82: We need consent, we've got discontent

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Matt get stuck into the week's news including the fallout of the shocking death of George Floyd, US policing and racial tensions, the reaction of President Trump and the ongoing protests taking place across the USA. Other topics include food poisoning, the latest goings-on in Westminster, potential positives in the fight against coronavirus (but will we learn anything from it?), the history of Spanish Flu, IKEA's queues and dealing with ADHD. Meanwhile the pair share their experiences of proving the doubters wrong. It's another packed edition of the Thought Police!

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome to yet another exciting podcast in the Thought Police series. This has become
0:51.3	something that many of you now rely upon for what can only be
0:54.8	described as informed opinion and very rational debate.
1:00.5	And meantime, it's a me Mike Graham and him Matt Kelly a very good afternoon to you how you doing
1:06.6	hello mate you okay well I'm a bit grisly actually I had such a such a food poisoning
1:14.0	24 hours ago that That's never pleasant, is it?
1:15.0	It wipes you out and I'm still in that slightly wiped out energy.
1:19.0	Yes, there's nothing worse than not having any kind of appetite at all is there? Yeah well I've just
1:24.3	at a banana so if there's the sign of or the sound of somebody projectile
1:29.8	vomiting a banana all over the place.
1:33.0	Yes, well, let's hope that doesn't happen.
1:36.4	I suppose we've got to start with America, haven't we?
1:38.8	Because I mean, regardless of what's happening here, regardless of how Prime Minister's questions have just gone on
1:44.1	I don't know whether you had a chance to watch it but I thought it's particularly
1:47.1	cringy from Starmer today but we've got to talk about America really because it's
1:50.7	incredible what's going on there isn't it? I mean
1:53.8	you spent years and years and years there how does this how does that what's
1:57.3	happening now relate in that broad context? Well I think this is I think this is
2:01.5	bigger than anything that ever happened when I was there.
2:03.3	I was there when Rodney the Rodney King riots happened. He was the guy who was pulled over by the police in
2:08.0	Los Angeles for a sort of traffic offense and he ended up being sort of beaten so within an inch of his life he didn't actually
2:13.2	die but there were massive riots around that in Los Angeles but I don't remember there being
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