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🗓️ 6 March 2023
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Hello! While we generally aim for cheerfulness, it's also ok to be a little angry too. Senator Bernie Sanders is. After a long career of fighting for a more progressive politics, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist has had enough: capitalism isn't working for the average American (or Brit) anymore. Three billionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of American society combined, and healthcare, education, and childcare are unaffordable. The establishment has consistently written off his policies as ‘radical’ but Bernie is convinced that what he's fighting for is just common sense. Geoff and Ed sit down with the longest-serving independent politician in US history to talk about baseball, how his policies have influenced the Democrats, and whether Ed has finally met his political meme match.
Plus: Which tangy snack has Ed rediscovered?
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0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by the Financial Fairness Podcast, which I've recently become a |
0:05.1 | subscriber to. If you like this, I'm sure you're going to enjoy it. It is excellent conversations |
0:11.6 | about the issues that affect living standards. I listened to a great one yesterday, |
0:16.3 | with Chief Executive of the Trustle Trust, Emma Revy, who's working to stop UK hunger and poverty. |
0:21.9 | And she's incredible obviously. Now of course, people needing to turn to food banks because |
0:26.6 | of financial hardship is deeply troubling. But it was also really inspiring to hear about how |
0:32.8 | they meet that need with compassion and also Emma's thoughts on what needs to change. And that |
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0:45.6 | living standards for people on low to middle incomes in the UK. Now like I said, I'm certain that |
0:50.8 | if you enjoy our podcast, you'll really love it. And I'm just looking down the feed. And they have |
0:56.0 | excellent guests to real heavyweights like economists, meata fanbola, former chancellor, |
1:02.3 | Alistair Darling, award-winning money journalist Paul Lewis. Basically, you get to hear some |
1:07.2 | serious brains on why our economy works the way it does and how we can create a fairer society. |
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1:17.0 | This is Reasons to Be cheerful with Ed Millivand and Jeff Lloyd. |
1:29.4 | Hello. Hello. Do you know what my first thought today was? |
1:32.8 | I don't know. I should say we were calling this on Wednesday. My first thought today was |
1:37.2 | if I was to leak our texts and what's apps to the press, it would just be photographs of your |
1:43.1 | attempts at cooking. You'd also sort of use it to say that I felt a reply to you. |
1:47.7 | I sent him a funny meme and you know what I got back? Nothing. |
1:51.7 | Yeah. I don't think I'm a very good phone, buddy. |
1:55.4 | You have your moments. You're a bit old or nothing? |
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