69: Running around like a headless chicken

The Thought Police

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🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Mike and Matt are back for more topical chat. The spread of covid-19 dominates the conversation as it does the conscience but there are plenty of other subjects and tangents including tone deaf tweeters, Jolyon Maugham, people who panic for no reason, keeping chickens, the RSPCA, travelling on the bus, turning 60 and why "Mugabe" was innocent.

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome to yet another sparking edition of the Thought Police with me Mike Graham
0:51.7	him and Matt Kelly.
0:52.6	Hello? Very, very good day to you. It's a funny old day because once again we're in the
0:57.5	heat, the seering heat of coronavirus Central. You can't get away from it.
1:02.2	Well it's really
1:03.2	I've started to have those same conversations I had during the Brexit time where
1:07.0	basically it's just what there's only one story in town every other story is
1:10.2	affected by one story yeah I can't believe how people are acting. Yeah, but I mean obviously this isn't new to anybody but why toilet roll?
1:18.0	Well, do you know I found out today why it is and I think this is it's just a mad enough theory to be true yeah
1:24.0	apparently the toilet roll shortage problem started in Australia yes that's true that
1:29.4	is true now that bit is true now apparently according to somebody I spoke to you today the Australians got
1:34.7	into that because they feared that all of their toilet paper was made in China.
1:38.7	It's true in Wu Han right right? And they were worried.
1:43.0	No.
1:44.0	No, bizarrely, they didn't seem to be worried about that.
1:46.3	They're all worried about the fact
1:47.2	that they're going to run out of toilet paper.
1:49.0	So that's why they started stock.
1:50.4	Right, I see.
1:51.6	Now, you go from there, so the next bit of the conversation which is that people in this country then started
1:57.2	telling each other actually that the toilet paper is made in China because it's made in China for the
2:02.3	Australian market but it's not made in China for our market is it not so they've all got this kind of it's another mad
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