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

Are they charging? I haven’t listened, I just assumed it was free tbh.

Noel made quite some noise about having secured the most lucrative sponsorship in Irish podcast history, a shame it was pulled before the first episode aired (or perhaps it was the second?) - either way it was cancelled pretty quickly.

Is their podcast doing better than Tubridy’s numbers wise? I’d assume so, and honestly can’t be arsed checking. They’re both (in different ways) better interviewers and more “a people person” than Tubridy, and you’d assume their content would be more suited to the format than Tubridy’s light and fluffy “tell me about your favourite book” filler.

Now that Mr. Dunphy is sadly retiring from the podcast game I’d normally give them a chance, but unfortunately the NK connection forbids me from doing so.

Is he still describing himself and his clique/club “the nerd herd”?

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.

Robbie Williams was Kids not Millennium. Don't really know what is going on with Q102.

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?

maybe Ray D’Arcy is manning the desk for them today?

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

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!

His constant bragging about being a reader, is beyond childish.

I’ve seen less staged performances in the Abbey and the Dáil.

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!

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.

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!"