Podcast appearances and mentions of maggie thatcher

Het is 45 jaar later, maar de gebeurtenissen in de wereldpolitiek van 1980 zijn verbluffend en leerzaam voor het heden. Vlak voor de cruciale NAVO-top en de daaropvolgende EU-top gaan we op bezoek in het Kremlin van toen en naar de ruige bergpassen van Afghanistan en het Vaticaan – met ook toen een nieuwe paus uit een bijzonder land. Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger over de paranoïde, dementerende leider in het Kremlin, Leonid Brezjnev. Het dagboek wat hij bijhield werd steeds leger. Zijn bewind werd verlamd door de woeste baarden van de Moedjahedien, een wegzakkende economie die olie en gas rijkdom verspilde en door angst voor een kleine, gisse kettingroker in Beijing. ***Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show!Heb je belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Zend een mailtje naar adverteren@dagennacht.nl en wij zoeken contact.Op sommige podcast-apps kun je niet alles lezen. De complete tekst plus linkjes en een overzicht van al onze eerdere afleveringen vind je hier***De jeugd in Moskou verveelde zich en keek jaloers naar de welvaart en vrijheden van leeftijdsgenoten elders. In het Westen maakte 'Eurosclerose' en verdeeldheid plaats voor 'één stem' en dynamiek. En een nieuwe paus riep: "Weest niet bevreesd!" In het bijzonder tegen zijn landgenoten en alle onderdrukten in het Oosten. De inval in Afghanistan in 1979 bleek direct al een rampzalige onderneming. Het kwam tot oneindig bloedvergieten, zware materiële verliezen en enorme schade aan de reputatie van de supermacht die hier in het drijfzand van de oorlog ten onder ging. Hoe kwam het tot die militaire ramp? Waarom maakte het Kremlin zo'n grote fout en waarom durfde niemand daar ermee te kappen? Brezjnev verpestte zo niet alleen zijn grote trots, de Olympische Zomerspelen in Moskou, maar ook de relatie met Washington. Afghanistan ruïneerde de herverkiezing van de Amerikaanse president Jimmy Carter, Brezjnevs droom van wereldheerschappij samen met Amerika en de faam van technologische superioriteit van de Sovjeteconomie. Vilein sloot China's Deng Xiaoping een alliantie met Amerika, Arabische landen en islamitische strijders - gefinancierd door rijke families als Bin Laden - om Moskou verder in het verderf te storten. Zelfs vazal Saddam Hoessein in Bagdad trok zich van Brezjnev niets meer aan en begon zijn eigen oorlog. Het bewind in Moskou was in verval, wereldwijd. Al in 1968 had KGB-chef Joeri Andropov gewaarschuwd dat de economie op instorten stond. Maar Brezjnev gokte liever op het gasgeld en stopte diens memorandum in de diepste la van zijn bureau. Toen Andropov hem 1982 opvolgde was het te laat, ook de chef van de geheime dienst was zwaar aan het aftakelen. Hij promootte nog jonge protegés als Gorbatsjov, Jeltsin en Poetin, maar zijn beleid stokte in repressie. Hij stierf al snel en zijn opvolger, de bureauchef van Brezjnev Konstantin Tsjernenko, was een nog korter leiderschap beschoren. De oorlog ging voort, het bloedvergieten was vreselijk, het Russische Rode Leger bleek zwak en ouderwets. Deng opende de poorten naar het Westen en China nam een finale voorsprong als nieuwe tijger van de wereldeconomie.De nieuwe Kremlinchef, Michail Gorbatsjov, kende die poorten naar het Westen. Hij had incognito rondgereisd en in Frankrijk een paradijs voor de arbeiders, welvaart, overvloed, openheid en culturele dynamiek ontdekt, waar Moskou geen idee van had. In Londen ontdekte hij een felle discussiepartner. Maggie Thatcher, met wie hij ongeremd kon bekvechten.Maar ook hij was te laat. Een nieuwe generatie westerse leiders trad aan. Van Helmut Kohl tot Ruud Lubbers en Ronald Reagan. De Europese Gemeenschap bloeide op, terwijl Moskou en de DDR het ravijn van een bankroet zagen opdoemen. De Afghaanse oorlog bleef een bloedende wond tot Gorbatsjov de aftocht blies. De paus en de Polen zorgden voor een revolutie. De Muur viel. De analogieën met vandaag zijn adembenemend. Zelfs de obsessies van de leiders in het Kremlin en hun vernedering door China lijken op elkaar. En ook hoe Europa zichzelf hervindt en een nieuwe paus ineens zijn stempel drukt. De smoezen van Sergej Lavrov om Leo XIV buiten de deur te houden zijn bijna lachwekkend herkenbaar. En Donald Trump? Die is geen Reagan of George Bush senior. Trumps lijn lijkt nog het meest op die van Richard Nixon en zelfs van Carter.***Verder lezenSergey Radchenko - To run the world (Cambridge University Press, 2024)***Verder luisteren508 – De NAVO-top in Den Haag moet de onvoorspelbare Trump vooral niet gaan vervelen486 - ‘Welkom in onze hel' Een jonge verslaggever aan het front in Oekraïne469 – Nieuwe kruisraketten in Europa? In de jaren '70 en '80 zat topdiplomaat Boudewijn van Eenennaam in het brandpunt van de besluitvorming455 - De bufferstaat als historische - maar ongewenste - oplossing voor Oekraïne434 – Vier iconische NAVO-leiders en hun lessen voor Mark Rutte413 - "Eensgezind kunnen we elke tegenstander aan." Oana Lungescu over Poetin, Trump, Rutte en 75 jaar NAVO404 - 75 jaar NAVO: in 1949 veranderde de internationale positie van Nederland voorgoed394 – Honderd jaar na zijn dood: de schrijnende actualiteit van Lenin354 - Eenzaamheid, machtsstrijd en repressie in het Russische rijk van Poetin, Stalin en tsaar Nicolaas II336 - Timothy Garton Ash: Hoe Europa zichzelf voor de derde keer opnieuw uitvindt327 - Poetin, Zelensky en wij. Een jaar na de inval258 - De kille vriendschap tussen Rusland en China257 - Het machtige Rusland als mythe: hoe 'speciale militaire operaties' een fiasco werden245 - Oompje neemt de trein – de reis die China naar de 21e eeuw bracht235 - De ondergang van de Sovjet-Unie: Gorbatsjov strijkt de rode vlag197 - De ondergang van de Sovjet-Unie: Boris Jeltsin, een tragische held163 - De ondergang van de Sovjet-Unie: hoe een wereldmacht verdampte95 - Grote speeches in tijden van crisis (deel 2) oa Deng Xiaoping93 - Hoe Gorbatsjov en het Sovjet-imperium ten onder gingen58 - PG over 70 jaar China, de Volksrepubliek van Mao, Deng en Xi***Tijdlijn00:00:00 – Deel 100:07:32 – Deel 200:36:30 – Deel 301:12:07 – Deel 401:41:22 – EindeZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's nearly 40 years since Maggie Thatcher declared the end of society. "There is no such thing. There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business. 'It is I think one of the tragedies in which many of the benefits we give, which were meant to reassure people that if they were sick or ill, there was a safety net and there was help, but somehow there are some people who have been manipulating the system. When people come and say 'But what is the point of working? I can get as much on the dole' Her words have come to mind again in recent months, with much of the focus of Westminster on cutting welfare payments. Across the UK, one in 10 people are on sickness or incapacity benefit, up to 3000 people go on the sick every day- half of those are for mental illness. The cost of these payments is £65bn a year. Almost 10 million people of working age aren't looking for work and Sir Keir Starmer has described this as 'unsustainable, indefensible and unfair' The Westminster government says that the case for cutting welfare is a moral one. Is it? And as those on benefits struggle to cope with what they have, is it pushing people further away from each other- thereby killing any notion of society? Presenter Audrey Carville in conversation with Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick- lecturer at Ulster University, currently researching the social security system and socio-economic rights, Anne McElvoy is executive editor of Politico and Alex Kane is a columnist and writer

Send us a textDEATH BECOMES HER (1992)For the second episode in TGTPTU's Season 14 redux series, the film choice was Thomas's. As he explains at the top of the ep, he wanted to do a Streep rewatch with recent co-host Ryan, specifically and especially a comedy. His first choice of Adaptation got nixed as it had previously been covered twice, first during the Cage and then again in the Streep season. So paired with the previous episode's High Plains Driver, this week TGTPTU (re)presents SHE-DEVIL (1986), the laugh-out-loud revenge story featuring Roseanne Barr as— Oh, apologies. We just lost half of our hosts and all of our listeners. Okay, let's try again.  For the second in our Season 14 redux series, the choice is Thomas's and I guess we'll go with DEATH BECOMES HER (1992), originally recorded in 2023 as Season 8, Episode 12. And although during that Streeps of Fire season surprise special guests and Jack recorded an excellent episode in all but audio quality, none of the three current hosts (Ken, Thomas, or Ryan) were on to talk Robert Zemeckis's special effects comedy starring the co-billed Streep, Hawn, and Willis.  So grabs some fresh takes on the film (e.g., Death Becomes Her structured a TV dinner) as Ken beefs with writer David Koepp; Ryan with Zemeckis; Thomas with olds telling youngs how to spend money on food; and Jack with the ghost of Maggie Thatcher. Thomas also puts Jack on blast for not watching films he mentioned going to watch during the original episode's recording while, don't worry, She-Devil receives plenty of mentions throughout. And if that's not enough ep for you ingrates, cohost throughout Season 8 and the voice singing the first three seasons' intro songs, the illustrious and always opinionated Andi drops in briefly to say some unkind words of demotivation to the boys. Stay flaccid, y'all. THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.Email: thegoodthepodandtheugly@gmail.comFacebook: https://m.facebook.com/TGTPTUInstagram: https://instagram.com/thegoodthepodandtheugly?igshid=um92md09kjg0Bluesky: @goodpodugly.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6mI2plrgJu-TB95bbJCW-gBuzzsprout: https://thegoodthepodandtheugly.buzzsprout.com/Letterboxd (follow us!): Podcast: goodpoduglyKen: Ken KoralRyan: Ryan Tobias

Send us a textHigh Plains Drifter (1973)TRIGGER WARNING: HPD features sexual assault as a plot point. Season 14, a new season with a hefty helping of old, comes to town as the TGTPTU hosts return to movies they undervalued and/or missed over the thirteen seasons, beginning with Jack's pick to rewatch HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973). In that original episode released as S2, E6 in 2020, then hosts Ken and Jack were joined by a special guest, and now ongoing host, Thomas.   High Plains Drifter, Eastwood's second directed film, left a bad taste in Jack's mouth five years ago when the Eastwood character appears celebrated early in the film during a rape scene, one of arguably multiple instances of sexual violence in the film. As TPTPTU-celebrated director Alex Cox shares in a commentary track on the HPD Blu-ray, while such things were common in and to be judged as of their time, “It is hard to discuss these scenes in an enthusiastic way.”   Now five years older and perhaps some the wiser, Jack returns as a guest to weigh in on his rewatch and is joined by new and ever-so-provisional host Ryan who contractually has to relate any and all films shot in the early 70s to ‘Nam. This one is no exception.   Hear the frustration as Jack gets his head stuck in plastic bag and how half a decade can change one's take on a movie.  Season 8 guest Maggie Thatcher also drops in to offer her two pence. So paint the town red and get the pigshit outta your ears: it's time to go full Western gothic with Malpaso Productions' giants Eastwood, Geoffrey Lewis, and Buddy Van Horn.THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.Email: thegoodthepodandtheugly@gmail.comFacebook: https://m.facebook.com/TGTPTUInstagram: https://instagram.com/thegoodthepodandtheugly?igshid=um92md09kjg0Bluesky: @goodpodugly.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6mI2plrgJu-TB95bbJCW-gBuzzsprout: https://thegoodthepodandtheugly.buzzsprout.com/Letterboxd (follow us!): Podcast: goodpoduglyKen: Ken KoralRyan: Ryan Tobias

In which the Musical Man goes deep into the ground so he can pay the electricity bill and perform an angry dance on Maggie Thatcher's corpse. Donate today via Patreon: patreon.com/musicalmanpod / Podbean: musicalmanpod.podbean.com / Email: musicalmanpod@gmail.com

Today, Danny speaks to actor, writer, voice artist, comedian and impressionist, Steve Nallon. In this lively episode, Steve shares some great stories about his time working on Spitting Image and with Janet Brown, Mike Yarwood, Rory Bremner, Rik Mayall and scores of other stars. He explains how he developed his iconic Margaret Thatcher impersonation. Steve shares why, despite being such a prolific performer he actually prefers anonymity over fame. They also discuss the personal and professional adjustments those involved in the entertainment industry make as they age. If you can´t get enough of these podcasts, head to https://www.patreon.com/DannyHurst to access my exclusive, member-only, fun-filled and fact-packed history-related videos. KEY TAKEAWAYS As a kid Steve had a vivid imagination and loved acting out the characters he made up, but he was so shy he couldn´t perform in front of others. Even well-known comedians like Les Dawson worried about “dying on their arse”. There are comedians that say funny things, those that do funny things and those that simply are funny. Steve explains the difference. When an audience does not laugh, it feels incredibly personal. Spitting Image became so culturally significant that the FT used photos of the show's puppet versions instead of real politicians. The Spitting Image puppets were powerful. Some stars even found themselves becoming more like the puppet version. Most `politicians develop a persona that they use in public. Impressions are a caricature, just the essence of a person. As you get older doing impressions of certain people becomes harder. Writing about things that catch your attention and things you have experience of works well e.g. Steve using Maggie Thatcher in a ghost story. From a certain angle the statue of Nelson looks like he is pleasuring himself. Steve explains why he has always resisted appearing on TV as himself. BEST MOMENTS “I always was a performer. As a kid .. I would become all these different people.” “What didn't come naturally was performing in front of an audience.” “You die on your arse.” “Be open to anything, and everybody…that was the BBC training in 1975.” “I did attempt Trump, but it was so bad they cut it.” “I was walking down Brewer St a couple of days ago and there was only one sex shop.” EPISODE RESOURCES https://www.nallon.com HOST BIO Historian, performer, and mentor Danny Hurst has been engaging audiences for many years, whether as a lecturer, stand-up comic or intervention teacher with young offenders and excluded secondary students. Having worked with some of the most difficult people in the UK, he is a natural storyteller and entertainer, whilst purveying the most fascinating information that you didn't know you didn't know. A writer and host of pub quizzes across London, he has travelled extensively and speaks several languages. He has been a consultant for exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum and Natural History Museum in London as well as presenting accelerated learning seminars across the UK. With a wide range of knowledge ranging from motor mechanics to opera to breeding carnivorous plants, he believes learning is the most effective when it's fun. Uniquely delivered, this is history without the boring bits, told the way only Danny Hurst can. CONTACT AND SOCIALS https://instagram.com/dannyjhurstfacebook.com/danny.hurst.9638 https://twitter.com/dannyhurst https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-hurst-19574720

Have you ever listened to an amazingly smart person who has built a false construct politically or theologically, a construct that benefits them to the exclusion of others? In contrast, have you listened to an amazingly savvy person who adjusts, collaborates, and innovates for mutual betterment? And, hey, which of these two profiles do you mostly closely resemble? Join Kevin as we take a look at the foundations of pursuing and sustaining fruitful savviness! // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at whitestone.org.

Episode 44 (28/11/24) - The dangers of methanol in alcohol, dodgy taxi drivers, can a Lenor bed get any fresher? A look at some more Xmas adverts, the return of boy band ‘The Wanted', crappy banana art, Jason Statham's issues with electrician's working on his house, Greg tries another Baileys knock off liqueur, a Gen Z girl's favourite album picks from her dad's collection (that she'd never previously heard of), a few impressions of Greg Wallace being inappropriate, an interview with Queen Camilla and a 70's comedian, Maggie Thatcher vs The National Lottery, our improv soap opera ‘Aylesbury Market', Barry reads out another touching poem to one of his nans, Greg gets a new kettle, movie reviews, recommendations, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

Episode 37 (12/10/24) - Alternative uses for Kinder egg toy capsules, having a normal handshake with Paul Hollywood, the local news story of a man being ID'd for heartburn liquid, the danger of getting a cone head from head spinning, prompts on dating apps, matter of fact murder confessions, Matthew Kelly's return to TV, potential new presenters of Stars In Their Eyes (if it were to return to TV), Greg watches Bad Boys for the first time, prison break films, Maggie Thatcher's war with the Falklands, eating out of bins, working conditions in the Chinese Barbie factory, the laziness of English people compared to foreigners, the end of Total Film magazine, the next thrilling instalment of our new improvised soap opera ‘Aylesbury Market', the working classes use of cocaine, dead celebrity seance, Ryan Reynolds vs TJ Miller, the best way to explain who Giovanni Ribisi is, Gary Oldman in Slow Horses, recommendations, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

The first returning guest on the podcast, Paul comes back to talk about the cracking new Maximo Park album Stream of Life, how where he is in life has informed it's content, recording in America, set list disagreements, Maggie Thatcher and working with Low's Mimi Parker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yes, it's another quote. This week, Maggie Thatcher speaks to us through Eddie. She says, “Keep Fighting the Good Fight.”Tyler adds to that. Learn to love the “no” he says. Great things can come if you are willing to fail more. Eddie shares about RFIs that you know are a sign of something that's going to become a bigger deal. Sometimes you need to set aside your own interests and do something for the good of the project.Do the right thing. If it doesn't work, keep on trying. Check out the partners that make our show possible.Find Us Online: BrosPodcast.com - LinkedIn - Youtube - Instagram - Facebook - TikTok - Eddie's LinkedIn - Tyler's LinkedInIf you enjoy the podcast, please rate us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to us! Thanks for listening!

Show Notes and Transcript We are honoured to welcome Kevin Sorbo to Hearts of Oak.  He is known for his roles in Hollywood, and he joins us to discuss two new, 'must see' Christian based films that are coming in August, Firing Squad and Reagan, and his career, highlighting his faith as a driving force.  Kevin shares insights into overcoming challenges with faith and family support, his stance on conservative beliefs and his production company Sorbo Studios for family-friendly films are also discussed. He expresses criticism towards COVID-19 control measures and social media censorship.  His dedication to faith-based films, such as 'God's Not Dead,' and advocacy for upholding beliefs in the industry are emphasized.  The conversation also touches on societal and political topics like cancel culture, education, and climate change, promoting balanced perspectives.  Kevin's future projects, interactions with figures like Donald Trump, and his endeavours in promoting authentic storytelling and historical accuracy are explored.  This podcast encourages informed citizen participation in shaping the future and covers various personal anecdotes and societal issues. REAGAN in theaters nationwide August 30   reaganmovie.com Starring Dennis Quaid, Kevin Sorbo, Jon Voight, Penelope Ann Miller, Mena Suvari and Lesley-Anne Down  THE FIRING SQUAD In theaters nationwide August 2  firingsquadfilm.com Starring  James Barrington, Kevin Sorbo and Cuba Gooding, Jr. Kevin David Sorbo was born in Mound, Minnesota, on September 24, 1958, At the end of 1986, he settled in Los Angeles. Kevin began to make guest appearances on such popular shows as Murder, She Wrote (1984). Kevin was a natural for the title role in what would become his signature series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995). Kevin became internationally famous, and he learned the craft of film-making well enough to direct and co-write some of the episodes. Kevin even studied martial arts in order to do many of his own stunts. In real life, Kevin's heart is as big as Hercules'– he leads “A World Fit for Kids!” as the chair and spokesperson. Kevin devotes much of his time to “A World Fit For Kids!” which is a successful mentoring model that trains inner-city teens to use school, fitness, sports and positive role models for themselves, and then become the coaches and mentors for younger children. In 1998, Kevin married lovely actress Sam Sorbo, best known for her dual role on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995) as Serena/the Golden Hind Connect with Kevin and Sorbo Films... X/TWITTER             x.com/ksorbs WEBSITE                 sorbostudios.com/ INSTAGRAM            instagram.com/ksorbo Interview recorded  19.6.24 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/ *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on X/Twitter x.com/TheBoschFawstin TRANSCRIPT (Hearts of Oak) I'm delighted to have Kevin Sorbo with us today. Kevin, thank you so much for your time. (Kevin Sorbo) My pleasure. Good to be here, sir. Great to have you. And obviously people can follow you @KSorbs on Twitter or X, whatever you want to call it. And it's always fascinating looking into the background of guests. And I had no idea you'd starred in over 150 commercials. I kind of see you as in the movie sector, in Hollywood. but 150 commercials and then over 100 films and TV shows and a voiceover in obviously many video games. And of course, you first shot the stardom back in the 90s in Hercules. And more later, you've, I guess, become known as a Christian in Hollywood for your role in God's Not Dead. And then we'll get on to the latest one, the latest two coming up, actually, Regan film where you play president Regan's pastor and the firing squad which I saw you discussing the firing squad and that intrigued me, but I actually never saw Hercules it wasn't something I actually saw when was younger. It's more your faith your Christian faith and how that's engaged with with the whole Hollywood industry but I mean that happened as a break art rule. You weren't a kid, you were a bit older. I'm wondering how you were ready for that fame. What was that like? Fame with Faith-Based Movies or Hercules? No, back in Hercules, because that was the breakout. So what was the fame like? Yeah, you know, initially it was going to be five two-hour movies, and it was part of a thing called the Action Pack Wheel at Universal Studios. And it was Hercules, it was Tech Wars, which Shatner was producing and directing on. It was Vanishing Sun, which is sort of a Kung Fu thing. They had BJ and the Bear, which was a big movie or a TV series at one time. They're going to make movies out of it. And there was one other thing. I can't remember what it was. But anyway, that's what it's going to be, five two-hour movies down in New Zealand. It was fantastic to be down there. Anthony Quinn played Zeus. So, I got a whole year working with, you know, Anthony Quinn from the golden age of Hollywood. You know, the guy was nominated six times for Oscars, won twice. And then halfway through the third movie, I get a call from my manager and said, Universal Studios loves what they see. They want to try to make it a TV series. Well, by season three, we were in 176 countries and became the most watched TV show in the world, which is crazy. And it ran for seven years. It's still out there in like 50 countries even to this day. I still get fan mail coming in through Sorbo Studios. That's always a good place to go, sorbostudios.com. But after that, I went straight into Andromeda and being a huge fan of the original Star Trek series through reruns. When Majel Roddenberry, Gene's widow called me up and said, you know, Gene wrote this show back in 1969. And if he were still around today, I think he'd be honored to have you as the first captain he ever created after Captain Kirk. So, I had five years on that show, shooting in Vancouver, Canada. So, I was pretty much out of America from 1993 till 2005, living in either New Zealand or Canada. And then I just started doing a bunch of independent movies. And that's kind of how the road sort of brought to where I am today. But it was sort of forced on me in a way because Hollywood, my manager and agent of decades, both said they couldn't work with me anymore about 10, 11 years ago because of what I was posting on the Internet. I said, oh, you mean the truth? was posting the truth on the Internet. God forbid you do that in today's world, apparently. So, I formed Sorbo Studios and said, I'm going to do movies that Hollywood used to do. They don't necessarily have to be faith movies, but just family-friendly and movies that have a good message instead of this woke crap that Hollywood wants to keep forcing down our throats. So, Hollywood booted me out. Apparently being a conservative is a horrible thing, but being a Christian in Hollywood is even worse. I'd be better off being a paedophile Islamic radical terrorist, and I'd probably get an Oscar for playing that in a movie. That does tick a few boxes, I understand. You had a health crisis back whenever you were filming Hercules. You had multiple strokes. What was that like? Because you obviously fought through that. You've come through stronger than ever. But what was that like at the time? Because you don't know what's happening to yourself if that is happening, that health issue. No, no, look, I'm everything opposite of what stroke victims have. They're overweight, alcohol, high blood pressure, All kinds of different things everything I was opposite of that. I was pretty ripped up on her Achilles ears I was in great shape, but I had an aneurysm way up here in my my left sub-clavicle. I didn't know about I always had weird things sort of feeling in the arm I couldn't figure what's going on, but ultimately that didn't being the problem when it opened up It sent hundreds of clots in tomorrow, but unfortunately a series of four clots from my brain and obviously very lucky I wasn't killed or paralyzed rest of my life, but it took me four months to really learn how to walk and balance again. I got my speech back fairly quickly, thank God. I still have a 10% loss of vision in both eyes, in the upper right quadrants of both eyes. So, yeah, it was brutal. It sucked, you know, because my career was really taken off. I just done my first big-budget movie called Call the Conqueror, which was the prequel to Conan the Barbarian. And we shot that for like $40 million over in Eastern Europe. So, yeah, it was a little frustrating. that this was taking place. And it obviously hurt me within the Hollywood world in terms of doing movies anymore, but they kept the Hercules going. I went from a 15, 16 hour day to about a three hour day just to try to keep the show going in any kind of way. But I appreciate that because it was, to me, it motivated me and gave me some light at the end of this really long, dark tunnel. I wrote a book. It's called True Strength. People can pick up a copy. It did very well in its first printing. And my wife and I did a follow-up book called True Faith. And all of a sudden, I got started doing all these speaking events, which I thought I'd never be doing. I do about 12 to 15 speaking events a year now for the last 12 years. I've already done five this year. I've got another seven lined up. So, it's sort of a sideline job for me that I never thought I'd be doing. It's been quite interesting. But the book is very motivational for people to stop blaming the world for your problems. God never promises an easy life. We'll always have obstacles. How do you get past those obstacles? The book has a lot of humor in it, it's autobiographical, and it's just, I think it's a good ride. It surprised me how well it went over the people. Obviously, you had two focals for you that helped you through that. You had, I think you were just a newly engaged at that time. I was. But you had, and I've met Sam numerous times, and she has a strong character. And obviously, you need that whenever you're going through that. But then your faith. I mean, tell us about kind of those two and how they work together to pull you through that difficult situation. Well, I think I went through what most people go through and they have something like that happen to them, because I think more than the physical aspect of it, the psychological aspect was huge for me because everything was cruising pretty well for me. And I was starting to break in to be the next big action hero guy for Universal Studios, sort of replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger. And to have that happen to me, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. I went through that, you know, God, why me, you know, sort of thing. But, you know, the faith was there. I mean, I never stopped believing. I never stopped, you know, questioning what happened to me. Sam was tough. She's a top Pittsburgh, New York, New York gal. And every time I got down, she said, Kevin, it happened. What are you going to do about it? You know, so it was like, yeah, you know, stop blaming the world for your problems. The reality is look in the mirror. That's where you got to start. And I kept saying to myself every day, I'm getting better. I'm getting stronger every day. I kept saying to myself and I pushed through it. The first first two years really did suck. I'll be honest about it. I always said I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. And I go, I don't know, I'd give it to the Taliban. They can have it. But yeah it's like I just... The third year sort of started really some good things started happening I started getting some good hope and a lot it just really sort of the, recovery accelerated I still have side effects that I know like I said the blind I have spot and have each I'll be playing ping pong with my kids and sometimes the ball just disappears so that you know quarter of a second. So, I use that as an excuse so I didn't return the ball, but I still have balance issues that most people wouldn't be able to see because I still work out every day. I do cardio every day. I lift every day. Not like I did in Hercules, but I still work out every single day. I've already got my work on this morning before talking to you. And yeah, so to me, it's like you just got to fight on. ad things happen. That's the way life is. But I looked at it as a positive instead of a negative to push beyond and make myself better. I think the only other concerted Christian involved in Hollywood. I've ever sat on and talked to is Dwight Schultz. And he told me about his struggles as a Christian supporting Reagan, specifically that story and how he was kind of ostracized soon after. And you've talked about your faith and being cancelled because of that. Tell us more about that and why you choose God over career. Career because for some people that could be a difficult choice. Oh, no question. Look every movie I've been doing so I do about four or five movies independent movies a year. I've already shot two this year I got three more lined up and every movie I've been doing like I said about six last six seven years I I'll get another actor maybe, I'll get a director, I'll get a lighting person, I'll get a makeup, whatever they come up to me privately and say hey they look around like we're doing a drug deal. I say, hey, thanks for being a voice for us. And I'm going, you know, be a voice for yourself. People, but fear is an amazing weapon, you know, and every government in every country used it to control their lives during COVID, right? Every government used fear to control their lives. And I got taken, I lost 4 million followers on Facebook because I was posting the truth about COVID. I was posting what doctors in Europe were saying or doctors in other countries, really just saying, look what they're saying. Why can't we look at both sides of this? Why is ivermectin bad for you? Everything that I posted that they called misinformation or conspiracy theories, of course they all came true. And where is that Wussy Zuckerberg and my 4 million followers again? You know, these guys, they're just, they use it to control our lives. And there's so many people, I mean, I travel a lot and I still see that 1% still wearing masks. So they wear their liberal banner on their sleeve. And I want to stop them and not laugh at it, but I want to say, okay, you see 99% of the people around here not wearing masks. What goes through your brain when you're still covering your face? I mean, I want to find out that answer. I really do, because it's just incredible that the fear factor has been controlling so much of everything in the world. Now, you saw what New Zealand did, their prime minister. You saw what they did in Australia. It was bad enough here in America. We got the heck out of Dodge. We left we left California about a year and a half before this whole thing even started. We've been in Florida now for five and a half years and we barely wore masks here. The only time I really wore a mask in Florida is when I went to the airport and I'd have to be 10 people coming up to me that worked at the airport to say, please put your mask on before I finally did it. And then when I got on airplanes, I would have a bag of beef jerky and take it down and I'd eat for two hours. So, I found ways to get around this stupid thing. And now we realize even Fauci came out and said the six foot thing was made up. We all knew that. And the masking didn't do anything. And we all knew that. But guys like Fauci and Bill Gates should be in prison for what they've done to the world because we're still seeing those shots played out what they're doing to people's lives every single day, what it's doing. Anyway it's horrific what they did and they don't care they did it on purpose. Yeah, it's never ending and I find whenever I look at someone wearing a mask as they're walking down the footpath or sidewalk for you my kids say: no, no, no, just move on move on, don't get involved. You only get involved I get that. Yeah, I do, I want to say something but I just oh my god you know what let them live in their in let them live in their fear what a horrible way to go through life every single day and ahh. But the world has changed forever because of it now. Oh, completely. Let me jump forward to you doing God's Not Dead in 2020, 2014 and literally that newsboy song is just it's fixed in my head I think everyone knows that song god's not dead. You in that were a professor and this whole with the students standing up for their faith and whether they will stand up or bend over. And a lot of maybe individuals, especially younger people in the education system, think, actually, it's easier. I'm here to get an education. My faith can be sidelined. But that was a hugely successful film on a low budget. Big turnover coming in what was that kind of seemed to be a turning point for you or give you the I guess the ability to stand up and say actually this has given me the options now of doing more wholesome Christian-based films. I mean tell us about that the film and then actually being a success and being told actually this won't work and yet it actually turning out very well yeah well. I'm gonna go back to even a bit earlier with that I've been a Christian my whole life I've been a conservative my whole life first time I could vote, it was 1980. I was old enough to vote. I voted for Ronald Reagan, but that's another story. But I got to say in Hercules, even though it was a mythological show, it wasn't biblical in any way. The writers, which I had nothing to do with it. Sure, I made my calls as, hey, can we try this? Can we do that? So, yeah, but they even wrote moral messages within Hercules. Hercules never looked for fights. I'll try to talk people out of it. We put a lot of humor in it because we needed to, because it'd be a show, otherwise it'd be easy to make fun of it. So, we really like, wink, wink, let the audience in and have a good time. But they put a lot of moral messages in there. I like that. So, if I go back a couple years before I did God's Not Dead, I did a movie called What If. I've shot about 90 movies. And I would put What If in my top three. And What If was written by the same guys who did God's Not Dead. In my book, What If is a much better movie. And God's Not Dead is a very good movie. But it shows you the independent world and how we got to get lucky. We need word of mouth. You know, when you're shooting budgets of two, three million dollar movies, that's catering budget in Pirates of the Caribbean. They have three hundred million dollar budgets, a hundred million dollar advertising budget. And we got to compete against that. So, when when I did “What If” and that the reason that even happened, the guy who gave me the script to read is a good friend of mine, Dallas Jenkins. Well, Dallas now is huge with The Chosen. And Dallas Jenkins is the son of Jerry Jenkins, who was the co-author with Tim LaHaye for the “Left Behind” books that were huge back in the 90s and my latest movie last year, I had two movies that I directed last year, one was called Left Behind Rise of the Antichrist. So, I knew that that was the kind of movies I wanted to do when I did What If? So, that was through Pure Flix, Pure Flix came to me two years later and said: hey we got this other movie and, don't know if you're interested. You got to play a pretty bad guy. I always joked I played an atheist college professor, which is redundant. All you have to do is say college professor and you got that covered already. But I read the script and I said, yeah, I want to play this. I know people like this. But what I liked about that story, even though I was a bit of a jerk, there's redemption. And I like movies that have redemption at it. They say, look, no matter how bad your life is, how bad things are going for you, there's still a chance in your life to become a good person. And that drew me to that story. And that little $2 million movie, talk about word of mouth. That thing made almost $70 million just in U.S. box office alone. It made $140 million worldwide with streaming and DVD sales and merchandise and everything. So, that movie was just crazy. And to me, and from there, I did Let There Be Light that Sam wrote and I directed. Miracle in East Texas. Left Behind Rise of the Antichrist. My gosh, Abel's Field. I mean, I've done a lot of movies in that vein, but they don't all have to be, like I said, faith-based. I mean, I think every movie is a faith-based movie. If you're an atheist, pretty strong faith to believe in absolutely nothing. Kind of sad way to go through life in a way, but I think I just want to do movies that are more of a positive message instead of a negative one, and that's what I've been doing ever since. No, with my friends who are atheists, I always say I could never have your faith to believe in nothing and look at the complexity of the universe. It's an impossible end to looking at the world. So, yes, I agree. Sorbo Studios, how did that come about? Because it's probably easier just to be in the industry, to get paid as an actor, to actually set out and start that yourself. Yourself is is probably it's quite a thing because you're going against you're providing something different and you're going against the grain. How did that start and tell us a little bit about that? Well, it really came off when Hollywood gave me the boot, because I still love the industry. I love the creative process, I love being on the set, I love directing. I started directing back my hierarchy of these years. So, Sam and i talked about it I said let's form Sorbo studios. We're very fortunate that we do get funded every so often, but a lot of the movies that come my way are from other independent producers and movie makers. They look, I've got this role. We are funded. We'd love you to play in this role. So, in fact, the three movies I'm filming later this year are all coming in from different indie producers. So, every time I've raised money for my own movies, when I send my own scripts that came to me that people want me to be the production house of it, it's always been a God thing. And I've got a very important meeting this weekend. I got a gentleman flying in from Atlanta to meet with me here at my house. And they've already offered us a three-year picture deal that if it does come true, this will be a godsend. So, I feel so highly confident about this, because I know the guy's real, because I know a couple of the people behind him. And if this does happen, we'll know by Saturday night for sure. And that'll fund three of my movies for the next three years. So, it's nine movie package. And so Sam and I are freaking out because we've got amazing scripts that are in that $3 million to $5 million range. And that to me is, look, I get stopped every day, whether it's at the grocery store, whether it's at the airport, the lobby of a hotel, and people say: "we love what you're doing." We know that you got kicked out of Hollywood. We know that you get attacked. But we know if we see a Kevin Sorbo name on a movie, it's a movie I can bring my family to. So that to me is high praise. And, yeah, I could have kissed butt in Hollywood and kept my mouth shut, but I don't care. I don't like the road they're going down. I don't like the stuff they're putting out there. I don't understand this woke agenda, this cancel culture world. We've created this massive divide here in the world, not only in America, but around the world. And we got so much anger and hate coming out, especially from the left. I mean, I don't know how they live their lives like that. They hate themselves for kind of, you look at Antifa, they cover their faces. They're like terrorists. I call them just a bunch of cowards. They feel brave when they got another hundred of them with them. But I would love to do a documentary on their lifestyle. I would love to get them unmasked and talk about their lives and I bet there's a common denominator with each one of them and I got a feeling that that common denominator is not a very happy life growing up and leading into where they are now as adults. Well, I was just on The Legal Entity today about doing some work on a similar organization we have here, the most art-spoken Antifa-like. So, it definitely has to be done. But you're, I mean, Chris, you kind of look around, especially when you have kids, and you see what they're watching. And you think, actually, it wasn't like this in my day. You know, 12 meant something. Now, whoa, what's that doing? And it's the difficulty of parents allowing their children to consume media. And parents sometimes feel powerless. I mean, as a Christian parent, then, you want this to happen because you're a parent, because you're a Christian. But also you want to make a difference in the industry. Tell us about the options there are for parents who are concerned about what their kids are watching and consuming. [Well, as you know my wife's a big home-school advocate and I know she told you you should be homeschooling as well. I know But you know, it's to us it's I think one of the blessings of Covid is that two million more families are now home-schooling, because they woke up and looked to see my god look at the school boards, look at our education system. We all knew new American education has been falling down. It's been falling since the 1960s. It's just accelerated on itself since then. We took the Bible out of school in 1964. Look where we are now. I think most of the kids, adults 30 years old and younger down to grade school level, have just been indoctrinated by our school system. We're rewriting history, or they are rewriting history, and we're allowing it. We're tearing down statues of our forefathers. I mean, I look at this and go, every country has good and bad history. Every country does. And to sit there and not, this is where history repeats itself when you forget it, right? We're not teaching history in school anymore. We don't teach civics here in America anymore, because we don't want children to learn earlier that it's we the people. And it's not we the people anymore. Our government thinks they're God. That's the thing. They don't believe in God. They think they're God. One of the first things they did when COVID hit is what? Shut down the churches. Church God is not essential. But liquor stores and strip clubs they left open they closed down all these little stores that you know, five generations little grocery stores in some corner of some big city close it down, but keep Costco open, keep target open, keep all these other major... What's going on? It's all about money, it's all about power, it's all about control. We got Chinese buying up hundreds of acres of our farmland. We've got Bill Gates doing the same thing, because they want us all to eat bugs now because occasionally, apparently farting cows are destroying the atmosphere. I mean, don't get me going on climate change. Yes, climate does change. It's called seasons. I t's called weather. Don't get me going on this crap. I can bring in, for every scientist they bring in saying the world's coming in because of climate, I can bring in another scientist and say the totally opposite thing. But we don't ever let the other side speak up. I did a documentary called Climate Hustle 2, and they won't even let it show on Amazon anymore. It's just it's so silly and so petty but it's all about money. That's why you can't talk about these things on the networks or even on cable, because who owns all that? Oh, Pfizer does there's a Pfizer commercial and every every cable in television show all the time. It's just it's it's crazy what we're doing and people are sheep in this country, we need to wake the sheep up somehow. The lions better wake up to and. A hundred percent. And you don't hold back. I mean, I see you don't hold back, but when I follow you on Twitter, you speak your mind. My Twitter account's funny. Go to @KSorbs Follow me on Twitter. I know, but tell me. You saw my one. You saw the one I said, you want to get rid of COVID. Tell the Clintons COVID's got something on them. It's so good, but you don't, I mean you get people in the in the public eye maybe hold back and decide actually my career and this may affect it, you don't give a damn and you really want to speak your mind. I mean did you not make a kind of balance a judgment call on actually I've got a career should I speak my mind? How does that fit together because you speak truth and you don't hold back. Well, I didn't even think about it to be honest with you. I remember years ago, I was at I was at a, it was like 2008 or nine. And I was at a, I was at the Emmy Awards and with the Governor's Ball afterwards, we're heading to the ball. And Tom Selleck walked up to me, who's a conservative and he's not just as vocal as I am. And he told me I better tone down my rhetoric. And I went, this is 2008. I said, what do you mean tone down my rhetoric? I didn't think, you know, I didn't think Barbara Walters like 10 feet in front of me, you know. What am I doing that's so wrong? I didn't quite get it. And my wife kept warning me, Sam kept saying, they're gonna blacklist you, Kevin. I said, but I'm not saying anything horrible. I'm just saying, hey, isn't this great Ronald Reagan quote, what he said about abortion when he said, I've noticed everyone who's for abortion has already been born. I think that's an awesome quote for that. And all of a sudden that was negative stuff. I said, this is so weird. You know, Peter I want to meet these people. I need to meet these people that cancel you, cancel me, they need to come talk to us, because obviously they have led perfect sin-free lives and they need to really show us how to be people that are just as forgiving as they are and if people cannot detect the amount of sarcasm dripping out of my mouth right now then, I apologize. Sarcasm doesn't always come over online, I get that I have to explain. I want to touch on the two films you have coming up. You've got Reagan on August the 30th, you've also got firing squad August the 2nd; two very different films, but Reagan is I mean I has there been film really done on Reagan? I mean, I've looked and I don't see that. So actually, this really did catch my eye. Tell me how that came about? And I think your Reagan's pastor, Dennis Quaid, is in it. Tell us a bit about the film? Well, it came about, there have been Reagan miniseries, documentaries and stuff on him, but they've never done a full-scale movie like Oliver Stone did for JFK back in the day. And that's what this movie does. This really covers is his entire life. And Dennis Quaid and I worked together before. We did a wonderful movie called Soul Surfer, the life of Bethany Hamilton, the little 13 year old girl who lost her arm in a tiger shark attack. And Sean McNamara, who directed us in that, directed this movie as well. And Howie Klosner, who was a good friend of mine, he wrote the Reagan movie as well as writing Soul Surfer. And he just wrote the script off a book that I'm gonna be directing and starring in, hopefully early next year as well, called Four Seasons. It's a wonderful, touching, touching true story. You know, they came to me with it. I played the pastor when he was younger. So, it's David Henry, plays the younger Reagan. o, I'm in like the first part of the movie. Dennis did a great job. I've only seen bits and pieces of it. I've been invited to a couple of the screenings of it. But every time they've invited me, I've been off filming somewhere. So, the timing's always been bad. So, I'm looking forward to it. Coming out August 30th when it comes out in theaters. I'm going to go see it with everybody else. I like being in a theater with those kind of movies, those big epic movies. So, I'm looking forward to that. It just came about by that reason and that reason only. They called me up and said, hey, we got this role. I read it. And I said, heck, yeah, anything to do with Reagan, I'm going to be part of it. So I'm looking forward to it. Look, Reagan was a brilliant guy. Yeah, he was an actor. But he was always a politician. He was very smart. He used to be a sports broadcaster back in the day. He became the SAG president, the Screen Actors Guild president, before he became governor of California. And I just remember seeing the stuff he says. I challenge anybody to go online, look at Ronald Reagan's speeches, and tell me if he speaks better than Joe Biden or Joe Biden speaks better than Ronald Reagan. I mean, where we are right now, it's just, it's a comic book and it's just, but you know, we're coming up with another big election here. And I just think if you cannot have, you'll, we'll, we'll never have honest. Voting with mail-in votes. It's impossible. And I'm not just saying the left only, both sides can cheat. Who's going to cheat better? Because it's insane what we're doing right now. Now, to me, it's like you vote on the day of the election. I say make the election day a holiday. Go and vote. And you get one vote and show your bloody ID. There's nothing racist about showing an ID. It's so immature you say that. So, you're saying, oh, so a black person is too stupid to be able to get an ID. So, when they travel, every time I travel, there's any African-Americans in front of me. They show IDs. I feel like saying, was it difficult for you to get the ID? So, it's just silly. The reasons they come up with. And Biden, Uncle Joe, has let 15 million people across our border. You wait. We've already had all kinds of repercussions of the crime. You wait and see what happens with the amount of terrorists we've let into America. You think 9-11 was bad? It's going to be a massive 9-11 on scale in 30 cities on the same day in the next couple of years unless we do something about it. And I honestly believe that. I mean, Trump, I mean, I've had the privilege of seeing Trump speak three times and meeting him. And you watch a Trump rally and it's something to behold. He's great. We went to his birthday. His birthday party. We had 6,000 people. The room was packed for his birthday. And he was born on Flag Day here in America, which I find quite interesting. It's so good. But he connects with people like no other. And when you kind of see him speak, it kind of is that Reagan-esque. Because Reagan wasn't in politics. Can I tell you something to make people angry? That's me golfing with him right there. That's to give me a few more haters I love that. The guy is a really nice guy. I've known him for almost 20 years now. We met back in 2005. And I'll tell you something. He is so nice to people. They've spent the last nine years trying to find dirt on him. You know, they are slowly finding, okay, he had affairs. So did Clinton. So did everybody. There's hush money everywhere around. I don't advocate that, but to find stuff on his kids, they can't find nothing on his kids. He's a great father. We golf together, and we go out there. He thanks everybody on the course for being there. He walks up, gets out of his golf cart, shakes everybody's hands. He's very nice. He's got a sharp, sharp memory. And the only thing I want them to do when they have these debates coming up is shut the hell up. Let Biden talk. Let him just talk. Don't do what you did last time and cut him off every half a sentence. Let the guy talk and let America know. Look, I think there should be a drug test after the debates too, because all they're going to do is jack him up with B12 and whatever. They're going to put a human growth cell. I don't know. They'll do anything to make Biden coherent for about an hour. They've done that every time. We've seen enough on the news how he looks. And it's kind of, to me, it's sad. To me, it's like elderly abuse at this point. How does that, because, yeah, they need to sell that stuff, whatever it is they put them with, that actually is gold dust. It does seem to work for a time and then it malfunctions. And we see that over here. But it's the right, because we've seen a rise of opposition towards mass immigration, especially in the whole LGBT agenda across Europe and the European Parliamentary elections. We are seeing with Nigel Farage, suddenly excitement in the UK general election, 4th of July. And then you've got in November. And it does seem to be that people are waking up. It does seem to be the pendulum has swung too far one way. Yeah, people are waking up. It's just, you know, when you get, we get strong names out there. When you get like a Shaq, the basketball player, O'Neal, you know, Shaq O'Neal. You get Charles Barkley. And you know these are very wealthy very powerful African-Americans everybody knows they are, because of the sports world they even coming out and saying look what have the democrats done for us last six years? How they made our lives better? How they made poverty go away? How they how they made education get better? How they made job opportunities get better? They have not, so this is like people need to wake up and start going okay you know I'm tired of this voting this way for this reason, because I'll be honest, I voted for Clinton the second time around. I thought he did a pretty good job. He was more of a centrist. He was working with both sides of the aisle. I voted him for the second time around. So, I'll admit to that. I mean, I've always been a truly independent guy to look at things. But I think people just need to be honest about where is your life better? I mean, when Biden got in office, he took away everything that Trump did. Trump made us energy independent. Gas is $1.80 a gallon. It's still anywhere between $4 and $8 a gallon, depending what part of the country you're in here in America. He got rid of all that so we could buy oil from countries that hate us in the Middle East. So, we keep funding our own wars against ourselves. It's unbelievable. unbelievable and every time we do another 60 billion dollars to Ukraine. How much of that actually gets to Ukraine? I swear to god that comes back and they put a lot of that in their own pockets. It's just it's crazy what's going on in our country right now. It is so evil, it is so diabolical and we got a country here that just goes, oh well what can we? So apathy is what's ruling in America right now people need to wake the hell up. I agree, and for UK viewers they need to pray that actually the result in November is the result we want, because everything is indicating that way which makes me concerned. Can I, just one question on Reagan, how is Reagan viewed in the US, because Reagan and Margaret Thatcher they were kind together. Margaret Thatcher has been attacked certainly in the UK and maligned and ridiculed and her huge stature has been a topic of ridicule really with our media and our education system. What about President Reagan? Does he still have that stature that he had or is that under attack from the establishment? All I can tell you is that when we lived in California, we lived only eight miles away from the Reagan Library. So, we were home-schoolers. We had yearly subscriptions there. Every three or four months, we would go out there to see what was going on. Every time we went, that library was packed, was packed. And I was in Arkansas one time, so I went to see the Clinton Library just out of curiosity. It wasn't that crowded. I mean, it's interesting to see what these people are doing out there right now. Kevin, I saw you put a short video out talking about Firing Squad that's coming out on August the 2nd. Very different film than Reagan. And you were talking about not only the story itself, but the opportunity for people to respond to a salvation call to actually become Christians. I thought that's intriguing. I get the Christian movie but actually allowing people to respond to Christ, that's something different. mean tell us about the film and why you kind of want to use it to actually point people to Christ? Well first of all that was Tim Chey, the director, who came up with that he wants to save a million souls through the movie. So, that was his sort of his tagline is that I want to bring a million souls back to Christ or to find you know have Christ become a part of their lives. And I thought, it's great when they do it? Look, they did on God's Not Dead. It was amazing free advertising. They would Willie Robertson, you know, one of the Duck Dynasty guys at the end of the movie, he had sort of a cameo role in God's Not Dead. At the end of the movie, he looks at the audience and he says, take out your phones right now, text everyone you know, God's Not Dead. Brilliant free advertising. So, they just millions of more people said, what is this? The God's Not Dead thing. And then, but they were, what a way to get out to people. I He brought me the script and, you know, we tried to work together in a couple of the moves before. The timing was never right for either of us where he would, I'd be busy or he'd be busy, whatever. So, this one finally worked out. I read the script and I said, this is an amazing story. It's another true story, which I love these true stories. And it's about an American, I'm sort of one, it's Cuba Gooding Jr. is in the movie as well. And it's really, a three-way story but the main characters this other character that comes in that he is sort of the last guy that I try to save his soul, because I play a guy that in my 20'surfing in Indonesia. I saw a guy flirting with my girlfriend and he paddles in there he was angry, got in a fight with the guy, and he killed him. Whether it was on purpose or accident I don't know the full story behind it, but he got killed during the fight. He got the life imprisonment he got the death penalty in Indonesia, so during the next decades while I was in there this angry guy in his 20s found God, found Jesus, became a pastor, went through the whole thing, schooling, become a pastor. And we preach all the time within the prison. And he saved a lot of souls, the inmates and guards alike. And near the end of the movie, because it's more of the end of the movie after my ending, because he did get executed in 2015. He was actually executed by firing squad. So, they still have that in Indonesia. He refused to wear the mask because all the guards is a new one now because they became friends in a way. He wasn't a threat to anybody in the prison. He talked to everybody. And that was his home. And he realized that was going to be his home. And he took the mask off, just put it down. He smiled at him before they shot him and said, remember that God loves you and I love you too. And then they shot him. And it's just an amazing story. And August 2nd, that comes out. People go to film. It's called firingsquadfilm.com. It's firingsquadfilm.com. And they can see the trailer for the movie and get information. I hope it makes it over there across the pond. I'm hoping it does. We'll see what happens with it. I know they have plans for it. But, you know, it's just a wonderful story. And I was proud to be part of it. For the Reagan and Farrant Squad, do you have, like, premieres where you're at, where you show up beforehand? Because it is a conveyor belt in one way. You're doing so many, but it's not just the film. Actually, you have to promote it to let people know what's happening. So, what's your involvement with, I guess, both of those, firing squad beginning of August and then the end of August, Reagan? Well, firing squad is kind of because it's coming out almost four weeks before Reagan does. That's the one they've kept me really busy on. And I've been out, I mean, I think I've already done. Gosh probably least 150 interviews on it. Wow You're 151 so long it's and I've gone to about eight cities to show to talk about the movie and screen the movie. We've had like you know Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, wherever we go, and we have a screening for the movie. And I've been to other places where I do my normal speaking events but then we show a trailer for the movie. So, we're getting exposure out there, which is good. I think we're going to open here in America on 2,000 screens. I think that was the game plan. And, you know, we'll see what happens. But we need, once again, word of mouth. You know, we got a budget for promotion. But, you know, it's mostly guys like me and Cuba Gooding that are out there, you know, doing what they're doing, like interviews like this to try to bring some, you know, word of mouth. We can't afford to show a commercial at every sporting event or sitcom or soap opera here in America that shows the trailer. So, once again, we're battling against the behemoth of Hollywood and the divisive, angry, woke culture. You know, it's weird to me. I mean, I love when they call me homophobic. I'm going, well, I'm not afraid of people who are gay, so I'm not homophobic. And I've been in the industry for 40 years, and pretty much every movie I've been on, there's been a gay or a lesbian, somebody on set. You will not find one of them. You won't find one that say, oh, my gosh, he was so evil. He was so mean. Because I treat everybody the same. I like having a great time on the set. I like to keep it loose. I like to have a lot of laughs in between setups. And you just won't find one. But, you know, this is the culture we live in now. We live in a world that if your point of view is different than theirs, boom, they attack you. And you're guilty now before being proven innocent. And it's just crazy land right now. And these are people, I said, these people hate themselves. They do not like who they are. They don't like the direction they've taken in life. But they want to drag you, Peter, and me right down the black hole that they live in. And their attacks on me don't affect me at all. It doesn't make me think one way or another at all. I'm doing what I'm doing, because I love what I'm doing. And I look in the mirror and I like the life that I'm leading. These are people that hate who they are and they just want to spread their hate to the rest of the world. And it's a really sad and pathetic way to live every single day like this. Where because they failed in their life, they've just given up on life. I'm a 13-year overnight success, okay? I failed many times, but I never gave up. I kept plugging along, and that's what you got to do. Failure is a good thing. You learn from these things. But unfortunately, most people just want to blame the world for their problems, and they just give up. No, it's right you see the Antifa you see the LGBT and lobby and there when you look at it and it shows you good and evil because you see the evil you see it has to be demonic because, the anger the vitriol, the hatred, they have of a different viewpoint has to be demonic there's no other way of explaining it. Yeah, well pride pride is one of the deadly sins it's the most biggest is deadly sin. And here in America, we have pride month. Give them pride day. I don't care about that. But we give our vets one day. We give pride a month to a population that is, what, 3% of the population in America? They get a whole freaking month. Why? To me, it makes zero sense. And our vets get one day. One day. And these are the people, just like they did for the Brits, these are the people that have given people the right to have a free life, to have freedom of expression. And yet pride gets a whole month. It's crazy. Go back. You were saying that Maggie Thatcher had all these attacks on her. What did she do for England? She did amazing stuff for England. She brought it, I mean, she, yeah, that's socialism, but she brought it into the world of capitalism as well and opened so many doors for people and cleaned up neighborhoods and cleaned up crime. But that's the left. They're doing the same thing in America. They're attacking that. I remember meeting a guy, Giuliani, he cleaned up New York City. New York City became walkable again. Look at now. It's just a dirt hole. Every city in America, my home state of Minnesota, is just as bad as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Salem, all these places. I mean, Seattle. They're all horrible now. Every single one are run by Democrats. What does that say to people? People now look at that and go, here we go. Look at all these things, and they're all run by Democrats. All right, Detroit, Detroit in the early 1950s was the number one economy in America, mostly because of the car industry. Number one economy, three million people living there. They have not had a Republican mayor since 1954. Look at them now, 600,000 people in that city now. They lost 2.4 million people, moved the hell out of there. They said, this city is, hey, forget it, we're out of here. And it's just sad. And yet people sit there and still vote the same way. You know, we got 8 million people have left the state of California in 10 years. 8 million have left the state of California. They're filling in Nevada. They're filling in Texas. They're filling in Tennessee, filling in Florida. And all the posts, you know, these posters are up saying, don't California our state. You know, because they leave that state. There's liberals leaving that state in droves. They moved to another state, and yet they vote the same way. And then they see that state start to fall, and they're going, huh, I wonder what the problem is here. So it's like, wake the hell up. That's true. I mean, just on the political side, to finish off with, I remember going to L.A for the first time ever in 2022, going twice and thinking: I wish I was here whenever Reagan was governor. I wish I was here to actually experience what the state was like, because what it is now is a world away. Azerson, I think L.A and D.C being the only places in the states that I felt unsafe. yeah You go to Florida, you go to Texas, even Virginia, lots of other places Colorado and and it's it's beautiful, it's lovely. You don't have that fear where actually I remember vividly on the subway in D.C and L.A and thinking: I don't want to do this again this isn't good. No, it's horrible. It's horrible what they've done. There's a, there was a buddy of mine left San Diego; this is like two or three years ago, he got it. He said, I'm done. He went to get a U-Haul, a truck to move all his stuff out of his house. He was moving to Texas. He took a picture of Employee of the Year, and it was Governor Newsom for the UL company, because so many people left that state. And he'll probably be the one running for president next go-around. I mean, it's just like, what, because he's got good hair? He was horrible at what he's done to that state. And how are they dealing with homeless people now? They're walking around giving them shots of vodka. That's their answer. Give them clean needles and shots of vodka and everything will just be fantastic. Oh, I agree it's a disaster and I mean we're praying for a result in November. Kevin I really appreciate you coming on I'm really looking forward to the Firing Squad and to Reagan the end of August. I hope they make it over the water over to the UK and Europe. I hope so too and I appreciate being on there. Go to sorbostudios.com, a lot of good stuff at sorbostudios.com and follow me on twitter. You want a good laugh every day follow me on twitter. I'll 100% agree with that, but all the links are in the description Twitter and sorbostudios.com Kevin thank you so much for your time. All right thanks Peter appreciate it.

Episode 20 (05/06/24) - This week it's Greg's Gourmet Slops. Instead of preparing some things to talk about like “those squares” Barry and Johnny, Greg decided that he would have a couple of drinks during the day and just freewheel his way through the show that he was meant to be in charge of. With a little help from Baz and John he just about gets away with it. Things on the show - Johnny meets some unhelpful people at the bank, Gayle leaves Coronation street, Greg discusses struggling to get out of “holiday mode”, impressions of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer at the debates and a Prime Minister getting smashed on his first day, Maggie Thatcher visits the studio to talk to Greg, the new Bad Boys film, interactive movie experiences, Greg's struggles to make a video for a remix of the Um Bongo advert, mixing up Dick Van Dyke films, dots on samosas? a dead or alive quiz, the return of Loaded magazine, Johnny's old job as a fake paparazzi, how Giles Brandreth killed Rod Hull, Greg drunkenly points out the obvious about Donald Trump and talks about visiting America as a child, Richard Osman, Future Greg and a whole lot more!

Our epic trawls through the 1970s and 80s are finally at an end, so in one final effort to keep the franchise going, Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler meet to debate the merits and otherwise of the two decades. Alex Ireland bravely takes on the Jack Taylor/Keith Hackett role. Maggie Thatcher, you took one hell of a beating.

Look then at what is happening now. Only the intelligent creatures have forgotten the urge to be unified with each other: only here will you have no confluence BOOK 9 - 9.3Based on what I witnessed and experienced, growing up around Horley and Crawley, there was a lot of low-level isms - racism, sexism, classism, homophobia - ism and probably more isms - maybe even Marxism, but I didn't know what that was until after I'd left the place, and too many people had done alright off of Maggie Thatcher and bought their council houses for that ever to take hold. There was one guy I remember, who was the father of a kid I went to cubs with and a nice man. He had a long beard and wore sandals with his socks; maybe he was a communist lone-wolf, quietly and unsuccessfully trying to lead local workers away from Benidorm, towards a glorious workers revolution. Alas, I digress.  Most of the racism, seemed to me, to take two forms: the first being jokes: which mainly saw Pakistanis, reduced to the P-word and serving as the main ingredient for crass punchlines, sometimes just puns on typical names, sometimes about skin-colour and culture. The P-word would get thrown around a lot, and was often just a lazy, very ignorant, catch-all term for brown and also darker-skinned people in general, not just limited to Asians: this could include people from Greek, Turkish, middle eastern or Portuguese backgrounds, or sometimes it was just aimed solely at Muslims. Perhaps this was relative to the area I grew up in, as Crawley had large Indian and Pakistani communities. It also had a big Irish community, and there were plenty of jokes about them too.Some of these jokes were fairly innocuous, some were plain nasty, and sometimes they weren't even jokes, it would just be the P-word hurled casually out of a car window, speeding passed some ordinary person just going about their day.The second form would take the lazy parroting of thought-lacking negative tropes, to diagnose broader social-ills, like immigrants our taking our jobs etc. I heard these sorts of ones quite a lot. My guess was, looking back, that a lot of these statements, or accusations, were sometimes made out of fear - fear of losing something, like employment, or identity, but more often than not, like the above jokes, were made innocuously and in ignorance, with very little thought given to the consequences of saying those things.When I was in cadets, I once got caught telling a P-word joke to another kid, and was made to stand-up by the commanding officer, in front of the group and given a severe bollocking. He was a white guy, but he was really angry about it, and fair enough, though I meant nothing by it, I learned my lesson. I remember feeling ashamed, and wished I hadn't said it. I certainly wasn't thinking about what the kid sat in ear-shot of me, who was from a Sri-Lanken background, might be thinking or feeling.There was a third and much nastier form too, which from what I saw, was a lot rarer, but I encountered a few people who would probably fit into this category – and that is those who actually believed in the supremacy of white people, but more relevantly, had a severe hatred of those that weren't them. That also included gay people, Jews and the Irish. There was a pub in Crawley which I forget the name of, which me and my mates would often drive passed, which had a reputation for housing BNP meetings; we never went in to validate those claims, we just knew to stay well away. The couple of people who I came across, who would fit into this category, were as you might imagine, pretty scary. There was occasionally one or two of them in the pubs I'd drink in; and there were always stories that accompanied them - doing jail-time in this prison or that, or running with the Chelsea hooligan firms in the 80's. One of them had a spiders-Webb tatoo on his forehead. Again, just steered well clear of them.Though Horley was predominately white, Crawley was a lot more ethnically mixed, as was the friendship group I grew up with; and I'm all the better for it. We naturally learned things about one another and absorbed aspects of each other cultures. When I first met my wife, who is Goan, she was pleasantly surprised that I knew a little bit about her very nuanced culture. My oldest friend from school is from a proud Goan family, and I knew other Goan families in the area too, as we all went to school and church together. That definitely won me some brownie points with her; no pun intended; but amusing none the less.Of course we didn't all grow-up the same, and our experiences would've varied, especially when it come to any sort of discrimination; but we all had lots in common. Went to the same schools, wore the same clothes, listened to the same music, worked the same jobs, had to avoid the same rude-boys trying to shake you down in the underpass and on the trains, and the same wide-boys looking to fight anyone that accidently stepped on their loafers in the pubs. Regardless of our differences, we came-up together.The other isms, typically tended to involve making sexist comments towards women, or referring to them as birds, middle class kids calling working-class kids townies, which later morphed into the more pernicious chavs. Middle class kids just tended to be referred to as posh, sometimes followed by the C-Word. Depending on who I was with, and where I was, I was one or the other; chav or posh, I could never figure it out; trapped in some undefined class-purgatory; like a dull lesson in school where nothing gets learned. Pun intended.As I got older, I began to develop a very basic understanding of how politics worked in the UK – broadly meaning, I got as far as working out that Labour was left-wing and Torries were right-wing, this also coupled with other simplistic notions of social issues, like classism, racism and sexism, and things like history – understanding that Britian was a colonial power and their involvement in the slave trade. All contributing towards my ideas of what discrimination is, and what pernicious forms it can take, and the different groups it can target. I would much later come to realise, that my understanding was grounded in an idea of liberalism, and stiving towards equality. Though I didn't know a great deal about politics and society etc (and would sometimes get very frustrated by this lack of knowledge) I considered myself left-wing. Though generally speaking, it was an affluent area, Surrey and Sussex, but I could see the effects of poverty around me. My family didn't have a lot of money growing up, so I thought things like the NHS and social security were important, and every now and again, Mum and Dad would school me on things like this. They listened to Radio 4 and encouraged me to read books, which is probably where the posh slur came from, as that was seen as a middle-class thing. And of course, we were also Catholic - for us, there was a duty to help those less-fortunate, even if we ourselves didn't have much.Leaning left, felt like the right to do; no pun intended. I knew people who went either way; but I also knew a lot of people who just didn't care for politics. Though Crawley was pre-dominantly working-class, or upper-working-class, there were lots of people there who'd done well for themselves- setting up building firms and the like or bought their council houses and got on the property ladder, so they would tend to swing right, but not always. The town often went from Labour to Torries then back again.I was interested in trying to understand how the world worked but had no idea where to start. I began to read books, but when going to the library, or going into a book-shop, I just didn't know what it was I was looking for; I just had this feeling that I wanted to learn some stuff… whatever that stuff was.From 17, I had a job as an apprentice in an IT firm, where I was left to my own devices a lot. I had access to the internet, which was still a novel thing for me, and via a Drum and Bass message board that I wasted a lot of time posting on, I found another message board, which would put-up political content. This is where I first learnt what the word subversive meant. At the time, the UK had just gone to war in Iraq and I remember feeling quite strongly against it, probably influenced by the stuff I was reading, but also many people I knew were against it. It didn't feel right, and of course, they lied about the weapons and that. However, I was conflicted, as I'd also spent a few years in Marine Cadets and at one point, when I sensed I weren't going to achieve much at school, I was all-set on joining the Army (easier-going than the Marines.) Through cadets, I probably knew of people who went out there to serve; it was a job after-all, and I had a little bit of appreciation for what they were doing and how dangerous it was. I also didn't like the way some elements of the more middle-class left, would demonise soldiers, who were often working-class; just for doing a job.Though there was no way on God's earth, I was ever going to swap my Nike Air's for sandals, at some point I figured out what Capitalism was. With the irony fully lost on me, I decided it was a bad thing. Using my generous 30% discount from working in huge-retail-chain-store HMV, I went into huge-retail-chain-store Waterstones, who were owned by an even an even huge-er-parent-company; I bought some more books by the likes of Michael Moore, and another one about the Bush Administration rigging the election in America; further solidifying my slant-left. I was finding causes which evoked feelings in me; which at the time of reading felt right, no pun intended. This was even followed by a stint of using a biro to write pseudo-radical messages in public karzis about TV-brainwashing us, and McDonalds-eating-greedy-Americans exploiting everyone. I'd graduated from the fine-art school of Millwall Run From No-one and a crap-tag called Luna, to full-blown political sloganeering.I was 27 by the time I started working professionally in the arts. I felt like I'd already been round the block a bit - had multiple different low-paying jobs, multiple different addresses and had been almost permanently skint since the age of 17, but for the first time I was encountering people who were around my own age, who were themselves not long out of university and had barley ever worked a normal job; which for me, was eye-opening. Though I felt way out of my depth, not really knowing anything about the arts; theatre, poetry or literature, I had lots of opinions and thought I'd be alright as I assumed, and rightly so (no-pun intended) that in these circles nearly all of these people were loud and proud left-wingers. Even though I refused to play-down my love of getting tanked-up on lager, donna-kebabs, football and Nike Air Max - I definitely thought we had something in common.What a lot of them had, and what I didn't have, was a university education, which often seemed to come with a set of very specific set of ideas around isms - like racism and sexism; which I came to learn, were very different from the ones I grew up with. I can remember starting to hear terms like white privilege, toxic masculinity, the patriarchy, decolonisation etc, a lot of which, I had to look up their meanings. Another term I learned was Imposter-syndrome ­which was definitely something I felt, being in that world. Whilst I had this near-constant thirst for knowledge, and ideas and opinions always swirling round my brain, I felt in no-way confident enough to discuss any of these ideas that evoked something in me. I just felt like I didn't understand them, because I wasn't smart or educated enough; or people would think I was an idiot, or worse, a bigot, who was way out of his depth; certainly on the last point that was true; but like before, I was interested in learning, and assumed, that these ideas were the right ones, no pun intended, as everyone leaned-left.However, what I began to notice was that lots of these terms and phrases were getting thrown about very casually, and similar to the discriminative slurs I heard as a kid - became catch-all-terms to describe very complex situations; and in some cases, terms like white – would even become a pejorative in and of itself. The more I'd hear them, the more I'd get these moments where my brain would go wait a minute, what?I can remember someone once remarked to me, in what I took as a ­­­­­joking-but-not-joking ­­way – what would a white-privileged-male-know-about-police-brutality?! ­I immediately had images of those coal-miners getting cavalry-charged by mounted-police in the 80's; and I'd witnessed on a number of occasions truncheon-swigging old-bill getting handy at the football, plus I knew of a few lads who'd been indiscriminately thrown in the back of bully-vans and given a shoeing; as well as the numerous times I'd personally been thrown up against fences or walls to be searched, for no good reason; all courtesy of the police.Another time I was at a poetry event, where a female read a poem out, about going to a party with a male-friend, leaving together then going their separate ways. She went on to describe her having to endure creepy-men harassing her on the tube– which I fully sympathised with - until it got to the end bit where she went into an invective about men not having to endure this when travelling around London. I had another one of them wait, a minute what?! - moments. So many of my mates, including me, have been either robbed, physically attacked or both, whilst on public-transport, especially when we were younger. It was something I used to have to factor in when going out - playing cat-and-mouse on the slam-doors, just to avoid the gangs going up and down the trains, robbing mostly young-guys of their wallets and phones. It was around this time, I learned another term ­­­whataboutery ­­– which normally was followed by a sigh and an eye roll if I, or someone else was to ever push-back a bit on some of these very broad and unnuanced claims.What became more and more alarming, was not just the demonisation of people that pushed-back on some of these ideas, by claiming they were right-wing or worse,  ­especially people like me, who was never right-wing - it was the near blanket adoption by seemingly everyone in the arts, into what I think George Orwell described as Group Think. And the more these ideas spread, the more divorced from reality they became. To me, this definitely has aspects of classism to it.With most of these ideas, whether it's queer-theory, whiteness, anti-Racism, post-colonialism etc, they all seem to have some tenets in them, which make me think yea, fair enough, mate. During 2021 when there was a lot of discourse around the BLM movement – lots of black people were talking openly about their experiences of racism – things like having their hair touched by random strangers, I thought, yea, fair enough, mate, that's not on and shouldn't be happening. Most of these theories start from a place of anti-discrimination; so I'm on board with that, and I think most people are. But some of it, is just so wound-up in highly-theoretical academic concepts, it's lost all sense of reality. That feeling I had as a kid, growing up with friends from different backgrounds, that despite our differences. we had many things in common - we had a togetherness - I don't feel that with this stuff, it's highly divisive, putting people into their different categories. My mates used to laugh when I'd tell them about some of the wacky things I was hearing in the arts, until over-time, it started coming into their workplaces too; probably unchallenged.  There are much better-placed people in this world, who can provide decent, valid criticisms of a lot of this stuff, without going into the youtube territory of ­­right-wing-anti-wokeness and all that. It took me a long-time to learn that a lot of it, has a foundation in post-modernism, and not liberalism, but the two get conflated; which is perhaps by design. I think most people out there, who don't know the origins of this stuff, and some of the table-turning philosophical mind-bombs, like there's no such thing as objective truth  - will just assume it's liberal; when it quite often isn't.What I can say, from what I've seen, it can certainly make for crap-art. When people feel they have to crow-bar these messages in all the time, into whatever it is they're making, or worse, they see themselves as high-priests having to educate the great unwashed with their righteous art, to me, it's no longer art, it becomes something else, like activism, or worse, propaganda. There's a time and place for both of those, of course, just not everywhere and in everything from poetry to theatre to Netflix and Nike adverts. It's not left, and it definitely ‘aint right. Pun intended.   If you're able to, these are ways you can support my workPiped Piper: A Hip Hop Family Musical at Southbank Centre, Londonhttps://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/family-young-people/pied-piper-hip-hop-family-musicalBUY-ME-A-LAGERhttps://ko-fi.com/paulcreeTHE SUBURBAN BOOK - My 1st book collection of stories and poemswww.paulcree.co.uk/shopBeats & Elements: A Hip Hop Theatre Trilogy - 2 plays I co-wrote plus Denmarked by Conrad Murrayhttps://paulcree.co.uk/shop/beats-and-elements-a-hip-hop-theatre-trilogy Get full access to Lager Time at cree.substack.com/subscribe

Show notes and Transcript Dr. Sebastian Gorka returns to Hearts of Oak to offer his insights on the importance of personnel in politics, emphasizing the challenges faced by Trump supporters.  He discusses the evolving dynamics within the Republican Party towards a more MAGA-centered approach and the need for alignment with the American people.  We move onto populism in Europe, media landscape changes, challenges in education, and the significance of local politics for societal change.  Dr. Gorka highlights the importance of grassroots activism and community engagement in shaping the future political landscape. Sebastian Gorka, PhD., served as Deputy Assistant for Strategy to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and is currently a presidential appointee to the National Security Education Board at the Department of Defense. He is the host of AMERICA First, a nationally-syndicated radio show on the Salem Radio Network, and The Gorka Reality Check, the newest show on the cable news network Newsmax TV. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book “Defeating Jihad,” and “Why We Fight.” His latest book is “The War for America's Soul.” Connect with Seb... LINKTREE              linktr.ee/sebgorka SUBSTACK            substack.com/@sebastiangorka X                            x.com/SebGorka WEBSITE               www.sebastiangorka.com/ Interview recorded  8.4.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... 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 Dr. Sebastian Gorka back with us again. Dr. Gorka, thank you for your time today. (Dr Sebastian Gorka) My pleasure. Thank you for having me. Great to have you on. And of course, former Deputy Assistant to President, nationally syndicated radio host of America First with Sebastian Gorka and best-selling author. And people can find you obviously @SebGorka. And we'll get into some of your thoughts on your Twitter page in a little bit. But, Dr. Gorka, if I can ask you, maybe first, looking at the GOP, back at the beginning of President Trump's first term in office, he trusts the GOP to fill those, I guess, 3,000-odd positions to keep the system running. And he seems to, I think everyone seems to have learned that there was a concerted effort to push back. But it seems to be that the President has realised he needs to fill those positions himself and there's a concerted effort to fill those positions with the brightest, the best patriots that America have, do you want to just let us know about that because he is going into this with his eyes wide open. Well, absolutely, after what they did to him and to his administration the first time round. And this is my greatest concern going forward, because it is clear the American people want him back. He's trouncing Biden in the polls. If you look at the primary results, we haven't even finished the primaries. He's already broken his record for 2016. So whether it's wars across the world, the state of the economy, 16 million illegals, President Trump, if there is a free and fair election, will be God willing, if we do our part, the next president. However, as Ronald Reagan taught us, politics, you know, personnel is politics. And I am very concerned that we not have what we had last time, which is even at the cabinet level, subversives in the Trump administration. So we can't make that mistake again. However, I give credit to the left. My friend Chris Plant, who has the morning show here in D.C., has made this point very eloquently over the years. Why would a decent person, especially a family man or a family woman, why would you work in a Republican administration, especially a Trump administration? You look at my example. Look, I don't mind getting attacked by the left because, of course, I'm a proxy for the president. But when they came after my wife, I had one journalist write 52 hit pieces on me in three months. And when one of the articles named my 18-year-old son and called him a traitor in the headline, what person wants to actually put up with that? I mean, I'm prepared to do it again. And there's a handful of us who served in the Trump administration who understand America First, who are loyal to the president, are loyal to the mandate he received already, are prepared to do it again. But there are 4,000 positions, 4,000 presidential appointees. What lunatic is prepared to have the inhuman treatment meted out against them from a quote-unquote elite in the media that just dehumanizes. I mean, from Hillary's deplorables comment to Biden last year standing in front of one of the most important buildings in the world for us when it comes to American history, which is Independence Hall, bathed in red light, flanked by two Marines in their dress blues, and he calls half the nation fascists, MAGA extremists. I mean, this is how radical the left has become and how they've dehumanized the others. So, yeah, I mean, you've hit upon my neuralgic point, which is the personnel policy, if we win, God willing, will be second Trump administration. We cannot get it wrong this time. We just cannot get it wrong. What does seem that the left are utterly vicious and ruthless in going after individuals and I had the privilege of watching the president speak twice when I was over last in Pennsylvania and then down South Carolina and it's an hour and 40 minutes of a political speech I've never seen before and I've been involved in politics in many years in the UK but it connects you at a heart level as opposed to the head level and he knocks off those attacks but the left are adamant that they will go after individuals. Let me give you one concrete example, lest, you know, your listeners and viewers think this is just, you know, Sebastian Gorka's axe that he's grinding. So I had a colleague, I was deputy assistant to the president. My colleague, Peter Navarro, was assistant to the president for trade policy. He was one of the key architects of our China policy. Peter was subpoenaed by the infamous January 6th Committee of Congress, which was illegally constituted. So an investigatory, I don't want to get into the weeds, but an investigatory committee of Congress has to have delegates from both parties. It can't just be the majority party. Nancy Pelosi refused the then speaker to accept nominations from the Republican Party. So she picked a couple of the worst Trump haters who are nominal Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. And as such, this was an illegally constituted committee. Peter Navarro receives a subpoena from this congressional committee, ordering him to come and testify. He says, A, it's an illegal committee, I'm not going to comply. B, I have it in writing from President Trump that my work for him is covered by the executive privilege, which is a constitutional statute in America that the discussions between the president and his aides are protected and they can't just be just willy-nilly divulged to anybody. Peter lives one block away from the FBI. When he was in contempt of this subpoena, which is a misdemeanor offense, not a felony, it's a misdemeanor. Instead of the FBI writing to Peter or writing to his lawyer, could your client come to our offices tomorrow morning and we'd like to present him with his breach of congressional subpoena documents. Instead, my colleague, a renowned economist, academic professor, was tracked by the FBI to Reagan Airport, which is the airport for Washington, D.C. And after he boarded a plane on a business trip, he was arrested in public, not only handcuffed. This is when you realize we are in a police state. And I say that with all sincerity. He was handcuffed and put in leg shackles, which meant he had to shuffle out of the airport like some slave on a chain gang. Then he was taken to the FBI headquarters where he was strip searched on a congressional misdemeanour charge. He is now sitting, as of two weeks ago, he is sitting in a federal prison in Florida, serving a four-month sentence for being in contempt of Congress. So, you know, this is the left. This is the left. They talk about President Trump and MAGA is a threat to democracy. Well, the only fascists I see right now are the Democrat Party, Biden's DOJ, and the FBI. A woman, I had her daughter literally text me on Friday, said, my 73-year-old grandmother, who spent 10 minutes inside Congress praying for the nation on January 6th, has just been charged with four charges that will lead her to spend a year in prison. A 73-year-old grandma who's going to be on my radio today has been charged with being inside of Congress and praying, Peter. Yeah, I've seen the praying grandma. I've seen a number of clips of her and Peter's book, Taking Back Trump's America, certainly was an eye opener for me. And I learned a lot reading that. And of course, we've had some of the anniversaries of the J6ers. There's no Jake Lang's now fourth anniversary of him in jail. I mean, what does that mean? How do you see, God willing, President Trump winning the election? Well, not winning, but allowed to win the election in November. What does that mean for, for instance, some of those J6ers in jail, hundreds of them in jail for years and years, simply for going and being part of that event? Well, the president has said this openly just last week. I was with him at Mar-a-Lago, and he said it the week before. All the J6ers who committed no violent crimes, who simply walked through the halls, through the velvet rope, every single one, all the cases will be reviewed, and the president will pardon them. Wow, wow. That's simple and decisive. What you'd expect from Trump as opposed to Biden, and it's like, here's the job, let's get this done. I mean, this is, we could talk about this for hours. This is how he functions. I mean, you don't get to be the most successful entrepreneur in the hardest market in the world, which is Manhattan real estate. You don't have the most successful TV show for 14 seasons in a row unless you're decisive. And I saw this in the White House. You know, when we made the argument, the Iran deal, Obama's Iran deal is bad for America, bad for Israel, bad for the Middle East and actually gives the Mullahs a bomb, he said, okay, we're canceling it. He didn't waffle. He didn't say, oh, let's create a task force or let's have a conference in Vienna. He said, no, we're going to kill it now. Absolutely. Can I ask you about the RNC? Because I've looked at this and the media have billed it as Trump taking charge, taking control of the RNC, which seemed to be one of the biggest pushbacks to his presidency, certainly at the beginning with all those appointments. It's now a very different situation with a lot of good people put in and what does that take over mean? And does that mean that actually moving past November and that he will be in a very different situation Well it's massively significant. I mean I said this when I was in The White House. I said it when I left The White House, Donald John Trump won the election despite the Republican Party, not thanks to the Republican Party. The Republican Party hates him. I mean, it's the same as, you know, Brexit and the Tories. It's the same as establishment politicians and Millei or Meloni. We have these establishment, look, I think Bannon popularized it here. We have the Uni-party. There's really not much difference between this amorphous blob that is the Democrats and the establishment Republicans. Why? Because the Democrats are lunatics who hate America, and the establishment Republicans, we call them RINOS, Republicans in name only, are cuckolds who just facilitate what the left does and never push back even when they're in majority. And they hate President Trump. To this day, the likes of Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney think that 64 million Americans, voting for a man who'd never run for political office before, and him becoming president, they think that's an anomaly. They think that's, oh, just a blip, and we'll get back to business and footsie under the table with the Democrats. They have no comprehension of the global phenomenon that is populism. From Brexit, to Modi, to Maloney, to Orban, to Millei, you know, to Bolsonaro, there is a wholehearted international rejection of what a friend of mine called on my show recently, and I literally just wrote an article on this for my Substack, the un-accountable's. It's, you know, it's not left and right anymore. We've got to ditch that taxonomy. It's not even conservative and liberal. It is the unaccountable elites who are completely cosseted and insulated from anything in the real world. The price of petrol doesn't affect them. They think a six-quid almond latte from Starbucks is a good deal, and they don't give a crap whether manufacturing jobs have been shipped over to China or Mexico. As long as the Wi-Fi signal in Starbucks is good, they can do their job as, you know, chief DEI officer or, you know, head of HR for some woke corporation. And then there's the rest of us, the accountables who, you know, the plumber who, when the price of petrol goes up 300% under Joe Biden, you can't put food on the table for your kids. Or you're the legal immigrants who came here from Mexico 10 years ago, got in line, took the exam, paid the money. And you're a waiter in Dallas, and along comes this Nigerian illegal, one of the 16 million let in by Biden, who tells the boss of that cafe, I'll do Jose's job. For cash, for 50% of what Jose's doing. I mean, these are the people who pay the price of the betrayal of the people who build America, betrayed by the Democrats and their enablers in the Republican Party. So yeah, that's where we are today. And the GOP, look, Lara Trump becoming the co-chair, the firing of Rona Romney McDaniel. OK, let's be clear here. The chair of the RNC, the National Committee, was Mitt Romney, one of the biggest rhino Trump haters, niece. And her loss of eight elections in a row had to have some consequences. Now Lara's in charge. They've hired Scott Press, a friend of mine who's one of the best grassroots activists in America. And finally, the choice of the people will be reflected in the party that is supposed to be his party. So to put it very briefly, the Republican Party will finally be a MAGA America First Party. I saw one of your shows recently, I think it was Scott saying maybe it should be renamed America First instead of the GOP. That was actually my associate producer talking in my ear. He wants me to shut up about that because he wants President Trump to drop that at the convention. I think it's right. Why should we be called the Grand Old Party? I mean, we're not in the 19th century, right? I mean, let's have something that reflects the will of the American people. And I watched that interview with Scott. And that's exciting to bring in a different generation, actually have different ideas. And someone who's done the groundwork for 10 years really should be rewarded with a position to roll out what he's doing in an area actually nationwide. So it's exciting to see that, I guess, the boldness that Trump changing the RNC now can have for going forward. Yeah, yeah. Look, the proof of the pudding will be the convention. The proof of the pudding will be the results. But we're seeing some incredible, I mean, look, it's a little bit arcane and only relevant to American politics. But we have this primary system where state by state you choose the candidate to lead the party for the election. And I know New Hampshire very, very well. New Hampshire is not an America First state. It used to be conservative. Now a lot of hippies and, you know, idiots have moved in. The record for primary votes, for the most votes ever cast in a primary, is held by Bernie Sanders. That tells you just how, you know, woke a state it has become. President Trump broke Bernie Sanders' standing primary record in New Hampshire this year. I mean, these things are unprecedented. The fact that he, as of last week, he's had more people vote for him in primaries than voted for him in the whole primary season in 2016. I think there's a grand awakening. And if just, if only 60, 70% of the reports are true about the Hispanic and black vote. According to the polls, the president now enjoys the majority of Hispanic votes in America. That's just mind-blowing. The man who we've been told by the establishment of media is the racist, bigoted, you know, yada, yada, yada. He's more popular with Hispanic Americans. And I don't want to, you know, tempt fate. He's getting upwards of 28, 30 percent of the black vote if that if that preference translates into actual ballots on November the 5th the democrat party will implode, I mean they've had a lock for absurd reasons, they've had a lock on the black vote for 70 years, the party that created the KKK, the party that was the party of southern segregation and plantations has had a lock on that vote forever and if 20, 30 percent of them leave that's it, there will be a crisis in the democrat party and it will be long overdue. Yeah I'm seeing that break away from the tribal politics, how your parents voted to actually voting with your gut and your conviction which could be a massive change. Does Trump actually need to do debates head-to-head? Obviously, he pulled out of the ones with the Republican field because he said, what's the point, and did his own. And that was genius, pure Trump. But actually, going head-to-head with Biden, what is the point? He's so far ahead in the polls. How do you think he will play it? Because then you fit into the CNN, MSNBC, you fit in the Fox News, you fit into their schedules, and he doesn't need to do that. Well, no, he doesn't need to because they're both known quantities. They've both been presidents, one the most successful president of the modern era, biggest economy we've ever had, no wars for four years, crushed ISIS, stock market rallies literally every other day. I had to watch the ticker tape in my studio because there was a new stock market rally, which isn't just for the fat cats. Your pension is tied to that stock market. So people's 401k pensions are like blossoming. And then we've had what? We've had Biden, record inflation. Petrol got up to $7 a gallon in California. You've got the invasion of Russia, the invasion of Ukraine, the surrender of Afghanistan, war in the Middle East. So it really should be a very stark binary option. So do you need a debate? Not really. But President Trump's great troll comment last week that, yeah, we should have a debate as long as Biden is drug tested, because they found a bag of cocaine in the White House, which the Secret Service, mystically couldn't find any fingerprints on, despite a bag of cocaine being the perfect thing to find fingerprints on, because it's not porous. It's absolutely like a sheet of glass that's plastic, right? And they definitely pumped him full of something for the State of the Union because this is a guy who is not compos mentis. This is a guy who doesn't function. And then, you know, he actually ranted like a lunatic, like on speed or something for an hour during the State of the Union. So it was a perfect troll. Will there be a debate? I doubt it. I doubt they'd let Biden debate with President Trump. But, you know, who knows? politics has been pretty weird for the last 10 years in America. And earlier you mentioned about some of the populism and across Europe, also in Bolsanaro and Brazil. And we're obviously having the European parliamentary elections coming up in June with a massive rise in populism. And you understand this as a Brit, as someone who's Hungarian roots and studied in Hungary and now you're an American citizen. You've got quite a unique perspective and view on this. And I'm wondering how, because with Trump going into the White House, having an open and possible very good relationship with Europe, which wasn't there in the first place, I'm kind of sitting back intrigued watching how this will play out. Because this could be a new, very strong relationship linking Europe and the US. Well, it could. It just depends who wins the elections in Europe, right? I mean, if it's the right people like Meloni in Italy, absolutely. If it's the wrong people like the socialists, the trounce, truth and justice in Poland, then it'll be a different kind of relationship. But people need to understand the president has a very strong soft spot in his heart for Europe because of his family background. But just go back to that video, if your viewers haven't seen it. Go back to the video when the president spoke at the United Nations General Assembly, long before Biden and the invasion of Ukraine. And he said, very declaratively said, by way of wanted to help, he said, Germany, Europe, why are you buying energy from Russia? It makes you dependent on a dictatorial regime that has military goals against NATO members or border countries. And then the camera panned from the president warning Europe not to do that to the German delegation. And the German delegation was tittering and giggling, saying, what does he know about geopolitics? Well, isn't it funny that when we leave the office? Vlad does what he did, puts a stranglehold on the energy of the Baltic states, Hungary, the Ukraine, and then Germany has to literally do a 180 and say, oh, we like nuclear energy now, and we're going to stop shutting down our nuclear energy plants. So, you know, which part of Europe are we talking about? The unaccountable asshole elites who are arrogant and don't give a fig for the people? Are we talking about politicians like Nigel Farage who understand that the political elite has been roundly rejected by the people of Europe? That's what will affect relations. Who's in charge? Are they the, what is it, the Klaus Schwab fanboys and fangirls? Or are they people who believe in the sovereignty of their own individual nations? Well, it could be rewritten with AFD in Germany and Freedom Party in Austria. Yeah, but look at the UK. Look at the UK. The UK's a disaster. I was with Steve Hilton yesterday in California, and I'm like, this is a guy who worked in 10 Downing Street, and I said to him, so what is it with the Tory party? And he said, he can't even explain it to me. How does, he said, Sunak is just so wet, so pathetic, and this is the best the UK can do. So Nigel, get busy. A hundred percent. It's depressing looking at every other green shoot across Europe and looking at the UK and having zero. But yeah, I know Nigel is seriously considering his political future. But he's involved in media. And I want to ask you about media. Nigel, of course, very involved in media and in GB News, probably the star on GB News. and in the States, I think it was an Axios article a few weeks ago talking about a MAGA media juggernaut that seems to eclipse, no pun intended for today, but eclipse any influence that Fox ever had. You're right in the centre of that, as is Bannon, Charlie Kirk. I mean, the list is wide of the names of individuals who have stepped up to the mark and helped the public understand. Tell us about that, because to me, that will be part of winning this war and getting the message out over the next six months. Well when it comes to the media there's only one mass media platform that conservatives control and that is of course talk radio, the left has tried talk radio and it's always recuperative and bile filled and nobody can listen to it for more than three minutes. I mean, my show's only five years old. I've got three and a half million daily listeners. You look at the Rush Limbaugh slot that is now divided between Dan Bongino and a couple of other hosts, Buck Sexton and his partner. And Rush was getting 20, 22, 23 million people listening. Fox doesn't even do that. I mean, before Tucker left, Tucker had the most popular show. And on a good night, that was 5 million, which tells you why television is kind of irrelevant. I mean, 5 million in a nation of 340 million, and radio is multiples of that. Now, since then, of course, we have what in the last few years, the rise of the Breitbarts, Newsmax doing incredibly successfully, pushing Fox out. But the hope, I don't know if you can can pull it off. The renaming was the dumbest thing ever. But Elon's buying of Twitter, I mean, he's been very open about he wants to make Twitter, the multimedia platform, he wants it to be the the Twitter, YouTube, Google, Spotify, all in one information platform. And we'll see what happens with you know, the next thing is going to be video long form videos on that platform. And God willing, power to his elbow, absolutely do it. And then President Trump, I don't know how the left failed to sabotage him, but with the SEC giving him permission to have that merger of the Truth Social and the SPAC on the stock exchange, President Trump just affected a, what was it, $8 billion deal. I mean, I don't try a lot. I mean, I put my segments from my radio show on Truth Social, and then I kind of cut and paste whatever I'm putting on Twitter on Truth Social. So I'm not, you know, really working on Trump's platform. And without trying, I got 900,000 followers. Now, that tells you, and this is a free speech platform that's not full of bots that are being generated for political purposes. This is a true free speech platform in accordance with the First Amendment. So I don't have a crystal ball, but the media environment is, it is being shook up something fabulous. You look at how wokeism, I mean, you look at what wokeism has done to the likes of Netflix and HBO, and along comes Angel Studios with the Call of Freedom and that mega series on Jesus, that reinterpretation of Jesus. Chosen? Chosen, yeah. This is like a boiling cauldron of things that are forming and shaping. And it's going to be, I mean, look, I'm not a fan of Tucker. Tucker's become a clickbait animal, in my opinion. But the figures he's getting for his videos, that presages something very interesting for the future. It's funny when the left think they've got rid of a problem like Trump, like Tucker, and they come back to haunt them. I love it. And I love it when they say, oh my gosh, President Trump's running out of money, and then the SPAC merger is approved, and he garners $4 billion himself from that deal. It's like, oh my gosh, Biden and Obama and Clinton, they're so cool. They had a fundraiser in Manhattan last weekend and they raised 25 million and president Trump had a fundraiser by himself, this weekend and raised 50 million, you just, you gotta laugh. You do, you read the headline, there was a guardian hippies think on the RNC takeover saying oh well you know it hasn't gone as planned, you're thinking, well actually he's really, he's taken over the apparatus, the party machine and actually, it's going to take a little bit of time to get smooth running when you're taking over. But it was the headline was anti. And then you read and you think, wow, that's bloody good. Well, it's at the tactical level. So my wife, who hates politics because she's sane, she, because it's a long story, but there was a drag queen story hour at our local community center that provoked her to run for the board of that community center. And then she became an election officer because she was worried about the integrity of the election. So she became the chief election officer for our part of Virginia. And then on Saturday, because she's fed up with the... We are in the richest county in Virginia. It's the second richest county in America. And it's run by... The RINO class at the RNC under Rona used us as a piggyback. They took all the money from Fairfax County. And then they never gave any money back to our candidates. So my wife was convinced to run for the chair of the GOP in Fairfax County. And I thought, oh my gosh. I mean, she'd never mentioned my name once. She didn't mention in any of her campaign promotional material. She trounced. It was a primary to other candidates. She defeated the second-placed loser by 40 points on Saturday. And then, the hit piece is, oh, my gosh, MAGA, wife of Trump, takes over GOP. It's like, you know that's how democracy works. When 68% of the delegates, 68% said, yeah, we want her. It's so weird how the left really hates the will of the American people now. But that's what it's about. It's about winning. And it's easy in some ways to say, let's all move to West Virginia and get an area of freedom. But actually to stay and fight, that's what's difficult. And that's what's required to win. Right, right. It's like, who's that guy who wrote Liberal Fascists, that conservative who went lunatic, anti-Trumper? There's this, I can't believe he actually said it live on television. He's become, you know, the quasi-Republican on CNN. And here it's, oh yeah, so it's Jonah Goldberg. Jonah Goldberg was bashing Trump again on CNN or whatever, and he actually said out loud, all these small donors that President Trump is getting, it's a real problem because they don't understand the world, and it should be the policies of the mega donors that shape the Republican Party. I say, Jonah, did these words just come out of your mouth that the plebs, the plebs are stupid? How dare the people's desires like wanting to have a border and jobs in manufacturing? How dare, leave it up to the billionaires because they really care about America. Jonah Goldberg actually said that live on television. And he didn't apologize. He didn't catch himself and say, oops, I said the quiet bit out loud. These people believe it, Peter. They believe it. How dare, how dare the American people vote for Donald Trump? How dare they? I've seen a number of your tweets and you've been pointing that out, Biden at war, not with America's enemies but with America itself and America last, you put war on common sense, war on Christians, it's war on our children war on free speech. Think of this I was speaking in front of about a thousand conservatives yesterday in California and I think, this is so, to diagnose the situation we live in the most perverse of ages because never before has a society or a civilization been run by those who hate their own country. I mean, Obama said it. He said, I wish to radically transform, fundamentally transform America. Well, you don't love anything that you wish to radically transform. And it sounds extreme, but look at what just happened. The federal government, the federal government, whose number one duty is the safety of our citizens, That's its number one thing, is now suing the governor of Texas because he deployed his National Guard elements to put container boxes along the border to stop it. The feds were letting in the illegals, 10,000 a day. And the governor, Abbott, said, OK, well, I've got to do something because I'm responsible for the citizens of my state of Texas. In the Texas Constitution, it says he must secure his state if there is an invasion. So he moved the Conex boxes to just put a barrier along the Texan border. Biden is suing Texas for trying to secure the territory of America. It's like that's when you realize these people truly hate their own country and hate their own people. 100% and that's what seems to be the big two issues are the border and the economy and there are many other issues but I guess those two are simple election but then when the election is won you've got a much, well you've got a whole litany of issues that then need to be sorted out. Well yes I mean here's the massive irony. I'm going to write a piece on this today or tomorrow that, this is the delightful thing about the left. They're evil bastards. They hate Judeo-Christian civilization, but they're really quite stupid. Why did Donald Trump win in 2016? If you have to boil it down to one univalent answer, he won because of illegal immigration. I mean, the most powerful mobilizing slogan of 2016 was build the wall. I mean, that really was, if you had to choose one, it was build the wall. What have they just done in the last three and a half years, if there's one issue if you know you're running against him again, what's the one issue Peter, you shouldn't give to Donald Trump a second time round, you probably shouldn't give him the issue he won on the first time, you probably shouldn't give immigration back to him as a weapon and they haven't given it back to him as a weapon. They've given it back to him as a nuclear bomb. When you let in 10,000 illegals a day, and there's this guy who actually sealed the border eight years ago, you're actually re-electing Donald Trump on the same issue that you helped him to get elected on the first time. These people are cretins. I mean, they really are cretins. Completely, can I just finish off on education because it was your wonderful Oxford Union speech, I think it was the beginning of this year and it was Sebastian Gorka explains why America and the world needs president Trump back in office and you realize this is a battle for education for the next generation for children to actually rediscover the American dream that their parents fought for and strived for. But let me just tell, what was that like going into an arena where you are hated because you stand up for the best of a country itself? And then what are your thoughts on, actually, it is about reclaiming the education system? Well, look, I thought twice about it, because it's got to be as, a heart of darkness when it comes to wokeism but I've got to give them full credit, I mean really, it's not part of the University but it's affiliated to it and it's run by the students of Oxford so, and look when the Oxford Union invites you to debate on any subject you have to go, when you see the photographs of Einstein, Maggie Thatcher, Ronald Reagan who've all debated in that beautiful building, you don't say well sorry, I'm not, I'm too good for that, And so they believe, you may not have it in the British system, but they believe in a First Amendment and freedom of speech. And I'm just absolutely stunned that I had 120, 130 students vote for President Trump after I gave my speech. But let me tell you a story. So it's run by this committee who, interestingly, are mostly classic scholars. So the dinner beforehand was, you know, debating the Pliny versus Tacitus. I felt like I'd arrived in some Evelyn Waugh novel. It was quite, quite funny. But one of them, because you can only go and listen if you're a member of the union. One of these students, after I gave my pitch, he stood up, took the microphone, and he was a perfect exemplar of what we face. And he said, in front of hundreds of people, I mean, it was a packed crowd, standing room only, and I've literally just given my speech and I've traveled, what, 8,000 miles on my own dime. And he says, I hate you and everything your former boss stood for. And I'm an American. He was like an exchange student or whatever. And he said, I would rather vote for a dead twig than to vote for President Trump. And I accosted him afterwards over the little, you know, cocktails we were having. And I said to him, you do realize how privileged you are, that you're an American at Oxford, and you really shouldn't dehumanize other people. And to say in public that you hate a man you've never met before, and you'd rather vote for a piece of wood than a human being, you're actually dehumanizing at the level that the Nazis dehumanized somebody they politically disagreed with. And then to his credit, he apologized. He said, yes, you're right. And then literally 40 seconds later, he did it again. And he made an ad hominem attack against me in front of witnesses as we're drinking. And he just, the level of indoctrination is stunning. And I had the president of the Heritage Foundation on my radio show the week he was appointed. And he's a former president of a college in Texas. He's a fourth-generation educator, PhD in history. And my wife, who worked for Heritage at the time, smuggled me a question to ask him at the end of the hour. And I said, so, Dr. Roberts, it's exciting to see Americans take back the schools, the mama bears rising up against the insane COVID mandates, the masks, the CRT, all this garbage. That's cool. But what about higher ed? What about the colleges? What about the universities? You've run one of these. Can we salvage them? Can we rebuild them? Live on air in front of three and a half million people, he said, it's brand newly minted president of the Heritage Foundation. No, we have to burn them to the ground. Now, when he says that, you think, you know, let me think about that. And then what happens? Three years later, the president of the most famous college in the world says, genocide of the Jews, that's a contextual statement and may not be hate-filled. Then he's right. I mean, I got in an argument about this with a fellow conservative who said, well, we've got to save the colleges. I said, you can't save that. I mean, when it's so ingrained that calling for genocide on Harvard campus is something the president thinks is OK, you can't change that unless you change everybody who works at Harvard, because they're all like that. I mean, maybe there's two professors left who aren't woke, but you can't build it with thousands of people who hate America. It's like, let me make an analogy that you're not supposed to say. It's impolitic. My thing is national security and people tell me, well, Israel has to do what it has to do and it has to crush Hamas and then it'll be okay. And they have to do whatever it takes. Civilian casualties, yes, we get it, but they just got to crush Hamas. And I say, You can't crush Hamas. The polls say 70% to 80% of Gazans support what Hamas did on October 7th. When 70% of a population says murdering beautiful young women at a rave in the desert is okay. Unless the population is removed somewhere else, and Egypt built their wall with God. You cannot fix that by killing the people who did October 7th because you'll just find more recruits. You can't fix these colleges. And that's why home-schooling is enormous, why Hillsdale and the like of Grove City, conservative colleges that don't take one cent from the feds. So the feds can't force their CRT and equal rights garbage on them are so thriving. But, my parents escaped communism. And it's the idea that we're in that situation where in every communist nation that had a semblance of resistance, the kids would come home from school and then the parents would put the radio up loud and then deprogram their kids at night. And say, okay, what did that commie teachers tell you about Stalin? Let me tell you what the truth is about the West and capitalism. And to think that we might be in a similar situation without a Berlin Wall, without bipolarity, but where we need to deprogram our kids. That's why I tell people it's cool to work in the White House. Don't get me wrong. As an immigrant, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool to be president. It's pretty cool to be a senator. But it's mostly irrelevant. I mean, the founding fathers were very clear. Federal government should be irrelevant. It should deal with two things, war and interstate trade. That's it. Alex de Tocqueville understood America better than anyone, of course, because he's a foreigner. And he said, where's the locus of power? Where's real America? It's locally. It's at the county commissioner. It's at the school board. That's why when you want to take back a country, that's where you take it back. Why is George Soros funding local school board races and local prosecutors at the county level? I mean, people like Fani Willis. What the hell is the billionaire who broke the Bank of London doing funding local prosecutor races? Well, because that's how you steal a country. And we kind of just snoozed past it for 40 years as bit by bit, the real locus of power at county, at a municipality level was taken over. I mean, Tip O'Neill famously had this phrase in the 90s, the Democrat speaker, he said, politics is local. And it became this kind of bumper sticker for the Democrats. Oh, oh, all politics is local. And we kind of laughed and said, oh, that's cute. Well, they actually meant it. They understood that you capture a nation not with a presidential election. You capture a nation. When I arrived to Virginia, I moved from Europe 2008. And we put our kids into the local schools. And we looked into the local school district, school board. There were nine members of the school board. Every single one of them was a raving left-wing loony. And here's the important thing. None of them had a child in the public schools of the county. And you go, what? Then why are they running the board? Because it's about controlling my children, right? This is what we have to wake up to. Dr Sebastian Gorka it's wonderful having you on, it's an honour and I know you are, what three hours a day is it? Three hours of live radio every day and then a weekly tv show on Newsmax. On Salem media group, on Rumble, on Spotify, any place you want to watch it, all the links are on Sebastian's twitter feed at the top, so I appreciate your time thank you so much, Dr. Gorka. Thank you. And check out my Substack, Sebastian Gorka, one word, sebastiangorka.substack.com We will put it in the description. Thank you so much.

Welcome to "By Far The Greatest Team" football podcast, where hosts Graham and Jamie dive deep into the world of football greatness. In this special episode, they're joined by their inaugural guest, Scott Somenthal, for a nostalgic journey back to the iconic England 1982 World Cup team.Get ready to reminisce and debate as they unravel the highs and lows of England's campaign. Remember Trevor Brooking's unforgettable moment when his delicate lob got stuck in the goal stanchion, leaving fans breathless and commentators scrambling for words to describe the sheer audacity of the attempt.But that's just the tip of the iceberg. They'll delve into the spine-tingling commentary that echoed through the ages as "Maggie Thatcher's boys took one hell of a beating," immortalizing a moment that captured the nation's spirit.Yet, it's not all about the matches. Prepare to be enthralled by tales of the madness and folly of FIFA's World Cup draw, where fate seemed to toy with the hopes and dreams of nations. And who could forget the joy of collecting Panini World Cup stickers, trading duplicates in the schoolyard while dreaming of seeing your favourite players grace the pitch?Then, there's the electrifying speed of Bryan Robson's lightning-fast goal against France, a moment that ignited hope and sent pulses racing across the nation.Join them as they dissect the Brooking-Keegan combination, a partnership that promised so much but arrived just a little too late to salvage England's hopes. It's a classic episode filled with laughter, nostalgia, and passionate debate about one of football's most memorable teams.Tune in now and relive the glory days of England's 1982 World Cup adventure, where every goal, every triumph, and every heartbreak is etched into footballing folklore.If you enjoy these podcasts, please don't forget to subscribe and give us a rating and also tell everyone about them!Or visit our website at www.thegreatestteam.co

Ein brutaler Anschlag erschüttert Russland. Volker Wissing träumt von Lufttaxis. Und junge Menschen diskutieren über Finanzpolitik und Demokratiefeindlichkeit. Das ist die Lage am Samstagmorgen. Die Artikel zum Nachlesen: Zahl der Toten steigt auf 60, mindestens 145 Menschen verletzt Volker Wissing hebt ab Wie Arbeitsminister Hubertus Heil sein Rentenkonzept verteidigt: »Die Konservativen knüpfen an Maggie Thatcher an« +++ Alle Rabattcodes und Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier: https://linktr.ee/spiegellage +++ Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Webseite verantwortlich.+++ Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier. Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich. +++ Alle SPIEGEL Podcasts finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie bei SPIEGEL+. Jetzt für nur € 1,- für die ersten vier Wochen testen unter spiegel.de/abonnieren Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

Joining Jill and Doron on the 14th episode of the podcast, to tell us his story, is Philip Powell (1962-71), our first guest (save Jeremy Rosen) to also have been a Carmel parent, when his daughter Lauren became a pupil in the ‘90s. Philip and his younger brother Jonathan, also a Carmel alumnus, worked in ladies fashion accessories.  Philip now lives in Redbridge, Essex with Stephanie, his wife of 18 years. Hear Philip talk about girls, girls, girls arriving at Carmel, meeting Maggie Thatcher on Prize Day, scoring tickets to watch Benfica play at Wembley with Mr. Barr Taylor, and how Mrs. Evans made him blush.   Thank you, Philip Powell, for turning us again to Carmel days! Dedication: at Philip's request, this episode is dedicated to the memory of his favorite teacher, Anthony Barr Taylor, who in his multiple roles as biology teacher, coach of girls' field hockey and of horse-riding, as well as one-time housemaster, had an outsize impact on Carmel, where he taught from 1953 to 1995.   Personal mentions in this episode: Dr. David Stamler (Headmaster) Rabbi Jeremy Rosen (Headmaster) Philip Skelker (Headmaster) Anthony Barr Taylor (Biology) Mary Evans (Mathematics) Hugh Oakley (Spanish) Mrs. Pennistone Jonathan Powell Peter Moore Steven Graham Daniel Gance Mark Magidson Marylin Evans Lauren (Powell) Franks Gary Casson Susan Seroya Paul Bond Lee Berger Mitchell Landau   Feel free to leave a comment letting us know what you liked about this episode, and rate us on your favorite podcast platform

Mark is back with his crew of mismatched miscreants to repopulate a new planet, Who gets to do the deed though? Alan Bennett, Marks dad, Nigel Farage, Brian Clough, Maggie Thatcher or Addison Rae (who?)This time his lucky charm comes in the form of a Scottish stallion, his 100 things co-host John and Hallmark of Greatness' Joe, but can they thwart the ultimate evil quiz?Previous Episodes100 Things we learned from the end of the worldPlanty Pod PeopleCheeky bonusAre you a Dead? (Numberwang new years edition)Mark and John can be found herelinktr.ee/100thingsCheck out Joe's tingsTwitter of GreatnessLink tree of GreatnessDammit TwitterDammit LinktreeWeird TwitterWebsite - TotalCultZone.ComElectronic mail - FKingHello@gmail.comMUSICArmageddon vacation introСукины Сыны / Sons Of Bitches (RU) - Мальчи…AdvertsLobo Loco – Helges Friend woke upHep Cats - Kevin MacLeod Incompetech.comOops! sorry bout that songAin't no pleasing you - Chas and DaveWebsite - TotalCultZone.ComElectronic mail - FKingHello@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're talking about the new study that shows that kids learn better on paper than they do on screens – is it really that surprising? Rosemary's still carrying around her Filofax like a 21st century Maggie Thatcher, while Beatrice is never giving up her good old paperback habit.Let us know how you feel YOUR kids get on with on-screen learning – and whether or not you feel you get the same result from reading on screen vs reading on paper. DM us on Instagram @notwithoutmysister, or email us on notwithoutmysis@gmail.com.Rosemary's book, This is Not About You, is available now wherever books are sold. If you're lazy, check out a few links here.http://www.patreon.com/notwithoutmysister – $5 a month will get you a minimum of four bonus episodes AND your regular episodes will come to you early AND ad-free!LEAVE US A REVIEW! Please, please, please. Failing that, share the pod on your social media and tell alllll of your friends! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh well this had been a joy. Who cares about a CSO'd puppet chewing a thing? It's got John Woodnutt talking about organic crystallography, it's got Maggie Thatcher at the end of the phone (yes, alright, it might be Barbara Castle of Shirley Williams), and it's got some gorgeous lighting too. What's not to love? Thanks to Daisy Connolly for being such a fabulous guest as well.   Please support these podcasts on Patreon, where you will get advance releases, exclusive content (including a patron-only podcast - Far Too Much Information), regular AMAs and more. Tiers start from as little as £3 per month.  patreon.com/tobyhadoke Or there is Ko-fi for the occasional donation with no commitments: ko-fi.com/tobyhadoke Follow Toby on Twitter @tobyhadoke And these podcasts @HadokePodcasts And his comedy club @xsmalarkey www.tobyhadoke.com for news, blog, mailing list and more.   

According to Steven Scragg, Stu Horsfield and Aidan Williams, this is the "Stingray" season – anything can happen in the next nine months. Ron Saunders walks out on Aston Villa, joins Birmingham  and misses out on lifting the European Cup. Spurs win the FA Cup in a year not ending in 1. Swansea's rapid ascent from Division Four now sees them topping the First Division. But, obviously, Liverpool win the league. There's even a little bit of politics; Maggie Thatcher, your boys get one hell of a beating …

In the latest installment of "A Pint With Peter," join us on a journey through our experiences on Earth. While we didn't start the fire, Chris and I have witnessed quite a lot. Peter reminisces about his time in Israel, reflecting on the past. Let Peter read an old newspaper to you as we tackle topics like skinheads, the Nation Front League, and explore whether Maggie Thatcher truly left a mark as a cultural icon in the music scene. Join us for these engaging discussions and more! Join in with the chat by sending us an email on apintwithpeter@gmail.com or if your on tweet use @apintwithpeter. You can now support the podcast even more by buying us a pint on https://www.buymeacoffee.com/pintwithpeter. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-pint-with-peter/message

The Labour leader has said the former Tory leader effected "meaningful change” in the Sunday Telegraph. Paddy's been speaking to him about why.Also, as we head into the winter, Laura has been talking to the Health Secretary Victoria Atkins about whether the NHS is ready.Today's Newscast was presented by Laura Kuenssberg, Paddy O'Connell and Henry Zeffman. It was made by Chris Flynn with Beth Ashmead Latham. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

As quickly as it returned, it was over once again. Here is the final (for now) episode of GamesMaster, as Shellzz takes on a near-impossible FIFA '22 challenge, Ty faces his Ty Breaker on Tekken 7, and Little Lad Larry races Elz The Witch on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Plus, two lads scrub their way through Street Fighter V: Champion Edition with more than the Golden Joystick on the line.Rab reviews the Evercade VS, the colleagues get to grips with Valheim, Ty and his mates do some YouTube content on the Meta Quest II, and Grado learns to punch a cybernetic demon version of Scotland's Final Boss, Maggie Thatcher, in the face on Thatcher's Techbase.Help us build future 'UCP Live!' Events here!Join the GamesMaster conversation on Discord!Theme song by Other ChrisFollow Luke on TwitterFollow Ash on TwitterFollow Under Consoletation on TwitterFollow Under Consoletation on InstagramSend your thoughts to feedback@underconsoletation.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/underconsolepod. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

S06E09 The SchoolMeals Service with Heather Ellis: shownotesNeil's guest today is Heather Ellis from Sheffield University. Helen is a historian of Education and she, along with academics from the University of Wolverhampton and UCL, have just embarked on an ambitious project looking at people's experiences and memories of their school dinners in all four UK Home Nations. School dinners have been supplied by the School Meals Service – i.e. by the Government – since 1908.They talked about the project, the origins of the School Meals Service in the first decade of the 20th century, the foods served up over the next 100 years or so including pink sponge and custard, liver with the tubes attached and the now infamous turkey twizzlers, Maggie Thatcher – milk snatcher, the fall in the quality of school dinners, as well as Jamie Oliver's campaign to get them sorted out, and many other things. The School Meals Project wants your food memories if you have had experience with school meals in the UK, however old you may be and whatever the interaction may be.School Meals Project website: https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk/Find Heather on Twitter @HeatherLWEllisFind The School Meals Project on Twitter: @ESRCSchoolMealsJamie Oliver's school meals campaign clip: https://youtu.be/DG66rKiNkw4When published, Neil's blog post with a recipe for sago pudding, will be found at www.britishfoodhistory.com Other past blog post recipes for school dinner-style foods:Rice pudding: https://britishfoodhistory.com/2015/01/14/rice-pudding/How to make a steamed sponge pudding: https://britishfoodhistory.com/2023/01/13/how-to-make-a-steamed-sponge-pudding-a-step-by-step-guide/Jam roly-poly: https://britishfoodhistory.com/2011/11/26/jam-roly-poly/Proper custard: https://britishfoodhistory.com/2012/03/02/proper-custard/Eton Mess: https://britishfoodhistory.com/2011/08/11/eton-mess/Other bits:The Elizabeth Raffald Manchester Central Library event at 6pm on 13 September: https://librarylive.co.uk/event/elizabeth-raffald-englands-most-influential-housekeeper/Neil will be speaking at the Ludlow Food Festival on Sunday 10 September at 2.30pm, talking all things Elizabeth Raffald: https://www.ludlowfoodfestival.co.uk/He is also talking at Chelsea History Festival on Friday 29 September 2023, at 6pm about the history of sugar: https://chelseahistoryfestival.com/events/dark-history-sugar/Neil's blogs:‘British Food: a History'

小額贊助支持本節目： https://open.firstory.me/user/ck2ymcbpa2cpi0869qq23bkji 留言告訴我你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/ck2ymcbpa2cpi0869qq23bkji/comments 【H&M 365】#PODCAST 1979-05-04 鐵娘子上任 英國第一位女性首相，開啟長達11年的執政生涯 《鐵娘子：堅固柔情》The Iron Lady, 2011 - ▶️ 收看YouTube影片：https://youtu.be/BuB5Ksy95eU ▶️ 收聽PODCAST聲音：https://open.firstory.me/story/clh8kawfl0ixo01tbce6cbe1v/platforms - 「在有衝突的地方，給予和諧；在有謬誤的地方，宣揚真理；在有疑慮的地方，帶去信仰；在有失望的地方，喚起希望。」 柴契爾夫人在當選首相後 於唐寧街10號門口發表的演說 . 柴契爾夫人（瑪格麗特柴契爾，婚前為瑪格莉特羅伯茲），出生於1925年10月13日英格蘭的林肯郡格蘭瑟姆；她在1944年以優異的成績進入牛津大學薩莫維爾學院，主修化學，畢業後在食品公司擔任研發人員。她在1951年嫁給了商人丹尼斯柴契爾，並在先生的資助之下進入倫敦大學下屬城市法學院攻讀法律課程，兩年後取得律師資格。 - 柴契爾夫人首先在1959年踏入政壇，成為英國下議院議員，一路過關斬將，在英國政壇漸漸展露頭角。她在政壇的行事作風強硬，常被媒體或政敵取上許多綽號，像是她在擔任教育及科學大臣時，為了節省經費取消全國學校的免費牛奶政策，被媒體戲稱為「牛奶掠奪者」（Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher）；1976年她擔任保守當黨魁期間因公開發表對蘇聯的批評，因此被蘇聯官媒形容成「鐵娘子」；還有政敵取笑她家世背景而稱呼她「雜貨店老闆」、取笑她如同匈奴王阿提拉般粗魯的「阿提拉母雞」、取笑她為「蒂納」Tina，即「There is no Alternative 沒有選擇餘地」的意思。 - 也正因為她的強硬作風，讓柴契爾夫人在保守黨的聲勢越來越大，最後在1979年的工黨倒閣的改選中脫穎而出，以反對派領袖之姿，成為英國史上第一位女首相。 - 由於英國在二戰後逐漸失去國際影響力，原本屬於大英帝國的殖民地紛紛獨立，讓昔日的大英帝國光榮光輝不再，經濟也持續衰退；柴契爾夫人上任後的新內閣被人民寄予厚望，率先提出不少經濟改革，擺脫了英國自70年代後的經濟衰退困境，同時也在外交和內政上展現強硬態度。最有名的事件，莫過於1982年發生的福克蘭戰爭，英國對當時入侵福克蘭群島的阿根廷軍政府迎頭痛擊。 - 柴契爾夫人總共做了三個首相任期，長達11年，是近代任期最長的英國首相；她的鐵腕作風雖然改善了英國經濟問題，但有多數政策被批評為保守，漠視弱勢人權而引發民怨和暴動。她在1990年推行的新稅制，造成中產階級的支持者流失，保守黨內部也因為歐盟問題出現意見分歧，讓她的權力地位受到動搖，最終於1992年的英國大選後正式卸下首相一職，並從下議院退休。退休後，她被冊封為終身貴族，在政壇上仍保有影響力，多次針對時事提出看法與評論。但在晚年，她患有輕微失智，也多次因為中風而進出醫院。最後她在2013年4月8日，在倫敦五星級飯店的套房中過世，終年87歲。 - - -

Live at Leicester Square's world-famous Prince Charles Cinema, Brian Blessed surpasses the swear quota of all previous 95 episodes combined, and covers what 'Gordon's Alive' has become, Peppa Pig, Patrick Stewart, burping, Z Cars, sparring with Muhammed Ali, wrestling a gorilla, Blackadder, Flash Gordon, Tarzan, Peter O'Toole, being in a plane crash, meeting The Queen, creating the South Downs, being a trained cosmonaut, Kenneth Branagh, I Claudius, an absolutely cutlery-dropping, eye-popping, 100% hard 18 certificate Maggie Thatcher's funeral skit and a dazzlingly operatic finale recalling being in Stars In Their Eyes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We step aside from baseball this week for a special episode. Sam Cockwell from the Falkland Islands Hockey Association is my guest and talks about everything from the hockey movement on the islands, how his league found its logo, penguins, hockey tournaments in Costa Rica, his love of the Maple Leafs, and the existence of no crime in the Falklands. Maggie Thatcher would have been proud!

Mark is back with his crew of mismatched miscreants to repopulate a new planet, Who gets to do the deed though? Alan Bennett, Marks dad, Nigel Farage, Brian Clough, Maggie Thatcher or Addison Rae (who?)This time his lucky charm comes in the form of a Scottish stallion, his 100 things co-host John and Hallmark of Greatness' Joe, but can they thwart the ultimate evil quiz?Previous Episodes100 Things we learned from the end of the worldPlanty Pod PeopleCheeky bonusAre you a Dead? (Numberwang new years edition)Mark and John can be found herelinktr.ee/100thingsCheck out Joe's tingsTwitter of GreatnessLink tree of GreatnessDammit TwitterDammit LinktreeWeird TwitterWebsite - TotalCultZone.ComElectronic mail - FKingHello@gmail.comMUSICArmageddon vacation introСукины Сыны / Sons Of Bitches (RU) - Мальчики/Девочки / Boys/GirlsAdvertsLobo Loco – Helges Friend woke upHep Cats - Kevin MacLeod  Incompetech.comOops! sorry bout that songAin't no pleasing you - Chas and DaveWebsite - TotalCultZone.ComElectronic mail - FKingHello@gmail.com

Tiff Stevenson introduces Bugle 230 from 2013, which tried to make sense of the ecstasy and agony of the death of Maggie Thatcher.Hear more of our shows, donate and see our live dates here: thebuglepodcast.com/This episode was produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Staat, Gesellschaft, solidarisches Wir – das sind in Krisenzeiten die Hauptadressaten für Hilferufe. Doch Maggie Thatchers Satz aus dem Jahr 1987 sei immer noch zutreffend, meint Journalistin Anna Schneider: "So etwas wie Gesellschaft gibt es nicht."Ein Standpunkt von Anna Schneiderwww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Politisches FeuilletonDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

** Check out the transcript for this and every episode of Macro N Cheese at the https://realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese-podcast/ (Real Progressives website). Grumbine: I follow a lot of Brits on Twitter, and not just regular rank and file activists, but a lot of the actual economists. And the folks that are considered left, very strongly remind me of neoliberals.Wilson: Because they are. [laughter] What we have, you see, is this wonderful thing called the Oxford degree in philosophy, politics and economics [PPE]. And what happens is, when they graduate from that, there's a Sorting Hat, and it just puts them in either the Labor Party or the Tory Party, depending upon what the Sorting Hat thinks. They're all exactly the same. They're all the same graduates, they're all the same set of people. The economists are like that, too. They just get a Sorting Hat when they get the degree, I swear to God. Here in the US, we've been watching the administration scramble to deal with inflation. That chaos is nothing compared to what's going on in the UK. They are soon to be on their fifth prime minister in six years. (As a point of reference, Maggie Thatcher was PM for 13 years; they don't have term limits.) When Steve asked Neil Wilson to come on the podcast to talk about Liz Truss, he must have assumed she would last longer than six weeks! Oh well. It's still an informative episode. As we well know, the MMT lens is useful regardless of economic conditions. Neil talks to Steve about the political lessons he has learned from the Tory's attempt at handling of the economy. He and Steve talk about the EU and Brexit, and how the war in Ukraine is affecting the energy situation in the UK and Europe. Neil Wilson is an associate member of the Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies in London, a co-author of "An accounting model of the UK Exchequer" and a co-editor and contributor to the forthcoming book "Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers"

Welcome to Episode 2 of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, a podcast about music. Steve and Sam have spent the week catching up on all manner of indie and alternative music, and give their thoughts on the latest releases from Pixies, Suede, Orville Peck, Life, KEN Mode, Sports Team and Wargasm. Plus we review the big new metal album of the week courtesy of Slipknot's The End, So Far.There's also chat about Mel C refuting 25 year old claims of Maggie Thatcher being the original Spice Girl, the fury of Ian Brown fans, who have had to bare witness to something truly horrifying... namely, seeing Ian Brown live. And we discuss the songs that have been stuck in our head this week, one from 70's "Queen of disco" Sylvester and another from Kevin Martin's dub heavy The Bug project.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Liz Truss wird neue britische Premierministerin. Sie hat sich als beinharte Konservative präsentiert. Nach Ansicht vieler Kommentatoren wird das aber nicht reichen, um Großbritannien durch die Krise zu führen.

In the latest Hard Truth, David and ilana tackle the staggering decline of the quality of female political leaders. From the UK's Iron Lady the great Maggie Thatcher to Finland's pouting Party Girl Sanna Marin, why has it all gone so badly wrong? Ilana captured the essence of Lady Thatcher years ago when she observed that Thatcher was an individualist, not a feminist. By contrast Sanna Marin is a feminist not an individualist. David argues that feminism has destroyed any merit in female political leaders and more than a few XY ones! ilana and David both agree that it is unfortunate that women ever got the vote as the feminisation of politics and ilana bravely agreed to give up her vote if the whole thing could be undone! As a final topic, the role of Donald Trump is going along with the lockdowns was discussed and ilana and David agreed that Republican need to stop being so uncritical about his role in the destruction of the economy back then.   DAVID VANCE is one of the most outspoken, fearless political commentators in the UK and bears the scars for it. Having been in front-line politics as Deputy Leader of the UK Unionist Party for some years, he was delighted to oppose the anti-democratic Belfast Agreement and the Clintonian-Blair forces behind that. He even wrote a book about it all called “Unionism Decayed” (2008). David has been a successful businessman for decades and prides himself on his independence. He has turned in stellar appearances on ALL mainstream UK political programs, before being … cancelled. He doesn't care! He and ilana mercer have joined forces to create the punch-in-the-gut HARD TRUTH channel. Contacts: https://gettr.com/user/davidvance & https://gab.com/DAVIDVANCE ILANA MERCER, paleolibertarian author and theorist, has written a weekly column since 1999, in which first principles and a fidelity to reality have combined to yield a predictive, fun bit of writing on the most controversial, pressing issues of the day. From war to racism to trade deficits to anarchism to immigration and populism; as a reader put it, “We've learned to trust you.” Books: Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011) & The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed” (2016) Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/ilanamercer Twitter: https://twitter.com/IlanaMercer   Also try watching the video

One of the most culturally significant writers of the past three decades, the creator of the now iconic 'Trainspotting', Irvine Welsh, joins The Michael Anthony Show for Episode 144.  A wide range of topics are discussed throughout the show, with Welsh providing a raw glimpse into the workings of his fascinating mind. The purpose of writing, heroin addiction, the sex life of Maggie Thatcher, human emotion, football, love and much more feature during a Guinness fuelled hour, with the legendary Scot's worldview provoking thought throughout. Currently being trailed by a camera crew for an upcoming fly-on-the-wall documentary about his day to day processes, Welsh's creative journey is far from finished and the Hibs devotee, now sixty-three, possesses a level energy that you would associate with a man who gave us some of the most absorbing characters of recent times. Welsh lives life as if he only has one.Tune in.MAS.Support the show

Ben and Bran and Billy. We discuss Stephen Daldry's 2000 film and 2004 musical. Topics include coke, cross-dressing, and Maggie Thatcher. Visit our Patreon at patreon.com/moviethemusical !

This week! Twitter remembers Maggie Thatcher on the anniversary of her demise.... fondly? Also; Matthew LeTissier the conspiracy nut, Meta employee's cute nickname for Zuckerberg, and what did Irish Twitter put in the census? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tweets-ahead/message

On this week's show the Blind Guys get political as we are delighted to be joined by Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth: Roderic O'Gorman. We talk about how life has changed for him since the Irish general election at the beginning of 2020. We chat about improving the lives of people living with disabilities, and after our chat we learn about a very important vote that took place in the Dáil (our Irish Parliament) during our chat with Minister O'Gorman. Jan is worried about his house being flooded due to global warming, but Stuart and Óran remind him that he can find sanctuary here in Ireland, all he needs to do is grab hold of that Zipline we installed earlier this year between Jan's house and Stuart's apartment. The guys are still arguing about Clodagh's new email jingle, but Stuart much like Maggie Thatcher, he's not for turning. We have email messages from Jade (of Ulysses fame), Gary in Cape Town, and from Saleem in Dublin. We talk briefly about Windows 11 and of course, the show would not be complete if we didn't talk about Stuart's counter top dishwasher. So sit back, cool the jets, and chill out for an hour - let Blind Guys Chat help you relax as if you were in a bath full of puppies. Huh....?

Charlie McCreevy said in 2017 that the highly controversial interview we did in 1989, "captured Fianna Fail in Flux and going through an identity crisis." In this radio show, I made based on the interview, we discuss McCreevy being "the nearest thing to Satan" as far as some Fianna Fail fanatics were concerned, Charlie Haughey- "I'm as arrogant as he is" - and how Fianna Fail can avoid "vegetating in the bogs of history."

Welcome to episode eighteen of our wonderfully awesome comedy and history podcast, Where You're From! Brought to you by husband and wife team, Max and Hitomi. Each episode, British born Max, and Filipino Japanese Hitomi, will talk about each others cultural history. It's a whole lot of interesting education and comedy, and hopefully only a pinch of domestic violence. This weeks episode features your favourite nutball, Max, talking about his favourite nutball Japanese cult. It's probably not the one that you're thinking of. They are known as happy science and feature a glorious leader who is a supreme ninth dimension God. He can talk to ghosts, and he loves nothing more than making anime about Devil Cat, the cutest character since Buddha hello Kitty. It's a whole lot of whacky Japanese culture that is sure to put you off ever visiting the land of the rising sun. Let's history! ***New episode every Tuesday!*** Max became a sound engineer from episode 14, so much better audio quality starting from that episode. Don't forget to check out our Instagram page "wyfpodcast" and feel free to message us with any and all feedback!

Celtic Soul Podcast Episode 60 with More than 90 Minutes, Editor Andrew Milne chatting to Rudi Vata and Eddie Toner with David Potter and some match day friends.Celtic AM Scottish Cup Special, Andrew returns after a year with the show which differs from the normal Celtic Soul Podcast which was recorded for Celtic Fanzine TV. All is explained in the intro from Andrew.Celtic historian and author David Potter kicks off the show with a history lesson of Celtic in the Scottish Cup including recounting his own memories from 1965 onwards and he also recalls his father's stories of famous finals in his time.Plenty of Celtic fans are also on hand to recall their favourite Cup moments. Frank McAvennie in the Centenary season, giving Maggie Thatcher the red card and Tom Rogic's magical late invisible treble winning goal are just three that get mentioned.Eddie Toner chats to Andrew about how special the Scottish Cup is and his memories include the story behind a man in his thirties dressed in a full kit for the final in 1995 and the celebrations that night when Tommy Burns took the team bus through the Gorbals and the Gallowgate on the way back to Celtic Park.Rudi Vata recalls being on the bus that day with two special Celtic fans who lived the dream, Paul McStay and Tommy Burns and how special a day it was for the team and he also goes back to relive that perfect pass in the semi-final when he found Phil O'Donnell for the third goal in a 3-1 win over Hibs to secure victory.Follow Andrew Milne on Twitter @AndrewMilne12Playout Tune The Fields of Athenry performed by Ronan McQuillan & Friends More than 90 Minutes Issue 114 Print Edition & Digital Edition is now on sale Click Link to buy Print or Digital Edition https://celticfanzine.com/product-category/new-issue/More than 90 Minutes Celtic Fanzine Subscription Detailshttps://celticfanzine.com/product-category/monthly-print-subscription/This Episodes Listeners Offer: Sale on selected Merchandise & T-Shirts https://celticfanzine.com/shop/If your business or CSC like the Podcast and would like to become a sponsor please email us at info@celticfanzine.com. You can also contact us through the website or message us on social media. Further ListeningAll Podcasts available on all Platforms or click link belowhttps://celticfanzine.com/podcasts/Follow Us FB https://www.facebook.com/Mt90MTwitter @celticfanzineInsta celticfanzineLinkedIn More than 90 Minutes Episode 60 was Produced & Edited by Daniel Faulkner & Ronan McQuillan If you would like to support our Independent Celtic Fan Media Platform you can become a Member, Subscribe, Buy or Donate for the Price of a Pint. Your Support helps us continue to produce Daily News & Articles, Weekly Newsletter, Weekly Podcasts, Monthly Fanzine, Video Content & Live Shows.https://celticfanzine.com/join-us/https://celticfanzine.com/product-category/monthly-print-subscriptionhttps://celticfanzine.com/shop/https://celticfanzine.com/donations-page/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We divulge recommendations from our new listeners, particularly the spicy podcast Strippers in the Attic and their hilarious Christmas Special. Things take a turn for the serious as we discuss the subjectivity of photojournalism and its intrusion on our domestic sphere with Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others. We chat about the normalised decision of motherhood in Olive by Emma Gannon before exploring the roles of women in the transatlantic slave trade. We end on the heartrending poetry and memoir of Lemn Sissay and his experiences of the UK care system. And we wish you all a Merry Christmas! Find a transcript of this podcast in our linktree on our instagram. Follow us on social media @thegrandthunk or email us - thegrandthunk@gmail.com. See below for a full list of what we discuss: Strippers in the Attic Podcast Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag Olive by Emma Gannon (audiobook read by Sian Clifford) A Kick in the Belly by Stella Dadzie Why I'm No Longer talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Thirteen on Netflix The Queen's Gambit on Netflix My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay

Making conversations about sales personality count! Nicky Pattinson speaks the Truth in all she does! A northern lass who traded on the markets at the beginning of her career, similarly to your host. Now, Nicky has a best-selling book “Email: Don't Get Deleted” and her own YouTube channel NICKYPTV. Nicky is entertaining and magnetic in character! Working with the biggest brand names out there, she's seen, well, pretty much everything. Nicky is able to quickly connect with an audience and understand what makes them tick, leading to expert advise in sales and inspirational speaking to drive success for your business. Her down-to-earth attitude and sense of humour is captivating.    Find and connect with Nicky here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickypattinson/ http://www.youtube.com/user/HiyaItsNicky1#p/a/u/1/D3uE5uUoPko nicky@nickypattinson.com   Sit back and listen to Nicky explain why she is grateful she Danced with the Devil…   Timestamps 00:00:00: Introduction 00:01:45: From shoe shops to market stalls 00:06:30: Trance-phraseology 00:09:27: Making instant connections 00:11:04: Be someone, not everyone, especially on social media 00:12:37: Nicky's pivotal moment 00:21:55: Final thoughts   INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT  Making Conversations Count - Episode 6  26th November 2020  Wendy Harris & Nicky Pattinson   Wendy Harris: Welcome to Making Conversations Count, the podcast where I bring you business leaders that share with me and you, the listeners, a pivotal moment that really has created a turning point in their life.  I am so excited, because today I have Nicky Pattinson; hi, Nicky! Nicky Pattinson: Hi, it's marvellous to be here.  Thank you for even thinking about me. Wendy Harris: We have to thank you wonderful Louise Jones, a good friend of mine and fan of yours, so I'm sure she'll be downloading it on every platform that she can.  Nicky, I know from looking at some of the interviews that you've done, you are what I would class as a "WYSIWYG", what you see is what you get, and you're not scared of having difficult conversations and bringing it to the fore for people to think about. Nicky Pattinson: Yeah.  What you see is what you get; that's who I am.  And, it's got me into a lot of trouble over the years, but it's also got its graces.  And I think it is me.  I can't play games.  You know, when I first started speaking all those years ago, people said, "Oh, crikey, that accent!  She swears a bit", etc; don't we all?  People kept saying, "You've got to change, you've got to calm it down", but calm it down to what; somebody that isn't real?  Those people are ten a penny, so yeah, absolutely, not everybody likes it but some people do, and you are what you are.  I just am very grateful for anybody that listens and likes what I say. Wendy Harris: I've liked everything that I've heard so far and I'm just thrilled to be chatting with you today, you know, somebody who likes to communicate.  You get up on stage and you present to people.  What do you talk about in your presentations, Nicky? Nicky Pattinson: It used to be all about sales; long story.  At 16, my first job was in a shoe shop.  I sold more shoes in one day than anybody else could sell in a week.  Wendy, I had no clue how I was doing it, I just knew it happened.  Now, I can tell you every wink of the eye, every wave of the hand, as to what put that money in that till. I mean, I've worked in all kinds of industries and long, long story.  And, me and my ex-husband had a market stall in Huddersfield selling cakes and biscuits.  Now, I don't often big myself up, but [beep] hellfire; I reckon that we had one of the most successful market stalls in the country, if not THE most successful.  We took a business selling other-make cakes and biscuits from £1,000 a week to just shy of £2 million a year.  And, this is going back 30 years now.  That was serious, serious money.  But, we were 10% more expensive than anybody else, all selling the same thing.  They were queueing out of the [beep] doors, you know.  9.00am until 5.30pm, Monday to Saturday night, you could not get near us.  We had five stalls in the end altogether, but it wasn't the stock; it was the way that we made people feel in our presence.  And, if only I'd have known at that time, but it's more about advanced connection, advanced communication; be someone, not everyone; how to be seen; how to resonate; how to be someone in the world; and, that comes in many guises.  And, it's taken me to so many places, but it started in that shoe shop and on that market stall. Wendy Harris: Yeah.  Now, not my first job, but I worked the trade as well on the markets; jeans and jackets.  Saturdays, and before and after school on a Tuesday, and it was a fantastic community of people to be involved with.  And I get it; they don't want that, "Can I help you, madam?" do they?  They want, "How are you?  What are you doing today then; have you got anything nice planned?"  They want to be made to feel quite special, don't they? Nicky Pattinson: We had a very particular way that took our customers to a very particular range of feelings, and I used to just sit and study, as I do now when I'm doing these projects.  I'll watch and I'll look to see what people are feeling and then it's, well, what do we need people to feel to trigger something that gets them to buy or to resonate with us, or whatever it is that we're trying to get people to do. It's almost like acting, but we're not acting because it's actually more real than real, and that's what I learned on those markets.  We taught every single person that I worked with, that we worked with, and there were about 45 part-time staff at one time, but we taught all those people how to take those customers to two emotions: one was belonging; one was validation. It was Maggie Thatcher's years; that's where we were in society.  And, I worked out very quickly that my audience was single parents of low-income families, who had very little to belong to and didn't feel they had a value.  I'll tell you what, Wendy, when they left out [beep] stall, they did, and they were addicted to coming back to us, because we knew exactly how to take them to those feelings of connection. And, isn't it funny?  If somebody had have said in those days, "You know what; you're going to lose everything; you're going to be in a place where people have to leave bags of food on the step, where you're going to be terrified that you're going to be homeless", I would have laughed.  But, if only I'd have known that because of all that, I would have had all this.  Isn't it funny where life takes you? Wendy Harris: I think there's an awful lot to be said for emotional intelligence that, yes, we've all got a role to play, we've all got a job to do.  But ultimately, to me certainly, it's about the experience that if you can't, at the end of the day, feel satisfied that you've given everything that you possibly could and you've not taken advantage; and I mean that in a negative sense of the word "advantage" because, let's face it, as women on market stalls, you'd flirt, you'd have a bit of banter; and I think that's the same for men as well, so I'm not talking sexism or anything like that; but, it is just about being able to spot that you can make somebody's smile wider on their face. Nicky Pattinson: Yeah, and it's the phraseology.  So, I talk a lot about trance-phraseology.  What I mean by that is that when we say exactly what everybody else in that industry says, it puts the listener, the recipient of the words and the phraseology into a bit of a trance, because we've heard it so many times. So, in retail, "Are you all right there; can I help you?"  "No, I'm fine thanks"; that's our auto response.  But, it's our auto response because we've heard that phraseology so many times that it just doesn't hit our consciousness.  So, not only do we delete the words, but we delete the people saying it as well.  And honestly, I've done these projects and I've thought, do you know what; they're sending these young people and these returners to work out onto them shop floors, I don't just work in retail, and telling them to walk up to people and ask them if they're all right and if they can help them.  And, when they get rejected, deleted, more than a few times, they begin to think it's them.  It's not; it's the words; it's the body language that they're using.  And every industry has its own trance phraseology. Wendy Harris: Well, we're conditioned as children, because out parents will say, "Oh, you shouldn't do that", and the kids go, "La-la-la".  As kids, we stop listening to what we don't want to hear too? Nicky Pattinson: Yeah, it's no wonder.  But the thing is, and I guess what I do these days is I look at people, I look at businesses, we look at the emotions we need to take people to; we look at who people really are, not who people have told them they are; who you really are.  And then, we find the words and the phraseology that ignites people and gets people to see you. And, honest to God, I've just done a zoom of my own this morning for one of my own, "Be someone, not everyone, over 40 and beyond" course.  It filled up overnight and we've already got a waiting list for the next one.  But, it's funny because I interviewed someone that I worked with who is now a top makeup artist and it was fascinating when we talked about, there we were in Selfridges; and all we did, we changed the tone, changed the words, changed the body language slightly and we tripled overnight. I can never see how people can't see it, you know, same in law firms.  I can't see how they can't see what we can see; well, they can when the [beep] money goes in the till, Wendy.  When those chuffing BACSes start going, suddenly their [beep] eyes are opened and, "Our Nicky" ain't quite so funny! Wendy Harris: It's focus though, isn't it; it depends what your focus is?  If you put people at the centre of everything you do, then you're going to take notice of what you're saying, how you're saying it and how people are reacting to you; that's really where you're making those conversations count. If all you're going to do is put your goals at the centre and, you know, whatever financial reward or target that you want to set yourself at front and centre, you're not paying attention to what's going on around you, really, are you, in a human connectivity? Nicky Pattinson: No.  Put the business friendships first and the brass will follow, and I could tell you, honest to God, you could make a connection with somebody in a millisecond; you don't need to know somebody 20 years.  I like to think that when people meet me, they wouldn't know me any better if they spent 20 years with me. But me and Adam, well, the makeup artist, we were talking this morning about how those customers, many a time, would just hug us before they went.  I worked at the airports.  I mean again, we tripled everything we touched, but people would start to walk to the gate and then come and hug me and Paul Williams, who is now a senior manage at Christian Dior; but, we worked together and people would come and hug you because very quickly, we'd melted the reserves.  It was soul to soul, not customer to sale person; that's the difference and that's the skills that people need now, because that's where the planet is going. Wendy Harris: And I think you're right.  And, I heard a phrase this morning, "We might be physically distanced, but we're socially connected".  It's understanding that, you know; I'm missing my hugs so much, I'm having to hug my husband every day.  It's a real trial! Even my brother yesterday on the phone, "Sis, I'm missing my hugs" and I'm like, "Well, it won't be forever"; well, I hope it won't be forever anyway.  It is about people and I think you're right, Nicky, you know; you've got to touch people's soul, break down those barriers, reach inside, pull them out and go, "Come on, this is the real world!" Nicky Pattinson: And meanwhile, while we're not physically together, we've got to get very adept at sending those emails, writing those Facebook posts, and immediately connecting on zoom, because the world is becoming ever more saturated.  The good thing is that 99.9% of all the people that you meet say the same as everybody else, which is why my little strapline these days is, "Be someone, not everyone".  And, in so many cases, people speak live everyone.  How the hell are we going to create resonance and get elevated from those words that everybody says?  Got to find out who you are and that's the end of it. Wendy Harris: You didn't mention phone calls; that's my speciality, you know, pick up the phone, make sure that people can hear you.  I'm loving sending voice messages over all platforms now.  If there's notification or something I want to say to somebody, I will just send them a voice message, because I think that's where I can really say, "I mean this.  What I'm saying to you, I mean it". Nicky Pattinson: I love voice messages and I love Marco Polo; that app.  That's brilliant!  All my friends in America, because of time zones, we all speak over Marco Polo.  It's amazing; what a great app; get it downloaded. Wendy Harris: I'm going to look that up. Nicky Pattinson: Get on it and send me a message! Wendy Harris: I will!  I've got to write it down though now, or I'll forget.  Nicky, I ask everybody to come on the show with a pivotal moment, a conversation that changed.  Are you ready to share? Nicky Pattinson: Yes.  I've had a very up and down life, a lot of heartbreak, a lot of amazing experiences that other people can only dream of, and not that much in between actually. There are some conversations that you never forget as long as you live and at the time, they break you; but then, you look back and you go, "No, that was a pivotal moment that was meant to happen to set me off on another trajectory".  So, can I just start by saying that there's no malice in me talking about this conversation.  It happened; it was part of my life; and I thank my ex-husband from the bottom of my heart for saying what he said now and ending the marriage, basically. So, for anybody that knows me, my first son, Jackson, he died at nursery at 4 months and 2 days old.  And they put it down as cot death, but it was no cot death.  Witnesses came forward afterwards to say what had actually happened and at that time, I didn't take any court action.  I was broken and all the money in the world would never have put that boy back in my hands. And I have to say, just to finish that little bit of it, people often say, "How do you feel now, 31 years later?" because it's always going to be yesterday.  Well, I still miss the man that he would be, that would be arguing over the dishwasher, that I'd be taking to Selfridges like I do his brother and buying him Ralph Lauren shirts, or shopping, or eating, or doing the things that you do with your adult children.  I'll miss him until the day that I die. So, when all this happened to Jackson, me and my ex-husband, we got the top cot death specialist in Europe and we went to London to see him.  And they gave us this oxygen monitor that only me and my ex-husband could use; nobody else could use it.  So, there was only me or him could babysit.  And imagine the stress, because the [beep] beeper went off every two minutes, day and night.  Not that there was a problem, but maybe a lead had come undone. I'd not been anywhere for six weeks.  I'd sat with my second son with all these monitors on for six weeks.  I was exhausted; I needed a break; it wasn't a great marriage anyway. Wendy Harris: I imagine you were under immense strain anyway, just because of what had happened? Nicky Pattinson: Yeah, absolutely.  My father was struck dumb; he couldn't speak.  It took him days to get his voice back.  My mother went straight down with a bad heart.  The grief; he was the first grandchild, the first boy in the family for 70 years.  I really needed to go out this particular Friday. My husband played squash, so every single night, well we thought, but that is another story, that he was playing squash.  So, every night, my husband would go out and I'd been on my own with the baby all day and I'd be there all night and he'd go out. This particular Friday, it was the Wednesday and I said, "Do you know what; I really need to go out on Friday.  Some of my friends are going out; will you babysit?" and he just said, "I'm not babysitting.  I always go out on a Friday.  I go to the same Italian with my friends and I am going".  I said, "Oh please, come on?".  So I thought, oh, he won't do that, he won't do that. The Friday came and I said, "So, are you going to let me go out?" and he said, "Get yourself a babysitter".  I said, "I can't get a babysitter because nobody else can work the equipment".  So, off he went and the morning after, I got up, and at that time, there was always cash in drawers.  And I pulled some cash out of a drawer and I just said, "Right, there's the baby, there's the monitor, there's the nappies and the food; I'm going out".   So he said, "Well, you've got to be back for 4.00pm, because I'm out again tonight; I'm playing squash and then I'm going out".  We had like a double winding staircase and I got to the first level and I just said, "No.  I will come back when I am ready to come back".  He called my name, he called me Nicola.  He goes, "Nicola", and I turned and he just looked and he said, "That's you all over.  You've killed one baby, now you're just trying to get rid of the other". And I just looked and it went all the way to the bottom of my soul; it was the end.  I just said, "Your marriage just finished.  Your marriage just came to the end".  And it took another couple of years for me to actually get out of it, but I can't even begin to tell you the damage those words did.  I let it permeate my soul. But, looking back, and I genuinely mean this, people don't say things like that unless they're broken themselves.  Unless they've had experiences that have taken them to -- maybe he was just terrified and couldn't say; I don't know.  But I thank God that he did that, because the marriage did end, but I still had how we did it on the markets.  And I have had this amazing, amazing life. And sometimes, you know, we may have been married forever without that; who knows?  We might just have bobbed along forever with him going out every night and me doing whatever.  But, I just thank God because it sent me onto another trajectory, because I knew when I heard those words, I was completely alone. Then, my mother died shortly after that; my father died shortly after that; and, there was just me and a 4-year-old little boy.  It was those words that made me realise I would be completely alone on the planet for a time.  And thank God, because we haven't done bad from it. Interestingly, a similar thing happened last year with somebody I was in a long-term relationship with and again, you know, completely out of the blue, very similar words just scathing to the soul.  And I was devastated; I was devastated to hear the same thing happening again.  However, I can tell you, again, I look back and think, thank God, because again, I went on a completely different trajectory that people only ever dream of. So, I'm very grateful to both of those people.  I'm not that bothered for having it happening again, but I'm very grateful to those people!  And that sounds a bit trite, doesn't it, but I [beep] am, because opportunities are coming now for this old bird that only come along once in many, many lifetimes, Wendy, and I perhaps wouldn't have taken them up with the hand-clapping that I'm doing now, had I had somewhere to put my head on somebody's shoulder on a night, thinking I was going to be there until pension. Wendy Harris: Do you know what, Nicky, you've given me goosebumps, because being right at the bottom of those stairs hearing those words was devastating for me to hear, and I can completely understand that gratitude; because if anything, that's just kind of made you dig a lot deeper to make sure you make more of it, and it's on your own terms? Nicky Pattinson: You know, I genuinely believe that we all move in soul groups, that somewhere, in other lives, we would have met.  You can pull up at the side of a bus stop and see an old lady with wobbly lipstick and look into her eyes -- that's probably me actually -- and look into her eyes, and there's a connection.  And you'd never know each other any better in 100 years if you sat and talked; you just know. And maybe before we came here; me, my ex-husband, my ex-boyfriend, my son, my mother, my father, people in my life that have been significant and pivotal that have either held me up or nearly [beep] killed me, my ex-husband might have said, "I'm going to say this to you; I'm going to nearly [beep] kill you, but I'll tell you what; it will put you on a trajectory because I will fully release you that day, because you would have hung on if I don't do that".  Maybe my son, Jackson, said, "Mum, you're going to choose this nursery for me and it's going to be extreme negligence, it's going to be very difficult and it will nearly kill you; but, you will go on to help people that have lost children, because you'll know what it feels like, and it will put you on a trajectory to somewhere that other people can't dream of". And, my mum and dad had a strange -- you know, I'm vegan because my parents had a beef farm and, God, the stuff I used to see and hear; and, it makes you different, but creates an intensity in your soul that you [beep] anything off to get to the place that you see yourself being.  So, I thank God for that; I really do. Wendy Harris: Nicky, it's a powerful pivotal moment.  I'm humbled for you to share it with us today.  I'm guessing there are going to be an awful lot of people that will be touched by your story and maybe even been through something similar and can resonate with what you've said.  If they want to reach out to you, Nicky, what's the best way for them to do that? Nicky Pattinson: Oh, nicky@nickypattinson.com; I'm on Facebook; I'm on @HiyaitsNicky on Twitter or Insta, but can I just say one other thing, because there is one thing that it's really left me with?  When people say nice things to me, I can't stop crying, and it's a bit of a problem when I've been doing the gigs, because they can't stand up there going, "Right, today's speaker is …" and then say, "Do you know what, she's an absolute [beep] dipstick, and don't bother listening to her because she's rubbish". But, when people start to say, she did this, she tripled there, etc, I've really got to fight back the tears.  I don't have a shield against it and, yeah, it's really strange.  Words change everything, good and bad and actually, they can both make you cry in a similar way, because laughing and crying are actually very similar emotions. Wendy Harris: Yeah.  It's when you combine the two and then you wet yourself …  We'll just leave it on that note, I think! Nicky Pattinson: Oh my God!  Sorry, I'm just getting over flipping COVID; that's why I'm coughing! Wendy Harris: I'm so glad to see you looking well.  I know that you've had a rough patch.  Nicky, honestly, you're going to continue to be that magnetic personality that I've grown to love.  Thank you so much for coming on the show today. Nicky Pattinson: Thank you, and thank you everybody for listening.  Please just say hello.  It might take me a couple of days, but I always, always come back to you.  Thank you. Wendy Harris: She does; she really does.  Thank you for listening everybody.  Don't forget, if you have any comments, let us know; we do reply to them all.  Make sure you share this with your friends and family.  You can subscribe always at www.makingconversationscount.studio/podcast.  Thanks again for listening, everybody.  Take care.

Zweden, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Denemarken en Nederland willen een robuust Europees antwoord op de invoering van de nieuwe veiligheidswet , die de schijn van vrijheid in Hong Kong wegneemt. Maar wat dat robuuste antwoord dan precies moet zijn, zeggen ze er niet bij simpelweg omdat ze het niet weten. Sancties tegen China? Vergeet het maar. Amerika zegt ook het er niet bij te laten zitten, maar in de schaakpartij tussen Donald Trump en Xi Jinping, verliest Trump de ene na de andere zet. Beluister ook | China Podcast | Is er nog een toekomst voor democratisch Hong Kong De westerse wereld lijdt wel erg aan selectieve verontwaardiging. In de aanloop naar de overdracht, in 1997, wilden Hong Kongers met honderdduizenden tegelijk weg, maar hun Britse staatsburgerschap werd niet erkend. Zij hadden een British National Overseas paspoort, wat gewoon een nepdocument. was. In het Verenigd Koninkrijk waren ze dus niet welkom. Uiteindelijk waren het Canada, Australië en Taiwan die hun grenzen openden. Dat Boris Johnson nu, 23 jaar later, alsnog een miljoen verblijfsvergunningen aanbiedt, is een wel heel navrant voorbeeld van krokodillentranen. Waar waren Johnsons Tory-voorgangers, Maggie Thatcher en John Major, in 1997? Beluister ook | De Wereld | Verslikt China zich in Hong Kong? En waar waren Zweden, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Denemarken en Nederland, die nu een robuust Europees antwoord eisen? Waar was de Europese Unie? Wie maakte destijds een echte vuist tegen China? Wie bood de vluchtelingen onderdak? Juist: helemaal niemand. Verwerpelijk en onmenselijk Dat China die veiligheidswet voor Hong Kong invoert is verwerpelijk en onmenselijk. Maar laten we ophouden net te doen alsof het een totale verrassing is. De duimschroef wordt verder aangedraaid, totdat Hong Kong in 2047 alle eigen rechten verliest. Dat lijkt nog ver weg, maar voor een millennial in Hong Kong is het al heel dichtbij. We staan erbij en kijken ernaar. Over Bernard Hammelburg Buitenlandcommentator Bernard Hammelburg gaat in zijn column in op de zaken van wereldbelang en plaatst de internationale politiek in context. Luister live woensdagochtend om 06:25 in De Ochtendspits of wanneer je wilt via bnr.nl/bernard-hammelburg, Apple Podcast of Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What else to do on the hottest day of the year so far but record a podcast! With a bumper crop of exhibitions, galleries, competitions and fairs to tackle, settle into our second Artfully podcast: Van Gogh in Britain, FOOD at the V & A, Beatrix Potter, Masterpiece, and a trio of women artists at Victoria Miro born out of the meteoric rise of social media profile @thegreatwomenartists. And on that note we discuss the high price artists pay when social media censors nudity in artworks. Finally, this episode's artist focus is on the grande dame of the YBA: Tracey Emin. We discuss why she continues to challenge audiences, Liz shares her own Emin story, and Jessie manages to compare her to Maggie Thatcher. You'll have to listen to find out why.... Show Notes: Van Gogh in Britain, until 11 August 2019: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/ey-exhibition-van-gogh-and-britain FOOD: Bigger than the Plate, until 20 October 2019: https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/food-bigger-than-the-plateAlice Robinson: https://www.rca.ac.uk/showcase/show-2018/schoolofdesign/fashionwomenswear/alice-robinson/Beatrix Potter's house, Hill Top: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hill-topWalter Bertram Potter's paintings: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/potter-walter-bertram-18721918 Hastings Contemporary: https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/Masterpiece Fair: https://www.masterpiecefair.com/Phyllida Barlow: https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2826-phyllida-barlowLouise Bourgeois: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/louise-bourgeois-2351Piano Nobile's Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2019: https://ruthborchard.org.uk/self-portrait-prize/Cherry Pickles: https://ruthborchard.org.uk/events/cherry-pickles-series-of-six-self-portraits-currently-included-in-total-eclipse-of-the-heart-paintings-about-women/Brid Higgins Ni Chinneide: https://www.piano-nobile.com/exhibitions/55/works/artworks2827/Brid Higgins Ni Chinneide Instagram: @bridhcKaty Hessel's instagram: @thegreatwomenartistsMaria Berrio, Caroline Walker, Flora Yukhnovich at the Victoria Miro, until 27 July: https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/545/Caroline Walker Instagram: @carolinewalkerartistFlora Yukhnovich Instagram: @flora_yukhnovichMaria Berrio Instagram: @mariaberriostudioSocial Media's censorship of artworks: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/artists-take-stand-against-social-media-censorshipBetty Tompkins: https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/longform/a40061/betty-tompkins-feminist-art/Betty Tompkins Instagram: @bettytompkinsartThe Fear of Loving. Orsay through the eyes of Tracey Emin, until 29 September: https://m.musee-orsay.fr/en/exhibitions/article/the-fear-of-loving-orsay-through-the-eyes-of-tracey-emin-49288.htmlTracey Emin's Commission in Oslo: https://www.artlyst.com/news/tracey-emin-wins-commission-seven-metre-high-sculpture-oslo/A fortnight of tears: https://whitecube.com/exhibitions/exhibition/tracey_emin_bermondsey_2019

Join Sam and Tim for more classical treats. Sam explains sonata form with the help of Tony Blair and Maggie Thatcher, whilst Tim talks to the founder and artistic director of the East Neuk Festival, Svend McEwan-Brown. Music Credits: ‘You'll Never Walk Alone' by Rogers and Hammerstein performed by Timmy Fisher ‘Girls and Boys' by Good Charlotte performed by Timmy Fisher Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata performed by Hillary Herndon and Wei-Chun Bernadette Lo for MSR Records Beethoven's 5th Symphony performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski ‘Ms. Jackson' by Outkast performed by Timmy Fisher ‘Aroha' by Robert Laidlow performed by the Elias Quartet ‘Dancing Shadows' by Miriam Hyde performed by Andrew West and Bridget Bolliger for Cala Records Sibelius's 5th Symphony Mov. 4 perfumed by Timmy Fisher Satie's ‘Air du Rat' from Ludions performed by Joey Edwards Follow us here: instagram.com/classicalpod/ twitter.com/ClassicalPod facebook.com/ClassicalPod/ Download Youth Music's report ‘Exchanging Notes' here: https://network.youthmusic.org.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/research/Exchanging%20Notes%20Interim%20Report%20-%20Year%203%20-%20Youth%20Music%20and%20BCU_0.pdf John Eliot Gardiner's interview with BR Klassik: https://www.br-klassik.de/audio/interview-mit-sir-eliot-gardiner-100.html Watch Alain Roche give an airborne piano concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=lOhm-x4cjOQ Robert Laidlow's website: https://www.robertlaidlow.co.uk/ Find out more about the East Nuek Festival: https://www.eastneukfestival.com/