Introducing Strong Message Here

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Speaker 1 Hello, thank you for listening to this, even though it's quite short. I'm Amanda Unucci.
And I'm Helen Lewis.

Speaker 1 And we're about to launch our new podcast, Strong Message Here, which is about what, Helen?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Phrases such as...

Speaker 3 Well, I'm obsessed with anything Trump says because I've been America covering the election.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 3 A word that no actual mechanic has ever used. I think that's the strangest thing about it.
Only politicians.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's your turbocharger. That'll cost you £259.

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