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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

What does the reaction to Extinction Rebellion say about society?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3913 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Listen to James O'Brien's phone-in show, which will make you think - and possibly change your outlook on the big stories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

With James O'Brien.

0:02.1

Three minutes after ten is the time. Do you know what my favourite story of the day is? Culled from the current affairs agenda. You've heard Nick refer to it, I think, already. But it is a peach of a story. I think I might be at my least woke. Do you know what woke means? Woke is kind of being what we used to call write on. Well that's unfair because that sounds like a pejorative.

0:21.6

It means alive to the discriminations and prejudices that pollute our planet.

0:26.6

I'm at my least woke on stories like this, cultural appropriation and similar.

0:31.6

So feel free to school me a little later in the program about why it's not ridiculous,

0:35.6

utterly ridiculous, to suggest that only Italians should cook Italian food in public, in restaurants,

0:42.3

and similarly only Southeast Asian people should prepare Southeast Asian food.

0:46.9

Genuinely, I love subjects like this, because I can feel my hekels,

0:51.6

my hekels of mischief rising.

0:54.8

Feel free to dampen them down after 12 today.

1:00.3

My third band was called Hackles of Mischief, actually.

1:03.5

We were a sort of progressive rock outfit.

1:05.4

Did a lot of Arthurian-linked stuff about Camelot, the Lady of the Lake, stuff like that.

1:09.9

Hackles of Misschief.

1:10.7

You can still download most of our stuff from Spotify.

1:15.4

Four minutes after ten is the time.

1:17.1

What else we're going to talk about today?

1:18.9

I quite like the tale of Mark Carney warning global banks that they cannot ignore climate change deniers.

1:24.0

Whether or not our friends in extinction rebellion would chalk that up as a victory.

1:28.9

I don't know, but I would let them have it.

1:32.1

It's a sense of the two-ends meeting, isn't it?

1:37.5

Mark Carney and his colleague Vue de Gallaud, the governor of the Bank de France,

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