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Hello, thank you for listening to this, even though it's quite short.

I'm Amanda Unucci.

And I'm Helen Lewis.

And we're about to launch our new podcast, Strong Message Here, which is about what, Helen?

It's about political language, how it gets used, how it gets abused.

I'm a journalist for now many many years and I've sat through innumerable boring speeches, heard innumerable catchphrases coined.

And I'm not that, but I am a comedy writer who's spent a lot of time observing from the sides how politicians speak.

And what we're going to be doing is in each episode and each week, we're going to be taking a phrase used by politicians recently and analyzing, you know, where it came from, but what they want to do with that phrase and why it has become so prominent.

Phrases such as...

Well, I'm obsessed with anything Trump says because I've been America covering the election.

And I'm obsessed with the word turbocharged, which I don't think anyone ever spoke until politicians started using it in leadership elections last three or four years.

And frankly, there have been a lot of those.

Everyone kicks off a speech by saying, I'm going to turbocharge the economy.

I don't know what that means.

A word that no actual mechanic has ever used.

I think that's the strangest thing about it.

Only politicians.

Yeah, it's your turbocharger.

That'll cost you £259.

And there'll be new episodes released every Thursday on BBC Sounds.

And subscribe to be the first to hear strong message here.

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