57: Whatever floats your boat

The Thought Police

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🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Matt take a closer look at the week's news including whether Big Ben should indeed bong for Brexit, the press coverage of Harry and Meghan and the long term future for the monarchy (if there is one), what's next for the House of Lords, why MG believes someone should build a ship on the Thames, the overwhelming omnipresence of the BBC and whether there's value in the licence fee and how Matt discovered aural stimulation on the US airwaves...indeed.

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome to yet another sparking addition of the thought police because well getting well stuck into the new year now
0:54.4	doesn't feel like 2019 was even there I feel as if we're in this whole new kind of
0:59.3	you know era brave new world where the sun is shining. The weather is even better, isn't it?
1:05.2	2020 does sound quite so... Look like a good year. It does. It sounds quite...
1:09.2	It sounds terrific. And we're calling it the 20s, aren't we? They're calling it the 20s aren't we they're calling it the roaring 20s
1:14.3	fantastic I haven't heard that but yeah it's a little bit earlier it's a little bit
1:17.8	early to call it the roaring 20 because the noughties sounded a bit rubbish
1:21.2	noughties were rubbish yeah what were the other ones though?
1:24.0	I don't think we had a name for the last decade, did we?
1:26.0	I think we've gone through a whole decade without actually, yeah.
1:30.0	What will history say?
1:31.0	I think they'll call it. I don't know. The year Britain went mad. Well they could do that yeah.
1:35.1	Although you become a lot more sort of I would say relaxed since the new year. Resigned
1:40.9	relaxed. No but you're not happy though you don't look unhappy.
1:43.4	Well I'm looking forward to whatever comes next.
1:47.0	Maybe I'm being down in the dumps like you.
1:48.9	Will you be going to the bing, big bend bong, bong, bong bong bong
1:53.0	no bong thing thing he's gonna have a countdown clock is neon down
1:56.4	yeah they can have a stage basically they're gonna play the probably the sounds of big
2:00.1	bed that's ridiculous I mean the fact that Big Ben cannot bomb on the night.
2:05.0	Half a million quid.
2:06.0	It's not half a million quid.
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