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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

What would NATO be without America?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 148 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

Four minutes after ten is a time. Of all the things that I wish I could do, I was thinking about this the other day, I was putting together a Spotify playlist of my favorite house tunes, C-H-O-N-S. If you know, you know. Of all the things I wish I could do, I wish I'd been able to DJ. You know, I've been lucky enough to meet some of my heroes over the years, Graham Park, Dave Haslam and others. and I wish I'd been able to DJ.

0:24.1

And I sometimes think that the skills

0:26.0

you need to DJ are the same skills you need to sort of hit your junctions and your jingles on time

0:30.1

on the radio. It's about having an internal sense of rhythm. And thank you to everybody who noticed

0:35.6

that I just made a complete pig's ear of this morning's attempt to sort of straddle the sound effects towards the end of the little 60 second talk up that I get at the end of Nick and, of course, today, Tom's program.

0:48.5

But I don't think anyone's put it better than Havier, who writes, I love you.

0:52.4

But do you want to try that intro again, James?

0:55.0

And then adds, I'm glad you weren't in charge of the Artemis launch.

1:00.2

Which is, I think, a nice place to put the bar, the banter bar, early doors this morning.

1:07.0

If you can be funnier than Havier in the course of today's program, then you run a very

1:11.5

real risk of having your contribution read out on the program.

1:16.9

I mean, this is one of those mornings where I think you have to treat the abnormality with a modicum

1:25.7

of normality.

1:26.8

Do you know what I mean? I think you

1:28.2

agree with me now, if you didn't already, that it is incredibly liberating to simply acknowledge

1:33.4

and remember that Donald Trump is a deranged liar. Anybody, it was a message last week, wasn't it?

1:39.9

Was it last week the fellow who texted in to say, I don't know why you talk about people you don't know.

1:46.3

And the idea that anybody is unaware of why what Donald Trump is doing in Iran is of absolutely epic importance to everybody in this country, I think has now disappeared.

1:58.4

Some of the stranger messages of 2026 probably suggesting that, oh, he lives

2:03.3

rent free in your head. I can't, I can't. I mean, it's a bit like questioning why you're

2:08.2

talking about an enormous rock that is being tossed into the pond that you live in with the

2:15.1

subsequent rippolef. And by rock, I mean something the size of Gibraltar.

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