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Page 94: the Private Eye Podcast.

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Andy: ho, And welcome to the special post festive edition of page 94.

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My name's Andrew Hunter Murray.

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I'm here in the Eye Studio with Helen Lewis and Adam McQueen.

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We're all wearing hats.

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But we're not here to talk about the hats.

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We're here because

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special,

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Adam: Can we talk about that?

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Andy: Please?

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Stop.

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Sniggering.

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Adam: Guys,

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Helen: it's the way You've got a ball

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if you're here.

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It's

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Adam: Your little Christmas elf is so sweet.

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Andy: sweet.

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Hello.

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Welcome to page 94.

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We are doing a special end of year, Christmas slash new year quiz.

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Very exciting.

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This is always very hotly contested.

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we've each written around the other two are gonna contest in each round.

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Can I, can we just start with a sense check of our, buzzers.

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If you hear this noise, that's Helen buzzing in.

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If you hear this one,

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Adam: slays ring.

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How you listening,

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Andy: And this one,

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Adam: the clanging Chimes of doom

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Andy: is me.

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Thank you.

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Brilliant.

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I'll kick off with the roundabout UK politics this year.

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Adam: Woohoo.

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Andy: fingers on those buzzers.

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Or bells or Horns

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Okay,

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Helen: Yeah.

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Andy: Liz Trus sent Kia Starr a cease and desist letter in January.

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What was she asking?

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Stama to stop doing a presiding over a culture of decline.

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B, telling everyone what his father did for a living.

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C. Letting migrants come here from Cali or D saying she crashed the economy,

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Helen

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Helen: saying she crashed the

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Andy: economy.

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Yes, that's right.

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Easy

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one to kick off.

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Her letter was six pages long.

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And

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it said Stama had harmed her reputation and contributed to her losing her

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seat in the 2024 general election.

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She said it also wasn't a crash of the economy because it

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technically didn't involve a fall in GDP or a rise in unemployment.

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Very comforting.

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For those of you listening with mortgages,

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Adam: ever, there was a case for an Al V press TRA

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Andy: response,

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that

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was the world.

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I think It may not even have gotten KO V press str response.

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Anyway, there we go.

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We're off the blocks.

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Helen.

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One point, next up.

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Also in January this year, Mike Amesbury,

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labor

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MP admitted assault by beating after getting into a physical

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fight with a constituent in his runcorn and Helms B constituency.

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He's now no longer a labor mp, but what and his constituent disagreed over?

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Was it local transport infrastructure?

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Was

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it GP appointment availability?

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Was

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it the rise in antisocial behavior, or was it bins?

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Adam,

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Adam: it was a transport one, wasn't it?

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Andy: Transport.

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Adam: was about buses.

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Andy: Helen, do you want to weigh in?

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Helen: I think it was, what's the second one again?

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Andy: GP appointments.

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Helen: I'm gonna say GP appointments.

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Andy: Adam wins it.

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It was transport infrastructure, but it wasn't buses.

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I'll just tell you quickly what it was.

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It was about the 99-year-old Sutton Weaver swing bridge.

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Adam: which of us hasn't had a fight in the

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Andy: street about that?

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It's about, this bridge is a terrific swing bridge which connects the town of

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fraud with a village of Sutton Weaver next door.

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does, it's due for substantial repair works, which have been causing 20

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mile detours for some local residents.

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the works have begun, but obviously, 'cause this is Britain,

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they haven't finished yet.

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Apparently they'll be concluding in February.

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Great.

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One point to Adam.

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So you both, you've both got honor now.

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So now let's just carry on,

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Adam: Even though we've got Christmas hats on, we have on

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Andy: next up, the s and p's married black.

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The party's former deputy leader in Westminster, I

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think one of the youngest mps in that whole, time.

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She wasn't mp.

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She left the party in July this year.

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What is her new media based career move going to be?

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Will she be doing communications for the Mack Ferry Company?

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Will she be on the next series of strictly.

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Will she be starring an illegal drama set in Scotland or will she

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be the voice of the lifts in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in air

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Out

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of lift Lifts.

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Helen: I'm gonna go

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Mack 'cause it's funny, but it's also a real government job.

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Andy: Oh, I'm sorry you've both fallen into my trap.

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Yeah.

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She's going to be in illegal drama called Councils Set in Scotland.

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Yeah.

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She's gonna be playing, I think, maybe a police officer Blind.

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I know, obviously it's not the lift at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in air.

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The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in air is a cottage with no lifts.

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I, you should have known that

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there.

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McQue McQueen.

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Adam: the tragedy.

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Helen: Adam,

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Andy: It's not a tragedy.

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It's a terrific museum.

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Anyway, no schools there.

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Helen: I went out canvasing when I went to report on, her canvassing

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when she won that seat in 2015.

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She was, enough.

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She'd just finished her final year at university and she was up against Douglas

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Alexander, who was then shadow foreign

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of a labor Big beast.

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Yeah.

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Happy ending though.

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She's in illegal drama, he's now back in government.

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Andy: So, everyone's got something out.

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Adam: and neither of them are voice of any lifts?

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Andy: career options

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out there?

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Next up Rail Minister Peter Hendy.

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Known to us all.

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I know

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Helen: Handy Hendy

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Andy: received a fine.

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Adam: That's one the lawyer's gonna question

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isn't it?

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Helen: because he has a German word for mobile

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Adam: Okay.

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Andy: Peter Hendy Rail Minister received a fine earlier this year for, what was it?

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Littering outta the window of a moving train.

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remind

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you he's a rail minister, Was he using his phone while driving a bus.

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Was it unwarranted use of the horn while driving?

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vandalism in the lieu of a virgin pendolino.

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Helen,

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Helen: I wanna go

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Andy: littering outta the window of a

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Adam: train.

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No.

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'cause you can't open the windows on trains anymore, can you?

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Helen: the ones in the vestibule you

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' Andy: cause of woke.

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Go on.

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Adam: you

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I'm gonna go for, what was the third one?

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Andy: Unwarranted use of the horn.

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Adam: Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah,

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Between

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11:00

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PM and 7:00

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Helen: just to

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Adam: Very good.

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Helen: people what that might sound like.

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Andy: I'm afraid he used his phone while driving a vintage

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Routemaster bus through London.

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Helen: That's one I didn't buy.

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'cause I was like, why would he be driving a bus?

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Andy: it.

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was for a, It was for a charity called Railway Family.

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He's the rail minister.

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Adam: So he drove a bus?

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Helen: okay, so his nickname could be hands free Hendy.

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'cause that's what he

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Andy: done.

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very good.

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Helen: For

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Andy: he can, think of that new nickname as he considers

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the six points on his license.

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He's got and a fine

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right now.

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We've had some quite trivial political matters there.

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I know.

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We, haven't spent all year thinking about.

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Peter Hendy.

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but let's move to some big, stuff now, right?

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Robert

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Jen's little videos.

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Yes.

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Which of these subjects has Robert Wick not made one of his

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little videos about this year?

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Was

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it a

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going to migrant camps in Northern France to call the police?

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Was it b going to a car boot sale, looking for some stolen it C going in a

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spitfire to complain that young people didn't know about the Battle of Britain

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d following fly tippers in a hired Van.

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Helen: I'm going spitfire just because I feel like I would remember that.

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Andy: Yep.

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Yeah,

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Adam: Yeah.

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I'm gonna go spitfire as well.

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actually.

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Andy: Oh, I'm so sorry.

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You're both wrong.

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What's What?

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He went off in a spitfire.

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Adam: He went

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Helen: No way.

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Okay.

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That is objectively quite cool.

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Andy: but a lot of under forties.

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Helen: I didn't even know that video he's, quite

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Adam: right.

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turned, Raising awareness.

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He's not doing terribly well,

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Andy: is he?

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but he went up in a spitfire to, to complain that young people didn't

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know about the Battle of Britain.

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So good for him.

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Helen: in, they have a gunner seat then presumably it's a two seater.

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Adam: sadly not an ejector seat.

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which should

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been

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Helen: I just, I'm trying to re summon back my memories of what happened in Bigs,

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but that was a lot of, that was the soap with Camel in the first World War.

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Andy: Yes.

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Helen: technology obviously came on.

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Andy: I'd just like to shut down any people writing in saying that the

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Spitfire doesn't have a separate gunner's seat, because I believe it doesn't.

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Helen: what was he sitting in

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Adam: there?

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are

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entire podcasts, about this already.

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We don't need to get into this area.

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Andy: Murray drops a line.

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and Tell us what you think.

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What Genrich didn't do this year was following flight tippers in a hired Van.

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He did

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go up in a spitfire.

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He did go to migrant camps in Northern France to call the fuzz,

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and he did go to car boot sales.

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looking

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for stolen goods.

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Adam: And he did walk round talking about fly tipping, didn't he?

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In Hansworth?

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Yes.

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that's

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when the Van.

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I, he

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wasn't,

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Helen: how has he not been to that big field in Oxford?

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That's full of, fly tip.

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You, I could still see him surfing down

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Andy: there.

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Helen: anyway, Robert, if you're listening,

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Andy: absolutely.

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staying with the Conservative party for the moment, which of

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these items was not available to buy or on display at this year's?

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Tory conference was a Margaret Thatcher?

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Toby Jug.

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Was it a Thatcher Christmas bobble reading?

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ho, ho.

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No,

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Helen: If you've invented that, then that's, they should get on that.

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Andy: Was

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it an AI Thatcher, which allowed her to speak on current policy matters,

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or was it a Thatcher impersonator on the decks at one of the parties?

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Adam: is the Christmas ball.

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You made that one up.

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Andy: Okay.

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Helen: I'm

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okay, but just to be different.

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I'm gonna go with the AI Thatcher

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Andy: guys.

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This is a low scoring quiz so far.

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You're both wrong.

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The thing that wasn't there was a Thatcher impersonator on the

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decks at one of the parties.

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To my knowledge, I did search and try and find out if that had happened.

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No, they had, they had the Christmas bobs and they had, the AI Thatcher.

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Adam: I remember the, AI Thatcher.

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you

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Andy: could

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just

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Adam: post a letter to her couldn't you?

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And she would come back to you from beyond the grave.

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Helen: It's like a Ouija board.

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That's

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a bit tasteless.

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Andy: little bit.

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They also had some of her outfits on display.

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Yeah.

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Helen: Great.

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Great outfits

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Andy: showing that they're a party looking to the future.

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It's also a hundred years this year since she was born.

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Adam: Wow.

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Andy: I know.

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Next question.

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This is now the Fabric of Parliament Bit as part of its ongoing renovation.

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What did the Houses of Parliament spend nearly 10 million pounds on this year?

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Was it a single door which trapped disabled people inside it?

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Was it an entire building of windows which concentrate the sun

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on it a lift for some falcons?

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Or was it some paint, which turns out to contain lead.

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Adam

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Adam: lead

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Andy: It's

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the

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It's

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the door.

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Adam's.

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got it.

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It's the door.

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It's the door

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Adam: the door.

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It's the door on the House of Lord's entrance, isn't

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Andy: it?

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it's absolutely that.

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And it has trapped people in wheelchairs inside it, and it needs a security

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officer to press a button to operate it.

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It's,

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a bad door, but it's only cost 9.6 million pounds, to be fair.

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I know.

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Helen: I feel, again, it's one of those things where you feel like I got to

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probably about for fair, about 500 quid.

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install the door that

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Adam: but as expensive

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metaphors go.

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the wing of the,

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Andy: yes.

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Adam: The White

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House is probably a, bit, of a better one, isn't

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Andy: it?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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and just so you know, there was a project to Rehouse the resident, I think

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it's Peregrine Falcons, but that cost a mere 80,000 pounds to rehouse, two

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of them, or 40,000 pounds of Falcon.

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Bargain.

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Adam: quite right, too.

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Yeah.

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And More appreciated than any other inhabitants.

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Helen: To be fair, I imagine that they do sterling work in

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how many, imagine what town?

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Clean pigeon droppings off all that Like

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Andy: yeah, absolutely.

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Helen: They earn their weight in whatever they get

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Adam: scrap.

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Helen: of bacon.

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Andy: next up

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disruptors.

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who does,

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Adam: oh sorry.

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I think you were just addressing this.

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No.

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Andy: this time.

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Who does Zara Sultana say she and former potential co-leader of your party?

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Jeremy Corbin alike.

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Is it Princess Harry and William?

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it the Gallagher Brothers?

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Is it the

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MFRs or is it Can and

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Abel,

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Helen: It's the Gallagher

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Andy: the Gallagher It's the Gallagher Brothers

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Helen: Do I like it?

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You like the MVAs?

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They're just like, they've got one who's a fascist sist.

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One who's a lesbian.

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One likes horses,

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Adam: Great.

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Andy: It is the Gallaghers.

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She said in October.

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I know that I'm in Manchester, so I have to reference Liam and

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Noel Gallagher if they can do it.

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Of course, me and Jeremy can after this.

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She then organized a speech simultaneously with Jeremy's for the first night

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and then

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boycotted the following day

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Harmony remains,

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Helen: to be fair, it took them 20 years to need the money enough

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to get back together again.

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So maybe it will all work out okay for Zara

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Andy: Good.

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point.

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Very good point.

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Couple more.

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of these is the odd one out and why

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gonna be strict On Lucy Powell, New deputy leader of Labor.

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Adam: Yep.

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Andy: Yeah.

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Nick Robinson.

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Laura Konberg, Donald Trump.

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Adam: Lucy Powell's

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gonna feel terrible that she needed glossing.

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You thought we wouldn't know who the deputy leader at Labor was.

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Andy: I'm sorry.

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Donald Trump, president of the USA.

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There we go.

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Adam.

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Adam: Donald Trump's American.

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Andy: Correct?

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I can't give it you.

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Adam: Sorry.

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that was correct.

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I wanna point

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Helen: only one of them's president.

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this could get ridiculous.

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is it about.

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Suing people.

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Andy: It's not, shall I tell

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Helen: it about having a podcast?

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Andy: It's

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about having a

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modern thing.

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account, one of them has this and the other three have merely, been and the

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other three have been victims of a scam claiming they've got a such a I'm

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gonna put you all outta your misery.

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It's

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Helen: Oh,

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Andy: the

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first three, Powell, Robinson and Coonsburg, they have all been hacked

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on Twitter, by hackers posting adverts for fictional meme coins.

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Powell's was the, dollar sign, HCC, the House of Commons coin.

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Nick Robinson had the dollar sign.

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Today coin, only President Donald Trump has actually

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launched his own cryptocurrency.

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The dollar sign, Trump and the value since launch is down by 85%.

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Adam: What

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was the Kosberg one?

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Kosberg GR Grand.

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Andy: I actually don't, I didn't write down.

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It's the only one I didn't write down.

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Again, with your laser-like journalism skills,

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Adam, you

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Adam: found,

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Andy: and you've zeroed in on it.

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Final

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one.

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What did.

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Kent County Council spend 11,000 pounds on this year prompting

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taking down patriotic flags?

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Was it a logo for its Doge department?

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Was

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it equality, diversity and inclusion training, or was it imitation

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coal fires for its offices?

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Adam,

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Adam: was it taking the flags down so they could put

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Christmas

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Andy: decorations?

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It was taking down the

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Adam: flags, yes, because then Warwick, the 12-year-old, is in charge

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of Warwick Council, said that he.

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was going to take all the flags down and stall them very, carefully and

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put them back up in January as a

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Andy: Lovely,

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lovely.

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yes.

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what an exciting round.

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That was it.

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Adam, I think you've won.

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Oh,

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Adam: Oh,

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Andy: very close round.

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Three, two Close but low scoring.

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close, but

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rubbish.

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Helen: wait,

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I wouldn't get cocky.

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We're about to get into Adam's

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Andy: Yeah, absolutely.

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well done everyone.

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I had a great time.

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I hope you did too.

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Adam: I would just like to say it's not a difficult round if you've

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been bothering to read the Streets of Shame pages in private high.

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All year.

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or rather, for about the first six months of this year.

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'cause that's when I got bored going through them and thinking up questions.

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Andy: right.

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Far away

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Adam: this Christmas sees Murdoch's children, James, Elizabeth, and Prudence.

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firmly

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on Father Rupert's naughty list and Lan Grayson Chloe getting

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extra helping is a plumb pudding.

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But how much did Dad shell out to each of his least favorite children

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to settle the succession battle over his business empire in September?

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Andy: $1 billion.

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Helen: $300

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Adam: a pound.

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Helen: doesn't really matter when he's gone for a Alright.

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Adam: you're both, right.

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Andy, do I give this to you as close?

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$1.1 billion.

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Wow.

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Helen: Wow.

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Adam: 810 million pounds.

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Thank you.

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So someone's having a lovely Christmas dinner.

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this So one point to Andy so far,

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, How much cash did Tortoise Media hand over to the Guardian in order

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to take over the Observer newspaper?

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Helen: This

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Adam: go on, Helen.

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Was

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Helen: it one pound?

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Andy: can I?

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Helen: was technically minus ended up putting a big investment

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Andy: I think it's 5 million

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That The guardian paid,

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it is either five or 25.

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Adam: It was the Guardian pa, right?

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You've got, you've, both of you're gonna get a point on

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Helen: that Yeah,

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Adam: you both got different hearts it was a trick question.

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it was actually the Guardian who paid tortoise to take

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the observer off their hands.

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They put 5 million pounds of investment into them and said, that's your problem.

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Now you've gotta deal with It both get a

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Helen: bargaining by the Guardian, wasn't it, in that essentially the initial

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offer was a pound and then they ended up

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Andy: can we actually give

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you

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Adam: 5 million?

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Helen: just desperate

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Andy: 2025

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Adam: an unexpected change of astrologer, unexpected,

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you see what I've done there?

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unexpected change of astrologer at the Daily Mail with Oscar Cana, replaced

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by his cousin Jemima, the daughter of original horoscope, botherer Jonathan.

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What

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was Oscar's surprising parting revelation?

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Helen: Hadn't he communicated with a ghost of someone?

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Quite important.

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Adam: no.

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I think that you're, think you can come back to the Tory party conference now.

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The Ai

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Thatcher,

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Helen: oh, do

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Adam: quite A

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simple one.

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It's one all of us might be capable of making about horoscopes

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Helen: as, and this all, it was all fraud.

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It's all made up.

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Adam: Well, effectively, yes.

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He said, I don't think I can predict the future much better than anyone

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else, and neither did my uncle.

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who was of course, the best paid journalist on Fleet

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Andy: Street for very

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many years.

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Helen: Hang on a minute, but did, did, was he outed or did he resign of his own

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volition going, I can't do it anymore.

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I don't care.

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They're all the same.

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There's no difference between Libra and Aquarius.

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Adam: was just ousted by

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his, by his cousin who does fancy to go.

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Helen: I do remember that being an incredibly good story.

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But

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Adam: was

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a fun one.

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Yeah.

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okay.

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Royal News, the Prince and Princess of Wales dispatched a letter

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to newspapers via their lawyers

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Mishcon Dere at the beginning of the year,

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complaining

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about invasions of their family's privacy.

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What particular phrase as featured in the Male Express Hello and Okay magazines.

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Were they particularly concerned

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Andy: Ooh,

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Helen: Surely it's not all grown

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Adam: I'm afraid.

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It is.

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This

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the most tasteless, Christmas question, I'm afraid.

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Yeah.

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All grown up.

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Specifically they said the media presenting their 11, nine and 6-year-old

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children in a more adult-like manner than it's appropriate may lead to

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fascination and even potential online.

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Andy: did one of the papers age them up to say, this is what they're gonna

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look like when they're grownups?

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Adam: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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They've done that A bit dodgy

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So in conclusion,

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name all three entities that have nearly bought the telegraph this year.

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Andy: Oh, oh, but haven't?

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Adam: I'm gonna let Yandy you are behind, so I'm gonna let you go on that one.

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Helen: Oh, you can all get red bird, Andy.

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Andy: Bird?

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Actually,

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Adam: Nadi Nadim.

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Not just Redbird.

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Come on.

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I need specifics.

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Helen: red Bird IMI

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Adam: this year.

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Andy: Redbird China edition

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Adam: effectively.

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But I

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Helen: Redbird Taylor's version K

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Andy: Pyong Yang.

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Kim Jong.

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Un,

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Helen: The Daily Mail group,

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Andy: Boko Haram.

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Adam: Between you, you've got one.

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Helen: were worried that Boca Harrah's market share would be too large.

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Adam: The Daily Mail group are currently in the running to take him

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over at some point in the new year.

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the Redbird who, tried to buy it from the original, and current

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owners, Redbird, IMI, were Redbird

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Capital.

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Can

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you remember the person who running at the

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Helen: beginning?

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Oh, dove.

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Dove foreman.

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No, that's the

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Andy: No Divo Divo.

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Doy

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Adam: Just

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go with

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All unlikely vowels in the, in in the name David and you.

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will get

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Andy: there.

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David.

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David.

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Adam: Do David Une.

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Yes.

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Owner of the New York Sun.

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Helen: I think we should deserve a point for that because that

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was

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Adam: have a point.

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It's

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Andy: Christmas,

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Adam: whatever.

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Helen: you.

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Well done.

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Adam: means you

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both equal on three?

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in this round At the

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moment.

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So it's all very, exciting.

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What

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is unusual about Daily Mail website hack Melody Fletcher

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Ting

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go on.

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Andy: doesn't, exist.

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Adam: Yep, that's exactly it.

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She is a pseudonym used by journalists who either don't want to put their

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real names to the stories they're obliged to write because they're

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afraid of the reaction from fans.

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Of people like Taylor Swift,

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who

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Helen: I think they're fans of the Daily Mail

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Adam: Get

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Monster online.

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So they just put the name Melody Fletcher on it instead.

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Or they just put the name Melody Fletcher on it because they just so

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embarrassed by what Appalling crap.

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Helen: I thought you were say she was gonna be ai, but that's

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like the

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Adam: pre ai, she's literally

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Helen: like Alan, Hollywood film directors using Alan Smithy when they didn't want

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Adam: Yeah, it's exactly that.

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It was

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the story.

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over, 11 in Stranger clapped back against

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Andy: Yeah.

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After

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that,

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Adam: They just started putting Melody Fletcher on absolutely

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anything they wrote about her, but various other people as well.

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The telegraph in a front page, exclusive, revealing what it claimed

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was a free speech row in March.

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Described comments, reform, supporter, and peculiar plumber Charlie Mullins had made

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criticizing

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London's mayor in what might be termed a robust manner.

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What

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did Mullins actually

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Andy: say about

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car?

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Yeah, go on.

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He said something like, someone should kill

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Adam: him.

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He said Exactly.

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Someone should kill him.

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Specifically.

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Time to dump the Muslim mayor.

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Someone should kill him.

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That's free Speech telegraph

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Helen: It's fairly unambiguous, isn't it?

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It's not really.

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The dog whistle.

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There.

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Adam: one

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more,

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Helen: the

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Adam: Andy.

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You just,

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Helen: I just

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love my

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Adam: we are gonna take that

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away from you at the end of the recording, You can't just keep it forever.

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Helen: It's very dusty.

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I don't think people have been using it

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Adam: We haven't used it since last year as Christmas, Chris.

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That's why it's been sitting on a shelf

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celebrating

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her first full decade as Editor The guardian's, Kath Weiner boasted this

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spring that when she had taken over, the guardian was making big losses and

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the business model was not sustainable

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2015 that year.

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The guardian's losses stood at 17.6 million.

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What did they stand out in?

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2025.

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Andy: numbers?

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Helen: 17.7 million

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can we just say about, I say

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Andy: higher,

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Adam: higher.

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Helen: hundred million.

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Adam: Lower.

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24.3 million.

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Although the Guardian does prefer to term them as.

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Adjusted cash outflow for the operating business, which is a rather wonderful

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And it was down for 37 million

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Andy: should

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say.

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Oh, Okay.

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Helen: And it went through profitability for a while, didn't

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Adam: Yeah.

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And then straight out the other

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Helen: side

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and we were like, oh, we don't like

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Andy: this.

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Oh,

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Helen: It's not the guardian way.

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Adam: Right.

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I think Andy was closest on that.

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So I'm gonna give Andy a point on that one.

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and in your final question, the Daily Express was way out ahead

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in 2024 as the most successfully complained about newspaper.

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with Seven breaches of the editor's code and ipso obliged corrections this year.

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higher or lower

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Helen: Gotta be higher.

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Andy: I'll be sporting and

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Adam: I'm gonna, I'm

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gonna need a honk.

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need a ding.

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Andy: Lower.

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Adam: You're wrong, Andy.

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They were all higher.

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Oh, there was higher.

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12 of them.

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12 complaints upheld so far.

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And amazingly,

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every

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single one of them was from the same complainant.

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who is a man called Alan Williams Key, who seems to have made his full-time

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job just to complain about inaccurate coverage

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in the Daily Express.

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Wow.

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Andy: Wow.

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Does he have a special subject?

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Do we know?

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Is it

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he's

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particularly

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Adam: keen on economics and criticisms of Rachel Reeves.

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He's not as far as I know.

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Related he's

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Helen: Rachel Reeves.

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only fan.

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That's exciting.

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Adam: and on that round we have a total of four for Helen and five for

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Andy: handing.

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Yes.

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Helen: just a wipe out for me over and over again.

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Andy: Did you lose the last one as well?

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I did.

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I'm sorry.

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Helen

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Helen: and I, but by default lost this one

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Andy: because I know you're competitive.

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I know you're competitive.

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And

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Helen: It's fine.

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I actually

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Andy: be really sticking in the craw.

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Helen: I've actually tried to this.

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Yeah.

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I've really learned to be humble,

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This is the 12 Trumps of Christmas.

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Adam: Oh, brilliant.

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Fantastic.

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Helen: Which of the following did Donald Trump not do on his first day in office?

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Now this will be multiple choice A ban.

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TikTok B, change the name of Denali back to Mount McKinley.

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C. Declare there are only two sexes or D withdraw from the WHO.

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Andy: Ooh,

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Helen: Adam.

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Adam: Is it the banning TikTok because they did preemptively canceled themselves,

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Helen: okay

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Andy: I'll say the mountain thing, which he probably did do at some

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point, but didn't do on day one.

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Helen: He did do it on day one.

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It is in fact banning TikTok as, as you observed.

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instead,

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he seems to plan to frog it off to some of his mates and still

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have the algorithm run by China.

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As Elon Musk time and Doge drew to a close, he appeared at a White

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House event with a black eye.

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It is generally agreed that he was decked by Scott Besant, the treasury

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secretary who hates But who did Elon try and blame the injury on?

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Andy: His we lad

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Helen: can you gimme the name of his wi?

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We lad

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Andy: XI source code

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forward

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slash

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Helen: absolutely final.

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This one.

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New document to X?

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Yes.

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like a, no, this

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is like a,

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Andy: this

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Helen: like one of us trying to file a piece through the,

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subs on the Monday morning.

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Yeah, no, absolutely use this one.

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yes.

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I was just horsing around with little X and I said go ahead, punch me in the face.

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And he did.

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Mr. Musk explained

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Adam: if only he would

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extend this invitation to would be a better

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Helen: Okay?

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In May, after the death of Pope Francis, suggest could be the

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next Pope tweeting an AI generated image of them in full papal regalia

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It was of course himself.

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Yes.

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else.

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No, it was not, which political disruptor explained his nickname like this.

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I use it as my LinkedIn username.

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People on LinkedIn take themselves super seriously and

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they're pretty averse of risk.

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And I was like, I wanna be no there of those things.

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So I just said it, and honestly, I didn't think anybody would notice.

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Andy: Is

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it.

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The guy from Doge who's called Big Balls?

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Helen: It is the guy from Doge, who's called Big Balls, Edward

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Adam: forgotten Big Balls.

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Wow.

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Helen: I'm

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afraid Big Balls has now left Doge.

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Much like the Ravens leaving the Tower of London, big balls has departed.

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Yes.

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well done.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Doing very well.

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Both of you.

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Andy: I think we're connected on LinkedIn here and I, so

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Helen: I wonder if it was in the middle of his name or if

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that was just his first name.

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So anyway, we can investigate this later in July, which political

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candidate was accused by arrival of slapping fannies and killing grannies.

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Adam: I

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mean, that surely that's Trump, isn't

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it?

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Helen: It wasn't.

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Not in this case, no.

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And this was, I would say the American fanny meaning bottom.

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Andy: Oh,

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I think

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Adam: of grabbing pussies on time, not slapping

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Fannie,

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Andy: I'll say RFK.

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Helen: Again, a good guess, but no, it was Andrew Cuomo candidate for New

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York Mayor who had earlier resigned his governor of New York over sexual

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harassment allegations and his COVID policies around care homes.

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The phrase comes from

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his

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Adam: I just have a moment because

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you bring up RFK and that contest has just brought back the poem and it's just, I

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Helen: you are my

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just, you are my valley.

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I am your.

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Andy: look.

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let's press on.

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People are full of crisp with food.

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They wanna hear this.

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s much.

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Adam: yes.

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They'll bring it up.

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Helen: the phrase comes from, his Republican rival, Curtis Lier.

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Andy: It's a very good political phrase.

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Helen: It's, and delivered in a proper New York accent as well.

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a proper, I'm walking here slapping Fannie killing grannies.

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It was great.

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Andy: I'm

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still

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stuck

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on wondering whether big balls is related.

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To Ed

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Helen: Bulls, but Ed Bulls always used to tell a joke about his name, which

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was like, don't feel sorry for me.

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Feel sorry for my sister, Ophelia.

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Andy: Lovely, lovely.

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Adam: wanna know if his big ball's All one word, like you said, or whether it's

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like Meat Loaf, who like to be referred to by people who Interviewed him.

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I was one as Mr. Loaf.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I'm afraid, I was told that just as I was entering the room to

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interview,

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be called Mr.

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Loaf.

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So I entered the room going,

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Andy: that.

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No, we

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didn't get on,

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there's a Meatloaf tribute Act called Pete Loaf.

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That's

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brilliant.

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yeah.

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Anyway,

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Sorry,

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Carry on.

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Helen: In October, Donald Trump posted a video of himself flying over

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the No Kings protestors wearing a crown and dropping a what on them?

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I'm gonna give it to you, although sound travels.

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Yeah, it's they

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Andy: Gee, I've got the advantage.

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I think it was.

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CGI poo.

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Adam: it was,

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your the

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papers insisted that it

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was ambiguous, didn't they?

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They said

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a brown liquid.

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And then second mention, they

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said resembling

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Helen: Yes.

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The New York Times in its classic way was like, we can't be

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absolutely sure it's human poo.

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But that was, definitely the implication.

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Yeah.

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Adam: that can be said of

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just Dumping poo on your own and We might do it, but you

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wouldn't necessarily publicize

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Helen: You think you could imagine kiss actually dumping poor people,

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just not tweeting about it.

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What's an allegation to make at Christmas?

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Which of the following did Secretary of Defense or other Secretary of War, Pete

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Heer,

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not attack in a rambling speech to which he summoned all American

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military personnel in September?

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Was it A Fat Troops B, fat Generals and Admirals, C,

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beos,

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or D people who claim exemptions from military service on

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spurious health grants?

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Adam,

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Adam: Boulogne Spurs,

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isn't it?

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It's the last

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Helen: It was.

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I did a bit of their, of topical satire related to the fact that

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Donald Trump got out of the draft for the Vietnam War had Boulogne spurs

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Andy: satire

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Adam: about the Vietnam War.

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That's what they come here.

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for.

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Andy: for,

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question please.

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Yes.

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What is a beard though?

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It's

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Helen: a person with a be.

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Andy: Oh, okay.

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Helen: but in a sort of hippie-ish way.

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And there's a slightly sinister overtone to it because most of the people who

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have medical exemptions from shaving are black guys who have a particular

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condition where your follicles get irritated by shaving, which is much

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more common, people with darker skin.

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And and, also, yeah, the people with religious exemptions too.

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so there is a, slightly unfortunate undertone to his, the war on Beos.

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Adam: I

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would just like to one out there today, I'm not only a beo,

00:28:55,576 → 00:28:59,121

but I am wearing my XMA hat.

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I'm,

00:29:01,306 → 00:29:02,626

with the woke brigade this Christmas,

00:29:02,677 → 00:29:04,194

Helen: Merry Wokeness wasn't there?

00:29:04,194 → 00:29:05,754

I'm sure there was a GB news section.

00:29:05,754 → 00:29:06,414

It was called Merry

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Adam: Almost It's been canceled and you'll have to call it Winterville.

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Andy: I'll just say Happy holes.

00:29:12,894 → 00:29:12,904

yeah,

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Helen: Who was revealed to have written these words this upon a time, an

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intelligent, sharp witted man they call mysterious parachuted into my life.

00:29:22,704 → 00:29:27,414

He would spend many hours just waiting for him often, no sooner were you used

00:29:27,414 → 00:29:30,804

to having him around, he would suddenly be alone again, leaving you with

00:29:30,804 → 00:29:35,304

some interesting friends to entertain instead, the gentle jingle that says, a

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Adam: the gentle jingle that says, I'm just so relieved that you

00:29:37,689 → 00:29:39,069

didn't quote what he wrote to her.

00:29:39,129 → 00:29:40,029

It's Olivia Nazi,

00:29:40,084 → 00:29:40,224

Helen: isn't

00:29:40,224 → 00:29:40,314

it?

00:29:40,344 → 00:29:41,034

It is not?

00:29:41,634 → 00:29:42,354

no, it is not

00:29:42,804 → 00:29:43,439

Adam: Oh, Okay.

00:29:43,444 → 00:29:43,524

Blamy.

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Andy: Oh.

00:29:45,069 → 00:29:49,569

I'll say British GB News hack Beverly Turner talking about Donald

00:29:50,634 → 00:29:51,234

Helen: It is not.

00:29:51,234 → 00:29:51,564

It is,

00:29:51,579 → 00:29:53,394

Adam: Is it Donald Trump talking about GB news Hack.

00:29:53,394 → 00:29:53,934

Beverly Turner.

00:29:54,399 → 00:29:54,609

Andy: it

00:29:55,059 → 00:29:56,259

Is it Ghislaine

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Helen: It's in that You getting warmer?

00:29:58,944 → 00:29:59,484

Oh, warmer.

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Adam: It was, it is Peter Mandelson about Epstein, isn't it?

00:30:02,064 → 00:30:02,394

Helen: It is.

00:30:02,394 → 00:30:03,624

Peter Manon about Epstein.

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I'm not gonna give you that point because you had five wrong answers

00:30:06,504 → 00:30:08,094

before that and you've made your own bed

00:30:08,154 → 00:30:08,304

there.

00:30:10,369 → 00:30:10,849

Andy: What did he say?

00:30:10,849 → 00:30:11,149

A A

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Helen: A man commenter.

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And then you'd be left with some interesting friends to entertain instead.

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Again, not a thing.

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You want to later been discovered to written in the

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birthday book of a pedophile

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up there with, let's play again soon from Andrew.

00:30:24,699 → 00:30:25,149

One.

00:30:25,149 → 00:30:25,659

Here go.

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It's, happening now.

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In November, US journalist Ryan Lizza accused his ex-fiancee Olivia Nazi, also a

00:30:32,739 → 00:30:36,969

journalist of having an affair with former presidential candidate Mark Sanford.

00:30:37,776 → 00:30:41,436

Back in 2009 when Sanford ducked outta his campaign to visit his

00:30:41,436 → 00:30:45,976

mistress in South America, which incredible euphemism did he deploy?

00:30:46,606 → 00:30:47,146

Okay, ready?

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This is it, a boating in the Ozarks

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two

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B. Hiking the Appalachian Trail

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C playing hacky sack in Maine, or d attending a hoedown in Harrisburg.

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Andy: I'll

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say,

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Adam: it's

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the hiking in the Appalachians.

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'cause you've enjoyed the others far too much.

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clearly.

00:31:08,536 → 00:31:08,746

Or in

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Andy: I'm gonna, I'm gonna go for it.

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I'm gonna say a hoedown

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00:31:10,951 → 00:31:11,761

Helen: in Harrisburg.

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Harrisburg.

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I've been to Harrisburg.

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It would be a lovely place to have a hoan, but no, it was of course

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hiking the Appalachian Trail.

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It's very much their version of, Ugandan discussions.

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Okay, who am I talking about here?

00:31:24,211 → 00:31:27,271

He is a former world leader who once dressed up as Al

00:31:27,271 → 00:31:29,041

Ladin at a private school where

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Andy: could,

00:31:29,161 → 00:31:29,386

Helen: taught.

00:31:31,141 → 00:31:32,641

You don't even wanna hear the other half of I do.

00:31:32,641 → 00:31:33,241

The couple.

00:31:33,541 → 00:31:35,071

You've already preemtively, belled.

00:31:35,506 → 00:31:36,536

Andy: I know who the couple is.

00:31:37,216 → 00:31:38,296

Is it Justin Trudeau and Katy

00:31:38,300 → 00:31:38,506

Helen: Perry?

00:31:38,506 → 00:31:38,656

It's, yay.

00:31:39,016 → 00:31:40,216

Adam: Yay.

00:31:40,726 → 00:31:41,596

Andy: But who's she?

00:31:41,896 → 00:31:43,756

Helen: She went into space ish this year.

00:31:43,756 → 00:31:44,356

They're now

00:31:44,551 → 00:31:45,451

Andy: She went on a plane.

00:31:45,466 → 00:31:45,766

Helen: Yeah,

00:31:46,366 → 00:31:49,516

I read, I did this with my husband as a, dry run.

00:31:49,516 → 00:31:51,466

And I have to say he was interesting the other ones.

00:31:51,466 → 00:31:53,176

And then this one he lept on like a salmon.

00:31:53,176 → 00:31:54,686

He was like, I think you'll find that's Justin Trudeau and Katie

00:31:54,946 → 00:31:55,336

Perry.

00:31:56,326 → 00:31:57,856

so well done for being equally lowbrow.

00:31:57,856 → 00:31:58,186

Andy.

00:31:59,626 → 00:32:03,976

Which Great American novel provided the theme for both a party at the wedding of

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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez and Donald Trump's Halloween party at Maa Largo.

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Andy,

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Andy: I think the Bezos wedding featured a strong, great Gatsby theme.

00:32:16,321 → 00:32:18,511

About oblivious rich people.

00:32:18,856 → 00:32:19,396

Helen: You're right.

00:32:19,396 → 00:32:20,626

Two people decided you haven't

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Adam: read The

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Andy: Gatsby you

00:32:22,336 → 00:32:22,786

Adam: read The Great

00:32:22,890 → 00:32:23,056

Helen: Gatsby?

00:32:23,506 → 00:32:26,776

funny you should say that because the Trump bash a b, c reported was themed.

00:32:26,866 → 00:32:31,396

A little party never killed nobody referencing a song from the 2013

00:32:31,396 → 00:32:32,356

film adaptation of the Scopic

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Fitzgerald

00:32:33,286 → 00:32:33,826

Adam: It did.

00:32:33,886 → 00:32:34,726

That's the whole point,

00:32:34,726 → 00:32:34,906

Helen: isn't it?

00:32:34,951 → 00:32:35,071

Andy: it?

00:32:35,131 → 00:32:35,341

Yes.

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Helen: It's also a novel that is heavily about, Eugenics,

00:32:39,316 → 00:32:39,526

right?

00:32:39,586 → 00:32:42,886

It's about racism and the background is that book, the Passing of the White

00:32:42,886 → 00:32:44,356

Race, or the Passing of the Great Race.

00:32:44,716 → 00:32:45,316

So again.

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