Obesity, black cabs and Mystery Hour - must be polling day
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 150 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning. Did I make you jump then? I was trying to. Three minutes after ten is the time. But the problem is that, Chris said, that sort of rousing jingle that comes in at the top of the show probably means you're not in a relaxed condition. So it's impossible to make you jump. Speaking of rousing jingles, the good news is we've got a lot of this going on today. |
| 0:20.7 | I've read the Daily Express for pretty much the first time since I worked there. |
| 0:24.5 | And I don't... |
| 0:25.3 | We've now got a Woke Watch email address. |
| 0:27.5 | So if you come across a story that is designed to make you angry about something |
| 0:30.4 | that you don't really understand what you're supposed to be angry about, |
| 0:32.7 | but by God you're going to get angry. |
| 0:34.2 | It's a good one today involving Cambridge University. |
| 0:36.2 | You know when I say on the radio something like, oh, by the way, if you've got the kids in the car, or if you have had the |
| 0:44.1 | misfortune of suffering sexual violence or something like that, then the next story we're going |
| 0:48.2 | to discuss maybe a bit tricky for you. So you might just want to turn the radio down for five minutes. |
| 0:52.6 | You've heard us all do that, I think, on LBC at various times, |
| 0:55.1 | particularly the kids are in the car. |
| 0:57.3 | That is technically a trigger warning. |
| 0:59.5 | But later today, we'll have a look in the first episode of Woke Watch |
| 1:03.2 | at precisely why something is simple and straightforward and helpful |
| 1:06.7 | as a quick heads-up that you might find what's following tricky |
| 1:10.0 | has become another element of the culture war. |
| 1:14.0 | So do stay tuned. |
| 1:15.3 | We're not allowed to talk about politics on election days, which means we're doubly thankful for things like... |
| 1:21.4 | Woke Watch. |
| 1:22.6 | And Mystery Hour, which, of course, got invented as a way of filling an hour on the dates that we're not allowed to talk about radio, |
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