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Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today, Wednesday, April the 13th. Thank God it's not the Friday. Thank God it's not the Friday. Weather again, lovely. I had a lovely session at the doctors. It was later than I thought. Because you know when you go to the doctor now, they give you an opportunity. They go, do you want to do face to face or telephone? And so I didn't know whether I was having face to face or telephone. I thought, I was face to face. Anyway, I phoned them up. And the lady said, it's a telephone interview. And I thought, oh, that's good. I quite like that idea, because it means I could sit at home and have a little drink and then chat to him at the same time, unless he wanted to do Zoom. And then they phoned me back later, no, actually it's a face to face. So we all had to sit there with our masks on, which was great, but I'm being put on new tablets, which is sort of, well, I mean, I'm keeping all the old ones. We're adding a new, this is a brand new tablet, which apparently is taking the world of medicine by storm, and it's specifically for diabetics, and it's very, very good. And so I've got the prescription for it, and I collect it today, 56 tablets, and then we just add it onto the prescription, which is quite nice. And apparently it should change things dramatically. What? I've got no idea. I'll probably sort of start growing breasts and horns and things like that, you know, because I wanted to know what the side effects were. And apparently on these new tablets, you'll drink a lot more. Apparently you wee for the country. Well, I weave for the country at the moment, so it'll be weeing for two countries, which would be quite nice. Charlotte Crosby is pregnant. She's expecting her first chart with her boyfriend. It's amazing nowadays. I don't want to sort of cast, you know, aspersions on people's lives. Do you think they could actually manage to get married before they start bringing children into the world? Perhaps I'm very old-fashioned. And so no doubt they'll be

boring the pants off everybody by sort of, you know, filming it and they're putting it out as a television programme. Stacey Dooley did one the other day. Apparently it was the world's most hated woman or something. It was just a pile of crap. It really was. It was just ghastly. Why we even entertain these people, I've got no idea.

And Charlotte Crosby apparently is a Geordie Shaw star.

That's how there. it was just ghastly. Why we even entertain these people, I've got no idea. And Charlotte Crosby

apparently is a Geordie Shaw star. That's how they, she's a star. That means she's magnificently

equipped to do just about nothing. But anyway, she began dating somebody called Jake, Jake

anchors, make of that what you will. And, um, but she kept details of the relationship under wraps. Lovely, isn't it? It's like there's loads of pictures in the papers today of Rihanna, because she's pregnant. She insists on showing you what her stomach looks like, which looks exactly the same as everybody else's stomach, except hers has got a baby in it. And so, you know, there must be some illness that most of these minor celebrities have.

The Beckham's appear to have it, don't they, in shedloads, where everything that they do,

you know, Victoria breaks wind, it would be front page headlines somewhere. It's just absolutely

unbelievable that every little thing that they do, it's the case of, oh, look, the Beckham's

done this, which is like, oh good, Harper's made a pizza. No, she hasn't. She ordered it in, you know, arrived on a bicycle. Ed Shearren builds an observatory dome after developing a love of astronomy. And it cost quite a bit, actually, this one. This was 3.7 million. Now, he's already built a mausoleum for himself, which is quite nice, so that when he dies,

he can be buried on his own property.

And now he's going to have an astronomy dome.

And I thought, well, that's quite, because I'm quite interesting things like that.

I've never actually been in an observatory, so I've got no idea what you see. If look into... I mean, I've heard of the Hubble Telescope and Jodrell Bank and all these other places, and I've sort of seen it. Apparently there's a huge one in China, somebody told me, which is just vast. You can walk into the middle of this dish, which is sort of aimed up at the skies. And I thought, I quite like that. I quite like that idea. So I'm glad that Ed Sheeran, because we love Ed Sheeran, has developed a love of astronomy. Why not, for goodness sake? Look at this enormous, you can walk around the inside of this thing. It is so big. It's like running round. I mean, you know, if you saw a man in the middle of that thing,

they'd be tiny. It's 500 metres. 500 meters. And it looks like something from outer space,

which I like. I like stuff like that. And I remember looking at it thinking, do you know,

the Chinese build something like that. And they're not building it to not be noticed. But you can walk down into the middle. I'm sure I've seen a bigger one than that. I'm sure I've seen a big one. It's obviously, I mean, because we don't know what's out there. And the answer is they've had this telescope for years and years. and so far they've discovered bugger all.

But it's quite nice, isn't it?

People like to believe in these sort of things.

So out on the streets of Glasgow, I think, they were filming for the upcoming film, Borderland.

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