Jess Phillips - The Dog and Hand Grenade (Part 1)

The Moon Under Water

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How are big decisions made at The Moon Under Water? Well, firstly someone tables a motion: usually John, and usually something along the lines of "We need more pint glasses". Next the motion is debated, where you might hear Robin argue that "We have enough pint glasses here, what we really need is more beer mats!". This goes on for weeks, until eventually the motion is put to a vote (and because there's only two permenant residents at The Moon Under Water every single motion has ended in a tie).

But how are big decisions made in the Other Realm? Well, this week's guest will be able to shine a light on that - it's politician Jess Phillips!

Jess has been a Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley since 2015, and as a Birmingham native she's had plenty of experience with the pubs of our second city. But when it comes to her DREAM pubs, what does she look for? A nook? A log burning stove? A karaoke machine? Fear not - as she's about to enter the Correct Realm and bring her Pub Of The Mind to life.

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0:00.0	O cove me in the drowsy hours,
0:08.0	As the Merlelight gleams garnet on the bar,
0:12.0	Amid the honeyed atoms of home, and the dust caught in shafts.
0:18.0	Close the door onto the vast outside
0:21.7	where perches a raven the size of night.
0:25.4	Close the door.
0:27.0	Close it now.
0:28.7	Slide all manner of bolts
0:30.6	to cove us
0:32.5	in the moon underwater.
1:09.0	I in the moon underwater. Oh, Robin, Robin, I thought I wasn't going to make it here.
1:11.6	Oh, no, what's happened to you this time?
1:17.2	Well, I got caught in the crowds on the main street here in the correct realm. They are going absolutely crazy. The crowds on the bridge? The crowds on the bridge, the crowds on the street,
1:23.0	under the awnings in the archways. They're all out, I think, to meet our guest this week. There's hollering,
1:30.0	there's catcalling. The odd here here chucked in amongst the affair. It's a real buzz.
1:36.5	There's a real hubbub amongst them. Yes. Yes, there's lots of hallooing. There's rubeing.
1:42.0	There's rhubarbbing, actually. And not a small amount of sort of flagwereoing. There's lots of hallooing. There's rhubarbbing. There is rhubarbbing actually and not a small
1:46.8	amount of sort of flag waving and also flag weaving. Some people making their flags at the roadside.
1:53.0	Yeah, I mean, I see what you're doing now with the intro because I just don't know why I mentioned
1:56.8	bridges earlier. I suppose it's Westminster Bridge. Yeah, well, you know, what is a bridge if not a road above another road?
2:02.6	Yeah.
2:03.6	And as we all know, you can't drive on the same road twice, as Vic Ginstine said.
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