Three decades on from Trainspotting what is our world’s relationship with drugs? Should we fight to save our history or let everything turn into an Aldi? And what’s Elon Musk up to? Is he even of this world?

All this and more on episode 22 of The Late Challenge.

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Chapters: 

00:00 Introduction
00:17 Swearing
05:25 Trainspotting: The Musical 
10:44 Confirmation bias in the world
14:46 Modern day drug culture
20:56 Why do you think its like this?
25:01 Why is alcohol so widely accepted?
31:06 Huyton Cricket Club
38:03 Money, control, & power
40:05 Robbo’s fact of the week
42:09 Social media challenge
47:05 The alien bloodline
49:24 Elon Musk
57:23 Horrible comments
01:00:49 Final words

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Can anything take the place of football? Is cricket any good? And what is the good, the bad and the ugly of a trip to the Glastonbury Festival?

All this plus crisps from 7,000 miles away and Fact of The Week.

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Gareth Roberts and Paul Cope (or is it Statler and Waldorf?) consider how and why Boris Johnson is afforded so many second chances given the litany of lies that litter his career.

Martin Tyler’s departure and the shake up at Sky Sports and beyond in football broadcasting is also on the agenda.

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Once again Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts try and fail to get through an agenda for the show. But there’s still time to talk about the treatment of football fans, David Moyes and the musical heritage of Merseyside.

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What’s it like to walk the cobbles of Coronation Street? When is the right time in life to buy a caravan? And why did someone want to run Robbo over?

John Aldridge has been asked about “The Trouser Dance”, there’s a belting fact about the oldest standing building in Merseyside and what can you do to pirouette from the pull of procrastination?

All this and more from Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts on the latest free episode of The Late Challenge.

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When does friendly and attentive become overbearing and annoying at an Airbnb? 

Why does everyone hate flies?

How did Everton stay up?

And what is Britain’s best-loved chocolate biscuit?

All this alongside a Fact of The Week and a new Crunching Challenge in the latest episode of The Late Challenge.

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Chapters:

3:01 Intro & Patreon
2:59 The real life challenge - Air B&B
9:11 Robbo's trip to Southampton 
13:47 Paul's shower thoughts 
30:16 Fact of the week
37:03 The Crunchin Challenge
44:09 The footie challenge
58:34 Big Sam losing the season
1:01:09 Bellingham

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Man City have been crowned champions, Liverpool have said their goodbyes to four players and The Reds are going to have to settle for Europa League football.

All that is on the agenda for debate, along with Big Sam’s AI rant, emoji use when dating and TLC’s champion crisp. 

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro & football challenge
19:50 - Players leaving LFC
45:25 - Player of the Match review
48:24 - Big Sam fearing for his life about AI
54:57 - Bottomless crisp parties & crunching challenge winner
61:34 - Middle-aged moans
62:56 - Fact of the week
65:38 - Emojis

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On this week’s free show, there are rants aplenty, from the airbrushing of football pre-Premier League, to change for change’s sake and the mess made of the media by the rules of clickbait.

Meanwhile, it’s the final showdown in the Crunching Challenge…and there’s only one winner.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction
01:42 - Middle-aged moans
18:43 - Notts county
23:45 - Man of the match is changed to player of the match
27:52 - Mad news headline
38:23 - Patreon
39:13 - Fact of the week
44:10 - You'll Never Walk Alone at Eurovision & the Coronation
55:22 - Crunching challenge

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On this week’s free show, we react to the fall out from The Coronation after Anfield’s act of defiance, ponder on why we actually have a Royal Family, and discuss whether Manchester United’s sputtering form could open the door to a top four spot for Liverpool.

We also talk the genius of Mo Salah, make the draw for the semi-finals of The Crunching Challenge and reveal a little known fact about The Beatles.


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Chapters:

0:00 - Intro & Patreon
1:23 - The Media Challenge
18:49 - Patriotism & The royal family madness 
36:38 - Middle Aged rants
41:35 - The Sporting Challenge
58:08 - Fact of the week 
1:00:14 0 The Crunchin' challenge

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If Everton go down how far will they fall and how do we feel about it?

Do we really need to be singing for the king at a football match?

And how we can finally find a way of ending The Crunching Challenge on crisps?

All these questions and more are debated by Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts alongside Fact Of The Week, a rant about straws and a moan about noisy pubs.

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