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Fast talk, street talk, Mike Graham.

Fighting the good fight with all his might,

providing a welcome dose of common sense for the common people.

Solid Talk, Hot Talk.

The Independent Republic of Mike Graham.

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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk TV.

We have reached the end of another week, ladies and gentlemen.

Extraordinarily, we seem to have entered October, and we're all still here.

Don't worry about the markets.

They've recovered, right?

So the pound seems to be doing okay against the dollar.

The bond market seems to have settled down the

Bank of England stopped buying back bombs as far as we know because they don't need to anymore

because there's no longer a devastating crash coming but don't worry we've got plenty more

crises to talk about because now we're about to move into an energy crisis right so now

they're telling us that not only will the pound die, not only will

Britain die as a country. Now, we're going to have blackouts, and you're going to have to get

used to having three hours of electricity a day, and you're just going to have to eat a lot of

cold sandwiches and have no baths whatsoever. It would be like going back to the 70s. Listen,

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