What an almighty con the whole thing is
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 141 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 | Is it technically a motoring topic? |
| 0:02.6 | It's not, because it's, it's, it's, it's not a topic about actually driving, is it? |
| 0:08.0 | It's a, it's a topic about what you are driving and why and the politics of it. |
| 0:13.3 | It's not, it's not, it's not, it's not a motoring topic. |
| 0:15.9 | It's not like, you know, oh, how many miles do you get to the gallon or,, uh, what's better a dual carriageway or a, I don't know, |
| 0:25.3 | what's the difference in a A road and a B road? It's not a motoring topic. It's a political topic. |
| 0:31.0 | And so, so shut up. It's not. It's not a motoring topic at all. I don't do motoring topics. |
| 0:35.4 | If I do, I almost always regret it within |
| 0:38.6 | 10 seconds of the first caller ringing into the program. So it's definitely not a motoring topic, |
| 0:44.3 | but it is, and this is the thing, well, this is the reason why we're doing it now. |
| 0:50.6 | It is interesting to me. I am finding it interesting. I suffer sometimes from what might be |
| 0:56.5 | described as overthinkingitis. And I sometimes find myself thinking, because I, you know, |
| 1:02.5 | there are so few people in the British media with a decent-sized platform who haven't spent |
| 1:07.6 | the last 13 years tickling the toes of Tories. |
| 1:11.7 | You know, it's pretty much every single newspaper, |
| 1:14.7 | bar the mirror and the Guardian. |
| 1:16.5 | It's pretty much every broadcast platform, |
| 1:20.5 | um, |
| 1:21.2 | bar none, |
| 1:22.1 | except us, |
| 1:22.7 | really. |
| 1:23.5 | You, |
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