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MIKEDJKELLY SHORTER THAN SHORT PODCAST 101 TAX ON EVERYTHING · Shorter Than Short Podcast

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Speaker 1: Please welcome the star of the show, your host, Mike
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DJ Kelly.
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Speaker 2: And here he is, the star of the show, wearing
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his loose fitting two piece construction pajamas consisting of a
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button down jacket and matching trousers with contrasting piping on
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the collar, cuffs and pocket edges for a classy tailored look.
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It's the star of the show, mister Mike DJ Kelly
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with episode one hundred and one of the Mike DJ
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Kelly Shorter than Short Podcast and the special Taxes on
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Everything edition.
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Speaker 3: So what's in the show? Anything exciting? It is Show
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one hundred and one. Are we using the magic of
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AIE for the voices or graphics?
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Speaker 2: No, Joyce, I'm finding the AI disappointing. It has a
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false feel to it. It's just you and me, none
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of them fancy jiggery pokery.
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Speaker 3: Jiggery pokery. What's that when it's at home?
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Speaker 2: Back to the script, Pushed coming up, my amazing digital friend, Joyce,
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fake showbiz news, recommend a pod, charities, cigarettes, taxes, wind farms,
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King's speech, moon landings, plus lots of stuff you don't
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know until you know.
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Speaker 4: Pushed.
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Speaker 2: I'm Mike Kelly with the latest shorter than short news
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our top story UK there's accused of price fixing in
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animal scam scam where X rays of pets are costing
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more than they do for humans. New surveys shows public
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things petrol stations just charge what they think they can
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get away with at specific locations. Virgin Atlantic recently added
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fuel surcharges, so its fares are up fifty pounds in
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economy and up to three hundred and sixty poun in
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upper class. Thailand resident and crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne gives
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five millions to Clack to Man in no strings attached deal.
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King's speech gives local mayors in England powers to levy
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tourist taxes on overnight stays. New surveys shows Richmond sausages
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were ahead of the game with their reduced meat content
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and use of other ingredients instead of meat. Ian Lee,
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funny man and TV presenter will come to your house
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and perform for just three hundred and fifty pounds. That
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sent euro up 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 4: This is the Shortage Short podcast.
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Speaker 2: Mike Kelly, have you seen or heard that radio and
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TV commercial about giving up smoking and that every cigarette
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shortens your life by twenty minutes. My and to Alex
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smoked all a life and lived to be ninety something. Wow.
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If she hadn't smoked, she'll still probably be with us
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here now, mind you. It's just a stat for a moment.
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I nearly went out and purchased an electric car that
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did two hundred miles on a full charge. One of
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my daughters lives two hundred miles away, so it would
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be touch and go. But when I check the stats,
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it refers to one person in the car at a
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certain ambient working temperature. If you drive fast on motorways
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with passengers in with the heater and radio on, the
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mileage is much less.
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Speaker 5: It's the Mike Kelly shortened short podcast for.
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Speaker 2: You and what's out there on the social media site
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drenxy Lee. UK food prices are expected to rise by
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fifty percent since the start of the cost of living
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crisis in twenty twenty one. Meanwhile, taxpayers continue to pay
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for MPs and peers to have access to bars and
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restaurants at cheaper prices than the rest of the country.
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Dick Payne's Lads channel, the Royal Navy HMS Iron Duke
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has been quietly withdrawn from service, weapons and census stripped
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no seed time since October twenty twenty five, just three
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years after one hundred and three million pound forty nine
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month refit. Despite spending over five years in dry dock
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undergoing the most complex type twenty three thri refurbishment on record,
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she managed a mere sixty months of operational availability before
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being sidelined. Laura Marcus, I'm a pensioner, so I benefit
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from the triple lock. I get the full state pension,
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which is nine hundred and sixty five pounds every four weeks,
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so equivalent to one thousand and forty five pounds a month.
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I get the full mounts because I have fifty years
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working and paying my stamp an income tax. I get
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no other pension. It's not a luxury. Yesterday's Britain a
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better Britain. A car tax disc from nineteen eighty two
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for six months at thirty eight pound fifty A gallon
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of petrol one pound sixty. A pint of beer cost
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sixty one p A pint of milk cost twenty p
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A twenty two inch color TV cost three hundred pounds.
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Average house price was thirty three thousand pounds. A fort
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Cortina cost four thousand, two hundred six eggs cost forty
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p The average annual salary was five thousand pounds. Victoria.
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I genuinely think if we all moved to a four
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day working week, it would change the course of society.
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People would be happier, healthier, less angry, more present. I
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really think it would change the world Old salted Marine.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but the
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best part about being in your mid to upper seventy
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is that we did all our crazy and stupid shit
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before the invention of camera phones. So there's no proof
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this is.
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Speaker 4: The short short podcast Mike Kelly.
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Speaker 2: It's not my fault you've ended up listening to this.
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Blame the algorithm or AI. But while you're here, why
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not tell a thrin or two about the Mike DJ
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Kelly Shorter than short podcast show and show them where
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they can access it and we can get them listening
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as well. Go to coffee dot com, forward slash Mike
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DJ Kelly. Any money raise goes to charity. With the
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cost of electric it's looking more attractive to fit solar
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panels on the roof. The average price for a three
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bedroom house with solar panels and battery from Octopus Energy
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is seven five hundred pounds all done, giving you energy
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to use.
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Speaker 3: And some to If everybody has solar sun panels, will
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that use up too much of the sun and it
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will start to get dinner The more people that do it,
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we won't be able to sunbathe anymore, as the sun
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will not be bright enough to make us tan. What
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will happen to all the pubbier gardens? What about the
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outdoor swimming pool at Ilkley? What's going to happen to
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all these things?
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Speaker 2: No worries there. There's enough sum for everybody.
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Speaker 3: That's what they say. But petrol that's running out, and
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coal and North Sea gas have gone.
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Speaker 2: That's why we're talking about it. They're even talking about
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self powered cars powered by solar panels built onto them.
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There's an American company taking deposits for their new car
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due soon, which will do about forty miles on pure sunlight.
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And China's BYD have developed a new blade battery which
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charges in minutes and goes through one thousand miles. They're
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starting to use easily available sodium in batteries rather than
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lithium forty miles.
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Speaker 3: So you drive there and it's thirty miles and then
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it clouds over. How are you going to get home?
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So an American company taking deposits, that's a bit like
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Trump taking one hundred dollar deposits on the mobile phone
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he's supposed to be making, taken over five million dollars
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so far, and.
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Speaker 2: In our we want him on the telespot this week.
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Adrian Edmondson born nineteen fifty seven in Bradford is a
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celebrated English comedian, actor, writer and musician, and husband of
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Jennifer Saunders. Best known for his role in the pioneering
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nineteen eighties alternative comedy. He rose to fame as the
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anarchic student punk Vivian in The Young Ones and co
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starred with Rick Mail in the cult sitcom Bottom Nearing
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a chaotic slapstick style. He also founded the punk band
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The Bad Shepherds, which won awards for their unique style.
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We want him back on the Telly Joyce Anything from
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You On TV?
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Speaker 3: When I was young, they always had movies on with
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people sinking or getting stuck in quicksand I have not
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seen it in a program for ages. Has the issue
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gone away? Has the government fixed it? Have all the
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quicksand sites been filled in?
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Speaker 5: With the Mike Kelly Shorten short podcast for you.
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Speaker 2: A German tourist as one a payout of more than
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eight hundred and fifty pounds after he was unable to
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secure a sun lounger due to other guests reserving them
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with towels. The man, who was on holiday in Coss
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with his family said he spent twenty minutes a day
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trying to find a sun lounger, despite waking up at
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six a m. He then sued the tour operator for
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allowing the reservation system, arguing the sunbeds were reserved so
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often they were unusable. Judges at a district court in
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Hanover ruled in his favor. The man who had initially
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paid six two hundred and eleven pounds to take his
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wife and their two children on the package holiday to Coss.
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Remember when iPads came out and David Hockney started using
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them to create some great art? Will they now use
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AI or is that a step too far? Well, a
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bit more research and he already has. In June twenty
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twenty three, he debuted his first AI assisted artwork, a
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one minute video titled Lived in Bohemia. Bohemia is a
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tolerant place, which was displayed on the screens of the
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Glastonbury's Festival Pyramid stage. I noticed the latest Cotton Traders
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summer brochure contains sixty pages of women's clothes and pages
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of men's Evian the upmarket mineral water. But what does
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it spell the other way round? Yes? Naive. This is
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a frequently cited observation often used in popular culture and
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social media to jokingly imply that consumers are naive for
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paying for premium bottled water. Origin the brand name actually
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originates from the town of Heavian Leborne in France. Today's
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special offer is the awesome Acme Woofer, a clever gadget
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that lets you talk with man's best friend. Yes, you
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can talk to your dog in a language he will understand.
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Simply say the command cut me a rover, Press the
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button and it will convert it into dog language. It
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even works the other way round. The dog can talk
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to you.
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Speaker 5: It was.
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Speaker 2: You press a button and hear what it says, Dak, Can.
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Speaker 5: We go out for a walk?
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Speaker 2: Soon you and your dog will be communicating on a
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daily basis about politics, TV shows and biscuits. Full details
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and how to order your awesome Acme Wolfer at the
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end of the show.
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Speaker 4: This is the short short podcast with Mike Kelly.
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As a UK based charity, we are working across the
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both in the UK and overseas, tailored to their participants' needs.
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We also work to convene and support nurses and midwives
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to shape the health and care policy agenda and create
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Hyphen Nightingale hyphen Foundation dot org dot EUK. Today's music
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quiz features a nineteen seventy four HiT's What's the song
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and who performed it? You've got your mother in a
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world She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl.
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Hey babe, your heirs all right? Hey babe, let's go
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out tonight. You like me? I like it all. We
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like dancing and we look divine. Name the song or
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the group or both.
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Speaker 3: I'm not playing. I never get the answer right, leave
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me alone. I'm making some show notes in my feeler facts.
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Speaker 5: It's the Mike Kelly shortened short podcast for you and.
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Speaker 2: The In our helpful tips corner. Following JCB's two hundred
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thousand pounds donation to Reform, we should like to point
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out that top alternatives to JCB diggers, particularly in the
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mini midi excavator markets, include Kubuta, Takuchi and Volvo for
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reliability and precision, while Cat and Case are strong competitors
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for back home loaders.
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Speaker 1: Sorry but it was Mike DJ Kelly, what did you expect?
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Speaker 2: Since March first, twenty twenty, Luxembourg has offered three public
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transport nationwide, becoming the first country in the world to
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do so. The policy covers all buses, trains, and trams,
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allowing both residents and tourists to travel without tickets. It's
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considered a success, acting as a laboratory for mobility. It
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has increased ridership by thirty percent, reduced traffic congestion, and
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lowered carbon emissions. Carn't help but feel the nationwide takeover
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Virgin Money is going to go pair shape and lead
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to some scams. They tell us Virgin Money people that
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we're now part of nationwide and nothing will change, and
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everything is still worded as Virgin Money will wait and see.
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Speaker 4: This is the Short Short podcast with Mike Kelly.
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Speaker 5: It's the Mike Kelly Short short podcast for you.
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Speaker 2: So go on, What will they tax next? I'm guessing
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it's going to be a tax on private home run
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solar panels. They will not like you getting cheap energy
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and them not getting any of their tax it. Are
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we paying more tax than ever? Indeed we are. The
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UK tax burden is at the highest level in decades,
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with overall tax revenue exceeding thirty seven percent of GDP.
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This is the highest level since the nineteen forties, driven
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by frozen tax thresholds that pull more people into higher bands.
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Alongside increase taxes on savings and dividends. Then there's all
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the other taxes we're paying increase fuel, energy, rent and
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food prices. As they go up, so does the government.
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Taxes on said products and spare a fault for single
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people just one wage to pay all the bills. When
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there's two of you, that bill's half food and cooking
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and sharing a bath. It's all cheaper. Have food banks
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become the norm, you expect them to be there in
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every community It used to be just a few of
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them where the need for food was difficult in our
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poorest areas. Now it's just the norm for working people
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to use them because they can't afford to shop anything
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from you.
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Speaker 3: Joyce, you can pick wild garlic for free, but you
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are not allowed to dig up the roots without the
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owner's permission.
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Speaker 5: Choice tools.
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Speaker 2: As more from the social media site Rick Weightman cbe
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At the polling station, an elderly lady presented her polling card,
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only to be told she couldn't vote because she didn't
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have photo ID. She did not have a passport or
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driving license, but had a utility bill with her address
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and credit card with her signature. She was eighty nine
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Magic Mike, nineteen seventy two. Once you give up refined
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sugar and process foods, you realize how little there is
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to buy in supermarkets and as zavaries. I'm kind of
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amused that Charles and Camilla came and said whatever they wanted,
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knowing full well their hosts were too stupid to understand
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any of it. Environmentalist bro producing one cotton shirt requires
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two thousand, seven hundred liters of water. That's enough to
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satisfy one person's drinking water for over two point five years.
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This industry is not sustainable.
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Speaker 5: It's the Mike Kelly Short Short podcast for.
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Speaker 2: You all Fake show Me's News at Fake show Me's News.
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Jane McDonald says her favorite Lana del Rey song is
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the one about how her boyfriend's a massive pillock, but
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she still loves him. Lots of his Northern lasses can
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relate to that. She chuckled. Gabby Roslyn admits even she
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gets herself mixed up with Gabby Logan. Billy Piper says,
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has anyone noticed or all the best groups are formed
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by former journalists? Pet Shop Boys, Sentettian Jay Dad? The
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list is endless, she told reporters. Lady Garga says, while
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the recent Artemis moon mission may have filled some people
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with hope, it had the opposite effect on her. If
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it still takes that much fath just to pop to
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the Moon, there's no way we're making it to Mars,
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she told reporters. The Pussycat Dolls called for a ban
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on concert venu websites showing buyers how many tickets remain unsold.
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It's disrespectful to artists, said Nicole Sharon Singer. Have you
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noticed on supermarket adverts on TV. They always have check
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out operatives at the till, yet when you go to
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the supermarket there are less and less of them. Notice
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at the local co op it's introduced self service and
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all their tills went to pay. An employee came over
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and asked if I wanted to use the self service till.
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I've said no, so they went behind the till and
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served me. I think I would go for it if
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they offered an incentive like ten percent off for self service.
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That's not ten percent on for staff serving you, but
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a genuine saving of ten percent if you have to
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do the work anyway, Next time I went in, member
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of staff calling for backup over a radio as the
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man at till two had threatened her. He said she
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was too close watching him. Scanning is shopping.
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Speaker 4: This is the short short podcast with Mike Kelly.
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Speaker 2: I see that TV is showing the worst of their
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adverts at the moment. Funeral plans, ill and dying animals,
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kids needing surgery hospices, and lenore adverts, all in the
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aim of making you sign up to their advert threes services.
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If only they had somebody on their team who had
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to watch for shows and adverts. They'd soon pick up
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on the fact that when an advert you don't like
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comes on, you change channel or turn the TV off.
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It's not rocket science. I reckon. The business to be
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in at the moment is in scaffolding. A few scaffolding, poles,
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planks and ladders and you're off. They're needed for any
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work these days, roofs, chimneys, TV aerials, guttering windows, anything
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above two foot off the ground you'll need to rent
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scaffolding and four hundred pounds a day.
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Speaker 5: So do we.
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Speaker 2: Think the petrol stations are ripping us off? Petrol stations
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charge different prices for fuel based on location, primarily due
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to local competition, operating costs, and convenience factors. Stations in
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high traffic areas like motorway or remote locations charge more,
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while areas with high competitions, such as nearby supermarkets typically
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offer lower prices to attract customers. Thinking back, it's quite
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scary that at eighteen my parents let me rewire their house,
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no issues at all. It went okay, but just thinking
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about it scares me now. Different times live but crusty universe.
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Speaker 5: It's the Mike Kelly Shorten Short podcast for you.
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Speaker 2: Yes. The celebrity. Born Gaya Hopkins eighth of June nineteen
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fifty one, she came to prominence with the release of
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the nineteen seventy seven album The World Starts Tonight and
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its singles Lost in France and More Than a Lover.
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In the nineteen eighties, she ventured into rock music with
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songwriter and producer Jim Steinman. He wrote her biggest hit,
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which was the lead single from her nineteen eighty three
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UK chart topping album Faster Than the Speed of Night.
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Rocks and Honey, was released in twenty thirteen and featured
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the single Believe in Me, which she performed representing the
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United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest twenty thirteen in Malmo, Sweden.
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Her work has earned a three Grammy Award nominations and
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three Britain Award nominations, amongst other accolades who issue Okay
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Speaker 4: This is the short short podcast Mike Kelly.
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Speaker 2: And the in R Something you Don't Know Spot You
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might not know But the Isle of Man is a
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tax haven. Yes, the Isle of Man. It's widely considered
25:53
a low tax jurisdiction or tax haven. Often described as
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an intern national finance center. It offers zero percent standard
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corporate tax rate, no capital gains, inheritance or wealth taxes,
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and a top income tax rate of twenty two percent.
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While it maintains international transparency standards. Its policies are designed
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to attract mobile wealth. Lots of names we know have
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been associated with Island Man schemes Lewis Hamilton, Gary Barlow,
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Michelle Mohn and Doug Barrowman, a Log Tinkhoff, several stars
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from Missus Brown's Boys, Nigel Farage and Mister Blobby and
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staying with far flung places. Finland is world renowned as
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the happiest country in the world, a title is held
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for multiple consecutive years due to its high quality of life, safety,
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and top tier education system. But here's a fact you
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may not know. Finland has successfully reduced homelessness by employing
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a housing first approach since two thousand and eight, which
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prioritizes providing permanent stable housing as a foundational human right
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rather than reward for solving issues like addiction or unemployment.
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By twenty twenty six, this strategy has nearly eradicated long
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term homelessness.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned earlier about running out of fuel and energy,
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but as Bob Dylan used to say, the answer is
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blowing in the wind. As of mid twenty twenty six,
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Horn C two in the UK North Sea is recognized
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as the world's largest operational off shore wind farm, powering
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over one point four million homes. Horn C three under construction.
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Once completed, HORNSE three is expected to become the world's
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largest single offshore wind farm, with a capacity to power
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over three million UK homes.
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than Short podcast. Does the shareholder business model work where
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all decisions are based on the shareholder and their returns
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on their investments. I'm not sure it does. It's too
28:55
easy to make computer calculated business models. In the old days,
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it was having a gut feeling that something would work
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and be successful and backing it until it did.
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Speaker 4: This is the short of Short podcast by Kelly.
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Speaker 2: Following the recent elections. Is it about time we had
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a culling of the MPs and politicians? Why do we
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need so many in the UK. If the UK is
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short of cash, let's get rid of these people. If
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you need evidence as to why we should do it,
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watch BBC Question Time from the eighth of May twenty
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twenty six and see how rude and shouting they all were.
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As of May twenty twenty six, there are six hundred
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and fifty paid MPs, that's members of Parliament in the
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UK House of Commons, all of whom receive a basic
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salary of ninety eight thousand, five hundred and ninety nine
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pounds and that's just the start. They get three energy, transport,
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second homes, subsidized food and drink. It's probably nearer half
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of mine billion per MP, so that's around three hundred
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and twenty five million to start. The MPs who get
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paid are not just the current government's MPs, but all
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nps in office. In addition to ministers, the government often
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includes minister's parliamentary, private secretaries trade envoys, making the total
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payroll much higher. On top of that that are around
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nineteen thousand council seats. The money they get is intended
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to cover time expenses and to ensure they're not out
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of pocket. The basic allowance often ranges between roughly five
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thousand and fifteen thousand pounds, depending on the council size,
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with additional Special Responsibility Allowances SRA for roles like cabinet ministers.
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You can bet they all have a few SRAS to
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boost their incomes. Seems to me there are too many
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on big money. Bring down the money. Only people interested
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in politics will go for it instead of just making
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it into a money pit attracting all the wrong types.
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Maybe we need MPs who come from a business background
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similar to the ones they'll be making decisions for.
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's the Mike Kelly Shorten Short podcast for you.
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Speaker 2: You might not know this, but there is campaign to
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reinstate Pluto as a planet. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has
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initiated a high profile campaign in April twenty twenty six
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to reinstate Pluto as a planet, citing a desire to
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change the two thousand and six classification of it being
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a dwarf planet. If you find yourself in a debate
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questioning whether man first stepped on the Moon on the
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twentieth of July nineteen sixty nine. The chances are you're
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wofully unprepared. Some claim the US government faked Apollo eleven
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and later missions, either to deal a crucial blow to
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the USSR in the space race, or to boost NASA
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funding to divert attention away from the Vietnam War. Need
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evidence the Moon landings happened while the NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance
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Orbiter v LROO takes high resolution pictures of the lunar
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surface from a low orbit. During its mission, it's captured
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the landing sites and the abandoned descent modules and rovers
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from the Apollo missions, and its resolution is so good
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it's picked up the dark, squiggly paths that the astronauts'
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footprints made. Spacecraft from China, India, and Japan have also
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spotted these landing sites, providing further independent verification of the landings.
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The final nail in the coffin of the Moon hoax
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theories is a simple instrument installed fifty years ago by
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Apollo eleven. During the day on the Moon, Armstrong and
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Aldrin planted a lunar laser ranger reflector array on the surface.
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It's still operational today. And allows us to reflect laser's
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off it and measure the distance to the moon down
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to the centimeter. And in the Late News, Tony Blair
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calls for state pensions to be abolished and replaced by
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a lifespan fund. King's speech gives Civil Aviation Bill new
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powers in a bid to support airport expansion. Trump is
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demanding Zambia hands over its minerals, although will stop sending
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medical aid. Government officials hugely underestimate impact of data centers
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on UK carbon emissions. The rise of ghost owners means
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there are eighteen thousand UK vehicles in use without proper records.
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Speaker 1: 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 group who had a hit with the song. These
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lines are from You got your mother in a world
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she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl.
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Hey babe, your hair's all right. Hey babe, let's go
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out tonight. You like me and I like it all.
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We like dancing and we look divine. Name the song
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of a group or both. In a nineteen seventy four Styley,
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David Bowie and Rebel Rebel Guess These celebrity. Born Gaina
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Hopkins eighth of June nineteen fifty one, she came to
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prominence with the release of the nineteen seventy five seven
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album The World Starts Tonight and its singles Lost in
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France and More Than a Lover. In the nineteen eighties,
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she ventured into rock music with songwriter and producer Jim Steinman.
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He wrote her biggest hit, which was the lead single
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from the nineteen eighty three UK chart topping album Faster
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Than the Speed of Night. Rocks and Honey were released
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in twenty thirteen and features the single Believe in Me,
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which she performed representing the United Kingdom at the Eurovision
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Song Contest twenty thirteen in Malmo, Sweden. Who is she
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Gaina Hopkins better known as Bonnie Tyler. Today's do gooders
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are the Florence hyphen Nightingale hyphen Foundation dot Org dot
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UK and Guess What. It's been a blast, but that's
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enough for this spsh All Taxes on Everything Edition and
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the Crazy Shorter than Short podcast show from Me Mike, Kelly.
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Speaker 3: Kisses and hugs from Me Joyce.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening and remember you can always find the
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podcast by searching or shouting the Mike dj Kelly Shorter
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than Short Podcast
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Speaker 1: Your host, Mike DJ Kelly