136: Spanking the monkey
The Thought Police
The Thought Police
4.5 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today's angry topics include: Bojo's mojo, Labour's narrow win at the Batley and Spen by-election, kids no longer having to quarantine, complications of Covid, the failure of the NHS app, Michael Gove's divorce, Carrie's rewilding initiative, primate self-love, mask wearing, legislation about bodily contact, the delights of Amsterdam and being mothered by the state. It's another swashbuckling episode of the fastest growing podcast on the block.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome. Welcome to the latest sparkling edition of the Thought Police and the Thought Police |
| 0:28.5 | is actually now crazily going out the charts even fast as it was before. |
| 0:32.4 | Kevin the Sullivan's here. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Mike Graham. |
| 0:34.3 | Of course, it is the one and only place where you can find people talking like they |
| 0:37.8 | talk in the fucking pub, right? |
| 0:39.8 | Well, people accuse this podcast of being full of gratuitous squaring, swearing, and I don't |
| 0:45.4 | know what it means. |
| 0:46.4 | I don't know what it means. |
| 0:47.4 | What does gratuitous swearing mean? |
| 0:49.7 | I mean... |
| 0:50.7 | Oh, so what are the rules on swearing, by the way? |
| 0:52.0 | We're not allowed to swear on the radio, if somebody swears the radio have to dump it |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, however you can swear on some radio if you swear on the BBC for example that's okay. That's absolutely fine nobody minds you can say all sorts of words on women's. You can say all sorts of words on a Radio One breakfast show. |
| 1:06.5 | You can say fuck, you can say cunt, and none of it gets taken out. Guess why? Because it's the BBC. |
| 1:12.4 | Anyone calls me a gratuitous swear. I call them a cunt. |
| 1:16.0 | Exactly right. |
| 1:17.0 | Fuck them. Anyway, listen, we've got some good news this week because finally Boris Johnson's found his balls |
| 1:21.0 | and he's decided that he's actually going to lift all the restrictions |
| 1:23.2 | including no more masks. Well as I say Bojo's got his mojo back we've had our extreme doubts |
| 1:29.9 | about this guy throughout the coronavirus crisis because frankly he has been a |
| 1:34.8 | quivering little mouse but he's finally seen sense and said I've got to give this |
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