Revisiting old friends after a year of Covid
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week marks a year since the Covid lockdown began. Every aspect of our daily life has been affected and more than 146,000 people have died of the virus in the UK. In today's episode, we check in with old friends we've featured on the podcast last spring to see how their lives have changed.
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Guests:
- Lee Solomon, co-Director of Lilie's Funeral Home.
- Spencer Craig, co-founder of Pure, a food-to-go business.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | heard about Magpie, the vegan pie truck that needed a bit of help from GoDaddy. |
| 0:03.3 | One day the owners are like, |
| 0:04.8 | this business hasn't reached this potential. |
| 0:07.0 | And the other one goes, |
| 0:08.0 | we need a bigger piece of the pie. |
| 0:09.8 | And then it hits her. |
| 0:11.0 | We need GoDaddy. |
| 0:12.0 | Look, we can get it the main name and create an online store |
| 0:14.8 | so we can sell to more customers. |
| 0:16.7 | Now they've gone from serving a couple of pies |
| 0:19.1 | to vlogging nationwide. |
| 0:20.8 | And now everyone's like, |
| 0:22.2 | vegan pies are the new thing around here. |
| 0:25.0 | Wait, know me! |
| 0:26.4 | Till the next step on your business journey with GoDaddy. |
| 0:31.2 | Do you hear that? |
| 0:35.2 | It might sound like nothing to you, |
| 0:37.0 | but it's actually the sound of nuclear, |
| 0:39.1 | wind and solar energy. |
| 0:41.3 | At EDF, we're busy generating more British zero carbon electricity than anyone |
| 0:46.3 | to help keep future energy costs down for everyone |
| 0:48.8 | and help cut UK carbon emissions to nothing. |
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