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🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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On this week's episode, I'm joined by one of our long-time friends, Amy Lawrence. We chat a bit about footballers and their new initiative to donate pay to the NHS, but we mostly chat about her life and work as one of the most respected football journalists around. We discuss how she become obsessed with football and Arsenal, how she began writing for The Gooner and made her way to the Observer via FourFourTwo magazine, wearing the dual hat of fan and journalist, and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new R-Splag R-Scast right here on R-Splag.com. |
| 0:27.0 | How are you? Hope you're well. Hope you and your friends and family nearest and nearest are all well safe and healthy at the moment. |
| 0:34.5 | I was going to say in these strange and unprecedented times, you know, how long can we keep saying that? |
| 0:39.8 | How long can we keep saying in this weird surreal life we're all living at this moment in time? |
| 0:44.8 | Hopefully not for too much longer because it will be over, but let's you know, it's fucked up. |
| 0:48.8 | It is a bit fucked up. I'm feeling like the whole thing is fucked up this week. |
| 0:53.1 | You know, it's, you know, we're all doing our bit, we're doing our best, but life is, you know, just a bit fucked up. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm trying to get as many fucks in the opening 60 seconds as I can. |
| 1:03.4 | Maybe I can set a new record for fucks and fucked up and fuckity fucks. |
| 1:08.3 | I don't know what the record is, so I don't know what I'm even talking about, but you know, it's just sometimes |
| 1:12.9 | you're trying to be zen about the whole things. Other times it occurs to you that it's just really, really, really fucked up. |
| 1:19.2 | Can I say if you're out there, if you're listening to this and you're one of the people who is keeping everything going? |
| 1:25.6 | Regardless of what your role in this is, whether you're a healthcare professional, a doctor, a nurse, a cleaner in a hospital, |
| 1:33.7 | making sure that everything is all right. If you're working in a shop or a supermarket or a post office or a bank or the things that we're all using |
| 1:41.6 | right now which are giving us some semblance of normality, thank you. |
| 1:46.7 | Like really, really thank you. I went to the supermarket today and the girl who was at the checkout. |
| 1:53.8 | You know, she was sitting there with gloves on and with a mask on and she looked hot and she looked tired and she looked bothered and she looked worried. |
| 2:02.0 | You know, the idea that maybe this is the person who's going to give it to me. |
| 2:06.0 | Maybe that frozen pizza that they picked up in their hands is the thing that's going to transmit it to me. |
| 2:10.5 | You know, you could see that she was sort of worn down by it, bothered by it, worried by it and everything else. |
| 2:18.4 | So thank you to everyone out there. Whatever you're doing that is keeping things going for the rest of us as we try and sacrifice this little bit by staying indoors as much as possible. |
| 2:29.0 | Thank you so much. And I hope that afterwards. I hope that when we get through this on the far side of it, you know, there's a bit of a reconciliation that we stop thinking about people who stack supermarketshells |
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