Is this my catholic guilt kicking in?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 149 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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| 0:30.0 | Good morning. It's four minutes after 10. You're listening to James O'Brien on LBC, |
| 0:34.3 | where there's quite a lot to get through today, and we will do our best to do so. I'm |
| 0:39.3 | going to begin. Well, have you noticed a couple of, we should keep a list, shouldn't we? I'm getting |
| 0:44.3 | obsessed with lists. I'm turning into Father Christmas. I kind of find myself increasingly |
| 0:52.5 | drawn to subjects, like with a sense of curiosity. I really want to |
| 0:57.1 | unravel it. I don't know if you've noticed that I've developed a borderline obsession with the |
| 1:01.9 | 9.4 million people in this country of working age who are economically inactive. And |
| 1:07.9 | economically inactive means neither working nor looking for work in the last |
| 1:12.6 | four weeks. That's the most recent definition I could find, which went to the 20-21 census. Now, |
| 1:18.7 | if you're new to this program, and if you have some slightly cliched views of what radio phonins |
| 1:24.8 | are about, then I should tell you that my immediate impulse, when |
| 1:30.6 | presented with a statistic like that, is to feel sympathy for these people, to work upon the |
| 1:35.0 | presumption that nobody wants to live a life of inactivity or in the, well, not quite nobody, |
| 1:40.1 | but the tiny, tiny, tiny minority of people who perhaps |
| 1:44.8 | genuinely prefer a life of indolence |
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