Hello, Keith.

[rionaleonhart]

I went to a recording of The Unbelievable Truth a few days ago! The panellists were John Finnemore, Lucy Porter, Jeremy Hardy and Frankie Boyle; the host, as ever, was David Mitchell. It's the first time I've seen Lucy Porter live; she's never entirely worked for me on the radio, but I quite enjoyed her here

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[wolfy_writing]

and a travel website called 'GoTrump.com', and he once wrestled another millionaire to the ground and forcibly shaved him

I briefly misread that a website that consisted entirely of video of Trump wrestling other millionaires to the ground and forcibly shaving them.

Mitchell: Unfortunately, that is not true.
Hardy: But that's what you'd say if you had been, isn't it?

I once got into a very long conversation with a drunk guy at a party in a small village in the Philippines where he asked if I was a spy, I said no, and someone pointed out that's also how a spy would answer. He then spent the rest of the night deploying the sophisticated interrogation technique of "No, but really, are you a spy?"

(In a different rural Philippine village a woman I know was all "I found your cat!" And when she discovered that my cat was inside, and she was holding a different but extremely similar-looking cat, she turned it to face her and asked "Are you a demon?" I never found out what she would have done if the cat had said "No.")

[rionaleonhart]

One of my favourite lies of the evening was 'A spy will say no the first two times you ask them if they're a spy, but if you ask them a third time they have to tell the truth.' If only you'd been able to persuade your interrogator of that.

[wolfy_writing]

Wait, David Mitchell denied being a spy exactly twice. Are you sure those were both lies?

[littlered2]

although, given the name, perhaps the bikes would just be riding over Trump himself

I'd watch that.

[rionaleonhart]

I do feel it would have broader appeal than Trump: The Game. Perhaps we're on to something.

[apiphile]

Mitchell: (on snail racing) Unfortunately, it's been discovered that the practice of removing the snails' shells 'to make them go faster' actually just makes them sluggish.

I was just required to explain the noise I made, by my boss.
On telling him about this, the look he gave me can only truly be described as "so withering that I may have gone bald".

[rionaleonhart]

I'm so happy to hear this. Nobody should be allowed to escape that joke.