? Come on, this looks completely staged, and whatever about Oisín posting it to his Instagram, Tubridy subsequently sharing it is just one giant “LOOK AT ME!”.
I'm amazed someone as famous as Tubs rides the Tube…all those adoring fans.
Joking of course, I bet he is just hoping to get spotted. He probably pays Oisin to ride the tube with him and gets him to shout out every few stops "Oh my God, everybody look, there's Ryan Tubridy, Ireland's biggest TV star!"
Just bear in mind, like Tubridy none of it is real.
You can share stories on instagram, so whoever Oisin is posted it as his story, then Tubridy shared it to his story, like a retweet.
And of course the book is the size of the Beijing phone directory….
You would think such a voracious reader who uses public transport would buy himself an e-reader to save from lugging around the complete works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
You could only be embarrassed for him.
ALso, surely it's would be hard to read on a moving train? With the movements of it, your hand, the book, passengers moving past you?
Exactly, and with the speed at which the Tube moves, it can be quite tricky betimes, even maintaining your standing position, never mind making it more awkward for yourself and others. I would definitely need to be seated in order to be able to hold a book comfortably to read. Plus I'm assuming, again, given the speed at which it travels between stations, that his journey is not very long. Hardly worth producing out a book for.
And, if a friend of mine happened to be standing in front of me in a London tube carriage, I'd think I would notice him and put the book down to say hello.
Instead he says hello, then "hey you wouldn't get a photo of me reading and make it look like you caught we unawares". And how come it's posted on Tubs insta, and not the friend who took the photo? Tubs talking about Tubs in the 3rd person.
A fraud of the highest order.
He’s many things, but a voracious reader is not one of them. It’s all bolloxology, and as part of the carefully constructed brand as The Toyman and the world’s kindest man acts were. There’s such a depth to his shallowness a blind man could see through it all.
I’d forgotten about the 400 page comment, thanks for reminding me!
He has a very limited vocabulary, not something I would associate with people who read a lot.
I’ve seen less staged performances in the Abbey and the Dáil.
Maybe it's all just positive self reinforcement to help him finally through the 400 page barrier.
Maybe his colouring pens are in the bag.
His constant bragging about being a reader, is beyond childish.
The wonderful use of AI, with the photo containing such a contrast of expression between Tubs and the other commuters - although one of them is looking like they may not be too happy with his presence. What it does highlight is that Tubridy doesn't really read books but he is getting great entertainment looking at that brown leather bag. Maybe he carries that 150K around with him, minus tax of course.
I look back at all of these "hits" and remember that few are the ones I would ever return to, its real easy listening nostalgia with few interesting songs (generally the singles from the bigger artist of the day) on VRs set list.
Tubs is a benign host in the background, warbling away into the ether, unnoticeable in such a role, nobody really needs to listen to the rapid speech, its just noise between songs, could well be an nostalgic ad for flake between songs or an old weather report.
Ireland lives rent free in tubs head, he mentions an Irish act that the UK will follow, isn't that a turn around and then today the cherry tomatoes bridge in Dublin, thinking of setting up an avocado on toast bridge in the Midlands!
If you compare both during the simulcast you may find that the VRUK playlist is more accurate and you will see that the Q102 playlist sometimes does not match up and the timestamps can be WAY out of sync.
It makes sense that Q102 RDS display data maybe affected also.
https://ukradiolive.com/virgin-radio-uk/playlist#other-radios https://irishradiolive.com/dublin-s-q102/playlist#other-radios
play list seem a little better, but they have 2 on their website.
Previously played and what's currently playing.
Previously played is 2 songs ahead while currently playing is also 2 songs ahead.
I am every woman (I never thought I'd say that!) is playing, while on their list it was played 2 songs ago, while currently playing according to them is purple rain
Find it strange that Tubs seems to think that people who read are nerds.
What a strange angle to take on something that so many people do.
Below is VRUK's playlist that registered on ukradiolive.com for around that time period (if I am correct). Timestamps are not 100% accurate and I was not listening but from what I can make of it I don't think Tubridy was interviewing anyone. The extended time gaps between songs are usually due to ad-blocks and Tubridy's links.
They started charging a few months ago. They still issue a free one, but if you subscribe you get an extra one and they will answer subscribers questions on the paid one. Today it is the third most popular podcast in Ireland, while The Bookshelf is 87th. This is subject to change though, but it seems it is regularly in the top ten, higher than similar podcasts from The Irish Times, Examiner, Independent and RTE.
https://pathtopower.supportingcast.fm/
maybe Ray D’Arcy is manning the desk for them today?
They played Song 2 by Blur not Parklife
They played Kids by Robbie and Kylie not Millennium
However they displayed Parklife and Millennium.
Not following fully here….Williams did have a song called Millenium…
Are you saying they played Kids, but the display is saying Millenium? Kids was a duet with Kylie, so if they played Kids they should at least include her too surely?
I can imagine that the atmosphere at Q towers is not exactly festive right now
Robbie Williams was Kids not Millennium. Don't really know what is going on with Q102.
Refreshed the page but same list of songs on Q102 site.
On the question of factions among the public refusing to pay the licence fee, Hook added: “All these people who don’t pay the licence fee is horse sh*t, it’s not because they’re objecting to Tubridy or whatever.“They’re just saying ‘I’m not paying’ and this is a great excuse. The licence fee is probably dead in the water. If RTE suddenly had to become a commercial organisation like Newstalk, they wouldn’t be able to do it.”
On the question of factions among the public refusing to pay the licence fee, Hook added: “All these people who don’t pay the licence fee is horse sh*t, it’s not because they’re objecting to Tubridy or whatever.
“They’re just saying ‘I’m not paying’ and this is a great excuse. The licence fee is probably dead in the water. If RTE suddenly had to become a commercial organisation like Newstalk, they wouldn’t be able to do it.”
I'd disagree I think people who would normal pay the license fee and were often unhappy with RTÉ were proven right and this gave them a good excuse not to pay.
Though I agree with almost everything else he says.
Yes, and rumours were that was the name he originally wanted to give his slot, they even had a serious production team meeting with Mike Cass at VRUK, they were ready to go with a logo too...
Apparently Mike suggested that they should go with The Ryan Tubridy Show.
Is he still describing himself and his clique/club “the nerd herd”?
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