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🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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The brilliant Al Murray returns to talk about his new book 'Command'.
Before that I pick his brain about the murky issues around the Qatar World Cup and dark murmurings around over-turning Brexit.
Then we discuss his excellent new book about WW2 generals, could've spoke for hours.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 174 of what most people think and we are the World Cup. |
0:21.2 | The World Cup has started, you know like all football fans I'm really glad that we're |
0:25.8 | in deep discussing the death of migrant workers, you know international corrupt trade deals |
0:32.2 | between Qatar and other country, LGBT rights, I mean it's just it's just great to get |
0:37.0 | back to the football isn't it but we will be speaking about that later in the show because |
0:42.0 | I've got a brilliant guest this week returning to the show is Al-Mari the pub landlord |
0:46.9 | he's also Al-Mari and that's his name, he's just such a great guy to talk to so of course |
0:51.1 | I scratched his brain, that's not even a phrase, it's a pictures brain, pictures brain |
0:57.4 | about topical issues such as you know the Harry Kane incident, I mean I think I mentioned |
1:02.2 | it in the chat with Al but for this to fall on Harry Kane it's just I mean it's a serious |
1:07.9 | thing but it's also fucking hilarious that a guy that can barely articulate himself, suddenly |
1:11.7 | finds himself at the centre of this civil rights issue, you just look into Harry Kane's |
1:19.1 | eyes and you go I don't think this guy has the mental faculties to kind of talk his |
1:23.8 | way out of this one but we speak about the World Cup, we also speak about Brexit there's |
1:28.8 | been a sort of rise in the discussion about potentially having a different deal with Europe |
1:33.6 | and Swiss style deal or you know and got lots of holes in it, that was a cheese gag, didn't |
1:38.8 | really work, I promised the interview was better than that so we speak about that and then |
1:42.4 | we also speak about how's brilliant new book called Command which is about the sort of |
1:47.0 | general's and personalities that helped change the course of the Second World War and |
1:51.7 | listen I know loads of people of all genders and ages are into the Second World War but |
1:55.7 | let's be honest I bloke my age in and around my age, bloke's like us I mean it is it is |
2:00.6 | absolutely fucking catnip isn't it the Second World War, there's two things I never want |
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