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

An interview with Delroy Lindo, who stars in Sinners (out at the moment) was played just now. You’ll know Lindo from movies like Devil’s Advocate, Ransom, and tv shows like The Good Fight etc. It clearly was pre-recorded - at one stage Ryan says we’ll take a break and rather than go to an ad break they went into a 3 song break - you’re not leaving a Hollywood actor wait around for 3 songs during an interview. The audio “cut” to said break was incredibly harsh, slicing Lindo mid-sentence.

There’s another giveaway towards the end of the interview where Lindo says something like “I’ve met so many people today to talk about the movie” which indicates this is one of those roll on, roll off interviews that actors do with a stream of seemingly endless critics/journalists/influencers to promote a film. You get 10mins with the star then off you go, and the next interviewer pops in. It’s standard promotional work for any film.

The sound/audio quality was also completely different to that of a studio setting.

Fair play to Ryan though, he found an Irish connection for a movie about African American people in the Deep South!

Lindo is a fantastic actor, it was nice to hear him being interviewed. If anything I’d have liked it to be longer!

What Irish connection did he find?

I understand the point you’re making but even the editing was awful - saying they’re going to a break and cutting Lindo off mid-sentence for example. if they’re going to do that at least be slick and polished when doing it.

I’ve used the square peg round hole analogy myself when describing the fit. Tubridy isn’t the problem, there’s too much music on the show imo. I personally would rather have had Lindo and Ryan talk for an hour this morning than 10 minutes interrupted by Dexy’s Midnight Runners and Benson Boone (or whatever was played, I can’t remember exactly).

Tubridy could easily record all the links in a single day but then it would sound stale as it wouldn’t react to anything happening in the news, the weather etc

I can’t see any mainstream station recording a daytime show in advance. Steve Wright used to pre record large sections on his Radio 2 show but was always there when they played out meaning he often worked 9-5 for a show that went out from 2-5

He rarely if ever reacts to anything after the news reports though.

On Monday he will tell us about things he did over the weekend, and on Friday he will usually say something about what he’s doing at the weekend - but not always - for example he didn’t mention the Kellie Harrington thing until after it had occurred or mention his show was in Dublin on that particular Friday.

With all of that in mind he could easily record Tuesday - Thursday’s links in one session - which for me is an argument to give him more talking time or a full on chat show and seriously cut back on the music.

In fairness to RTÉ News (What you RoTelly in fairness to RTÉ) they will state both on Radio and TV … "Early I spoke with … "

Bad start today, I clicked to listen to the show online on the q website at 10 and catch the news before the show and we’ve had 3 (3!!!) digital scrambling noises into complete stop already! Had to refresh 3 times but hopefully the show will be ok. I don’t know the technical reasons for these issues - can any of the more knowledgable thread members explain this? It’s obviously not Ryan’s fault, but it is a really bad look for q on what is their flagship show.

I think that Tubs would make a fine movie critic. He gives out brilliant recommendations for films and TV series. Has just given the imprimatur to Chris O'Dowd. Called his performance in Black Mirror "the finest of his career". Also did a wonderful impression of Emma Corrin's upper class English accent, called out the clipped tones of her accent. He seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge of world cinema and TV.

Hmm. He’s just admitted to not knowing who actor turned film director Paul Feig is - who he met yesterday, presumably for a pre-recorded interview. 🤷‍♂️

I find Ryan’s film recommendations very mainstream and middle of the road. I’d expect a film critic to have a deep knowledge of cinema which I don’t think Ryan possesses. I don’t mind middle of the road background music like the show has, but I’d like to think I’m a little more discerning with my cinematic choices.

The technical issues continue - they just looped most of the snippet of the interview with Feig. Today is a hard listen tbh with all these technical issues.

Yes, I caught that. To be fair he does promote Ireland all the time, even if I do find he hams it up a bit on occasion.

There seems to be constant technical issues with the digital feed be it on the app or the website, but today is particularly bad for some reason. It died on the web feed at the same time. I have a Conf. Call at 11:30 so I haven’t rejoined the feed but I hope the quality is better when I return later.