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The Thought Police

63: Ciara, Corona and Camus

The Thought Police

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5861 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The commanding commentariat, Mike Graham and Matt Kelly, are back to look down on the rest of the world as they pontificate over the week's news including: the destruction caused by Storm Ciara, the UK transport network's atrocious handling of adverse weather, stunt driving experiences, The Oscars, travelling to Dubai, the wonder of IKEA, the potential of a United Ireland, Mark Thatcher, whether a bridge could connect Scotland and Ireland, catching the coronavirus and the world's only existentialist goalkeeper...probably.   

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0:00.0

The The Oh, So here we are time for another sparkling edition of the thought police I'm Mike

0:52.1

Graham you're Matt Kelly I'm just telling me that we're doing rather well in the charts on iTunes.

0:57.0

Well, according to iTunes, we're like number 40-something in the all-time bestsellers and the news category. That's very good.

1:03.0

Well, we keep getting recommended in very good company, I'd have to say.

1:08.0

So thank you to everybody who's listening.

1:09.0

Indeed.

1:10.0

And in fact, I did put out a, I may have to do it on Thursday, I did put out a little message on Twitter the other day with the email address on.

1:18.0

So you might find there's a few emails not about, so we might have a look for those.

1:21.0

But we should really talk about the big story of the moment,

1:24.8

which was the storm. Yeah, amazing. Because I mean I don't know where you were, but I was down in Sussex and we were

1:31.1

having all kinds. So I was going, nah, it's never going to be as bad as they say.

1:33.9

Because I'm now convinced, basically,

1:35.6

that the authorities, the powers that be,

1:38.0

never ever want a repeat of 1987.

1:40.0

Michael Fish said, don't worry about the hurricane.

1:42.0

There's not going to be a problem.

1:42.8

The shitty lady is honed in a peony. I know. I was just telling you something the story

1:46.7

actually about that because I was on honeymoon believe it or not in France having just got married.

1:51.2

I can believe it because you must have had about 27

1:53.6

honeymoon. I've only had one honeymoon in terms out. I've had many honeymoon periods.

1:57.6

Okay. But I've only had one honeymoon. Very exotic because I was living in New York at the time had a great party got

2:04.6

married and Park Avenue had a party yeah a part of the church on Park Avenue

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