A veteran who had spent three years searching for his former military dog had no idea he was walking past him in a shelter hallway until 85 pounds of determination came through the gate.
🚨NEW EP🚨 On the show this week Matt, Jon & The Landlord discuss:
Forest v Leeds joining “the safe club”
@RonJichardson destroys one of ‘The Classics’
@mattforde reports back from a gluttonous trip to Paris like a 70’s comic.
Listeners email in about the disputed dates of WW1 and WW2
We discuss two bits of celebrity gossip
And why going to the football with Noel Gallagher would spoil the game
PLUS It transpires that we owe a listener a Frey Bentos pie.
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I’m in Mackay, which claims to have the world’s smallest roundabout, the world’s shortest traffic lights (or is it the world’s biggest knitted doll?), a big banana (not as big as the one in Coffs Harbour🍌), and to be the ‘Sugar Capital of Australia’…sweet. 🇦🇺 https://t.co/XxxxOlf2Vh
My receptionist, Emily, lost her husband unexpectedly in a car accident. Our company policy allows for 3 days of bereavement leave. On day 4, she showed up, pale and shaking, trying to answer phones because she couldn't afford to lose her income. It was heartbreaking to watch. I put the 'Out to Lunch' sign up, locked the door, and sat her down. I told her, 'Go home. Take the month. Take two. Your salary will continue as if you are here 8 hours a day.' Grief doesn't have a 3-day expiration date.
If you force people to work through trauma, you break them. If you support them, they remember it forever.
#ThoughtForTheDay
Pigeons get called sky rats.
But birds like these once carried messages through gunfire when every radio failed.
And the part most people miss is this.
For thousands of years humans relied on pigeons to move information faster than any technology available at the time. Their homing instinct is so precise that a trained bird released hundreds of miles away can still navigate straight back to its loft.
That simple biological skill made them invaluable in war.
During World War I and World War II, armies deployed hundreds of thousands of pigeons. When telephone wires were cut and radio signals failed, commanders often had only one reliable way to send a message through chaos.
In 1918 a Pigeon named Cher Ami carried a desperate note from trapped American troops in the Argonne Forest. The bird was shot through the chest and lost part of a leg during the flight but still delivered the message, helping stop friendly artillery fire and saving nearly two hundred soldiers.
Today their descendants wander city sidewalks, pecking quietly for crumbs.
Most people see a nuisance.
History once saw a lifeline with wings.
🚨NEW EP🚨
On the show this week:
@mattforde dreams of being beaten up Tyson Fury.
Tottenham’s troubles. We ask can you sack a man who hasn’t yet unpacked his suitcase?
@RonJichardson finds out his barber listens to this podcast.
There’s a new TV idea - Jon Richardson’s ‘Lad In The House’
How do you pronounce Takeshi’s Castle?
Matt and Jon celebrate their 21st anniversary by buying each other presents.
and find out Matt’s best ever comeback (that he can’t remember)
Your regular Sunday night reminder to catch all new Mock the Week on TLC at 9pm. Joining Dara this week will be Angela Barnes, Rhys James, Milton Jones, Sarah Keyworth, Glenn Moore & Ahir Shah. Don't miss it.