The Shaw Report: I've Never Heard of Aura Farming

Who will be next James Bond? Sarah Ferguson is still figuring out where she is going to live. Plus. The Oxford Dictionary has named it's word of the year, can you guess what it is? 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Sure Report on.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Ninety six air.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Well, another day, another game of Who's gonna be James
Ponge Come on down.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Callum Turner is the.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
New Bookie's favorite to take over the role of Doublo seven.
Callum's best known for starring in Masters of the Air
and The Fantastic Beast films. He now leads the pack
according to bookmakers Coral. He's the odds on favorite, ahead
of Aaron Taylor Johnson and Henry cavill.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I think at this stage interests has aged out.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yes, still no idea of when they're going to actually
make a decision.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Please just wake us up when that happens, ok, God?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
And then how long is it going to be till
the movie comes out.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, is still deciding
where she's going.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
To live after leaving.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
That's a nice way of putting at Royal Lodge, which
she'd continued to share with the artists formerly known as
Prince Andrew.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Her spokesman tells People.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Magazine she is assessing a number of options and no
final decision has been There's been some talk that Fergie
would live in a converted barn at the country home
of her eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
God, can't this woman just get her own place?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
For crying out loud? But there was also talk she'd
moved to Portugal and live it Eugenies or you Eugenni's
or usually usual anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Genie, we'll just call a Genie.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
But her spokesman says that's not happening. It might have
been Beatrice's husband who said that's not happening. No new
addresses been given for Andrew either, but People magazine has
been told he will relocate to a property on the
Sandringham estate. King Charles privately owned property in Norfolk, about
one hundred and ten miles north of London. But he's
not going quietly, by the sounds of it, still reeling
off demands and ultimatums about his future living arrangements. One

(01:46):
former palace source says, knowing Andrew, this was always going
to be about money. Andrew is essentially being bought out
of the lease, so he will haggle over every last
detail of the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Some people do not know. I want to go quietly now.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
The Oxford Dictionary has named its word or phrase of
the year drum roll please. Rage bait a term that
describes manipulative tactic Well it is itsself phrase a term
that describes manipulative tactics used to describe to drive engagement online,

(02:21):
with usage of it determined to have increased threefold in
the last twelve months. It is similar to its Internet
cousin clickbait, where a headline is used to lure you
interview an article or video, but rate bait content has
a more specific focus of making.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Us cross marvelous.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Rage bait beat out two other shortlisted terms, aura farming
and biohack.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I've never heard of aura farming ever.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Deadly it is the cultivation of an impressive, attractive, or
charismatic persona or public image by behaving or presenting oneself
in a way intended to convey an air of confidence, coolness,
or mystique.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, we've already got a word for that.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
It's called boota, and I think your term makes a
whole lot more sense.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
We don't need another word for it.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
We don't