What you're about to hear is the most bizarre experience that I've ever had in the production of this podcast.

Two months ago I emailed Peter Hitchins saying, quote,

I'm writing to invite you to appear as a guest on the podcast to discuss your work and areas of interest.

In particular, issues pertaining to drug decriminalisation, whether we are experiencing a moral

decline in society in the influence of secularism on this question, and the state of monarchy in the United Kingdom.

Before the interview commenced I reiterated that there are three subjects of interest, things that he's spoken about

or written books about in the past and that I've also covered on my YouTube channel and these are drug

decriminalization, God and religion and the monarchy. To which he said, the monarchy is a bit boring and I said, you know what,

I actually agree with you you let's not do the

monarchy he didn't take the opportunity to make a similar comment on either of the

other two subjects that I mentioned then we sat down and the camera started rolling and

I asked him if he had a hard out that is is there a time that he needs to be done by?

He said, what did you have in mind?

To which I respond,

Ideally these things run for about an hour, but if the conversation is particularly lively,

they can be an hour and a half.

I've done podcast that are three hours long.

To which he said, well we'll see how we do, but three hours might be a bit long.

So as far as I was aware, we were about to have an hour or an hour and a half long conversation about two topics,

drug decriminalization and God and religion. I had also on my list the issue of the death penalty,

but that was only if we had time. That wasn't something that I'd actually mentioned to him.

And then something went disastrously wrong.

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