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Good morning. It's Friday morning. Welcome to the Christian O'Connell show. Good morning, Jack.

Morning, team. Good morning. We've just been watching the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games

live at the moment in Britain, in the host city this year, which is Birmingham. They're bringing

out all the countries. Before that, they've just had that absolute load of old rubbish that they do all these sonies

where they go you hear the commentators

trying to tell us about the symbolism

and this symbolises the turn of the industrial revolution

around about the 19th century

and people are waving ribbons around

with different colours and fluorescent jackets

I'll tell you one thing.

They're wheeling out these countries very quickly, quicker than the Olympics, aren't they?

The Olympics take this part where they come out and the play.

It's about three hours. It takes ages. We're already up to S. She started an A before that

song. Yes, Drew Patsy's news. All right, so on today's show then, we'll have all the usual favourites, like knockoff

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