78: One big (un)happy family

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Matt are back to help relieve some lockdown boredom as we enter week seven! Today's news and views include: the stress of being housebound and seeing too much (or too little) family, the broadband situation in Norfolk (spoiler: it's bleak), Nigel Farage's behaviour, preparing to coexist with the virus, how newspapers functioned before the Internet, Hugh Grant and the hooker, Mark Di Stefano's hacking sacking, McDonalds' southern bias, the changing world of the food delivery and although sport's making a comeback, will cinema do the same? Food for thought. It's the Thought Police.

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Well it's that time of the week it's time for yet another sparkling episode of the
0:52.2	thought police and it's me Mike Graham in London
0:54.2	and it's Matt Kelly up in sunny Norfolk. It's quite a nice day up there Matt, isn't it?
0:58.4	It's beautiful mate, yeah, it's really nice, bit of a breeze about what 13 14 degrees great gardening weather lovely if
1:05.5	only we could go out I know that's what I said to some of the other day it's such a
1:10.1	beautiful day here I think I'll just sit around in the house and watch
1:12.8	Netflix you know because you know although I have to say I don't know what it's like
1:17.5	where you are but I think I said this to you last week London is quite busy it's
1:21.3	not anywhere near what it used to be like in terms of busy but you know there's an
1:25.1	you know I'm stopping in traffic jams now you know there's more than a several you know there's more than two or three cars at the lights and
1:31.7	all that and and certain places where people live and work and also queue up for shopping.
1:38.0	There's plenty of people out and about.
1:40.0	I wonder if the government's actually quite relaxed about it.
1:45.0	You know it's like a sort of gradual kind of drift back to normality.
1:51.0	I think that's exactly what they're doing because I was talking to
1:53.6	somebody today in Switzerland their schools are going back May the 11th. I
1:56.7	think the French are looking to do that. Certainly in Portugal I was talking
2:00.3	to a friend of mine, a friend of ours actually who lives out there who said that
2:03.3	they're back playing golf as of this week and the bars are going to open and the
2:07.3	restaurants are going to open later on in May so I think in keeping with the rest of the
2:12.0	world we're going to sort of move in that direction.
2:14.3	Thank God is what I'm saying.
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