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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

"Drill, baby, drill!" whilst LA burns

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.3915 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 154 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 60 973

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time to get a better grip on winter driving at Halford's.

0:04.0

Right now, get up to 20% off two or more selected tires.

0:08.0

And for our Halford's Motoring Club Premium members, the deal gets even better,

0:13.0

with an extra 5% off our sale price and an MOT included.

0:18.0

Shop at our garages or online today.

0:20.0

Halford's keep on moving for less.

0:23.2

10% off two or three tires, 20% of four.

0:26.0

Halford's Motor and Club T&Cs and exclusions apply.

0:28.4

Visit halfords.com for details.

0:30.0

Well, that's very disappointing.

0:31.5

Only five of you picked up on the deliberate mistake that I made in my introduction.

0:39.3

Well done to Greg, Roger, John, David and Tony.

0:43.3

Donald Trump's mantra is of course drill baby drill, not burn baby burn.

0:47.3

But you can see why I made that, sorry, you can see why I decided to make that deliberate slip.

0:55.5

It wasn't deliberate, obviously.

0:56.7

It was a proper slip.

0:58.0

You can see why it happened, can you?

1:00.2

My brain's a funny place at the best of times. And I nearly started talking to you about Grenfell Tower before the news bulletin,

1:05.4

because I find something that there is such a hideous symmetry sometimes between political rhetoric, dishonest

1:13.8

political rhetoric and the later reality, the later emergence of reality. So I always, I'm afraid,

1:21.4

hear the words of David Cameron talking about bonfires of regulations when I think about Grenfell Tower. I don't know whether

1:29.1

you have that weird link in your memory banks as well, but I do because, I mean, you know, up to

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