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Speaker 1: Welcome to software Radio. Where we're at software dot com.

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Speaker 1: We're on time, on target and it's Big Phil Campion

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Speaker 1: this week and I'm talking to you from the UK.

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Speaker 1: What we're gonna talk about this week, Well, I'm going

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Speaker 1: So a couple of things to talk about this week

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Speaker 1: before we start. Then, Africa been in the US this

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Speaker 1: then obviously it does as a favor because we haven't

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Speaker 1: in Mali and all over all over Africa. Now you'll

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Speaker 1: isn't it. You're all saying, but Phil, but Phil, if

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Speaker 1: you're training them up, they'll turn against you eventually. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid there is a risk that you run, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not one thing to look like I'm going to

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Speaker 1: war when I'm actually only going to the pub for

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Speaker 1: a few beers. All right, you can't be bundling around

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Speaker 1: the pub. The dorman just won't have it if you

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Speaker 1: try and walking the pub in the UK have a

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Speaker 1: great big day, sagne. We don't make you, know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, not not your nine the five pubs. That's fine,

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Speaker 1: but if you want to go sort of out of

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Speaker 1: an evening carrying some of this stuff. It's just not practical, okay.

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Speaker 1: And I do have a friend of mine. I get

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Speaker 1: a good friend of mine and he carries his e

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Speaker 1: DC pack everywhere. Well, he gets turned down from going

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Speaker 1: in a lot of pubs. He can't go to a

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Speaker 1: lot of pubs purely because I like, we got there, mate?

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Speaker 1: What's that? Whereas if you tone it down you carry

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Speaker 1: the man bag. Horrible thing to say that that man bag.

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Speaker 1: You carry the man bag, you're going to be allowed

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Speaker 1: a lot more places what you are if you turn

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Speaker 1: up with a great big Greenberg and on the bag

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Speaker 1: with your Taliban hunting club patches all over it and

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Speaker 1: all the rest of it. Okay, they don't wash in

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Speaker 1: many clubs in the UK. They just won't let you in,

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Speaker 1: all right. Pubs and clubs are just going down and

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Speaker 1: you're not coming in with that. So if I'm going

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Speaker 1: on a night out, I have to get It's a

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Speaker 1: bit like your missus. You know, you don't carry a

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Speaker 1: big Sainsburys background with all the bag she goes shopping

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Speaker 1: in to a nightclub. She tiles it down, don't she.

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Speaker 1: You have to do the same thing. You're in d

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Speaker 1: C you have to tone it all down, which is

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Speaker 1: it's just just bart a pass on it. So I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to go right into exactly what I carry

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Speaker 1: anymore over the over the UK. Would like to say

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Speaker 1: the free types of bag that I use the day

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Speaker 1: sec compartmentalized. It's no good just having a one bad

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Speaker 1: day second one sort of like the zip all in

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Speaker 1: day sex that it's no good to you whatsoever. I

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Speaker 1: then use the Man Bay all right, which is a

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Speaker 1: bit more stylish, or like I say, if I'm if

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Speaker 1: I'm working during the day, I will sometimes put on

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Speaker 1: the Fannie Pack all right again, tailor the kit and

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Speaker 1: pick out the things that I need on that particular

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Speaker 1: day and on that particular place I'm going. You might

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Speaker 1: not need everything every day, so that's what you've got

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Speaker 1: to bear in mind. Okay, that's enough. E D. Siver today.

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Speaker 1: Like I say, I will be featuring all this stuff

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Speaker 1: on Big Field Live, which airs on soft WAP on

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Speaker 1: times a week, so catch be on Facebook Live or

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Speaker 1: catch up on Facebook Live because you can always go

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Speaker 1: back to me and see what we're doing. As I'm

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Speaker 1: reading this, actually, as I'm do making this show, I've

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Speaker 1: just been made aware of a story which is breaking,

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Speaker 1: and it's a British couple in dramatic says rescue after

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Speaker 1: being kidnapped by ISIS. Now, this is a seventy year

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Speaker 1: old and a fifty nine year old in the Philippines

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Speaker 1: where obviously they've been held by by ISIS rebels. And

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Speaker 1: it's been reported that the SAS and intelligence officers played

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Speaker 1: a key role in the dramatic rescue of a British

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Speaker 1: couple held hostess by slam It State loyalists. The two

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Speaker 1: Britains were free this morning by the Philippine Army after

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Speaker 1: being kidnapped on October the fourth. Okay, but British special

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Speaker 1: forces helped plan the rescue mission that this is what

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Speaker 1: I'm going on about. This is exactly what I'm on

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Speaker 1: about now. Where you see the specum, the specialized infantry

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Speaker 1: working in all these places around the world. When you

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Speaker 1: get something like this happened, the regiment can go in, okay,

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Speaker 1: or special forces can go in and they can go

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Speaker 1: right this that the other they know what level training

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Speaker 1: the people have had, so they're not going to be

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Speaker 1: unrealistic and they're gonna they're gonna let let let loose

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Speaker 1: what they can. There we go. So Foreign Secretary Dominic

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Speaker 1: Rape praise the tremendous efforts of the authorities in the Philippines.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. The Philippine military, guided by the British,

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Speaker 1: have released two people from the clutches of ISIS in

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Speaker 1: the Philippines. You don't really think about ISIS being around

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Speaker 1: that part of the world, do you, But they obviously are.

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Speaker 1: And what they say the reach of the British Special Forces,

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Speaker 1: well we know what that is, don't we. It's everywhere,

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Speaker 1: so nobody is safe from us. A security source added

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Speaker 1: special forces will have had a significant input on the rescue,

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Speaker 1: offering technical advice and help and planning the actual military operation.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. We probably didn't have boots on

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Speaker 1: the ground. It probably wasn't our guys actually put in triggers,

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Speaker 1: but they were being directed and as we all saw

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Speaker 1: in Kenya at times, you know what I mean, guys

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Speaker 1: will step in when they have to step in, and

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Speaker 1: they will get the job done. So another job there,

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Speaker 1: well done. I'm sure that will come to light. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure we'll read about it on the soft WAP at

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Speaker 1: some stage. But a great story just being broken the

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Speaker 1: British press about the s as being involved in another

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Speaker 1: another hostage rescue around the world today. Yeah, that's cool.

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Speaker 1: And it's actually got a picture of the couple having

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Speaker 1: dinner in a camp afterwards with all these all these

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Speaker 1: Filipino special forces around and they look quite happy about

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Speaker 1: it as well. So there you go. How cool is that?

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Speaker 1: What a great story, And I should be looking out

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Speaker 1: for more stories like this, And like they say, we'll

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Speaker 1: touch on, we'll touch on what else the British Army

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Speaker 1: are doing around the world because the motors oper around

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Speaker 1: I of how we seem to do things has changed,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's changed. Let's stand let's let's hope

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Speaker 1: it's changed for the good, because the last one we

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Speaker 1: want really is massi amounts of troops on the ground

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Speaker 1: exposed to all sorts of horrendous things. So if we

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Speaker 1: can do about getting too many people in too much risk,

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Speaker 1: then that's a good thing for me. I think. Okay,

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