Lou Sanders: Child Breaks Rubik's Cube Record, Monsanto Cancer Scandal & First Edition Book Found

The Truth (In My Opinion)

Comedian Lou Sanders joins the podcast to share news headlines, ranging from a six-year-old Chinese girl setting a Rubik's Cube record to a deep dive into Monsanto's cancer-causing chemical dumping in Wales and

Key takeaways

Six-year-old Lian Yunzi from China set the women's Rubik's Cube record at 4.27 seconds after learning 1,300 formulas.
Monsanto dumped PCBs (forever chemicals) into a lake in Wrexham, Wales during the 80s and 90s, leading to cancer deaths among local swimmers.

Main topics

Speedcubing records & child prodigies
Monsanto & forever chemical pollution in Wales

Notable quotes

I think it's all propaganda. I just think it's all pantomime and orchestrated to make you feel a certain way

Conclusion

The episode blends lighthearted viral news with sobering environmental and

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) Hello, and welcome to The Truth In My Opinion. This week, I was joined by comedian Lou Sanders. Lou brought some very… Lou stories. And if you don't know what I mean by that, I think you will once you've listened. A fantastic collection of news that I thoroughly enjoyed speaking to her about, including news of the first edition to kill a mockingbird being found in a charity shop and the nasty business of cancer-inducing pesticides. Lou's special, No Kissing in the Bingo Hall, is coming to Amazon Prime, so follow her to make sure you don't miss that when it drops. Now, let us kiss through your headphones as we enjoy Lou's news. Speaker 1 (0:42) Lou Sanders. Hello. Hello. Welcome to The Truth of My Opinion. Speaker 2 (0:45) I'm sitting on a wet patch already and that is on me. You Speaker 1 (0:49) arrived? I poured you a nice glass of sparkling water. Shredded Speaker 2 (0:52) all over the sofa. Shredded all over the sofa. I won't Speaker 1 (0:55) be Speaker 2 (0:55) needing that. Speaker 1 (0:56) You wet your socks. Your socks are now drying on the radiator. Speaker 2 (1:00) Yeah. And I've got to go for dinner later and I think it's fair to say I'm going to have wet shoes and socks and that's on me. Speaker 1 (1:06) That is on you. How are you? Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. How are you? I'm so excited to have you on the pod. Speaker 2 (1:11) Well, it's just wonderful to be here. Wonderful experience already. Speaker 1 (1:15) Wonderful experience, yeah. I don't think we'll ever... It's actually, do you know what? This flat is very, very hard to keep dry once you spill something on it. I don't know if anyone else who has carpets in their flat... Do you have carpets in your flat? I've got Speaker 2 (1:26) one carpet and the cats have decimated it by chlorine at it. Speaker 1 (1:30) I see. If you... If you spill something on this carpet in this living room. Imagine if Speaker 2 (1:35) I just went. I'm telling you, it takes about three weeks to Speaker 1 (1:39) dry and then it smells. Oh, I Speaker 2 (1:40) wouldn't. I nearly did that for a joke. But luckily, I've learned a tiny bit more charm. Because this is the first time we've met. It's the first time we've met, Lou. In this lifetime. Speaker 1 (1:50) Yes, indeed. We Speaker 2 (1:51) may have met in another lifetime. We don't know. It's Speaker 1 (1:53) quite possible. The first time we have met, and I'm so excited to say that you're hosting one of my book tour events. Speaker 2 (2:00) Yes, which I've just found out about. Yeah, Speaker 1 (2:02) you worried me slightly. I was like, Lou, you're hosting it. You were like, hosting what? You are hosting it. You are hosting Brighton. Tickets still available. Tickets Speaker 2 (2:09) still available. That's mental if you ask me. Speaker 1 (2:11) Nah. Speaker 2 (2:12) I think if you give dum-dums everywhere. Speaker 1 (2:14) I think that should be a stronghold in Brighton. I added a Brighton date for demand and now those people have betrayed me. Speaker 2 (2:20) Oh, yeah. I'll be asking some heart-wrenching questions. Don't worry about that. I hope Speaker 1 (2:24) so. To the Speaker 2 (2:25) audience. Speaker 1 (2:27) It's going to be the most sodden interview ever. Luzanne, does the question I ask everyone who comes to this podcast, are you a newsy person? No. Speaker 2 (2:35) I don't, and actually bear in mind what we were talking about, conspiracy theories before we started. That's why I don't like listening to the news because I think it's all propaganda. I just think it's all, everything is just pantomime and orchestrated to make you feel a certain way to present because everything in life is what you put your perspective on. Speaker 1 (2:56) So Speaker 2 (2:56) I don't want to put my perspective on that because it's all very depressing, but I'd know enough that, you know, I'll send some money to a fundraiser. I put it that way. Speaker 1 (3:06) So, okay, so hang on. So what level of kind of information are you operating in the world with? How aware are you? I get Speaker 2 (3:14) my news from podcasts and Instagram. Speaker 1 (3:16) Okay. And Speaker 2 (3:17) you, your main news source. Okay, Speaker 1 (3:21) it sends a shiver down my spine every single time. Thank you. But happy to be of service. Speaker 2 (3:27) Don't go right wing for God's sakes. I'll just start believing you. Oh, I actually, I nearly did this show called Handcuffed where you get handcuffed to somebody. And I just said to this guy, my friend on the phone, I was speaking to my friend on the phone and I went, oh, handcuff Speaker 1 (3:44) me to Nigel Farage, but really loud in the Speaker 2 (3:47) street. And all these people turned around. And I thought, oh no. And then I said, no, no, I'm a liberal. Speaker 1 (3:55) You're not going to believe this. I was asked to do this handcuff show. I think everyone was. I think it's a Speaker 2 (3:59) really hard show to book. I think everyone was asked to do it. It's Speaker 1 (4:03) a Speaker 2 (4:03) really hard show to book. Were you going Speaker 1 (4:05) to be asked to be handcuffed next to a right winger? I Speaker 2 (4:07) don't know. That's who I was Speaker 1 (4:08) going Speaker 2 (4:08) to be Speaker 1 (4:09) handcuffed next to. Did you watch the final result? Speaker 2 (4:12) No, it's not been out. It's not been filmed yet. Oh, hang on. You mean the normal one? Speaker 1 (4:19) Oh, okay. Speaker 1 (4:22) Okay, Lou, steady on. Speaker 2 (4:24) You should have been on the celebrity one. Yes, I mean the normal. It's a few years ago. Speaker 1 (4:29) Good God, you mean the normal one. Rub it in, why don't you? Speaker 2 (4:33) That's mad to me. You've got more followers than me. Is there a celebrity one? Speaker 1 (4:37) Yeah, Speaker 2 (4:37) yeah, yeah. Well, hang on. Well, it's not been filmed yet. Speaker 1 (4:40) Oh, so the celebrities are going to be handcuffed next to some normies, some normal people. No. Other celebrities. Speaker 2 (4:47) Well, you've got me there. I don't know. Speaker 1 (4:49) Surely you're not going to be like handcuffed next to Russell Brand or something. Lou Sanders, you have brought four fantastic news stories. Yes. You've set it up nicely in terms of saying that you don't do news. Well, you know what? It makes a lot of sense. Speaker 2 (5:01) When I look Speaker 1 (5:02) at your headlines, it makes a lot of sense. Speaker 2 (5:03) And I've only read that. Speaker 1 (5:06) I knew in my bones that you will have only read the headlines. I knew it. Speaker 2 (5:11) I Speaker 1 (5:11) knew it. Speaker 2 (5:13) It's good to be right though, isn't it? Speaker 1 (5:15) This will be one of those, like, I'm on top of the detail. Speaker 2 (5:19) Yeah, that's what I thought. It's like, we can't both be detail orientated. No, we can't. Speaker 1 (5:23) It will make for very boring listening. So, Lou, what I want you to do first is tell us the headline you brought for our wonderful subscribers on Patreon and Apple Podcasts. That's the Speaker 2 (5:32) last one. Footballer ran over. Can I read it first and then deliver it? Of course. Speaker 1 (5:37) Because Speaker 2 (5:38) it's new Speaker 1 (5:38) to Speaker 2 (5:38) me. Speaker 2 (5:42) Okay, here we go. Because this is one way you need to get the pauses in the right place. Footballer ran over on pitch by steamroller. Speaker 1 (5:49) Fantastic. Footballer ran over on pitch by steamroller. If you want to find out what that story is about and what, crucially, what footballer, then you can subscribe to The Truth and My Opinion on Patreon. And if you don't know what Speaker 2 (6:01) football is, go look it up first. Speaker 1 (6:04) Go look it up first and then come and see that. Yeah. Exactly. Speaker 1 (6:10) Lou, could you please now deliver your first headline? Speaker 2 (6:14) Chinese girl sets a new Rubik's Cube record. Speaker 1 (6:18) Yes. Chinese girl. That feels wrong saying it that way. Speaker 2 (6:22) It Speaker 1 (6:22) does, but Speaker 2 (6:23) why? It's Speaker 1 (6:23) not wrong. It's not wrong. Why are Speaker 2 (6:25) we so? Because I thought that. I thought, can you say? Can you say that? Of course you can, Chinese girl. Of course you can. It's so stupid. It's a Chinese girl. You know, like Russian boy. Exactly. You know, Spanish lad. Yeah. Speaker 1 (6:38) Chinese girl does feel wrong. It does, Speaker 2 (6:41) doesn't it? And that's something we should explore. Speaker 1 (6:43) That is something we should explore. She's Speaker 2 (6:44) so sweet. I did actually watch the video on that. You watched the Speaker 1 (6:47) video, yeah. Well, it's about four seconds long, so yeah. Speaker 2 (6:50) Yeah, I got my attention for two. Speaker 1 (6:54) Yes, so this six-year-old Chinese girl. Why are you handing up ten Speaker 2 (6:58) fingers? Speaker 2 (7:01) She's 10 years Speaker 1 (7:02) old. She's six years old. Six years old. She's completed Rubik's Cube in just over four seconds.