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So I went on my overnight trip and I came back and Karen and Roe, my two beloveds, had that

hollow-eyed, manic, crazed look that only comes onto the face of someone who is raising a small

child or small children and becomes obsessed with binging a TV series because the only time

you can really binge the TV series is when the child is asleep.

So they'd been up all night because they're putting Lila to bed and then they got involved in this show, which is a lot. I think it's, I should tell you, this is potentially addictive and could

like trash your loved ones. It's called traitors. What is it? Traitors? Celebrity Traders, UK. That's what it was. See, I don't even know. I don't even care. I'm not an addict. I don't care. Anyway, they were like, we're on episode seven and we can't stop. It had just been one night. So I sat down and I watched like episode eight and nine and whatnot with them, sort of.

But it wasn't, it was like crack for them.

Both of them know a lot about politics.

I care less.

I couldn't care less.

I could care a little less.

But I don't care that much.

Anyway, Roe got her

masters in international relations and Karen has a PhD in social work and they're obsessed

with political things. And this show, in case you have missed it, is about a bunch of British

celebrities who gather in a castle in Scotland. And they're like 19 of them to start with,

and three of them are chosen, they don't have any control over it, they're chosen to be called traitors.

And all the others, the other 16, are called Faithfuls.

And the whole game is they do various missions to try to earn money for charity.

But they also have this thing where they have to try to decide who's a traitor.

And then every episode they nail someone who's a traitor.

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