121: Stumbling blocks
The Thought Police
The Thought Police
4.5 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Topics include: the return of Line of Duty, Tim Davie's strange decision making, Midsomer Murders, Guardian readership, Joe Biden tripping over stairs and his words, the American political scene, lockdown potentially being extended again, wearing masks for years to come, horse milk, marking a year on from the beginning of lockdown, the future of the pubs, the truth about a third wave, why some students are to blame for a rise in cases and not others, and ultra cautious people. Don't mess with the Thought Police.
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| 0:00.0 | The The Oh, Welcome to another exciting edition of The Thought Police. It's me Mike Graham and it's |
| 0:51.8 | him Kevin O'Sullivan and I have to |
| 0:53.8 | say Kevin it's been in a remarkable week already for news right here we are as we |
| 0:59.0 | record this it's the first anniversary of the lockdown which we'll talk about and we'll ask you about and |
| 1:04.0 | imagine what you were doing this time last year because that's what everybody's been |
| 1:07.0 | doing one year down just another year to go just another year to go I mean I'm |
| 1:10.4 | I mean unbelievable but listen let me ask you about the big event of the week which obviously is an area which you are a specialist in and that is in television |
| 1:17.6 | Television land the BBC its biggest kind of show of all time or less how they bill it anyway you can tell me if that's true |
| 1:25.4 | line of duty series number eight is it no series number six six see I detected I was still I think |
| 1:36.8 | with my quill writing my TV column when we got to about series three now until then it'd been very very good the point is the last two |
| 1:42.3 | series it's fallen off a |
| 1:43.6 | fucking cliff anyway hasn't really been much cop. Of course the BBC primes the |
| 1:48.4 | population to think it's the greatest police drama ever. Well I tell you what they get a lot of space in the papers for it. |
| 1:54.0 | Well of course they do because it's been putting on this pedestal and everyone now automatically |
| 1:59.3 | admires it. |
| 2:00.5 | So along came Sunday night's first episode of Series 6, the eagerly anticipated new series, |
| 2:08.0 | and guess what? It was a load of fucking shit! Absolute shit! a lot of people said it was very confusing. |
| 2:15.0 | It hasn't been any good for about three years. |
| 2:17.0 | Now, unusually for me at 9 o'clock at night on Sunday, I hadn't actually had a drink. |
| 2:20.4 | Well, that was a mistake. |
| 2:21.4 | You've got to be pissed to watch that shit. |
| 2:23.0 | But I did actually find myself drifting away from you know when you're really gripped by something? |
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