Wrap up warm, it's bitterly cold out there! - 2 Feb 15
Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra
Global
4.3 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It turns out you can please all of the people all of the time. |
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| 0:31.1 | Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. |
| 0:33.9 | It's Monday. |
| 0:34.8 | It's cold. |
| 0:35.8 | You don't want to be at work. |
| 0:37.1 | You're trying to feign illness. You're thinking, shall I phone the boss now, should I leave it for later, and then of course you're frightened to answer the telephone. So in other words, you phone the boss, come on, we've all done it over there, I've never done it because I don't do things like that. But other people over the years, you phone up and you go, oh, hello, because you're hoping it's not there, so you can, or she's not there, so you can leave a message from somebody else. You go, oh, it's, Steve, I'm not feeling very well today. |
| 0:58.6 | So I'm going to spend the day in bed. You put the phone down and you think, right, what shall I |
| 1:02.5 | do now? And then you think, oh, I don't feel very well. So it always backfires, doesn't it, on everybody who sort of cheats like that. And then you're frightened to answer the telephone in case it's your boss. |
| 1:11.1 | You pick it up and go, hello. And he goes, oh, you're well. You go, sorry. No, no, not at all well. So, uh, do you have to go to work. |
| 1:18.4 | Take my word for it. You feel a much better person work. I know, you know, I'm lucky. I've got a job that I like. |
| 1:31.1 | I've got a job that brings pleasure to hundreds of people, if not three. And I just like getting |
| 1:37.9 | up for work in the morning. The only problem I have is staying awake at night. And I know that people |
| 1:43.4 | have said to me, I was talking to |
| 1:44.4 | my driver this morning, and he's been listening to me for years and years and years and years. |
| 1:48.6 | And I said, I love working at this time. I've done overnight shows. Now I've done this early breakfast. |
| 1:53.8 | So you only have a couple of hours, and then the sun's up, and then you're into the big time, |
| 1:57.8 | the big time audience, which is what I like. So that, you know, it just |
| 2:01.4 | suits my lifestyle. It's just that come 5.36 o'clock of an evening, I'm falling asleep. Yesterday, |
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