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

Well I tuned in to Virgin online this morning to hear Ryan’s show and……it’s not on. Andi Peters (former BBC Children’s tv presenter) is on….this despite the fact that Virgin ran an ad for Ryan’s show several times during the week last week.

In his column on evoke.ie it states that last week’s show was a once off. 🤷‍♂️ Why play the promo/ad repeatedly last week if the show was a once off last weekend?

There is a Ryan show on Q now, but it’s a “best of last week” type show.

The column also details Ryan’s week, in which he tells us the price of everything he attended last week. He also mentioned that the Brian Cox play he attended was a “freebie”.

I switched to Brendan O’Connor’s show but Brendan is off again. Going to walk the dog methinks. Have a nice day everyone!

That really is a wholly inappropriate question/comment even when delivered in a jocular manner. Ryan has dropped some clangers in his time with and re. women, notably the Derry Girl age question, and the check marks on their bottoms comment from a few years back, but that’s right up there.

I doubt that he intended to hurt her feelings or to be seen as mocking her. It was just a witticism. She was a bit taken aback but they just moved on from it. It's a different style of radio on Virgin. More banter and craic than RTE.

Presume it’s “The Socially Awkward Pod” and the Ryan Tubridy show is the perfect demographic to advertise it to

Ryan, even by his own standards is exceedingly hyper today. His pace of speech delivery must be at an all time high - not a problem for me as an Irish person but I’d imagine some British listeners might struggle to keep up.

The show opened with an Oasis track and Ryan said at end of the song “The Beatles there….”, before guffawing at his own “joke”. He then told an overly detailed tale of his sister leaving behind an item of clothing at the place she was staying, bring his producer into it who apparently had forgotten his trousers. He then destroyed him and the producer as “two Irishmen” before saying “well Conor isn’t Irish but he’s an honorary Irishman”, all the while laughing in a completely over the top manner.

He also completely butchered the pronunciation of “Marleybone”, overemphasising the bone part as he did. Indeed he also said “Marley”, when the correct phonetic pronunciation is “mar-le-bun”, with a soft “mar”. I lived in London myself for some years, how he hasn’t grasped this after 16+ months there is quite a mystery.

I’ll be kind and say it wasn’t the best start to one of his shows.

The correct name for that place is Marylebone. The MCC gets its name from Marylebone, but it moved to Lord's way back. There are two different pronunciations on Wikipedia, in phonetics.

Marylebone (usually /ˈmɑːrlɪbən/ MAR-lib-ən, also /ˈmærɪ(lə)bən/ MARR-i(l-ə)b-ən)

"Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London."

Once there is a choice, no harm done. "Rules" can change over time, with non standard often becoming standard. The BBC guide for announcers in 1928 told them that the tine in Pristine should rhyme with wine. Logical enough, but usage since then among the lower classes got them to change their mind. Now it is teen.

Marylebone is in central London, nowhere near the suburbs. Another place for Irish people going to live in London to beware of is Edgware. Note there are just two E's. Like Marylebone it is commonly misspelled.

I am aware of both spellings. Neither of them is a misspelling. Those academic circles are being too rigid. They need to recognise/recognize what is happening in the real world. I mentioned in my other post about what is regarded as standard and non standard, and how they are not fixed.

https://www.conturae.com/resources/misspelled-or-misspelt

AI OverviewYes, "misspelled" and "misspelt" are generally interchangeable in British English, though "misspelt" is slightly more common. Both forms are acceptable and refer to something that has been spelled incorrectly. 

Ryan has a cold today but he said it’s ok as he has some Lockets, then said “so I’m locketing up as we say”. I must admit it’s an expression I’ve never heard.

Book recommendations now, with a soliloquy on book covers. He does seem to flip flop on this subject but that’s a topic for another day I guess. He’s just described himself as “The Book Doctor”…..from The Toyman to The Book Doctor, the metamorphosis is almost complete.

Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” now….if you’ve ever heard this live it really is a masterpiece. Between this and the opener by Semisonic it appears as though there’s a little more thought gone into the music today which sets us up nicely for what should be a great show!

RDS off again. Semisonic were labelled as The Blades.

Is he still touring?

He was driving around LAST summer afaik.

think he only did NI last year

There does seem to be an increase in the plugging of the Thomas show on Tubridy’s show. I assume these aren’t being broadcast on the Virgin steam to the British listeners though?

The Podge and Rodge explanation was shall we say “hurried”, in that thing he does sometimes where his speed of thought outpaces his delivery. I can’t imagine the British audience were much the wiser after it.

Interesting music choices today with the exception of course of Bon Jovi. RDS all over the place again. I don’t understand how in this day and age that can’t be accurate.