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

Kathryn Thomas wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, but calling her a gent is a bit OTT

Yep, for all his talk of "senior hurling," he's far more comfortable in the minors.

At last a pic with no pointing. But still, no ryan, not believing you.

Or just typical man-child behaviour.

The kind of guy you'd avoid cos of forced bantz.

I was in Dublin to record a couple of episodes of The Bookshelf which has happily signed up with Eason for a third season. I won’t say who I interviewed but it all went exceptionally well. One was an entrepreneur who is making waves internationally with her self-made business. The other is an author (whose book I came late to) whose extraordinary story has led her to heights she never imagined she could ever reach. I was buzzing with excitement and inspiration afterwards, we’re off to a great start!

https://evoke.ie/2025/02/02/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-kathyrn-thomas-rte

He got pretty good numbers for a couple of his podcasts, mainly down to Simon Harris and Brian O’Driscoll. Most of his others have averaged from less than a thousand, to two thousand. Pretty atrocious figures considering how much effort they've put into promoting it. Is still massively focused on an Irish audience.

Apparently there's more, maybe someone at evoke.ie wanted to spare people (my apologies).

Same old w*** alright "an eclectic week". I'm sure Tubridy was never a messer in class, far too suck-up and afraid for it. Probably she was just engaging in a bit of friendly chat with someone she'll have to work with, but I guess we don't know, maybe they really were so palsy as Tubridy seems intent on making out everyone is with him.

"I've always been very fond of Kathrine because she doesn't take herself too seriously" - lol, what kind of a statement is that? That's the first thing that comes to mind for him? This isn't a comedian he's talking about, I'm sure she is trying hard to be taken seriously. What does it mean?! And that's the reason he's always been very fond of her?

Then he says the photos "looked pretty good by the end of the session" - lol what in the world? "pretty good"? That's the best he could do?

After all his f—-ing hyperbole and over-the-top positive words for everything else: "it all went exceptionally well", "buzzing with excitement and inspiration", "extraordinary story led her to heights she could never imagine she'd reach" - and the best he can manage for the photos at the end is they looked "pretty good by the end of the session". Commenting on a lady's appearance it better be good… if he didn't like how they turned out he could have just left it, otherwise he should say stunning or wonderful or spectacular - not "pretty good".

Could this all be some big elaborate joke Tubridy reveals by the end of it? Some experiment that he wanted to do to see how people would react?

Enough - I'm exhausted after just the first part.

I am very puzzled for years he droned on about being Nerd, and proud to be a Nerd. Now all of a sudden he has become the messer at the back of the class. Tubs make your mind up and who are you trying to please now.

Kathryn Thomas stood in for him on numerous occasions when he was off from his Radio One show. Now he's acting like she's some kind of newbie, who's on trial. She's was presenting a tv programme when he was starting out as a reporter doing vox pops. Very odd comments that come across as being passive aggressive. He tries to portray himself as a nice person but can't help from letting the snarky, snide side out.

Also he attends a play but he doesn't actually tell us anything about it. He seems obsessed with celebrities and money. Only thing that he can mention is Hollywood stars, Hollywood movies and doing big business. So he wouldn't attend a play in a small theatre with trained actors. In his mind, the only things that validate the play are Hollywood actors and doing big business. An incredibly superficial view of the world.

Well be the hokey….my neighbour was in this morning for coffee and lo and behold it turns out she’s a (minor) fan of The Toyman. He came up briefly in our chat (there were 3 of us) but she did say she listens to him on occasion when working from home.

What was intriguing however was she told a story from last week where Ryan talked about photographs and printing them etc. and she thought about it because she hasn’t any physical photographs in her house……but……according to her when he told the story on radio it was about his mother doing this, and not him. It seems he’s employing some creative licence as it were when retelling his stories, not for the first time of course.

I’m sure this could be verified by listening back but I’m not going to subject myself to that.

Not betraying my bias I did ask her what she got from the programme, and she replied that it was “harmless”, which I thought was an unusual descriptor. She asked what do I listen to when wfh. I usually listen to calming instrumental music (lots of piano based stuff, be it classical or modern) when I need to concentrate, or a podcast I can half listen to if I’m doing more mundane stuff like preparing a presentation or replying to regular emails.

I asked her were there ever any English callers to the show, and she said “no”. She then paused and said “there might be a caller from England, but they’re always Irish”. She did also mention that she wouldn’t have thought Ryan would like some of the music he’s playing. I explained to her that he wouldn’t be in charge of the playlist (a new term to her) and that a music programmer would select these for the show. I felt I had burst a bubble of sorts by relaying this, she’d likely have a heart attack were I to express my deeper thoughts on the man, so we moved on to another topic.

An insightful and intriguing chat nonetheless.

Jeez, take my suggestion and run with it without credit why don’t you? 🤷‍♂️

Not a bank holiday in the UK.

Andrea Corr also, actually Andrea Corr has far more staying power than any of the other guests he has had that have high numbers on YouTube. In many ways you might find the "bigger" names gaining in a few months time for no real reason.

This is a month where they have published no new episodes of the series, so it will be interesting to see how the next 13 or so do. And it would be nice to see other stats.

His own interview with Mark Moriarty had 1125 since the beginning of the year, this compares to Andrea's 1,346

Personally looking forward to him weighing in on Trump's idea to re-develop Gaza and build some exceptional beach front properties. Surely long time buddy and Late Late Show stalwart Dermot Bannon, could get in on some of that action.

I'm really confused as to why she's taken this gig. Does she actually live in London?

It will all make sense in time.