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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

How did cyclists become maligned?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3914 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 151 minutes

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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

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0:00.0

Okay, James, I need you to do a few more drops than yesterday, I'm afraid.

0:04.7

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0:09.3

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0:15.4

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0:26.8

slash try today. Good morning. Would you like to have a look behind my curtains? Three minutes after 10 is the time. I sometimes feel that we need more Toto the dog moments on the program.

0:39.2

You know when Toto pulls back the curtain in The Wizard of Oz and reveals that the great and powerful Oz is actually a sort of disheveled and confused old man, desperately pushing buttons and pulling levers.

0:51.3

I have some funny ideas before we come on it.

0:54.9

Normally they're beaten out of me before the 10 o'clock news has come to an end.

0:59.8

I was looking at Rishi Sunak's speech yesterday,

1:02.7

and I was struggling to get a handle on it,

1:05.0

struggling to get a sort of point of entry.

1:08.7

I was like, what am I supposed to be scared of?

1:13.7

He's promising to protect me from the hooded claw, actually. I think he said at one point, I will keep the vampires from your door.

1:18.8

When the chips are down, said the prime minister yesterday, I'll be around with my undying,

1:23.6

death-defying love for you, which was an interesting departure for a political speech.

1:28.2

But the stuff that I'm worried about, even perhaps frightened about, has largely already happened.

1:36.1

And so coming on air and saying, what do you fear most was a contender for our starter at 10 this morning?

1:42.9

And yet sometimes when I ask you questions that

1:45.0

are too nebulous, if I set the goalpost so far apart that you actually can't see one goalpost

1:50.2

from the other, then it doesn't always work very well. And also it's a bit, I don't know,

1:55.3

it didn't quite bite for me. And then that prison story that Nick was talking about and revealing the state of our

2:06.2

prisons and that the quotes there from the prisons inspector. And that played almost directly

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