Leaving the studio gobsmacked today
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 148 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 | Us kids are mesmerised by the mundane, entranced by the everyday, |
| 0:05.0 | where a grown-up see a snail and we see a slippery-shelled beast from the undergrowth. |
| 0:11.0 | But around one in five young children have a sight condition that can get in the way of all that wonder. |
| 0:17.0 | The good news is if these are found early, they can be managed or corrected. |
| 0:21.6 | So book your child in I-test at Spex-Sabbers today. |
| 0:25.6 | Find out more at Spexavers.com.uk slash kids tests. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, four minutes after 10 is the time. |
| 0:32.8 | You're listening to James O'Brien on LBC. |
| 0:35.9 | And what question do you think? You'll never get this in a million years |
| 0:41.3 | I'll be amazed if you do get seriously get your fingers ready on the text get your finger ready on the text |
| 0:45.7 | there's a question I am tempted to ask you several times a month well certainly several times a year |
| 0:51.3 | a really simple question and I I never have. It's five words, |
| 0:58.3 | five words, or five syllables, five single syllable words. And it would be loosely filable |
| 1:05.8 | under the sort of scales falling from the eyes or penny when I I I the things that I bang on about |
| 1:12.8 | constantly and if you're kind enough still to listen to the program then you must on some level |
| 1:17.3 | either either be have a masochistic streak mile wide or you must have some fellow feeling with with what we talk about the issues the themes if you like that we most I don't even know if enjoy is the right word to the themes, if you like, that we most, I don't even know if |
| 1:28.1 | enjoy is the right word to use at this point, but the themes that we most enjoy exploring together |
| 1:33.4 | and the ones that sometimes sound a little bit, Tim Foyle-Hatt, because, you know, the voices |
| 1:38.9 | that we hear on this program are largely absent from much of the rest of the media, incredibly, given that the voices that we hear on this program are largely absent from much of the rest of the media. |
| 1:44.9 | Incredibly, given that the voices that we hear on this program have been proven right about |
| 1:49.5 | almost everything in the last six or seven years. Most obviously, I suppose, Brexit, Donald |
| 1:54.4 | Trump and now Boris Johnson. So what word do you think it is? The callers I would love to talk to. |
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