International IT meltdown
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 160 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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| 0:29.0 | Representative 30.7% APR variable. Minimum manual spend to receive cashback, terms apply 18 plus subject to approval. So headline, I don't think I've seen before, mass IT outage across the world. |
| 0:35.6 | Some people are probably just easing into the morning may not have noticed yet. |
| 0:40.0 | My wife got in touch to say that the local shop wasn't able to operate. |
| 0:43.5 | The tills in Morrisons were do-lally. |
| 0:49.3 | I think today is one of those days where we can be a little bit demob happy. |
| 0:54.7 | Not least because it's my last show for a couple of weeks, which means that some |
| 0:58.8 | absolutely important international event will occur within the next, probably the next |
| 1:03.9 | 80 to 100, the next 100 hours. |
| 1:07.2 | I suspect it will be the announcement that Joe Biden will not fight the next presidential |
| 1:13.2 | election that he will stand down and be replaced. I wouldn't be surprised if you're talking about |
| 1:17.5 | that on Monday morning. And just you wait until you hear who's going to be sitting in this chair |
| 1:21.2 | next week. I will be teasing you with that, by the way, all day. But I think given that there is |
| 1:27.1 | clearly something truly extraordinary happening under |
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