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Kermode & Mayo’s Take
Sony Music
4.3 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:45.4 | It's a very boring technology conversation, but we're recording this in a slightly different way, |
| 0:49.4 | like on a 15 iPS roll of tape. |
| 0:53.1 | 15 inches per second for those from a previous physical era. |
| 0:59.7 | And we get a 54321 countdown, which is a visual thing, which I think is using exactly the same font as was used for the Thunderbirds TV show. |
| 1:09.2 | 5.4.3. |
| 1:10.5 | It's that. It's that. Definitely. Thunderbirds are go. So anyway, that's what this is. So August, what a great month it's been for me. Has it been a great month for you, Mark? I see you have particularly square glasses on today. You've seen these before. They're different glasses to normal. Yeah, but they're not your normal. Well, I mean, the point is, Simon, I now, I have 10 pairs of glasses. |
| 1:31.6 | The only two, three things I change are my glasses, my T-shirt, or my tie. |
| 1:36.9 | Everything else I wear is the same. |
| 1:39.0 | Week in, week out. |
| 1:41.1 | So, underpants, always the same. |
| 2:34.3 | No, clean, clean undergarments on, you know, but just in terms of the, you know, the present. So if I'm this, it's always a t-shirt, you know, drill, tradable jeans and a Harrington, but it's a different t-shirt and maybe a different Harrington. And if it's a suit, it's always the same suit, but a different tie and different thing. So I literally wake up in the morning and I have a line of glasses and I choose which pair of glasses I am going to wear on that day. And it makes me happy. Other people would start in showbiz world, I wake up, they would say, I wake up in the morning and I have a line, no, I just have a line. But you have a line of spectacles to choose from. I have one set of spectacles and you're looking at them. And now I'm feeling a little bit nervous that I need at least a few hours. Well, you do need at least a backup pair because what happens if that's, have you got a spare set? Only from about 20 years ago. |
| 2:35.5 | How would you feel... |
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