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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

#Slurpgate - 12 Nov 15

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Just for the podcasters - a little bit extra from the acerbic wit of London's longest-serving talkshow host!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:06.0

Morning, everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today.

0:08.5

Actually, the reason was sort of been all over the place, because somebody said to me, they said,

0:13.1

will you not slurp your drinks during the podcast?

0:15.4

So I said, the trouble is I do on the free podcast, being Thursday, the 12th of November,

0:20.3

I said, I do slurp on there because I get very dry. I'm one of those presenters who, because you chat all the time, your mouth does go dry. And occasionally you need some sort of lubrication. But this other person who is another another presenter because I get other presenters who

0:37.7

listen to my podcast I mean I don't know what what indication that is ladies and

0:41.5

gentlemen of where I am in the broadcasting world but anyway and he said can I just

0:44.7

give you some advice he said don't don't slurp your your drinks during the

0:48.1

program so I said okay I won't slurp my my drinks he said the other thing is

0:52.2

he said sometimes you say I don't know who that is.

0:56.1

He said, you've talked about them. I said, I know. I said, this would be another producer.

1:01.1

And most of this stuff that he actually gets me out is Americans. And I don't know anything

1:06.6

about Americans. I'm not very good with Americans. I can understand who the Brit people are,

1:11.4

but the Americans, I do not get at all. So sometimes they say, or so on to something, they go,

1:15.7

oh, it's an ex-girlfriend of Justin Bieber. And so I said, okay, we'll have to sort of change

1:19.4

that little bit. But I understand that. I understand. You know, I know who the Kardashians are,

1:23.8

and I know who Kanye West is and people like that, but some of the obscure ones who feature in the pages of the papers, I really don't know who they are.

1:30.3

But anyway, so thank you very much indeed to everybody who sent in texts and emails, which was very, very nice indeed.

1:38.3

So thank you very much indeed.

1:41.3

And I was just sort of looking actually at what sort of people sort of said,

1:46.1

people send me all sorts of things, actually. I get sent, you know, I get sent little

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