The The Oh, Welcome to yet another sparkling edition of the Thought Police in what can only be described as a very febrial February where there's an awful lot going on my

name's Mike Graham he is Matt Kelly welcome I see you've just taken up Spanish by the way

not just it's been like a 30-year quest 30 years I decided that I have to years. I've just heard you speaking some Spanish

to one of our very favorite producers here.

And I was rather impressed.

Well, it sounded like Spanish, didn't it?

But it was actually very rudimentary.

Was it? All I could really do is a bit of kind of holiday Spanish whenever I go there, which is fine.

But I'd love to be able to speak better Spanish.

Well, I worked in, as you know, I worked in Buenos Aires for like 18 months and Barcelona

for a while and all I can do is I can swear in in like Argentina that's always

useful.

Pella Tudo and eh, Boludo.

And I can say certain phrases in Argentinian like,

a papa mono with bananas, but they're no carito, no.

And that means you're never never catching old monkey with green bananas

that's very true and uh... lah bombenera no tiembla l'a bombenera lata

presumably the bombenera which is the home Boca Juniors, doesn't shake, it beats like a heart.

Presumably that's very different though because my daughter spoke Spanish when she came over to Europe to work but it was Mexican Spanish

effectively so when we went to Catalonia she couldn't understand what anybody was saying

well they'd be speaking Catalan, yeah different language

well exactly and they couldn't understand what she was saying either and she couldn't read.

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