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Where Politics Meets History

362. Glad Tidings we Bring

Where Politics Meets History

Global

News, Politics, History

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

In their final live podcast of 2022, Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith tuck into a veritable Christmas Smorgasbord of political analysis and gossip, covering strikes, Harry and Meghan, equal pay for women footballers, Is Elon trying to destroy Twitter, anti smoking laws in New Zealand, voter ID, MPs going bankrupt and Iain’s strange dream about Vladimir Putin. Smut from the start.

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0:00.0

This is a Global Player Original podcast.

0:16.5

You know I have weird dreams?

0:19.9

Yes. I've had the weirdest of weird dreams? Yes.

0:21.4

I've had the weirdest of weird dreams this morning

0:24.4

because as you know, after Good Morning Britain,

0:26.3

I'm too knackered to do anything on a Friday morning

0:28.2

so I go back to bed.

0:30.6

Well, I dreamt that I basically rushed the stage

0:36.1

that Vladimir Putin was speaking on.

0:38.9

Right.

0:40.0

And I was, I don't know what the event was, but I was in the fourth row.

0:44.6

And then I suddenly realized that I'd walked up the ramp onto the stage.

0:49.0

And Vladimir Putin was singing.

0:51.2

And I said, can we have some more songs, please?

0:57.0

And then I went back and sat in my seat and I wasn't arrested by anybody and it was all a bit weird and then I got home and went to see

1:04.3

my sisters and they say oh I see you've done it again first it was Brighton now it's Moscow

1:09.1

what wrestling an old man to the ground no I didn't

1:14.1

wrestle him to the ground and then I then I logicalized it to myself within my dream

1:19.9

saying that I must have fallen asleep and was having a dream and that's why I ended up on the

1:25.9

stage can you have a dream within a dream?

1:29.1

We do have listeners, don't we, who are, who can analyze, oh no, it's not listening. Well, yes,

1:35.5

it is one particular listener. We do have listeners, yes. Yes, we do. It's amazing really, isn't it?

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