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

At least he's not pointing.

Some posters believe that for many posters here "Tubs lives rent free", then you realize that some posters forget that for Fans often times that person lives rent free, possibly more so.

@Peter Dragon might be what brought that to mind.

book of evidence

What's in that school bag, is it €150,000?

Well that is the question Sorcha? Who is more Bonkers? People who think Ryan would firstly get a nomination to run? and would then walk an election? or those who think you might say the same about Pat Kenny.

I think Pat Kenny would win the next presidential election, sure you know Mary McAlleese was able to move from broadcasting over to politics no problem.

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No, to be fair he has guests in too the odd time. If you ever read his London Diary he’ll tell you about any famous people that met him that week and how he gave them a start.

I guess I can see your point when you express it so - it’s so staged, indeed over-staged to the point where it looks completely unnatural and looks so false that I hadn’t considered it to be AI-generated, I had just considered it badly staged, but I can see it from your perspective too.

As I and others have pointed out you don’t read on the tube standing up, and you certainly don’t read holding a book and a satchel in the same hand whilst holding onto the overhead rail with the other. Your balance is off here and you’re at risk of stumbling or falling if the carriage was to come to a sudden stop. No-one could hold a satchel of that size in that position for very long without it becoming a dead weight either - it’s in a completely unnatural position for reading a book with the same hand. The logical place for the satchel when standing if you’re not holding it is between your feet. Not to mention the etiquette on the tube of not taking up space unnecessarily…..which he is absolutely doing in that shot. And all of this is before we discuss the maniacal and unnatural expression, completely misaligned to the book he’s “reading”.. And of course the fact that you’d be an immediate target for a pickpocket (and the tube is riddled with them) if you did.

There is no doubt in my mind he is fully aware that he is being photographed by Oisín (who he says is a friend), and that he is also fully complicit in this staged photo. It screams of trying too hard, as usual. I’d also assume they discussed the shot before taking it, indeed probably took a few and picked what they thought was the best one. A photo of him seated with his head-down and immersed in a book without him posing (like he is) would be far more natural and engaging. A “look who I spotted on the tube” type caption would be (again) far more natural and engaging than the “there he is with his book!” type caption we got instead. But that’s the problem with him, nothing is natural and nothing is real.

Perhaps getting mugged by a Messiah in a hoodie will be his next staged appearance.

Great to see the London Diary continues to have very little if anything to do with London…..

This week self-proclaimed political nerd Ryan (who recently thought Joe Biden had served 2 terms as American President) offers his thoughts on the Healy-Rae’s, and regales us with even more tales of famous people who had the pleasure of meeting him. Finally, he offers some thoughts on some recently released films, including a Ryan-line if ever there was one - “I thoroughly enjoyed it despite the messaging being a bit confusing”. God help poor Ryan if he’s ever exposed to arthouse. World Cinema, or other less mainstream genres if he was confused by that. Could you ever for instance imagine him watching something with subtitles? Far too much work.

I see the paper also engaging in the printed version of click-bait too - the largest picture on the page is of Nicole Kidman. At a first glance you’d think she met him that week, but no; he simply saw a film of hers. 🙄

It reminds me of the scene from Bruno where Bruno says he has an exclusive one on one interview with Harrison Ford:

You're Welcome.

He often talks of drinking creamy pints of Guinness, so he does drink. No doubt we’ll get a reel of him drinking a Guinness with Oisín in The Devonshire soon enough, a quid pro for the tube pic last week.