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you. Morning, everybody. Welcome long to

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your free podcast for today, Tuesday,

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Feb the fourteenth, and it's Yes.

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Spend money day. Yes. It's spend money day

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because it's Valentine's Day. For

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some peculiar reason, you have to go and buy

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somebody roses, chocolates, What

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else do you get them? mean, I mean, I'll go for

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a new car or something like that. Anything

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really. But whatever it is, it's gonna you by the

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end of the day. You're rather gonna go and get one of the meals and

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one of the supermarkets, which are very,

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very good value. can't begin to tell you how

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such good value they really are. And

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and then you can you can sit down and have a

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romantic meal. It'll be exactly the same as the meal

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you had yesterday and the day before and for

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the past. Three hundred and sixty five other days

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and the rest of them. But it's case

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of, you know, this is supposed to be special

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so you'll have roses and you can have stake

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with garlic butter and you can you can do

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all the nice things. You know,

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it I mean, it's just, you know, it's it's

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quite nice and I do like the look of rope. I like

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seeing all the big flower arrangements

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everywhere. And they'll be here. We have, you

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know, there's all sorts of companies,

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zing flowers. That sort of send these

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but I've had a bouquet for them before. They're

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nice. They're very nice. And

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you get all these sort of things. And I think, oh, that's

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good. And then just to really ruin your

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day, just when you've got all romantic, Guess

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who's bringing out a book? Sarah

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Ferguson. Gold in heaven. Yes.

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She's writing a book about her relationship with

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the queen. Shouldn't take too long to

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write that. She spoke to me on a few occasions

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and that was it. But of course, you can say anything

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you like. Because the queen

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isn't here to defend herself. You can't

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libel the dead. Believe it or not. It's one

2:40

of those peculiar rules, so she could put down whatever

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she wants. It can be a load of old cock and bull.

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But that but nobody can prove that it was

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ever said, unless she recorded every conversation,

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which should mean she's a very devious person.

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But I mean who in God's name? I mean, she won't write it

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herself. She can't write. Her

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her last two books, I think, were ghosted. She

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sort of adds her name to it. But so

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she's gonna write a book about the queen. I don't wanna

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read something like that, not from her. You

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can understand now why Prince Philip said

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She's not coming to spend Christmas at our place. He

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hated her. Absolutely hated her. Justifiably

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so as far as I'm concerned. But anyway, happier

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times, happier time Richard Hammond,

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I did talk to Richard Hammond about this.

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When he had his his car crash, in

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two thousand and six, it was

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And, I mean, I've never seen each other. I

3:28

said, what on Earth Richard? Because I

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think he's great. I think he's absolutely

3:33

great. I said, what Earth possessed

3:35

you to get in a car basically attached

3:37

to a petrol tank, which

3:39

was, I mean, it was just an accident waiting

3:42

to to happen. He

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has admitted he now fears he could have dementia

3:48

as a result of the frontal lobe brain injury

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that he endured I mean, it's it's

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a terrible thing, and now we've got it with another one

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on top gear as well. So

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please please be careful that people

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would I mean, if my if I said to my boss, I'd, by the

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way, I'm going to hang glide off the top of this building. They'll

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be going, oh, you're not. No, you're

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not. And I would have to

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agree that no, I'm definitely not

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going to. Well down to Harry styles, four

4:12

Brit awards, you know, he is riding

4:14

along, if you remember the gang shows, riding

4:17

along along the crystal wave,

4:19

and and so he goes on. But

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he did very well. He parted out with Li's

4:23

own wet leg, but he only has to do it once because he's

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a good boy. And he knows where his bread

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is buttered. He's not going to start resorting

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to the druggie side of the thing

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and doing all these other little bits

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and pieces. He just gets on with it. He goes

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on stage. He sells out stadiums

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like there's no tomorrow. He is out

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of one direction, the most successful person,

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and he's still grounded. Let's face it at the

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British Awards where most of them are off their faces.

4:47

He thanked his mom. He

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thanked his mom for for putting

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him up for for x factor. So

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I thought was good. Rihanna pregnant

4:55

with second child showcasing her bump

4:57

in the Super Bowl halftime show. They make a big deal

4:59

in America about the Super Bowl. I frankly couldn't

5:02

care less. Makes no difference

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at all to me about that. But this

5:06

was between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas

5:09

City Chiefs at a state farm stadium.

5:11

They love their baseball. They love

5:13

all that kind of stuff. I mean, they really do.

5:16

Really do. Strictly stars often

5:18

get whisked on to celebrity master chef, but another

5:20

one of the professionals are signed up. Diane

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Boswell follows in the

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footsteps of her pals, Oteumabusi and

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Catcher Jones. Which

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is lovely.

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Also, Katy

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Price, you know, the most ridiculous

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Katy Price. Splashes out

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how much. Twelve thousand

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quid she's a bankrupt. Okay? She hasn't

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appeared in court yet and actually get away with

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it last time. She spent twelve thousand quid

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on business class flights taking

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the kids in her fiance to Thailand. So

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she's back with Carl Woods, by the way, just in case

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she wondered, how disastrous her life

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could be. So she she

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dodged a hearing for the fourth time.

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She's sticking two fingers up to them. Literally

6:04

sticking two things up when she's a bankrupt. She's

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got no money. She's a drunk. And so

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she spent twelve thousand pounds on business

6:10

flights to Thailand. Three

6:13

thousand pounds each. She's a drunk

6:15

driver. Six times convicted. Six

6:18

times convicted. She owes a fortune on

6:20

the mortgage. I think what they should do a

6:22

a victor. Go around there with the lorries,

6:24

chuckle her stuff out on the street because

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she's made no effort to save money. That

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twelve thousand pounds spent on the business flights

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is one monthly payment for the

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bankruptcy. That's what she agreed to.

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I'm not I didn't agree to it. She agreed

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to pay twelve thousand quid. How much has she paid?

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You've heard the expression all. Thank

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you. Jerry Clarkson. Left

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scrabbling as cows

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break out of the field. And you know what cows are

6:50

like without trouble with cows before, they

6:52

make a run for it after one day on the farm.

6:55

But I like Jeremy Clarks, and I couldn't

6:57

care less what Oxfordshire city council think of

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him. All the locals live around the area, you know,

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you can go do one. We're really not not

7:03

particularly bothered about it. We

7:06

just like Diddly Squat Farm and

7:08

we think it's fantastic. I think

7:10

it's it's really, really good. Very, very good.

7:13

So you keep going at it, Jeremy. You get

7:15

the backing of us. And if we give the

7:17

backing to something, that's the seal of approval.

7:22

The good morning, Britain favorite,

7:24

Laura Tobin, has taken

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to Instagram. She's taken a few days off.

7:30

And she was talking, actually, it was very

7:32

interesting about how

7:34

they save money in her household. So

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they run a bath she

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will have a she has the bath or something. Anyway,

7:41

she has the bath and then she turns on

7:43

the shower as they pull the plug out and her

7:45

little girl who I think is four sits

7:47

in the water and has her little

7:49

bath and then her husband gets in the shower

7:51

as well and people were writing to her going,

7:54

oh, how dirty and you go,

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listen, everybody did that. When

7:58

I was younger, would there be people my

8:00

age, you know, middle fifties?

8:02

And they'll they'll be saying the same thing. When you

8:04

were young, We ran a bath because

8:07

we had an immersion heater, which meant that all

8:09

you had was the hot water in the immersion heater.

8:11

Nowadays, you've got combi boilers and it's constant

8:13

hot water. But in the early days, it heated

8:15

up. Once you drained the the the immersion

8:18

heater, that you had to wait till it filled up again

8:20

and then heated the water. So we would have a

8:22

bath and we wouldn't all have a bath on the same

8:24

night. But if I was having a bath, I would

8:26

then get out and then my brother would

8:28

get into the bath. And that's

8:30

how it worked. You know, you didn't waste the bath

8:32

water. It just kept it all going.

8:34

So I'm with I'm with Laura Tobin on that

8:36

one. And, you know, she's

8:38

she's doing her bit for the country. Many

8:40

other people are doing that? I've got no idea, but well

8:42

done to her. John Cleese's ex wife

8:45

is Connolly Booth. As

8:47

you know, and they

8:49

wrote she was the chamber made poly

8:51

and he

8:53

didn't tell her about

8:55

the faulty towers reboot because they

8:57

they split years and years ago. They tied

9:00

the knot. They were married for ten years.

9:02

Nineteen seventy eight, they they sort finished up.

9:04

And John has teamed up with his daughter Camilla,

9:08

and Connie is now eighty two. I'll tell

9:10

you what was amazing about. And you was go on, go

9:12

and listen to her voice. I

9:14

think she's Australian or something like that.

9:16

Whatever it is, you listen to her voice on YouTube and

9:19

you go, Is that the same person?

9:21

Is that I mean, she's absolutely unbelievable.

9:24

Steven Spielberg says he has no regrets about

9:26

turning down the first Harry Potter film He's

9:28

such a clever man. He's such a clever

9:30

man. He has he's father

9:33

of seven. No. I think that's

9:35

brilliant. You see, I'm I'm all in favor

9:37

of people with big families. I

9:39

like big families. So

9:41

my idea of and I think twenty

9:44

one or twenty two on the television is a bit too

9:46

many, but seven and eight is great. So

9:48

he's got Theo, thirty four,

9:50

Sasha, thirty two, Sawyer, thirty,

9:52

Mckayla twenty eight, Destiny twenty

9:54

six, stepdaughter Jessica Capshaw, who

9:57

was with his wife, Kate Capshaw. And

9:59

he says he says need to put the

10:01

kids first. Good for him. He's seventy

10:03

six now, but he's made more films that

10:05

made people cry than anybody else.

10:07

He's the only person he puts his heart and soul

10:09

into everything. And when you think about the hits

10:11

that he's had. I'm having too

10:13

much of a good mood today, but the hell's gone wrong.

10:15

I've been nice about everybody, except Grassley,

10:18

Sarah Ferguson, who, to be honest with you, not

10:20

remotely interested in at all, I'm

10:22

afraid. And and interested in

10:25

in sort of, you know, celebrating this

10:28

romantic day of ours, Valentine's Day, because

10:30

you you might have forgotten. You won't later

10:33

on because they'll be flowers. Mind you, if you hang on till

10:35

tomorrow, you get them cheaper. Which is which

10:37

is good. Love Island. Will appears to lean in for a kiss

10:39

for the new girl, Leila. I'm gravitating

10:42

towards you. Deppy little people they

10:44

are. Honestly dirty dirty

10:46

people. This is a he appears to lean

10:48

in for a kiss. How old are these? A bit three,

10:50

four, what are they? No. Apparently,

10:52

he's over the age of twelve, amazing, but

10:55

she branded his and Jesse's relationship, not

10:57

real. None of them are real. They're all fake. Every

10:59

single one of them are fake. You know why? Because

11:01

if you don't get into a relationship, you are

11:04

dead in the water, they're not they're not

11:06

interested in sort of bit. You've

11:08

got to have a relationship to

11:10

get the money in. If you're a bloke,

11:12

you don't stand to cut in hell's chance of getting anything

11:14

done. It's gotta be with a girl

11:16

so that she can get you

11:19

know, a clothing design or something

11:21

like that or shooting model bikinis. If you're

11:23

a bloke, you might as well just tag along like a

11:25

dog or a lead. Because you're not gonna

11:27

get anything else, I'm afraid. Rihanna

11:30

music, Rihanna's music sees a six hundred

11:32

and forty percent increase in streaming on Spotify

11:35

After the Super Bowl halftime show, I told you

11:37

it was Big in America. That Super Bowl

11:39

is like mega mega big. Mega

11:41

mega big. They love it over there. They go crackers

11:44

for it. Far bigger than anything we ever do in

11:46

this country. And

11:48

also, the celebrity chef,

11:50

well, I think that's finished, doesn't it? The Blokew's

11:53

got this shop,

11:56

sorry, restaurant salt day or something like that.

11:58

You know, when they charge about seven hundred pounds

12:00

for a steak, you know, it got a load of coverage.

12:02

Now, nobody bothers with it. Nobody bothers with

12:04

it at all. And he's aiming to feed

12:06

five thousand people a day in Turkey, you

12:09

know, which is good. But the Laurie they've

12:11

sent has got his name on the side. Ego

12:14

or what? How embarrassing. Can I tell you

12:16

to put your name on the side just so people know who you

12:18

are? Because the restaurant got a load of coverage

12:20

to start with. They had the likes of

12:24

Oh, who went? Oh, I think somebody from from

12:26

the only way is ethics turned up, but they'll turn up

12:28

the opening of just about anything at all.

12:30

And I think

12:32

who else went remember, Ashley. But anyway, whenever

12:34

it was, that's all fizzled out now. They don't

12:36

get they don't get the the publicity,

12:38

which they used to get. Anyway,

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listen, thank you very much indeed. I hope that you end

12:42

up with flowers or chocolates or a

12:44

pot plant or something interesting or bottle

12:46

of booze. Which could very nice and

12:49

you enjoy your Valentine's Day,

12:51

and I'll talk to you tomorrow at the same time. Until

12:53

then, I wish you a

12:55

warm. It's it's definitely getting a little bit nippier,

12:57

only a little bit. It's not sort of mega, mega

13:00

chili, but it's creeping up.

13:02

Freddie thought it was creeping up. But now he's discovered he's

13:04

got banana toffies out there. He's as

13:06

happy as Larry, which then's not Larry. He doesn't know anybody

13:08

called Larry. But he he's he's very happy.

13:10

He got banana toffies. I mean, how cool

13:12

is that? Have a good day. Talk

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to you tomorrow till then. Stay safe.

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Leading Britain's conversation, LBC.