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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Breathtaking political cynicism

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio; to join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 97

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is your business.

0:01.9

This is your business supercharged with the help of zero counting software.

0:06.2

These are your numbers.

0:07.8

These are your numbers sorted with the help of zero counting software.

0:11.8

This is you.

0:12.9

Hi.

0:13.4

This is you taking business where you want with the help of zero counting software.

0:17.1

Hello, whoa!

0:18.1

This is your business supercharged with the help of zero

0:20.2

and having your numbers sorted all at the same time so you can finally focus on taking business where you want to. Supercharge your business today with the help of zero.

0:29.9

Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. Just as I come on air, some new numbers drop. so retail prices are up 2.7%. In real terms, of course,

0:40.9

they're up much more than that. Some products, some basic products in supermarkets in particular,

0:45.1

appear almost to have become turbocharged in cost. And I don't know whether this is going to be

0:53.2

sustained, but I am getting more and more interested in. I was not a kid, you won't be surprised to learn, who used to take things apart in order to find out how they worked. You know that story about people who took things? There's always, you can always tell, oh yes, he used to take things apart. Now he's the CEO of Rolls-Royce, or now he's James Dyson. I never took things apart. I did it once. I took a bicycle apart. Now he's the CEO of Rolls Royce or now he's James Dyson. I never took things apart. I did it once.

1:28.2

I took a bicycle apart in the hope of making it look more like a BMX, which involved taking all the mud guards off and then putting the wheels back on. I must have told you this before. I peddled out onto the lane outside the house where I grew up. I grew up. Did a wheelie and the front wheel fell off and bounced down the road, almost in slow motion. So I then had to pedal. I was, believe it or not quite good at wheelies. It was a weird experience. It was almost religious. There's a sort of philosophical. It's like one of those things like the fellow, who was the fellow who used to push the stone up the hill and then it would roll back down again. Was it Cisiphus? It was a little bit like that because I knew at some point I was going to have to fall off the bike.

1:44.4

I knew at some point I was going to have to fall off the bike. I knew at some point I was going to have to, you know, put the forks down on the ground or wheeling myself even further backwards and fall off the back of it or just let go of it. So I had this astonishing internal dialogue. What am I going to do? What's going to be least painful?

2:01.7

What's going to be the least painful way of getting off a bicycle that had two wheels when I got on it, but now only has one wheel?

2:09.4

I mention that.

2:11.2

Should I leave the conclusion hanging by way of the world's worst hook and tease?

2:16.4

Stay tuned until 1 o'clock today today and I'll tell you what happened.

2:21.4

You're right, it's not my worst.

2:23.1

As I was peddling up the road with only one wheel.

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