The Truth (In My Opinion)

Comedian Kiran Saggu is our correspondent this week bringing some incredibly important headlines. In a podcast first, we have a Vogue headline and it's a strong one. Was Love Island star Jasmine Gaziza Müller vilified for being a confident brown girl? We also discuss a rise in domestic violence directly linked to the World Cup in our second headline which might be triggering for some listeners, so do skip that story if so. Finally we try and stuff 250 years of American history into a single story.

Plus an especially excellent headline for our Patreon listeners.

Kiran is on all socials as @kswaggu, give her a follow!

Watch the video version of this podcast on The Truth (In My Opinion)'s YouTube channel on 2nd September.

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Produced, recorded and edited by Becky Carewe-Jeffries for Daily Dose Productions.
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'Donald Trump is selling Truth Social posts?!' Yup, you read that right! Donald Trump is selling his 'market moving' Truth Social posts to anyone willing to pay the $100,000 price tag. Which as you can imagine has attracted some really ethical customers!

Andy Burnham has announced 70,000 new social and affordable houses will be built in the next 10 years. But is this good enough when 1.3 million people are currently on a waiting list for social housing?

Plus Whetherspoons are expanding into the European airport market!

You can get tickets for our live podcast show at The London Podcast festival here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/podcast/the-truth-in-my-opinion-with-cody-dahler/

Here are the headlines discussed in this episode:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/andy-burnham-housing-build-council-houses-labour-b3038369.html
https://mhclgmedia.blog.gov.uk/2026/08/26/coverage-of-first-wave-of-funding-from-the-social-and-affordable-homes-programme/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvly73jrrdo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3q5nxpgk1o
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/01/nx-s1-5912219/trump-truth-social-access-insider-trading
https://www.newstatesman.com/this-england/2026/08/i-flew-to-wetherspoons-alicante-just-for-a-pint

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The Truth (In My Opinion) is a comedy podcast hosted by Cody Dahler.

Produced, recorded and edited by Becky Carewe-Jeffries for Daily Dose Productions.
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Comedian Nish Kumar is our correspondent this week, with 3 very topical heaadlines in our FIRST EVER LIVE SHOW!!! We discuss establishment candidate Count Binface and the fallout from his by-election stand off with Nigel Farage. There's passionate conversation about Exeter University and the cuts they're making to humanities jobs. Plus do you know the unusual animal that could help avert future wildfire emergencies?

Plus an especially excellent headline for our Patreon listeners.

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Nish is at the Fringe! His entire run is sold out however some pay what you want tickets are released daily! https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/nish-kumar-angry-humour-from-a-really-nice-guy-work-in-progress

Watch the video version of this podcast on The Truth (In My Opinion)'s YouTube channel on 25th August.

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The Truth (In My Opinion) is a comedy podcast hosted by Cody Dahler.

Produced, recorded and edited by Becky Carewe-Jeffries for Daily Dose Productions.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'Have the media learnt nothing?.' Last week professor Jason Arday was found dead after resigning from his post at Cambridge University. He'd been at the centre of a plagarism row which built into an unnecessary media pile on. Cody and Becky reflect on the media's role in this and their disbelief that it felt like a homogeneous, unnuanced response.

And Darwin is right again, this time about tickling. Plus Mark Zuckerberg had achieved the impossible and become even more unlikeable as sales of his Meta glasses go through the roof.

You can get tickets for our live podcast show at The London Podcast festival here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/podcast/the-truth-in-my-opinion-with-cody-dahler/

Here are the headlines discussed in this episode:

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/charles-darwin-theory-of-ticklishness-qt8sb95jl
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/aug/19/meta-glasses-privacy-surveillance

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The Truth (In My Opinion) is a comedy podcast hosted by Cody Dahler.

Produced, recorded and edited by Becky Carewe-Jeffries for Daily Dose Productions.
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Comedian Sarah Keyworth is our correspondent this week, with 3 sensationally stuuuupid headlines. There's news of a Bronze Age women being mistaken for a stout man, must we really insert men into every story? And a shop in Nantucket has come under fire from influencers after putting a 'no influencers' sign in their window, the influencers are VERY upset. And finally, Wesminister council is threatening to ban standing up drinking in Soho.

Plus an especially excellent headline for our Patreon listeners.

Sarah is at the Fringe from the 17th August for 1 week. Tickets are sold out but there may be some released on the day of performance. The venue is Monkey Barrel 3.

Watch the video version of this podcast on The Truth (In My Opinion)'s YouTube channel on 18th August.

Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/thetruthimopodcast

Follow The Truth (In My Opinion) on Instagram and Tiktok: @thetruthimopod

Get in touch: truthimo@gmail.com

The Truth (In My Opinion) is a comedy podcast hosted by Cody Dahler.

Produced, recorded and edited by Becky Carewe-Jeffries for Daily Dose Productions.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.