[Dharma Bum]

• Admin Edit: This thread is a continuation of LBC General Chit-Chat 2 (merged)

Originally Posted by redmund

Sorry, Dharma, I wasn't condoning his views at all - they make me boil with anger - but brilliant discussion invariably ensues during and afterward.

I was more surprised than anything else...I would have bet the farm that you were as much of a bleeding heart as I am...

[chinchin]

Originally Posted by redmund

There are days I long for Cucumber Man - I'd much rather hear about his endowments!

Steady on!

[Gildersleeve]

I know it comes down to personal taste and likes and dislikes but anyone really enjoy Julie Peasgood on Steve's Sunday show? She sounds so precious.

[gurney-slade]

Originally Posted by Gildersleeve

I know it comes down to personal taste and likes and dislikes but anyone really enjoy Julie Peasgood on Steve's Sunday show? She sounds so precious.

She's a luvvie, darling. Probably a perfectly nice person but not very interesting. Steve probably likes her because she giggles at everything he says.

Morning all.

[mb@2day]

Originally Posted by Gildersleeve

I know it comes down to personal taste and likes and dislikes but anyone really enjoy Julie Peasgood on Steve's Sunday show? She sounds so precious.

Julies not great as a guest but it was more interesting than the lazy first hour that had ticket sales and the weather as the main topics. Unless John Warringtons on I usually doze back off.

[radamfi]

Originally Posted by dreamingredhill

Oscar, all I can say is that your ideas about marriage are pretty unrealistic. In a perfect world, bride and groom would make their promises, be happy and stay together forever. People change, sh*t happens.

Did you hear him on 18 November 2007?

Originally Posted by GAWFF

Was it 'our' Oscar who opened that can of worms with 'H' last night? Sounded like him. I was trying to get through, (I'm very rarely motivated to do that) but the lines were solid!

Originally Posted by radamfi

At 73:38 on the podcast:

Oscar: "I honestly think that there has been a definite degeneration which is different from what happened in the 50 years prior to 1950. Since the sort of 1950s up until now we have seen an awful, awful moral degeneration."

Anthony: "Hmm."

Oscar: "And I tell you what. I blame the women!"

Anthony: "Really?"

Oscar: "I blame the women. It is the women that are to blame for this horrible, terrible moral degeneration that you have just given us some statistics to prove that it absolutely true and a definite fact."

(Anthony had stated that marriages had fallen from 300,000 in 1950 to 180,000 in 2000)

Anthony: "What have the women done, Oscar?"

Oscar: "Well I tell you. The women have changed from being ladies into being a load of degenerate, draw-dropping, promiscuous, slappers!"

Now I see why the phones were red hot!

He was on the phone with H for ages, answering angry calls all night. I'm guessing last night was similar.

[Radio-Active]

Originally Posted by mb@2day

Julies not great as a guest but it was more interesting than the lazy first hour that had ticket sales and the weather as the main topics. Unless John Warringtons on I usually doze back off.

She's my least favorite of Steve's regulars, does she ever
stop going on about herself?

[DawnB123]

Originally Posted by richie wild

Jo and Steve are good tonight, i just hope Steve told Dawn!!

Hi Richie. I don't think Steve Hargrave would be organised enough to think of telling me. I get the impression that he isn't the most organised person in the world. lol He hasn't even found time to go onto his MysPace page since mid June.

I heard your email on Steve's show this morning. Thankyou for pointing it out as I didn't have LBC on last night! I did email in to Steve A just after your email to ask him to thank you and also asked if Steve H had been on Christos show. He didn't read it out though.... it probably got lost among the other 100's of emails that he gets!

So I see here that Jo was in for Christo then. I'll have to get podcasting!

[Gildersleeve]

Originally Posted by gurney-slade

She's a luvvie, darling. Probably a perfectly nice person but not very interesting. Steve probably likes her because she giggles at everything he says.

Morning all.

I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking that Gurney
That's it...she's a luvvie, doesn't really offend but after she's been on, you think, the last hour was a waste of time

[Gildersleeve]

Originally Posted by mb@2day

Julies not great as a guest but it was more interesting than the lazy first hour that had ticket sales and the weather as the main topics. Unless John Warringtons on I usually doze back off.

Yes, what was that all about? I wasn't paying attention much when that was happening otherwise I probably would've thought it was 15 minutes of poor radio. John is probably my favourite of Steve's regular's and I have to include Alan too.

[chinchin]

I like Julie Peasgood

[Dharma Bum]

Originally Posted by radamfi

Did you hear him on 18 November 2007?



Oscar: "Well I tell you. The women have changed from being ladies into being a load of degenerate, draw-dropping, promiscuous, slappers!"

Perhaps that's just a bit of wishful thinking on his part.

[sheryl44]

Just like last time when she plugged various restaurants in Twickenham, within the first 10 minutes Julie Peasgood had plugged at great length the (expensive) diet food-delivery service she is going on to and even made sure it was repeated several times later in the show. Then she plugged the return of the Alan Titchmarsh show and her own forthcoming appearance on it..... was wondering if perhaps the newspapers hadn't been delivered for her to review! But no, clearly the producers also eventually twigged she was just advertising friends and her TV appearances and asked in Steve's ear if there was anyhting in the papers of interest....

Same thing with Jane Mulkerrins on Andrew Pierce - she plugged her own newspaper a lot and then talked about the articles that come up by her when people Google her, having already started her appearance by complainiing about what Steve Allen said about her. So exactly whose show was this? Self-promotion all the way - what happened to newspaper reviewing?

[Mutleykaz]

I often forget Simon Caldar has a Sunday show. Caught it today and really enjoyed it.

Originally Posted by radamfi

Did you hear him on 18 November 2007?
He was on the phone with H for ages, answering angry calls all night. I'm guessing last night was similar.

My ghast has never been so flabbered.

I take it you've been single for a while then, Oscar.

Originally Posted by Mutleykaz

I often forget Simon Caldar has a Sunday show. Caught it today and really enjoyed it.

I always enjoy Simon when I remember that he is on. Once you get past the stilted delivery, he's alright.

Just heard Bill Buckley talking about our nearest vineyard, Denbies in Dorking, with his wine expert guest. He didn't splutter, spit and swear when sampling their wine quite as much as Richie and I did when we paid a visit back in June. Perhaps he was being polite.

[Gildersleeve]

Originally Posted by sheryl44

Just like last time when she plugged various restaurants in Twickenham, within the first 10 minutes Julie Peasgood had plugged at great length the (expensive) diet food-delivery service she is going on to and even made sure it was repeated several times later in the show. Then she plugged the return of the Alan Titchmarsh show and her own forthcoming appearance on it..... was wondering if perhaps the newspapers hadn't been delivered for her to review! But no, clearly the producers also eventually twigged she was just advertising friends and her TV appearances and asked in Steve's ear if there was anything in the papers of interest....

Same thing with Jane Mulkerrins on Andrew Pierce - she plugged her own newspaper a lot and then talked about the articles that come up by her when people Google her, having already started her appearance by complainiing about what Steve Allen said about her. So exactly whose show was this? Self-promotion all the way - what happened to newspaper reviewing?

I can accept the charity work being allowed some air time but agree with all you say, it was the mention of that diet food service that actually made me bother to post my comment in the first place, if she thinks she needs to diet(having seen her over the years)and use what will be a service for those with plenty of money to waste(seriously can she not manage to eat less, or foods that common sense tells you will help control weight and your health)or exercise there is something wrong.

Its another of those services that would've featured on Jim Davis' lunchtime programme some months ago that often used to annoy.

If you eat plenty of fruit, vegetables and protein like fish, chicken and turkey in general, such services are really only for the rich and famous or those with more money than most of us...it's not rocket sceience and for someone that seems to be used on tv and radio shows as a kind of expert on lifestyle, you'd think you'd know this.

[Mutleykaz]

BBC1 hysterical charity Weakest Link - contestants are all journalists. They didn't win ANYTHING in the first round!!

It's on now.

[Gildersleeve]

Just had a quick look at the service she mentioned...and picked a plan at random...two hampers of food per week for one person comes in at a total of £110

Think I'll pass...

[radamfi]

Originally Posted by Mutleykaz

I often forget Simon Caldar has a Sunday show. Caught it today and really enjoyed it.

I heard about 10 minutes of the show last week and I heard him read out an email asking him if it was OK to fly to San Diego with Zoom! Simon said it was a good airline!

Having said that, I usually find him interesting on the TV and he's always mentioning my adopted home town.

[MartinRosen]

Originally Posted by Mutleykaz

BBC1 hysterical charity Weakest Link - contestants are all journalists. They didn't win ANYTHING in the first round!!

If you watched the programme yesterday, one of the contestants was Martha Kearney. She was one of the very early presenters on LBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bio...akearney.shtml

Originally Posted by radamfi

I heard about 10 minutes of the show last week and I heard him read out an email asking him if it was OK to fly to San Diego with Zoom! Simon said it was a good airline!
Having said that, I usually find him interesting on the TV and he's always mentioning my adopted home town.

But realistically, how much should he know about any given airline at any particular time? Chances are, like us, he is not checking anyone's credit rating/balance sheet on a day to day basis. It is likely that nobody got a whiff of Zoom's demise until the writing was well and truly on the wall. That is generally the nature of business. Even if he did have his personal doubts about them, how much could he say on a radio show?

[MartinRosen]

Originally Posted by radamfi

I heard about 10 minutes of the show last week and I heard him read out an email asking him if it was OK to fly to San Diego with Zoom! Simon said it was a good airline!

On Friday J O'B read an e-mail or took a call (can't remember which), from somebody that got an e-mail from Zoom (on the morning after it went into liquidation) inviting him to complete a survey, for a reward of a free flight !

[radamfi]

Originally Posted by dreamingredhill

But realistically, how much should he know about any given airline at any particular time? Chances are, like us, he is not checking anyone's credit rating/balance sheet on a day to day basis. It is likely that nobody got a whiff of Zoom's demise until the writing was well and truly on the wall. That is generally the nature of business. Even if he did have his personal doubts about them, how much could he say on a radio show?

If you read airline review sites, there have been a lot of discussion about whether it would survive over the last few months, given failures with other airlines. I've been particularly interested given I've been a big fan of them over the last few years. I've flown with them to Vancouver, Toronto and New York and was going to fly with them to Florida next month. I've had to rebook with Virgin Atlantic (using Heathrow instead of my preferred Gatwick) and hope that I get my money back.

One of the tell tale signs was that they kept changing timetables at little or no notice, to minimise the number of flights they would operate by making additional stops. They changed my reservation by adding an additional stop in Bermuda, for example. The biggest worry for me was when Scheduled Airline Failure Insurance was no longer available for Zoom (I'm surprised Calder didn't know about that) so I was hoping they would survive until next month but it wasn't to be.

Originally Posted by radamfi

One of the tell tale signs was that they kept changing timetables at little or no notice, to minimise the number of flights they would operate by making additional stops. They changed my reservation by adding an additional stop in Bermuda, for example. The biggest worry for me was when Scheduled Airline Failure Insurance was no longer available for Zoom (I'm surprised Calder didn't know about that) so I was hoping they would survive until next month but it wasn't to be.

So Simon would have had access then to as much information as you, Rad. One would assume from this, that if he had been up to speed, he could have forewarned the listeners last week without getting into any kind of legal wrangle or guano?