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London Calling

Getting Old

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Everyone is a little miserable this week, fueled by the rainy summer England has had this year.
Or maybe because we're all getting a little bit older. James "celebrated" #58 this past weekend and Toby isn't looking forward to #60 due this October.

Toby tells James about having lunch with Sean Langan, who’s just back from the Donbas where he’s been making a documentary about the Ukrainian war seen through the eyes of Russian conscripts.

James pulls Toby up about last week’s episode, in which he thinks Toby “attacked” him; Toby assures James that no one put him up to it (not even our producer, Evil Brian) and, in Culture Corner, Toby praises Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and season two of Yellowstone, while James says how much he enjoyed The Chosen One, a new Netflix series from Mark Miller, and describes Anna Karenina as the best novel he’s ever read.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is London Calling.

0:02.0

London Calling.

0:04.0

Hang on, James.

0:06.0

Just let me plug in my good mic.

0:08.0

Sorry, let's start again.

0:10.0

Sorry, I was a bit distracted.

0:12.0

Let me just check that's the right microphone.

0:13.4

Hang on.

0:14.4

You were, you looked like a kind of MK Ultra victim.

0:16.4

So I still got here, that's weird. Welcome to London calling with me James Don't Park. My very good friend Mr.

0:29.6

Toby Young. Tobee's I reckon this has got to have been the most chem-trail-tastic summer we've ever had.

0:38.2

I can't recall a summer quite this grim.

0:41.2

I mean you've had your week in the sun. I haven't. I've had my all my time in this

0:46.7

rain-swept aisle. I mean I know our weather's patchy, but what's your theory? I imagine you don't think this is man made do you?

0:55.0

Well the fact that it's been raining a lot. Yeah, but more than that it's not just raining a lot it's also extremely

1:01.3

overcast.

1:11.0

But what would be the incentive for the cabal to create a miserable summer? Well, if you wouldn't that be counterproductive because it would make people more likely to want to go on a holiday

1:15.7

and not a minute.

1:17.7

Before we have our argument, we are going to have an argument this week, believe me, it's not going

1:22.3

to be a very friendly show. Let's not going to be a friendly show let's

1:24.2

let's let's go through the routine of the friendly bit first where we pretend

1:29.2

that we that we're just talking about our lives. How's your week been?

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