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Welcome along to your free podcast for today, Wednesday, 15th of September.

It's unbelievable, isn't it?

I mean, it's serious, it's racing through.

Two things struck me.

First of all, when are we going to get rid of Louise Minchin from the BBC's breakfast time? My God, I mean, she's had more exits and entries than Frank Sinatra. You know, just say goodbye, off you go. Thank you very much indeed. She wants to spend quality time with her family. Really? Well, let's face it, I mean, she's BBC bland. You can't really put her on anything, as we saw with poor old Victoria Derbyshire.

There wasn't a lot going on there either.

In Louise Minchin's case, she says, I want to spend quality time, and she's realised how much she's missed her family.

She was on the programme 20 years, ladies and gentlemen, 20 years.

And she's going, oh, I think I missed the family.

No, basically, her career's gone nowhere. She's, she's been stuck there reading AutoQ. That's what she has to do.

And she's took sick leave. And so that pushed her to quit BBC breakfast. Who cares? She'll sod off.

They'll bring in some other little person who can read

a big words on an auto queue. Who cares? You know, she's had a couple of leaving dudes, all a bit dreary,

and she struggled with the early mornings. And then there was a thing, wasn't there, where they

were sort of saying, oh, she might go to I'm a celebrity, get me out of it, because the BBC

sidelined her completely for Strickley. interested you know why they've had everybody else on the bloody programme apart

from Louise Mention for some reason at the Boysdale Music Awards fern

McCann turned up oh she was hosting it Fern McKett you can barely string two words

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