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**Jon Boud's & The All The Rage Replay On www.traxfm.org. This week we discuss why British media is so crap (how many times have we discussed this?), specifically in relation to the upcoming local elections and said-media's determination to make us all vote for Reform. Also we discuss the shocking fact that ULEZ appears to be working and how free speech about Palestine is being attacked (again). #originalpirates #chat #interview #politics #tradeunion #equalrightsandjustice Links: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/706847?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Links: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159 Listen Live Here Via The Trax FM Player: chat.traxfm.org/player/index.html Mixcloud LIVE :mixcloud.com/live/traxfm Free Trax FM Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/det...mradio.ba.a6bcb The Trax FM Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092342916738 Trax FM Live On Hear This: hearthis.at/k8bdngt4/live Tunerr: tunerr.co/radio/Trax-FM Radio Garden: Trax FM Link: http://radio.garden/listen/trax-fm/IEnsCj55 OnLine Radio Box: onlineradiobox.com/uk/trax/?cs...cs=uk.traxRadio Radio Deck: radiodeck.com/radio/5a09e2de87...7e3370db06d44dc Radio.Net: traxfmlondon.radio.net Stream Radio : streema.com/radios/Trax_FM..The_Originals Live Online Radio: liveonlineradio.net/english/tr...ax-fm-103-3.htm**
Today was Lighthearted Thursday and we were talking about all the bills and subscriptions you hate to pay. I wanted to know the bill you hate paying the most? With research suggesting it's the TV licence i wanted to know if thats true or if instead its something like ULEZ? We received some great messages on the topic which you will hear. Plus there is also the pub lunch quiz - Enjoy.
Le misure adottate da Londra per ridurre l'inquinamento stanno funzionando. I dati dopo l'allargamento della Ulez (Ultra low emission zone) di Londra sono molto incoraggianti sulla riduzione dell'inquinamento: il 99% delle centraline ha rilevato minor inquinamento, e l'80% delle persone in meno ora vive in zone con superamenti illegali delle soglie di particolato.Serena Giacomin, meteorologa, ci racconta delle allerte ambientali che riceviamo in caso di eventi estremi, e quali sono le misure da adottare per proteggersi.Puoi scriverci a podcast@lifegate.it e trovare tutte le news su www.lifegate.it. Rassegna stampa: Londra, drastico calo dello smog dopo l'introduzione della zona a basse emissioni (Ulez), Roberto Sposini Ascolta la puntata speciale di News dal Pianeta Terra: Sapiens, l'era della transizione: tra città e futuro, con Telmo Pievani, evoluzionista, e Renato Mazzoncini, amministratore delegato di A2A e professore di Mobility.
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The head of Ofcom has defended the UK's new Online Safety Act, calling it “very ambitious” in tackling harmful content - but campaigners say it doesn't go far enough.Plus - new data shows the expansion of ULEZ has improved London's air quality, but it hasn't reduced traffic levels. City Hall and Transport Editor Ross Lydall spoke to Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan about the latest stats.Also in this episode:The UK government faces pressure to introduce stronger AI regulations, ensuring humans stay at the heart of decision-making.Scientists discover a hidden function in the immune system that could lead to new antibiotics.Apple delays Siri's AI upgradeThe Athena moon lander is officially declared dead after tipping sideways on landing.The world's oldest meteorite crater may hold clues about the formation of Earth's continents.UK pharmacies warn of daily medicine shortages, forcing patients to search multiple locations for vital prescriptions.What foxes' whiskers can tell us about their diet Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Getting forced out of the Mayoral elections by Sadiq Khan didn't put Shyam Batra off aspirations of running for Prime Minister. Will ideas like scrapping ULEZ, capital punishment, mass deportations, abolishing income tax, and forcible defence of our borders be enough to get him there?
JOIN THE SCREEN ROT PATREON NOW. Oi, get on this - An extra episode per week. Early access to every episode. Access to the Rotter group chat. Get involved: patreon.com/thescreenrotpodThe Screen Rot Podcast is the show where we discuss the weirdest and worst content that's been rotting our screens and our minds. It's Monday Night football for internet rubbish. This week we discuss: The ULEZ "Blade Runners". The fuming suburbanites chopping down camera.sIG Handles:@screenrotpodcast@jacobhawley@j_akefarrellOur theme music is the song “Money” by Jose Junior.The boys are kept fit by the best personal trainer in the game Zack Southall (@ZackSouthall1 on Instagram)
Join Howard Cox, founder of Fair Fuel UK, on "Hearts of Oak" as he discusses his fight against high fuel taxes and the challenges facing UK drivers. From his revelation on logistics costs to securing a fuel duty freeze, Cox shares the journey of his advocacy. He critiques current EV policies, representation in motoring, and the impact of London's ULEZ. Hear about his mayoral campaign with Reform UK and his ongoing commitment to motorists' rights. Connect with Howard: FairFuelUK https://fairfueluk.com/
The Canadian DND is massively overweight, Knives and Swords in Canada and the UK, Carney - 10 Billion dollar corruption, and Quebec.... Who will leave Canada first, Quebec or Alberta? Some say Alberta could be a very successful 51st State. We chat about the decrease in OD's in Alberta and their new drug addiction programs, ULEZ in UK - massive amounts of fines, Quebec is getting fed up with uncontrolled immigration, Danielle Smith answering questions about Jasper, Tariffs and more. How to destroy Canada, polling in Canada, DEI in Universities around Canada, the massive web on Fractal NGO's and Non profits effecting society, BC struggling with Specialist wait times in a broken health care system and a great example from Que about a child let to die in Canada and saved by USA healthcare. Support and extra content http://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca/support. 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Send us a textIn this show, the boys discuss ULEZ. First, what is it, and why are Britons protesting about it?But what do you think? What are your thoughts on this subject? Do you agree or disagree? And are there other things you feel they should have covered?Tune in and listen to the discussion - and please let us have your feedback on it.Although we much prefer effusive praise
This podcast should really be called why do politicians LOVE motorists! It's because we are all big fat easy targets to squeeze more and more cash out of. Congestion charges, VAT, fuel tax, parking fees and fines ULEZ, green taxes, airport drop off charges! We are being RIPPED OFF! Meanwhile pot holes are getting bigger, congestion is worse than ever and public transport is failing. Sir Keir Starmer says he isn't going to raise taxes on working people but what he's actually going to do is raise taxes on motoring and hammer all drivers. He is a lying stinking hypocrite wearing flash suits paid for by another man. Enough is enough. It is time for us motorists to fight back. Please support me here www.buymeacoffee.com/jongaunt
De volledige uitzending van blckbx today #343, woensdag 23 oktober 2024, is te bekijken via: https://www.blckbx.tv/livestreams/blckbx-today-2024-10-23Woensdag 23 oktober 2024- Schouwarts-bias en onderrapportage van vaccinatie-effecten Tijdens het covid-vaccinatieprogramma werd het Lareb overspoeld met meldingen van (ernstige) bijwerkingen. Uit onderzoek van Michael Smulders en Wouter Aukema blijkt dat deze meldingen door het LAREB niet systematisch in de juiste rubrieken verzameld werden waardoor een goed overzicht ontbreekt. Een mogelijke oorzaak hiervoor is dat er geen deskundige meer te pas kwam aan de verwerking van de meldingen; dit gebeurde voor een groot deel geautomatiseerd. Ook is de vraag of het LAREB wel voldoet aan de eis dat bij “ernstige meldingen” navraag wordt gedaan. Deze en alle andere vraagstukken rondom dit dossier bespreken we met studiogast Michael Smulders. Ook Wouter Aukema schuift online aan over zijn recente onthulling dat 40% van de serieuze meldingen lijkt te verdwijnen.- Oneerlijke verdeling in crypto volgens de ECBDe Europese Centrale Bank publiceerde een paper waarin wordt gesteld dat de vroege instappers in crypto onevenredig profiteren, terwijl latere gebruikers benadeeld worden. Boris van de Ven, crypto-journalist, legt uit waarom deze klacht opmerkelijk is en waarom dit fenomeen juist bij alle vormen van investeringen gebruikelijk is. Wat zit er achter deze kritiek van de ECB, en is dit een teken van de bredere zorgen over de decentralisatie van financiële macht?- Economische gevolgen van klimaatregelsJe auto kwijtraken vanwege klimaatmaatregelen? David Boerstra bespreekt de situatie in Londen waar honderden auto's in beslag zijn genomen vanwege het niet betalen van de ULEZ-vergoeding die men moet afdragen voor de Ultra Low Emissie-Zone. Een maatregel die bezitters van oudere auto's treft en daarmee vooral de mensen met een kleinere portemonnee.Aan de desk: huisarts Michael Smulders, crypto-journalist Boris van de Ven en blckbx-journalist David BoerstraBelt in: Wouter AukemaPresentatie: Erwin TaaSupport the showWaardeer je deze video('s)? Like deze video, abonneer je op ons kanaal en steun de onafhankelijke journalistiek van blckbx met een donatieWil je op de hoogte blijven?Telegram - https://t.me/blckbxtvTwitter - / blckbxnews Facebook - / blckbx.tv Instagram - ...
We've gone all ULEZ compliant this week, we've got some excellent suggestions for cars that are somehow fully ULEZ friendly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
GET YOUR FREEDOM KELLY KETTLE KIT HERE: https://patriotprepared.com/shop/freedom-kettle/ Use Code WAM and enjoy many solutions for the outdoors in the face of the impending reset! GET FREEZE DRIED BEEF HERE: https://wambeef.com/ Use Code WAMBEEF to save 25%! 10+ Year Shelf life & All Natural! GET HEIRLOOM SEEDS & NON GMO SURVIVAL FOOD HERE: https://heavensharvest.com/ USE Code WAM to save 5%! BUY GOLD HERE: https://firstnationalbullion.com/schedule-consult/ GET YOUR APRICOT SEEDS at the life-saving Richardson Nutritional Center HERE: https://rncstore.com/r?id=bg8qc1 Josh Sigurdson reports on the legal framework forcing those in the UK to completely stop eating beef or lamb by 2029 and also restrict people from flying as airports are completely put out of commission. A report by Oxford University and Imperial College London for the United Kingdom government details how in order to fit in with the legal climate framework of being "net zero" by 2050, all airports will have to be closed and all beef and lamb for human consumption will have to be banned by 2029 with extremely minor exceptions for travel. The is exactly the goal of Agenda 2030 and the World Economic Forum's "Great Reset." With countless countries already following the UK with initiatives like this including Canada, The United States, Australia, France, Germany and The Netherlands, there's no doubt this is a global agenda for enslavement. It means destroying the food supply and poisoning what's left of it. Forcing everyone onto digital IDs attached to CBDCs which will determine based on your behavior through carbon credit and social credit scores what foods you will be rationed and how much energy you can use as well as how much you can leave your neighborhood. As we recently reported, the World Economic Forum openly admits that "covid" was a test in order to force people into Climate Lockdowns and 15 Minute Cities. So it isn't shocking that this report exists. It's that it's actually being implemented as we see ULEZ, LTNs and more throughout the UK. Oxford and Cambridge have established 15 Minute Cities that are partially functional already as we've personally reported on the ground. How will they get us there? Weather manipulation, staged civil war and World War 3. New "Plandemics." Grid down scenarios. Destruction of the food supply. False flag cyber attacks. It's all so simple and obvious. Are you prepared for it? Stay tuned for more from WAM! ORDER QUALITY MEAT TO YOUR DOOR HERE: https://wildpastures.com/promos/save-20-for-life/bonus15?oid=6&affid=321 Save 20% and get $15 off your FIRST order! Support your local farms and stay healthy! HELP SUPPORT US AS WE DOCUMENT HISTORY HERE: https://gogetfunding.com/help-wam-cover-history/ PayPal: ancientwonderstelevision@gmail.com FIND OUR CoinTree page here: https://cointr.ee/joshsigurdson JOIN US on SubscribeStar here: https://www.subscribestar.com/world-alternative-media For subscriber only content! Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/WorldAltMedia Pledge here! Just a dollar a month can help us alive! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2652072&ty=h&u=2652072 BITCOIN ADDRESS: 18d1WEnYYhBRgZVbeyLr6UfiJhrQygcgNU World Alternative Media 2024
Got a Dilemma? https://www.thenewblxck.com/dilemma Interested In Securing Shares In THE NEW BLXCK -https://app.seedlegals.com/en/pitch/c_VoSPUCwhTo/The-New-Blxck Any questions about this investment opportunity, please contact Brent@TheNewBlxck.com The Day After, (00:00) Intro: House keeping & Other Asylum Stuff (37:10) Headlines: Reeves urges Labour MPs to back winter fuel cut, Chief prisons inspector warns of 'revolving door' as around 1,750 inmates are set for early release, Afghan embassy in London to shut after Taliban sacks staff (54:00) What You Saying? Why Are We So Afraid Of Change? Exploring What Holds People Back (01:37:31) Headlines: A Gwent police officer has been found guilty of sexually abusing a young girl under the age of 13, Sadiq Khan's Ulez expansion ‘failed to lower pollution levels', Australia plans social media minimum age limit angering youth digital advocates (01:41:41) The One About Travis Jay (02:38:58) Headlines: Hundreds of SEN kids missing from school, Hamas says Israeli strikes kill 40 in Gaza safe zone, Mel B among Britons taking fight against afro hair discrimination to parliament (02:49:07) The Reaction: UEFA Nations League Results, Jordan Mason leads 49ers to victory over Jets in Aaron Rodgers' return, F1: Aston Martin set to sign legendary designer Adrian Newey after Red Bull exit (02:58:19) The Rap Up #News #currentaffairs #sports
How can cities - with ever growing populations - tackle air deadly pollution and reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Breathe Cities is a global network of cities sharing data, expertise and experience to do just that. Guest: Jaime Pumarejo, Executive Director of Breathe Cities. Links: Breathe Cities: https://breathecities.org/ GAEA - Giving to Amplify Earth Action: https://initiatives.weforum.org/giving-to-amplify-earth-action/ Alliance for Clean Air: https://initiatives.weforum.org/alliance-for-clean-air/ World Economic Forum Centre for Nature and Climate: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-nature-and-climate/ Related podcasts: What are the 'positive tipping points' that could help us accelerate out of climate disaster? It's cheaper to save the world than destroy it: author Akshat Rathi on Climate Capitalism COP26: How cities are tackling pollution, congestion and the climate Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164 Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub
Freedom Broadcasters Livestream All My Podcasts and Businesses https://roycoughlan.com/ Guest: Carrie Kohan Topic: The Five Lessons of Life & Carrie's Guardian Angel Law to Protect Children https://www.youtube.com/carriekohan --------- UPGRADE YOUR BRAIN UNLEASH AND USE YOUR UNIQUENESS https://braingym.fitness/ ---------------------- Bio: Carrie Kohan is an Award-Winning, International Best-Selling Author of 'The Five Lessons of Life' - it's the true story of Kohan's two deaths, and the profound lessons she was given to bring back, while on the 'other side'… National Child Advocate Canadian Federal Gov't Witness; Wrote & Amended 14 Laws to Protect Children Founder of MMAP and Project Guardian, Namesake of Carrie's Guardian Angel Law https://calendly.com/carriekohan/sessionwww.carriekohan.com What we Discussed: - Who is Carrie Kohan - The Type of People that Molest Children ( 4 mins) - Carrie was Molested at age 3yrs (5 mins) - She was in a Military Program (8:30 mins) - Dating Canadian Prime Ministers Son and who rules everything (11 mins) - All Elections Worldwide are Rigged (12:30 mins) - Pedo approaching her own child (14:30 mins) - Her Mission to Protect Children (15 mins) - She Spoke out about Fauci in 1993 (16 mins) - The 5 Lessons of Life (17:30 mins) - Can you forgive the Molesters (20 mins) - How Carrie remembered being molested (23 mins) - How can we remove the child Porn websites (26:30 mins) - Trudeau and Copper Shortage (27:45 mins) - Getting Awards from the Queen for fight Pedophilia (30 mins) - Queen abducting 10 Aboriginal kids (31 mins) - It is ourself and not Trump that will save everything (32:30 mins) - Trump reduced Child Trafficking by 96% (35:30mins) - How does a Drama Teacher and the Prime minster Trudeau be worth $97M (37 mins) - Do not protest and get battered by the Police (39 mins) - The 13 Families that Rule the World ( 40 mins) - Antartica and Flat Earth (46 mins) - The Truth to the Truemen Show (49 mins) - 50 Empty Cities in China (52 mins) - Ulez blade runners (55:30 mins) - The Equipment that the Military have (1hr 3mins) - Ai is the dumming down of humanity (1hr 7:30 mins) - Michael Tellinger and One Small Town (1hr14:30 mins) Interview Panel: Grace Asagra, RN MA Podcast: Quantum Nurse http://graceasagra.bio.link TIP/DONATE LINK for Grace Asagra @ Quantum Nurse Podcast https://patron.podbean.com/QuantumNurse Roy Coughlan Podcast: AWAKENING https://www.awakeningpodcast.org/ TIP/DONATE LINK for Roy Coughlan @ Awakening Podcast https://www.awakeningpodcast.org/support/
Are weddings run on facts? Do they need to be ULEZ compliant? Is it a laugh when people respond to questions about dietary requirements with humorous whimsy? These are the questions that are keeping Elis James up at night as the big day approaches.Aside from the stresses and strains of organising a wedding, there's a debate about whether reading out someone else's tweets makes for good content - followed by 15 minutes of said content. We take a school trip to the abattoir, we spend an unfathomable amount of time on a coach, and Russell Howard drops by to answer a listener's dilemma.There's nothing we love more than to receive your correspondence. So send it to us on the world's most exciting medium, email: elisandjohn@bbc.co.uk. Or you can WhatsApp the show on 07974 293022
Shownotes and Transcript On this episode of Hearts of Oak Podcast, we sit down with Topher Field, a prominent Australian libertarian commentator and activist. Topher shares his experience navigating the challenging landscape of media and activism during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Melbourne. He discusses the charges he faced for advocating peaceful protests against government actions and the importance of freedom of speech in the face of oppressive measures. The interview delves into the impact of lockdowns on mental health and relationships, which fuelled Topher's increased activism. He provides a detailed account of the progression of protests in Melbourne, highlighting the power of grassroots movements in challenging authority. The conversation also touches on leaderless movements, accountability in COVID inquiries, and the need to resist oppressive policies. Throughout the episode, Topher encourages listeners to question authority, uphold morality, and resist unjust laws and critiques the worship of government and the compliance of churches with oppressive regulations, advocating for spiritual autonomy and the purity of faith-based practices. Over 15 years Topher Field has accumulated over 2 Million video views, over 150,000 regular followers, 14 film awards, 2 Libertarian awards, and released his first book in 2023. But his proudest achievement is without doubt his two criminal charges for ‘Incitement'. During the world famous Melbourne Lockdowns Topher was awarded these charges by Victoria Police for encouraging people to exercise their Human Rights during the Covid era in 2021. Topher is a renowned public speaker, interviewer, podcaster, writer, satirist, and champion of Human Rights. Good People Break Bad Laws: Civil Disobedience in the Modern Age in paperback and e-book from Amazon amzn.eu/d/09MJazgR Watch award winning 'Battleground Melbourne' battlegroundmelbourne.com Connect with Topher... WEBSITE topherfield.net X/TWITTER x.com/TopherField INSTAGRAM instagram.com/topherfield Interview recorded 16.7.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP heartsofoak.org/shop/ Transcript (Hearts of Oak) And I'm delighted to have someone from down under that I've seen the name quite a bit in my feeds over the last couple of years. It's always great to talk to someone that you've watched from afar, and that's Topher Field. Topher, thank you so much for your time today. (Topher Field) Well, Peter, what a pleasure, and thank you for having me. Not at all, it's great to have you on. And obviously, people can follow you @TopherField on Twitter, and TopherField.net is your website. And of course you're, I mean I've seen you on twitter quite a bit and whenever Sam Sobel connected us, and I thought I kind of recognized that name, because Topher is not a name that's very popular. So, you're thinking that definitely sticks out but you're probably one of Australia's leading, I think most recognized libertarian political commentators. And you've, it's it's your work in in the media and I know that's your background from when you were younger and now you've really made a name for yourself winning awards: libertarian awards. Also that documentary Battleground Melbourne setting. The madness that you faced there in Australia and author of Good People Break Bad Laws which is a fascinating topic. I know we'll delve into that a little bit and loved, I think on your website you said that your proudest moment, proudest achievement is getting those incitements, those punishments for standing up against the COVID lockdown. Not just punishments, criminal charges. They chased me with criminal charges and tried to lock me away for two and a half years for the crime of encouraging people to exercise their human right to engage in peaceful political protest at a time when our government was violating human rights. So yeah, that is honestly, that is my proudest achievement and, I hope never to have to repeat such a thing in my, in the future, but unfortunately you and I both know this fight is far from over. Oh, absolutely. Could I tell them, I mean, leading, leading up to that, what, you're also your, your background, I mean, you grew up with your dad being involved in media and your understanding a little bit about the business. Some of us have been thrown into this and we've either sunk or swell or swum, but you kind of had a little bit of an understanding. Can you tell us about your role in the media leading up to, I guess, the COVID tyranny. What had been your primary focus in terms of putting a message out up until, I guess, up until 2020? Well, I'm probably the world's only accidental political commentator. I was driving a forklift in a warehouse, quite enjoying myself, making good money. I enjoyed the manual labor, the repetition of it, and I could go home. And I was working on a fiction novel at the time and doing a bit of acting. And just enjoying sort of creative expression. And my cousin came into work one day. Yes, I'm the cliche forklift driving cousin working at the same place, kind of life, very blue collar. And my cousin comes into work and he says, Topher, you should audition for project next. And I said, what's that? It was a project being run by a very respected Australian journalist where he was recruiting and looking for the next generation of news producers, presenters, writers, researchers, these sorts of things. And in order to audition, you had to submit a video. So I went, okay, my dad taught me how to do videos. He was involved in community television. He was in professional radio and then in community television. And I cut my teeth from the earliest ages that I can remember. There was a camera in the house and I've been editing and doing audio and all that stuff. I learned the craft from him. So, I put that to good use and I made a video as an audition. And I was deliberately quite controversial, because I didn't want to find that I got into this show and then had my wings clipped and they were telling me what I could say or what I couldn't say. So I was deliberately pretty provocative and I didn't get in. Surprise, surprise. And so then I was left with this video that I had nothing. This is 2009. I didn't even have a YouTube channel. In fact, in Australia in 2009, most people didn't have internet fast enough to play YouTube videos in real time. You had to let them buffer for a few minutes. So, I started a brand new YouTube channel with zero subscribers. I uploaded the video and I sent it to my mom and she must've watched that video 30,000 times because shortly afterwards, was I had 30,000 views, which is pretty extraordinary for 2009 in Australia, doing a 12 minute long political exploration of water supply issues into my home city of Melbourne. Tell me how a video like that gets 30,000 views, even in today's market, let alone back then. So, then people began asking me to do more videos and I'm going, this is absurd. I'm a forklift driver. What do you think I am? I'm nothing. And eventually someone came to me with a video. I said no to everybody, and then someone came to me with a video that I couldn't say no to, and I said yes to that second video, and then I said yes to a third video and a fourth video, and it became a bit of a thing. My main focus has actually been water and water supply issues, particularly to irrigation farmers in what's called the Murray Darling Basin in Australia. So, 40% of Australia's food comes from this part of the world, and our government is destroying farmers by regulating and restricting access to irrigation water. So, that's really what I've spent most of my time talking about. But I did a series on climate change where I partnered with Lord Christopher Monckton in the UK, and I travelled to the US and Canada, interviewed a bunch of people. Professor Fred Singer, before he passed away, is one of my sort of proudest achievements to have had the chance to speak to him while he was alive. I've done work on freedom of speech. I've done work on over-regulation, over-taxation, cost of living, and a range of other sort of topics along the way. Basically always on the I'm a libertarian. So, I'm always coming from that libertarian perspective, but I'm also a Christian. So, bringing those two together and that's a pretty rare thing in Australia there really isn't a lot of a lot of people in that space in Australia and broadly on the conservative side of politics. Oh that's fascinating. Water management and freedom of speech. How do those fit together? So, I've had to ask myself the same question and the best answer I've got for you, Peter, and it's not necessarily a good answer, but it's the best one I've got, is that I struggle to walk past an injustice. Once I see something and go, that's wrong. That should not be the way it is. I find it very difficult to just ignore it and pretend I didn't see. And so water management, I kind of fell into because my very first video was about water supply into Melbourne city, which is a 4.4 and a half million person city that was on heavy water restrictions. There was a drought at the time and they were building a desalination plant and I've said the desalination plant was a bad idea and we should instead build a dam on there's a particular river where there was a dam reservation set aside by engineers 100 years ago, but politics being what it is today they were refusing to build a dam there for greeny sort of reasons. So, that's that was my very first video and then someone said well if you think that's bad have a look at what they're doing down irrigators up on the Murray River. And I investigated that and boy, boy, is that is that bad and people are literally being pushed to suicide and despair and bankruptcy and everything. And of course, it impacts food prices and has a knock-on effect to us all. So for me, that was kind of a fight that I couldn't walk past. But as a political commentator, freedom of speech is essential to my work. It's a non-negotiable, and it should be a non-negotiable for us all, but it's especially a non-negotiable when that's your stock in trade, is the right and the ability to say, government, you're wrong. You're doing the wrong thing. And so I was already defending, I was defending freedom of speech before it was cool. And then, of course, COVID came along and we saw censorship just escalate to an entirely new level. But those two have really been two of my biggest topics along the way. Tell us about during the COVID tyranny. I saw a level, and probably you did as well in Australia, a level of frustration boiling over that we haven't seen in a long time. We saw demonstrations against the Iraq war back in Tony Blair's time, a million people on the streets. Since then, we hadn't seen anything else. It was the pool tax rats and Margaret Thatcher's time, going back to that. And suddenly this happens and you've got huge, huge crowds coming out and active, I guess not civil obedience, but beginning to beginning to walk towards that line. I mean were you surprised that certainly in Britain people seem to be pushed and pushed and pushed and the the frustration boils out at the pub over a couple of drinks and that's the the level of it. Yeah. But something happened to push people how did you see that and view that because I wasn't in media at that point. We had just started two months before, but you saw this through a perspective of someone in the media. Tell us how you viewed that in your country. Our experience was very different in Melbourne as compared to anywhere else in Australia, let alone anywhere else in the world. So, for those that don't know, Melbourne became the most locked down city in the world and remains that to this day with the exception of China. China then did go on to do even more extreme things, but for a long time, Melbourne was the most locked down and outside of China continues to be the most locked down city in the world. We had de facto house arrest. You could not leave your house unless you were leaving for less than one hour and for an approved set of conditions. They shut down schools. They shut down all but essential workplaces. They shut down even kids' playgrounds and things. You could not so much as go to a beach and sit on the beach to watch a sunset. Even in your one hour of yard time, you would be arrested if you were found to have left the house just to go and enjoy some sunshine. So we had a curfew, an 8 p.m. curfew that was enforced very, very vigorously, very, very violently. We had what was called a ring of steel. This was a series of checkpoints that separated metropolitan Melbourne from the rest of rural Victoria. And they had military manning that checkpoint and demanding that you show paperwork to prove that you had a need to travel across that artificial new border that they'd put up around the city. And we had protests being treated as completely illegal. So, I spoke at the very first anti-lockdown protest, and this was my first ever conscious act of civil disobedience. It was the first time I walked out my door. I was 38 years old or so. I was a clean skin, ex-Army Reserve, ex-I'd done a bunch of charitable work. I was a clean skin. You look at my police record, It was better than spotless. It was positive. I'd handed in wallets that I'd found on the street and all sorts of stuff, right? And then all of a sudden, here I am walking out my door to go and deliberately speak at a rally that had been declared to be illegal. And that was really a turning point in my life and took me in a whole new direction, because I live streamed that event and such was the hunger. People were desperate, but no one was yet willing to make any moves. By the time I got home from that event, that live stream had been watched over 100,000 times. And this is just a live stream on Facebook. I had a Facebook page with maybe 10,000 people on it. So, that was a pretty big deal for me at the time. And people, you know, I had a wave of abuse pour into my inbox, into my emails and so forth. People angry how dare you. You're killing grandma all that sort of stuff. Then shortly on the back of that there was a wave of support: thank you for speaking out I've been thinking the same thing, but I thought I was going crazy, now I know I'm not. And then on the back of that was a wave of despair, people reaching out in emails and in messages into my inbox just needing to tell me their story, because by this point in time we were about we were about by then we're about eight weeks in to lockdowns, seven weeks into lockdowns. And for anyone who was already at the margins financially, was already close to the wind, this was absolutely decimating them. For anyone whose mental health was already borderline, this was destroying them. Anyone whose marriage was close to breaking up, this was the final straw. And I just had people pouring their hearts out to me. And at first, I thought, why are you talking to me? I can't help you. I've got nothing. I'm in the same position as you. I've got a kid, a pregnant wife. My business is going down the tube, because I had I had another business separate to the political commentary at the time. My life is as much of a mess as yours. Why are you asking me for help? And then I realized they weren't asking me for help. Not one of them asked me to help them. What they wanted was someone to listen. And this is the tragedy of what happened, Peter, is all of the people that were supposed to be there for them had turned their back. The church pastors, the mental health counsellors, most of the politicians, a lot of people's families had all turned their back on them to the point that they were digging up the contact details of a YouTube political commentator and pouring their heart out to me in emails and messages. Such was the isolation that they experienced. So in that context, you can understand that the protests remained very, very small for many, many months. We saw violent arrests where if someone was known to have been organizing protests, the police would show up at their door at six o'clock in the morning with a battering ram, smash their way through the door, violently tackle them to the ground, hospitalizing them in some cases. We saw extreme levels of violence that we're not used to in Australia. This is not the kind of place where these things happen. And so that kept our numbers really small, really down in the few hundreds. And myself and a number of other courageous people, we kept on getting out there and kept on doing it anyway, knowing the risks and getting attacked by riot squads and attacked by police on horses, and threats of arrest, and all sorts of things. And then the government made a tactical mistake. There was a woman by the name of Zoe Bueller, and she was out of town. She was outside of that ring of steel that I mentioned earlier. She lived in a rural town, and she said, hey, let's get together and do a protest at the local park during our one hour of yard time. Now, the thing with her was where she was, that was actually legal. But the police arrested her anyway. They went into her home and her husband live streamed, or she live streamed on her phone, her arrest. And that was her, you may be familiar with it, in her pyjamas. She's pregnant. There's a couple of kids in the home. And she's saying, being arrested for what? They were arresting her for incitement, the very same charge that they later charged me with. And that video went viral. And that really turned the movement from just a couple of hundred hardcore people doing what our conscience required us to do against all odds and all of a sudden we were getting a couple of thousand people. And then there was a year or so of that on and off increasing police violence ultimately leading to them shooting us with rubber bullets and then finally their conscience that they were shamed effectively, by us refusing to back down and their conscience got the better of them and the police finally said: hey we're not doing the violence anymore and then all of a sudden our numbers exploded into the hundreds of thousands it's. That accidental leadership which I think has been intriguing and probably is at the heart of what makes the establishment afraid, because when you look at all different demonstrations they kind of come from organizations that then push that agenda, that idea, and then arrange demonstrations, arrange rallies, arrange protests but this had; I mean the people that I'm sure it's same for you, that I've met, who've come from sports, from music, from different industry, from never done as you said a protest in their life suddenly come out. And it's been fascinating that accidental leadership that we have seen worldwide. Yeah, and you're absolutely right this is what makes them afraid. It's the hydra. And this is this really came out to me and I really bring this point out in battleground Melbourne the documentary which you can watch for free at battlegroundmelbourne.com The thing that I really wanted to bring out there was this isn't my story. I had the privilege of being the storyteller, but it's not actually my story. I didn't write that. That was written by the people of Melbourne, the people of Victoria, and the courage that they showed. And what we see time and again, the theme that I really sought to bring out in that documentary was we kept on being knocked down. And then without any structured leadership, there was no board of directors making decisions. People just got creative. And somehow the movement as a whole stood back up again. It might have been different people. It might've been in a different place and it might've been in a different form. But every time the government thought they'd finally knocked us down, we reappeared as a movement. We reappeared in some new form and we were continuously adapting our tactics and they were continuously adapting their tactics. And in the end, they got to the point where they couldn't escalate any further. And we still hadn't gone away. We still hadn't backed down. They literally got to the point where the only thing left for them to do was to start shooting with live ammunition. That was their last option. They had done everything else up to that point. Tear gas and riot police and mounted police and home invasions and rubber bullets onto, you know, shooting people in the back, unarmed people in the back with rubber bullets at the Shrine of Remembrance, a war memorial of all places. I mean, absolute disgrace. And then after doing that, thinking, oh, we finally got them. They're going to run away scared now. Well, then along came nurses and teachers who completely transformed the whole way the movement looked. They showed up in parks in their uniforms, wearing masks, socially distanced, with writing on their tops saying how long they'd been a teacher or how long they'd been a nurse and these sorts of things. And they just stood silently in the park. So, all of a sudden, now that they'd gone to the rubber bullets, et cetera, gone was the rabble rousing and the chanting and everything else. Now, all of a sudden, they're faced with a bunch of young women, mostly incredibly courageous, standing in parks, socially distanced, wearing masks and silent. And they show up with the rubber bullet guns and they show up with the riot police and they show up with the horses. And I think finally, it was like a mirror looking back at them. And suddenly they saw themselves and realized what they'd become. And it was shortly after that that they released, they leaked this letter to the public, which they'd sent to the premier saying, we're not doing this anymore. It's time to put away the tear gas. We're not doing the violence anymore. It's exactly what you're talking about. The way I paraphrase it is this. We were ordinary people who were faced with extraordinary times. All we did was make the decision to do what was right, even though it was our government that was wrong. That's it. That's it. That's all we are. Because there were enough of us and because we had the courage to keep coming back and to keep getting back up in spite of what we faced, in the end, we won. And that, I think, is a massive lesson and for all of humanity with everything that we're up against, because a leaderless, decentralized, organic movement is unstoppable for as long as we don't stop. It's up to us to just go, we're just going to keep going. A movement with leaders can be stopped if you take out the leaders, you know, strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter. But what if there's no shepherd? What if the sheep have started to think for themselves? And that's what we created here in Melbourne. And I think that's a model. That's not to take anything away from people who do step into leadership, but I think that's a model for us. We become unstoppable if we adopt that model. And I want to pick up one of the two things we've learned. And I'm asking you that not just because it's a historical event that we can learn a lot from, but here in the UK, we right now have the COVID inquiry. I think in the next day or two, it's going to release its first findings. And the figures on the COVID inquiry here in the UK, it's thought it'll be the most expensive inquiry in British history. It's just going to be under just under 200 million pounds for the whole inquiry. I think I read something like cost of £130,000 or £140,000 a day. So, I'm asking you your experiences, because we are going through this charade of a COVID inquiry. Has there been, and of course, that's not going to lead to anything. But in Australia, have there been questions? We've seen a kind of slow change in the media on the right, but getting to say, actually, you know, we were always saying we shouldn't buy onto this. I said, uh-uh, no, you weren't. You had like an article every two months that might touch on another side. But what about you in terms of reckoning for the media, in terms of reckoning for politicians on what Australians were put through? Nowhere near enough. We've had a couple of really good politicians, particularly a couple of really good senators who have been relentlessly pursuing this. And they've had some small wins. But one of the things that is just a reality that we have to be willing to accept and push our way through is that the powers that be have a lot of layers of defence. So, they'll try and stop an inquiry from happening. And then once they can't stop the inquiry from happening, they try and rig the inquiry by, you know, rigging the terms of reference or rigging who the commissioner is or these sorts of things. We've just seen unfolding right now in Australia, we have a senator for the United Australia Party called Ralph Babbitt, Senator Ralph Babbitt, great guy. He managed to get a, I don't remember the technical term for it, but it's some form of inquiry and a bunch of people made submissions to that inquiry. And then the person running the inquiry has just announced they're not going to publish a lot of those submissions. They're taking them as almost like comments. Right. And they're not actually publishing them as part of the inquiry. It's like, well, no, you don't get to silence the Australian people like that. And so now Senator Babet is taking up that particular fight to try and make sure that this actually gets done properly, et cetera. So, they kind of have defence in depth, because there's a lot of tricks and tools that they get to use. And every single one of them is a new layer that we have to battle our way through. What I think though is is going to happen much faster than we've seen in history, so in history we saw for example the thalidomide debacle where for a very long time if you know thalidomide being dangerous was considered to be misinformation and you were uninformed and ignorant if you said that it was, or asbestos, and then all of a sudden everyone always knew that it was dangerous. Right? That was you know we saw that trend and we're watching that happen in some parts of the media now: oh, I've always said that we should be careful about an untested vaccine. No you didn't, you told everyone to go out and get jabbed, right? Yeah. So, we're seeing that revisionism is kicking in. But it took 40 years for thalidomide to finally get apologies and compensation and these sorts of things. But that happened before the internet. And that happened when we weren't as able to communicate with each other as what we are now and able to dig and discern the truth. The gatekeepers of old are no longer, they no longer hold the level of power that they used to have. And that allows us to accelerate the timelines. The other comment that I'll make, Peter, is people only start to pay attention to politics once it starts to hurt them. There's a thing called rational ignorance. It doesn't make sense. It's not rational for us to pay lots of attention to something that we can't really influence. Influence if we don't if we can't really control it well we should spend our time and focus you know invest that into the things that we can have more control over. So, there's a level of rational ignorance when it comes to politics. Why would I pay attention to politics when I can't really change anything anyway. And most Australians have that attitude until it hurts them and then all of a sudden they arc up. And then they can't understand why they can't get help from anyone else, well because it's not hurting them. So, the silver lining of something as tragic as what what we've seen during COVID, the silver lining is that it hurt a lot of people simultaneously. And a lot of people at the same time all stood up and said, hey, this isn't okay. I'm not happy with this. And then when they looked around for support, there were actually other people out there to support them because there was a lot of people standing up at the same time. And what's important now is that we maintain the rage, to use a tired old phrase. We cannot let up on this. We cannot let people take a revisionist view. Oh, we did the best we could with what we knew at the time. Any of that sort of, we cannot accept any of that. And we must just continue to relentlessly pursue justice and understand that this is a long-term project. We're not going to win this overnight. But what's happening now is we're getting organized at a level that we've never been before. And our pushback is getting sophisticated at a level that it never has been before. And more and more people are willing to take risks. And I'll use a local example to you, you, Peter. It would have been unimaginable in the 2000s for a situation to arise in a city like London where the ULEZ cameras would have been being vandalized on a widespread scale. That's unthinkable. The Blade Runner phenomenon, again, an example of a leaderless organic movement that just popped up where people used the internet and our ability to communicate with each other to find these cameras, to map them, to publish those maps. And then other people looked at those maps and made decisions about what they were going to do. I'm not condoning anything of course but observing what's happened that was unthinkable 20 years ago and now it's an ongoing phenomenon. So, I'm actually quite hopeful that a lot of these petty tyrants, these people who want to control and tell us how we're going to live, are going to find themselves bewildered by this array of pushback that seems to come out of nowhere. And they will go looking for the enemy and say, who's organized this? And the answer is no one. And that makes it really hard for them to stop. So, I'm actually really optimistic. And I think it was actually in the end, a good thing that COVID would hurt so many people and not good that they were hurt but it's good now that we live in a world where ordinary people are standing up in a way that we have not seen in my lifetime before. And that fits into your your book: Good People Break Bad Laws. Up until this point good people follow the law, good people call the police if there is a problem, good people vote for the the party that they think is best. Good people use the legal system for solutions to problems. And there's a whole list of what good people, and I always looked at CND, the anti-war people, or kind of stop oil people and thought that's so disruptive. How dare they do that? And now... Either maybe I was dumb, maybe I didn't get it before, maybe I trust the institutions. But I think a lot of people, certainly more on the right, trusted the institutions to a large degree. Now that trust has completely gone. That contract, I think, with the government has been completely broken. And we've gone from good people follow the law, even if it's not necessarily the best law, you do what you do as a citizen, to hell no. we're going to break. That's a huge change in society, in a democratic society. That's a massive change. Yeah, there's a number of layers to this. First and foremost, pretty much everybody on all sides of politics acknowledges that civil disobedience has been the right thing in various moments in history. One of the most obvious being, of course, the civil rights movement to end segregation in the US. That's sort of a pretty obvious contemporary example where we say, Martin Luther King and even many people, Malcolm X and a bunch of others, yes, that was the right thing for them to do. Civil disobedience, breaking those laws was a good thing for them to do. And when you look in a historical context, there's almost universal agreement about that. But there is certainly on the more conservative side of politics, a real discomfort about it in real time. And that's simply because conservatives have been used since the end of the Second World War to being the ones in charge, which means that when someone is disobeying, they're disobeying the conservatives, right? They're disobeying the establishment and the conservatives identify as that. They're disobeying us. What a bunch of rabble-rousing ratbags. Well, there's a right way to do it and there's a wrong way to do it. And just stop oil, et cetera. We see them doing it in very, very destructive ways. And my book does address that. I talk about the right way and the wrong way to do these sorts of things. But in principle, doing what's right is always right, even if the law is wrong, right? And we have to accept an uncomfortable truth for a lot of conservatives. And like I said, I'm a libertarian, so I have no issue with this, but a lot of conservatives struggle with this. When you change the law, you do not change what is right or wrong. What is right or wrong is already right or wrong. And when we change a law, we're either admitting that it used to be wrong and now it's right, or maybe that it used to be right and now we've got it wrong, or maybe that it was wrong both times. But we can't pretend that just because some people in a room stood around and approved the change of wording that we've changed the laws of nature and morality and what's right and wrong. We haven't. So, when we write laws, our task is not to define what's right and what's wrong. It is to discern what's right and what's wrong and to align the law as closely as possible to that. And that's a matter of conscience. And I have to do what's right according to my conscience, even if the people in that room have written laws that disagree with that particular point of view. And this is necessary. This is essential. People say: oh, we can't all just run around doing whatever we think is best. No, no, no. We all have to live our lives doing what we think is best. Because guess what? When I stand before God, I can't turn around and say: oh, but Peter made me do it. Peter told me it was the right thing to do. Nor can I say, oh, but a whole bunch of Peters in a house called parliament told me that it was the right thing to do. No, I don't get to outsource my morality. I'm accountable for my decisions, for the moral outcomes and the morality that is represented in the decisions that I make. And that's true, no matter what the law says. So what conservatives have to accept is that they are no longer in the majority. Okay. The cultural war has been lost. That's not to say that it's permanent. It's not permanently that way. But think about the sexual revolution and the aims of third wave feminism, the sexual revolution. They got everything they wanted, right? What we call conservative politics now is unrecognizable in the world of the 1950s. What we call conservative politics now is radical, progressive Marxist ideology. And we call that conservative now because we've completely lost track of how far we've slid. Conservatives have already lost the culture war. The culture war is over. Conservatives lost. What has happened now is that people who who believe in God. Who believe in family, who believe in what we would consider to be basic decency, basic morality, Judeo-Christian morals. We are now the revolutionaries. We are now the beatniks. We are now the hippies of our age. And we are the ones who are actually trying to bring about a revolution against an establishment that has rejected all of that morality. And we have to accept that that means that we need to adopt the tactics of the revolutionaries, the rebels. We're the cool kids now. That's the good news, Peter. We get to be the cool kids for a change rather than the stayed old, you know, the pearl clutches. The pearl clutches now are all on the left. Oh, you used the wrong pronouns. Oh, my heart, right? That's them now. We get to be the cool kids. And what that means is we have to accept and we have to move on from a lot of these old mindsets. And one of those mindsets was, oh, but it's the law. We all need to do what the law says. Well, that was always the wrong perspective. But not only now is it the wrong perspective, but it's also incredibly unhelpful. If the law is wrong, we have no obligation to obey and to do what's wrong. And in particular, I look at Psalm 94, I think it's verse 12, where it says that crooked leaders cannot be your friends. They use the law to cause suffering. And this is one of, I propose two tests for what a bad law is in my book, Good People Break Bad Laws. And one of them is a practical test, and one of them is a principles test. And the practical test is based on that verse in Psalm 94. Does this law cause suffering? Because that's the definition of a crooked ruler. A crooked ruler is someone who uses the law to cause suffering. And if the following or enforcing of a law causes more suffering than the breaking of that law would cause, then you are looking at a candidate for potentially a bad law. There's more to it than that. You have to read the book. But that becomes a candidate for this might be a bad law. And actually, my conscience might require me to disobey this law in order to do what's right. How, I will say I have not read the book, but I will be reading it. I'd encourage others because we are in different times and it's fascinating. And your comment about individual consciousness, individual responsibility, we seem to have contracted that out to a government that actually you're the ones that will decide what is good and what is bad, what's right and what's wrong. I no longer have to and we are in a completely different generation than previous generations in that there is no accountability. There's no right and wrong there's no accountability, and it's; yeah we have it we have to learn how to live as individuals within that new paradigm of actually people don't take personal responsibility for anything. And we'll see that in the COVID inquiry people say: oops. And what do you mean "oops"? How many people's lives were damaged? Destroyed? Kill? How many people were killed? This is not an oops and yet that seems to be where we are that there is zero personal responsibility for anything and certainly we see that in this in the States on obesity where actually you just take a drug, because that's just not nothing to your fault. And you just take a drug or it's your genes. No what about personal responsibility for lifestyle, but But that seems to have gone out the window completely. Peter, it's worse than that. So, I'm working on my second book, which will be out before the end of this year, which is titled Good Christians Break Bad Laws, Obeying God in a Fallen World. And it's specifically on the theology of civil disobedience. It looks at everyone from Dietrich Bonhoeffer and other sort of World War II heroes right back in history and then obviously diving deep into Scripture itself, Old Testament, New Testament, the words of Christ, et cetera, on this topic of obedience to government. Yes, I deal with Romans 13, 1 Peter 2. All of that is covered in this book. The reality of our situation, Peter, is that we actually now worship the government. And unfortunately, I have to include the church in that statement. What we saw during COVID, and I can't speak for where you are, but certainly where I am in the city of Melbourne, was almost every single church with a vanishingly small number of exceptions allowed the government to dictate to them whether or not they would open their doors,. Whether or not they would help the poor, whether or not they would gather and worship, whether or not they would take communion, how many people were allowed to sing etcetera. And and what they did was they turned around and said: oh no it's okay because we can we'll have a tiny skeleton crew in the building and we'll live stream church. You can do live stream church so this isn't a violation of our christian principles this isn't a violation of you know of the exhortation not to forsake the gathering together of the saints, because you can watch a video online. And of course when we look at the example: I'll just pull one example out, look at okay so we know that Daniel would pray multiple times a day he would open his window and he would. We pray in full public view. And when it was, I think, Nebuchadnezzar, I can always get mixed up between Darius and Nebuchadnezzar and all the others. I think it was Nebuchadnezzar was convinced by his secular advisors, his pagan advisors to make a law that said people could only pray to Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel didn't choose to keep praying in the privacy of his room and keep the door and the shutters closed. He could have done that. And he could have said, oh, well, I'm still practicing my religion. I'm just doing it in a way that's not going to provoke trouble. I don't want to cause any issues here. No, no, no. No, he opened those shutters and prayed in the same spot in full view because to go into hiding and say, oh, I'm still practicing my religion in secret is still saying to the government, you have the right to tell me that I can't do that. You're still conceding that ground to the government. And that means that you're giving the government more authority over your faith walk than God has. So, I believe that the church's biggest problem, and this is so funny because as a kid, you'd You'd read the Ten Commandments. You're like, oh, the idolatry one's out of date. Like, that doesn't apply anymore. Actually, I've realized, no, I'm completely wrong. Idolatry is the number one sin that we are facing in the church and in secular society here today. Specifically, we've made an idol with our own hands. Look at what the children of Israel did. They made calves with their own hands, and they fell down and worshipped them. When God designed government, God designed the system of judges. There was enough law that they could read it in three days, the whole thing. And they had a dispute resolution process. They could go to a judge to have a dispute be resolved. There was no other law and there was no other mechanism to make more law. And during the time of Isaiah, the children of Israel decided that that wasn't enough and they wanted a king. And they went to Isaiah and they demanded, oh, Samuel, was it? Excuse me, in the time of Samuel, I think it was. They demanded a king and they ended up getting Saul. When they went to Samuel and said to give us a king, Samuel was upset because he's being rejected as a judge and his children who are ungodly were being rejected as judges. And he takes it to God and God says to him, listen to what they're actually saying. They're not rejecting you. They're rejecting me as their king. And I'll cover all of this in the book, Good Christians Break Bad Laws. As their forefathers did in the wilderness, building golden calves and worshipping them. That's what God says in response. They are rejecting me as their king, as their forefathers did, building golden calves and worshipping them. God immediately equates creating a government that is beyond what God designed with idolatry. He immediately says, this is like worshipping a golden calf. And that's exactly where we are today. Look at the names of God in the Old Testament. Jehovah Jireh, my provider. Who do we look to for provision now? You know, the very Jehovah Nissi, Jehovah Tzidkenud, all the different names of God. They all have different meanings. My healer, my giver of wisdom, my protector, my refuge, my provider, et cetera. We look to the government for each and every one of those things now. We've literally worshipped government and allowed government to usurp God in every single part of our lives. And if it wasn't already obvious enough, it became glaringly obvious during COVID. And I think one of the most urgent needs in the world today is for Christians to get on our knees before God and repent of idolatry and worshipping government and obeying government, even where the government is the one causing misery. Even where the government has become crooked, like what Psalm 94 talks about. We've obeyed government instead of God. And the most urgent thing now is repentance in the church. I wasn't expecting us to go down this angle, but I'm enjoying this. You mentioned about not forsaking Hebrews 10, 25. It said, not giving up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day approaching. And how much closer are we to that day 2,000 years later? And there's no opt-out. The Bible is full of laws, of ideals, of examples, of guidelines for us to live by because God knows best because God made us, and therefore he's the one that knows the best way to live. There are no opt-outs. And certainly I remember being in one church, Church of England Church, and they said, oh, we need to wait until the government announce their guidelines later this week to know if we can meet and sing in the park this weekend. I think, well, we've already been told not to forsake gathering. What's wrong with meeting out in the open? I mean, Jesus didn't stop going and speaking in synagogues because people had leprosy. Actually, no, he went there. And there were so few. I think in the UK, I don't know of any church that actually, there was one church that had a legal fight, but they still shut the doors. I know I went to a big event with a Pentecostal preacher, Rodney Howard Brown. He was the only person, I mean, the first pastor in America. And it was interesting that the more traditional evangelical part of the church said, we need to be good citizens, and that means doing what we're told to do. Then you have the more Pentecostal or charismatic said, no, no, no, the Bible says this, so we do this. I was interested in seeing that division. But certainly, I've seen hook, line, and sinker that churches across the UK accepted everything the government told us to do. And you're saying you saw exactly the same in Australia. And there's been no change of that. There's been no apology. As you said no repentance for saying we got it wrong but if this happens again we will follow god's law not man's law yeah this Is such a crucial thing, it's such a tragedy that I actually know the names globally of most of the pastors that really did stand up. John MacArthur in the U.S and I think he was in California. Arthur Polowski a Polish immigrant to Canada. Bishop Marmari in Sydney who actually since got stabbed. He survived and thankfully he's okay, but he was one of the correct, he was a Coptic, I think, no offense if I get this wrong, Bishop, but I believe he's a Coptic or an Orthodox Christian and was really speaking up. There was a Catholic church in Jindera that was really good in a remote Australian outback sort of town. But these are the exceptions, right? I shouldn't be able to name the ones that stood up and did the right thing. When I challenged my own pastor on this, he said, Topher, I can't do what you want me to do, because the government will take away our funding for the soccer academy that we run for the migrants. Right? Now, I, I've read my Bible from cover to cover in a couple of different translations. And I, I just, I've tried, but I can't remember the verse that says, go ye into all the world and run soccer academies. I've, I'm going to have to go back and just study again and just try and find that verse because what's happened now. I mean, there's a reason why Jesus specifically warned, warned us and said, you cannot serve God and mammon. Why did he pick mammon? You can't serve God and sex. You can't serve God and bar. You can't serve, you know, God and your belly. Why did he pick mammon as the thing? Well, because that's going to be the key core temptation. And this is what we see, particularly in the established churches, because the business of church and the property and the building and the maintenance and the tithes and everything else is such an important thing. Governments have been very clever. They turned around a hundred odd years ago and said, oh, instead of you being excluded from the tax code entirely, let's give you a special charitable tax exempt status that brings you into the tax code. And then you'll be eligible for government funding for programs, for charitable stuff, right? We're doing it to help you. We're going to give you money and you can do more ministry, right? And luring churches with money into compromising and contracting with government and becoming just another civil, just another corporation, really, that just has a few special perks. Fast forward a hundred years and we get to a situation where pastors aren't willing to speak on transgenderism or abortion. Oh no, I better not talk about anything political. Oh no, I better not stand up for our right to actually worship God during a pandemic. I better not do those thing, because I'm going to lose these special privileges that the government has given me. Well, excuse me, who's your provider? What does the Bible say about that? And this is why I say, and I've ruffled a lot of feathers. I've got a lot of people's noses out of joint because I speak at the church and state conferences in Australia and elsewhere. And I challenge pastors and I challenge church guys. I'm not trying to cause damage to the church, but please hear me out. If your pastor compromised during COVID and has not repented, all right, I'm all about forgiveness, all about second chances. Is if your pastor made mistakes and then went, guys, I got that wrong. I'm so sorry. This is what I've learned. This is what I'm going to put in place to make sure I never do that again. Great. Great. All for it. But if your pastor still insists that shutting down was the right thing to do and turning away people who were in desperate need of help was the right thing to do right at a time when people needed the church the most. I mean, if your instinctive reaction when there is a threat to people's temporal lives is to lock the doors of the house that has eternal salvation, if that's your instinctive reaction, then you don't understand what it is that you do as a Christian pastor. You hold the keys to eternal life. When there is a temporal threat, when there is a pandemic, if it's the Black Death, for goodness sake, you should be throwing the doors of the church open, wheeling the speakers out onto the steps, cranking that thing up as loud as you can and saying: come one, come all, repent for your day of judgment could very well be at hand. And if you get word from the government, there's a pandemic coming and and your reaction is to shut your doors and turn people away, I put it to you that you are probably in the wrong profession. A hundred percent. We have pastors who want to be liked more than they want to do the right thing. And I'm a grew up pastor's kid. I've been involved in huge churches. And when you get to see behind the scenes, it is a desire to be liked and to do what you think the government. But it's this issue of which I think is the key issue and it's an issue that we will face here in the UK in the next five years. It's the tax exempt status. It's the charitable status, it is the money in the UK you get tax back. So, if you're a taxpayer, you give your 100 pounds to the church and then the church gets an extra 20 back. And most churches survive on that and if that was taken away they couldn't survive and this is why I've been at churches and pastors have have apologized for suggesting that abortion may be murder. They've apologized for saying that actually transgenderism may be wrong. I had a pastor who told me the way he combats the attack on sexuality is he has a bookmark in his Bible with man and woman in it. And that bookmark means that he is speaking truth. And of course, in the COVID, that's time and time again. And I can see, certainly in the UK with the Labour government, which we have a uni party, of course, it's no different than the Tory Labour Party. This is not on one side. It's the same thing. But I can see churches being told, unless you sign up to these pledges, the good citizen pledges, then you will lose your charitable status. And 99% of churches will happily sign up for the money. So you're 100% right. And this is the tragedy. So in Australia, we had a referendum recently around whether the government should redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, all right? And a lot of Christians, because the result was, yes, we should redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. And a lot of Christians said, oh, no, we lost the marriage debate. I say, well, no, no, no, hold on. We lost the marriage debate back in the 1950s when federal legislation was passed to create a federal marriage certificate. Because before then, you got a marriage certificate from your church. The government had nothing to do with marriage. And then in the 1990s, maybe early 2000s, then Prime Minister John Howard introduced legislation to introduce into the wording of the Marriage Act, man and woman. Because it didn't actually have it. It was assumed in the 1950s. They didn't have to define that in the 1950s. And then the church in the 1990s is like, yes, yes, yes, we've won. No, no. What we've said, what we've done is we've taken a sacred institution, marriage, and we've put it under a secular governance now. We've said this thing that God created can now be defined and redefined by government. I don't care whether you like the government's definition right now or not, the minute you concede to them the power to have a definition, then you've lost. And sure enough, 30 years later, there was a referendum and the definition was changed and all these Christians are like, oh no, we've lost the marriage debate. No, you lost that in the 1950s. We need to stop taking things that are sacred and putting them into the hands of secular governments. That is idolatry. We are worshipping government and it has to stop. Have you always been, I mean, from the beginning focused on the church being engaged and involved in society, because I think a lot of people have seen the collapse of the church during Covid, but then you go back further and you see at separate points in history of each of our countries you see the capitulation of the church to state mandates in varying degrees. But I've, it's you kind of, we've seen it very starkly with, we all thought, we all believed, actually, the state will not stop churches meeting. That'll be the last, you know, they may come in on what we believe on doctrine issues, on the culture wars, but actually, we'll still be allowed to meet on Sunday, so it's all good. And suddenly, that key right for Christians to gather together, share fellowship together, that's now taken away. Has that been partially the the last straw in people's engagements. I mean, how have you seen it in your involvement along that journey? Yeah, I'm going to answer something else before I answer your actual question. Let's stop and think for a moment what a low bar that is to set. Oh, at least the church allows us to meet. Well, the church in China is allowed to meet, right? You can be a Christian in the UK and in Australia and in Canada in exactly the same way that you can be a Christian in China. Just don't say the things that the government says you can't say. Your doctrine just has to to be the government approved doctrine. And then you can be a Christian. You can show up to church, you can wear a cross, you can call yourself a pastor, as long as you only preach the things that the government has approved. Look at how low we've already set the bar and what a terrible compromise that is. To your question, I was raised as a, I'm a pastor's kid. I'm actually, I'm a pastor's grandkid on both my mom and my dad's side. Both of them were pastors. My dad was a pastor, was raised in the church, of course, went through my phase of rebellion and trying to figure out what I actually believe, blah, blah, blah. And then I tried to prove that God didn't exist and I failed miserably. So, I've had to accept that he actually is real. And that the best thing I can do with my life is to pursue him. And as imperfect as I am and as flawed as I am and as a million different ways that I stumble, that's my life mission now. But I considered myself a political commentator. And then over time, I began to realize you can't, there's so many problems in politics that you can't fix without reference to faith, without reference to the underlying values, that inform political policy. So, I started to call myself a political commentator who's a Christian or, you know, a Christian political commentator. And I'm starting to realize, actually, I just need to drop the word political. And I think I'm actually, I actually just need to say, no, I'm a Christian commentator. And because that faith, what you believe about God informs what you believe about everything else. It involves culture. It involves politics. It involves commerce and employment and healthcare and anything you might want to commentate on is downstream of your belief in God. And so all I am is a guy to drive forklifts, who made a video, who somehow people found my work and said, hey, you keep talking. And now as I've pursued that, I've come to realize the most important thing that I can talk about, the most valuable thing that I can be talking about is faith and God and how best we live in a fallen world. And that's essentially the mission that I've set out to do. So that's why Good People Break Bad Laws is my first book is becoming Good Christians Break Bad Laws as my second book is the realization that I have to talk about the faith side of this, not to the exclusion of the politics. The politics does matter. The culture stuff does matter. But it's all informed by what you believe about God. And that's ultimately where the truth lies. And that's what we need to be talking about. Last question is in terms of you kind of don't think of Australia as being a out-and-out Christian country. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Never been down under, so I could be 100% wrong. But are we moving towards a church that is that is underground, a church that actually needs to separate itself from the state in a way that we haven't seen? I mean we have a we have a state church in the UK: church of England. And that's meant that the state have had 100 control and we now have 24 bishops in the lords that are wetter than any pathetic liberal you'll come across and are more concerned about environmental issues and plastic bags than they are actually about God and his position in society. Do you think in Australia you're moving towards actually the church will have to be underground and fairly separate? I think we were headed that way, but I think God is on the move. And I'm going to shamelessly name drop for a moment. Tucker Carlson was in Melbourne recently, and he met with me backstage. My wife and I chatted with him for about 25 minutes. Lovely, gracious man. I was very generous with his time. And we talked mostly about God. That was the number one thing that he and I, that we discussed. And he commented on how dark Melbourne felt spiritually compared to the rest of Australia. And he's absolutely right. Melbourne is a broken city, and there's a spiritual oppression, a spiritual aspect to it. But he also said, do you feel like God's doing something? I said, yes, thank you. We're not the only ones. And all over the place, I'm seeing what gives me huge encouragement is all over the place, including in my own personal faith walk, I'm seeing God calling people to prayer in a new and a fresh and a more powerful way than has been the case since probably the charismatic renewal. And prayer almost always precedes revival. Find me a revival that didn't have an enormous amount of prayer invested into it before it happened. I don't think there is one. And I believe that we're in a phase now where God is calling people to prayer and faithful people, the genuine Christians, the ones who aren't compromising, are coming to prayer. And yes, a lot of the church is falling into apostasy. A lot of the church is walking away from the basic fundamental tenets of the Christian faith and becoming more concerned about social justice and all this sort of stuff. And there will be a split. There will be a bifurcation. But I actually think there's going to be an enormous renewal and an enormous number of people who are just seeking the truth, seeking meaning, recognizing the meaninglessness of third wave feminism, culture war and politics and so much of this stuff, sport, money, all the rest of it. The meaninglessness is becoming really clear for a lot of people now. I think we're actually about to see an enormous revival where an enormous number of people are going to have a come to Jesus moment in the most real and literal sense. Yeah, 100%. I agree with you. And when it gets dark, it's time for the light of Christ to shine brightly. So, we are in that moment, certainly. Topher, really appreciate you coming on all the way over from down under. Thank you so much for your time, sharing a little bit about your story and fascinating how you see the church getting engaged, involved, and where that... Your book, you can obviously get as an e-book, you can get as a paperback. It's available here in the UK. As it will be down under. I'm sure it's available in the US. And Battleground Melbourne, what's the website again? So, the website for the book is goodpeoplebreakbadlaws.com. You can order it from Australia along with shirts and hoodies and things like that. Or you can go to Amazon and get it, and it'll just get printed in your local market, and you'll receive it that way. Or you can get an e-book, like you said. You can go to battlegroundmelbourne.com. Now, Battleground Melbourne is my multi-award winning documentary. It's an hour and 40 minutes long. It's a feature-length documentary. It's very high quality. It's won 14 awards around the world, and it tells the story of what happened in Melbourne at the most locked down city in the world. You can watch it for free. I don't need your money I don't even need your email address. Just go to battlegroundmelbourne.com. It's there. You can watch it. I highly recommend everyone do that. You will be shocked. Even people that lived through it in Melbourne but didn't step outside of their homes, they just did what they were told, they watch it and they're shocked at what happened on the streets of their own city on the other side of that door. And for people in London or around the world, the US, etcetera, I think it's worth seeing because this isn't unique to Australia. This is something that our governments all over the world, including in the US, would have loved to have done if they thought they could get away with it. And it's up to us to make sure that they know that they can't. 100 percent. Topher, thank you for joining us. And all the links for those are in the description. However, you're watching or listening to the podcasting apps. It will be all there in description, just click on and you can get the book, you can watch the film and everything is there. So don't for thanks for your time. Such a pleasure Peter. Thank you.
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Show Notes and Transcript We are delighted to welcome comedian Alistair Williams to share his journey of remaining authentic in the comedy industry despite pressure to conform to mainstream narratives. He integrates his Christian faith into his comedy, prioritizing faith over worldly concerns and uses his talents to spread joy and truth. Alistair discusses the impact of satire in conveying truths and highlights the challenges of balancing industry expectations with personal convictions. He emphasizes the importance of upholding moral integrity in a secular world, advocating for spreading Christian values through comedic work. The conversation delves into societal values, the decline of ethical grounding, and the need to discern biblical truths amidst challenges and industry pressures. We end this interview by discussing the struggles content creators face aligning their work with faith and values in the current economic landscape and the significance of staying true to one's beliefs and spreading messages of faith and truth. Alistair Williams, a self-proclaimed “rambling moron,” emerges as a rising star on the UK comedy scene. He's soared through the ranks, claiming the Piccadilly Comedy Club's New Comedian of the Year 2014 award, securing spots in prestigious competitions and recently he was crowned 'British Comedian Of The Year 2023'. A firm believer in Free Speech and a fearless 'Soldier of God', Alistair is a charismatic observational storyteller, combining high energy with a knack for crafting top-tier material. Whether winning awards or reaching finals, he's on a rapid ascent to comedic stardom. Connect with Alistair... X/TWITTER x.com/awilliamscomedy RUMBLE rumble.com/user/alistairwilliams Interview recorded 27.5.24 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 am delighted today to be joined by comedian Alistair Williams. Alistair, thank you so much for your time today. (Alistair Williams) Anytime. Anytime. Good afternoon. Great to have you on. Obviously, people can follow you @awilliamscomedy, which is your Twitter or X handle. And, of course, on Rumble, it's just Alistair Williams. And on it, you talk about, I think, your two phrases, more or less, on your Twitter is, Real comedian. Soldier of God and I want to delve into both of those which are separate, but you do mix them like asking whether God wants to cut down ULEZ cameras or remember on comedy only, so you do mix them up the times, but you're some of the some of the the comments I've seen about you online Alistair Williams is quickly making a name for himself with razor sharp content and high what charm unafraid of tackling rough subject matter. He's a passionate health campaigner combining raw personal antidotes on a jam-packed gag count and slick extroverted style. Another one says he is smart, passionate, impressively quick-witted and bursting with infectious confidence. So there you go. They're just some of the... Things I wrote about myself off the internet. That was off your Twitter page, so I didn't want to say that. Alistair, before we get on to kind of your life in comedy and what that means for you maybe you could just take a moment to introduce yourself especially to our kind of half U.S audience who may not have come across you, so maybe just introduce yourself give us a bit of your background story. Sweet okay, well I'm a stand-up comedian. I would say I'm one of, if not the most censored stand-up comedian in the world. I had a YouTube channel that was pretty popular that got cancelled. Most of the comedy clubs in UK, the major ones sort of stopped booking me at the same time after I had this really viral piece piece of comedy go viral about Brexit at the time and the whole internet started sharing. Just at that time, the exact same time the comedy industry decided I did, or this guy has to never be seen again. You know, I used to have like an agent I used to, I was on the TV, but, I quickly figured out after my first TV experience that it doesn't really matter how funny you are, unless you are willing to be malleable, unless you are willing to change what you're saying to fit in with the narrative of what the television says. Like you're never going to be, a stand-up comedian, basically comedies, pretty much one of, if not the most controlled medium there is. And people were surprised about that. There was, I thought you guys would be the main guys who would be allowed to say whatever they want. It's like, yeah, that's why we're the most policed. Because, yeah, we would be the guys to say, you know, or during the pandemic, for example, if something was ridiculous and, hey, this is crazy and stupid and laughable, like we should be the people pointing it out. But where were those famous comedians during the pandemic? They were out there saying, if you haven't got vaccinated, punch yourself in the face, you know, or the famous musicians, the rock and roll guys, you know, where were they during the pandemic? You know, the stick it to the man. They were like, get vaccinated. You can't come to the show. Like, you know so very quickly sort of opened my eyes. Oh okay. Being famous, I'm such an idiot I'm so naïve I actually thought like being famous was about like being talented or being good at stuff. But very quickly I figured out; oh that has got absolutely nothing to do it's got nothing literally nothing to do with it, you know. So, my one and only T.V recording like most of the comedians on there were bombing like they were getting like no laughs they were dying on their ass out there. And then when I watched the TV recording back, they were just cutting in laughs and images of everyone next to all this awful stuff that died on its ass in the room. When was that Comedy Central piece you did? How far back was that? That was; weesh, maybe I want to say like 2017 or somewhere around there, somewhere around there, but I remember at the time the people that were managing me were trying to get me to change and say this and not say that and and I refused basically. I thought if I'm funny I'm just gonna make it, and that, that is not the case. So, they actually, if you find the clip, they actually put another comedian's name on my clip. That's how much they don't want people to know who I am. They put my piece of comedy out there on the internet. And then another comedian's name comes up after it. Because, I remember thinking this comedy is good. People are going to want to find me after this. And they were like, oh yeah, we thought of that. Don't worry. So yeah, you know, and you never saw me on television again. And at the television recording, like literally I smoked that recording. Like it was it was clear like: whoa this guy's really funny you never saw me on TV again, because it's not it's not about that. It's not about it certainly isn't about being funny, hasn't been for a long time. Well back, it was your, was it the Edinburgh festival 2016 then which is just obviously before that comedy central and you read that was your first debut solo show. I mean, maybe what led what led up to that, because people have really no idea what happens in the comedy circuit behind the scenes, it is quite cutthroat. I assume just like probably music a very cutthroat, but what led you to to getting that gig at the Edinburgh festival and then what followed on from there? Well, it's a good question and this is how they control comedy in this country right. They say: if you want to be a famous comedian. If you want to be good you want to be professional. You have to go to the Edinburgh comedy festival. Okay, because they tell you this is the only place comedy industry ever go; it's like one week a year or sorry one month a year in August. I was like, aren't they going to be in the comedy clubs like watching me do really well? They're: oh no no they're never going to see that. That's ridiculous, I'm like what do they do the rest of the year apart from August? Anyway, they say: you've got to go to Edinburgh, right, and that's where the tv people might see you and you have to get a good review, okay. Then people that write for the newspapers have to like you and this is how they control it, so all the comedians go to Edinburgh and if you're on narrative, if you're like a rabid left wing. You know, the time when I was coming up, it was like, men are toxic. You know, if you did a show about, you know, men being rapists or whatever, it didn't have to have any jokes in it. You know, the, the lady that won one jokes in an hour, all the guardian journalists and stuff were like: Oh, this is incredible. It's a future in the comedy. You know, this is amazing. And your agent or manager at the time would tell you to go to Edinburgh and you had to do an hour and they would tell you, you know, what's the worst thing that ever happened to you. What's the most traumatic thing like, you know, oh your mom died, I said right that's that's your hour, you know, and they turn comedy into like this half drama, half emotion. They just sort of get the spine and rip it out of there and you know mix it with acting and they just decimate the up comedy industry from Edinburgh, because they pull everyone into Edinburgh and they get all the journalists to review the show. And if it's anything, you know, right wing or off narrative they either don't come to review it or if they do they give it two stars, and you know, that so they can control it by this small group of journalists who control who gets to be you know a stand-up comedian in the united kingdom. It certainly doesn't work. I used to think well if everyone's laughing in the crowd, I'm you know, I'm gonna make it. And the more I focused on that the more I realized; hey these people in Edinburgh they literally they hate me. These journalists and stuff they hate me, because I'm not on their narrative and I quickly realized oh they're using comedy to control the way people think. But, before I was even a Christian, I never wanted to compromise on what I thought, because at the time it was all feminism and racism and stuff. And basically what I figured out they were doing, it's like, you're getting men to hate women. You're getting women to hate men. You're getting black people to hate white people. You're getting white people to hate black people. And I never wanted to contribute to that. Instead, I wanted to try and bring both both sides together, always. And that just, you know, made me so unpopular with the comedy industry, essentially. They were always telling me to change the way I think, because the way I think was wrong. You know, and when I wouldn't change, they just sort of kicked me out of the comedy industry. And, you know, they made it very clear that, you know, you're never going to get anywhere going it this way. So then I filmed my own stuff, put it out myself, made it go viral myself. And that's when they were like, okay, now you can't do comedy. But now we're going to stop you just getting anywhere near the microphone. If you're going to record it yourself and put it out now, you're not allowed, you're not allowed to work anymore. So, then I started live streaming and doing YouTube videos for a couple of years. Built myself up a big YouTube channel. Then they're like, right: you're not allowed to do YouTube either. It's like, okay, you guys really, really are a bunch of losers. You know what I mean? Like they can win. When did you get taken off YouTube? What was it for? They never tell you what it's for. Never ever tell you what it's for. But what happened was they gave me two strikes for, you know, nonsense. I think one of them was like cyber bullying or something. I think i'm out there cyber bullying, something ridiculous, so at that point I would just read the Bible on my live stream every Sunday. So, it's kind of like; okay so you've got to give me one more strike here, I'm just going to read the Bible. It's like your move you want to strike me for reading the bible, you know, that'll be why people are like why did you get kicked off YouTube? I'm like well I was reading the bible they kicked me off, because no one believes that. Everyone's like no it can't have been, that it's like that bro that's all I was doing on two strikes. You know and I would just do that every week and that's turned into one of my favourite things that I do now. Church on Sunday live stream every week. And it's and it was sort of born out of that, so yeah. You tube's the same. I mean you're fully aware. Your audience is probably fully aware that you know they used to control everything on television and then we were like; oh we're on YouTube we're free. Now, they just control everything on YouTube, you know. Like everything out there is is controlled pretty much even the alternatives to YouTube, you know, it's very difficult if you want to give people something new to think about to get it out there. I know, it is and I want to delve into that Christian aspect, because I remember having James Delingpole on talking about; I mean he does regularly does a video on the Psalms going through it. You do that Sunday evening just reading through scripture and it's something which stands out as something quite different. I think the only other person I've seen doing it regularly is is dry Sherry Tenpenny and actually fitting that into not a separate thing not this is my Christian persona, but hey, here's my comedy or here's my journalism or here's my activism But actually, putting that all together is intriguing. I think, quite different, but I want to delve into that. But I want to ask you more about, just being a comedian, doing the live shows, it must be... It looks bloody difficult and nerve-wracking. I mean you're there, you present yourself, you put yourself out there on a live thing in front of the audience. If they don't find your set funny that's going to be a very long set for you that's going to last for eternity. Tell me about that, because you're really you're putting yourself out there to be ridiculed and mocked if not then if not laughed at you're going to be ridiculed. That's the easiest part of the job. Me, I don't ever worry about that. You know, I tell people that's the easy bit. The hard bit is if you make room for people to laugh, it's surviving the attacks that are going to come to knock you out if you're, you know, trying to tell people the truth in today's day and age, which is what comedy is. Good comedy is true. It always is. People, oh, that's so true, especially if you're coming up with some observation that was right in front of them and they didn't see it before. Oh, that's so true. Isn't that true? Everyone's laughing because they're like, oh, what he's saying is true, and we never realized it. That's what comedy is. That's what good comedy is. And if you're actually out there, so much of what people have in front of them now is deception, right? And if you're actually out there trying to, you know, open people's eyes and show people how they're lying to you about this and they're lying to you about that, you know, you're going to have, I have so much trouble off, off the mic, on the mic. And it's actually made me better if anything, because I very quickly realized it doesn't matter how much I make these people laugh, you know. They're never going to let me do this properly. They're never going to give me a Netflix special. They're never going to do it. So, it doesn't matter. So, I go on there just like, hey, you know, I literally don't care. I literally don't care. It's like even like the comedy clubs, I quickly realized it doesn't matter how good I do. You know, some of the comedy clubs where I used to do my best work, they just never had me back one day. You know, they just didn't want me back. And I never upset a single audience member. You know, I never did anything. It was right after the Brexit booking thing. That obviously, there is a single entity somewhere that controls the whole of the entertainment industry. And you could tell that during the COVID pandemic. Where was the one person who was famous, who had a slightly different point of view to what the whole world was told was the case? There wasn't one. And if there was one, Matt Le Tissier is a good example. They're straight out of there, and all of a sudden it's a, this guy's a nutcase and he's now a maniac. And, you know, there's, and that shows you how controlled this whole thing is. Music, film, comedy, anything like anyone who is not saying what they want. You just, you'll never hear of them. You'll never hear of them. Like there's probably a couple of exceptions, but I can't think of any during the pandemic who put their neck on the line and said, I disagree with what's being done here. No, but I think people are quick to rewrite history as well, because now you've got many people who say, I was always against the woke agenda. I was always against the COVID tyranny. And you're kind of thinking, well, you've come at the 11th hour. I'm really happy you've woken up. This is great. But I didn't realize you were there in the trenches with us back in the first couple of months. Have you seen that same thing in comedy? I mean, in comedy, I mean, there was probably a few more people in comedy is with my circle that were like, Hey, wait a minute, something's up with this, you know, Tanya Edwards, Abi Roberts. There's more, you know, there was probably a few more in comedy, which I would expect. Cause it's like, hey, you guys are supposed to be. You're observant for a living. You know what I mean? You're pointing out absurdity for a living. It's like, come on, it must be a few more of you, who are, like wait a second this is nonsense. So, I think there was more there was more in comedy than than anywhere else, but it's still very rare for someone to, because they just take everything away from you, you know, in in any walk of life; whether you're a doctor or a policeman or whether you're in the army or the navy or whatever, you know. Like I heard this chap who's you know a fighter pilot guy on The Delingpod and he started saying. You know, basically, hey, wait a minute. We're not really hiring people on, you know, how good they are at flying planes. We're just trying to get black lesbians in here. It's like, you're out. You know, someone who has a genuine concern for like, wait a second, the security of the country might be at risk here. It's like, right, get him out of there. You know, and it's not just, that's what I'm saying. There's one entity that controls it all because the same thing is happening across every single industry. It can't be possible that the same guy that runs comedy runs the RAF, can it? You know what I mean? Why are the same things happening everywhere? Especially as most people that you meet on the street, they don't agree with any of this crap. It's not like everyone's like, oh, yeah, I totally agree with that. You've struggled to find one maniac that agrees with 90% of the stuff that's being done, but yet it's all still being done. People are too cowardly to say, I disagree with that, because they know what happens if they do disagree with that. Thankfully, being a man of faith, I know that everything I have comes from God's hand and I don't need to worry about what the world wants to scare me we might take away your income or do this. It's like God gives me that, everything I need comes from him. So, you know there's nothing you can do to me that he won't allow, so I'm actually just going to do whatever what he wants me to do and, you know, that's why I think you see a lot of people of faith who don't go along with this stuff, because it's it's actually a bit of a paper tiger if you like you know these people. They're not really as in charge of the world as they pretend hand that they are. Well, how's that fit? I want to keep until later, but let me just touch on that point, because one of the pastors I really like in the UK, one of his favourite verses is from John, where you seek men who seek the praise of other men, seeking the praise of God. And everyone wants that public adoration and seems to, as even many Christians seem to forget, that actually you should be looking to God for that praise or that viewpoint, that value. How does that affect you as, again, someone who is out there, who's putting themselves out? And most comedians, I guess, they live or die on those laughs of an audience or those clicks. But there's a Christian you're enjoying this, but that's not where your value lies. No, but I've everyone's been given certain talents by god and god is expecting a return on these talents. I know the talents that god's given me i know which area they're in. I know what he made me to do and he is expecting a return on this investment. And one day I will stand before him and all the other work I've done will be burned up apart from the stuff that I did for Jesus. So, this is one of the reasons I'm so keen on keeping church on Sunday going. You know what I mean? I'm keen to use whatever talents I have to let people know about him, basically. And that's what keeps me going. Because I've realized it doesn't matter how funny I am or how good I am at this. They're never going to let me have a career. That's quite freeing in a way, more than anything else. It's like, well, then I don't have to worry about it. I've already burned all those bridges there. You know what I mean? Like not that they were ever going to let me over those bridges, but you know really sort of on my Brexit Burger King video; I really, I sort of little put little subtitles on there that was like oh the crowd's actually laughing this guy's never going to work at the BBC. So, I really did sort of just be like, you know, in a slightly sort of childish way I'd give them a bit of a up yours, as you know what I mean? But that's something that I feel quite strongly about, is like that I feel like they're deliberately ruining comedy. They're deliberately ruining film. They're deliberately ruining music. And as someone that believes in God and knows how much God wants joy to be in the world, one of the first things I experienced when I started being a comedian was I was just trying to make people happy. Literally, that was it. I was just trying to bring people joy. And man, they were after me so bad. And I was like, wait a minute, I'm literally just trying to spread joy. And I realized how much the world, hates people that are just out there spreading joy. And that was one of the first things that made me realize, hang on, there's something, something up with this world here. This is before I even believe in God. It was like some weirds going on. Cause I'm just trying to do a nice thing here. And I'm getting, getting so attacked for this, that there's some evil out here that I haven't really wrapped my head around yet. And then it was a sort of snowball effect from there. I want to go back and ask you about that. Burger King skit. And kind of most of public I will think, you know, if you can put forward a good position it's like being part of a debate society. Maybe in journalism, if you can put forward a rational argument then, you win the day. We find that not to be the case, but you think then comedy, if you can put forward a position and make it comical make, it humorous, then you should you should really win, because people will laugh and you can put forward any position, whatever it is, as long as you can get people to laugh and you kind of think: well Brexit that skit. There's no way you can say: oh you're racist for that you're xenophobic for that, you hate this, you hate that. Actually, it's funny and you're making a point, but that wasn't good enough, I mean tell us about that and why simply putting forward a position no matter what people think. Even if it's funny it doesn't necessarily hit the mark and doesn't accept it. Well, the funny thing about that is it's like, people watch that and they go, but you're not even really picking a side here. You're just, you know, people that voted remain laughed and people who voted to leave for it was funny. And that's sort of what I was told in the beginning. I'm always looking for just down. How can I get everyone in this room? How can I get two people that should hate each other based on this? And it's all cooked up, dude. It's all, oh, I'm a remainer. I'm a leaver, dude. They come up with these things to make you hate each other. I'm pro-vaccine, I'm anti-vaccine, we hate each other. It's like, I'm white, I'm black, we hate each other. It's like, they will give you a million things. You know, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Palestine, just go on and on and on. It's the oldest trick in the book, you know, divide and conquer. So, I was like, let me see if I can come up with something that's going to get the whole room okay. But the reason it wasn't allowed is because it wasn't on the narrative. It wasn't, if you voted to leave, you hate black people. You know that was and that's what every comedian was doing at the time. On the BBC ad nauseum, you know, just terrible comedy like that, and it's like if comedy, and the reason why I got in so much trouble Brexit isn't working is exposed the whole industry as being a fraud. You know, it's like you're all you're doing is comedy on Brexit all the time and everyone hates it it's dead. And then I come along explode a room with Brexit which every comedian there's just mind to death and everyone hates it. And boom I blow it up. I should have been everywhere. They should have been like, oh get him on the BBC get him here this guy can make Brexit funny. No you never saw me again. They were like bury this guy. He's doing comedy properly, because if you put someone like me out there that's doing it properly it makes it even more obvious that the rest of them are just, you know, there's: oh here's another joke about how people are racist. It's like oh dude everyone hates this is stop, stop, please stop, you know, throw bread rolls at them now they do, stop, you know. So it's really... They can't let me anywhere near being a widely known comedian now, because it just, it really does expose how fake the industry is. Because if you're, if you're really out there looking for funny comedians and you know, you watch that and that's, that's the reason why I lost my career. That, that joke, it's not even someone who's offended. I'm pretty special in that I'm cancelled and you can't even, they can't even get me on: well you said this and that was wrong ,you know what mean? They can't even get me on that, so they just sort of silently cancel you they just remove all your live work slowly and cancel your YouTube channel and when they really want to cancel you you just, bro, you just fade away, and silently. They don't, you're like Andrew Tate where it's like: "I'm cancelled, and he's everywhere. You know what I mean? It's like I'm cancelled I'm going live on Piers Morgan to talk about it. Dude, if the establishment hated you you would not be on Piers Morgan, you're mad. Like the whole; oh Piers Morgan uncensored. Bro who is censoring you? You spend your whole career on like CNN and stuff. If there's anyone who's more of an establishment toady, it's you. You know the whole thing of like, oh we're cancelled but everyone knows our name. It's like that's not the thing. The real cancel people, you never heard of them, that's how it really works. But I know of the two very high profile comedians that always tell us how they're against the system in every way. I look at two Netflix specials. And I wonder how that kind of, just like those who have massive YouTube channels now, I wonder, how is that possible if you're being restricted? Something doesn't add up. You know their name, they're in the game. That's the way it works. But the enemy is very clever. There's always going to be a counter-narrative. There's always going to be people who I don't agree with the official narrative and I want something else. It's like, oh, cool, we got that for you. We got someone, we got that for you as well. You know what I mean? It's like, they're not dumb, and they're not going to give you any real dangerous opposition, but they will give you some people that, 'hey, we're the opposition,' you know. But for people with discernment, you know, it's not hard to figure out who those people might be or what's going on. But also, you know, you look at some incredibly famous comedians, you know, and you think, well, why is this guy allowed? Like Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes or whatever. You remember that? And he was like: hey you guys are all paedophiles you've been having sex with children, and they were all just like. You know there's all these clips of them being like.. We'll bring you back next year. Yeah , yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, do you honestly think that they didn't know he was gonna say that, and you know what I mean? And they're like: you understand how dead you would be if they really didn't want that information getting out there and you just jumped on the mic and just blasted them, you know, but when you look at the, you can always look at like what was the reaction from that? People were like: oh, they got what they deserved. He roasted them. ] It's like, bro if what he was saying is true, these people need to be in jail. It's not like they, got roasted, take that. It's like, they've sort of normalized it with that move you, know what I mean. It's like, they were ridiculed, they've served their time. It's like, hang on a minute. Like, do you really stop and think about that: it's like you can't go to this. This is an industry awards thing right you. Can't say if I'm booked to do the policemen's thing of the year, whatever all the policemen, and I jump on the mic like, hey you guys we're all having sex with children. Do you think like that's gonna be allowed, or like you know, I would get shut down, and be like throwing stuff. But that didn't happen there, did it? Why? Because everyone knows it's true. Everyone knows that like, oh yeah, Weinstein and this and that, you know. Everyone knows it's true, but nothing happens. So, it's just been sort of normalized in a way. So, sometimes the things it looks like, hey, this guy's really sticking it to the man. But on closer inspection, what's the results of this sticking it to the man? In this case, you know, nothing. Yeah. No, it's exactly the same as alternative media. I think we're all seeing that as well. How do you pick, I mean, you've got so toxic masculinity, Brexit, the food industry, which is a bit different, the whole woke agenda, what I mentioned before, what's God's view in smashing up ULEZ cameras or gender study, it's one way to get screwed. All those kind of hot-button topics that are in the middle of this, I guess, this gender war and culture debate that we are seeing. Hardy, do you have a list of go-to topics? Because, I guess some comedians will just, hey, whatever the hell, if it makes people laugh, I don't give a damn, because I actually don't have any beliefs or guide in life. You do, but do you have kind of areas you think, I understand that or how does it work? I just, I just want to tell people the truth. If you go out there and tell the truth, you'll, you'll find that you're, you know, against all different kinds of things, but down to like, you know, if you want to go out there and tell people there's only men and women in the world, like, you know, it's a controversial figure, you know, like, yes. Okay. Sure. You know what I mean? Like it's not, it's not any sort of deliberate. I'm going to go after this. So, I'm going to go after that, but... I really would just like to use; when you when you make people laugh they'll actually they'll listen to what you're saying, you know. That's a that's a good opportunity to, you know, let people know like what's really going on in the world which is where my sort of Christian faith comes into it, and you know, that this is the only thing that I see as being important anymore. Like everything else in the world seems fake and corrupt and controlled. But this is telling people about Jesus is what one area where it's not. And what one area where there is hope and one area where there is, you know, success to be had, if you know what I mean. Whereas, you know, trying to climb up the career pole of the entertainment industry is, is just not, it's not one thing. It's not possible for me anymore, And it's, it's not exciting either, you know. But it must cause you… There are awards in the industry. And I saw you got an award, I think, last year for being the most popular comedian in the UK. It was the Comedy Club. That, obviously, it is good to get recognition. You realise, actually, I am hitting the mark in some areas. That's good. So, I get those things are important. But, I guess there are not many awards like that, that are actually possible for someone like yourself. Well, the British Comedian of the Year is the award that I won in November. And the only reason I even entered that is because it's voted for by the audience. So, there's only one way I'm going to win a competition if it's voted for by the audience. So, because that one's voted for by the audience, I'm like, let me, let me go and get this one, you know? And the finals that these sort of big established comedy clubs where I don't, I don't perform anymore. So, it's quite fun for me to walk in there and be like, Hey, this is what I'm up to. And then walk back out of there with a great big check, you know? So, that was, but that was really God's hand in that. You know, he, I lost my career, you know, they took everything away from me for trying to do the right thing, essentially. And, you know, God likes to, likes to test your faith, wants to see like, okay, let's see, I'm going to take this away from you. And this is going to be taken away from you. And, you know, you like to send you into the wilderness. And, and then at some point, and in my case, God was like, okay, at that point, when I won that award, God was like, okay, you can have, you can have this back now, you know, You know, you can have, you know, the recognition that.... It's quite hard when you're doing something like comedy and your friends and your family. You can tell them, like, oh, I'm cancelled. No one really believes it. It's like, oh, you must be terrible. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, I have my YouTube channel. You got taken away. Oh, yeah, right, I suppose. You know what I'm saying? It was nice for me to have, like, okay, are you actually good at this? Okay, fine. Most people just thought you were crazy or whatever. So, yeah, that was good. But you know that there's no there's only really one award like that that's voted for by the audience and that's it, so you know it's not gonna i'm gonna go any further than that, if you know what I mean. I've mentioned the the beginning of the show you have Soldier of God. Unpack that, it's a it's an interesting phrase people describe themselves themselves, their Christian faith in all different ways or none, depending on how they want to do it. But you put up there, soldier of God. Why do you describe yourself as a soldier of God? I'm in the joy division. Okay. I'm in the soldier of God. I'm in the joy division. God made me with these abilities to make people laugh and cheer people up. And that's literally what I'm out there doing, you know, and there's more people need to be. You know, out there trying to do God's work in this world. And, you know, I think all the problems we have are from a sort of degradation of, of human character. I don't think there's any sort of political thing going on. You know, I don't think it's anything like that. It's just human characters sort of eroding, but becoming more sort of selfish. We're more concerned about the things that we have and now how many followers we have and, you know what I mean, our social how we look to the outside world. And there's so many problems that we have in the world that they're all as a result of this sort of falling away from a sound position of, you know, a Christian faith. The people in this country they used to read the Bible all the time and they used to be concerned with loving your neighbour and you know following the ten commandments and treating other people as you want them to be treated. And we had this great society where you could walk down the street safely and top of the morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning, Mr. Chubb. No, no, no. You know, we had all that going on. Right. But it was based on people talk about all the fall of Western society. There's no such thing as Western. You know, it's not like we have Western values. So, give me, you know, what are you talking about? Western? What do you mean is Christian countries that began following Christ and trying to imitate what Jesus were like, started doing really well. Started having really nice countries. It's almost like treating other people as you would have them treat you as a basic principle results in a really nice place with everyone, you know, enjoying their life isn't it? And you know this is what's built this country up and made it great, and now no one believes in it anymore, no one reads the bible. They watch Netflix and Love Island, right? And we wonder why everything's going to S.H.I.T, you know what I mean? We wonder why? It's like, you still read, we used to read the Bible all the time and try to be like Jesus. And now we've thrown the name of Jesus Christ in the bin, and you want to wonder why the place is falling apart, and you want to try and fix it by voting for someone with a blue tie or a red tie. like, it's insane. It's no one with a special coloured tie is going to save you, you know. It's God is the only person can save this country and this world. That's what the Bible teaches you, and that's what the truth of it is. And I've got no interest anymore in, you know, really telling anyone about anything else other than that, because it's the only solution. And because it's the only solution, you know, I can't really get excited about anything else, you know? You're 100%. I was trying to explain to someone today where we are in Europe and the UK in regards to the church and Christian belief compared to the States. And the States are in a mess, but we are much further gone. And it's quite difficult to explain the situation we find ourselves right on a precipice of chaos and probably oblivion. Tell me about your faith story. Was that was a light bulb moment? Was your background connected to church? Not at all. How did you come to Christ? Not at all. l was walking down the street and somebody sent me a message. It's actually, I think it was a Muslim guy sent me a message: salaam Alaikum, or something, and I was like I wonder what that means. And I googled what it meant, and it meant he was greeting me with the peace of God. And I asked myself for the first time, I was like I wonder what what the peace of god feel like, and it just hit me washed over my soul my first encounter with the holy spirit. And I was like, whoa! It was crazy. I was like; whoa God is real. And that was when god first sort of revealed himself to me, and then I just started reading the Bible. I'd just been cancelled at the time, I just sort of lost everything so I came to the bible like thinking; wait a minute When was this like 2018, 2019, when was this? Yeah, about then. I think so, about then. So, I came to the bible trying to understand why the world hated me, because if you've been cancelled you lost everything, you're like: hey, and I know my own heart. I know I'm trying to do the right thing and I'm trying to bring people together and I've lost everything. That doesn't seem correct to me so, I started reading the Bible looking for answers for that. And Jesus said: if the world hates you, remember it hated me first. And I was like: hey, wait a second, that's that's true, because most people they don't even investigate Jesus. They don't think that he's a significant person. And someone like me who's always looking for the truth, I'm like, let me read every word that Jesus said, and let me see if I can find where he's wrong or where he's lying or what I don't agree with. I'm like, wait a second. Everything this guy says is true. Everything this guy says is incredible. You know, I came to the Bible feeling that the world hated me. I read one line, the world hates you. Remember, it hated me first. I'm like, whoa, I'm just on the right path as Jesus. And immediately I cheered up. I was like, the world hates me. This is horrible. I'm like, wait a minute. The world hated Jesus first. And you think that you've got some sub story like, oh, I'm just trying to be a good person and this bad thing happened to you. There's no better example of that than Jesus who just walked around healing sick people and performing miracles and just helping everyone. And then they nailed him to a cross and tortured him to death for three days. It's like Jesus didn't deserve any of that. And he's showing you the way the world really works. Like if you really go out there and show love and the world will hate you. And that's the exact time we're living in today, dude. If you really want to go out there and tell people the truth and make a difference, and take a stand, and do the right thing, and live a righteous life; the world will hate you. But if you want to go out there and have pride and celebrate pride, the world will love you. You know, everything is inverted from how it used to be. We used to think that pride is the sin that God hates the most, the Bible says. And what a coincidence. We spent a whole month celebrating it. You know, they didn't pick pride, you know, by accident. They didn't pick the rainbow as a symbol by accident. There's a biblical symbol, you know, everything. The more you read the Bible, the more you'll realize all of this stuff in the world is from the Bible. You know, like all of the things that they're pushing are the exact opposite of what God says to do. Like the exact opposite. It you, know having pride being a great example of that you know. That god made them male and female, you know, that's under attack. Like anything god says in the bible our modern culture hates, you know, and it's as simple as that. No, 100 percent. And the rainbow is a perfect example of God making a promise and man taking that and twisting it and making it as perverse as possible. And that shows the state we are in. Whenever you want to take something which is good and godly and twist it and make it as disgusting and perverse as possible. I mean, I really feel sympathy for the people that are involved in this movement, because they're being deceived in a very... They're being encouraged to antagonize God. The rainbow is the symbol that God sent that said, I will never destroy the world again, no matter how much you disobey me. So, they've got them out there holding that symbol of, God says you won't destroy the world, and at the same time saying, and I'm disobeying you, God. They're provoking God, whether they know it or not. But that's the point of that movement, if you ask me. It's leading people to rebel against God, and not only that, to spike the football, if you like, right in the face of the Almighty, you know. And I don't think the rainbow symbol, I don't think it's an accident that they picked that one. You know, most people are being misled in these days, but Jesus did say that's what we'll categorize the final days, which is believe where they are, take care that no man deceives you, you know. I think we're living in the age of deception, but the more people read the Bible, the more you'll understand that this is all in there. Everything that's happening now is in there, you know, down to cashless society and, you know, all the stuff the Bible says will happen towards the end is happening. Especially, what I'm talking about a lot, which is the degradation of human character, the falling away from a standing position of Christianity. You know, so much of what we're told to expect towards the end of this age is happening out there right now. And it's one of the reasons why God tells you the future in the Bible thousands of years ago is so that you'll read it and go, oh, wow, this really is God chatting here. Because, everything he said that would happen 2,000 years ago, I can see happening outside of the window if people want to go and examine the Bible. But, you know, they got people pretty much convinced that they don't want to do that, so people don't. But if you did, you'd find out what was going on. Yeah, you can read as many books, watch as many podcasts, but you can short circuit the path to truth and just pick up a Bible. Yes. It's a lot quicker and you'll get there much sooner. Alistair, what was your background? Was it against God? Was it against Christianity or was it just indifference? Just complete, no idea about that at all, you know. Interestingly when I did my food show, when I started telling people to eat real food, is the first time when I sort of really noticed: hang on a minute. Because, I was just I was just telling people to eat like normal. I noticed that all the food that's just on the earth is so good for you, right? And it just falls off the trees and grows out of the ground and, you know, just replicates itself through seeds and animals giving birth to other animals. I'm like, and all that's really good for you, right? And all the food that men touch that we create kills you, like processed food. And I very quickly sort of figured out, like, oh, it's almost as if the stuff that's here on the earth has been created and is incredible and everything that we tamper with turns to, you know, death. And you know, it's interestingly, it's I first saw God in an apple, you know, which is like where original sin comes from. But that's where I first realized: oh people. And I was trying to tell people the truth about food. And they were trying to wipe me out for that, you know. And that was again: I was just telling people like, eat celery, and they're like get rid of this guy, you know, because most people are dumbed down into, you know, drinking sugar and sweetness and just they're being poisoned to death, most people, with the food. And I was trying to just let people know, hey, there's an easy way to be healthy. You just eat the food that's lying around. And it was like, right, make sure he's never seen from again. And that's when you sort of realize how evil the world actually is. You're like: well there must be an opposite to this, right? So, that was, yeah, so lots of my life you can look at and go: oh this is this has led, me to God this has led me to God, but I was never... My family were never, you know, really religious, or whatever I was never brought up on it or anything like that. It's just, you know, God chose to reveal himself to me. It's like nothing that I did or you know. Well, that's the I think the frustrating part; that those of us who are Christians feel that and we've seen actually through the Covid tyranny that people just don't ask. People don't think. People are sheep and all they all the Bob Moran cartoons are so true that people are sheep and they just follow that pathway and you have a conversation and they look at you blankly, but you're right mention Love Island or something and suddenly they're alive. And you think there's a disconnect that you've actually been dulled into a place of not questioning anything and just believing what you're told and that's difficult. That gap is a massive gap to bridge. Yeah, I mean most people, they watch the television right? They figure out what's going on from the television, you know, that's what they do. And you know, you figure out the way my life's gone, I quickly figured out, oh, the television is just one giant deception. When you just have a little peek behind the curtain at the television, it's like, oh, this is awful. Even like adverts these days on the television, they're so awful, man. Everything's so zany. You know, it's always just like, oh, it's got a real sort of satanic vibe to it. Even like adverts, it's all sort of close zoomed in on the face and quick cuts everywhere. Like they don't even, new music's the same. It's so jarring and it's just, ugh, like everything that is of the world just really stinks to me now. You know, so entertainment especially, I mean they're not even really trying to hide it in entertainment anymore; like and young people are sort of picking up on this. You can see some interesting TikTok videos where people are sort of mimicking, like you go to a rap concert and it's just a satanic ritual and the people are looking around; it's like, hey wait a minute what did he say? It's like, you know, the demons in me, is like what? Young people are starting to figure out like, hang on a minute, this is a bit sinister like what we're being what we're being fed here. And don't get me started on children's entertainment and how you know the occult has repackaged itself. Like you pick up any children's movie and stuff, I bet you it's about magic and spells and and unicorns and you know, and people don't realize like how much you know, the the occult has repackaged itself to children and it's really disgusting when you really sort of look into that. I mean, the Disney and how that all works. You know, there's endless rabbit holes that people can go down that I've been down, and they're very eye-opening when you realize the sweet stuff that you thought was so innocent, and you realize how much of it is of the enemy. And you can find God through this, which sounds crazy, but the Antichrist points the way to Christ because he's the opposite. So, whenever you see him work and you're like, oh, okay, well, I go to the opposite of that. I'll find Jesus, which is pretty much what happened to me. Tell me, just finishing off on the on the comedy side, for you, are there like red lines, because you think where does a comedian go; every comedian is different, because we are who we are and we reflect what we what we see around us, but for you are there red lines, are there areas you don't go, how does it work? I mean I try not to swear very much anymore. So, you're not Not like I'll be then? No, no, no, no, no. And I try, I get convicted of that sort of stuff. I still do swell. I try not to, you know what I mean? I try not to, just because, you know, I'm very big on this sort of, you know, I'm going to be called to account for everything that I've done or not done. So, you know, I have a responsibility to try and do things the right way. And I, you know, that's my red lines. Basically, I try to not talk about anything that I don't think Jesus would talk about or want me to talk about. And that is very much like swearing loads or another one that's possibly I'm out being sort of unforgiving of people. It's very sort of easy these days. But these people have done this and they've done that. And they're the evilest people in the world. We need to get them all and blah, blah, blah. This is not a Christian doctrine, is it? It's supposed to be the opposite of that. So, that's somewhere else where I really have to rein myself in. Like a lot of the times, these people we talked about earlier, these sort of fake content creators that are the opposition, but they're not really the opposition. You know, I find it quite easy to show the content that they're putting out and sort of ridiculing it or sort of, you know, exposing like, well, hang on a minute. Is this really the opposition? And just trying to do that in a sort of Christian way, you know, Without being mean, without being, you know, insulting, but still trying to make it amusing. Things so they're it's pretty boring red lines. I'm sure it's not, you know, really what that sort of question was implying but that's that's pretty much where they are, yeah. Can I just ask you about, actually, how you actually fund yourself. I mean how do viewers listeners, they're always looking for I guess no only subscribing or supporting on the social media side, but actually just how they financially support. How does that work for you and how do the public kind of support what you do to make sure you keep going? Well, that's it, I just put my content out there for free. I put my live streams out there for free, and I put little links where people can support me on subscribe star or locals and stuff like that and there's a really sort of core group of people that do that. And they give me the ability, you know, to keep going essentially, you know, I do, I do a lot more live comedy now and, you know, that, that helps. But that's pretty much it. I got no one, you know, supporting me apart from. You have no sugar daddy. No. So, if people don't want me to keep going, you know, people don't want me to keep going. And it's hard, because most people are broke these days. You know, people are being, people are being attacked in, in a lot of ways economically these days, you know. It's very difficult for people to have excess money to throw at someone like me, you know, but I'm in a sort of really good position where I can literally say whatever I want, because the people that support me; I don't have a I don't have any sponsors or anything like that. So, I can literally just, be a voice out there that's just coming at it from a place that, you know, I will say, you know, exactly what I think. And that's, that's pretty rare these days, you know? So, I mean, yeah, that's, that's pretty much it. I'm just supported by, by the regular people. Do you do many live shows? Cause I know you've done some comedy on leash, but I, I don't fall over closely necessarily, but do you do live shows that people can come along to or other clubs? I do. There's clubs, but the the television controls most of the comedy circuit in the UK right, because you can't get past a certain level before it's like: well, we need someone for with T.V credits for this, you know what I mean. Must have been on the TV, you know, otherwise you're just in this sort of layer below, you know, it doesn't matter how funny you are. If you haven't been on the TV, or you've not been on TV, so you know, what I'm saying, so that's the the way that the TV companies sort of control even, even who gets to do sort of live comedy, but there is, there's a lot of work out there for someone like me who can do the job well, and you know, I can, scratch a living, you know, from the sort of the gigs in the sort of mid tier. But you know what you're saying before, like, isn't it difficult to make people laugh? Like, I shouldn't be at the mid tier anymore, but they've got me in the mid tier. So, it's like, you know, it's so, I don't want to say it's easy for me, but it is it's. Like they got me instead of on the mid-tier and it's like: okay, I'll sit here, I'll sit here on the mid-tier. You know, I'll go on before the last guy who's going to be so incredible, okay. You know what I mean? So, it's fine, but it takes you know it takes all the pressure off to be honest, it takes all the pressure off ,you know. But, it's fine, you know, I'm just, I'm not happy to be happy to be doing the job, bear in mind I'm not doing this for fame or money anymore, I'm doing this for the opportunity to tell people about Jesus so, you know, it's fine just to be able to do it it's fun, you know. Well, you're doing that, and as your teacher says, God wins in the end, so that's the end of the story. Alistair, really appreciate you coming on. I've loved your skits, love following you on Twitter, so thanks so much for coming on and sharing your story, not only of comedy, but of faith with our audience. Thank you. Hey, any time. Thanks for having me on. Really appreciate it.
The climate crisis is wreaking havoc in headlines this week: heatwaves in southeast Asia, flooding in Kenya and Brazil, and exotic spiders smuggling their way into the UK - all this marks a record leap in atmospheric CO2. One climate-related story has haunted UK news cycles for almost five years: The London mayor's controversial Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). Yet it's not reported as a climate story at all - so much as a political one. This week, we're joined by Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, mother of the Ella, the only person in the world with pollution listed as her legal cause of death. She tells us air pollution is a human story, not a political one. We're also joined by Akshat Rathi, award winning climate reporter at Bloomberg Green, host of the podcast 'Zero', and author of Climate Capitalism, to discuss solutions-focussed climate reporting. Plus, your round up of the headlines through a Media Storm lens - we discuss Rwanda, Voter ID, the power of boycotts at Eurovision and The Great Escape festival, and why no journalist should doorstop national treasure Rylan's mum. Hosts: Mathilda Mallinson (@mathildamall) and Helena Wadia (@helenawadia) Music: Samfire (@soundofsamfire) Assistant Producer: Katie Grant Support Media Storm on Patreon patreon.com/MediaStormPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Geoff Thompson's journey on his YouTube channel, Geoff Buys Cars, took off when he lost his job and began making videos critiquing the ULEZ scrappage scheme. His unique style of sitting in his car and explaining things resonated with viewers, leading to rapid growth. Now, with over 100,000 subscribers, his channel covers a range of topics, from breaking news to car reviews, all presented in an accessible and humorous manner. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Simon Miln is a businessman and entrepreneur based in the UK.
With less than two days to go before the 2024 London mayoral election, our city hall editor Ross Lydall explains the key pledges made by each of the four main candidates, Sadiq Khan (Labour), Susan Hall (Conservatives), Rob Blackie (Liberal Democrats) and Zoe Garbett (Green Party), and reveals which one he thinks is relevant to most Londoners. In this episode:Why now is the time to secure votersFree school meals, ULEZ, tackling crime, lowering rents: which issue speaks to most Londoners?Who's tipped to win based on the latest pollsFollow us on X or on Threads. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this special episode of The Standard podcast, you'll hear an Evening Standard roundtable discussion focussing on the crunch issues in the 2024 mayoral election.Three cabbies debate the candidates and policies impacting the black taxi trade as the race for City Hall intensifies between Labour incumbent Sadiq Khan and his Conservative rival Susan Hall.There's plenty of lively opinion on the mayor's tenure, low-traffic neighbourhoods, road closures and cycle lanes - plus, could Ulez swing the vote?Hosted by Ross Lydall, the Evening Standard's City Hall editor and transport editor. You can watch the extended version of this roundtable video online at standard.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is a special episode, welcoming Paul Comfort (3x Future of Mobility podcast guest) to share an episode of his Transit Unplugged podcast, featuring a conversation with Adam Hill. This podcast swap format provides the opportunity to introduce an adjacent show that Future of Mobility listeners might like. The original show notes are below: https://transitunplugged.com/transit-unplugged-podcast/future-of-mobility-avs/ In this episode of Transit Unplugged, host Paul Comfort interviews Adam Hill, Editor in Chief of ITS International Magazine. They discuss the challenges and prospects of high-speed rail in England and the US, including the various political and logistical issues. Adam explains London's new Ultra Low Emission Zone, designed to encourage public transit use and discusses the struggles with its introduction. They explore how public transit can be made popular, touching on how to capture public interest and cater to convenience for the users. Paul and Adam wrap up the episode discussing the impacts of congestion charging and low emissions zones in encouraging public transit use. In Mike's Minute, Mike Bismeyer reports from the CUTA Meeting in Edmonton about the Youth Leadership Summit and his work mentoring future transit leaders. Coming up next week we have Scott Smith, former CEO of Valley Metro reflecting on transit and leadership. If you have a question or comment, email info@transitunplugged.com. Episode flow: Introduction and Introducing Adam Hill Adam Hill's Background and Role at ITS International Magazine Challenges and Developments in High Speed Rail Exploring the Impact of ULEZ in London Political Implications of ULEZ and Public Transit Mike's Minute with Mike Bismeyer Coming up next week on the show
Support our work here - https://urbanscoop.news/support-us/In this episode of SILENCED Tommy speaks to English actor, broadcaster, musician, political activist and leader of the Reclaim Party.Laurence used to work for GB News but was sacked for his satirical live takedown of a rabid man hating feminist. Laurence came to prominence as an 'anti woke' activist after an appearance on BBC when he pushed back on 'progressive' racial grievance culture in the aftermath of criticisms of Megan Markle.Laurence has had a fair few ups and downs during his political awakening and subsequent activism which has led him to be targeted by the Met Police for being suspected of conspiring to commit criminal damage to Ulez cameras in London, one of Sadiq Khans money generating 'green' laws.Laurence gives an open, honest and candid account of his personal and professional life as well as his political activism.
GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Jonathan Tilt is the ex party leader and founding member of Freedom Alliance, a political party in the UK. He is currently the independent candidate for West Yorkshire Mayor 2024. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Geoff Thompson's journey on his YouTube channel, Geoff Buys Cars, took off when he lost his job and began making videos critiquing the ULEZ scrappage scheme. His unique style of sitting in his car and explaining things resonated with viewers, leading to rapid growth. Now, with over 100,000 subscribers, his channel covers a range of topics, from breaking news to car reviews, all presented in an accessible and humorous manner.
Sadiq Khan's expansion of London's Ultra Low Emission Zone out to the capital's outer roads is one of his most controversial policies.The Mayor says the charging scheme will improve air quality and health, but critics claim it's a stealth tax on Londoners hampering their choice to drive.In this episode of the Standard's series focussing on the 2024 race for City Hall, Hamish MacBain explores both sides of the argument at two of London's busiest traffic locations.Hear interviews with Imperial College London pollution expert Professor Frank Kelly by the A501, Marylebone Road, and motoring journalist Shahzad Sheikh - AKA YouTuber the BrownCarGuy, by the A10, Shoreditch High Street. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
FREEDOM - LIBERTY - HAPPINESS SUPPORT DOC MALIK To make sure you don't miss any episodes please subscribe to either: The paid Spotify subscription here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/docmalik/subscribe The paid Substack subscription here: https://docmalik.substack.com/subscribe ABOUT THIS CONVERSATION: Andreas Michli is a proud father, health and fitness entrepreneur, and Independent Candidate for Mayor of London. The Mayor of London was a position formed in 2000. The office has a budget of approximately 23 billion pounds. in some respects, the Mayor has more executive power than the Prime Minister. The current incumbent Sadiq Khan has been in power for 8 years and is a controversial figure. On his watch murders have risen to record levels and he has expanded the congestion zone and introduced ULEZ and other unpopular measures. Andreas is a truly independent candidate. He has 100% self-funded his campaign so that he is not beholden to anyone. A Londoner born and bred, he trained as an accountant and then set up the Zone Gym. Andreas became famous during the plandemic when he resisted the government measures to close his Gym during lockdowns. Fed up with the charade of uni party politics with no real democratic choice, Andreas has thrown his hat in the ring offering to be a true people's Mayor, upholding the freedom of the citizens of London. Andreas is a sincere man, and clearly passionate about standing up and doing the right thing. I really hope he causes a major upset and wins this seat although the odds are stacked against him. If you live in London or know of Londoners, please encourage them to vote for Andreas. It's time London had a real Mayor who genuinely cares about them and isn't just another puppet. Enjoy the episode, and please do let me know your thoughts in the comments section. Much love Ahmad Links Website Andreas Website Twitter/X Andreas Twitter Instagram Andreas Instagram IMPORTANT INFORMATION AFFILIATE CODES Hunter & Gather Foods Hunter & Gather Foods Use DOC15 to get 15% OFF your first purchase with Hunter & Gather Foods, and DOC10 for 10% off all further purchases. Roots Products Use the following referral link https://therootbrands.com/DocMalik IMPORTANT NOTICE Following my cancellation for standing up for medical ethics and freedom, my surgical career has been ruined. I am now totally dependent on the support of my listeners, YOU. If you value my podcasts, please support the show so that I can continue to speak up by choosing one or both of the following options - Buy me a coffee If you want to make a one-off donation. Join my Substack To access additional content, you can upgrade to paid from just £5.50 a month Doc Malik Merch Store Check out my amazing freedom merch To sponsor the Doc Malik Podcast contact us at hello@docmalik.com
On today's show, Keith Prince discusses London transport strikes and Sadiq Khan handing out ULEZ fines to people, even after they've sold their cars. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Keith Prince is the London Assembly Member for Havering and Redbridge and the Leader of Havering Conservatives. https://www.keithprince.london/ GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Jasmine is a TV presenter and money expert. She is regularly featured on BBC TV, Channel 5, Sky News, Channel 4 and ITV.
Patrick Maguire is joined by John Elledge to discuss the borders that explain world politics - from London's Ulez to the edge of space. PLUS: Columnists India Knight and James Heale discuss whether the public will appreciate the latest National Insurance cut, what happened when James went to Nigel Farage's 60th, and whether the Liz Truss story will get its own Netflix series.Columnists (00:41)The Borders That Explain World Politics (20:53) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
GUEST OVERVIEW: Around the same time (late 2022) Geoff lost his real job, and made his first video highlighting the hypocrisy of the latest ULEZ scrappage scheme which had just been announced. The video was popular, leading Geoff to discover a new style of video – sitting in his car and explaining things to people. The channel began to grow at quite a rate, reaching 40,000 subscribers by March of 2022. Instead of just buying and reviewing cars, Geoff now focuses on important things that are going on in the world, breaking down the latest news, connecting the dots to other key information and putting it into laymen's terms for all to understand. The channel surpassed 100,000 subscribers in December 2023, and continues to be a mix of important videos, car content and humour. http://www.geoffbuyscars.com/
#486 The Leaving Of London. In an emotional edition of the podcast Gareth rents a van to drive and move house to north Wales. Driving in ULEZ & LTN. What will Gareth's next car be, can you help him choose? Plus Gareth gets into commercial vehicles.
FREEDOM - LIBERTY - HAPPINESS SUPPORT DOC MALIK To make sure you don't miss any episodes please subscribe to either: The paid Spotify subscription here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/docmalik/subscribe The paid Substack subscription here: https://docmalik.substack.com/subscribe About this conversation: Geoff Buys Cars YouTube channel was started in 2019, initially to document a trading up journey from a canoe to a Porsche. That all sort of went out the window with ‘the big corona' and the channel lost its way for a while, eventually getting up to around 7,000 subscribers in November of 2022 with Geoff about to give it all up. Around the same time (late 2022) Geoff lost his real job and made his first video highlighting the hypocrisy of the latest ULEZ scrappage scheme which had just been announced. The video was popular, leading Geoff to discover a new style of video – sitting in his car and explaining things to people. Instead of just buying and reviewing cars, Geoff now focuses on important things that are going on in the world, breaking down the latest news, connecting the dots to other key information and putting it into laymen's terms for all to understand. The channel surpassed 100,000 subscribers in December 2023 and continues to be a mix of important videos, car content and humour. I instantly connected with Geoff and think of him as a friend. I hope you enjoy this episode. Much love Ahmad Links Website Geoff Buys Cars Instagram Geoff's Instagram Twitter/X Geoff's Twitter/X IMPORTANT INFORMATION The War On Health II conference is on 30 and 31st March. You can find details of the event, location and prices here The Big Fat Challenge Remember to use the DOCMALIK code and get £50 off. AFFILIATE CODES Hunter & Gather Foods Hunter & Gather Foods Use DOC15 to get 15% OFF your first purchase with Hunter & Gather Foods, and DOC10 for 10% off all further purchases. Roots Products Use the following referral link https://therootbrands.com/DocMalik IMPORTANT NOTICE Following my cancellation for standing up for medical ethics and freedom, my surgical career has been ruined. I am now totally dependent on the support of my listeners, YOU. If you value my podcasts, please support the show so that I can continue to speak up. Buy me a coffee If you want to make a one-off donation.
GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Around the same time (late 2022) Geoff lost his real job, and made his first video highlighting the hypocrisy of the latest ULEZ scrappage scheme which had just been announced. The video was popular, leading Geoff to discover a new style of video – sitting in his car and explaining things to people. The channel began to grow at quite a rate, reaching 40,000 subscribers by March of 2022. Instead of just buying and reviewing cars, Geoff now focuses on important things that are going on in the world, breaking down the latest news, connecting the dots to other key information and putting it into laymen's terms for all to understand. The channel surpassed 100,000 subscribers in December 2023, and continues to be a mix of important videos, car content and humour. http://www.geoffbuyscars.com/ GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Aisling O'Loughlin is an independent journalist facing hard faceters after 20+ years in the mainstream media
The boys are joined by Trampolene front man Jack Jones after the busiest year of his life and discuss ULEZ charges, urinating into a crisp packet, Spotify streams and Trampolene headlining the Leftfield stage in Glastonbury. Jack talks about the bands debut gig, sending poems to Noel Gallagher, the success of Rules of Love and War, Ryan and Paddy's day on the never ending Madri, naked saunas in Germany and the Trampolene documentary Storm Heaven plus much much more….@ambitioniscritcal1997 on Instagram @TheAiCPodcast on Twitter
On today's show, Claire will discuss her run-ins with Sadiq Khan's thuggish ULEZ enforcers. GUEST OVERVIEW: Claire is an anti-ULEZ campaigner.
On today's show, David Thunder discusses the World Health Organization's power grab. Later, Claire Dyer provides updates on the latest developments from the anti-ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone) campaigners. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra's Institute for Culture and Society in Spain. He is a recipient of the Ramón y Cajal research grant (2017-2021, extended to 2023) from the Spanish government. Thunder has held research and teaching roles in the U.S., including at Bucknell, Villanova, and Princeton University. He earned a BA and MA in philosophy from University College Dublin and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on achieving meaningful and flourishing lives in complex societies, covering topics like integrity in public life, freedom of conscience, human rights justification, obligations to the needy, and the role of civil society in governance. Find more information at http://www.davidthunder.com/. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Claire Dyer is an anti-ULEZ campaigner.
On today's show, Francis O'Neill discusses ULEZ and Campaigning. GUEST OVERVIEW: Francis O'Neill is a political commentator and artist who's opposed to covid mandates, the vaccination programme, lockdowns & 15 minute cities.
Richie is joined by Hermann Kelly and Meria Heller. Hermann is the President of The Irish Freedom Party. He came on to discuss Ireland's migration policy which has led to protests across the country and international media attention. https://www.irishfreedom.ie/Meria Heller is a broadcast journalist and writer. Meria has the longest running podcast on the internet. On today's show Meria and Richie discuss the US election, the Epstein files, the genocide in Gaza, ULEZ in the US and much more. https://meria.net/
Adam chats to Labour Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about Alistair Darling, COP28, Ulez and the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree. And as Matt Hancock faces the Covid inquiry, Chris and former civil servant Jill Rutter give their analysis.You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhereToday's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
Harry, Charlie, and Nick Buckley MBE discuss endless conservative platitudes, Greater Manchester's ULEZ copy scheme, and how corporate America finally solved racism.
QuickBooks, JPMorgan, BankofAmerica Tried to Choke Guns — They'll Do It Again Too Big to Fail Banks, part of the Deputized State, pushed QuickBooks (Intuit) to drop gun retailers & manufacturers. One bank admitted, the other denied & QuickBooks backed off for now — but like PayPal, they'll be back. And in the UK government is gradually shutting down the ability to pay by cash. Those who ask for information about secret policies are told "ministers and officials need a safe space away from public scrutiny in order to formulate and develop policy" Cash App has delisted my account so that it doesn't work for anyone who has not already contributed in the past (31:28)Nanotech, DEW, New Age "light (as in illumination) medicine"Listeners Furious That I Reject Oct4 "Zombie Apocalypse" Narrative…but the deeper I go, the more fraudulent the claims Dictator Dan walks away — a look back at his tyranny and a look forward if we continue to let people like him and Fauci walk away as free men (1:31:36)The presidential debate tonight (vital issues are NEVER discussed) and the polls don't matter (they're about telling you what to think) (1:43:12)"What I'd say to Trump if he'd listen - which he won't". And what just happened in New York? (1:51:43)INTERVIEW Piers Corbyn: Roads Are For Traveling, End Injections, Man-Made Climate Change is Fake Desc: Piers Corbyn, who has resisted cashless society, lockdown, 15 Minute Cities, ULEZ, and been fined and arrested for civil disobedience joins. WeatherAction.com (2:11:09) USA Under Trump & Biden Say NO to Christian Refugees Unwanted refugees in danger of their life turned away as part of the Great Replacement.And, why are American churches failing? One man says "discipleship". What does he mean by that? (2:31:54)Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT
Piers Corbyn, who has resisted cashless society, lockdown, 15 Minute Cities, ULEZ, and been fined and arrested for civil disobedience joins. WeatherAction.comFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT
Photo: 1918 NYC ANHM No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling: The ULEZ revolt in town and suburbs. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/london-ulez-zone-expansion-2023-car-check-map-cvf9d8kj2
PHOTO: 1910 Carthage NO KNOWN RESTRICTIONS ON PUBLICATION. @BATCHELORSHOW TONIGHT: starting from Jackson Hole WY, the show ranges from Boca Chica, TX to London UK and the ULEZ rebellion against green. Then to Moscow and the gangsters of the Kremlin, a Mafia state. Also touching on Serbia, Moldova, Greece, and time for an update on the Iran suspect bomb program..Also a tour of 2050-2100: not what is expected of the current rules-based order.
From the BBC World Service: London has today expanded its ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ), which is designed to clean up air quality in the British capital. The BBC’s Olie D’Albertanson explains the financial knock-on effect for those living and working there. We also hear from Frank Levin, a former U.S. under-secretary of commerce for international trade, on the efforts being made to restore relationships with China. Lastly, the BBC’s João da Silva reports on concerns over gas price rises, with workers at two large liquefied natural gas plants in Australia going on strike in a week.
LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT: Media Storm will be live at the London Podcast Festival this September, on Saturday 16th at 7pm! Book tickets now to join us as we breakdown the craziest headlines of 2023: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/media-storm-2/Around the world, El Niño is causing extreme weather events and soaring global temperatures to alarming levels.Meanwhile in the UK, Labour is playing internal blame-games after a by-election defeat in Boris Johnson's old seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.What do these two stories have in common?Running through the UK's political factionalism is a debate over London Mayor Sadiq Khan's plan to expand ULEZ. This is a debate about climate policy, but climate is missing from its coverage.In this episode, Media Storm hosts Mathilda and Helena discuss the week's top headlines and the missing links between them. They are joined by climate podcast producer Thimali Kodikara to examine what the mainstream media could be doing better in its climate coverage.The episode is created by Mathilda Mallinson (@mathildamall) and Helena Wadia (@helenawadia). The music is by Samfire (@soundofsamfire).Buy the team a coffee on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MediaStormPodcast You can also get an ad-free version of the podcast via Apple Podcasts or Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/guiltyfeminist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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