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London Calling

Sing Along if You Know the Words

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s London Calling, the topics under discussion are James’s recent trip to Bulgaria, Elon Musk’s purchase of close to 10% of Twitter, the ‘Respect my sex if you want my X’ campaign, and the Fixed Penalty Notice slapped on Boris’s “head of ethics” for attending a party in Downing Street. Which then leads to wonder just why karaoke seems to appeal so much to Tory politicians... Source

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0:00.0

This is London Calling.

0:02.0

London Calling.

0:03.0

You know, let me just point out this breaking news that Elon Musk is taking a 9 and a quarter percent stake in Twitter.

0:10.0

Twitter stock is soaring right now on this breaking news and you have to wonder whether Elon Musk's influence

0:17.0

on Twitter will actually change the company in any way.

0:21.9

Of course, it has been among those censoring this story.

0:25.2

We're going to take a look at Twitter stock later on but it is on fire right now on

0:29.9

this news that Elon Musk is taking a 9.1% state.

0:34.0

Welcome to London Calling with me, James Delling Pole and my very good friend Mr Toby Young.

0:44.4

Tobes it's another of those episodes isn't it where we we have to try and recreate in short space a fantastic conversation that we had in the previous podcast recording that I messed up probably because I had my evil

1:00.5

iPhone on my desk and if you have an iPhone on your desk by your recording equipment it

1:06.8

makes it buzz and I didn't hear it too late.

1:10.5

I did suggest to Brian our producer that we just put out a podcast which is me

1:16.7

talking eloquently and in an informed intelligent way about current affairs and you just you and then this weird buzzing sound

1:26.7

whenever you're speaking and I said actually the

1:30.7

with with team Toby with with team Toby, Toby, who are the kind of boring people who think that listening to you

1:40.0

droning on about your Toby shitbyship is something of interest to them.

1:45.8

The swathe members of team James would put it, it wouldn't matter.

1:49.4

It was just a kind of weird buzzing drone.

1:52.3

They would still agree with everything you'd buzzed about even

1:57.5

if it was completely incomprehensible they would they would certainly agree with

2:01.5

everything I said even it was a buzzing drone that's true

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