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guffy wind blowing in for the beginning of the autumn, but it is winter.

It's getting into, is it winter? I don't know. Look, immediately I'm going to have to bring in someone far smarter. Simon Evans. It's autumn. What am I talking about? We've got a couple of weeks left of autumn. Is that correct? By the normal reckoning, the change of the seasons is the solstice and the equinox, so 21st of December is the start of winter.

What?

Yeah. It starts in late December? Yeah, I'm afraid so, yeah. Some people would say, furthermore, that the season even lags behind that in terms of how the temperature kings in. If you live by the coast, certainly the sea is still just about

swimmerable in November, but by February, you would be a brave man. Well, I think I speak for the

country when I say that, I think the formal start of winter should be when we see the Coca-Cola

truck. I think that's besie. That's heresy. What kind of provocation is that to heap on me,

that American Arabis, entreatist nonsense, Coca-Cola truck. I got back from New York. I feel American. I might even be one of those twats that comes back from a five-day holiday of an accent. You're going to be like Constantine, aren't you? Oh, the great thing about America is they celebrate success. They do. You know, they're willing for somebody to just be the man. I mean, one thing, they do have over there is a lot more bank holidays. They have less annual leave. But I was sort of thinking about Jeremy Corbyn. Do you remember when he was just throwing shit at a wall in the final stage of the 2019 campaign? And he just said, bank holidays. Just bank holidays everywhere. And I think one in November would be a good shout, I have to say.

They're all focused around May when it's warmer and everyone's in a good mood anyway.

I do think a morning off after Halloween would be good because Halloween, although I'm completely contradicting myself,

because it is kind of an American, or at least we adopted the American mode of enjoying it rather than bobbing for apples. But the opportunity to really have a big night on Halloween is, I mean, my kids, and they've just, my son's just had his last one, really now. He'll be 18 in July, so that will be the end of it. But, oh, they love that, you know, big part, big craziness and crazy on the chocolate, so they

can't go to sleep until about 2 a.m. So I think a morning off after Halloween would be great. Morning, yeah, that would be a very British compromise. I mean, I'll tell you, does do Halloween really well, the Americans, mate. You know, we were out in New York while Halloween was happening. And a lot of the people there, they just dress up, which I think is a bit of a cop-out.

So my son, we bought him this genuinely disturbing outfit that had all these black kind of tassels on it. And he was wearing these shades that made it look like his eyes were halfway down his head. Nice. The Americans were genuinely, they were genuinely terrified. The one guy like in the American tradition,

there used to be accounts that posted a lot of these,

like from the past from 1930s in Alabama or whatever,

and the kids were all just wearing sort of sackcloth masks

and looked like something out of a really genuinely terrifying European horror film.

Or a villain from one of the modern Batman films.

Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, that's right, the that's right. Yeah. Well, one thing Americans might be afraid of is Trump's picks. So in this week's chat, we're going to be talking about who Trump is picking for his senior positions. It's sort of like an NFL draft. It's all very exciting. But, of course, we'll start in the UK talking about we've got some economic data now. And it does seem like things are getting less good. The economy is slowing. And we're going to discuss whether how much of that is down to Labor, basically scaring the shit out of everybody for several months, relentlessly and never stopping. So, spoiler alert, that's where I'm heading on that one. And then we look at the assisted dying debate. We haven't chatted about that yet. I think I had a bit of assisted dying at my gig on Saturday night, mate, you know, assisted by the audience not laughing. Get that joke in there early. Talk about low-hanging fruit. It was there. There was a half-folly and I just smoked it to the boundary. But yeah, we'll be talking about that and then of, you know, for the patrons only. I try not to get too social media focused, but there is this

great big, well, supposedly great big Exodus from X slash Twitter to this new site, blues, guys.

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