Ep 162 with Matthew Norman (Part 1)
What The F Is Going On? with Mark Steel
Carousel Studios
4.7 • 888 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We risk becoming an island of strangers. |
| 0:04.0 | We will strive for the denopsification of the grape. |
| 0:07.0 | Because you can't grow, can't grow. |
| 0:10.0 | Yes you can. |
| 0:11.0 | They're eating the dogs. |
| 0:12.0 | They're eating the dinosaurs. |
| 0:14.0 | Under the EU, we weren't allowed to eat. |
| 0:17.0 | I just don't get it. |
| 0:18.0 | I just think everyone should be sure. |
| 0:19.0 | What the fuck is going on? Hello, I just don't get it. I just like that. What the fuck is going on? |
| 0:23.6 | Hello, I'm Mark Still. |
| 0:25.2 | Welcome to my podcast where each week I ask the question that has been asked over the centuries. |
| 0:31.8 | Was it not Thomas Aquinas who said indeed chastity that thus, that be forever thine, that we should ever |
| 0:39.8 | for no less. Look to God and godliness within all of us that does submit to the question, |
| 0:49.4 | what the fuck be going on? And we are just continuing in that fine philosophical tradition. Because we live in a |
| 0:56.4 | world that's basically ticking along beautifully. Everybody's happy. Trump, Putin, Modi, Marine Le Pen, |
| 1:05.9 | Nigel Farage. These are all powerful, important people just as they should be. |
| 1:12.0 | And if they all have a fault, it's that they care too much. |
| 1:15.6 | Nonetheless, some of us are still inclined to ask, |
| 1:19.8 | what the fuck is going on? |
| 1:26.3 | This week, I'm going to be talking to my old mate, Matthew Norman. |
| 1:32.0 | Matthew, for many, many years, was one of the most celebrated journalists in this country, |
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