Podcasts about babet

No AI slop shownotes (as is now tradition) because I did this edit in two parts. But basically Jack sees off his mate Denis Ryan who listeners will know was a Ballarat detective who fought the church to stop child sex offending and was harshly punished for his good deeds. We also look at the idiots saying the Minnesota assassinations were 'left wing violence'. We discuss the relevance of cookers which brings us right to Monica's latest grift - the hollow and pointless private prosecution of Dan Andrews. And then we have SovCits, MAGA paedos and BABET! Big week folks. Enjoy!

Elon Musk takes a hit after a fairly average product launch but spoiler alert - there's no justice in the world. Speaking of justice, the department of in the US might have a word with Elon due to his silly million dollar giveaway to get punters to register and vote for Trump.Will he get in trouble? Probably not. Monica encourages parents to encourage children to go into toilets and film other kids.........Wow. And we talk shit about the US general election where it's apparently close. Maybe it is. Feels like something is amiss. Oh, Babet has half a brain.Enjoy!

Michael Arbon is Chief of Staff to Senator Ralph Babet and is involved with all aspects of the Senator Babet's work including the Excess Deaths Inquiry that is going ahead this week in Canberra.   Michael will discuss the inquiry and further developments and will address the housing affordability crisis and debt levels in Australia.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Senator Ralph Babet was elected in the 2022 federal election and is currently serving his first 6-year term. He's a champion of conservative Australian values, smaller government, and individual and national sovereignty. https://senatorbabet.com.au/   GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Sall Grover is the Australian founder of an independent female-only social media networking platform and app called ‘Giggle'. She created Giggle as a platform centred around women connecting with, and supporting, other women. The purpose was to provide an app that allowed women to safely connect; an important consideration when dealing with strangers. Sall has been taken to court because she wanted her Giggle app to remain female-only. X: @salltweets https://gigglecrowdfund.com/  

Shownotes and Transcript On this episode of Hearts of Oak Podcast, we sit down with Topher Field, a prominent Australian libertarian commentator and activist. Topher shares his experience navigating the challenging landscape of media and activism during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Melbourne. He discusses the charges he faced for advocating peaceful protests against government actions and the importance of freedom of speech in the face of oppressive measures. The interview delves into the impact of lockdowns on mental health and relationships, which fuelled Topher's increased activism. He provides a detailed account of the progression of protests in Melbourne, highlighting the power of grassroots movements in challenging authority. The conversation also touches on leaderless movements, accountability in COVID inquiries, and the need to resist oppressive policies. Throughout the episode, Topher encourages listeners to question authority, uphold morality, and resist unjust laws and critiques the worship of government and the compliance of churches with oppressive regulations, advocating for spiritual autonomy and the purity of faith-based practices. Over 15 years Topher Field has accumulated over 2 Million video views, over 150,000 regular followers, 14 film awards, 2 Libertarian awards, and released his first book in 2023. But his proudest achievement is without doubt his two criminal charges for ‘Incitement'. During the world famous Melbourne Lockdowns Topher was awarded these charges by Victoria Police for encouraging people to exercise their Human Rights during the Covid era in 2021. Topher is a renowned public speaker, interviewer, podcaster, writer, satirist, and champion of Human Rights. Good People Break Bad Laws: Civil Disobedience in the Modern Age in paperback and e-book from Amazon   amzn.eu/d/09MJazgR Watch award winning 'Battleground Melbourne'   battlegroundmelbourne.com Connect with Topher... WEBSITE          topherfield.net X/TWITTER       x.com/TopherField INSTAGRAM     instagram.com/topherfield Interview recorded  16.7.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER        x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop/ Transcript (Hearts of Oak) And I'm delighted to have someone from down under that I've seen the name quite a bit in my feeds over the last couple of years. It's always great to talk to someone that you've watched from afar, and that's Topher Field. Topher, thank you so much for your time today. (Topher Field) Well, Peter, what a pleasure, and thank you for having me. Not at all, it's great to have you on. And obviously, people can follow you @TopherField on Twitter, and TopherField.net is your website. And of course you're, I mean I've seen you on twitter quite a bit and whenever Sam Sobel connected us, and I thought I kind of recognized that name, because Topher is not a name that's very popular. So, you're thinking that definitely sticks out but you're probably one of Australia's leading, I think most recognized libertarian political commentators. And you've, it's it's your work in in the media and I know that's your background from when you were younger and now you've really made a name for yourself winning awards: libertarian awards. Also that documentary Battleground Melbourne setting. The madness that you faced there in Australia and author of Good People Break Bad Laws which is a fascinating topic. I know we'll delve into that a little bit and loved, I think on your website you said that your proudest moment, proudest achievement is getting those incitements, those punishments for standing up against the COVID lockdown. Not just punishments, criminal charges. They chased me with criminal charges and tried to lock me away for two and a half years for the crime of encouraging people to exercise their human right to engage in peaceful political protest at a time when our government was violating human rights. So yeah, that is honestly, that is my proudest achievement and, I hope never to have to repeat such a thing in my, in the future, but unfortunately you and I both know this fight is far from over. Oh, absolutely. Could I tell them, I mean, leading, leading up to that, what, you're also your, your background, I mean, you grew up with your dad being involved in media and your understanding a little bit about the business. Some of us have been thrown into this and we've either sunk or swell or swum, but you kind of had a little bit of an understanding. Can you tell us about your role in the media leading up to, I guess, the COVID tyranny. What had been your primary focus in terms of putting a message out up until, I guess, up until 2020? Well, I'm probably the world's only accidental political commentator. I was driving a forklift in a warehouse, quite enjoying myself, making good money. I enjoyed the manual labor, the repetition of it, and I could go home. And I was working on a fiction novel at the time and doing a bit of acting. And just enjoying sort of creative expression. And my cousin came into work one day. Yes, I'm the cliche forklift driving cousin working at the same place, kind of life, very blue collar. And my cousin comes into work and he says, Topher, you should audition for project next. And I said, what's that? It was a project being run by a very respected Australian journalist where he was recruiting and looking for the next generation of news producers, presenters, writers, researchers, these sorts of things. And in order to audition, you had to submit a video. So I went, okay, my dad taught me how to do videos. He was involved in community television. He was in professional radio and then in community television. And I cut my teeth from the earliest ages that I can remember. There was a camera in the house and I've been editing and doing audio and all that stuff. I learned the craft from him. So, I put that to good use and I made a video as an audition. And I was deliberately quite controversial, because I didn't want to find that I got into this show and then had my wings clipped and they were telling me what I could say or what I couldn't say. So I was deliberately pretty provocative and I didn't get in. Surprise, surprise. And so then I was left with this video that I had nothing. This is 2009. I didn't even have a YouTube channel. In fact, in Australia in 2009, most people didn't have internet fast enough to play YouTube videos in real time. You had to let them buffer for a few minutes. So, I started a brand new YouTube channel with zero subscribers. I uploaded the video and I sent it to my mom and she must've watched that video 30,000 times because shortly afterwards, was I had 30,000 views, which is pretty extraordinary for 2009 in Australia, doing a 12 minute long political exploration of water supply issues into my home city of Melbourne. Tell me how a video like that gets 30,000 views, even in today's market, let alone back then. So, then people began asking me to do more videos and I'm going, this is absurd. I'm a forklift driver. What do you think I am? I'm nothing. And eventually someone came to me with a video. I said no to everybody, and then someone came to me with a video that I couldn't say no to, and I said yes to that second video, and then I said yes to a third video and a fourth video, and it became a bit of a thing. My main focus has actually been water and water supply issues, particularly to irrigation farmers in what's called the Murray Darling Basin in Australia. So, 40% of Australia's food comes from this part of the world, and our government is destroying farmers by regulating and restricting access to irrigation water. So, that's really what I've spent most of my time talking about. But I did a series on climate change where I partnered with Lord Christopher Monckton in the UK, and I travelled to the US and Canada, interviewed a bunch of people. Professor Fred Singer, before he passed away, is one of my sort of proudest achievements to have had the chance to speak to him while he was alive. I've done work on freedom of speech. I've done work on over-regulation, over-taxation, cost of living, and a range of other sort of topics along the way. Basically always on the I'm a libertarian. So, I'm always coming from that libertarian perspective, but I'm also a Christian. So, bringing those two together and that's a pretty rare thing in Australia there really isn't a lot of a lot of people in that space in Australia and broadly on the conservative side of politics. Oh that's fascinating. Water management and freedom of speech. How do those fit together? So, I've had to ask myself the same question and the best answer I've got for you, Peter, and it's not necessarily a good answer, but it's the best one I've got, is that I struggle to walk past an injustice. Once I see something and go, that's wrong. That should not be the way it is. I find it very difficult to just ignore it and pretend I didn't see. And so water management, I kind of fell into because my very first video was about water supply into Melbourne city, which is a 4.4 and a half million person city that was on heavy water restrictions. There was a drought at the time and they were building a desalination plant and I've said the desalination plant was a bad idea and we should instead build a dam on there's a particular river where there was a dam reservation set aside by engineers 100 years ago, but politics being what it is today they were refusing to build a dam there for greeny sort of reasons. So, that's that was my very first video and then someone said well if you think that's bad have a look at what they're doing down irrigators up on the Murray River. And I investigated that and boy, boy, is that is that bad and people are literally being pushed to suicide and despair and bankruptcy and everything. And of course, it impacts food prices and has a knock-on effect to us all. So for me, that was kind of a fight that I couldn't walk past. But as a political commentator, freedom of speech is essential to my work. It's a non-negotiable, and it should be a non-negotiable for us all, but it's especially a non-negotiable when that's your stock in trade, is the right and the ability to say, government, you're wrong. You're doing the wrong thing. And so I was already defending, I was defending freedom of speech before it was cool. And then, of course, COVID came along and we saw censorship just escalate to an entirely new level. But those two have really been two of my biggest topics along the way. Tell us about during the COVID tyranny. I saw a level, and probably you did as well in Australia, a level of frustration boiling over that we haven't seen in a long time. We saw demonstrations against the Iraq war back in Tony Blair's time, a million people on the streets. Since then, we hadn't seen anything else. It was the pool tax rats and Margaret Thatcher's time, going back to that. And suddenly this happens and you've got huge, huge crowds coming out and active, I guess not civil obedience, but beginning to beginning to walk towards that line. I mean were you surprised that certainly in Britain people seem to be pushed and pushed and pushed and the the frustration boils out at the pub over a couple of drinks and that's the the level of it. Yeah. But something happened to push people how did you see that and view that because I wasn't in media at that point. We had just started two months before, but you saw this through a perspective of someone in the media. Tell us how you viewed that in your country. Our experience was very different in Melbourne as compared to anywhere else in Australia, let alone anywhere else in the world. So, for those that don't know, Melbourne became the most locked down city in the world and remains that to this day with the exception of China. China then did go on to do even more extreme things, but for a long time, Melbourne was the most locked down and outside of China continues to be the most locked down city in the world. We had de facto house arrest. You could not leave your house unless you were leaving for less than one hour and for an approved set of conditions. They shut down schools. They shut down all but essential workplaces. They shut down even kids' playgrounds and things. You could not so much as go to a beach and sit on the beach to watch a sunset. Even in your one hour of yard time, you would be arrested if you were found to have left the house just to go and enjoy some sunshine. So we had a curfew, an 8 p.m. curfew that was enforced very, very vigorously, very, very violently. We had what was called a ring of steel. This was a series of checkpoints that separated metropolitan Melbourne from the rest of rural Victoria. And they had military manning that checkpoint and demanding that you show paperwork to prove that you had a need to travel across that artificial new border that they'd put up around the city. And we had protests being treated as completely illegal. So, I spoke at the very first anti-lockdown protest, and this was my first ever conscious act of civil disobedience. It was the first time I walked out my door. I was 38 years old or so. I was a clean skin, ex-Army Reserve, ex-I'd done a bunch of charitable work. I was a clean skin. You look at my police record, It was better than spotless. It was positive. I'd handed in wallets that I'd found on the street and all sorts of stuff, right? And then all of a sudden, here I am walking out my door to go and deliberately speak at a rally that had been declared to be illegal. And that was really a turning point in my life and took me in a whole new direction, because I live streamed that event and such was the hunger. People were desperate, but no one was yet willing to make any moves. By the time I got home from that event, that live stream had been watched over 100,000 times. And this is just a live stream on Facebook. I had a Facebook page with maybe 10,000 people on it. So, that was a pretty big deal for me at the time. And people, you know, I had a wave of abuse pour into my inbox, into my emails and so forth. People angry how dare you. You're killing grandma all that sort of stuff. Then shortly on the back of that there was a wave of support: thank you for speaking out I've been thinking the same thing, but I thought I was going crazy, now I know I'm not. And then on the back of that was a wave of despair, people reaching out in emails and in messages into my inbox just needing to tell me their story, because by this point in time we were about we were about by then we're about eight weeks in to lockdowns, seven weeks into lockdowns. And for anyone who was already at the margins financially, was already close to the wind, this was absolutely decimating them. For anyone whose mental health was already borderline, this was destroying them. Anyone whose marriage was close to breaking up, this was the final straw. And I just had people pouring their hearts out to me. And at first, I thought, why are you talking to me? I can't help you. I've got nothing. I'm in the same position as you. I've got a kid, a pregnant wife. My business is going down the tube, because I had I had another business separate to the political commentary at the time. My life is as much of a mess as yours. Why are you asking me for help? And then I realized they weren't asking me for help. Not one of them asked me to help them. What they wanted was someone to listen. And this is the tragedy of what happened, Peter, is all of the people that were supposed to be there for them had turned their back. The church pastors, the mental health counsellors, most of the politicians, a lot of people's families had all turned their back on them to the point that they were digging up the contact details of a YouTube political commentator and pouring their heart out to me in emails and messages. Such was the isolation that they experienced. So in that context, you can understand that the protests remained very, very small for many, many months. We saw violent arrests where if someone was known to have been organizing protests, the police would show up at their door at six o'clock in the morning with a battering ram, smash their way through the door, violently tackle them to the ground, hospitalizing them in some cases. We saw extreme levels of violence that we're not used to in Australia. This is not the kind of place where these things happen. And so that kept our numbers really small, really down in the few hundreds. And myself and a number of other courageous people, we kept on getting out there and kept on doing it anyway, knowing the risks and getting attacked by riot squads and attacked by police on horses, and threats of arrest, and all sorts of things. And then the government made a tactical mistake. There was a woman by the name of Zoe Bueller, and she was out of town. She was outside of that ring of steel that I mentioned earlier. She lived in a rural town, and she said, hey, let's get together and do a protest at the local park during our one hour of yard time. Now, the thing with her was where she was, that was actually legal. But the police arrested her anyway. They went into her home and her husband live streamed, or she live streamed on her phone, her arrest. And that was her, you may be familiar with it, in her pyjamas. She's pregnant. There's a couple of kids in the home. And she's saying, being arrested for what? They were arresting her for incitement, the very same charge that they later charged me with. And that video went viral. And that really turned the movement from just a couple of hundred hardcore people doing what our conscience required us to do against all odds and all of a sudden we were getting a couple of thousand people. And then there was a year or so of that on and off increasing police violence ultimately leading to them shooting us with rubber bullets and then finally their conscience that they were shamed effectively, by us refusing to back down and their conscience got the better of them and the police finally said: hey we're not doing the violence anymore and then all of a sudden our numbers exploded into the hundreds of thousands it's. That accidental leadership which I think has been intriguing and probably is at the heart of what makes the establishment afraid, because when you look at all different demonstrations they kind of come from organizations that then push that agenda, that idea, and then arrange demonstrations, arrange rallies, arrange protests but this had; I mean the people that I'm sure it's same for you, that I've met, who've come from sports, from music, from different industry, from never done as you said a protest in their life suddenly come out. And it's been fascinating that accidental leadership that we have seen worldwide. Yeah, and you're absolutely right this is what makes them afraid. It's the hydra. And this is this really came out to me and I really bring this point out in battleground Melbourne the documentary which you can watch for free at battlegroundmelbourne.com The thing that I really wanted to bring out there was this isn't my story. I had the privilege of being the storyteller, but it's not actually my story. I didn't write that. That was written by the people of Melbourne, the people of Victoria, and the courage that they showed. And what we see time and again, the theme that I really sought to bring out in that documentary was we kept on being knocked down. And then without any structured leadership, there was no board of directors making decisions. People just got creative. And somehow the movement as a whole stood back up again. It might have been different people. It might've been in a different place and it might've been in a different form. But every time the government thought they'd finally knocked us down, we reappeared as a movement. We reappeared in some new form and we were continuously adapting our tactics and they were continuously adapting their tactics. And in the end, they got to the point where they couldn't escalate any further. And we still hadn't gone away. We still hadn't backed down. They literally got to the point where the only thing left for them to do was to start shooting with live ammunition. That was their last option. They had done everything else up to that point. Tear gas and riot police and mounted police and home invasions and rubber bullets onto, you know, shooting people in the back, unarmed people in the back with rubber bullets at the Shrine of Remembrance, a war memorial of all places. I mean, absolute disgrace. And then after doing that, thinking, oh, we finally got them. They're going to run away scared now. Well, then along came nurses and teachers who completely transformed the whole way the movement looked. They showed up in parks in their uniforms, wearing masks, socially distanced, with writing on their tops saying how long they'd been a teacher or how long they'd been a nurse and these sorts of things. And they just stood silently in the park. So, all of a sudden, now that they'd gone to the rubber bullets, et cetera, gone was the rabble rousing and the chanting and everything else. Now, all of a sudden, they're faced with a bunch of young women, mostly incredibly courageous, standing in parks, socially distanced, wearing masks and silent. And they show up with the rubber bullet guns and they show up with the riot police and they show up with the horses. And I think finally, it was like a mirror looking back at them. And suddenly they saw themselves and realized what they'd become. And it was shortly after that that they released, they leaked this letter to the public, which they'd sent to the premier saying, we're not doing this anymore. It's time to put away the tear gas. We're not doing the violence anymore. It's exactly what you're talking about. The way I paraphrase it is this. We were ordinary people who were faced with extraordinary times. All we did was make the decision to do what was right, even though it was our government that was wrong. That's it. That's it. That's all we are. Because there were enough of us and because we had the courage to keep coming back and to keep getting back up in spite of what we faced, in the end, we won. And that, I think, is a massive lesson and for all of humanity with everything that we're up against, because a leaderless, decentralized, organic movement is unstoppable for as long as we don't stop. It's up to us to just go, we're just going to keep going. A movement with leaders can be stopped if you take out the leaders, you know, strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter. But what if there's no shepherd? What if the sheep have started to think for themselves? And that's what we created here in Melbourne. And I think that's a model. That's not to take anything away from people who do step into leadership, but I think that's a model for us. We become unstoppable if we adopt that model. And I want to pick up one of the two things we've learned. And I'm asking you that not just because it's a historical event that we can learn a lot from, but here in the UK, we right now have the COVID inquiry. I think in the next day or two, it's going to release its first findings. And the figures on the COVID inquiry here in the UK, it's thought it'll be the most expensive inquiry in British history. It's just going to be under just under 200 million pounds for the whole inquiry. I think I read something like cost of £130,000 or £140,000 a day. So, I'm asking you your experiences, because we are going through this charade of a COVID inquiry. Has there been, and of course, that's not going to lead to anything. But in Australia, have there been questions? We've seen a kind of slow change in the media on the right, but getting to say, actually, you know, we were always saying we shouldn't buy onto this. I said, uh-uh, no, you weren't. You had like an article every two months that might touch on another side. But what about you in terms of reckoning for the media, in terms of reckoning for politicians on what Australians were put through? Nowhere near enough. We've had a couple of really good politicians, particularly a couple of really good senators who have been relentlessly pursuing this. And they've had some small wins. But one of the things that is just a reality that we have to be willing to accept and push our way through is that the powers that be have a lot of layers of defence. So, they'll try and stop an inquiry from happening. And then once they can't stop the inquiry from happening, they try and rig the inquiry by, you know, rigging the terms of reference or rigging who the commissioner is or these sorts of things. We've just seen unfolding right now in Australia, we have a senator for the United Australia Party called Ralph Babbitt, Senator Ralph Babbitt, great guy. He managed to get a, I don't remember the technical term for it, but it's some form of inquiry and a bunch of people made submissions to that inquiry. And then the person running the inquiry has just announced they're not going to publish a lot of those submissions. They're taking them as almost like comments. Right. And they're not actually publishing them as part of the inquiry. It's like, well, no, you don't get to silence the Australian people like that. And so now Senator Babet is taking up that particular fight to try and make sure that this actually gets done properly, et cetera. So, they kind of have defence in depth, because there's a lot of tricks and tools that they get to use. And every single one of them is a new layer that we have to battle our way through. What I think though is is going to happen much faster than we've seen in history, so in history we saw for example the thalidomide debacle where for a very long time if you know thalidomide being dangerous was considered to be misinformation and you were uninformed and ignorant if you said that it was, or asbestos, and then all of a sudden everyone always knew that it was dangerous. Right? That was you know we saw that trend and we're watching that happen in some parts of the media now: oh, I've always said that we should be careful about an untested vaccine. No you didn't, you told everyone to go out and get jabbed, right? Yeah. So, we're seeing that revisionism is kicking in. But it took 40 years for thalidomide to finally get apologies and compensation and these sorts of things. But that happened before the internet. And that happened when we weren't as able to communicate with each other as what we are now and able to dig and discern the truth. The gatekeepers of old are no longer, they no longer hold the level of power that they used to have. And that allows us to accelerate the timelines. The other comment that I'll make, Peter, is people only start to pay attention to politics once it starts to hurt them. There's a thing called rational ignorance. It doesn't make sense. It's not rational for us to pay lots of attention to something that we can't really influence. Influence if we don't if we can't really control it well we should spend our time and focus you know invest that into the things that we can have more control over. So, there's a level of rational ignorance when it comes to politics. Why would I pay attention to politics when I can't really change anything anyway. And most Australians have that attitude until it hurts them and then all of a sudden they arc up. And then they can't understand why they can't get help from anyone else, well because it's not hurting them. So, the silver lining of something as tragic as what what we've seen during COVID, the silver lining is that it hurt a lot of people simultaneously. And a lot of people at the same time all stood up and said, hey, this isn't okay. I'm not happy with this. And then when they looked around for support, there were actually other people out there to support them because there was a lot of people standing up at the same time. And what's important now is that we maintain the rage, to use a tired old phrase. We cannot let up on this. We cannot let people take a revisionist view. Oh, we did the best we could with what we knew at the time. Any of that sort of, we cannot accept any of that. And we must just continue to relentlessly pursue justice and understand that this is a long-term project. We're not going to win this overnight. But what's happening now is we're getting organized at a level that we've never been before. And our pushback is getting sophisticated at a level that it never has been before. And more and more people are willing to take risks. And I'll use a local example to you, you, Peter. It would have been unimaginable in the 2000s for a situation to arise in a city like London where the ULEZ cameras would have been being vandalized on a widespread scale. That's unthinkable. The Blade Runner phenomenon, again, an example of a leaderless organic movement that just popped up where people used the internet and our ability to communicate with each other to find these cameras, to map them, to publish those maps. And then other people looked at those maps and made decisions about what they were going to do. I'm not condoning anything of course but observing what's happened that was unthinkable 20 years ago and now it's an ongoing phenomenon. So, I'm actually quite hopeful that a lot of these petty tyrants, these people who want to control and tell us how we're going to live, are going to find themselves bewildered by this array of pushback that seems to come out of nowhere. And they will go looking for the enemy and say, who's organized this? And the answer is no one. And that makes it really hard for them to stop. So, I'm actually really optimistic. And I think it was actually in the end, a good thing that COVID would hurt so many people and not good that they were hurt but it's good now that we live in a world where ordinary people are standing up in a way that we have not seen in my lifetime before. And that fits into your your book: Good People Break Bad Laws. Up until this point good people follow the law, good people call the police if there is a problem, good people vote for the the party that they think is best. Good people use the legal system for solutions to problems. And there's a whole list of what good people, and I always looked at CND, the anti-war people, or kind of stop oil people and thought that's so disruptive. How dare they do that? And now... Either maybe I was dumb, maybe I didn't get it before, maybe I trust the institutions. But I think a lot of people, certainly more on the right, trusted the institutions to a large degree. Now that trust has completely gone. That contract, I think, with the government has been completely broken. And we've gone from good people follow the law, even if it's not necessarily the best law, you do what you do as a citizen, to hell no. we're going to break. That's a huge change in society, in a democratic society. That's a massive change. Yeah, there's a number of layers to this. First and foremost, pretty much everybody on all sides of politics acknowledges that civil disobedience has been the right thing in various moments in history. One of the most obvious being, of course, the civil rights movement to end segregation in the US. That's sort of a pretty obvious contemporary example where we say, Martin Luther King and even many people, Malcolm X and a bunch of others, yes, that was the right thing for them to do. Civil disobedience, breaking those laws was a good thing for them to do. And when you look in a historical context, there's almost universal agreement about that. But there is certainly on the more conservative side of politics, a real discomfort about it in real time. And that's simply because conservatives have been used since the end of the Second World War to being the ones in charge, which means that when someone is disobeying, they're disobeying the conservatives, right? They're disobeying the establishment and the conservatives identify as that. They're disobeying us. What a bunch of rabble-rousing ratbags. Well, there's a right way to do it and there's a wrong way to do it. And just stop oil, et cetera. We see them doing it in very, very destructive ways. And my book does address that. I talk about the right way and the wrong way to do these sorts of things. But in principle, doing what's right is always right, even if the law is wrong, right? And we have to accept an uncomfortable truth for a lot of conservatives. And like I said, I'm a libertarian, so I have no issue with this, but a lot of conservatives struggle with this. When you change the law, you do not change what is right or wrong. What is right or wrong is already right or wrong. And when we change a law, we're either admitting that it used to be wrong and now it's right, or maybe that it used to be right and now we've got it wrong, or maybe that it was wrong both times. But we can't pretend that just because some people in a room stood around and approved the change of wording that we've changed the laws of nature and morality and what's right and wrong. We haven't. So, when we write laws, our task is not to define what's right and what's wrong. It is to discern what's right and what's wrong and to align the law as closely as possible to that. And that's a matter of conscience. And I have to do what's right according to my conscience, even if the people in that room have written laws that disagree with that particular point of view. And this is necessary. This is essential. People say: oh, we can't all just run around doing whatever we think is best. No, no, no. We all have to live our lives doing what we think is best. Because guess what? When I stand before God, I can't turn around and say: oh, but Peter made me do it. Peter told me it was the right thing to do. Nor can I say, oh, but a whole bunch of Peters in a house called parliament told me that it was the right thing to do. No, I don't get to outsource my morality. I'm accountable for my decisions, for the moral outcomes and the morality that is represented in the decisions that I make. And that's true, no matter what the law says. So what conservatives have to accept is that they are no longer in the majority. Okay. The cultural war has been lost. That's not to say that it's permanent. It's not permanently that way. But think about the sexual revolution and the aims of third wave feminism, the sexual revolution. They got everything they wanted, right? What we call conservative politics now is unrecognizable in the world of the 1950s. What we call conservative politics now is radical, progressive Marxist ideology. And we call that conservative now because we've completely lost track of how far we've slid. Conservatives have already lost the culture war. The culture war is over. Conservatives lost. What has happened now is that people who who believe in God. Who believe in family, who believe in what we would consider to be basic decency, basic morality, Judeo-Christian morals. We are now the revolutionaries. We are now the beatniks. We are now the hippies of our age. And we are the ones who are actually trying to bring about a revolution against an establishment that has rejected all of that morality. And we have to accept that that means that we need to adopt the tactics of the revolutionaries, the rebels. We're the cool kids now. That's the good news, Peter. We get to be the cool kids for a change rather than the stayed old, you know, the pearl clutches. The pearl clutches now are all on the left. Oh, you used the wrong pronouns. Oh, my heart, right? That's them now. We get to be the cool kids. And what that means is we have to accept and we have to move on from a lot of these old mindsets. And one of those mindsets was, oh, but it's the law. We all need to do what the law says. Well, that was always the wrong perspective. But not only now is it the wrong perspective, but it's also incredibly unhelpful. If the law is wrong, we have no obligation to obey and to do what's wrong. And in particular, I look at Psalm 94, I think it's verse 12, where it says that crooked leaders cannot be your friends. They use the law to cause suffering. And this is one of, I propose two tests for what a bad law is in my book, Good People Break Bad Laws. And one of them is a practical test, and one of them is a principles test. And the practical test is based on that verse in Psalm 94. Does this law cause suffering? Because that's the definition of a crooked ruler. A crooked ruler is someone who uses the law to cause suffering. And if the following or enforcing of a law causes more suffering than the breaking of that law would cause, then you are looking at a candidate for potentially a bad law. There's more to it than that. You have to read the book. But that becomes a candidate for this might be a bad law. And actually, my conscience might require me to disobey this law in order to do what's right. How, I will say I have not read the book, but I will be reading it. I'd encourage others because we are in different times and it's fascinating. And your comment about individual consciousness, individual responsibility, we seem to have contracted that out to a government that actually you're the ones that will decide what is good and what is bad, what's right and what's wrong. I no longer have to and we are in a completely different generation than previous generations in that there is no accountability. There's no right and wrong there's no accountability, and it's; yeah we have it we have to learn how to live as individuals within that new paradigm of actually people don't take personal responsibility for anything. And we'll see that in the COVID inquiry people say: oops. And what do you mean "oops"? How many people's lives were damaged? Destroyed? Kill? How many people were killed? This is not an oops and yet that seems to be where we are that there is zero personal responsibility for anything and certainly we see that in this in the States on obesity where actually you just take a drug, because that's just not nothing to your fault. And you just take a drug or it's your genes. No what about personal responsibility for lifestyle, but But that seems to have gone out the window completely. Peter, it's worse than that. So, I'm working on my second book, which will be out before the end of this year, which is titled Good Christians Break Bad Laws, Obeying God in a Fallen World. And it's specifically on the theology of civil disobedience. It looks at everyone from Dietrich Bonhoeffer and other sort of World War II heroes right back in history and then obviously diving deep into Scripture itself, Old Testament, New Testament, the words of Christ, et cetera, on this topic of obedience to government. Yes, I deal with Romans 13, 1 Peter 2. All of that is covered in this book. The reality of our situation, Peter, is that we actually now worship the government. And unfortunately, I have to include the church in that statement. What we saw during COVID, and I can't speak for where you are, but certainly where I am in the city of Melbourne, was almost every single church with a vanishingly small number of exceptions allowed the government to dictate to them whether or not they would open their doors,. Whether or not they would help the poor, whether or not they would gather and worship, whether or not they would take communion, how many people were allowed to sing etcetera. And and what they did was they turned around and said: oh no it's okay because we can we'll have a tiny skeleton crew in the building and we'll live stream church. You can do live stream church so this isn't a violation of our christian principles this isn't a violation of you know of the exhortation not to forsake the gathering together of the saints, because you can watch a video online. And of course when we look at the example: I'll just pull one example out, look at okay so we know that Daniel would pray multiple times a day he would open his window and he would. We pray in full public view. And when it was, I think, Nebuchadnezzar, I can always get mixed up between Darius and Nebuchadnezzar and all the others. I think it was Nebuchadnezzar was convinced by his secular advisors, his pagan advisors to make a law that said people could only pray to Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel didn't choose to keep praying in the privacy of his room and keep the door and the shutters closed. He could have done that. And he could have said, oh, well, I'm still practicing my religion. I'm just doing it in a way that's not going to provoke trouble. I don't want to cause any issues here. No, no, no. No, he opened those shutters and prayed in the same spot in full view because to go into hiding and say, oh, I'm still practicing my religion in secret is still saying to the government, you have the right to tell me that I can't do that. You're still conceding that ground to the government. And that means that you're giving the government more authority over your faith walk than God has. So, I believe that the church's biggest problem, and this is so funny because as a kid, you'd You'd read the Ten Commandments. You're like, oh, the idolatry one's out of date. Like, that doesn't apply anymore. Actually, I've realized, no, I'm completely wrong. Idolatry is the number one sin that we are facing in the church and in secular society here today. Specifically, we've made an idol with our own hands. Look at what the children of Israel did. They made calves with their own hands, and they fell down and worshipped them. When God designed government, God designed the system of judges. There was enough law that they could read it in three days, the whole thing. And they had a dispute resolution process. They could go to a judge to have a dispute be resolved. There was no other law and there was no other mechanism to make more law. And during the time of Isaiah, the children of Israel decided that that wasn't enough and they wanted a king. And they went to Isaiah and they demanded, oh, Samuel, was it? Excuse me, in the time of Samuel, I think it was. They demanded a king and they ended up getting Saul. When they went to Samuel and said to give us a king, Samuel was upset because he's being rejected as a judge and his children who are ungodly were being rejected as judges. And he takes it to God and God says to him, listen to what they're actually saying. They're not rejecting you. They're rejecting me as their king. And I'll cover all of this in the book, Good Christians Break Bad Laws. As their forefathers did in the wilderness, building golden calves and worshipping them. That's what God says in response. They are rejecting me as their king, as their forefathers did, building golden calves and worshipping them. God immediately equates creating a government that is beyond what God designed with idolatry. He immediately says, this is like worshipping a golden calf. And that's exactly where we are today. Look at the names of God in the Old Testament. Jehovah Jireh, my provider. Who do we look to for provision now? You know, the very Jehovah Nissi, Jehovah Tzidkenud, all the different names of God. They all have different meanings. My healer, my giver of wisdom, my protector, my refuge, my provider, et cetera. We look to the government for each and every one of those things now. We've literally worshipped government and allowed government to usurp God in every single part of our lives. And if it wasn't already obvious enough, it became glaringly obvious during COVID. And I think one of the most urgent needs in the world today is for Christians to get on our knees before God and repent of idolatry and worshipping government and obeying government, even where the government is the one causing misery. Even where the government has become crooked, like what Psalm 94 talks about. We've obeyed government instead of God. And the most urgent thing now is repentance in the church. I wasn't expecting us to go down this angle, but I'm enjoying this. You mentioned about not forsaking Hebrews 10, 25. It said, not giving up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day approaching. And how much closer are we to that day 2,000 years later? And there's no opt-out. The Bible is full of laws, of ideals, of examples, of guidelines for us to live by because God knows best because God made us, and therefore he's the one that knows the best way to live. There are no opt-outs. And certainly I remember being in one church, Church of England Church, and they said, oh, we need to wait until the government announce their guidelines later this week to know if we can meet and sing in the park this weekend. I think, well, we've already been told not to forsake gathering. What's wrong with meeting out in the open? I mean, Jesus didn't stop going and speaking in synagogues because people had leprosy. Actually, no, he went there. And there were so few. I think in the UK, I don't know of any church that actually, there was one church that had a legal fight, but they still shut the doors. I know I went to a big event with a Pentecostal preacher, Rodney Howard Brown. He was the only person, I mean, the first pastor in America. And it was interesting that the more traditional evangelical part of the church said, we need to be good citizens, and that means doing what we're told to do. Then you have the more Pentecostal or charismatic said, no, no, no, the Bible says this, so we do this. I was interested in seeing that division. But certainly, I've seen hook, line, and sinker that churches across the UK accepted everything the government told us to do. And you're saying you saw exactly the same in Australia. And there's been no change of that. There's been no apology. As you said no repentance for saying we got it wrong but if this happens again we will follow god's law not man's law yeah this Is such a crucial thing, it's such a tragedy that I actually know the names globally of most of the pastors that really did stand up. John MacArthur in the U.S and I think he was in California. Arthur Polowski a Polish immigrant to Canada. Bishop Marmari in Sydney who actually since got stabbed. He survived and thankfully he's okay, but he was one of the correct, he was a Coptic, I think, no offense if I get this wrong, Bishop, but I believe he's a Coptic or an Orthodox Christian and was really speaking up. There was a Catholic church in Jindera that was really good in a remote Australian outback sort of town. But these are the exceptions, right? I shouldn't be able to name the ones that stood up and did the right thing. When I challenged my own pastor on this, he said, Topher, I can't do what you want me to do, because the government will take away our funding for the soccer academy that we run for the migrants. Right? Now, I, I've read my Bible from cover to cover in a couple of different translations. And I, I just, I've tried, but I can't remember the verse that says, go ye into all the world and run soccer academies. I've, I'm going to have to go back and just study again and just try and find that verse because what's happened now. I mean, there's a reason why Jesus specifically warned, warned us and said, you cannot serve God and mammon. Why did he pick mammon? You can't serve God and sex. You can't serve God and bar. You can't serve, you know, God and your belly. Why did he pick mammon as the thing? Well, because that's going to be the key core temptation. And this is what we see, particularly in the established churches, because the business of church and the property and the building and the maintenance and the tithes and everything else is such an important thing. Governments have been very clever. They turned around a hundred odd years ago and said, oh, instead of you being excluded from the tax code entirely, let's give you a special charitable tax exempt status that brings you into the tax code. And then you'll be eligible for government funding for programs, for charitable stuff, right? We're doing it to help you. We're going to give you money and you can do more ministry, right? And luring churches with money into compromising and contracting with government and becoming just another civil, just another corporation, really, that just has a few special perks. Fast forward a hundred years and we get to a situation where pastors aren't willing to speak on transgenderism or abortion. Oh no, I better not talk about anything political. Oh no, I better not stand up for our right to actually worship God during a pandemic. I better not do those thing, because I'm going to lose these special privileges that the government has given me. Well, excuse me, who's your provider? What does the Bible say about that? And this is why I say, and I've ruffled a lot of feathers. I've got a lot of people's noses out of joint because I speak at the church and state conferences in Australia and elsewhere. And I challenge pastors and I challenge church guys. I'm not trying to cause damage to the church, but please hear me out. If your pastor compromised during COVID and has not repented, all right, I'm all about forgiveness, all about second chances. Is if your pastor made mistakes and then went, guys, I got that wrong. I'm so sorry. This is what I've learned. This is what I'm going to put in place to make sure I never do that again. Great. Great. All for it. But if your pastor still insists that shutting down was the right thing to do and turning away people who were in desperate need of help was the right thing to do right at a time when people needed the church the most. I mean, if your instinctive reaction when there is a threat to people's temporal lives is to lock the doors of the house that has eternal salvation, if that's your instinctive reaction, then you don't understand what it is that you do as a Christian pastor. You hold the keys to eternal life. When there is a temporal threat, when there is a pandemic, if it's the Black Death, for goodness sake, you should be throwing the doors of the church open, wheeling the speakers out onto the steps, cranking that thing up as loud as you can and saying: come one, come all, repent for your day of judgment could very well be at hand. And if you get word from the government, there's a pandemic coming and and your reaction is to shut your doors and turn people away, I put it to you that you are probably in the wrong profession. A hundred percent. We have pastors who want to be liked more than they want to do the right thing. And I'm a grew up pastor's kid. I've been involved in huge churches. And when you get to see behind the scenes, it is a desire to be liked and to do what you think the government. But it's this issue of which I think is the key issue and it's an issue that we will face here in the UK in the next five years. It's the tax exempt status. It's the charitable status, it is the money in the UK you get tax back. So, if you're a taxpayer, you give your 100 pounds to the church and then the church gets an extra 20 back. And most churches survive on that and if that was taken away they couldn't survive and this is why I've been at churches and pastors have have apologized for suggesting that abortion may be murder. They've apologized for saying that actually transgenderism may be wrong. I had a pastor who told me the way he combats the attack on sexuality is he has a bookmark in his Bible with man and woman in it. And that bookmark means that he is speaking truth. And of course, in the COVID, that's time and time again. And I can see, certainly in the UK with the Labour government, which we have a uni party, of course, it's no different than the Tory Labour Party. This is not on one side. It's the same thing. But I can see churches being told, unless you sign up to these pledges, the good citizen pledges, then you will lose your charitable status. And 99% of churches will happily sign up for the money. So you're 100% right. And this is the tragedy. So in Australia, we had a referendum recently around whether the government should redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, all right? And a lot of Christians, because the result was, yes, we should redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. And a lot of Christians said, oh, no, we lost the marriage debate. I say, well, no, no, no, hold on. We lost the marriage debate back in the 1950s when federal legislation was passed to create a federal marriage certificate. Because before then, you got a marriage certificate from your church. The government had nothing to do with marriage. And then in the 1990s, maybe early 2000s, then Prime Minister John Howard introduced legislation to introduce into the wording of the Marriage Act, man and woman. Because it didn't actually have it. It was assumed in the 1950s. They didn't have to define that in the 1950s. And then the church in the 1990s is like, yes, yes, yes, we've won. No, no. What we've said, what we've done is we've taken a sacred institution, marriage, and we've put it under a secular governance now. We've said this thing that God created can now be defined and redefined by government. I don't care whether you like the government's definition right now or not, the minute you concede to them the power to have a definition, then you've lost. And sure enough, 30 years later, there was a referendum and the definition was changed and all these Christians are like, oh no, we've lost the marriage debate. No, you lost that in the 1950s. We need to stop taking things that are sacred and putting them into the hands of secular governments. That is idolatry. We are worshipping government and it has to stop. Have you always been, I mean, from the beginning focused on the church being engaged and involved in society, because I think a lot of people have seen the collapse of the church during Covid, but then you go back further and you see at separate points in history of each of our countries you see the capitulation of the church to state mandates in varying degrees. But I've, it's you kind of, we've seen it very starkly with, we all thought, we all believed, actually, the state will not stop churches meeting. That'll be the last, you know, they may come in on what we believe on doctrine issues, on the culture wars, but actually, we'll still be allowed to meet on Sunday, so it's all good. And suddenly, that key right for Christians to gather together, share fellowship together, that's now taken away. Has that been partially the the last straw in people's engagements. I mean, how have you seen it in your involvement along that journey? Yeah, I'm going to answer something else before I answer your actual question. Let's stop and think for a moment what a low bar that is to set. Oh, at least the church allows us to meet. Well, the church in China is allowed to meet, right? You can be a Christian in the UK and in Australia and in Canada in exactly the same way that you can be a Christian in China. Just don't say the things that the government says you can't say. Your doctrine just has to to be the government approved doctrine. And then you can be a Christian. You can show up to church, you can wear a cross, you can call yourself a pastor, as long as you only preach the things that the government has approved. Look at how low we've already set the bar and what a terrible compromise that is. To your question, I was raised as a, I'm a pastor's kid. I'm actually, I'm a pastor's grandkid on both my mom and my dad's side. Both of them were pastors. My dad was a pastor, was raised in the church, of course, went through my phase of rebellion and trying to figure out what I actually believe, blah, blah, blah. And then I tried to prove that God didn't exist and I failed miserably. So, I've had to accept that he actually is real. And that the best thing I can do with my life is to pursue him. And as imperfect as I am and as flawed as I am and as a million different ways that I stumble, that's my life mission now. But I considered myself a political commentator. And then over time, I began to realize you can't, there's so many problems in politics that you can't fix without reference to faith, without reference to the underlying values, that inform political policy. So, I started to call myself a political commentator who's a Christian or, you know, a Christian political commentator. And I'm starting to realize, actually, I just need to drop the word political. And I think I'm actually, I actually just need to say, no, I'm a Christian commentator. And because that faith, what you believe about God informs what you believe about everything else. It involves culture. It involves politics. It involves commerce and employment and healthcare and anything you might want to commentate on is downstream of your belief in God. And so all I am is a guy to drive forklifts, who made a video, who somehow people found my work and said, hey, you keep talking. And now as I've pursued that, I've come to realize the most important thing that I can talk about, the most valuable thing that I can be talking about is faith and God and how best we live in a fallen world. And that's essentially the mission that I've set out to do. So that's why Good People Break Bad Laws is my first book is becoming Good Christians Break Bad Laws as my second book is the realization that I have to talk about the faith side of this, not to the exclusion of the politics. The politics does matter. The culture stuff does matter. But it's all informed by what you believe about God. And that's ultimately where the truth lies. And that's what we need to be talking about. Last question is in terms of you kind of don't think of Australia as being a out-and-out Christian country. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Never been down under, so I could be 100% wrong. But are we moving towards a church that is that is underground, a church that actually needs to separate itself from the state in a way that we haven't seen? I mean we have a we have a state church in the UK: church of England. And that's meant that the state have had 100 control and we now have 24 bishops in the lords that are wetter than any pathetic liberal you'll come across and are more concerned about environmental issues and plastic bags than they are actually about God and his position in society. Do you think in Australia you're moving towards actually the church will have to be underground and fairly separate? I think we were headed that way, but I think God is on the move. And I'm going to shamelessly name drop for a moment. Tucker Carlson was in Melbourne recently, and he met with me backstage. My wife and I chatted with him for about 25 minutes. Lovely, gracious man. I was very generous with his time. And we talked mostly about God. That was the number one thing that he and I, that we discussed. And he commented on how dark Melbourne felt spiritually compared to the rest of Australia. And he's absolutely right. Melbourne is a broken city, and there's a spiritual oppression, a spiritual aspect to it. But he also said, do you feel like God's doing something? I said, yes, thank you. We're not the only ones. And all over the place, I'm seeing what gives me huge encouragement is all over the place, including in my own personal faith walk, I'm seeing God calling people to prayer in a new and a fresh and a more powerful way than has been the case since probably the charismatic renewal. And prayer almost always precedes revival. Find me a revival that didn't have an enormous amount of prayer invested into it before it happened. I don't think there is one. And I believe that we're in a phase now where God is calling people to prayer and faithful people, the genuine Christians, the ones who aren't compromising, are coming to prayer. And yes, a lot of the church is falling into apostasy. A lot of the church is walking away from the basic fundamental tenets of the Christian faith and becoming more concerned about social justice and all this sort of stuff. And there will be a split. There will be a bifurcation. But I actually think there's going to be an enormous renewal and an enormous number of people who are just seeking the truth, seeking meaning, recognizing the meaninglessness of third wave feminism, culture war and politics and so much of this stuff, sport, money, all the rest of it. The meaninglessness is becoming really clear for a lot of people now. I think we're actually about to see an enormous revival where an enormous number of people are going to have a come to Jesus moment in the most real and literal sense. Yeah, 100%. I agree with you. And when it gets dark, it's time for the light of Christ to shine brightly. So, we are in that moment, certainly. Topher, really appreciate you coming on all the way over from down under. Thank you so much for your time, sharing a little bit about your story and fascinating how you see the church getting engaged, involved, and where that... Your book, you can obviously get as an e-book, you can get as a paperback. It's available here in the UK. As it will be down under. I'm sure it's available in the US. And Battleground Melbourne, what's the website again? So, the website for the book is goodpeoplebreakbadlaws.com. You can order it from Australia along with shirts and hoodies and things like that. Or you can go to Amazon and get it, and it'll just get printed in your local market, and you'll receive it that way. Or you can get an e-book, like you said. You can go to battlegroundmelbourne.com. Now, Battleground Melbourne is my multi-award winning documentary. It's an hour and 40 minutes long. It's a feature-length documentary. It's very high quality. It's won 14 awards around the world, and it tells the story of what happened in Melbourne at the most locked down city in the world. You can watch it for free. I don't need your money I don't even need your email address. Just go to battlegroundmelbourne.com. It's there. You can watch it. I highly recommend everyone do that. You will be shocked. Even people that lived through it in Melbourne but didn't step outside of their homes, they just did what they were told, they watch it and they're shocked at what happened on the streets of their own city on the other side of that door. And for people in London or around the world, the US, etcetera, I think it's worth seeing because this isn't unique to Australia. This is something that our governments all over the world, including in the US, would have loved to have done if they thought they could get away with it. And it's up to us to make sure that they know that they can't. 100 percent. Topher, thank you for joining us. And all the links for those are in the description. However, you're watching or listening to the podcasting apps. It will be all there in description, just click on and you can get the book, you can watch the film and everything is there. So don't for thanks for your time. Such a pleasure Peter. Thank you.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Michael Arbon is Chief of Staff to Senator Ralph Babet and is involved with all aspects of the Senator Babet's work including the Excess Deaths Inquiry that is going ahead this week in Canberra. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW:​ ​Fr. Tony Percy ​has been a priest for 32 years and has honours degrees in Finance and a Doctorate in Theology. Fr. Percy is a former Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn and a former seminary rector and currently serves at St Gregory's​ parish​, Queanbeyan; ​He's author of the book Australia: What Went Right? What Went Wrong?​ ​and Fr. Tony Percy led a petition campaign to stop the ACT Government's compulsory acquisition of Calvary Public Hospital that was run by the Little Company of Mary in Canberra​. ​His Substack is: thescaffold.substack.com

We have gone back to basics and brought an old school program! We have BPFW and AV Update! All that's missing is Eric. In news we look at Nelson Mandela's grandson - a parliamentarian - bizarrely banned from twitter. Why? Well, Elon is South African so...Russell Brand finds god which suspiciously lines up with police investigation into sex offences but don't worry - he's getting baptised! The sins gets washed away. Is that a legal defence? In Antivaxxer Update we look at a bunch of dickheads who say they are not antivaxxers but abosolutely are. Which Black Pilled Fuckwit Said That makes a quick comeback. And in SovCits we have a big fan of paper terrorism - you'll have to listen to see how that plays out. Oh, and Zippy Babet is an idiot. Enjoy!

GUEST OVERVIEW: Senator Ralph Babet was elected in the 2022 federal election and is currently serving his first 6-year term. He's a champion of conservative Australian values, smaller government, and individual and national sovereignty.

On today's show, George Christensen discusses digital ID and Good Friday. Later, Senator Ralph Babet discusses excess deaths and transparency in government. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: George Christensen is Editor of the Eureka Free Press website and Nation First Substack newsletter. He's a former member of the Australian House of Representatives from 2010 to 2022, as the member of parliament for the division of Dawson. George was Chief Whip of the National Party in 2016-17. He's a Christian, freedom lover, conservative, blogger, podcaster, journalist and theologian. X: @NationFirstAust GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Senator Ralph Babet was elected in the 2022 federal election and is currently serving his first 6-year term. He's a champion of conservative Australian values, smaller government, and individual and national sovereignty. https://senatorbabet.com.au/            

On today's show, we'll be discussing COVID, vaccine injuries, and Dr. Melissa's experience as a doctor in Australia. Additionally, we'll delve into the revelations brought forth by Senator Roberts, Senator Babet, and others. GUEST OVERVIEW: Dr. Melissa McCann is a general practitioner with a special interest in vaccine injuries.  

¿Qué extraño suceso ocurrió durante el gran festín del rey Baltasar? ¿Qué comieron los europeos después de haber derrotado a la Gran Tenochtitlán? ¿Alguien ha muerto en medio de un banquete? ¿Qué ha sido lo más extravagante que se ha servido en los grandes festines de la historia?   En este capítulo hablamos de: El banquete de Babet,Los festines del Imperio Mexicano,El despido de Fouquet,Grandes servidores,Los menús del Titanic,El rico Epulón y el Pobre Lázaro,Los banquetes del centenario,Las opulencias del emperador kangis,Y más sobre Consumismo.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's show, Montgomery Toms discusses the rise of misogyny in schools and what's behind it. Plus, the Rochdale by-election on Thursday, examining the fight for Gaza in a British town, and a new report into mental health for Gen Z: are they in worse mental shape than generations before? Later, Senator Ralph Babet discusses the Australian Senate acknowledging excess deaths and the need for further inquiry. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Montgomery Toms is an 18 year old - who since the age of 14, has taken a stand, against the rising tide of global authoritarian and coercive governmental control" His video about being a student and speaking out went viral. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: As a strong supporter of constitutional rights and freedoms, Senator Ralph Babet is committed to ensuring the voice of the people is heard. He is former business owner taking the fight to the mainstream parties to deliver a better economic future for all Australian families.

Flooding damages property, lives and can be incredibly financially damaging as well.There was £352 million pounds in insurance claims for damaged homes following storms Babet, Ciaran and Debi at the end of last year according to the Association of British Insurers. We don't yet know the financial fall out of January's storm Henk - the eighth named storm of the season - but as the climate changes, insurers expect even more of this kind of weather.So what is flooding costing homeowners and businesses and what is the best advice if you've been affected?Felicity Hannah visits a flat owner in Worcestershire and we hear from the man who spent £80,000 taking matters into his own hands.This week we're joined by Heather Shepherd from the charity the National Flood Forum as well as Laura Hughes, Manager of General Insurance at the Association of British Insurers, which represents the industry.Presenter: Felicity Hannah Producer: Sarah Rogers Editor: Sara Wadeson(This episode was first broadcast on Wednesday the 17th of January on Radio 4 at 3pm)

11am-12pm Trending Topics  Teddy Bear Hospital at University of Galway Music Mornings: Niamh Regan Humanitarian fund after storms Babet and Ciaran to be doubled    ‘Galway Talks with Keith Finnegan' broadcasts every weekday morning from 9am on Galway Bay FM

GUEST OVERVIEW: As a strong supporter of our constitutional rights and freedoms, Senator Ralph Babet is committed to ensuring the voice of the people is heard. He is former business owner taking the fight to the mainstream parties to deliver a better economic future for all Australian families.

PJ hears from Aoife, a Midleton parent, about the difficulties she and others face after First Steps had to close. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Justin Babet This week on the podcast, I'm thrilled to bring you my conversation with Justin Babet. Justin is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Chief Nutrition. Chief produces a healthy, sustainable and convenient range of snacks that will help you live a Chief life.  Promotional Partnerships Like what we are serving up on Humans of Purpose and believe youself to be in a values-aligned organisation? Our promotional campaigns have delivered great outcomes and ROI for our partners to date.  Don't waste your marketing dollars on Facebook or Google Ads, we guarantee a far better ROI and you'll also be enabling us to continue to amplify purpose-driven people and organisations that are driving social impact. Click Here to learn more about collaborating on a custom campaign package. Ready to partner? Just complete this short Partner Enquiry Form and we'll be in touch. Gold Membership We've got a free trial of our Humans of Purpose Gold Membership until the end of November, where you can join current members Michael, Pravati, Noel, Kathy, Andrew 1, Andrew 2, Chris, Nikki, Margaret, Ben, Misha, Sarah and Geoff and try out our range of member benefits:  Premium dedicated podcast feed Removal of all three ads per episode Early access to all episodes Full transcripts of all episodes Brokered intros to all podcast guests Ask me anything page access To take up this great offer, just head to our Gold Member page today.

It's been a while since we just stuck the boot into some cookers so it's time to tie the shoelaces and get kicking.First we look at Trump who continues to be in Deep Shit and then we move on to some classic cookerbashing.Teflon Mon Mon is going through the courts again for fundraising for non existent legal fees. Whoops! She also got the arse from the US. Oh no!Joel attends an Australia One cooker rally and learns that in Germany and Spain you can marry a cat or a dog. Spoiler alert - that's bullshit.We look at the 'died suddenly' story around Matthew Perry who was a troubled lad and died too young after years of substance abuse. Antivax vultures made it about the jab - but some cooked units went ever deeper.And in SovCits we laugh at Rod Culleton. But we also hope he is okay.Pete is boring but Babet delivers for some taxpayer funded content. Bless!ALSO: IMOP has not been deregistered but has changed name to HEART - Health Environment Accountability Rights Transparency One can only assume this is because being honest about your beliefs is electoral suicide and they have way more chance bullshitting their way into a seat than straight up saying 'we are antivaxxers' - even though their last name was also confusing to voters! ------------------------------Give us money! All sorts of bonus content available too. We even have zoom chats!The Conditional Release Program | creating a Podcast | PatreonIf you want to flick us an email:theconditionalreleaseprogram@gmail.comTwitter:https://twitter.com/JacktheInsiderhttps://twitter.com/krunchymosesFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/theconditionalreleaseprogramhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/706921013306464-------------------------------------Please give us a 5 star review on your podcast app if it's an option - and share with your friends! The bigger the podcast the better the podcast.

Handguns and hatchets in the front seat of a car - three shooting incidents in a week - people are scared...Storm Babet was a month ago today - in Glanmire & Midleton they're still picking up the pieces.. 40 days to Christmas - time to order the Spiced Beef & lots more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PJ talks to Aisling at her home and sees the destruction people flooded by Storm Babet are still living with and the bureaucracy they are expected to plough through. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to Analyze Scripts, where a psychiatrist and a therapist analyze what Hollywood gets right and wrong about mental health. Today, we are taking a deep dive into the newest season of the longtime Emmy winning show, American Horror Story. This season, Delicate, depicts a women, Anna Victoria, played by Emma Roberts, who is undergoing fertility issues. Anna is a famous actor who receives in vitro fertization (IVF) with all the spooky and horror elements that are associated with the show. Listen to our take on Kim Kardashian's performance and the accuracy of their depiction of IVF. Dr. Furey takes this lead in this episode with her expertise in pregnancy, IVF and postpartum care. We hope you enjoy! Youtube Video Instagram TikTok Website CNN article on new postpartum drug Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Hi, I'm Dr. Katrina Fieri, a psychiatrist. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And I'm Portia Pendleton, a licensed clinical social worker. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: And this is analyze Scripts, a podcast where two shrinks analyze the depiction of mental health in movies and TV shows. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Our hope is that you learn some legit info about mental health while feeling like you're chatting with your girlfriends. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: There is so much misinformation out there, and it drives us nuts. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And if someday we pay off our student loans or land a sponsorship, like. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: With a lay flat airline or a major beauty brand, even better. Portia Pendleton LCSW: So sit back, relax, grab some popcorn. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: And your DSM five, and enjoy. Welcome back to another episode of Analyze Scripts, the podcast. We are so excited you're joining us for our second YouTube episode. That's right. If you are just listening, you could also watch us on YouTube. Please don't do it while driving, but otherwise, please head on over to Analyze Scripts podcast. Today we are talking about the latest installment of American Horror Story, Delicate. We're going to talk about Part one. Part two is set to come out in early 2024, but I am really excited to talk about this episode. What did you think? Portia, I know you're not super into spooky things. I was really impressed that you watched this just right off the bat. What are your thoughts? Portia Pendleton LCSW: I thought it was intense in the way, I think, because as a woman who goes to the gyn and who potentially will or will not experience the birthing process or the pregnancy process, I felt like it was a little traumatizing. But in a way that I want to hopefully be clear. And I think you can do a. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Better job at this. Portia Pendleton LCSW: But this is not a normal experience. This is in so many ways horrific. And there were so many moments that she was invalidated, and I thought that that was just, like, bad. I mean, in this whole experience, that's already really scary and sometimes daunting and can be painful just to add this obviously extra fictional layer to it. But it was hard to watch. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Totally. So if you've been living under a rock, American Horror Story is a series on FX that's been around for many years now. I think next Halloween, we're hoping to cover season one because that was a really good season. But it's a really cool show by Ryan Murphy where it's usually the same sort of crop of actors. And the story each season is know, there's been, like, the clown one, there's been like the murder house one. There's. Yeah, you know, so it's all really interesting. And so we see Emma Roberts as the star of this season, she's playing an actress, Anna Victoria Alcott. And the whole plot, to sum it up real quick, of this first part of the season, is she really wants to have a baby, and she's struggling to get pregnant. So we see her and her husband Dex, who previously had been married, and we believe his wife died that now at the end of part one, we're not really sure, but they're struggling to get pregnant, so they're going through the IVF process. At the same time, her career is taking off, she's campaigning for an Oscar, and we come to find out there's something afoot. There's some sort of evil plot at play in regards to her baby. We don't exactly know what it is yet, but we see some flashbacks to someone else agreeing to give their baby away to these people in weird black crow outfits to be able to have power or money or something that they want. And it seems like this is going that way. Like, how much do you want a baby? How much do you want an Oscar? Right, right. Portia Pendleton LCSW: It's like this cabal that's been around for centuries, apparently. And I don't know. I think obviously, we're missing so much that I hope we get from season two. But I have so many questions. Right? Like, is the husband involved? Is he not? Is the know Kim Kardashian? Yep. Siobhan. Is she involved? It seems like she is with those little supplements that look like blood. Obviously the Doctor is involved. But I have so many questions that I'm excited to hopefully get answered, even though it will be. Yeah. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: In part two, I think my biggest question is, why is Kim Kardashian playing? Like, why? It was so Portia. I'm sorry. Like, I thought Kim Kardashian did a pretty good job on SNL. I'm not going to lie. I was like, well, she was kind of funny, but in this, I was just, like, cringe. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And I think it's because. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: I also. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Don'T know if it would matter if she was better at acting because she's still Kim Kardashian, which is like, I think her being and persona and aura is just so powerful. And she was playing somewhat of a similar person, so it wasn't this crazy stretch. But I think it's just so hard because we know her from 20 years of reality TV that I can't see past that. So regardless, even if she was, I don't know. I can't tell. Is it poor acting or is it just like, I can't see her in another way. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: I think it's both acting, but also why her? I've got to imagine there's so many good actresses out there that could have done a great job in the role. And it's not like American Horror Story has been doing badly as far as I know. Maybe the ratings have been down. I don't think they've been down that much. Why? I just feel like it's to use her for her following and to get eyeballs on the screen. But it honestly annoyed me. I would say of all the stuff we've watched so far, I felt like this was the worst, just in terms of. I didn't like it that, like, in terms of the acting and stuff like that and the storyline, I liked all the mental health themes. I'm excited to talk about them, but I was just, like, even Emma Roberts acting I didn't think was great. I don't. Portia Pendleton LCSW: I mean, I just didn't love it. And I don't know if that's because it's not my favorite genre, but I finished the episode last night, and I started it when it came out. It's been difficult to kind of get through the episodes. I love Emma in other shows, so I don't know, it just kind of fell flat and for a couple of reasons. But I did watch the last episode in which I think it's the last one where she eats the raccoon, and I was literally, like, going to throw up. I couldn't look at it. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: That took me by surprise. Yeah, same with me. It was like. And the episodes weren't that long, so you could just think you'd, like, plow through them, right? Like, morning show succession. You. I am like, can't wait to watch the next one. But this one, I was, ugh. And I just think it's because Kim Kardashian was not very sorry. Portia Pendleton LCSW: She wasn't. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: She wasn't. I'm sorry. And I get a little angry that she gets all these opportunities when there's probably so many good actresses out there dying for an opportunity. Like, it just. Portia Pendleton LCSW: I feel morally opposed to it. I wonder if it was for shock value. You know what mean? Like, there's been a lot of bad feedback about it, and I think they've had to have known that even, like, she auditioned or in the acting and, like, Kim, you're great at a lot of things, and maybe this just thing isn't for you. Good for you for trying. I don't know. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: She had such so much dialogue. I really thought she'd be in it, but, like, peripherally. And she was really in it, trying to act, and I was like, I don't know if we need that much. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Something that I'm wondering, too, is that this whole thing came out while the sagstrike was. Is going on. So I think that's also interesting because I didn't see any promotions for it from Kim or anyone else. And I just thought that there's been other bigger hits that have still done well despite not having the actors. And so I just. I don't. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Let's. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Let's get into the mental health theme. We both didn't give it five stars. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: It's on our face. Okay. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Yeah. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: But there's a ton of mental health themes, I think, as it relates to IVF and the journey to motherhood and just being a woman. I think. So before I dive in, I want to hear about your perspective, Korsia. Portia Pendleton LCSW: I would say that I felt like they did a good job at portraying just, like, the emotions related to having a miscarriage or the difficulties with getting pregnant and the stress that accompanies that. And ultimately, the loss is different for everyone. I think it's unique to the woman carrying the pregnancy initially and then potentially losing it or carrying a full to term. So I thought that Emma was able to portray that well. I think she is a mom, so I think that she probably kind of pulled on some of her experiences through that process. What's scary, what's exciting, the ups and the downs. So I liked that aspect. I thought that was pretty realistic, maybe. And, like, going to a clinic. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right? Portia Pendleton LCSW: Like, going to a separate place to receive the IVF procedures. I didn't love the red. Right. Red gloves, red walls. It was like all, like, first of all, why would you ever have a Red Glove? Obviously, they did it in the movie for a reason. But is there blood on it or not? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Do you think the red is for visual effect with the movie? The vitamins were red. No, they're not. I think that's all just for visual effect and very in line with the AHS genre, I would say. But certainly that theme of red and even the progesterone that she was supposed to take, I believe that's what it was that she had to keep in the fridge, came in these glass vials, and it's like, that's not what it looks like. Right. But whatever. It's for visual effect, so I get it. But, like, the vitamins that Siobhan gave her, that look like blood, that's obviously not B. Twelve. And also, why are you relying on Siobhan to know if this is safe in pregnancy? Just call your OBGYN. I mean, it turns out this guy is involved, so you shouldn't trust him. But in general, I was like, okay, I think that it's really important to point out that, and this is like one of those things that goes without saying, and yet we need to keep saying it, that IVF is incredibly stressful under the best of circumstances and capital T trauma in many circumstances. I'm not even going to say in the worst circumstances because I think it just is traumatic. Quite literally, it's very invasive in your body. It's very stressful emotionally. I think upwards of 40% of women going through IVF experience a mental health condition, mostly depression and anxiety. But I also see PTSD and I see OCD happen a lot around IVF. And that makes sense, right? I mean, because it is, like, traumatic to lose a baby, to have a miscarriage, to have a stillbirth. It's very stressful to always be in that cycle of uncertainty and waiting. Waiting to get your period, waiting to not get your period, waiting to take the pregnancy test, waiting to ovulate, tracking everything. I mean, it's just so unbelievably stressful and can be really all consuming. And you can see how it can lead to things like PTSD, how it can lead to OCD after the fact. Right? Because it's normalized to check the pregnancy test, check the ovulation strips, check this, check that, and then when the baby's here, you don't want to lose it. So you're still checking. I see some women weigh their baby obsessively, or sort of, like, obsessively track the baby's eating, peeing, pooping, like those sort of things. It's hard to let go of that and feel secure. So it's incredibly stressful. And I did really appreciate, even though I didn't love it as a viewer, I really appreciated this being on our screens in such a big way. Right. Like, just a woman going through IVF and just showing how stressful. I really appreciated. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Yeah, I think it's important to highlight because it's common. Having a miscarriage is wildly common. Having infertility issues is common. I think one of the biggest. What would I say, like, supports or positive reinforcers of this experience is having a support system, which I feel like she didn't have. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Her husband. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Her husband got worse over the season with, just, like, me being really suspicious of what was actually going on. Especially within the last episode with the conversation with his mom and her kind of coming in. So I initially kind of liked him and then I was like, what is. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: She's like, Anna Victoria has been targeted. I feel like there was this evil plot all along and they're choosing her because she's like this famous actress to somehow have this baby. They're going to make a black crow or something weird and evil. But I didn't find her husband to be that great. Portia Pendleton LCSW: No. And I think it's hard because I guess you could look at it from two sides. All the stuff that's happening to her from just a black and white on paper perspective seems a little outlandish. Or all of a sudden all this stuff is happening. So it's like, as her paranoia is growing, but it's like you either believe her or you don't. And if you believe her, you're in on the plot that something nefarious is going on and all of this is happening and it's real and she needs to be protected at all costs. And if you don't believe her, she's going crazy. Right? She is, but you're dismissing her and invalidating her and making things worse. Can you maybe speak to, does this happen within pregnancy or IVF due to. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: The hormones and stuff? Portia Pendleton LCSW: Like, do people become paranoid? How does this play out in real life? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: So, no, I was so annoyed. But yet I think it's actually a good depiction because I feel like people say this to women overall. Like, oh, it's your hormones. Even like PMS. Right. We just so invalidate women's experience by chalking it up to hormones. And yet at the same time, it's like, okay, you're not acknowledging, like, yeah, these hormones actually do have an effect. So help me out here. Which is so infuriating, but women are most likely to experience a mental health situation or a mental health challenge during their childbearing years. And why is that? We know that in men, they're most likely to have their first episode, whether it's depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis in their late teens to their 20s. For women, it's a little later. It's like twenty s to thirty s, which is right around the time of childbearing. So it's like, okay. We sort of, in part, think that it's because that just happens to be the time we see first episodes. But we also know, and we're starting to. The medical field in general, is starting to have better understanding that there is something to the hormonal fluctuations. So if you've experienced a mental health condition before getting pregnant. Anything from depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, psychosis, substance use. Your risk of experiencing it around the time of having children is higher than if you haven't experienced any mental health conditions beforehand. But even if you haven't experienced any mental health conditions beforehand, you're at highest risk over the course of your life during this time period. And we know postpartum depression is incredibly common. One in seven women and one in ten dads experience postpartum depression. The dad's hormones aren't changing. Okay? So there's just a lot of stress that goes into having children. We know that most cases of postpartum depression, if you trace it back, actually start during pregnancy. I think it's like 60% of cases start during pregnancy. The remaining 40% really show up after having the baby, but it's usually not picked up till after having the baby. And unfortunately, 75% of women who screen positive for postpartum depression don't end up accessing treatment, which is awful and way lower than the rates of treatment access for depression outside of pregnancy. Portia Pendleton LCSW: So why is that? I imagine that there's multiple reasons, but. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: I think there's a lot of reasons, and I don't think we know exactly why. I think that a, there's not good mental health resources in general. We've talked about that a lot. It's really hard to access care, period. And then I think once you've had a baby, when do you have time to go on Psychologytoday.com and look for a therapist and make all the calls and wait for them to hear back and schedule the appointment? When you have a newborn, it's just so hard. And I think there's a lot of shame and stigma. Right. I think in general, there's a lot of shame and stigma about living with a mental health condition that keeps people from reaching out for help. And then I think, especially when you've had a baby, you're thinking like, this is supposed to be the best time of my whole life. I don't want to talk about this. Right. I think a lot of women, especially when you're having intrusive thoughts of harm coming to your baby, which is really common with anxiety and OCD, a lot of women will feel worried. LiKe, if they're doing the dishes and they see a knife, they'll think, like, oh, my God, what if somehow my baby gets stabbed? Or if they hear a noise, they think, oh, my God, it's an intruder. Or they might think, like, you might have an intrusive thought or flash of an image of, like, throwing your baby out the window. It's really scary to tell someone that if you don't know that this is a super common thing to happen after having a kid and that it's a sign of an underlying anxiety or OCD disorder, you might be afraid that they're going to take your baby, or you might be afraid that you have psychosis. You're losing your mind. So these are really hard things to talk about. And I think one thing I always tell my patients, and I hope that we can tell our listeners and just keep getting the message out there, is that these conditions are really common and they're treatable, and it's important that we improve access to treatment, because suicide is the number one cause of mortality the first year postpartum, and postpartum mental health conditions are the number one complication of pregnancy overall. So this is really important. And so in that way, I'm really happy that this is on our screen, even if Kim Kardashian is in it and the acting is so know I can tolerate it for that reason. Portia Pendleton LCSW: True. Yeah. So I guess separating, like, write fiction or TV effect from reality, what did you see that was maybe does they did do a good job of this is a typical experience or something that did make sense, and what's something that's like, this is 100% wrong. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yeah. I think what I really liked about her character was I'm also imagining someone of her stature and fame going through IVF would be really nerve wracking. And when Preacher takes her picture at the clinic, she probably would be really terrified of that getting out there. That's her personal, private medical information. She's not going to want it to get out there. I would imagine as a famous person, that would be really accurate. We remember how when we were talking about suCcession, and we said, is it narcissism, or is it just growing up in this environment? I think for her, the same question came to my mind. Was the paranoia aspect, like, is she paranoid in developing a psychotic disorder, or is this her reality? And it is her reality. We see that, right? People are following her. They are trying to get her. It seems like they got her somehow. This is her reality, and we see her being invalidated over and over. And I do think as a woman navigating the health care system, unfortunately, we know this happens, and now there's all these studies out there that women and something even just like pain is constantly invalidated. Right. Like, we're all expected to go to work when we have awful menstrual cramps, it's like, well, just suck it up. And, I mean, we know now that these things affect certain members of the population even more so. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Right. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Like, I'm thinking about racial disparities, socioeconomic disparities. We tend to get invalidated more, I think, near the end, the scenes with the physical therapist played by Cara. Right. Maybe it was. Portia Pendleton LCSW: No, I don't think it was her. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: When they were doing the ultrasounds and stuff. Right. The transvaginal ultrasound, they did show a lot. Right? Like, they showed her in the stirrups. They showed. That is what the wand looks like for the ultrasound. It's not small, and it doesn't feel like it hurts. Under the best of circumstances, it's not pleasurable. And I thought they actually did a good job of showing that and showing how, unfortunately, with pregnancy and everything, it is very invasive, and they're not doing a good job of obtaining her consent beforehand and stopping when she says to stop. And I think, I hope that's not the average woman's experience, but I can't say I'd be surprised if I heard some of this stuff happened. Even thinking about things like, I don't know if you know what a membrane sweep is, but cervical exams toward the end of pregnancy to see how much you're dilated, you should always ask permission before you're doing an internal physical exam on anyone. And I think sometimes people just do it even if the woman doesn't want you to. So there's a lot, I think, especially in obstetrics, that needs to be improved and continues to be talked about. And it did highlight that I was really annoyed when they kept saying, like, oh, it's the hormones you're taking. That's what's causing all of this, because. Sure, I guess any medication like progesterone or anything else, theoretically, I'm sure there's someone out there who's experienced psychosis related to the medication. I would imagine it's incredibly rare. That's not a common side effect for most people. Progesterone is an anxiolytic, which means it calms you down. It shouldn't make you paranoid. I think if she weren't actually being followed and she was hallucinating or having paranoia, she probably is experiencing psychosis, which can be triggered by the hormonal shifts and usually is an underlying indication that the woman has bipolar disorder. So whenever we see psychosis development, pregnancy, or in the postpartum period, it's bipolar disorder until proven otherwise. You of course, would do the normal workup for psychosis. Check labs, check brain imaging. Just make sure there's nothing else going on. But usually, again, this is the first time a woman will experience it, and it is an indication they actually have a bipolar disorder. And it is worth mentioning that postpartum psychosis is a psychiatric emergency, and it's associated with a 5% risk of suicide, a 4% risk of infanticide. So it's pretty scary. And again, I think, important to note that when I am treating women who have these intrusive thoughts about harm coming to their baby, I always try to tell them, like, yes, it's distressing, but it's a good sign if you're feeling distressed by that, because that means you're more likely to have anxiety or OCD. It's when it's not distressing or it feels almost like an altruistic delusion, like, I have to kill my baby because Satan has inhabited their body kind of freedom. That is Psychosis. And what's, you know, you'll often see sleep, know they can't sleep. They're very restless. They're agitated. They'll have delusional beliefs, like what I just mentioned with the baby. Delusional beliefs and broad strokes are somewhat a fixed belief that other people in your culture don't share. But, like, you believe you're getting messages through the radio or through the TV or things like that, and then you can have hallucinations, which are seeing or hearing things that aren't really there. So, again, if Anna Victoria had been having the same symptoms she was having but not been being followed, she'd be psychotic. But this is actually right with the pictures. Portia Pendleton LCSW: I mean, the pictures when she was looking at them. And then she saw Ivy in the background at one like that. Felt like it was a hallucination, but everything else was right. Like, she was seeing her. The doll, the mean, that was real. And then what's her name? Anna? Sonia. Or Adeline. Right? Like the artist or the deceased wife. That's who's bizarre. And then what we're following, right? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Like, a lipstick Ivy doing the ultrasound was real, but no one else knew she was. Like, all this is happening. And I think what helps us realize that it's reality is when Kumal, the driver. Sorry. Kumal sees. Right, like, when he was driving her, right. We see someone outside of her who can confirm, like, no, this is really happening. Portia Pendleton LCSW: So do you think that preacher is that woman that they showed in the flashback, in the think so, too. So she had to deal with it. And now she's trying to warn multiple people. So Anna Victoria and then Dexter's mom. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: I was like, was the mom preacher's baby? Are we going to find out who that baby was? Has that baby become part of it? We don't really know. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And what are the babies? Because they are like spiders. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: They're like something and stuff. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Yeah. So do they turn into people or do they turn into things that can look like people? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: And is the husband. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Is Siobhan one? Or do they sacrifice them? And that's how they keep the wealth and fame. Right? Because at the last episode, we find out that Siobhan, when she's with that writer guy who she hates but is like, having sex with, he's like, why did you. Who are you? You made me do this movie. You made me cast Anna Victoria. And now it's like, up for Oscars. It was like a terrible script and she's a bad actress. And I was just like, I just want to know what, obviously, and hopefully we'll find out in part two. But what is happening? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: What is going. Yeah, exactly. Like, how are they all in on it? I think they're all in on. Think they're all, I think even, like, Nicolette, the house manager who just had a baby, I'm like, is her baby one of these crow, like, what's going, like, why are they all sacrificing their. Oh, it's just weird. And then also, when the younger actress died, got decapitated. Remember, like, Siobhan. Yes. Babet had called to be like, how bad do you want it? Are you willing to do anything? And then that happens. I was like, oh, yikes. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Right? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Spooky. Portia Pendleton LCSW: The last episode was a lot there at first when the mom came in. So Dexter's mom, she seemed like, overbearing, rude, inappropriate boundaries. And I was ready to kind of go down that path. And then all of a sudden, to see the way that Dexter dismisses her feels very similar to him dismissing his wife. I'm curious about, is his ex wife alive or his deceased wife alive? What happened with their father? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Is he part of it, going to court against him? Why does she ask him to testify on her behalf? How icky. And I just found that fancy lunch between the two of them so awful and cringey. And the way that she just kept saying, I wish I never had kids, but I didn't have a choice. And you're like, saying that to the kid you had. It's just so awful. But also, I feel like I've seen an iteration of that conversation on the Real Housewives. So I think there are awful parents out there who just don't know boundaries and this awful stuff to their kids. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Right. Because I think there's ways to express things that if you really feel like they need to be expressed without saying it the way that they're saying it. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Like, oh, pregnancy was really hard. Not, oh, I wish I was never pregnant with you or toddler years were really challenging as a parent. Oh, you were. You know, you were colicky, you didn't sleep a lot. Like, that's not. That's, like, kind of a fact versus. And I wished that I had given you up for an option. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: It's like, right. There's what I think. Right. I think to be able to navigate that difference and see it, you have to be able to empathize with depths in this case, and imagine what's it going to feel like for him if I say this, and maybe I shouldn't, because maybe. But, like, there are people with narcissistic traits, borderline traits, sort of that cluster B personality realm, which, again, just as a refresher, includes things like narcissism, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, and antisocial personality disorder, where they're missing that empathy chip, so they're really not able to think about that. They just sort of see everything through their point of view, and that's it. And I feel like she's right in line with that. Portia Pendleton LCSW: No, totally. So that'll be a know to be continued or TBC for part two. But. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: I think the last thing that I thought was a really interesting line was something that Sonia said, actually. Again, Sonia is like, I guess, like the artist that Dex is apparently working with, but she looks a lot like his ex wife and even identical. Yes. Like, even Anna Victoria asks her, are you related to her? Do you know her? And stuff? Like, she's starting to pick things up. And Sonia was know my mother was borderline or bipolar or both, who knows? And I actually thought that was such a smart line because those conditions, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder, often get misdiagnosed as each other. Sometimes you can have both simultaneously. I'd say that's probably pretty rare. But we're constantly misusing those labels, not only in popular media like this, but I think even, unfortunately, within the field, there can be similarities. And I think I often see people diagnosed with bipolar disorder when really what they have is borderline personality disorder. So I thought it might be helpful to maybe talk about the differences between the two. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Yeah. And I think I just want know our listeners, if you have seen the bear in season two of the Bear, which is episode we released last week, there is a moment where the mom. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Donna, or is it Donna? Portia Pendleton LCSW: So she's having, like, television. She's having kind of, like a moment. But I think that's kind of a good example of when she's, like, cooking and there's chaos of where people do get confused because I think if you're using kind of pop psychology references, it's like, oh, she's having an episode. She's manic. It's like, she's not manic. She's dysregulated. And so we throw that around a lot. And I see mostly now bipolar two constantly paired with borderline. And that is pretty frustrating, I think. Yeah. And it just seems like a label because most people are not borderline one, which is like, you meet full criteria, right, for mania. Yeah, bipolar one. And yes, bipolar one. So it's not common. It's like a rarer disorder. And so we now have this bipolar two, which is, like, less severe symptoms. Right. Which is. But I feel like it's often over diagnosed in teens, young adults who are just having episodes where they're feeling dysregulated. They have a lot of environmental stressors. So it's really frustrating. So, yes, let's talk more about the differences. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: I would love to. I totally agree. And especially the bipolar, too. I will say anytime as a clinician, I see someone coming to me with a diagnosis of bipolar Two. I'm skeptical just because of this very phenomenon we're talking about, and especially once I see they have a quote unquote, history of bipolar two, plus trauma, plus substance abuse, plus ADHD. To me, what you're actually talking about are different characteristics of borderline personality disorder. You're just calling it different things again, not saying it's not possible to have all of those things. And sometimes it's not even borderline personality disorder. It's just trauma and, like, the sequelae of maybe living through traumatic experiences or complicated chronic traumatic experiences like child abuse or things like that. But I would love to talk about this topic. So when we think about borderline personality disorder again, revisit our Bear episode, revisit our episodes on succession and White Lotus, where we talk more about this know Roman in succession, and then Tanya and White Lotus again. It's a type of personality traits that are really stemming from know. Fear of abandonment is, like, at its core, and it can definitely have mood labelity. Which means that your mood changes rapidly. It can have impulsivity, you can have self harming behaviors, a lot of things that go along with it. But how you distinguish something like borderline personality disorder from something like bipolar disorder is the episodes, right? So like people with borderline personality disorder or other personality traits or perhaps trauma who have emotional label will have mood swings on the order of like minutes to hours to days, right. So usually their mood swings last short amount of time. Minutes, hours, days. These are the people who will say to you like 1 minute I'm happy, the next minute the world's awful and it's very black or white, very much all or nothing way of thinking. With bipolar disorder, what you have are discrete episodes of Time where for X number of days or more, you're experiencing multiple symptoms simultaneously, right? So the easiest way to think about it is when you have a major depressive disorder, you have symptoms of depression lasting for 14 days or more in a row, right? It's not like you get bad news and you feel really depressed or you lose a beloved pet and you're grieving. This is different. This is 14 days or more in a row. And it's not just the low mood and the anhedonia or loss of interest in things, it's other things too, like disrupted sleep, change in appetite, change in energy, trouble focusing, maybe some suicidal thoughts. Like all of that is depressive episode, right? So same thing applies for the other pole of mood disorders, what we call mania. Right, for mania for at least a week or more. So seven days in a row or more, you have to have a certain number of symptoms persist. That's very different from your baseline. And the acronym that we use to sort of remember, well, what are these symptoms you're looking for is dig fast. So distractability, impulsivity, grandiosity, flight of ideas, activity, increase sleep deficit and talkativeness. So basically these are people who feel like Superman on top of the world, very grandiose, have all these big ideas. They're engaging in impulsive behaviors, whether it's substance abuse, reckless spending, gambling, sexual encounters, flying down the highway on this skateboard, jumping off a roof because you think you can fly, like all of this stuff together. It's really hard to follow their train of thought because they're all over the place and they're talking so fast. We call it pressured speech. You can't get a word in. Once you've talked to someone with this, you know what I mean? But it's like, if you notice having normal conversations, like Portia, if you were to start talking, I would stop to listen to you. These people can't stop themselves. It's like they have a motor running and they can't stop. So that's the most extreme form called mania. Once you have one manic episode, you have bipolar one disorder. Most people with bipolar one disorder will also have depressive episodes, and they might have hypomanic episodes, but you have to have a manic episode, and usually the disruption in your functioning is so severe that you end up hospitalized. What's interesting is that most people with bipolar disorder, their first episode actually is a depressive episode, and it occurs in your late teens to 20s for men, twenty s to thirty s for women. Sometimes when you have mania, you also have psychotic symptoms like delusional thinking, hallucinations, things like that. And again, in pregnancy, if you have postpartum psychosis, that is most of the time indicative of an underlying bipolar disorder. And that's usually the first manic type episode that you're having or psychotic type episode. Bipolar two is a condition in which you have hypomania, so kind of like halfway between normal mood and mania. So maybe you're talking a little quicker, maybe you're not sleeping as much, but you're noticing it. You're having a bit more grandiosity, but it doesn't reach the threshold of mania, and that has to last for four days or more in a row. So again, it's not like you got great news and you're feeling high and on top of the world because of that for a short period of time, or you're having mood labely, it has to last for four days or more in a row. And for bipolar two, you have to have discrete episodes of hypomania and depression. So that's kind of a quick overview. Is that helpful? Portia Pendleton LCSW: Yeah. I think the biggest takeaways are that, I don't know if this is just a really simplified way of thinking about it, but I like to think about borderline or BPD as more of typically, or just environment's effects. So, like wounds from childhood, attachment issues, trauma, and bipolar one, it feels more organic, like it's your brain. It's not happening because you experienced a trauma. Obviously that can trigger things, pregnancy can trigger it, but it's really more organic. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Medical. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Yeah, exactly. And that's why medication is more effective. Right. For bipolar one, it's like it helps your brain kind of regulate itself, and that's why with BPD, we often see, and you could speak to maybe the specific ones, but like, seven different kinds of medication. Who medicating all the different symptoms? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yeah, 100%. I think that's a great way to put it, is that I always think about BPD as the symptoms come out, when there's interpersonal conflicts. So often when you have a fight, you feel rejected, you feel emotionally abandoned, that's when you see the symptoms come out. And again, like, the mainstay treatment for BPD these days is DBT, dialectical behavioral therapy, where it's all about identifying emotions, learning how tolerate distress, learning interpersonal effectiveness to be able to communicate your needs more appropriately and more assertively without acting out behaviors like harming yourself or making threats or things like that. And you're totally right that the treatment for bipolar disorders, you really need medication to keep it under wrap, specifically mood stabilizers, and sometimes antipsychotics or atypical antipsychotics. It's really hard to convince people to stay on these medications because unfortunately, they do have side effects. And a lot of times, part of mania is this grandiosity where you feel like, above everything, you feel like you can handle anything, you feel great, like you don't want to take it, you don't want to come down, because it's, like, intoxicating. So, as you can imagine, it's really hard to get people on board to take these medications. And the crash after a manic episode is usually a really bad depressive episode. And so, as you can imagine, the risk of suicide and things like that is really high, especially when you add substances on board, which can happen. A lot of people living with untreated bipolar disorder rely on drugs or alcohol to either bring them down or bring them up. It's really tricky. But then you're right. With BPD, the best treatment is really good therapy, and we use medications more so to treat the symptoms of BPD. Sometimes there is evidence for things like lamictal, which is a specific mood stabilizer to help with BPD, or SSRIs to help. But usually with BPD, again, you're treating the symptoms. And sometimes, unfortunately, I see in my practice, when you have a patient with BPD who doesn't know it because they haven't been accurately diagnosed or they're in inexperienced hands, they might be told they have bipolar disorder and ADHD and depression and anxiety and OCD, and basically all of the diagnoses possible, which is incredibly rare, to have every single mental health diagnosis possible. So you see someone, I think I've shared with you before, once I see someone's on medications from five different medication classes or more. My suspicion for BPD is pretty high. So usually I see, like, an SSRI plus a benzo for anxiety, plus a stimulant for ADHD, plus an antipsychotic like seroquil to help them sleep, or for their brief psychotic episodes, which, again, some patients with BPD do have these brief kind of, like, psychotic experiences of dissociative quality or things like that. And then the fifth one is, like, dealer's choice, like some random thing like propranolol or gabapentin or some random medication from a class. Again, once I start to see that, I think, okay, we need to step back and think, like, what are we treating here? It looks like we're treating each of the individual symptom clusters of BPD without actually treating the BPD. So that's just sort of what I've seen and kind of developed over time. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Yeah, I mean, it seems to pop up in a lot of TV and movies. It's like bipolar, or in older movies, like Manic depressive and BPD. And narcissism. Of course, we can't forget our friendly narcissists, but. Which I would say is, like, probably Siobhan, right? Like, big, high PR for marketing. Definitely. I think she portrays it, and I think that's probably just, like, a typical presentation, being in that big of a. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Position with power, right, where it's so image focused. And I did not get any with a narcissism from Anna Victoria, which I think is notable, even though she is, like, a famous actress. Again, not saying famous actresses have narcissism, but sometimes they do. So it's just interesting. And I think, even though as a whole, I didn't love it, I do think there were so many rich mental health themes that we keep seeing come up. And I always find it fascinating that in the art and media, this crossover of narcissism, BPD, bipolar disorder, kind of mirrors clinical experience that these things can be tricky to tease out because we don't have, like, a blood test or brain scans. Despite what the Amon clinic and all of their charlatan shenanigans will want you to believe. You can't diagnose this stuff with your favorite. Oh, my God, I just drives me nuts. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Yeah, well, and you just had an article come out with CNN about some of the new medication that is available for postpartum. We will link it in the show notes if you want to check it. You know, I think there's more research being done, more evidence kind of coming out all the time. That's hopefully supporting women and their birth journeys or their pregnancies, IVF journeys. And just like, I think it's been lacking for so long, so maybe even a show, right? That's like it's American Horror Story, so it's supposed to be wild and cringey. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: So it's like, I think it's so great. Let's keep the conversations going. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Yes. Love it. Well, thanks for listening. Today we will be releasing part two as it comes out, and I am excited to do at some point, Murder House, just the psychiatrist in it. So that'll be fun. But you can follow us on all sorts of social media, TikTok, and Instagram at Analyze Scripts, podcasts. We are on YouTube now, so if you're watching, thank you. If you're listening and you want to watch, check us out there and make sure to like, share us and subscribe and we'll see you next time. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: See you next Sunday. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Bye. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: This podcast and its contents are a copyright of analyzed scripts. All rights reserved. Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited. Unless you want to share it with your friends and rate, review, and subscribe, that's fine. All stories and characters discussed are fictional in nature. No identification with actual persons, living or deceased places, buildings, or products is intended or should be inferred. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The podcast and its contents do not constitute professional mental health or medical advice. Listeners consider consulting a mental health provider if they need assistance with any mental health problems or concerns. As always, please call 911 or go directly to your nearest emergency room for any psychiatric emergencies. Thanks for listening and see you next time.

Neil from Cork Acro Gymnastics Club tells PJ that they are looking for a new home since they were flooded during storm Babet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

October 25th - Show 986 The Chat We're back to our full complement of hosts this week...so that's nice.  We have a quick catch up during which I fill you in on my fairly stressful journey to Prestatyn last weekend in the face of storm Babet. Emergency Questions [...]

Thousands of homes across Scotland and the Midlands have been flooded in recent days. Jessica Murray reports from Chesterfield. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

So much confusion from last weeks show, and it's not even Halloween yet! So whilst we get a few things straight, let's enjoy nine songs from No Ball Games, The Owen Guns, The Spackles, Disjecta Membra, Okmoniks, Big Mess, Chewie, The Great St. Louis and Raisin Awareness.Voice of Jeff, Comedy Suburbs, Tony has your Facebook comments, YT-1300 confusion, Rasputin, last week, N.E.C, Solar and Storage, band practice, storm Babet, live on a hill, Forest v Luton, Rugby, Cricket, From the Vaults, Tony's International Gig Guide, YT-1300 further confusion, nerd shit, Manchester Punk Festival, this week, Tony wants to go on holiday, Reverend Horton Heat, no Izzatwat, Emma Raducanu and a reminder of the ways you can listen.Song 1: No Ball Games - LongevitySong 2: The Owen Guns – Stop Making Deadshits FamousSong 3: The Spackles – Man With The X Ray EyesSong 4: Disjecta Membra - RasputinSong 5: Okmoniks – On My OwnSong 6: Big Mess - Future LegendSong 7: Chewie - CareeristSong 8: The Great St. Louis - Silent HomeSong 9: Raisin Awareness - Never Ending Story

We read the papers so you don't have to. Today: Seriously Stormy. Storm Babet has battered the UK causing devastating flooding – yet only a few papers are taking it seriously. True Detective? The Mail reckons Taylor Swift has written a murder mystery… but we aren't sure. Signed, Sent and Unopened! Columnists argue we should ditch the life admin and leave our emails unopened. Plus – Big Beasts. We take a deep dive into the fascinating world of large animals. Miranda Sawyer is joined by journalist Jonn Elledge of the New Statesman and comedy writer Gráinne Maguire. Proper Journalism of Fat Bear Week: https://www.nps.gov/katm/learn/fat-bear-week-2023.htm Support Paper Cuts and get mugs, t-shirts and extended ad-free editions: back.papercutsshow.com Follow Paper Cuts: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/papercutsshow • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/papercutsshow • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@papercutsshow • Threads: https://www.threads.net/@papercutsshow Illustrations by Modern Toss https://moderntoss.com  Written and presented by Miranda Sawyer. Audio production: Simon Williams. Production: Liam Tait. Assistant Production: Adam Wright. Design: James Parrett. Music: Simon Williams. Socials: Jess Harpin. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Exec Producer: Martin Bojtos. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. PAPER CUTS is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Smart 7 is an award winning daily podcast that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7 am, 7 days a week…With over 14 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every day and we've just won Gold at the Signal International Podcast awards.If you're enjoying it, please follow, share, or even post a review, it all helps... Today's episode includes the following:https://twitter.com/i/status/1716470237661385211https://twitter.com/i/status/1716455825965818337 https://twitter.com/i/status/1716374608100675589 https://twitter.com/i/status/1716351235719061924https://twitter.com/i/status/1716410873332281401https://twitter.com/i/status/1716238349516656769 https://twitter.com/i/status/1716346022648004702https://twitter.com/i/status/1716424781942362476https://youtu.be/O61C8zc8Znk Contact us over @TheSmart7pod or visit www.thesmart7.com Presented by Ciara Revins, written by Liam Thompson, researched by Lucie Lewis and produced by Daft Doris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Catriona Twomey says that hotels were helpful during Storm Babet and other crises but it is getting harder to sort everyone out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the impact of Storm Babet continues to be felt across several parts of the UK, Will Bain finds out how businesses in Scotland have been affected, and how they're coping with the work needed to clear up in its wake. Plus the latest data showing how sales are faring on the high street, why the sale of The Daily Telegraph is more complex than it might first appear, and we delve into the world of lab grown diamonds.

Simon Coveney, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

The Smart 7 is an award winning daily podcast that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7 am, 7 days a week…With over 14 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every day and we've just won Gold at the Signal International Podcast awardsIf you're enjoying it, please follow, share, or even post a review, it all helps... Today's episode includes the following:https://twitter.com/i/status/1715391578569924759 https://twitter.com/i/status/1715302909317890101 https://twitter.com/i/status/1715706409780699578https://twitter.com/i/status/1715687348820701355https://twitter.com/i/status/1716037426622152805https://twitter.com/i/status/1716037426622152805https://twitter.com/i/status/1715593755653472732 https://twitter.com/i/status/1716195140094636191 https://twitter.com/i/status/1715998437978542495 https://twitter.com/i/status/1716077040971997413 Contact us over @TheSmart7pod or visit www.thesmart7.com Presented by Ciara Revins, written by Liam Thompson, researched by Lucie Lewis and produced by Daft Doris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

La Línea 1 del Metrobús, no da servicio en las estaciones Buenavista, Reforma y Hamburgo Los medibuses de la SS de la CDMX dan servicio en 7 alcaldíasLa tormenta Babet dejó 3 muertos e inundaciones importantes en InglaterraMás información en nuestro podcast

A round-up of the main headlines in Sweden on October 20th, 2023. You can hear more reports on our homepage radiosweden.se, or in the app Sveriges Radio Play. Presenter: Dave RussellProducer: Kris Bowell

The Smart 7 is an award winning daily podcast that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7 am, 7 days a week…With over 14 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every day and we've just won Gold at the Signal International Podcast awardsIf you're enjoying it, please follow, share, or even post a review, it all helps... Today's episode includes the following:https://twitter.com/i/status/1714970437195530557 https://twitter.com/i/status/1714960120185053217https://twitter.com/i/status/1715193880608374846 https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-67126173https://twitter.com/i/status/1715023847253033415 https://twitter.com/i/status/1715028658417463782 https://twitter.com/i/status/1714999755216965968 https://twitter.com/i/status/1714982128419532801 https://twitter.com/i/status/1714909804349526307 https://twitter.com/i/status/1714992551541825829 Contact us over @TheSmart7pod or visit www.thesmart7.com Presented by Ciara Revins, written by Liam Thompson, researched by Lucie Lewis and produced by Daft Doris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tess O'Donovan, Chief Officer for the Cork Kerry Community Healthcare Area, and Rhodri Mears, Principal of Midleton Educate Together National School, discuss the impact that yesterday's flooding has had on the hospital, school and wider community.

Ger Barry, Senior Engineer at Cork County Council, explains the clean-up measures put in place after Storm Babet led to flooding in Middleton.

Fergus Galvin, Director of Services with responsibility for Roads, Water & Environment at Waterford City & County Council, provides an update in the aftermath of Storm Babet.

Thanks for listening to the Doric Express, keep yersel fine and warm during this storm Babet. Cup of tea, fine piece, feet up, and the Doric Express - bliss!

Mark O'Sullivan, Acting Director of Roads with Cork County Council

Brian O'Connell, RTÉ Reporter

Joe O'Shea hears from people whose house was flooded by Storm Babet, from businesses that hope for a bit of help and remarkable people who helped their neighbour at a time of need. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Deirdre Lowe, Met Eireann forecaster

PJ talks to callers about the damage caused by Storm Babet Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Storm Babet brings the worst flooding in Cork for years - should there have been a red warning?... Imagine being homeless in that - Joan called us begging for help - enter the legend Caitriona Twomey...We found ourselves a living, breathing Gumbleton & lots more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Joyce, Director of Operations at Cork City Council, discusses the potential impacts of Storm Babet with heavy rain forecast for much of the country today and tomorrow.

In this episode, I connect with Babet Hendriks with Mobycon in The Netherlands for a discussion about the theoretical construct of the Mobility Doughnut, a concept inspired by the Economic Doughnut theory. To illustrate the points, we'll do some side-by-side photographic comparisons between Dutch and North American mobility systems. Also discussed is the need to move how we measure and evaluate our mobility systems away from the goal of the free flow of cars and towards the goal of societal well-being.Thank you so much for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend and subscribe to the Podcast on your preferred listening platform, and don't forget to check out the Active Towns Channel for more contentHelpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- Mobycon website- Mobility Doughnut- Economic DoughnutIf you are a fan of the Active Towns Podcast, please consider supporting the effort as an Active Towns Ambassador in the following ways:1. Join our Patreon community. Contributions start at just $1 per month(Note: Patron benefits include early, ad-free access to content and a 15% discount in the Active Towns Merch Store)2. If you enjoyed this episode, you can also "leave a tip" through "Buy Me a Coffee"3. Pick up some Active Towns #StreetsAreForPeople Merch at my storeCredits:- Video and audio production by John Simmerman- Music via Epidemic SoundResources used during the production of this video:- My recording platform is Ecamm Live- Editing software Adobe Creative Cloud Suite- Equipment: Contact me for a complete listFor more information about the Active Towns effort or to follow along, please visit our links below:- Active Towns Website- Active Towns on Twitter- Periodic e-NewsletterBackground:Hi Everyone! My name is John Simmerman, and I'm a health promotion and public health professional with over 30 years of experience. Over the years, my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization in how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.Since 2010,  I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be while striving to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."The Active Towns Channel features my original video content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them. Thanks once again for tuning in! I hope you find this content helpful and insightful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2023 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

GUEST OVERVIEW: Tony Nikolic is General Manager of AFL Solicitors. He is a highly accomplished Lawyer and Criminologist with a great passion for learning about law and providing efficient and effective legal aid to clients to achieve favourable outcomes. Committed to social justice, he consistently offers pro bono legal work and devotes a portion of his time to disadvantaged persons; aiming to make a positive difference in their lives whilst contributing to the betterment of society. He also has a background in both criminology and whistleblower protections. GUEST OVERVIEW: Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an Icelandic consultant, entrepreneur and writer and contributes regularly to The Daily Sceptic as well as various Icelandic publications. He holds a BA degree in philosophy and an MBA from INSEAD. Thorsteinn is a certified expert in the Theory of Constraints and author of From Symptoms to Causes – Applying the Logical Thinking Process to an Everyday Problem. GUEST OVERVIEW: Ralph Emmanuel Didier "Deej" Babet is an Australian politician and a member of the United Australia Party. He was elected to represent Victoria in the Australian Senate at the 2022 Australian federal election, commencing his six-year term on 1 July 2022.

THE THESIS: As slimy and good at lying as he has become--lies are his “native tongue”-- Tony Fauci committed multiple acts of perjury during his deposition. THE SCRIPTURE & SCRIPTURAL RESOURCES: Christ Will Come to JudgeWHAT WE STILL AND WILL BELIEVETHE NEWS & COMMENT:The lawyers who questioned America's top psychopath had to deal with hundreds of “I don't remember[s]” and endless crowing from Fauci about his own greatness. In my judgment, they know Fauci lied, but they will wait for the trial to have the fun of proving that. I deposed Dr. Fauci for seven hours. Here's what I learned about 'science'; Censorship of voices in the name of pseudoscience should never happen again - Jeff Landry Fauci is worse than a liar, he is a mass murderer. It was Fauci who bullied, conned and bribed hospital bosses into banning elementary healthcare steps to help people heal from the virus Fauci, in all likelihood, paid to create. [AUDIO] - "In my hospital they wouldn't let me use vitamin C, they wanted me to use Remdesivir. It increases your risk of kidney failure 20 fold. The Federal government will give hospitals a 20% bonus if you prescribe this toxic medication.”He's still lying. [AUDIO] - Fauci: "If you look at the curve of deaths and hospitalizations among unvaccinated people compared to vaccinated people, you don't need a statistic to tell you what the right thing to do is."It was NEVER a “pandemic of the ‘un-vaccinated.'” But, it's still important to note that even The Jeff Bezos Washington Post has been forced to admit more of the injected are getting Covid and dying from it. Still, the ‘Post couldn't resist trying to spin it.Covid is no longer mainly a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Here's why.But, America's top psychopath kept right at it . . .[AUDIO] - Q: "How dangerous is it to be near our unvaccinated grandchildren?"Fauci: "Vaccination is the answer... Encourage your child to get their children vaccinated."One of Fauci's co-conspirators is stepping down--far, far more wealthy from money we were forced to give his company--but, still quitting. Here's a reminder that he wants you to know he was just following his betters . . .[AUDIO] - Pfizer CEO Albert Burla is stepping down and now says the mRNA technology was not sufficiently proven when they launched ... He says they convinced him, but he wasn't sure. As mRNA deaths continue to climb, notice that members of The Party have only one response to people who are calling it out: “are you an [insert credential idol]!?” [AUDIO] - Australian, Senator Babet from Victoria addresses the cardiac cases and deaths clearly tied to the mRNA