150: An unhealthy obsession
The Thought Police
The Thought Police
4.5 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Topics include: suffering social media withdrawal, cutbacks at the Daily Mirror, Sir Keir Starmer, lockdown report failings, why the Sage boys aren't facing more punishments for their role in the pandemic, Matt Hancock, how politicians have become obsessed with our health, John Claude Van Tam, why being told to stay at home isn't always the best advice, 'starving children' being a misused term, Harry and Meghan's latest money making plot, Demi Lovato's issue with aliens, the insular nature of many Americans, why Covid was never that deadly, the worst performance ever by a team on University Challenge, David Lammy's ignorance, and university operations still being curtailed by coronavirus. It's the podcast that will answer all the questions - it's The Thought Police.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to another sparkling edition of The Thought Police with me Mike Graham and him |
| 0:27.8 | Kevin O'Sullivan. I'm a bit worried Kevin about sitting in here at the moment because |
| 0:31.7 | I haven't got a charger for my phone and I'm worried |
| 0:34.8 | that it's going to run out of juice altogether and then what the fuck am I going to do? |
| 0:38.8 | You're going to go off-fucking radar. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm going to go off radar. Well you know what it's's funny. When Twitter started first up, right? I mean, you know me and my various different sort of hobbies. I didn't actually want people to know where I was most of the fucking time. I never ever wanted anyone to know. But now with Twitter, if you're not on it, people are going, |
| 0:54.4 | where are you being? Where have you been? What have you been? What have you been? What have you been off the radar for a few hours? |
| 0:57.4 | What have you been doing? I hate myself for it, but I get that anxiety. You do? |
| 1:01.9 | Where's my phone? I've got to be on Twitter it's not |
| 1:04.1 | necessarily to actually go on to Twitter it's just to check but you're worried you're |
| 1:07.5 | going to miss something yeah exactly and I do learn quite a lot from |
| 1:10.2 | Twitter oh listen Twitter for me the main thing I learned is Twitter's just full of |
| 1:14.0 | cunts. Well that is a very true thing including us by the way. But here's the |
| 1:18.7 | point. The two top kunts on Twitter. Here's the point that I get most of my news I would say from Twitter now. |
| 1:25.0 | Certainly if it's not Twitter, it's another device that I've got on the phone, whether it's |
| 1:28.8 | mail online, whether it's the Times online, where it's the Sun, whether it's, you know, talk radio. I'm looking at stuff all the time's the sun whether it's you know talk radio I'm looking at stuff all the |
| 1:34.7 | time I can't imagine what life was like before that can you no I mean I used to get I |
| 1:40.0 | guess when we were reporters you'd get a phone call from somebody |
| 1:42.2 | wouldn't you? |
| 1:42.8 | So and so's happened, something's happened, there's been a bomb or there's been a |
| 1:46.1 | fucking fire, you better get down there, whatever, you know? |
| 1:49.3 | Well I remember Twitter, I first got on the Twitter in like 2009 because somebody I was that's quite early I was doing a |
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