Why are our kids so big?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 157 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 | We're cracking out the Cuthbert cake here at Aldi. |
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| 0:20.1 | It's three minutes after 10 and you're listening to James O'Brien on LBC. |
| 0:24.6 | What am I like? I didn't mean that like. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, what am I like? I mean, what am I like a terrier, a dog with a bone? |
| 0:32.7 | What's the figure of speech we would use? |
| 0:34.8 | There's some subjects that I will never leave alone until I come to a |
| 0:38.2 | better understanding of them. And I feel that every time we address the issue we're about to |
| 0:42.1 | address, from slightly different angles, usually, we just, we come away with a little bit more |
| 0:48.2 | knowledge, a little bit more understanding. Alan makes an early powerful point. It's the cult of personal responsibility, James. All these |
| 0:56.6 | people claiming that the problem is poor parenting or a lack of willpower or even laziness. |
| 1:02.5 | They often come from a pious position of I can resist and therefore you should too. But I'll tell you |
| 1:07.6 | what, Alan, they also come from the opposite position they say things like well I'm |
| 1:11.2 | very overweight I'm very fat and I can tell you that all you need to do is eat less and exercise more |
| 1:16.2 | even as you are living walking proof that that's not as easy as you make it sound if it was easy |
| 1:21.6 | to eat less and exercise more you wouldn't be fat right um so we are coming back to this question of what is peculiar to Britain. |
| 1:31.0 | And part of the problem, of course, is the media. I will, I'll beat you to it, shall I? |
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