Lewis Goodall

Why, it's my pleasure. It's nice to be on a proper show for once.

Why, it's my pleasure. It's nice to be on a proper show for once.

You've got it right. John Sopel, you do not know how much John Sopel would love to do everything from home. Honestly, if he could do everything in his boxer shorts, he would. And frankly, sometimes he does.

You've got it right. John Sopel, you do not know how much John Sopel would love to do everything from home. Honestly, if he could do everything in his boxer shorts, he would. And frankly, sometimes he does.

Yeah, well, John, one walking HR situation, I think, no, it's only a joke. It's only a joke, don't worry.

Yeah, well, John, one walking HR situation, I think, no, it's only a joke. It's only a joke, don't worry.

Disclaimers need not apply.

Disclaimers need not apply.

Well, today I started the day by doing, because I was filling in for James O'Brien on LBC.

Well, today I started the day by doing, because I was filling in for James O'Brien on LBC.

So I spent three hours talking about the reordering of the international political order, redrawing of the Middle East map, and listening to a man, honestly, who was actually Trump's ambassador to Israel in his first term, playing a clip, earnestly discussing whether or not Gaza should be called Gaza-Lago or Mar-a-Gaza.

So I spent three hours talking about the reordering of the international political order, redrawing of the Middle East map, and listening to a man, honestly, who was actually Trump's ambassador to Israel in his first term, playing a clip, earnestly discussing whether or not Gaza should be called Gaza-Lago or Mar-a-Gaza.

So I would say, yeah, just another normal day, really. I mean, not so different to 2024. You know, I mean, basically now I suppose the difference now is now that we we all have to inhabit, don't we? The burning hedge maze that is Donald Trump's brain and try and each day see if we can navigate our way out of it and always fail.

So I would say, yeah, just another normal day, really. I mean, not so different to 2024. You know, I mean, basically now I suppose the difference now is now that we we all have to inhabit, don't we? The burning hedge maze that is Donald Trump's brain and try and each day see if we can navigate our way out of it and always fail.

Yeah, I sometimes wonder, and I suppose I could, again, ask our boxer shorty friend, John Sopel, about this. I sort of wonder, like, what did political journalists kind of, what did they do in, like, I don't know, 1999? You know, they sort of like, they're just like, are we going to join the Euro? No, we're not. Next. Like, you know, it's all very, very odd. I mean, yeah.

Yeah, I sometimes wonder, and I suppose I could, again, ask our boxer shorty friend, John Sopel, about this. I sort of wonder, like, what did political journalists kind of, what did they do in, like, I don't know, 1999? You know, they sort of like, they're just like, are we going to join the Euro? No, we're not. Next. Like, you know, it's all very, very odd. I mean, yeah.

And obviously that is a challenge, right? And particularly with Trump. It's like putting back on a kind of particularly, I don't know why I keep sort of, reaching for the kind of below the waist kind of metaphors. But like, you know, it's like putting on... Well, you correctly assess the tone of our show.

And obviously that is a challenge, right? And particularly with Trump. It's like putting back on a kind of particularly, I don't know why I keep sort of, reaching for the kind of below the waist kind of metaphors. But like, you know, it's like putting on... Well, you correctly assess the tone of our show.

It's just an instinct. You know, it's like wearing a particularly sort of comfortable pair of trunks that you haven't worn for a long time. It's like you've got to try each and every day to try and differentiate... like what matters and what doesn't matter and try and raise the kind of hysterical bar, right? Because the problem is, this is his great genius, right?

It's just an instinct. You know, it's like wearing a particularly sort of comfortable pair of trunks that you haven't worn for a long time. It's like you've got to try each and every day to try and differentiate... like what matters and what doesn't matter and try and raise the kind of hysterical bar, right? Because the problem is, this is his great genius, right?