74: Home truths

The Thought Police

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🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Matt are back via long distance communication as we enter week 3 of lockdown. But what will the other side look like after we're through with the coronavirus crisis? What tips do the Thought Police have for entertaining yourself while shacked up at home? And what do they most miss about normal life? Find out here. Also up for discussion are Peter Hitchens, Marco Pierre White, MG's new cooking podcast and Keir Starmer as the new Labour leader. You may not be able to leave your house, but the good news is we'll come to you. Welcome in...

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome back to another sparkling edition of The Thought Police. We are in week three of lockdown. Matt Kelly is in another part of the thought police we were in week three of lockdown
0:52.8	Matt Kelly is in another part of the world I'm in London
0:56.2	Matt a very good afternoon to you welcome
0:58.7	Hello Mike how are you mate? I'm okay I'm okay you know we were hopeful that last week we were going to be able to do a second
1:04.0	podcast but it didn't work out in the end because of various logistical things that go wrong
1:08.6	in this day and age I mean we were about to record this and suddenly the engineer appeared and said oh I just have to
1:14.2	restart something and I'm like right okay then you know you luckily we've all got
1:17.6	lots of time on our hands so you know I wish I wish that was true I've never
1:21.9	been busy really why? Why is that?
1:23.6	Yeah well there's a lot going on in in the world of local newspapers yes trying to
1:28.8	keep the businesses alive basically because obviously people aren't going out to buy newspapers as much as they were and we don't make much money as of now from the websites that everyone is suddenly using so it's tough out there it was tough before this but it's it's becoming very very tough now in the local news
1:47.1	So I would just say if you if you do pass a news agent nip in and buy a paper especially a local one if you can.
1:54.6	Well one of the things that at least people can still do if they're still going into supermarkets
1:58.5	is they can do that can't they can still buy their paper I don't know how much of your
2:02.4	local sales are actually in supermarkets, but you know.
2:05.0	Well, actually supermarkets is where it's fallen off the most because some supermarkets have been saying,
2:10.0	we don't want to stock local papers anymore and making it difficult.
2:14.0	Oh really?
2:15.0	Yeah, although I think they, I think there was an idea that somehow, you know, papers were
2:21.3	another thing that were dangerous because you know paper boy might
2:25.2	have handed it to you and yeah or it's been put on the stack you know it's just another
2:29.7	thing to touch yes according to the world Health Organization they're absolutely safe as anything you know so you can read your local paper and it's full of great news and you'll miss them when they're gone.
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