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Morning everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today, Friday, July the 1st.

Yes, we've done it. Pinch and a punch for the first day of month.

No returns. Don't walk under ladders, white rabbits, all the usual gubbins that we come up with every time we jump from one month to another month.

And Taylor Swift has got engaged to her British boyfriend, apparently.

I don't know why such a...

They behave like three-year-olds.

They go, she's been wearing her ring, engagement ring, behind closed doors.

And you think, oh, get over yourself, love.

Get over yourself.

Anyway, they crossed paths ages and ages ago.

I think he's sort of a model.

Joe Alwyn.

And they seem very happy.

Mind you, she does have a bit of a history of going out with good looking boys.

She's been out with Harry Stiles, been out with just about everybody.

And so they're going to get engaged which is good listen i'm you know but why

you have to make such a big deal about it is it because they all do secret deals with magazines and

stuff like that and you think to yourself you know does it really make any difference at the end of

the day it's just two people you don't know them i don't know them they feature inside the pages of

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