122: Full of hot air
The Thought Police
The Thought Police
4.5 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today's topics include: working when the clocks change, local council madness, smart motorways, why climate change is not an emergency, rebelling against the woke brigade, how the reaction to Diana's death may have informed societal norms, self-indulgent podcasters, why the government need to push back on cancel culture, Labour's vote-gathering strategy, having to tread on eggshells around certain words or phrases, Bonking Boris' boring sex scandal, plucking numbers from thin air to suit political agendas and the Premier League survival hopes of Fulham FC. It's another packed episode of the fastest growing podcast around - it's the Thought Police.
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| 0:00.0 | The The Oh, Welcome to another sparkling edition of The Thought Police starring Kevin O'Sullivan and me Mike Graham. |
| 0:53.2 | Very good afternoon to you Mr. O'Sullivan. |
| 0:55.2 | Hello Mike. How's the week been going? |
| 0:57.2 | Pretty good, pretty good. |
| 0:58.2 | How's the lockdown going for you? The weather's got a lot better. I'm expecting there to |
| 1:00.9 | be even more people out and about enjoying themselves hanging about in parks doing the old rule of six or whatever |
| 1:06.2 | Yeah now rule of six plus however many family members you can find in two households |
| 1:10.8 | It's just ridiculous I just want to say that over the weekend I mean I'm |
| 1:13.9 | enjoying doing my breakfast show even though you have to get up very early. |
| 1:16.9 | I quite like it actually. So I'm getting up at 4.30. Well it gives you the rest of the day |
| 1:22.0 | yeah and I'm not finding at 4.30. Well, it gives you the rest of the day, isn't it? |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, and I'm not finding it as debilitating as people said I would, but this Sunday just |
| 1:28.1 | gone is when the clocks went. |
| 1:29.7 | Oh, yeah, how did that go? |
| 1:31.3 | So effectively, we all got up at 3.30 in the morning or something. |
| 1:35.0 | I arrived. I mean, you see that was just the whole team. The producer, the assistant producer, the technical |
| 1:41.1 | operator, we were just shuffling around stunned, you know, |
| 1:44.8 | I barely able to talk. |
| 1:46.4 | I mean I used to have that problem except in reverse because I used to do, of course, the |
| 1:49.5 | overnight show, right? |
| 1:50.7 | Which in the springtime was great because you do the show from one till six and I try to explain this right to my family and they all start attacking me for confusing everyone but I think this is a very straightforward way to explain it that basically you start the show at one o'clock right |
| 2:05.2 | when you get to two o'clock in spring yeah it's now three o'clock yeah you've actually lost an hour |
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