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Hello and welcome to That's Life, Spectator Life's sideways look at the world today.

I'm Benedict Spence and I'm Andy Shaw.

And on this podcast we'll be poking fun at the people, words and ideas that have popped up in the news over the last few weeks.

Our guest for this episode is Ward-winning comedian Leo Kiers.

Leo recently tweeted his admiration for the Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford,

after he successfully persuaded the government into a U-turn on free school meals.

This made him the most successful public lobbyist of the government since Joanna Lumley,

and I think he probably deserves some sort of recognition, naming a building after him,

or perhaps a statue somewhere. Leo, it's great to have you with us. How have you been making the

most of your newfound freedom now that lockdown is slowly, slowly, tentatively beginning to end?

Well, I was stuck in Australia for most of it and I've come back now and instead of making the most of my newfound freedom, I've got a newfound having to wear a face mask, newfound, like not being able to go to the pub. There doesn't seem to be a lot of freedom.

It's not even like, it's not even nice weather.

The Australian winter was better than like the British summer.

So I wish I'd stayed in Australia, frankly.

Where everything's open and you can go to comedy club so you can earn money, it's brilliant.

Yeah, well, I don't know why he came back really, Leo.

I know when you were in Australia, you were shooting videos on the beach yeah back to us in the uk everyone in lockdown and you put a compilation together

called uh wankers loving lockdown which was just i thought was really hilarious wankers loving

loving lockdown you just put this video out on the internet and this is. Do you want to explain what

this is? Is it about onanism or is something a little more? All the people who are like,

are like having a great time during coronavirus because of us environmentalists are loving it because

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