110: Rebels with a cause
The Thought Police
The Thought Police
4.5 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today they vent their spleens about: the efficacy of lockdowns, the state of the UK, introducing stricter measures, why people mixing has to stop, fox hunting, how the Government will spin success in the summer, the Bonking Boffin, mystery about the information coming from China, herd immunity, pushing tolerance of restrictions to the limit, takeaways, why you aren't a COVID denier if you challenge the status quo, talkRADIOs YouTube ban, free speech, the handling of the coronavirus crisis, using inflammatory language, believing all experts, the challenges of dealing with a complicated virus, why predictions are useless, the beacon of hope that is the vaccine, flooding, potential tax increases, the furlough scheme, getting people back to work, footballers misbehaving and the recent success of Fulham - or should that be COVID - FC, and why Boris is similar to King Cnut.
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| 0:00.0 | The The Oh, Welcome to the first edition of the thoughtfulness of 2021. It's me Mike Graham and I'm here with Kevin I |
| 0:55.2 | Sullivan. Kevin a very happy new year to you. Happy New Year to you Mike I feel like |
| 0:58.2 | launching things out you remember that film Four Weddings in a funeral |
| 1:01.1 | began with Hugh Grant going |
| 1:02.8 | fuck fuck fuck well that's how I feel right now |
| 1:08.2 | to be fair that's how you felt the end of 2020 as well |
| 1:11.0 | I mean to be honest I mean one of the greatest endings to any |
| 1:14.2 | podcast I think the last actual podcast of the year which was |
| 1:17.5 | fuck you for fucking Christmas you bastard has now gone down as one of the great sort of sign-offs of all time. |
| 1:25.4 | You know, but as it turned out, but as it turned out, |
| 1:29.6 | Christmas is going to seem like a walk in the park compared to what we can't do now because actually, |
| 1:35.2 | despite the fact that a lot of people took the very strange decision in my view |
| 1:40.0 | to deliberately spend Christmas on their own because they thought that that was what they had to do. |
| 1:46.4 | You know I had a very pleasant Christmas with my family as I'm sure you did. |
| 1:50.4 | We got through New Year. With my wife and my dog. |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah, I mean to be honest, I don't need to spend Christmas with lots of people. |
| 1:56.0 | I'm quite happy spending it with my family. |
| 1:58.0 | But you know, for other people who have families far and away, |
| 2:01.0 | who haven't seen their families all year they thought they were going to get |
| 2:03.6 | this respite of five days. |
| 2:06.1 | Which wasn't as some in the media were pointing out an opportunity to have some back an alien |
| 2:10.4 | five-day orgy of drinking and sort of screwing. |
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