The Bush Telegraph: Dawn of the Planet of the Arbury Apes!!!!!!

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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There's a cryptid been spotted in Cambridge and it's far from the least believable thing you'll hear in today's podcast, where Mickey and Hannah are chatting about exclamation marks, assisted dying, renters' rights and AI being bad for older women in the workforce. * If you're missing your Jenny Off The Blocks fix, get over to our Substack where Jen is chatting about Mary Earps' autobiography and the many, many opinions on it: https://standardissuepodcast.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bush Telegraph.
0:01.9	Hello, welcome to the Bush Telegraph.
0:04.8	It's our take on the news.
0:06.8	I'm Mickey Noonan.
0:08.6	Mick, what's going on, Mick?
0:10.2	Hello!
0:12.9	Mickey?
0:13.6	What's happening? I don't like it.
0:15.4	No, me neither. Fair enough.
0:16.8	That was exhausting, frankly.
0:18.6	But it is the exclamation mark 700th anniversary?
0:22.5	Well, thereabouts.
0:24.3	What?
0:24.9	What?
0:26.2	Linguists reckon the exclamation mark was first used in the 14th century as a, quote,
0:31.1	point of admiration with claims of invention by Italian poet.
0:35.6	It was long dead, so we'll not mind my terrible pronunciation.
0:40.3	Lacapeau, Apolio de Urbizaglia.
0:44.6	Yeah?
0:45.1	That's got to be Yalcopo, surely.
0:48.1	I mean, spoken like a true Italian there.
0:54.9	Thank you.
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