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Can I just say welcome to Talk the Home of Common Sense and the home of the alarm clock Brit.

And we've just had, for the six months I've been doing this, the most shocking thing happened.

I was just sitting outside talking to Charlie Roley as one does.

Christian, very calmly because he's cooler than a bag of ice, said,

thinking of doing the show today, and I went, it's only 10 to 6. He went, no, no, it's two it's past. So that watch, part of rubbish. That's gone. How much does that cost? 10 minutes slow. A very good morning. I hope you've had a great Easter. Yes, we're here on a bank holiday Monday because there's so much to do. Just to say as ever, if you want to be part of the

debate, you'll need to change that screen. It's still not working. 03444-4-9-1,000. Tommy's in the building. T-T tommy. 03-4-4-9-1,000 for your phone calls for your WhatsApp messages. I don't care it's a bank holiday. Get to it. You can also text the show, 8-7-3-2.

Start your message. phone calls for your WhatsApp messages. I don't care. It's a bank holiday. They get to it.

You can also text the show, 8-7-3-2. Start your message with the word talk. I thought to myself,

Bank Holiday Monday, crew are great, but who's going to get me through this? Who's going to provide

the political now and the personal drama? None other, ladies and gentlemen, alarm clock Britain, we welcome Charlie Rooney. Hello. Good morning. Did you bring me an egg? Happy Easter's? I haven't actually. No, I'm so sorry. We got the time wrong. We were outside. Did you know? That was all my fault. Well, no, but we were so en so ingracing conversation and I was looking at the clock thinking oh maybe there's maybe

there's a slight delay I don't know but I thought I was just keeping I feel all out of

kilter now I've got wires going the wrong way to me anyway welcome along lots of things and of course

the old thing I thought to myself today driving in it'll be very. It was busier on a bank holiday because alarm clock Brits work bank holidays, don't they? Is it still, yeah, who is up? Are you up? If you're up, let us know why you're up. Where are you up? Please don't start. Honest to God. Are you up? Why are you up? How long have you been up? How long do you think

you'll be up for? And listen, you know exactly what I'm saying. I mean, how many people? There are millions of people out there, aren't there? Yeah, the roads were actually a little bit busy this morning. You're absolutely right. But that's, you know, that is alarm clock Britain. As you say, It doesn't matter what day the week it is or holiday season or school holidays, whatever.

People are still going to work.

They're doing hard days graft and pay the... say. It doesn't matter what day the week it is or holiday season or school holidays,

whatever. People are still going to work. They're doing hard days graft and paying their taxes.

And if you are an alarm clock Brit on a bank holiday Monday, you're waking up to the news that

and I'm really sorry about this. This isn't great. This is a great start.

Alarm clock Brits will fund the 3.5 billion, even benefits payday from today, as the two-child

cap is lifting, lifting, giving jobless families on benefits, a £6,000 boost.

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