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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

A strange time to have a birthday...

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A little bit extra, every weekday morning, from LBC's longest-serving presenter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:05.5

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today.

0:08.9

It's that day.

0:09.8

Yes, the day has come round.

0:11.1

Yeah, woo, big up Steve Allen.

0:13.1

He enters another decade.

0:15.4

Well, not really another decade.

0:16.4

I'm in the decade as it is.

0:18.2

What a time to celebrate.

0:19.9

You know, the country is sort of running amok with this coronavirus. And I'm top of the list of people who is, but I'm being very good. I'm being very good. I haven't touched anybody. I've been out and done a little bit of shopping, you know, but I haven't, you know, unless you can sort of catch it through breathing the same air that somebody else is doing, I think we should be okay. But we're just being aware as well, being very, very aware. So if you're one of those people who is self-isolating, thank God you've got the radio. Thank God you've got LBC. Thank God you've got access so that people can

0:55.0

hear your story and you can tell people your story and it works out so much better, doesn't it? Works

0:59.7

out so much better. So it's a day to celebrate and I got a lovely t-shirt from Corey. We've all

1:06.5

got t-shirts, all three of us, because we're in the groovy gang. And so he had t-shirts printed

1:12.2

with the groovy gang. Mine's gold. There's is just coloured. And it doesn't, it's not gold at all.

1:17.5

Mine's real gold. And so we've got our groovy gang t-shirts. What we'll have to do, actually,

1:23.0

we'll have to sort of arrange and sort of put them on and then take a group picture. I don't know how we're going to manage that. Yes, we're standing a meter apart. The groovy gang lives, which is cool,

1:34.3

isn't it? So we're very happy there. If you're celebrating your birthday today, many happy

1:38.2

returns that. I know Eamon Holmes's wife is, Ruth, celebrates her 60th today. I've

1:43.1

eclipsed her by six six years but still carrying on.

1:46.3

We're still soldiering on. Some people aren't. Susanna Reid is self-isolating. She will not return to GMB due to the coronavirus symptoms in her household.

1:55.7

So that's the problem, isn't it? That when you actually get it in the household, they say you need to self-isolate.

2:01.6

You see, I'm quite lucky.

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