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Hello and I am I'm officially punching up now. I am officially punching up now. I'm one of the cool kids. I'm one of the edgy ones. All right. Hashtag not my president. Prime Minister. Hashtag general election now. Is it too soon to go for a general election now? Starmer out. Starmer out. Get the labor out. What is it? GTT. Go, get the labor out. Doesn't really work as well, does it? But so what happens to the title of the show now? Well, I think that there's two strands to this. What most people think turned out that yes, most people did think that the Tories needed to leave office. But with that all important vote share at 35% labor, most people did not think that it should be Labor. Now, you can, you can go into tactical voting and we'll discuss that later, but just on the raw stats, that is where we are. What most people thought, maybe it should be past tense, what most people thought was that the Tories should go, right? And we're going to go, what we're basically going to do is this going to be like a form of therapy for me. And look, whether you've got the outcome you wanted or not, we can sort of go through it. You know when you go counselling and one of the main things they do if you've been through trauma is you just have to talk through the narrative of it. And we'll go all the way and up to the farewell speech from Rishi Sunak and the hello speech from Keir Stama.

Do you remember when Blair got in and he said, a new dawn has broken, has it not?

I think a new yawn broke while Keir Stah was talking.

He's not going to be, it's not going to be, he's not going to be an orator.

Let's put it that way, but we'll get into that.

Okay, just a quick thank you and a fuck you before I start having my post-election therapy breakdown. The thank you is to all the people that heard me on Times radio, my gaff on Times Radio. So if you don't know, I was on with Fie Glover and Jane Garvey talking about the paperback of the British bloke decoded. thanks to all the people buying that, by the way. And, you know, we're in a discussion. Jane and Feeward would be feminists, I would say, but they were very engaging, you know, like a lot of, a lot of feminists in that going, yeah, maybe, maybe blokes, being a bloke isn't like a constant process of looking in the mirror and giving yourself a high five because of how easy things are. We were having a good old chat. And they were talking about the toxic manosphere. And I was going, yeah, look, you know, what we need to do if people want to combat that is we need to give more credit to good blokes, right? And I said people like Bob Mortimer, people like Adrian Charles. And I went into one about why Adrian Charles is your every man. You know, he's happy to write about the mundane things of life, like the fact he's got a urinal in the toilet in his house. And what I didn't know, and what some of you might already know, listening to this was that Jane Garvey used to be married to Adrian Charles. Now, obviously, if I don't know that, I wouldn't have fucking said it. But things started going weird. And you know when you sent something, even though I was on a Zoom call, it just, there was no discussion. There was no even reaction for a while. And then Feed Glover basically brought her to a halt and said, I'm going to have to stop you there. You know, just, and I didn't know why it was stopped so abruptly. And she asked me about the election. I was a bit confused.

And it all ended.

It all ended very weirdly.

It all ended like a date. You know a date that's going really well? And then suddenly they're like, actually, she would just get the bill. See you later. Bye. And Ian Dale, my good friend Ian Dale texted me. And he thought this was great sport. I mean, it turns out, by the way, that Jane Gavvy and Adrian Charles, I think, on cordial terms and he'd send her a birthday card and stuff.

But it certainly was, you know, it turns out, by the way, that Jane Garvey and Adrian Charles, I think, on cordial terms,

and he'd send her a birthday card and stuff. But it certainly was, you know, if you're not married someone, you're not going to necessarily want to hear someone telling you why they're the greatest bloke in the world. And plenty of people got in touch with me. So I'm glad that people enjoyed that. You know, my discomfort and misfortune. for my next trick.

I'm going to do an interview with Les Dennis,

and I'm going to start talking to him about what a top bird Amanda Holden is. The fuck you, the fuck you is to Tom Bradby. Tom Bradby on ITV. So I was flipping around, I was flipping around the coverage. You know, first up I was with BBC. I don't know what was going on. Clive Myrie, good, right? Laura Kunsberg. I like Laura Kunsberg. It's not like that thing where two things are individually good, just aren't good together. You know, people saying, do you like lager? Yeah. Do you like polos? Yeah. Do you want a lager and some polos? No, actually. No, I don't. They looked just a bit rattled. I don't know what was going on. I think there was something technically not quite right. Maybe they realized that they had going to have to do the whole evening on 3G. I think they missed going to the first count. I mean, all the counts were available and they missed going to the first one. And then Channel 4 did that very Channel 4 thing of kind of like, we've got a really diverse panel here. There's some people that really agree with our general take on things. You know, Alistair Campbell, Rory Stewart, right? And then we bought in a couple of crazy right wingers to laugh at. Nadine Doris and Quasi Qaute. Right? I mean, like, they both have their capabilities as a politician,

but you can see the angle there. Here's a kind of rest is politics, centrist, dad vibe, that we approve of. And Roy Stewart, he's a Tory, but it's not really a toy, is he? Because he smoked opium in the Afghan Hills or something. And then here's mad nads, as they would call it. You know, and this is the thing now. It's a bit like football really

where the punditry

and the podcast culture

is so pervasive. here's mad nads as they would call it you know and this is the thing now we it's a bit like

football really where the punditry and the podcast culture is so pervasive that in a way they're

going right oh actually this is the really interesting thing this is the interesting thing is

is what vibes of rory and alistair bringing to die say something interesting about the results

do you know what actually the results are the interesting thing just, it's like the great cricket commentators. Richie Benno would sometimes go fucking like an over without saying anything. And anything at all. And right at the end he'd go, show, that was interesting. That was first maiden. You know, he wouldn't need to say too much, but these guys didn't shut the

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