The Trawl Meets: James O'Brien
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Marina and Jemma meet the person who can, in large part be thanked (blamed?!) for turning their mild interest in politics into a passion - Mr Brexit himself: James O'Brien.
The LBC star, journalist and best-selling author of books including his latest, How They Broke Britain, for once finds himself on the opposite side of the interrogating questions. They hear about his leap to fame courtesy of Brexit and take a trip down memory lane with some caller clips that never get old. There's some quizzing on James' position on Labour and the looming election, and his surprising thoughts on Proportional Representation, which Marina and James agree to disagree on. Jacob Rees-Mogg gets a due hammering with some fascinating insight on the effect of public school on public servants, and James reluctantly names who, of those responsible for Britain's demise, he'd choose to go for dinner with - and the ladies coax out of him a hilarious, not-so-polite, run-in with Reform Party's Richard Tice.
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https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/457804/how-they-broke-britain-by-obrien-james/9780753560341
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Blue Skies. Hello moving onwards and upwards. Hello taking control of your money. Say hello to tax-free |
| 0:09.3 | investing. Open a stocks and shares ISA and act by the 5th of April to get 100 to 3,000 pounds cash back. |
| 0:17.6 | Cargreaves lands down. Hello life. |
| 0:23.8 | Register and add or transfer 10,000 pounds plus. |
| 0:25.3 | You may go back less than you invest. |
| 0:26.4 | And tax benefits vary. |
| 0:28.5 | For terms and conditions, see hl.co.uk. UK, 4.S.Azer. |
| 0:30.0 | If Brexit means falling off a cliff edge, so be it. |
| 0:33.5 | I salute your honesty, Philip. |
| 0:35.2 | I salute your honesty. |
| 0:36.6 | That's what we voted for. |
| 0:38.7 | Absolutely. We voted to fall off a cliff edge. |
| 0:45.6 | Hello and welcome to The Trawle Meets. I'm Marina Perkins. |
| 0:52.5 | And I'm Gemma Forte. And on the Trawl meets, Marina and I get to chat with someone we admire and or find interesting. |
| 0:58.9 | We discuss political topics they're passionate about and explore their unique experience of social media. |
| 1:05.5 | And today, the Trawl meets someone who is certainly at least partly responsible for, one of a better word, |
| 1:13.2 | radicalising both Gemma and I, and for turning our interest into politics into a passion. |
| 1:19.1 | He's written books on how to be right and how not to be wrong and hosts the most listened to show on LPC. |
| 1:25.4 | He's got a whopping 1.2 million followers on X, where he often quote tweets the most bizarre |
| 1:32.5 | claims or stories simply with, sorry, what, pun, three words which convey so much in this |
| 1:39.7 | mad political climate. |
| 1:41.5 | They say never meet your heroes, but today the trawl meets James O'Brien. Welcome. |
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