150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

He's probably trying to create a new persona as The Bookman to replace Toyman.

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"All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others"

Especially those with a lifetime of snouts in the trough. Wonder if he knows that one?

Cork County Council passes unanimous motion to write to Minister for Communications to have Derry O'Callaghan's programme reinstated to its previous time slot.'Every one present is a listener',says the councillor whi proposed the motion. 96Fm management also being written to.

In the voice of Chandler Bing, "could he be more Alan Partridge?!!!!"

I think Ryan's career path may veer more towards being a media advisor or some sort of influencer.

RTE is where its always been with NK/Tubridy. Small fish in a small bowl, that's all its ever going to be, with a big salary.

RTE management are not like the rest of us. Where we see mediocrity they see greatness. Its just one big bubble. They do not care what anyone outside RTE thinks. Even the new broom Bakhurst wanted to bring him back, completely ignoring the collapse in licence fee revenue. It is and always will be a basket case of an organisation.

The best broadcaster's are always curious individuals who's first thought is the world outside of their own head and the people in it. Think of the giants of TV and radio over the last 50 years and every one of them had that crucial aspect of their personality. It can be boiled down to a simple ability to deviate off a cue card and come up with interesting questions off the cuff that present themselves organically in a conversation between two people.

Tub's never had this ability. As mentioned by Joe Brolly on his podcast, Tub's Late Late Show staff insisted that every guest hand in a list of topics they wanted to cover with the host and no wild cards were allowed. Tubridy was exceptionally lucky he came along in this new age of ultra careful, non controversial, formulaic interviewing as it papered over so many of the cracks in his ability. He wouldn't last a day doing his shows in the 70's or 80's when there was little pre-ordained prep and everything was chaotic and unscripted. Indeed, he wouldn't have to last a day, because he would never have been given the job.

On the books thing, they are nearly beside the point. It's not a debate about high brow v low brow. No one expects Tubs to pull quotations from great literature out of his arse which apply perfectly to whatever text he just got from Charlotte in Prickwillow. The problem is anyone with any cop on knows he's spoofing to high heaven. He beats the bookworm persona to death. It's his invention and he hammers it harder than Boris Johnson hammered "Get Brexit Done" ..... yet we all know it's a blag. He started out his career at RTE as quite a pompous little twit that was doing an Irish Chris Evan's impression. He would have been better off sticking with that and let people see the real person behind the mic. Sure, he mightn't have gotten the Late Late gig and might've just been another journeyman DJ on 2FM scraping by on €250k pa, but he would have had a job for life and done alright. Instead this old fogey / bookworm / #BeKind concoction was foisted on the nation and it's as contrived and hollow as you'll find. The fact he's still flogging this long dead horse in an new country with an audience that are guaranteed to not give a toss, is perplexing to say the least.

Impact sub if we're hurling 😀

Asking people to text in with recommendations is all very 80/90s, everyone has the Internet in their hands and can find recommendations there, next he'll be asking " text me in your favourite colour" 😒 

If the Virgin gig isn't even appearing on his agents website that tell us that it's probably a casual position, possibly on a week by week basis considering Virgin are the ones hosting a toxic liability.

The minute the spruiking posts on threads about this subject stop it's probably the moment his agent knows Virgin are pulling the plug. Chances are Ryan might be the last to find out.