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Standard Issue Podcast

The Bush Telegraph: Because we got high

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Hannah’s been looking for light at the end of the endlessly depressing news-tunnel and found it in the case of seven Adams County sheriff’s officers vs Joseph “Afroman” Foreman, as well as some delightful canine antics. There’s less happy news about top schools excluding SEND pupils, but a little Brucey bonus if you like not retraumatising victims of domestic abuse. Elsewhere, a gold rush ensues at the athletics, and Jenny Off The Blocks also ponders new FIFA rules on coaches in women’s football. Want to support us and enjoy additional content? Of course you do. And you can: patreon.com/standardissue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. A size too snug, but what could she do?

0:05.9

But that's not where her story ends. Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends,

0:10.9

she got her score into much better shape and relocated to a box fresh new place, with room to grow

0:16.9

and a mortgage to suit. Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots.

0:23.3

Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready.

0:26.5

Experian.

0:27.5

Better your score.

0:28.7

Better your story.

0:31.4

Bush Telegraph.

0:32.2

Hello, and welcome to the Bush Telegraph.

0:34.9

I'm Hannah Donleavy.

0:35.8

I just forgot the word for record. Anyway, I am joined by. Jen, Offord of Offord Town. Hello. Hi. Do you think Offord Town would be a good name? I kind of think it would. There's some villages near me called Offord. Do you mean Orford? Darsie and Offord Clooney. We've had this conversation. We have, haven't we? Yeah. No, there's a place called Orford Ness. So sometimes people think I'm called Orford, which there's no other guys. I'm not. Yeah, I think Offord town sounds quite elegant, don't you? That sounds like somewhere I'd want to live. I sort of do live there.

1:12.2

Quite. In a way.

1:15.2

We all live there in a way, Jen. My apology.

1:19.1

I bring this up because there are new towns coming, which is the story and should be the story,

1:25.9

but my complete aversion to horrible news stories or deep news

1:30.7

stories, I'm going to talk about the silly bit of it, which are the names that have been announced

1:34.1

for these towns, which are, have you seen it? I didn't mean understand because there's going to be a

1:38.5

new town in Thamesmead. I'm like, Thamesmead is part of London. Do we have towns in London? I never really thought of them as towns before. Sort of areas. They said there's going to be a new town in Milton Keyes, which is itself a new town. I don't know where. Are they building it on top? Like a multi-storri. Is M-K not a city? No, it's not a city. It should be because it's massive. I bet that's controversial. Or it might recently have been made a city, but it wasn't for a very long time. Anyway, the new towns for listeners, they are going to be called Elizabeth Town. Do not like that. That sounds like a Netflix teenage drama, doesn't it? It also sounds like quite colonial, I would say.

2:18.4

Like we've just discovered America.

2:20.4

Yeah, it sounds like a place that there was a massacre in South Africa in the 1920s or something.

2:24.7

Yeah.

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