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Mr Custer and Charlie Drake...having a laugh!

2021/11/8
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@DonWoods weekly news rant then.....During the climate change show up in Scotland....which is blanket news at the moment.....before I had the chance to switch it off I was subjected to the effect on the world by planting trees.....which to me is about as interesting as Scottish football.....one chap was telling us that the trees absorb carbon dioxide so the more trees we have the better....another bloke came on and told us that when trees die all the carbon dioxide it has absorbed is released back into the atmosphere so the more trees we have is not a good thing.....just before I switched the TV off I slowly gazed up to see this wonderful information drifting over my head...............were it not for these scientific gatherings on our pathetic news programmes you would never ever hear or see the "experts" they feature....they should incorporate this tripe into the X Factor.......which is about the same level.....it's a wonder Ant and Dec aren't up in Scotland presenting the nonsense.

Then there is "Newswatch" which gives the viewers the opportunity to criticise the BBC news.....this week questions were asked by the public as to why Huw Edwards had to report,from Scotland,on the Climate Change Show and why could he not link up from London with reporters who were already there?....and how much is it costing the licence fee payer to needlessly send him there........of course we then have a BBC representative who comes on with the explanation.....now this was really clever....he was apparently speaking from a studio somewhere and I think his microphone was made from Leggo......I couldn't understand a word he said....so I wound it back and put the subtitles on.......which displayed sentences containing the word "inaudible".....it was certainly a novel way to get out of answering a simple question......

O.K. now it's time for my "one of the worst records ever made" spot......I have tried and tried but I failed to find anything worse than this one...AGAIN it features Charlie Drake who makes his third appearance on this podcast....which is brilliant as he only made three records.....it is called Mr.Custer and words fail me when I try to describe this song.....so here it is Mr. Custer "sung" by Charlie Drake.