David Bouchier: A Few Well Chosen Words
Hosted by David Bouchier · David Bouchier
4.8from 51 ratings
- 149
- Episodes
- 29
- Transcribed
- 51
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About David Bouchier: A Few Well Chosen Words
David Bouchier’s weekly essays are full of unexpected observations and whimsical opinions. Listeners will relish his entertaining, enlightening, and sometimes exasperated commentaries on the routines that carry us through the year, the surreal rituals of politics, the unsettling experience of foreign travel, and the confusions and comedies of everyday suburban life. You can hear David Bouchier on-air Mondays at 7:45 a.m. on all stations and at 9:45 a.m. on News/Talk or by subscribing to this podcast.
- Publisher
- David Bouchier
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Oct 2023
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
29 of 149 episodes have a transcript.
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Thieves of time
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Yesterday’s pool
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No respect
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Thieves of time
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We need that book, even if it sounds suspiciously like what Dr. Johnson called the triumph of hope over experience. It's not just government. How much of your life have you wasted waiting for contractors who don't keep their appointments on time, or ever? The medical profession is notorious. Their appointment times are merely fanciful, like stock market predictions. The wasting of our time is now fully automated. Ours can be snatched away from us without any human intervention at all. I wonder what gifted humorist invented terms like customer service number or helpline. When we need information from a bank or credit card company or a computer manufacturer, we could be sure of losing a whole morning or afternoon listening to unctuous robotic voices lying about how much they value our call, reassuring us that we are only number 2,346 in line and and pretending that a dedicated customer service representative will be with us in just a moment. […]
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- 4.8 / 5
- 49 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
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- 65
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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