The phone call came in the dead of night | James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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[@charisma-hornum-fries]

I'm floored laughing at the many voices. "In the dead of night" 😅😂😂😂😅

[@OnlyOneTubing]

those words just remind me about a video game about a clown.

[@Mastery...]

I need better quality friends... Can't get a tenner from mine. This guy does questionable parties and gets his friends to cash in their savings 😂😂😂😂

[@lizr1441]

Can't imagine why a Trade envoy to Colombia would urgently need 5 grand in the dead of night.

[@davidtaylor747]

Rofl, great catch.

[@jaxcoss5790]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@cupguin]

Now be honest, between that first call and when he got the money that figure had magically inflated by another £1500.

[@lizr1441]

@@cupguin I know the devil's dandruff isn't cheap but you'd think a trade envoy could get a better deal than that for an extra few hours supply, bless him 😂

[@fabiennemitchell2371]

​@lizr1441 Never heard of that interesting description before. 😁

[@sharon6797]

The problems of the world can be directly traced to the greed and arrogance of the oligarchs.

[@Wolf_O_Badenoch]

Mark the father of the lad with ADHD, you sir are a hero.

[@jonathanboam5409]

Let's play a game. Everyone down your drinks every time the Tories have a scandal. Quick, before the NHS gets privatised.

[@aleph8888]

Privatisation would improve the NHS. 60 weeks to see a consultant? No other country in the world would put up with that; but to Labour it’s a religion, so who cares about the plebs. Get a non-profit healthcare system like Germany.

[@jasonrollins1385]

​@@aleph8888can you give me a privatization positive? Like just any industry in the UK that has become better for all the UK after privatization? Please im seriously asking for your opinion.

[@SniperZaku]

American here. You don't want privatized healthcare.

[@jonathanboam5409]

@@aleph8888 It would improve it for those who could pay for it. It would improve it for billionaire donors like Frank Hester whose companies get the contracts. Me, I don't particular want anyone I care about to ever worry that they can't afford to get cancer.

[@hg82met]

@@aleph8888 Like privatisation has improved the trains, utilities like water, etc?

[@chrstnldg6652]

Surprised ri$hi hasnt set up a pharmaceutical company and got his family to sell it through her pharmacy 😮

[@pakese30]

As someone who has literally died and had to be resuscitated multiple times by a&e or doctors in the hospital due to epilepsy, something which even as yet is not fully dealt with by medication but is vastly better than the often 15+ seizures I would take daily when I was first diagnosed I’m p**sing my self with worry I’m going to end up back there again. I’ve already had to deal with family members (i have other health problems including being stuck in a wheelchair) traversing my town and greater area in order to get my medication and actually having to go without for days while we waited on the required medication being sent from somewhere my family just couldn’t get to. These aren’t the only medications I’m on, I take morphine based pain meds which I’ve also had to go without leaving me lying in bed crying trying to find a way or position that’ll ease it for the merest of moments. This doesn’t even include dealing with withdrawal symptoms.

[@thomasbyrne8754]

He knows he has no grounds for the complaint, but does not want to elucidate outside Parliament and leave himself open to being sued.

[@jaxcoss5790]

Spot on!

[@arabellacox]

Mark Menzies didn’t refuse him entry!!😂

[@kawanajanell]

I'm from America. I'm an epileptic. I make sure that I take my medications, like clockwork, every day. But sometimes, I have "breakthrough" seizures, and it is terrifying. Being without medications is completely unacceptable.

[@powerline301]

As am I for many years. Currently take Levetiracetam 500mg 2 times everyday. Certain pharmacies are closing due to pharmacists illegally issuing opioids without a prescription & now the FDA is making medication very difficult to acquire.

[@kawanajanell]

@powerline301 I also take that, but 1500 mg twice a day and Depakote 500mg 2 a day. Keeping people from their medications should be eligible for a class action lawsuit or something.

[@Mounhas]

As regards medicines, due to Boots closing down various outlets including those attached to surgeries there are huge demands at other pharmacies, people standing in queues for over an hour.

[@greamespens1460]

Given the number of MPs with the same predilection why not have a room in the house of commons where they can indulge in their behaviour.

[@greamespens1460]

Toilets for instance

[@jasonthompson7378]

This story is wild beyond belief!

[@user-jj7uy1ns5f]

More tories after dark ,creeping out from under they’re rocks

[@equaliser2265]

Allegations against her are pointless, it's years ago, investigate Boris, handcock and his Landlord, come on.

[@ukqwerty999]

lol talk about showing your bias

[@mickreaddin4979]

He can't name the crimes he thinks she committed because if he did and she's found to have done nothing wrong, Rayner could sue him into oblivion.

[@1man1bike1road]

Just has to use the word alege and then he cant be sued so no

[@mickreaddin4979]

@@1man1bike1road He could do that, for sure! But he won't, because he will then have to be specific.

[@ChrisMac-ch2bi]

love this❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@beejayoung1546]

Red Indian is acceptable when referring to First Nations people in Canada?! I don’t think so James. They are First Nation, maybe native or indigenous but definitely not red Indian and not Native Americans either. First Nation people as an entirety, individual tribe if you know that I guess.

[@powerline301]

What was the acceptable name given, when the First Nation began trading with the locals? I merely ask so I can expand my knowledge & properly understand their unique customs & traditions.

[@cupguin]

​@@powerline301 I think you might need some remedial help there, which I'm genuinely saying to be polite. The Americas before Europeans landed didn't think of themselves as a unified people. It's why the term "First Nations" has become popular in Canada. They weren't a culture that abided by arbitrary lines that would be drawn on a map by Europeans. They were separate and distinct nations, plural, with different languages, cultures and treaties between each other. It's like looking at all of Europe and thinking "let's just call them all Russians since that's the biggest country". The acceptable name would have been whatever the name of their people was not some amorphous catch-all term. Wikipedia has a page "Indigenous peoples of the Americas" which has some really great sections and links to other pages you might find useful. It goes into terminology as well as history. As a follow up, to the op and in answer to your question, in Canada currently there are three main terms. The First Nations people, which is made up of hundreds of different bands and governments. Each person identifying as First Nations is going to have their own story and their own culture. There's also the Inuit, which is a distinct classification of Northern Indigenous peoples. While all "Canadian" and Indigenous the two terms are not interchangeable. The third group is the Métis who are also Indigenous but aren't Inuit or First Nations. They have their own distinct culture and history that involves early European settlers, predominantly French, and that's a whole other conversation. It is not someone whose background is Indigenous and European but rather someone whose family background is Métis. Also since Canada is just a weird wobbly line on a map drawn by people on the outside of an ocean there are different Indigenous people whose historic territories would straddle what would become borders so it's tricky to then just say "Canadian" or "American". The same way you shouldn't conflate living in the UK as being English or living in Europe means you're Russian being Indigenous and Canadian is just part of a much more complex identity that might also mean being American or not wanting to consider yourself either. And while there are similarities and common struggles that unify Indigenous people across the Americas there are also massive differences from nation to nation and person to person.

[@powerline301]

@@cupguin All knowledge is useful, so thank you kindly. I greatly appreciate your impressive knowledge on this topic. Have a great day. 👍🙏

[@michellethompson5057]

I amso lost, what's the allegations, he wrote to the police to opened an investigation, why can't he just answer the question

[@user-wq6sz7vt3w]

Get it off your chest Mr Meldrew. You will sleep better tonight!

[@RichardSmallwood-du9qb]

"It was a dark and stormy night an Brigands were about!"

[@StrikingAlexa]

When you talked about big foreheads I thought you were going to say it was Tim Martin

[@redeyegooner]

Epilepsy, ADHD and many other conditions can be successfully treated with cannabis. In some cases it is even a better treatment than conventional pharmaceuticals.

[@powerline301]

Not according to leading Neurologists. Try being high & go in for an EEG and see how well your results will be.

[@redeyegooner]

@@powerline301 Actually, it's according to many many real life *patients.* You know, the people that are actually *taking* the medicines and *having* the first hand experience for themselves.

[@powerline301]

I see your point now. I know many who were prescribed with Medical Cannabis & the results are incredible.

[@cupguin]

While I don't have anything against medical cannabis or recreational cannabis for that matter, that's a bit naive. Conventional pharmaceuticals isn't some bizarre blackbox. There are perfectly reasonable requirements to keep patients safe when new drugs are introduced. And we can see already in new cannabis discoveries why that's important. Like when everyone became convinced CBN was going to be this breakthrough to help people sleep better before it turned out that on its own that wasn't how it worked. Which is a massive aspect to cannabis, it's not a drug. A typical strain is dozens of different cannabinoids and chemicals all working together to create a unique effect. Just saying "cannabis treats ADHD" is incredibly irresponsible. Sure you might find a strain that works for you but that unique blend of cannabinoids is what's helpful not just cannabis as this weird catch-all. So, as an example there's some hint that CBG might have some benefit in treating Huntington's disease, which of course would be fantastic. CBG though isn't a particularly prevalent cannabinoid and finding a strain high in CBG is going to be tricky. It's also very expensive so unless you're somewhere with a well regulated market there's no way of knowing what you're buying is going to actually therapeutic levels of CBG. Which is really the most important part of this conversation. Unless you have safe and reliable access to a consistent supply you can't treat yourself responsibly with cannabis. There are too many steps where someone can use harmful pesticides or replace one product with another. We saw that with the EVALI cases. The root cause was people who didn't understand that vitamin E acetate is fine if you're ingesting it or using it topically but it's not safe aerosolized and inhaled. A more dramatic example of the current risks but still what happens when you're trusting the black market for your medications. Someone steps on what you're buying to make a few extra quid and suddenly you're in a hospital struggling to breathe. Or your bottle of CBD turns out to just be a bottle of cooking oil with a label slapped on the side claiming it has CBD in it. All of which is just not practical for someone trying to control epilepsy. No guarantees even if last time you did buy something that was helpful that this time you're getting the same flower or product. It would be nice if the laws changed but it's not a simple fix or one that will happen any time soon. Long term it will but not despite the desires of big pharma but because of it. Any pharma company on the planet that thinks it can turn a profit from cannabis will. There are already enough places in the world where they can legally research cannabis to create their next generation of cannabis products. There's going to be a financial tipping point after which they're the companies who are going to be lobbying around the world to change the laws.

[@redeyegooner]

@@cupguin Plants are the ORIGINAL medicine. Humanity has been using them for millennia. Pharmaceuticals are the ALTERNATIVE medicines, which we have been using for only a hundred years, and most of which are either derived from plants, isolated from plants or synthesized to replicate plants compounds. I think you're the naive one, lol. What pharma wants is to isolate and patent Cannabis compounds for sale, whilst keeping the natural version of the plant illegal. Effectively creating a Monopoly for their patented treatment, whilst ensuring people can't grow their own medicines for free.

[@greamespens1460]

GPs are not entirely innocent, they refuse to see their patients

[@TehDawg]

Can you name them?

[@greamespens1460]

@@TehDawg To appease libel laws I would have to prove a negative.

[@rsg-digital]

Classic show, especially the first 45 mins 😂😂😂

[@greamespens1460]

If it is the norm is it a scandal

[@TehDawg]

As an American, I am not British.

[@firefox5926]

42:56 ..isnt that sort of the point of the courts? and if it isnt then why are we paying them ?

[@dlslythgoe666]

It’s a little late to answer the question of why they called the American natives Indians. It’s down to when Columbus arrived on the Caribbean island. They thought they had reached India which was the whole purpose of the voyage since they believed there was no land to be found in between. Out of ignorance they named the locals Indians. It stuck with other Spanish voyages which later reached the North American mainland and the name stuck from there though west was added to the name

[@TiesBesselJonker]

As a European i like to watch these programs to study the pioneers of the new Dark Ages. It helps prepare for the same type of end times that people are forcing our societies to fall into as people have been misinformed and are voting pre-fascism.

[@racingfan1697]

Mark is a Hero❤

[@blakebrown534]

It's not Brexit that's causing a medicine shortage I don't think...we are having similar problems here in the states with a number of drugs. From two days ago I see a headline _'U.S. drug shortages reach record high'_

[@pakese30]

No one or at least James isn’t blaming Brexit, other than the fact that it is acerbating the situation here in the U.K., he said as much. As for the USA it has a lot of problems when it comes to drugs not least of which is the healthcare system and the cost of drugs.

[@powerline301]

The leading problem rests with the FDA & big pharma company's

[@pakese30]

@@powerline301 well it’s big pharma which is trying wring each and every penny out of people possible and being allowed to do so by govt, I was happy to see that Biden did at least something in bringing down some of prices on meds such as insulin something a friend of mines who lives near Atlanta is very happy about as both he and his mother suffer from diabetes which is something that runs in his family for generations. The privatisation in america which allows such money gouging is horrible. I’m extremely thankful for the NHS, I have multiple health problems and including everything together I take about 40 tablets of different kinds daily for things like epilepsy, nerve damage, pain etc. I’m actually stuck using a wheelchair. I’ve had to be resuscitated multiple times due to the epilepsy though it much better dealt with now, I really don’t believe I’d be alive if I’d lived my life in america.

[@cupguin]

I think you missed the nuance there. In the UK leaving the single market has made drug supply chains more tenuous and complex. It didn't create the problem out of nothing. Which is always an issue with brexit for the UK. Like think of the formula shortage in America a few years ago. It wasn't created by import rules, but they didn't help. The first problem were Covid supply chain issues, that was global and nothing would have prevented it from effecting Americans. The next problem was there's only a handful of factories in America that make formula. So when one closed that cut the amount of formula available basically in half. As the shortages grew people started hoarding and that made things worse. That is inescapable human nature and nothing to do with American policy. So that's three radically different factors all combining at once resulting in shortages. The one thing that could have been helpful and was under American control was access to imports, which were tightly controlled at the time. Not importing from the EU didn't create the problem but it did make it worse because there was less flexibility in the market and limited how quickly the amount of formula could be put on the shelves. That's what's going on here. There are global issues with drug shortages, pre-brexit it was a problem in the UK and the EU. Post brexit those problems have gotten much worse for the UK. Without brexit or with a saner post withdrawal deal the issue would still exist but the problem wouldn't be as bad.

[@firefox5926]

40:48 maybe that needs to be part of labours change manifesto... cost rules in liable cases and overhauling uk libel laws

[@matttriano]

EX TRA ORDINARYY

[@firefox5926]

42:50 ok .. but then one has to ask is it justice your getting ... and i would argue no its not so i dont buy that argument

[@firefox5926]

1:12:22 if it helps James with callers like this i dont care about the line sound quality ...

[@hashburystumble8808]

Is there anybody there said the caller ? Phoning in the dead of night.

[@PlatonsArm]

Standard English has around 14 vowel sounds. Danish has up to 43 vowel sounds! (Why does it feel like US English has only about 4 vowel sounds?)

[@firefox5926]

46:50 or poor enough with nothing to lose .. i mean they cant put you in debtors prison can they .. also sure would be nice if there were a couple of hundred lawyers willing to do some pro bono work or even no win no fee maybe pass the hat around ... or better yet get the laws changed

[@jimmaughan1898]

Get real. Wodehouse would never have Worster say shenanigans. Maybe an Irish groom or copper.

[@uncensored393]

1:49:55 - I wonder, at what point will James' repetition of phone numbers, and such, drive him all the way mad? :)

[@Belginator]

Ouch Reset

[@JasonSmith-jy8gf]

So strange that such a polished presenter punctuates his conversation by loudly and frequently swallowing into the mic. Please make him stop! It is unbearable! Nobody else does it!!!

[@fabiennemitchell2371]

Angela Rayner's story is the same as Boris Johnson's cake. Both are overblown - or both didn't have to get the attention that subsequently occurred.

[@andyh3873]

Medical supply issues are also being caused by useless medical licensing laws. Ozempic for instance - actually licensed solely for use by diabetics - is in short supply because non-diabetics wanting to lose weight, who can afford it privately, are buying it up, and it's not black market sale either.

[@DigitalDreamer545]

That’s because it was written with AI.

[@Ana-yx6lo]

Where is SANGITA MYSKA?

[@Keepinitreal61]

Sunik just know. Freudian slip. "cain, young people" bit worrying.

[@AH--173]

Let's just ignore the threat of ww3

[@coz8989]

They talk on some broadcasting where they talk on medicine still why they cling on it is to be realised within.

[@coz8989]

They look at it for the making of a shiny thing so they try to fix because they went deep? So they talk of runanubandha that they share?

[@fintamaria2429]

😮😮😮

[@michaelhoodleeder]

Stop wearing wigs. It's 2024. It's super weird and creepy, like Reese mog..

[@claritylouise2347]

B?!£%@ is a lie, U all moved to Australia spain etc

[@MrMillez]

Always very angry at others you don’t include in your tribe James. You are a strange fish.

[@user-wq6sz7vt3w]

The London Labour echo chamber at LBC is always a laugh!

[@lenwilkinson672]

This programme gets sillier and sillier.its not for in tellingent people.

[@JasonSmith-jy8gf]

Amateurish swallowing into the mic! Do better!!!

[@jonbona876]

James, I could listen to you read a menu, your voice is very soothing.

[@principlemethods5281]

lol James was made for radio

[@tko2218]

Hey James..My misus from Netherlands and she came to UK for 2 weeks holiday, Not even a week into her holiday her 15 years old son rang us panicking koz pharmacy dint have his meds and they weren’t sure when they’ll have them in stock, and at the time he only had couple days worth of meds left..He had to go main hospital to get them sorted and that’s Netherlands part of EU.. ps-ADHD meds

[@jaxcoss5790]

Crumbs.

[@derekspence6994]

sadick your out

[@lizr1441]

Any correlation between the shortage in diabetes drugs and the recent rise in people using them purely for weight loss? Genuine question, I don't know the answer.

[@ivywild628]

Wants to thank his lucky stars they didnt throw him over the balcony like Pete Doherty and his m8s were supposed to have done with their unwanted guest.