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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All up on the Allegoria months in here with the
Good Morning Portugal Show live stream and podcast, and I
am delighted to share with you it's official because it's
in the paper and it's on the internet. It's not
on TikTok, of course. It is green and Red Monday.
Now I'll go into some of the reasons for that
and share that a little bit more about this with
(00:21):
you as our main news story of the day. It
was a tough and tights one who doesn't love a
tough and type one first thing in the morning, and
then he went with the portugueseer's click baity salacious, scandalous
tax related headline on his latest video. Actually it was
it was his latest video when I saw it yesterday,
(00:41):
but he's probably made three or.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Four since then. Yeah, it was it was this that
he was talking about yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I wonder if I pressed the button left it or
play Can you hear this bomb?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Dear portray gang tudabaye, this is Portugal set to follow
Spain's lead with a hefty tax on British holiday homes.
Let's check it out.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
He's good, wicked right, So that's what was the Portuguese
drawing us into that.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
News baity, click baity, Oh, thank you very much. Black coffee,
black coffee on Green and Red Day here in Portugal,
not Blue Monday here in Portugal. Back to that in
just a moment, after we've said a few hello's. It's
a very interesting morning. I think it's a very interesting day.
Coach Turner was in first. Great to see you on Friday,
Coach Bondie Gumbuzy Felice Segunda Comsta off to collect granddaughters
(01:38):
from school later. The older one will be off to
big school in September. They grow up so quickly. Thank
you very much, coach for the update. I am asking everybody,
and this is connected with Green and Red Monday here
in Portugal, for three things you're grateful for for your
life here in Portugal. You can get them in now
if you like. I will show you mine if you
show me yours as well. Bondier, just three things. Don't
(01:59):
need to go into too much detail, but you can
if you want, and you can send pictures on this
Green and Red Monday to nine one three five nine
zero three zero three as well. Worth Just three things
to give me three words, the three things you're grateful
for here in Portugal today today, right now, bondire morning Gets.
Morning greetings, Morning Gets. That's a Sheffield is great all right,
(02:19):
your morning gets. Morning greetings from a chili and moist mino.
It's a moist one this morning. Happy Monday, a chili
mino or a mois it's both chili and moist mino.
Happy Monday and a great week ahead. The nice emojis there,
Tony time a man.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
In the minia.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Always great to hear from you, Tony and my greeting earlier.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
On it is bon die verde vemel this morning.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Paired us in as well with a reminder, is there
something going on in America today? A bond girl Today
is the return of the Trump day Bondier Auglia gumpas
from T Duck.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Good to see you.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I must to have a chat with you earlier this
morning as well. Good news about the music. Good good
morning everyone from GEM and I so Gem and I
thank you for joining us live in the chat here
because often I get a message from you, and thank
you for those messages that you put on the videos themselves.
Always grateful to receive any comments over on the YouTube
channel and great to see you live here in this
environment as well. Bondia color gumpus from a dull mile
(03:16):
Belfast eight degrees but to turn colder this week's struggle
to stay over zero there in Northern Ireland. Lots of
love to you and family. Diegle bondiab from as you
were Anesto Denot who can open his dawa as why
does he darn well.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Likes at the moment. That's fantastic job.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Bondia Gumpers from Mike and Karen in Menander the Corport
as well. Ah Peter Bondiel agree burning all day today,
I will smell like a frazzle by the end of it.
Some say you normally do, Peter, but extra extra brush
brushwood smoky flavor, hickory hickory flavored Peter later on today,
(03:54):
So yeah, burning your brush? Are you burning your old
bush off?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Peter?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Did combus from Jackie as well. Right, So here we
are the Bondia deadly news where that language culture well
being here in Portugal've got a few giggles from Stephen
Wright which you didn't get around to you last week
and we still might not this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's I think it's an interesting day. It's an interesting morning.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And I want to take you to this green and
red Monday idea with the bit of weather.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Language and culture.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I think we should probably leave to well, we're never
far away from language and culture, but we're certainly going
to get a good smattering from Vito and Maria Koshta,
who will be here at eight forty and James here
at eight twenty, of course. But let me just go
into this green and red Monday thing. And I am
asking you for your three things you're grateful for about
(04:43):
here in Portugal. Thank you very much. Three things today.
Cockrels in the morning. Who doesn't like tractors in the
roadway and cobblestone streets. I feel my heart swelling a
little bit in a good way with you enjoying that
this morning as you have asta up there in the
north of Portugal. Cockrels in the morning, tractors in the
roadway and cobble street, very audio visual, very kinesthetic. Thank
(05:10):
you very much there. And Douglas is oh you back
in back in Portugal, especially for green and red Monday.
Nice one, Doug from regrengeush de Monserras. That's Alantasio, is
it not.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We can't all keep our bush.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Like you seventies proponents. We have trimmed two hundred trees
and you wouldn't leave a Brazilian with all the hair
around it, would you. I don't know what to say, Peter,
but how well, one thing I might say is that
one of the things you're grateful for this morning as
we celebrate green and red Monday. And I'm hoping this
is going to be an annual tradition, discover wheels bondier
(05:46):
from a damp paste de galis there?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well? What d'Or to you? Discover whales? That's fantastic? What
is going on? No sooner?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Had I last week mentioned a Welsh invasion in the
company here of Jackie, Doug and Peder and coach Tournay.
He's got a bit of Welsh in him. It does
like a bit of Welsh in them first thing in
the morning. And do you know what, discover Wales if
you are the Welsh the National Welsh Tourist Board, please
accept that, accept that with my compliments. Who doesn't like
(06:19):
a bit of Welsh in them first thing in the morning.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You can have that?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Barra da And thank you very much for being here
Carriad this morning. Right where were we we were? And
it's damp over there as well. Thank you for your
weather update. I'm not entirely surprised I have to damp
in Wales. What right over to the Portugal residence for
today's news. No, not the Portuguese's one hundred tax on
(06:45):
non EU residents property purchases here in Portugal. He's suggesting,
because of something he saw in a UK newspaper who
heard something from the guy down the pub, that Portugal
might follow suit with Ayane's plan to put a one
hundred percent tax on property purchases here on the Iberian Peninsula,
(07:06):
on the Spanish side, and Portugal might follow suit. I
don't think if I may debunk and deflate that story
a little bit, portugueze, I don't think there's anything in it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It's all hot air.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I mean you should watch the video, of course, and
you can. You can take him to task direct tomorrow
evening when I talk with him on Munson and the Gizer.
And he's not the Messiah. He's definitely a very naughty boy. Right,
let's bring onto the screen this green and red Monday idea.
Now for the last two years, maybe longer, I don't know. Oh, look,
my new speechify app floating app is on the screen.
(07:43):
I could have AI read this to you. Although I'm
not entirely happy with AI app, so let's if this works,
I'll sign up to listen.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I thought he already had. That's why the thing's on
the screen.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You see this is typical AI, isn't it so much
promise and so little in the delivery? Looking of AI? Well,
this is my avatar. I could have my avatar read
this for you this morning, Facebook's version of AI. I
mean it's uncannily accurate. That's me everybody, by the way.
And then when you ask Grok please show me pictures
of Carl Munson because I wanted to get a picture
(08:16):
of myself draped in a Portuguese flag. I thought Grok
could do that fairly simply. Here are your pictures, everybody
of Carl Munson. Please show a head and shoulders photo
of col Month's of Good Morning Portugal. There he is
four different people, none of whom look like me, except
they're all blokes with clean shaven faces and not a
massive amount of hair rubbish. Don't worry, AI has got
(08:37):
a little way to go yet. Right back to Green
and Red Monday. Then it's on the Internet, it's in
the paper. It must be true. And this is what
this is the main thrust and point really is on today,
of all days, we can we can see, we can
see very clearly.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Today of all days, especially in America, if we.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Are choosing to be a victim or a creator as
the world occurs to you, are you in victimhood or
are you in creative mode? And I would have thought
that was fairly obvious a choice, But it seems to
dog mankind, doesn't it. Well, I suppose it's an issue
for the ego each and every single moment of our lives, really,
(09:21):
isn't it? Am I being a victim here of circumstance
of circumstances often that are being created by other people
like I'm about to do here? Or am I being
creative as I'm about as I was a few days ago?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And subjected it, sorry, submitted it to the.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Lovely Initial Law Push with the editor, a Portugal resident,
and she decided to run with it. And this is
it as Blue Monday twenty twenty five looms with its
self fulfilling prophecy of gloom and doom. And this is
what James took me to task about basically the worst
day of the year as a perfect storm. And today
some people you see, some of the victims and some
of the victim encouragers and supporters are.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Calling it blue Monday. Not us.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You notice, it's basically the worst day of the year
in terms of the financial, emotional, and sociological factors, but
we're not tolerating it. And James has been brilliant on this.
He's been a stand for keep your blue Monday and
stick it where the sun don't shine, because it often
isn't on Blue Monday. And it had me thinking and
(10:23):
so no Sagunda azul is not for us gumpers. Instead,
prepare for and please partake in green and red Monday,
a beacon of down to earth positivity and gratitude shining
for the rest of a potentially wallowing world to see.
That's us, that's you right now, if you choose to
pick up the button and run with it. If all
goes well, we yes us here right here. This morning
(10:45):
might go down in history as the people who from
January the twenty first onwards tomorrow had others ask what's
green and red and loved all over?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And the answer will be Portugal, of course, with.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
His in enviable lifestyle, and it's antidote to the glum,
the numb, and the inner grumpy bum.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
If you're in a grumpy.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Bum is vociferous this morning, just talk to it nicely
asough you're inner child.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Because that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Really, the Blue Monday concept, though widely dismissed as pseudoscience
or a pr stune I suspect Injaws, because it is
relatable and makes some sense in our own lived experience
as complex human beings. And none of these things can work,
can they unless we can relate to them in some
sort of way. So I, oh, thank you for that,
(11:28):
very good picking up and running with the joke, what's
why did the red tomato turn green? It's almost a
green and red Monday joke because it's all the sad
ad dressing. Thank you very much for that classic. Thank
you very much there, and a good morning to you,
Bob and Viv. Back to green and red Monday. Nice
try distracting me their tea. People can be brought down
(11:51):
by seasonal effective disorder, and finances can be tighter when
the new year begins. That's what blue Monday is all about.
Following possible overspending and indulgence in the preceding month, resolutions
are made and broken, and high hopes may meet with
down to earth realities. Has already been seen this year, right,
even in just the first few weeks of this un novel.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And of course this of all years, will be.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Especially challenging for some American friends who can't even speak
the name of their new president, let alone welcome him
graciously into office. On this very day, already dubbed the
saddest day of the year, not necessarily because of that
this by electrical and electronic retailers were to and they
gave us the Saddest Day of the year idea.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But they just want you to.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Go and buy some white goods, don't They also of
consumer electronics electricals to cheer yourself up on such a day.
They go on to explain that in English, the term
blue is an expression and I know what's coming, Peter
from your mind and mouth. In English, the term blue
is an expression used to express discouragement and unhappiness. Although
(12:50):
when I was a boy, and Peter will remember and
remind us now, it also referred to a certain kind
of movie upon which we need not dwell. This morning,
and our Democrat Party supporting acquaintances will most certainly not
be having a blue Monday, will there It's a red
Monday in America. The creation of this day only took
place in two thousand and five. Wharton remind us, but
the expression blue Monday has already was already used long
(13:13):
before that day. One example New Order's song of Course,
and you know they took that apparently nineteen eighty three.
They took their inspiration from an illustration by Kurt Vonnegut
in the book Breakfast for Champions and the main character
in Breakfast for Champions or Breakfast Off Champions a big
your pardon is Hurty. And there was a Fats Domino
(13:34):
tune in nineteen fifty seven called blue Monday as well.
Now we've just seen in Portugal a blue Monday festival
as well. I think that's just finished, and that was
a Lindy hop and blues dancing festival. They were all
about freeing us from the blue. So nice start Portugal
when it comes to putting or get the back blue Monday.
(13:54):
So it is a thing more or less, and what
remains is the effort of shunning its worst effects and
taking evasive act how then not to worry and be
happy when the whiff of misery hangs heavy in the
air with so many invitations to subscribe to the negative vibe.
So Gumpa's friends, Romans, countrymen, Portuguese people on me join
us and subscribe to the positive vibe here this morning
(14:17):
and staying with us politics and culture for a moment.
If you're looking for a bit of a giggle, here
you can see our well, your new ambassador Americans. He
is the one. He's leading the way when it comes
to green and red Monday. He's got a lovely green
tunic on a green elf outfit and red hair.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Nice starts.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Jo Arigo or John Arago, who is the new he
must be starting today as well. I think the recumbent
or the formerly recumbent resigned moved on yesterday and John
Arrago should be here in port oh No, he'll be
at the inauguration, presumer and be flying over to Portugal
and there he is. What a cracking start to putting
a smile on our faces.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
There he is.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
He's also the vice president and of and say general manager,
not anymore, he's not.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I don't think he's going to be doing both jobs. Anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
He is a car dealer in Florida. You can find
out more if you're a buyer car in Florida. Off
the now Portuguese Ambassador John Arago is your man, and
there he is, keep putting a smile on our faces.
There the green and red I speak of, however, are
those featured in the Portuguese national flag. As you can
see behind me now, as I tried to get AI
to generate me draped in a Portuguese flag, emblematic and
(15:30):
respectful of this country's past vermeilia red, that's the past,
whilst remaining optimistic about the future, they have the green.
This is the kind of message the world needs on
a blue Monday, when down in the dumps. Let's not
only personify these values bold, loud and proud like the
other national triva the Barcelo's cockrewl would and that's what
(15:50):
John's grateful for. That's don't forget to keep these things
you're grateful for coming in the Barcelo's cockrell cockrels have
been mentioned already. Join me, friends, and share what you
love about life here in that logically impossible way that
the Portuguese have of having pride and humility in each
individual heart, wherever they happen to be stationed in the world.
Tell the world how grateful you are to be here,
(16:11):
Not to annoy or gloat, but to strike a chord
of contentment and hold the line of levity. Friends, hold
the line of levity, such to others whose domes may
drop today on blue Monday, might know where to return
when they're weary.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Heads can be lifted once more.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Go ahead and partake fully and freely in our gift
to the world's mental health with green and red Monday.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
By sending your pictures. Oh, in this context this morning.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It's probably easier if you haven't got a picture of
something you're grateful for here in Portugal, just send me
the three things. Put the three things you're grateful for
on the screen. But you can send me pictures and
videos to nine one three five nine zero three zero three,
which I encourage and welcome you to do every day anyway,
And whilst we're holding the line of levity. On a
serious and psychotherapeutic note, if you're finding this time of
(16:57):
the year tough, when the shortest days can the colder
weather and damp conditions, plus a notable lack of Portuguese Sunshine.
Do join us on the Good Morning Portugal show every day,
and I hear James joining us in the background there.
I can't guarantee, we can't guarantee to cheer you up
when you join us here in the mornings, but because
I think happiness is an inside job, right, But we
(17:17):
will do our best as all the regulars who tune in.
That's you folks, you gumpers, and we will endeavor every
morning here, not just this morning of Green and Red Monday.
But we'll do our best to share the lighter side
of life with you and provide some fertile soil in
which your joy beans can germinate and grow. And who
doesn't like to have their fertilized joy beans waters delicately
(17:41):
tended to. That's how we roll here on Good Morning Portugal.
And that's what Green and Red Monday is all about.
Your three things that you're grateful for. Please keep them
coming in. That, my friends, is Green and Red Monday.
Read all about it in the Portugal Resident online. I
can do the link for that if you want to
send that to other people around the world. And we're
(18:02):
going to find out what James makes of my reframe
of blue Monday into green and red Monday in just
a moment. He is a big advocate of gratitude, of course,
and he may share with us his three favorite things.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Wales is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
It's about Portugal, everybody, this body, what's going on here?
We're having a Welsh infiltration. God only knows what infiltration
is in Welsh. It's probably a very long word, indeed,
but it's interesting what's going on here. I've had a
few holidays in Wales as well, Gemini.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Most of the sheep, yes think Wales think sheep around
to have a bit of Welsh and no, no, no, no,
Peter get more rain than Wales does here in central Portugal.
The difference is wicked sun.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But when very morning to you, Bond, dear daughter speaking Wales,
will be visiting our Welsh son in law as well,
of course visiting Viv's daughter. The Welsh need all the
financial help they can get this time of year. Oh,
lambing season means a esay payments will be coming sued.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Thank you for that. Why did the red tomato turn green? Joke?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Because it's saw the start of dressing, of course, and
of course the Welsh flag is red and green.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Two. Yes, that's great, isn't it? The red dragon.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Now that's a banner, says head of there, Hughes in
now morning. This is today. You see he's choosing not
to be a victor, is he? I mean, this is
the day in America, isn't it? Where you where you can,
you can you've got somebody new upon which you can
put all your blame and negativity, or you can project
(19:26):
your savior that.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
The Savior is here, helujah.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And to me, that's that's two sides of the victim thing,
you know, like someone else will make me happy possibly,
or are we going to go for the creative route folks, Bondia.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Gumbas Vliagna daughter come off for Oh you can say
that himself. In just a moment. The comments are coming
and we'll come back to some of those.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I just want to do, James, I want to do
the weather very quickly if I may, because the temperature's
gone up. Oh your horses, mate, and let's just have
a very quick look.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Because that's what we that's what the Bondia Deli is
all about.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
News were the culture language will come back to Maria
and to Vito for that and a bit of well being.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
We will do that. I'll finish you with that this morning.
But just a quick scan of the weather.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Then if I bring onto the screen for you to
see they out with the lovely Sarah Davie last night.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Spartan effects.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Of course, he's who are but weather not literally I
mean Spartan effects aren't controlling the weather nor the currency.
But the weather today brought to you courtesy of Spartan.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Effs sixteen degrees.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
The high in Lisbon might be a bit rainy, but
this rain, the return of the rain, is bringing some milder.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Weather, some milder temperatures.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
As you can see, they're twelve degrees in Porto Coenbra
ten degrees thirteen the high there Pharaoh seventeen. The high
it is all creeping up. Spring is just around a
corner Braga ten degrees with the high of twelve.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So rainy but milder.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Let's play his theme tune, shall we, and bring him
on and see what he makes of my reframe of
the blue Monday to the green and.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Bone bond. Dear Verde, way too bad over the gall.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Because the line this good morning, but could have just
changed up in banners on the screen their comments please.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
In the chat
All up on the Allegoria months in here with the
Good Morning Portugal Show live stream and podcast, and I
am delighted to share with you it's official because it's
in the paper and it's on the internet. It's not
on TikTok, of course. It is green and Red Monday.
Now I'll go into some of the reasons for that
and share that a little bit more about this with
(00:21):
you as our main news story of the day. It
was a tough and tights one who doesn't love a
tough and type one first thing in the morning, and
then he went with the portugueseer's click baity salacious, scandalous
tax related headline on his latest video. Actually it was
it was his latest video when I saw it yesterday,
(00:41):
but he's probably made three or.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Four since then. Yeah, it was it was this that
he was talking about yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I wonder if I pressed the button left it or
play Can you hear this bomb?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Dear portray gang tudabaye, this is Portugal set to follow
Spain's lead with a hefty tax on British holiday homes.
Let's check it out.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
He's good, wicked right, So that's what was the Portuguese
drawing us into that.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
News baity, click baity, Oh, thank you very much. Black coffee,
black coffee on Green and Red Day here in Portugal,
not Blue Monday here in Portugal. Back to that in
just a moment, after we've said a few hello's. It's
a very interesting morning. I think it's a very interesting day.
Coach Turner was in first. Great to see you on Friday,
Coach Bondie Gumbuzy Felice Segunda Comsta off to collect granddaughters
(01:38):
from school later. The older one will be off to
big school in September. They grow up so quickly. Thank
you very much, coach for the update. I am asking everybody,
and this is connected with Green and Red Monday here
in Portugal, for three things you're grateful for for your
life here in Portugal. You can get them in now
if you like. I will show you mine if you
show me yours as well. Bondier, just three things. Don't
(01:59):
need to go into too much detail, but you can
if you want, and you can send pictures on this
Green and Red Monday to nine one three five nine
zero three zero three as well. Worth Just three things
to give me three words, the three things you're grateful
for here in Portugal today today, right now, bondire morning Gets.
Morning greetings, Morning Gets. That's a Sheffield is great all right,
(02:19):
your morning gets. Morning greetings from a chili and moist mino.
It's a moist one this morning. Happy Monday, a chili
mino or a mois it's both chili and moist mino.
Happy Monday and a great week ahead. The nice emojis there,
Tony time a man.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
In the minia.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Always great to hear from you, Tony and my greeting earlier.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
On it is bon die verde vemel this morning.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Paired us in as well with a reminder, is there
something going on in America today? A bond girl Today
is the return of the Trump day Bondier Auglia gumpas
from T Duck.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Good to see you.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I must to have a chat with you earlier this
morning as well. Good news about the music. Good good
morning everyone from GEM and I so Gem and I
thank you for joining us live in the chat here
because often I get a message from you, and thank
you for those messages that you put on the videos themselves.
Always grateful to receive any comments over on the YouTube
channel and great to see you live here in this
environment as well. Bondia color gumpus from a dull mile
(03:16):
Belfast eight degrees but to turn colder this week's struggle
to stay over zero there in Northern Ireland. Lots of
love to you and family. Diegle bondiab from as you
were Anesto Denot who can open his dawa as why
does he darn well.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Likes at the moment. That's fantastic job.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Bondia Gumpers from Mike and Karen in Menander the Corport
as well. Ah Peter Bondiel agree burning all day today,
I will smell like a frazzle by the end of it.
Some say you normally do, Peter, but extra extra brush
brushwood smoky flavor, hickory hickory flavored Peter later on today,
(03:54):
So yeah, burning your brush? Are you burning your old
bush off?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Peter?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Did combus from Jackie as well. Right, So here we
are the Bondia deadly news where that language culture well
being here in Portugal've got a few giggles from Stephen
Wright which you didn't get around to you last week
and we still might not this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's I think it's an interesting day. It's an interesting morning.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And I want to take you to this green and
red Monday idea with the bit of weather.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Language and culture.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I think we should probably leave to well, we're never
far away from language and culture, but we're certainly going
to get a good smattering from Vito and Maria Koshta,
who will be here at eight forty and James here
at eight twenty, of course. But let me just go
into this green and red Monday thing. And I am
asking you for your three things you're grateful for about
(04:43):
here in Portugal. Thank you very much. Three things today.
Cockrels in the morning. Who doesn't like tractors in the
roadway and cobblestone streets. I feel my heart swelling a
little bit in a good way with you enjoying that
this morning as you have asta up there in the
north of Portugal. Cockrels in the morning, tractors in the
roadway and cobble street, very audio visual, very kinesthetic. Thank
(05:10):
you very much there. And Douglas is oh you back
in back in Portugal, especially for green and red Monday.
Nice one, Doug from regrengeush de Monserras. That's Alantasio, is
it not.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We can't all keep our bush.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Like you seventies proponents. We have trimmed two hundred trees
and you wouldn't leave a Brazilian with all the hair
around it, would you. I don't know what to say, Peter,
but how well, one thing I might say is that
one of the things you're grateful for this morning as
we celebrate green and red Monday. And I'm hoping this
is going to be an annual tradition, discover wheels bondier
(05:46):
from a damp paste de galis there?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well? What d'Or to you? Discover whales? That's fantastic? What
is going on? No sooner?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Had I last week mentioned a Welsh invasion in the
company here of Jackie, Doug and Peder and coach Tournay.
He's got a bit of Welsh in him. It does
like a bit of Welsh in them first thing in
the morning. And do you know what, discover Wales if
you are the Welsh the National Welsh Tourist Board, please
accept that, accept that with my compliments. Who doesn't like
(06:19):
a bit of Welsh in them first thing in the morning.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You can have that?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Barra da And thank you very much for being here
Carriad this morning. Right where were we we were? And
it's damp over there as well. Thank you for your
weather update. I'm not entirely surprised I have to damp
in Wales. What right over to the Portugal residence for
today's news. No, not the Portuguese's one hundred tax on
(06:45):
non EU residents property purchases here in Portugal. He's suggesting,
because of something he saw in a UK newspaper who
heard something from the guy down the pub, that Portugal
might follow suit with Ayane's plan to put a one
hundred percent tax on property purchases here on the Iberian Peninsula,
(07:06):
on the Spanish side, and Portugal might follow suit. I
don't think if I may debunk and deflate that story
a little bit, portugueze, I don't think there's anything in it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It's all hot air.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I mean you should watch the video, of course, and
you can. You can take him to task direct tomorrow
evening when I talk with him on Munson and the Gizer.
And he's not the Messiah. He's definitely a very naughty boy. Right,
let's bring onto the screen this green and red Monday idea.
Now for the last two years, maybe longer, I don't know. Oh, look,
my new speechify app floating app is on the screen.
(07:43):
I could have AI read this to you. Although I'm
not entirely happy with AI app, so let's if this works,
I'll sign up to listen.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I thought he already had. That's why the thing's on
the screen.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You see this is typical AI, isn't it so much
promise and so little in the delivery? Looking of AI? Well,
this is my avatar. I could have my avatar read
this for you this morning, Facebook's version of AI. I
mean it's uncannily accurate. That's me everybody, by the way.
And then when you ask Grok please show me pictures
of Carl Munson because I wanted to get a picture
(08:16):
of myself draped in a Portuguese flag. I thought Grok
could do that fairly simply. Here are your pictures, everybody
of Carl Munson. Please show a head and shoulders photo
of col Month's of Good Morning Portugal. There he is
four different people, none of whom look like me, except
they're all blokes with clean shaven faces and not a
massive amount of hair rubbish. Don't worry, AI has got
(08:37):
a little way to go yet. Right back to Green
and Red Monday. Then it's on the Internet, it's in
the paper. It must be true. And this is what
this is the main thrust and point really is on today,
of all days, we can we can see, we can
see very clearly.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Today of all days, especially in America, if we.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Are choosing to be a victim or a creator as
the world occurs to you, are you in victimhood or
are you in creative mode? And I would have thought
that was fairly obvious a choice, But it seems to
dog mankind, doesn't it. Well, I suppose it's an issue
for the ego each and every single moment of our lives, really,
(09:21):
isn't it? Am I being a victim here of circumstance
of circumstances often that are being created by other people
like I'm about to do here? Or am I being
creative as I'm about as I was a few days ago?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And subjected it, sorry, submitted it to the.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Lovely Initial Law Push with the editor, a Portugal resident,
and she decided to run with it. And this is
it as Blue Monday twenty twenty five looms with its
self fulfilling prophecy of gloom and doom. And this is
what James took me to task about basically the worst
day of the year as a perfect storm. And today
some people you see, some of the victims and some
of the victim encouragers and supporters are.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Calling it blue Monday. Not us.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You notice, it's basically the worst day of the year
in terms of the financial, emotional, and sociological factors, but
we're not tolerating it. And James has been brilliant on this.
He's been a stand for keep your blue Monday and
stick it where the sun don't shine, because it often
isn't on Blue Monday. And it had me thinking and
(10:23):
so no Sagunda azul is not for us gumpers. Instead,
prepare for and please partake in green and red Monday,
a beacon of down to earth positivity and gratitude shining
for the rest of a potentially wallowing world to see.
That's us, that's you right now, if you choose to
pick up the button and run with it. If all
goes well, we yes us here right here. This morning
(10:45):
might go down in history as the people who from
January the twenty first onwards tomorrow had others ask what's
green and red and loved all over?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And the answer will be Portugal, of course, with.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
His in enviable lifestyle, and it's antidote to the glum,
the numb, and the inner grumpy bum.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
If you're in a grumpy.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Bum is vociferous this morning, just talk to it nicely
asough you're inner child.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Because that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Really, the Blue Monday concept, though widely dismissed as pseudoscience
or a pr stune I suspect Injaws, because it is
relatable and makes some sense in our own lived experience
as complex human beings. And none of these things can work,
can they unless we can relate to them in some
sort of way. So I, oh, thank you for that,
(11:28):
very good picking up and running with the joke, what's
why did the red tomato turn green? It's almost a
green and red Monday joke because it's all the sad
ad dressing. Thank you very much for that classic. Thank
you very much there, and a good morning to you,
Bob and Viv. Back to green and red Monday. Nice
try distracting me their tea. People can be brought down
(11:51):
by seasonal effective disorder, and finances can be tighter when
the new year begins. That's what blue Monday is all about.
Following possible overspending and indulgence in the preceding month, resolutions
are made and broken, and high hopes may meet with
down to earth realities. Has already been seen this year, right,
even in just the first few weeks of this un novel.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And of course this of all years, will be.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Especially challenging for some American friends who can't even speak
the name of their new president, let alone welcome him
graciously into office. On this very day, already dubbed the
saddest day of the year, not necessarily because of that
this by electrical and electronic retailers were to and they
gave us the Saddest Day of the year idea.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But they just want you to.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Go and buy some white goods, don't They also of
consumer electronics electricals to cheer yourself up on such a day.
They go on to explain that in English, the term
blue is an expression and I know what's coming, Peter
from your mind and mouth. In English, the term blue
is an expression used to express discouragement and unhappiness. Although
(12:50):
when I was a boy, and Peter will remember and
remind us now, it also referred to a certain kind
of movie upon which we need not dwell. This morning,
and our Democrat Party supporting acquaintances will most certainly not
be having a blue Monday, will there It's a red
Monday in America. The creation of this day only took
place in two thousand and five. Wharton remind us, but
the expression blue Monday has already was already used long
(13:13):
before that day. One example New Order's song of Course,
and you know they took that apparently nineteen eighty three.
They took their inspiration from an illustration by Kurt Vonnegut
in the book Breakfast for Champions and the main character
in Breakfast for Champions or Breakfast Off Champions a big
your pardon is Hurty. And there was a Fats Domino
(13:34):
tune in nineteen fifty seven called blue Monday as well.
Now we've just seen in Portugal a blue Monday festival
as well. I think that's just finished, and that was
a Lindy hop and blues dancing festival. They were all
about freeing us from the blue. So nice start Portugal
when it comes to putting or get the back blue Monday.
(13:54):
So it is a thing more or less, and what
remains is the effort of shunning its worst effects and
taking evasive act how then not to worry and be
happy when the whiff of misery hangs heavy in the
air with so many invitations to subscribe to the negative vibe.
So Gumpa's friends, Romans, countrymen, Portuguese people on me join
us and subscribe to the positive vibe here this morning
(14:17):
and staying with us politics and culture for a moment.
If you're looking for a bit of a giggle, here
you can see our well, your new ambassador Americans. He
is the one. He's leading the way when it comes
to green and red Monday. He's got a lovely green
tunic on a green elf outfit and red hair.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Nice starts.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Jo Arigo or John Arago, who is the new he
must be starting today as well. I think the recumbent
or the formerly recumbent resigned moved on yesterday and John
Arrago should be here in port oh No, he'll be
at the inauguration, presumer and be flying over to Portugal
and there he is. What a cracking start to putting
a smile on our faces.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
There he is.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
He's also the vice president and of and say general manager,
not anymore, he's not.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I don't think he's going to be doing both jobs. Anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
He is a car dealer in Florida. You can find
out more if you're a buyer car in Florida. Off
the now Portuguese Ambassador John Arago is your man, and
there he is, keep putting a smile on our faces.
There the green and red I speak of, however, are
those featured in the Portuguese national flag. As you can
see behind me now, as I tried to get AI
to generate me draped in a Portuguese flag, emblematic and
(15:30):
respectful of this country's past vermeilia red, that's the past,
whilst remaining optimistic about the future, they have the green.
This is the kind of message the world needs on
a blue Monday, when down in the dumps. Let's not
only personify these values bold, loud and proud like the
other national triva the Barcelo's cockrewl would and that's what
(15:50):
John's grateful for. That's don't forget to keep these things
you're grateful for coming in the Barcelo's cockrell cockrels have
been mentioned already. Join me, friends, and share what you
love about life here in that logically impossible way that
the Portuguese have of having pride and humility in each
individual heart, wherever they happen to be stationed in the world.
Tell the world how grateful you are to be here,
(16:11):
Not to annoy or gloat, but to strike a chord
of contentment and hold the line of levity. Friends, hold
the line of levity, such to others whose domes may
drop today on blue Monday, might know where to return
when they're weary.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Heads can be lifted once more.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Go ahead and partake fully and freely in our gift
to the world's mental health with green and red Monday.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
By sending your pictures. Oh, in this context this morning.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It's probably easier if you haven't got a picture of
something you're grateful for here in Portugal, just send me
the three things. Put the three things you're grateful for
on the screen. But you can send me pictures and
videos to nine one three five nine zero three zero three,
which I encourage and welcome you to do every day anyway,
And whilst we're holding the line of levity. On a
serious and psychotherapeutic note, if you're finding this time of
(16:57):
the year tough, when the shortest days can the colder
weather and damp conditions, plus a notable lack of Portuguese Sunshine.
Do join us on the Good Morning Portugal show every day,
and I hear James joining us in the background there.
I can't guarantee, we can't guarantee to cheer you up
when you join us here in the mornings, but because
I think happiness is an inside job, right, But we
(17:17):
will do our best as all the regulars who tune in.
That's you folks, you gumpers, and we will endeavor every
morning here, not just this morning of Green and Red Monday.
But we'll do our best to share the lighter side
of life with you and provide some fertile soil in
which your joy beans can germinate and grow. And who
doesn't like to have their fertilized joy beans waters delicately
(17:41):
tended to. That's how we roll here on Good Morning Portugal.
And that's what Green and Red Monday is all about.
Your three things that you're grateful for. Please keep them
coming in. That, my friends, is Green and Red Monday.
Read all about it in the Portugal Resident online. I
can do the link for that if you want to
send that to other people around the world. And we're
(18:02):
going to find out what James makes of my reframe
of blue Monday into green and red Monday in just
a moment. He is a big advocate of gratitude, of course,
and he may share with us his three favorite things.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Wales is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
It's about Portugal, everybody, this body, what's going on here?
We're having a Welsh infiltration. God only knows what infiltration
is in Welsh. It's probably a very long word, indeed,
but it's interesting what's going on here. I've had a
few holidays in Wales as well, Gemini.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Most of the sheep, yes think Wales think sheep around
to have a bit of Welsh and no, no, no, no,
Peter get more rain than Wales does here in central Portugal.
The difference is wicked sun.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But when very morning to you, Bond, dear daughter speaking Wales,
will be visiting our Welsh son in law as well,
of course visiting Viv's daughter. The Welsh need all the
financial help they can get this time of year. Oh,
lambing season means a esay payments will be coming sued.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Thank you for that. Why did the red tomato turn green? Joke?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Because it's saw the start of dressing, of course, and
of course the Welsh flag is red and green.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Two. Yes, that's great, isn't it? The red dragon.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Now that's a banner, says head of there, Hughes in
now morning. This is today. You see he's choosing not
to be a victor, is he? I mean, this is
the day in America, isn't it? Where you where you can,
you can you've got somebody new upon which you can
put all your blame and negativity, or you can project
(19:26):
your savior that.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
The Savior is here, helujah.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And to me, that's that's two sides of the victim thing,
you know, like someone else will make me happy possibly,
or are we going to go for the creative route folks, Bondia.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Gumbas Vliagna daughter come off for Oh you can say
that himself. In just a moment. The comments are coming
and we'll come back to some of those.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I just want to do, James, I want to do
the weather very quickly if I may, because the temperature's
gone up. Oh your horses, mate, and let's just have
a very quick look.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Because that's what we that's what the Bondia Deli is
all about.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
News were the culture language will come back to Maria
and to Vito for that and a bit of well being.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
We will do that. I'll finish you with that this morning.
But just a quick scan of the weather.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Then if I bring onto the screen for you to
see they out with the lovely Sarah Davie last night.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Spartan effects.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Of course, he's who are but weather not literally I
mean Spartan effects aren't controlling the weather nor the currency.
But the weather today brought to you courtesy of Spartan.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Effs sixteen degrees.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
The high in Lisbon might be a bit rainy, but
this rain, the return of the rain, is bringing some milder.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Weather, some milder temperatures.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
As you can see, they're twelve degrees in Porto Coenbra
ten degrees thirteen the high there Pharaoh seventeen. The high
it is all creeping up. Spring is just around a
corner Braga ten degrees with the high of twelve.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So rainy but milder.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Let's play his theme tune, shall we, and bring him
on and see what he makes of my reframe of
the blue Monday to the green and.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Bone bond. Dear Verde, way too bad over the gall.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Because the line this good morning, but could have just
changed up in banners on the screen their comments please.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
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