Comedians Te Radar and Donna Brookbanks
Our comedians Te Radar and Donna Brookbanks contemplate why Madam Tussauds in London has a model of a sausage roll, the 700 Indian engineers who pretended to be an AI start--up and Walt Disney's family reject the idea of bringing him back as a robot at Disneyland Los Angeles.
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