71: Going viral
The Thought Police
The Thought Police
4.5 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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There are other matters to attend to as well including paintball injuries, hipsters taking over New York, artists and their insecurities, St Patrick's Day, and...take a deep breath...taking a deep breath. All is explained on yet another fascinating episode of the Thought Police.
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| 0:00.0 | The The Oh, Welcome to another sparkling edition of the Corona virus |
| 0:49.7 | Thoth Police podcast. I mean here we are still able to do it Matt Kelly's here. |
| 0:54.8 | Being going viral was a was like the best thing you know for. |
| 0:58.7 | You don't hear that very often do you. I mean we were going to do this in another studio but we couldn't use that one so we're back to your place and I suddenly thought to myself |
| 1:06.6 | I was going to drive here because I thought you know I don't even know what they when they're going to shut the tube down they might shut the tube down at some point But if they don to shut the tube down, they might shut the tube down at some point. |
| 1:13.2 | But if they don't shut the tube down, even if is it something I should be going on? |
| 1:18.4 | You know, I mean I'm cleaning my hands as often as I can do and I'm really not panicking at all. |
| 1:23.0 | I've seen pictures of the tube rammed and I've seen pictures of the tube |
| 1:26.2 | empty. |
| 1:27.2 | I was actually quite busy this morning. |
| 1:28.0 | I thought it would be really empty this morning and it was quite busy. |
| 1:30.3 | It wasn't quite pressed up against each other but it was standing room only but I've |
| 1:34.4 | also seen people were sending me tweets over the weekend of London pubs completely |
| 1:39.1 | empty one David Wooding our mate your fellow scer, was sent out a picture of him going home on |
| 1:45.0 | Saturday night from his job at the Sun on Sunday, and a completely empty train. |
| 1:49.6 | Nobody on it. |
| 1:50.6 | Well, my dad, I mean, it is funny what hits you. My dad emailed me to say it's the first time in about 50 years that he's gone through a weekend without watching any sports |
| 2:00.2 | Yeah, you don't know what to do with it. Well Well, those are making some funny side remarks about that, you know, like I've seen all these memes doing the rounds where there's some guy goes, yeah, I've spent this woman on the sofa. |
| 2:10.0 | Apparently she's my wife, you know, but she seems quite nice, you know, and all this, you know, people saying... |
| 2:15.8 | I'm sure she's pretty worried about the situation. Well indeed. Well, this is the thing. I mean, I saw a |
| 2:20.3 | statistics out of China where a lot of people who'd come out of sort of you know |
| 2:24.1 | isolation as couples and I can't remember how many of the few hundred of them anyway |
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