Lent, Tucker, and a Drought Myth Exposed
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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In this season of Lent we are giving up doomscrolling. But do we have Sunday off? We may have uncovered a local Catholic schism that is changing the way Ann views Lent.
Watch the podcast to find out the truth and please use the comments to let us know what you are giving up for Lent and whether it includes Sunday.
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And as we always suspected - the idea that California is in permanent drought and needs expensive regulations to fix it - is complete nonsense. And this week we speak to the researcher who has uncovered the scandal.
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| 0:00.0 | So they've got a polar vortex. |
| 0:04.1 | Polar vortex. |
| 0:05.3 | Now that would be called now winter, where we come from. |
| 0:08.4 | Or a cold wave. |
| 0:09.2 | A cold wave. |
| 0:10.0 | A bit of a cold snap. |
| 0:11.8 | The other one they have is atmospheric river. |
| 0:14.8 | An atmospheric river. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello, Phelm. |
| 0:21.5 | Hello, Anne. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm, what am I? Yeah, hello, my name is Anne McElhenney. And I'm Philan McAley. And welcome to the Anne and Film Scoop. Yes. So how's Lent going on? It's a very challenging, film. Very challenging. Very challenging. What are we off for Lent? What are we off for Lent Anne? Yes, we're doing this together actually, yes. |
| 0:56.1 | We're both of, we're doing, we're creating an oasis of no zero, zero social media oasis from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day. And it's tough. It's challenging. Whoever we've heard about the brick, we've got a couple of young people in the house at the moment. |
| 0:57.4 | Young people. |
| 1:00.7 | Young people have told us about a thing that we should have known about. You put it on your fridge and you put your phone on it and it blocks. |
| 1:05.2 | It deactivates all the social media until you hit the brick again. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.4 | So it stops you just sitting on your phone |
| 1:11.7 | scrolling accidentally, which we have almost done a few times just out of almost habit. I think it's |
| 1:17.9 | important to say though that I feel incredibly cheated about the whole Lent thing because I was brought |
| 1:22.1 | up where the only day that you got off in the whole of Lent from whatever you gave up was St. Patrick's Day. |
| 1:28.4 | And I come to this country and discover apparently that my parents or, I mean, it might |
| 1:33.1 | have been just restricted to my own family, but apparently Sundays are free. And I didn't |
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