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Have You Heard George's Podcast?

3.5 Grenfell II

Have You Heard George's Podcast?

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

George continues his Grenfell story. Written by George the Poet Original score by Benbrick Produced by Benbrick and George The Poet

Transcript

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0:00.0

This podcast contained some upsetting scenes.

0:05.8

Can I tell your secret?

0:07.8

I can make people see things that aren't in front of their eyes,

0:12.0

which I've only recently come to realize.

0:15.0

I'm not an illusionist because what I show you is not an illusion.

0:18.6

It's my own moments of clarity amidst a lot of confusion. Sometimes it's hard to see through the confusion

0:26.7

but I think I got a solution. I haven't always known what to do with my kind of talent.

0:35.0

It's between entertainment and education and I'm trying to find a balance.

0:39.0

Because I think there's much more that we can do.

0:43.0

And that's my main thought when I speak to you.

0:49.0

See, we as humans keep assuming our world will keep improving

0:52.0

if we just keep it moving and keep on

0:53.9

reproducing we think we're getting better but understanding each other but we

0:58.3

don't even respect the land that we cover we carve it up with imaginary lines and we passionately fight. This happens every time.

1:08.2

And we think we're getting better at understanding each other. Yet everywhere on the planet others randomly suffer.

1:19.8

Now in my opinion, haven't been born and raised in the United Kingdom,

1:25.9

looking at the world from the inside of England, it's like we're all having different

1:31.0

conversations and because of that we're making conflicting observations.

1:38.9

Some people feel their biggest dangers their neighbors, others believe in being gracious to strangers.

1:45.5

Some people feel like as much as they want to help, they're better off covering themselves.

2:00.0

So for many of us, our best potential life is basically finding peace and an existential crisis, but I don't think we'd feel like that if the information we needed to impact our world was available to us like

2:07.4

Art and fashion, but it's hard to fathom a world you can't imagine.

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