10 drums of uranium ore have gone missing
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
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🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 135 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Um, that's a bit scary. Did you hear that of the news? That, is it just me or did that sound like the |
| 0:07.5 | opening scenes of a James Bond film? Ten drums of Uranian ore, uranium ore, um, have gone missing |
| 0:16.5 | at an unspecified location in Libya. Look, look, it's obviously this is not my field of expertise. I seem to be saying that quite a lot lately. It's a miracle they pay me. But that is precisely the sort of opening... Can we get it back? Can we get... Was it Lottie doing the news? Can we clip that up? And you'd tell me that that doesn't sound like something playing in the background at the beginning of a James Bond film. You know, as Money Penny is, I don't know, waving at him, greeting. Well, listen, we'll get the clip and then somebody who knows what they're talking about. Excuse me more. This is how mystery hour started, by the way. I can't remember exactly what the story was. Something about gold. I just didn't understand any of it. So I got you to ring me and it appeared so enlightening, illuminating and interesting, that we launched an entire now, almost two-decade-old feature off the back of it. It's even spawned its own board game. Mr. Jow coming up at 12. Before that, I will do a side order of, um... |
| 1:11.1 | Oh, oh, oh, ten drums of... |
| 1:12.9 | And also, you're all chill about it, aren't you? |
| 1:14.9 | You're all relaxed. |
| 1:15.8 | You just, you barely noticed it. |
| 1:17.2 | You're listening to the same news bulletin that I'm listening to. |
| 1:23.5 | And you probably didn't register... |
| 1:24.8 | Unless you registered it like I did. |
| 1:26.1 | Did you register it like I did? |
| 1:28.7 | Olson's written uranium or what? |
| 1:30.5 | It's uranium ore, mate. |
| 1:31.9 | It's a very serious, 10 drums of uranium ore. |
| 1:34.3 | That's two and a half tons of uranium have gone missing from a site in Libya. |
| 1:37.7 | The UN's nuclear watchdog has said. |
| 1:39.5 | I'm sure there's nothing to worry about. |
| 1:41.5 | But I don't feel that we should gloss over this story |
| 1:44.4 | in a completely casual and blaze fashion. |
| 1:50.0 | Stories that I often do gloss over in a very casual and blaze fashion include budgets. |
| 1:54.9 | And this is where I walk that tightrope once again. |
| 1:58.1 | It's very kind of you over the years to have knitted me a safety net, |
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