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MIKEDJKELLY SHORTER THAN SHORT 102 - WHATS HAPPENED TO THE WEATHER, WHO CAN WE BLAME edition · Shorter Than Short Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Shorter Short Podcast with Mike Kelly, The
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Mike Kelly Short Short Podcast for you with the warm voice,
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the honest face.
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Speaker 2: Let's welcome the star of the show. Hey, it's Mike
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DJ Kelly with episode one hundred and two of the
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Mike DJ Kelly Shorter Than the Short Podcast and the
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special What's Happened to the Weather? Who Can We Blame? Edition?
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Speaker 1: Coming up.
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Speaker 2: My amazing digital friend Joyce Fake Showbiz News recommend the pod.
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Charities Teeth by Now pay lads, Elvis, Holidays, Trams, Solar Power, ASDA,
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plus lots of stuff you don't know that you don't
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know until you know.
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Speaker 3: Please welcome the star of the show, your host, Mike
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DJ Kelly.
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Speaker 2: Before we start, do you remember my mate from work?
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, the gorgeous Scott.
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Speaker 2: No, not in the other one, the one who had
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all this top teeth removed and some temporary ones screwed
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in until his permanent ones are ready. Well, they're ready
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and he's going to have them permanently installed. So what
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I was wondering is when they unscrew and take out
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the temporary teeth, what happens to them? Do they clean
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them up and use them? As a temporary set of
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teeth on the next unsuspecting person having the same procedure no,
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you are wrong.
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Speaker 4: They are sent to the RSPCA and PDSA and used
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on animals that need replacement teeth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Mike Kelly with the latest Shorter than short news
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our top story. New rules from July for buy now,
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pay later schemes should stop people taking out loans to
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buy a big Mac standard charter. CEO Bill Winters to
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return the company's Great Place to Work Award following remarks
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made about lower value human capital while discussing the Bank's
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plans to replace approximately seven thousand, eight hundred back office
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jobs with artificial intelligence and automation. Ministers and MPs say,
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following the national feel good mood from the two May
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bank holidays, Parliament is to look to introducing four day
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working weeks asap. Parents upset by watchdog's report into Ryanair
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charging parents eight pounds to sit with their children, whereas
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most parents would prefer to sit several rows away from
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their children. Keir Starmer's labor governments have solved the NHS crisis.
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They have banned people from being ill. It's now illegal
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to be sick in pain, dying, suffering, injury or mental illness.
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That's it Europe to date with all the news that
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is news this hour. I'm Mike Kelly for STS News.
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Speaker 1: With the Mike Kelly Short short podcast for your morning.
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Speaker 2: Joyce, you look very refreshed.
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Speaker 4: I'm freezing. I have just done three minutes in the
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ice tub.
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Speaker 2: I thought that trend died out years ago. Mind you
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keep getting emails to buy an inflatable portable ice bath
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for fourteen pounds ninety five from ijt direct Ja.
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Speaker 4: I did three minutes, but I'm working up to ten minutes.
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That's the maximum you are allowed to do. I'm filming
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it and putting them all on TikTok.
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Speaker 2: So anyone with a smartphone, a bucket and tap water
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and a freezer can participate. How do people get to
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see you on TikTok? What do they need to do
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to search for it? Is it something like frozen old bird?
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Speaker 1: No, it is not.
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Speaker 4: You need to search for chilled Joye.
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Speaker 5: It's cool on here this short podcast by Kelly.
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Speaker 2: And what's out there on those social media sites? Prima Seeker,
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Sainsbury's boss I is Bumper a seven point three million
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pay day as shoppers reel from higher food prices up
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from five point four million last year, two hundred times
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the average employee pay. Governments preach pay restraint to workers,
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silence on executive pay, shareholder returns, let workers vote on
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executive pay. Blade of the Sun. There is no benefit
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to you from privatizing energy, banking, housing, healthcare, public transport, water, food, telecoms,
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or anything that the majority of people have to use.
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The only benefit comes to the billionaires who own them
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and rip you off. Forever nationalize in all Nina Jar Ultimately,
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a medically unqualified person allowed to perform an intimate examination
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on a child misdiagnosed and treated incorrectly, which led to harm.
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The mother thought the PA was a GP. This is negligence.
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The unethical PA experiments on patients must be stopped. Robbie.
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The Somerset Farmhouse of one North Street, Williton were approached
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by a food influencer that wanted to charge them two
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thousand pounds for a review. They put out a video
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of Sally eating a sausage roll instead. Let's make Sally
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and Somerset Farmhouse famous for three and a couple of
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those odds and bobs. Notice at Rowhead Farm on their
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social media site said there will be no alpacker walking
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for the next couple of weeks as Elvis is being
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a twat at the moment. Newspaper headlines saying Andrew Mountbatten
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Windsor sub let three cottages while paying peppercorn rent to
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Crown Estate. Whilst I think this is wrong, none of
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the stories I read said MPs do similar things with
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their homes while living rent three. So who is hissing
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Sid and is he innocent? Depends who you ask. Timid
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Toad and Reckless Rat are not his biggest fans. The
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follow up eighties album, The Trial of Hissing Sid, led
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to a massive public sensation, with the slogan Hissing Sid
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is Innocent appearing as graffiti on bridges, badges and car stickers.
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Not to be confused with seventies sex pistol bassist Sid Vicious,
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who is famous for his chaotic, nailistic persona as he
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is for his music. His quotes perfectly capture the raw,
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sarcastic and self destructive ethos of the nineteen seventies punk rock.
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Speaker 1: With the Mike Kelly short short podcast.
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Speaker 2: Want him back on the telespot This week It's Nigel
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George Plainer, a British actor, writer and musician. His TV
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credits include playing Neil in the sitcom The Young Ones,
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Ralph Filthy in the sitcom Filthy Rich and Cat Flat,
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and narrating the children's animated series Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids.
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He has appeared in many West End musicals, including it
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as part of the original cast of Avita Chicago. We
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Will Roku, Wicked and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, who
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has also appeared in Hair Spray. We want Nigel George
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Plainer back on the Telly. Today's do gooders are Swanlifeline
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dot UK. Swanlifeline is the oldest registered charity devoted entirely
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to the care of sick and injured swans in the
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Thames Valley and surrounding areas. Swan Lifeline was founded in
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nineteen eighty six by a small group of people who've
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been involved with swan rescue and treatment for many years.
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From the base in Windsor, Swan Lifeline rescues and provide
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shelter and treatment for sick and injured swans. Our aim
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is to return them to the wild as soon as possible.
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We educate the public about the incidents and effects of
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pollution and human activities on swans and other wildfowl on
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the UK's rivers and waterways. We aim to provide a
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professionally managed treatment center to continue in perpetuity, not dependent
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upon any one person or group for its survival. Find
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Speaker 3: The Mike DJ Kelly Shorter then Shorts podcast.
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Speaker 2: Today's music quiz features a song from a film. What's
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the first heartbroken. My eyes are not the first to cry.
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I'm not the first to know. There's just no getting
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over you. Name the song or the artiste.
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It's the Lovely Yummy Jason Donovan tell me I'm right.
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That's at BCB Radio dot co dot UK in the
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new fit No era where nobody can stay at home
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with it ill, especially now that they've stitched us up
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and everybody is on zero hour contracts, casual contracts or
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three lance agreements meaning if you don't go to work,
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you don't get paid. So if you go in sick,
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make everyone else sick and so on. And still on
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medical news, more than one three hundred patients a month
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are dying due to long wait. It's seen the A
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and E up from thirty a week in twenty fifteen
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to cut the ques NHS bosses and now suggesting A
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and E patients with non urgent alms munts may be
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told to come back later or go somewhere else under
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the new NHS plans. Physician Associate wrongly prescribes for a
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five year old child. The child's mother thought she was
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being seen by a doctor Parliamentary and Health Service on mundsmen,
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so there were multiple failures in the care of the girl.
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to get sick, not that you would
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pay me if I was. Anyway, all this World Cup
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staff has made me want to get fit.
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Speaker 2: So you have started playing football A five a side
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walk about team.
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Speaker 1: Is it?
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Speaker 4: Certainly not. I'm into the new craze high speed tennis.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what's that when it's at home?
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Speaker 4: Paidel pronounced Pardell is a high energy hybrid of tennis
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and squash. It is highly accessible, easy to pick up
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and incredibly social.
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Speaker 2: So where do you play? That is in the church hall?
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Speaker 6: No?
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Speaker 4: No, they are building paidal centers every whey where I
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am going to the one where pett Is used to be,
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where the TV studios are, and before you ask, there
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are lots of dishy Fellers going. But that's not why
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I joined.
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So you're looking forward to your summer holidays and those
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post brexit border checks ees biometric entry exit systems at
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the airports at either end of your flight, So twice
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going and twice coming back. Who's to blame well, Border
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control remains the sole responsibility of national authorities, with the
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industry group blaming delays on understaffing, glitchyr self service chaos,
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malfunctioning eGates and a laggy central ee s IT system.
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You need to allow extra time for your check ins
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in some cases it's taking so long fly are departing
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without passengers. You could always go by Thurry or Eurostar,
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but the new checks are causing delays there as well.
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But at Dover, when the queues get too long, they
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just stop bothering to check. You could always go to
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Cyprus that doesn't use the new system, but I have
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always found Lanaka Airport to be very slow anyway. Also,
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it's quite near to Iran. With global warming, why not
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stay at home and get a Mediterranean type town at
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Finley or Bridlington. More from the social media sites Zara
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Sultana MP. Nigel Farage was rehabilitated by ITV when it
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paid in one point five million pounds to appear on
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I'm a Celebrity. He's also joint second for most appearances
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on BBC Question Time. When I say the entire media
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class is complicit in the normalization of Islamic, phobic and
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anti migrant rhetoric, I mean it end bird shooting. How
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on earth has bird shooting become so normalized in the UK.
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Every year, around fifty million non native pheasants and partridges
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are bred in captivity, raised on farms and released into
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the British countryside just so they can be shot out
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of the sky for entertainment. According to Green Girl Bella UK,
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it now costs seven pounds ninety nine for a flake
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ninety nine ice cream from an ice cream van in London.
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Warm Remedy UK Tower Hamlets councilors have voted themselves pay
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rises of up to one hundred and thirty percent just
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three weeks after being elected. The East London authority with
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Britain's highest child poverty rate approves increases Britain's highest level
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of child poverty. But a counselor gonna eat right Deb's world?
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Did you know? Nottingham is the home and the tightist
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tram curve in the UK. At the top of Victoria
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Street and Fletcher Gate, the tramline bends through an incredibly
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tight eighteen meter radius curve as it weaves its way
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through Nottingham's historic medieval streets.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it's the Mike Kelly Short Short podcast for.
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Speaker 2: You all fake showbiz news. At Fake Showbiz News, Rita
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Aura reveals she's quite good at recognizing when a scene
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in a TV or movie is going to turn out
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to be a dream. There are telltale signs if you
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know what to look for, she told BBC Radio Cornwall
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breaking Elon Musk is no longer a trillionaire after buying
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some through from M and S and then Fish and
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Chips for Tea. Kemy Baidenock says it's disgraceful that thunloving
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criminals brazenly wrapped about their illicit activities throughout Secure Starmer's
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time in charge of the Crown Prosecution Service, yet he
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made no attempt to bring them to justice.
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Born in Germany and raise in England. He studied at
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Magdalene College, Cambridge, during which time he met his future wife.
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They ran a successful costume jewelry business throughout the nineteen
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eighties until the stock market crash of nineteen eighty seven.
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In nineteen eighty nine, he made his TV debut as
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a regular on This Morning with a gardening segment, which
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led to further television work across the decade, including his
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own shows for BBCTV and Channel four. He began his
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writing career at this time, and published his first of
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over twenty five books in nineteen ninety. Between nineteen ninety
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four and two thousand and six, he wrote a weekly
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gardening column in The Observer. Who is he?
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Speaker 1: Go on?
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Speaker 6: Then let's do it. We've not done it for a while.
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Have the bit of Trump News? According to the Intellect,
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Donald J. Trump commuted the prison term of David Genteel,
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who less than two weeks after he began serving a
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seven year sentence in a one point six billion dollar
19:16
fraud that prosecutors said harmed more than ten thousand Investors.
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Heard a story about tourism in America its declining and
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wondered why that could be. Turns out, domestic tourism remains
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strong that the country has faced significant Trump slump in
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international arrivals, driven by stricter border policies, visa hurdles, and
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jeer political tensions. The US has experienced consecutive years of
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declining international arrivals. The most notable drop is from Canada,
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followed by key European markets like the UK and Germany.
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So what about the cost of living?
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Speaker 2: Overall? Americans are highly dissatisfied with the cost of living.
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Widespread financial anxiety has driven public approval regarding economic management
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to a new low. A recent Gallop Finance poll found
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that a record fifty five percent of Americans say their
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financial situation is worsening. The United States consistently ranks around
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twenty third on the World Happiness Report, lagging behind many
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other developed nations. The decline is driven by younger generations,
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while older Americans remain relatively content. Happiness happiness, Oh with
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only ken what was here when you needed him? Happiness?
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Happiness the greatest gift that I possess. I thank the
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Lord that I've been blessed with more than my share
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of happiness happerness. Those are brunas, I know, it's uncanny.
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So twenty third in the world happiness charts. That's not
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very good. But where's the UK in the world happiness charts?
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The Nordic country's high happiness rankings are generally attributed to
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their extensive social welfare programs, strong community connections, and robust
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interactions with nature. Finland also benefits from low levels of
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corruption and a cultural emphasis on balance rather than relentless hustle. Surprisingly,
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the long winters do not significantly reduce happiness in the
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Nordic countries, and the top ten happiest countries are starting
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at number ten Switzerland, number nine, It's Luxembourg. We could
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do with a bit of fluff Freeman chart music here,
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number eight, Israel, number seven, Netherlands, number six, Norway and
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the top five five It's Sweden, four, Costa Rica, three, Denmark, two,
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Iceland and number one it's Finland. No English speaking country
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is in the top ten. The United Kingdom ranks twenty ninth,
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the United States ranks twenty third, Canada ranks twenty fifth,
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and Australia ranks fifteenth. Heavily driven by a drop in
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happiness amongst the young people aged under twenty five and
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in our something you Don't Know spot here's a nice
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one from the giver shit about Nature site. A bricklayer
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in East Yorkshire has spent thirty five years putting up
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barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year the region
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saw three hundred owlerts hatch. His name is Robert Soul.
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He is fifty six and does bricklaying full time. In
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nineteen ninety he saw a piece on the news about
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a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes and decided
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he'd do the same. He started with five. He now
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has more than three hundred and fifty boxes scattered across fields, farms,
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outbuildings and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June he takes
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four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his
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wife Sue, scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing
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the ones the weather has got to. He is a
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licensed bird ringer for the British Crubs for Ornithology. In
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twenty twenty four, the region ringed ninety five owlets. In
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twenty twenty five the count was three hundred and eight.
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The Barn Owl Truss says that nationally this year was
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pretty poor for barn owlb reading, but East Yorkshire is
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the exception, and it's the exception because of one man
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with a ladder. Here's another interesting one from made in England,
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Terry's Chocolate Orange was born in York in nineteen thirty two.
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Terrys of York was founded in seventeen sixty seven. Kraft
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bought the business in nineteen ninety three. They reportedly told
24:26
unions production had to move because the old factory could
24:30
not cope and they were looking for a new site
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in York instead. The York factory closed in two thousand
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and five. Three hundred and sixteen jobs were lost. Production
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moved to craft sites across Europe. Today, your chocolate Orange
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is made in France by Karen Beer and Co. The
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historic factory now flats, offices and a care village. Another
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famous English brand hollowed out until only the name was left.
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Speaker 2: So, why do we want a cashless society? Is it
25:49
to stop coins wearing holes in your trouser pockets? Or
25:53
is it so banks can make more money. The story goes,
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you give fifty pounds to the butcher for his bill.
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He pays the baker fifty pound, and he pays the
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flour mill fifty pounds. Each of these people get fifty pounds.
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But going cashless means each one of those transactions pays
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a cut to the bank, and the fifty pound comes
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down in value every time. Make sure you pay all
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small local traders in cash.
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Speaker 1: It's the Mike Kelly Shortened Short podcast for you.
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Speaker 2: Saw a story recently about EV breakdown calls, which are
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due to tire failures, which happen at twice the rate
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of petrol or diesel cars. Most traditional cars carry spare tires.
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Evs do not. The tire issues are caused by the
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weight of the car and battery, and to cut back
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on weight, they do not carry a spare tire, which
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means the breakdowns take much longer to resolve. Army's Challenger
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Ajax tank the next general fighting machine, which has issues
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with noise and vibration, is still not in service despite
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costing nearly six billion pounds, and so it is a
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final burst from the social media sites. The old gray thinker.
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My generation was handed three university education, affordable housing, and
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jobs that came with pensions attached. We then spent three
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decades making all three harder to access for everyone who
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came after us. The extraordinary thing is how surprised we
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seem about the results, Brad. So let me get this straight.
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When immigrants take jobs, it's a national crisis. AI takes jobs,
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it's innovation. Can someone explain why we're supposed to fear
27:54
people willing to work but celebrate technology designed to replace workers?
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Stephen Blair. If anyone thinks that self checkout won't lose jobs,
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tell them to speak to Asda employees. Today, three hundred
28:10
people lost their jobs due to automation. It's just been
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on the news, Catherine CJ. Hall. Why do we have
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to register everywhere now just to watch something on Telly
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or order something online? Create a password, put in a code,
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opt in to junk that you know you'll just unscribe to.
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Everything's become a complete plava these days. Fed up with it.
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No BS therapist. I don't want to pop up asking
28:42
me to rape my experience before I've had one. I
28:46
don't want a car that sells my breaking data to
28:49
an insurance company. I don't want to write a review
28:53
on my toilet seat cover. I don't want a tiphbrush
28:57
that sends me a brushing score like I'm a child.
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I don't want a washing machine that requires Wi Fi.
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I don't want my TV to be a glorified eavesdropper.
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I don't want a gamified checkout experience to buy detergent.
29:16
I don't want to manage a relationship with my printer
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ian visits today. I learned that when you hear about
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the price of a barrel of oil, the size of
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the barrel one hundred and fifty nine liters is based
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on the size of whiskey containers from the eighteen seventies.
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For the first time on record, wind and solar generated
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more global electricity than gas fired power plants over a
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single month in April twenty twenty six. While this milestone
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has only been achieved for a single month so far,
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Spring conditions in the northern Hemisphere typically combine high wind
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and rising solar. The broader global trend points to a
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rapid structural shift away from fossil Yes, wind and solar
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energy are significantly cheaper to produce than traditional coal and
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gas across their lifespans. However, while these technologies inherently lower
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overall wholesale electric costs, whether these savings are fully passed
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onto your household depends heavily on complex pricing mechanisms and
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market rulesdcast Kelly and on those data centers. Let's have
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a bit of stuff from Lydiar Rogers ten eleven. There
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is a quiet crisis brewing beneath the UK's tech sector.
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Nearly one hundred new data center applications are moving through
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the UK planning system to protect local drinking water. Ninety
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percent of them are designed as dry facilities. But there's
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a major catch. Traditional data centers use water evaporation to
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cool servers cheaply. Dry systems can't do this. Instead, they
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rely on massive power hungry mechanical fans and compressors. The
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physics are simple. Dry cooling requires up to fifteen percent
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electricity to run. This power penalty is breaking the grid.
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UK data centers consume roughly six percent of our national
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electricities supply because of the industry's massive pivot to dry
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systems and AI workloads. Energy regulator off GEM warns the
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sector's peak demand could double. So who pays for this search?
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Big tech pays for the power they use, but plugging
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a massive data center into the grid it requires multi
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billion pound infrastructure upgrades like high vaulted substation pylons and
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miles of underground cabling. Under current off GEM rules, the
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cost of upgrading the national network is socialized. This means
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the bill for reinforcing the grid is split across every
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single household in Great Britain, showing up as steady hidden
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rises in your fixed daily standing charges. And remember, by
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the way, data centers are almost all American owned and
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have cost billions, but nobody has worked out how to
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make money from them.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it's the Mike Kelly short short podcast for you
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and in.
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Speaker 2: The late news. W the European social media network, is
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launching from June the seventeenth and from the twenty fifth
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of June in the UK. To join the waiting list,
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go to w social dot EU. Ministers won they must
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find the courage to scrap the UK's wasteful and the
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expensive triple lock state pension. Maybe they could do it.
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After having a skimful in the House of Commons subsidized
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bar to get a little Dutch courage, Pallunteer, the nation's
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favorite digital data collector, wins a nine million pound contract
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to run UK firearms licensing CIA backed business to hold gun,
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bomb and poison records.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mister Kelly, you are out of time. You
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must stop now.
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Speaker 2: Okay, it's time to go. Guess the song or name
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the artist who had a hit with the song. These
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lines came from guess Mine is not the first heartbroken.
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My eyes are not the first to cry. I'm not
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the first to know. There's just no getting over you.
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It was Alivia Neutron Bomb from the movie Greece. And
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that's not the country. It's the film with the song
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Hopelessly Devoted to You. Gues the celebrity Born in Germany
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and raised in England. He studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge,
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during which time he met his future wife. They ran
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a successful costume jewelry business throughout the nineteen eighties until
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the stop market crash of nineteen eighty seven. In nineteen
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eighty nine, he made his TV debut as a regular
34:38
on This Morning with a Gardening segment, which led to
34:42
further TV work across the decade, including his own shows
34:47
for BBCTV and Channel four. He began his writing career
34:52
at this time and published his first of over twenty
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five books in nineteen ninety. Between nine twenty four and
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two thousand and six he wrote a weekly gardening column
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in The Observer.
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Speaker 1: Who is He?
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Speaker 2: Montague Dennis Wyatt Don obe DL the MH. Born George
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Montague Don eighth of July nineteen fifty five, he is
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an English horticulturist, broadcaster and writer who is best known
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as the lead presenter of the BBC gardening TV series
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Gardener's World, So Monty Don, Today's do gooders are Swanlifeline
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Dot UK and guess what. It's been a blast as ever,
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but that's enough. This special what happened to the Weather?
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And who can We Blame? Edition of the Crazy Shorter
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Than Short Podcast Show from Me, Mike Kelly.
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Speaker 4: And Me Joyce. Don't forget to tell your friends to
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listen to the Mike DJ Kelly Shorter Than Short Podcast
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because I'm on it.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening and remember you can always find the
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