113: Stay in your lane!
The Thought Police
The Thought Police
4.5 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Topics include: excessive swearing and whether it's a sign of intelligence, MG's son's brilliant painting, missing the theatre, Keir Starmer self-isolating again, why questioning lockdowns should be welcomed and not dismissed, intentional and unintentional misuse of language, the winter and its effect on the virus, what happens to the economy when the furlough scheme ends, elite sportspeople not having to quarantine despite the obvious risks attached, people who want to spend more time with their family, what a state society is in, MG's car scrape, cyclists and cycle lanes, too many people still not going to work, getting blamed for certain groups not wanting the vaccine, and Liz Hurley's scantily-clad pictures. Good job the Thought Police are purely available in audio form!
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| 0:00.0 | The the Oh, So, Welcome to another sparkling edition of The Thought Police, a very fast growing and very popular now charted |
| 0:54.8 | podcasts about news about politics and an awful lot of swearing. |
| 0:58.4 | Kevin O Sullivan is here. I'm Mike Graham and how the fuck are you? |
| 1:03.0 | Well I'm fucking well, Mike. |
| 1:05.0 | Thanks for fucking inviting me along. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm looking forward to this fucking podcast. |
| 1:08.0 | Now obviously we don't want to overdo the swearing, |
| 1:10.0 | but people do seem to be enjoying it. |
| 1:12.0 | They do seem to be enjoying it. They do seem to be enjoying it. |
| 1:13.4 | Now, can I just point out that some people said, |
| 1:17.8 | oh, it's not intelligent in the way the amount you swear. |
| 1:21.6 | I said, I've never conflated intelligence with the amount of people swear. I said I've never conflated |
| 1:23.2 | intelligence with the amount of people swear and when you and I go down the pub |
| 1:27.0 | trust me this is how much we swear. |
| 1:29.2 | Exactly right. Well when I don't like it don't fucking listen. |
| 1:31.6 | Yeah right I mean when I first got the job in radio, people who knew me said, |
| 1:35.6 | how the fuck can you do a radio show without swearing? |
| 1:38.0 | And actually, it's amazing. |
| 1:39.0 | It never actually has ever occurred to me to swear on the radio. |
| 1:42.4 | I've only ever almost done it once? |
| 1:44.5 | Yeah, it's like a ficking a trip switch. |
| 1:47.7 | Yeah. |
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