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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5808 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2017

⏱️ 14 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

And now the weather. Scattered showers will give way to more scattered showers, but there may be a period in between where it's just grey.

0:08.7

It's always grey, isn't it? That's why I travel with Monzo. I can use my card to spend abroad with no fees, so I can plonk myself on a beach far away from grey and spend with my Monzo card like I never left home. Hello,

0:22.9

beach bar. Uh, now to Liam for the sport. Monzo, the bank made for travel. UK residents

0:28.9

T's and C supply. This is a download from LBC. Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra. Morning everybody,

0:36.2

welcome along to your free podcast for today, Wednesday, the fifth of it.

0:37.2

My boss said to me the other day, he sent me a text in the morning, because we have that relationship. I think it's great to have a relationship. And he said, how are you? Because I've not been, not been too sparkly, but anyway, so I'm fine. He said, how's the cough? and I thought, I wonder if it, because he always listens every morning.

1:12.3

The bits he doesn't catch live, he podcasts and sort of has this, they have this sort of access all, all areas kind of thing. And, and I said, oh, I said, you didn't hear the coughing fit then, because there was one bit in yesterday's program where I was chatting away, chatting away.

1:13.7

Then all of a sudden I thought, oh, I'm going to cough. And you know when you try and suppress it, there are lots of tricks you use. If you're a broadcast, you think, oh, there's going to be a cough coming up here. And it got to that stage, I couldn't hold it. And it sounded like I was wheezing and everything else. and I said, I had a bit of a coughing fit.

1:09.1

He said, when was that?

1:10.4

He said, because I was listening from 5.30, I had a bit of a coughing fit. He said, when was that? He said,

1:28.4

because I was listening from 5.30, but then he listens to the first bit. And I said, I can't remember when it was. He said, I must have been making a cup of coffee. I thought, thank God for that. Because it was, it was one of those silly coughs. This cough has gone on since time in Memorial, and it just drives me absolutely crackers.

1:25.6

But there's nothing I can do about it.

1:27.0

Friends of mine in the building who are on other radio stations, has gone on since time in Memorial and it just drives me absolutely crackers but

1:45.0

there's nothing I can do about it friends of mine in the building who are on other radio

1:47.8

stations they've got a similar thing but they don't have to do as much chat as I

1:52.0

have to but you know I get I never mention it as you know I mean mainly keep my illnesses

1:56.5

to myself David Beckham goes out again to Sol Cycle in LA with a photographer. I mean, he must

2:03.0

tell them he's going there because other... We do you hang around outside for David Beckham to have

2:06.9

yet another picture of David Beckham standing on a, on a walkway, whatever they call them, a pavement.

2:13.4

Brooklyn Beckham, I thought this would happen. He's been accused of disrespect over his meaningless Native American tattoo.

2:21.1

Now, if you remember, cast your mind back and you might have to podcast it, I said, why has he got a picture of a native American Indian?

2:29.3

What's the point of that?

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