Hi, good afternoon and welcome to the John Gaunt podcast.

Today, of course, the anniversary of 9-11.

I do want to talk about it later in the program, but I thought it was only appropriate

to start off by saying it is the anniversary, 23 years ago.

It doesn't feel like it, does it?

And I want to talk later about whether that momentous event,

probably one of the biggest events in world history, has it changed anything? Has it changed as a society

or as individuals? I actually think we're more tribal than ever. I think we're more fractured than ever.

And I don't think we should be. And I want to talk about that as the show progresses. I want to bring in last night's big debate between Trump and

Harris. I want to talk in about Prime Minister's questions today as well, and a load of other stuff

that I want to join in into the conversation. My name's John Gawnt. It's the John Gawnt podcast. Thank you for following me. Thank you for supporting the podcast as well by buying me a coffee. That's very kind of you. It's going well. It must be going well because I'm upset in the left and the right.

I just had some bloke shouting abuse at me at Twitter.

I don't mind the abuse.

It's when it gets to be so crude.

All you can do is block them.

He called me a retard.

I hate that word.

And then he also called me a see you next Tuesday.

Why?

Because some pipsqueak who's sometimes on Talk TV as a guest put up a poster, a vaccination poster. It was trying to promote vaccines in London, the MMR jab, for

example. And he basically said, I can't remember who this guy is his name, the guy from Talk, not Talk TV, he's on Talk TV, he's also on, what do you call it?

The other one, I forgot his name now.

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