86: The Rant Pack

The Thought Police

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🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

While Matt Kelly takes a much needed hiatus, Mike Graham is joined in the Thought Police think tank by his old pal Kevin O'Sullivan. If you were expecting sweetness and light, you've obviously forgotten what this podcast is all about. These two must have been waiting a while to get a few things off their chest as they launch into a furious rant about the last few months of lockdown including: the way the government has dealt with the coronavirus, shirkers not heading back to the office, why working from home isn't always good for you, the death of city business, ridiculous rules on Welsh buses, unfounded fears about things that probably won't happen, applauding particular bodies but not others, medical care in the US vs. the UK, not listening to the Bonking Boffin and why people can't be told what to do anymore.

They also discuss Matt Kelly and the ongoing success of the New European (miss you Matt!) despite Brexit going ahead, the notion of 'faith claimed terrorists', not being able to criticise the NHS (even though you should be able to), the seemingly unfathomable role of Public Health England, and why you should never trust an expert (or several). Stand by your (hospital) beds... the Thought Police are coming for you.

You can follow the boys on Twitter. Mike is: @IROMG, Kevin is @TVKev and you can find the podcast too: @ThoughtPoliceTP.

Meanwhile if you'd like to send an email to the boys the address is: thoughtpolicepod@gmail.com

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0:00.0	The The Oh, So it's been a bit of a wait I'm afraid, but welcome back to the thought police and it's got a bit of a wrinkle to it this week because Matt Kelly has absented himself for entirely
0:56.7	Reasonable reasons and I'm afraid he's going to be substituted by somebody who might be even better than him
1:01.5	Kevin O'Sullivan my old pal.
1:03.2	Kevin, very good afternoon.
1:04.4	Welcome.
1:05.4	Hello, Mike.
1:05.4	Yes, I'm very honored to step into my fellow Irish.
1:08.8	Well, you know how these things work.
1:10.0	You might not ever get the seat back, you know.
1:12.4	I'm sorry that we haven't been
1:13.2	recorded for a couple of weeks but it's been tricky not least because of
1:16.4	this bleed in lockdown and not least because of just the hardness of finding a
1:19.8	recording studio in the building that we can use but we we've managed to find one, and so here we are.
1:25.0	And the Thought Police sort of has, I suppose, traditionally been me with what Matt Kelly would describe
1:32.2	as my usual right-wing rantinganting and him with his kind of bleeding heart liberal kind of lefty pro-lefty
1:37.3	Pro-European rubbish.
1:39.8	The great thing about Matt is when you scratch the surface he actually turns into this horrible
1:43.5	scouser, you know. There's a few things I could tell you that he's told me in private, you know,
1:49.5	but I better not reveal it. I couldn't give a damn about Brexit, something like that.
1:53.2	Something like that. But he's still running the New European, which has been, as you said,
1:57.0	one of the great failures of newspaper publishing because not only did it fail
2:01.6	in its attempt to stop Brexit but it is still going so I mean in
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