Hello and welcome to episode 118, he paused immediately, welcome to the show and of course

just as I finally ditched the old lockdown theme tune.

I've only got it together, work with my brilliant music guy, sub diffused, a.k.a. Steve

Shan Yasky, by the way, if you want anything done, give us a shout, I'll put you in touch,

but we got that sorted and then suddenly we got the Omicron, oh yeah, the Omicron, and

then you know, can we save Christmas? Is Christmas in jeopardy? I mean seriously man, could

journalists in this country just get beyond the habit of thinking the good journalism

is asking the most fucking depressing question, do you not mean? Like you get the impression

that we've journalists, if someone say that yeah, yeah, I've found a, I've found a lump

on my tip that they would go, are you going to die? Are you, are you going to die? Can

please answer the question, we don't know anything about this fucking variant, do we?

really, it might be a bit trans, more transmissible, some people in South Africa saying that it's

less virulent, you know, or it's less, I don't know the word, less bad, but here we are,

here we are, of course, we've taken the step of reintroducing face masks from Tuesday

in England, and of course, oh, but opposite Scotland, we've always been wearing them, good,

yeah, good for Scotland, okay, we had a period whereby we didn't for a while, and it was

nice, do you not mean I'm glad that we had it, and I got into, not a spat, but an interest

of thing, I was drunk on Saturday night, and of course, I took Boris's speech when he

said, you know, he did his press conference on 5 p.m. I immediately thought, so what you

saying is Boris, I should go out tonight and get right on it because things might go

tits up, that was, that was just my interpretation, and I was drunk on the way back and I saw

that Andy Burnham, who I am a fan of, I like him, you know, I think he's the kind of guy

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