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The Thought Police

52: Xmas best bits 2 (The stories)

The Thought Police

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5861 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

CHRISTMAS BEST OF 2: What better way to see in the New Year than to gather round for a little story time! Here are some more best bits from the Thought Police ahead of their return in 2020 for you to enjoy as Mike and Matt tell stories of mistaken identity, youthful boozing, unfortunate column titles, smuggling 'guns', the rigmarole of buying the Christmas tree and how to cleverly dupe a fearsome editor. It's what they do best and it's the perfect way to end (or start) the year... 

If you're missing the boys, don't forget to check out the back catalogue from your favourite podcast provider (and while you're there why not subscribe so you never miss an episode!). 

Remember to follow the podcast on social media to keep up with the latest news; the show is @ThoughtPoliceTP on Twitter, while Mike is @IROMG and Matt can be found @TheNewEuropean. And lastly, you can email questions and queries into thoughtpolicepod@gmail.com and they'll get to the best of them upon their return! 

New episodes drop in 2020, when the Thought Police will be coming (back) for you...! Happy New Year and thank you for listening. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

The The Oh, I can probably tell you now the worst job that I ever did and it was during a period of striking right and it was back in the

0:57.1

80s probably I was in America and I'd come back to Britain for some reason or

1:00.9

other I can't remember why. But there was a strike on one of the papers.

1:05.8

Right. I'm not going to tell you which one. And I went down to sort of go inside to see the editor.

1:13.1

And there were people outside to Picketing.

1:16.0

And I knew them, a couple of them.

1:18.1

And they were like, oh yeah, we're really hoping

1:20.0

that you won't come a dirty shift here

1:21.7

because I'd heard there was loads of shifts

1:23.1

going because everyone had a fucking strike.

1:25.8

And I said, well, I need to make some money.

1:29.0

You know, I'm back in London for a couple of weeks, I need to make some money.

1:31.4

I can't make forward to the door, I just not work they said well why don't you try over there because it was

1:36.1

all in Fleet Street you know so I thought about it then I got on the phone to the

1:40.5

editor you said yeah can you do a job for us?

1:44.1

Yeah. So I was kind of like, you know, I was very young, I was 20 something, you know, I said,

1:47.8

yeah, okay. And it was at a time, you might not remember this, but it was a guy

1:50.7

called the Fox, who was like a serial killer or a serial

1:55.7

a serial fucking philanthropy we call it rapist or something like that and it was

2:00.0

somewhere up in Hartfordshire I think and I couldn't drive in those days right I had

2:04.1

no driving license no car I somehow found my own I didn't own money either yeah

2:08.6

I somehow found myself up in this area and so we ran into a few of the few of the guys that were also there who I

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