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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk TV.

It's Christmas week.

We've got here.

Don't worry.

Notwithstanding the fact that you can't go anywhere, you know, you won't be able to get anywhere on a plane,

you won't be able to go anywhere on a train, You won't be able to go anywhere on a train. You won't be able to go anywhere in a car.

You won't be able to go anywhere basically at all. So just enjoy it. Sit back, watch Talk TV

and we will give you all the information you will ever need. Of course, many of you,

even if you weren't watching the World Cup final last night, will have realised that there are two things that have come out

of it. One, Gary Neville is a pound shop Gary Lineker. Two, the Qataris know how to throw a party

because not only did they throw a pretty good World Cup, notwithstanding the ins and outs of the

complaints from the BBC, the complaints from Gary Neville, the complaints from

Gary Linneker, the complaints from all sorts of Harry Keynes of the world, the people who didn't

want to have it there but went along anyway. What we do know is that they're very good at putting

on a party. You might not be able to have a drink, but it's not that bad. Lionel Messi, of course,

was left standing there holding the World

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