100 voyages, two co-pilots, one podcast
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
This very special 100th episode was recorded live at the Soho Hotel, London.
It's a special week on Planet Normal, our co-pilots are celebrating 100 voyages on the capsule of common sense. But does Allison finally know what a podcast is?
It’s a star studded affair, with many former Planet Normal stowaways making an appearance on the rocket of right thinking to celebrate the occasion.
Esteemed epidemiologist Professor Sunetra Gupta joins the rocket once again, to discuss the changing opinions on Covid restrictions as the pandemic eases and why she thinks The Great Barrington Declaration should never have been labelled ‘controversial’.
Chair of the 1922 backbench committee Sir Graham Brady also straps in to tell our co-pilots why he thinks VAT should be scrapped on energy bills.
But does Sir Graham reveal just many letters of no confidence he has received against Boris Johnson?
And finally, we hear from YOU - our acclaimed citizens of Planet Normal, as our co-pilots and guests answer your questions.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu. |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu. |
| 0:03.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | Right, well, a very, very, very warm welcome to everybody joining us here in the Soho Hotel in London. |
| 0:18.0 | And an equally warm welcome, of course, to you if you're watching or listening to us at home or in the car, which is where I am usually when I'm sitting back. |
| 0:27.0 | No, it's quite a special feeling, I think, actually being in this room and knowing that all of us right now have a warm bond of being fellow passengers on the rocket of right thinking. |
| 0:40.0 | I think a lot of us last, this last two years, got used to be, may be made to feel we were in the wrong somehow, that we were either mad or bad or both, that we didn't care if COVID killed people or even worse. |
| 0:53.0 | We were told we actually wanted people to die. Of course, we didn't, we did care a lot. |
| 0:59.0 | But a lot of us, I think, began to doubt our own sanity. |
| 1:02.0 | We were called COVID deniers, even though none of us actually denied COVID at all. |
| 1:07.0 | We just didn't agree with the way of dealing with it. |
| 1:10.0 | Suddenly, people who had been friends or neighbors or even family members thought we were subversive heretics. |
| 1:17.0 | If we met somebody in the street, I found, you know, we'd stand the required two metres apart and attempt to suss out very carefully where we stood before we could risk having a relaxed and honest conversation with them. |
| 1:29.0 | And we watched, didn't we, those dreaded press conferences in the afternoons with Boris and Matt Hancock flanked by those miserable scientists. |
| 1:39.0 | Next slide, please. Next slide, please. Diaperdictions of thousands, tens of thousands of deaths. |
| 1:47.0 | And the modelling, those terrible charts of doom. |
| 1:51.0 | And the press at the end only really wanted to know why we weren't locking down harder, why we weren't locking down longer. |
| 1:57.0 | No challenge at all. In fact, the mainstream media had no interest in challenging the prevailing orthodoxy at all. |
| 2:03.0 | They were fully on board with putting the fear of the jazis into everybody to make us comply with the e-dicks from one high, many of which were totally absurd. |
| 2:12.0 | Alison came up with a fabulous list of 50 of them in the telegraph a few weeks back. |
| 2:17.0 | And I've copied mine. I'm going to actually free me, I think, because I sort of had lessened and never go down that stretch. |
| 2:24.0 | And we all remember, don't we? |
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