Dead Ringers: Ep 3. New World Disorder

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Welcome to Young Again with me, Kirstie Young.

On my desert island, I would take Giles Brandreth and leave him there.

But in this show, I ask my guests what advice they'd give their younger selves.

Well, today's guest is with me in the studio, and I'm going to jump straight in.

So, any regrets, Mr.

Welby?

Nothing major, no.

So, you wouldn't go back to, oh, I don't know, 2013 and tell your younger self to pull his bloody finger out?

Possibly.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing.

I ask you then why you're resigning.

Ah, well, that came about after a recent conversation with God.

Oh, and?

Well, the Lord does move in mysterious ways, as you know, and in this instance, he told me to collect my stuff, leave leave my pass at reception, and F off Pronto.

You're listening to today with Michelle Hussein and Emma Barmart.

The headlines.

The climate change conference COP29 has opened in Azerbaijan, a country where 90% of exports are oil and gas.

Not to be outdone, the Vegan Society has booked its Christmas due at the local Angus Steakhouse.

Yes, it's COP29, sadly, apparently like Star Trek films.

Only the even-numbered ones are any good.

The world's leading naturalist had this to say.

Azerbaijan insists oil and gas have a role to play in meeting net zero targets, much in the same way that heroin has a role to play in stamping out drug addiction.

China won't be at COP29, but the Taliban will be.

They have have an ambitious target of net-zero women being seen in public by 2030.

Keir Stamer's speech promising Britain would be a world leader in the fight against climate change was poorly received.

The Prime Minister joins me on the line.

Good morning.

Sorry, Michelle.

I'll bit knackered, actually.

Yeah, in the past month, I've visited Samoa, France, America, Spain, and Mauritius.

And next week, I'm off to the G7 in Brazil.

And you're doing this all to restore the UK's standing on the world stage?

No, I'm doing it for the the air miles.

I'm a British Airways Gold member now.

Free Wi-Fi, nice coffee, and as many tiny sandwiches as you can eat.

I'd never dreamed of such luxury.

Have I ever mentioned I'm the son of a toolmaker?

No, I'm not.

But can progress be made at COP given the recent political upheavals?

Oh yes, absolutely Emma.

You know, everyone here is committed to working together towards a sustainable future for our planet.

Sorry, what was that?

Nothing.

Just ignore it.

That's what we're doing.

Right.

It sounded like an elephant.

Is there an elephant in the room with you?

I think if there was a bloody Donald Trump-shaped elephant in the room, you know, somebody would have mentioned that.

There was disbelief after Donald Trump appointed Matt Gates, a congressman who was investigated for child sex trafficking, as his attorney general.

I'm just getting started.

started.

I've also appointed the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

He's going to be my new secretary for education.

Great guy, great guy.

I like the Bang Bangs.

And Cocaine Bear to head the forestry department.

I like bears as they defecate wherever the hell they want.

Just like the Dalet.

It's been a good week for Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine war, with Russia retaking the strategic locations of Borsky in the Kursk region and the White House in Washington, D.C.

Premier League referee David Coote has been suspended after being filmed making foul-mouthed comments about former Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp.

Coote insisted it was just banter, but after everyone stood around aimlessly for 10 minutes, VAR finally ruled that he had crossed the line.

The new opposition leader, Kemi Badenock, has been accused of being wooden and stilted at Prime Minister's questions.

She joins me now.

Miss Badenock.

No, no, there's no truth to the claims that I'm wooden and stilted.

In fact, I'm known at Tory HQ for my humorous banter.

That sounds great.

Right-o.

Let the banter begin.

Right, okay.

Do you want to start?

Yes.

I am ready to start the banter.

Are you ready to start the banter?

Look, I don't think this is going very well.

Well, ha ha ha.

You, you might say it's not going well, but in my opinion, it is

going

well.

I think we'll leave it there.

Boom, boom, still got it, Kenny.

In its first weekend, Paddington in Peru has broken box office records.

He joins me now.

Come on, Emma, hurry this up.

I'm a busy bear.

I'm really not happy.

You said I was getting organic marmalade sandwiches in the green room, but they weren't.

Well, yes, but you didn't have to throw them at Michelle.

I'm a big movie star now, Emma.

I've met the bloody queen, you know.

So spit out your sad little questions and let me get back to my amphetamine and panda possi.

Okay, so what are the rumours that you've been seeing Sue behind Sooty's back?

Complete rubbish.

And even if it were true, Sooty's signed an NDA, so he's not talking to anyone.

And

those other rumours about you and the eldest daughter of the Brown family?

This interview is over!

Historians are up in arms about incongruities in Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2 movie.

Most noticeably, how that skinny, weedy kid from Normal People now has pecs like all the magic mic dancers combined and a rippling six-pack.

But Emma, just as we wouldn't objectify an actress for her body, we wouldn't do the same to Paul Mescal.

I'd climb him like a tree.

Homebase has gone into administration after management failed to put together a rescue package, three shelves and a patio dining table.

Disney has announced yet another remastered version of the original Star Wars movies to bring them up to date for 2024.

Darth Vader, only you could be so bold.

The Imperial Senate will not sit still for this.

When they hear you've attacked a diplomatic.

Don't act so surprised, Your Highness.

You weren't on any mercy mission this time.

I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you.

I will never bow down to your tyranny and- Excuse me, Kirk, I should just bought in here.

Joe Biden, what the hell are you doing here?

I just popped by to give Princess Leah some advice.

A bit of advice, Lil Biden wisdom.

Now, when one of the world's most evil beings returns to your life, Princess Leia, you shouldn't sound so furious and angry.

It's bad.

You shouldn't do that.

No.

What you should do, you should just say, welcome back.

And then what you do is help ensure a smooth transition to power.

But that's insane.

Darth wants to kill me and destroy everyone who supports me.

That's the same with Trump.

Come on,

give it a try.

Um, okay, um, Darth, welcome back.

You know, crushing the rebel alliance is tough.

And in many cases, it's not a very nice world.

But it's a nice world today.

And I appreciate that very much.

Hey, see,

doesn't it feel good?

It feels really good.

It feels peachy, right?

Joe Biden welcomed President-elect Trump into the White House.

Yeah,

people say Trump is a fascist demagogue, but he couldn't have been nicer to me.

Donald says when I'm finished in the Oval Office,

he's going to personally arrange for me to go live on a farm.

I love that.

It's so nice.

Very nice.

I love goats and sheep.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner spoke to J.D.

Vance this week about building on the special relationship.

She joins me on the line.

Ms.

Raynor, how was the call?

We got on really well and had a lot in common.

Isn't it difficult building bridges with people who you've previously said have no place in the White House?

We got on really well and had a lot in common.

But what do you make of Fancy's views on feminism?

We got on really well and had.

Oh, sod it.

I can't do this.

You can just shoot me, Kid.

Read the words, Angela.

There's to be an independent review into rail fare prosecutions.

This will ensure passengers who have made mistakes with their tickets don't receive disproportionate punishment.

Although anyone putting their bag on the seat next to them will be immediately incinerated.

In Royal News, Queen Camilla has restarted Royal Duties this week after some time off.

In a rare interview for the BBC, she joins me now.

Bloody hell, how hot is the rivals?

I just finished the last episode and I've got one word: foor.

But Your Majesty, I thought you'd taken a step back from royal duties because of health problems.

Well, if by health problems you mean a newfound addiction to posh smut, then you're spot on.

Something about watching a bunch of blue-blooded, ruddy-faced poshos absolutely going at it has given me a new lease of life.

Actually, that gives me an idea.

Charles, Charles, call in sick.

Get that lazy ass William to do some waving for you.

We're having a Buckhouse bonkathon.

It's been announced that Sue Gray won't, after all, be taking up the job of the Prime Minister's envoy to the nations and regions because it was just a silly made-up title that has no reason to exist.

In other news, Prince Andrew is still the Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, Inverness, Baron Killelee, and Lead of the Seven Kingdoms of Thark.

And finally, Silicon Valley has reacted gleefully to the news that following Trump's election, Bitcoin has hit a record high.

We are overjoyed.

Yippee Yaw.

This gives the chance for hundreds of thousands of ordinary carbon life forms to rush out

to buy Elon Bitcoins, only to lose everything in six months' time when the Bitcoin boom tanks.

Boohoo, boohoo.

They lost it all.

Their humanoid suffering makes Elon's circuits tingle.

Crying more tears, humanoids.

Elon lubricates his joints on their salty goodness.

No, no, don't let me speak.

It's Big Dodge's podcast, and I'm joining you today from the lefty lefty wokey COP29 Summit to have a right good old laugh.

And before you have a pop, Baku is basically en route back to Clacton from Mar-a-Lago.

Right, okay.

I've got a youngster here called Greta.

Say a piece, sweetheart.

The proposals at COP29 do not go far enough.

Don't go far.

Blimey.

All this fuss over something that's not even real.

You don't believe in climate change?

Look, I believe in climate change, but that's because nowadays you have to.

It's like washing your hands after the bog.

It's just easier to say you've done it.

Okay,

give me your pint of beer and your lighter.

Look, hey, hey.

Now, say this nice, cool pint of beer is the world.

You're damn right, sister.

And now let's see what happens when the atmosphere around the world is warmed.

Honestly, that's it.

Sure.

Look.

Hey.

Hang on.

It's bubbling.

My world is boiling.

No.

See?

You know, I finally understand it.

How could I have been so blind?

COP29 isn't going far enough.

We're breaching the Paris Agreement.

Those poor polar bears.

It is good to have you on side, Nigel.

You're welcome.

We need to act now.

I need a drink.

How can I...

Hang on.

This is absolutely delicious.

The boiled beer?

It's like a warm kiss from Churchill on a summer's day.

What?

Never mind.

It's just a dream I once had.

But the point is this.

Climate change is real, and we should be doing everything in our power to speed it up.

Back to Clackton, I go, but in a private jet, smoking cigarettes and farting out the window.

Bye-bye.

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Shut up, losers.

I have a bigly important announcement to make.

I'm appointing the great super genius Ilal in a new position, a bigly important role

as First Lady.

I'll call him Ilania.

Milania has been malfunctioning for a while.

Saying crazy stuff like, I wish I'd never met you.

Get that mushroom away from me before I chop it off and throw it out the window.

It's very sad.

We're sending her to the UK to be put down.

Thanks to their new assisted dyeing bill.

It's a great bill.

As my new first lady, Ilania will massage my feet daily with the congealed fat you get at the bottom of a KFC bucket.

It's very smooth, very sensual.

Smells great.

He will always be by my side, telling me what to do and say, and stopping me from accidentally grabbing a head of steak by the vagina.

He will wear sunglasses and act like an emotionless robot and wear a shiny, shiny figure-hugging Versace dress so tight.

Donald, darling, light of my life.

Fire of my flat stainless steel loins.

Say goodbye to these nice people.

It's your bedtime now.

Hang on, it's only 4:30 and I haven't even had my happy meal yet.

Great meal.

I know that, but Elania needs to sort a few things out, like awarding Tesla and SpaceX billions of government contracts and unprecedented tax breaks.

And it would be much easier if you weren't under my feet.

Okay, my sugar puff.

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I'll be waiting for you in bed, wearing nothing but my very subtle, very natural fake tan.

Hey, what?

Let's play hide the mushroom.

Ilania will self-destruct in five seconds.

Hello, and welcome to Match of the Day.

I'm Kelly Summers, sitting in for Gary Lineke this week as he prepares to exit the show after 25 years with wonderful memories and enough money to buy Rail Madrid 10 times over.

Alan Shearer and Rio Ferdinand.

Will you miss Gary?

No, filthy pervert.

I hope they string him up 1,000%.

Disgusting.

No, guys, Gary's the only BBC presenter in the last five years who hasn't left after doing something disgusting.

Oh, good on him then.

Yeah, right.

So, the focus now of the show will be exclusively football.

Oh, yes.

Phew.

No more Gary getting us all dragged dragged into trouble and shooting his big mouth off on Twitter or whatever it's called now.

Exactly.

We begin with Wolves versus Man City, the game played at Molyneux in the Black Country, a region known for its economic decline over 14 long years of the Tories.

Why did I just say that?

Just keep going, Kelly.

Ignore it.

Oh, yeah.

Yes, that was a devastating pass, but nowhere near as devastating as Israel's continued bombardment of Gazma.

Why do I keep saying this stuff?

It's because you are one billion percent in Gary's chair, Kelly.

It was prophesied that anyone who sits in the chair of Lineker will start mouthing off opinions on social media and enraging the right-wing press who only want opinions from serious people like Boris Johnson's sister and that vicar who looks like a Muppet.

No!

No, no, the match of the day chair is not destroying my career.

I'm gonna...

I'm gonna fight it.

And

I'm gonna win.

Yes, come on.

Do it.

Right.

Phew.

All right, that's better.

No more politics.

Well done, girl.

Good.

Back to football.

And let's have an extended debate about whether VAR has been a positive force in the game.

On second thoughts, does Qatar pulling out as mediator of peace talks between Israel and Gaza dash all hopes for a ceasefire?

Oh, it does.

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That's out phone in later.

So Justin Welby has resigned as Archbishop of Canterbury and I am excited to have his replacement on the line.

Hello Roger.

Yeah, hi Jeremy, lovely to speak to you.

I gather until yesterday you ran a fish and chip shop.

Yeah that's right, the Cod Father.

Don't hate and battered sausage are equally available.

And I'm told you don't actually believe in God.

Yeah, no, that's right.

How did you become Archbishop of Canterbury?

Oh, well, it's a funny story.

I was on the internet and I was doing a which Archbishop Are You quiz on Facebook

and I got Elfric of Abinden.

Right.

And then one of the questions was: Do you find the notion of abusing children or beating them within an inch of their lives abhorrent?

So of course I clicked yes.

Next thing I know, I got a call from the General Synod.

Apparently, a surprisingly small small percentage of C of V bishops think that's a bad thing.

To cut a long story short, they offered me the position of Archbishop.

I hate to sound negative, Roger,

but you just don't seem qualified for the job.

Do you have any experience of miracles?

No, I do charge 11 quid for cod and chips and still have people queuing out the door.

You'll be perfect.

And now on BBC One, it's the finale of Wolf Hall.

Sir Thomas Cromwell faces his imminent demise at the hands of the King.

Sir Thomas Cromwell, you stand accused of treason.

And sorry, Your Majesty.

At the time of her coronation, I did not know that the Queen was unable to produce an heir for you.

Enough!

I have no choice but to sentence you to execution.

No, no, you will not, my liege.

Yes, I will.

I'm King Henry.

Nothing can save you.

You won't execute me, Majesty, because I'm going to do the look.

The look?

The Mark Rylance look.

The one with the sad, weary eyes and the kind face.

No one can resist the Mark Ryland's look.

I am the King of England.

I have faced down the Pope, the Spanish, and the French.

Nothing will prevent your death on this day.

Here it comes.

I'm going to smile now.

Nothing?

I'm going to crinkle up my eyes.

The little wrinkles,

the gentle smile.

You're just too adorable.

You will not die this day.

My good and loyal friend, Cromwell.

Thank you.

This is MSNBC News and we're delighted to be joined now in the studio by Vice President Kamala Harris.

Now looking back at the presidential election.

You know what?

I am grateful.

Losing that election was the will of the universe because it has guided me straight to Etsy.

Etsy?

Sure.

My new Etsy shop is flourishing.

Would you be interested in an inspirational tea towel?

Maybe not right now, but I can't get my message across as president.

I'll get it across on household textiles.

I've brought samples.

Look, here's only when it's dark enough can you see the stars from my concession speech, remember?

And this one says, You have to look through the rain to see the rainbow.

And here's my favorite: bake the world a better place.

So much fun.

Are you sure you're coping with your election loss?

Oh, I got more.

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Okay, everyone, I've nearly finished putting my team together.

I just have a few major announcements left.

I have great pleasure in announcing my new head of the FDA, the Food and Drink Department.

Your friend and my friend, you know him, I know him.

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Come on up here.

Think about it.

Great guy, great guy.

Hello, everybody.

I think actually you're making quite a grave error, Mr.

Trump.

I'm not actually Hannibal Lecter.

You're not?

No, no, no.

But you look just like him.

No, I'm just the actor Antony Hopkins.

I portrayed Hannibal Ector in three movies, but I'm not actually Hannibal Lecter.

Wait a second, hang on.

You pretended to be his.

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I gotta say, that's very sneaky.

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Well, it looked like he didn't want the job, folks.

I'm very sorry.

Never mind.

Let me announce my next appointment.

Head of the newly formed corruption busting department.

An actual ex-president and a brilliant guy.

Richard Nixon.

Bring him up here.

Come on.

Tricky Dicky.

Here again.

Look.

I'm not Richard Nixon either.

I know Richard Nixon.

I'm still Anthony Bloody Hopkins.

You're not Richard Nixon.

No.

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Oh, no.

Signed a Blu-ray and nothing.

High definition.

I know my face was on the DVD.

That's because I pretended to be Richard Nixon in the movie.

This is very deceitful.

I'm sorry.

You're a very deceitful person.

You're a bad guy.

I'm definitely...

Definitely going now.

Okay, goodbye.

Goodbye.

Very disappointing.

Disappointed.

anyway

on to my head of national weather service the great weather service and who better to help predict those weather patterns is my next appointment or great guy odin norse god and father of thor and loki come on up here odin go get him come back get him up here okay

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Dared Ringers was performed by Jan Ravens, Lewis McLeod, Jason Forbes, Jess Robinson, and Duncan Wisby.

The writers were Nev Fountain and Tom Jameson, Lawrence Howarth, Rob Dark, Edward Chu, Joe Topping, Christina Riggs, Lizzie Mansfield, Cravania Pillay, with additional material by Vicki Richards.

It was a BBC Studios audio production for Radio 4, and the producer and creator was Bill Dare.

I'm Hannah Fry and I'm Daro Breen.

And in the all-new series of Curious Cases, things are getting curiouser and curiouser.

We'll be looking the universe squarely in the eye and demanding an answer to your everyday mysteries.

Including, can you actually die of boredom?

Why do some people taste music?

And how many lemons would it take to power a spaceship?

We will shine a light on the world's most captivating oddities.

Brought to us by you, you delightful bunch of weirdos.

I don't think you're allowed to call them that.

But I love them, really.

Curious Cases.

On Radio 4.

And available now on BBC Sounds.

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The new musical has made Tony award-winning history on Broadway.

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Winner, best score!

We the man to be seen!

Winner, best book!

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It's a theatrical masterpiece that's thrilling, inspiring, dazzlingly entertaining, and unquestionably the most emotionally stirring musical this season.

Suffs.

Playing the Orpheum Theater, October 22nd through November 9th.

Tickets at BroadwaySF.com.

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