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This is Pod Save the UK and I'm Nish Kumar.
And I'm Coco Khan. As the government commits to cracking down on welfare fraud, we're looking into our broken benefit system.
And later, to celebrate the Tory party conference, we're bringing back the section lovingly known as WTFUG.
Boy, there has been a lot of wild stories from the Tories this week. And if you were in Birmingham this weekend yourself, did you pop along to conference?
I was doing one of my tour shows, to which tickets are still available, nishkamar.co.uk, in Birmingham on Saturday night. So it was like the day before the Tory party conference started. And I guess it was what... People in the theatrical or show business world generally know it as counter-programming, which is where there's a big event happening or something's being released.
So you put something else on that's aimed at the exact opposite of the target demographic.
Really? I've not come across that before.
Yeah, it's a thing. There was a long history of when a big action movie was released, distributors would release a rom-com as well because they were traditionally seen as being split audiences. This was visceral counter-programming. This was... pretty woman coming out on the same weekend as Con Air.
It is a bit of the Barbenheimer about it, isn't it?
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