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Episode 69: Only Cry for the Living with Hollie McKay

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.96.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 176 minutes

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Summary

I’ve had the honor to meet many a strong independent women in my life, and this episode was no exception. I sat down with Hollie McKay, author of “Only Cry For The Living” who has spent years covering the war torn Iraq/Syria region of the Middle East at the height of the ISIS onslaught. It was both inspiring and gut wrenching all at the same time, and really gave me a perspective reset that is always powerful and necessary to appreciate what we have and where we live.
Sponsored by @jockofuel, @projectwarpath, and @resiliencecbd.
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Table of Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
12:00 - Morning Routine
13:45 - Growing Up Australian
27:15 - Coming to America
33:00 - Thoughts on Unbiased Journalism
40:30 - Becoming a War Correspondent
51:00 - Living On the Road
1:08:30 - Reporting on ISIS
1:22:00 - Presidential Changes
1:36:30 - Russian Influence
1:43:30 - Crimea
1:47:00 - President Hollie McKay
1:59:00 - How to Fix Democracy
2:15:30 - Food Poisoning
2:19:40 - Reflecting on Other Countries
2:30:25 - Positive Stories From The Front
2:40:25 - What’s Next?
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To find out more about Hollie or to purchase a copy of her book ‘Only Cry For The Living’, visit her website at www.holliemckay.com or follow her on instagram and twitter @holliesmckay.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Tom Hanks is Otto. He's seen it all.

0:02.6

Otto?

0:03.3

Otto?

0:04.0

O-T-T-O.

0:05.2

You don't hear that name very often, I do.

0:07.4

He's a man who gets easily annoyed.

0:09.3

What are you doing?

0:10.1

Parallel parking.

0:11.1

Parallel the water.

0:12.0

And he has had enough.

0:13.5

Are you always his unfriendly?

0:15.4

I am not unfriendly.

0:16.6

OK, you're like a warm cuddle.

0:18.2

But he's finding his joy again in the most unlikely place.

0:21.6

I'm not sure about this.

0:23.5

He's going to be going to find it.

0:25.4

Man called out all, only in cinemas now.

0:31.3

Some things leave you guessing.

0:33.2

Like, why are yours contagious?

0:36.3

But not MailChimp.

0:37.6

MailChimp eliminates guesswork from email marketing

0:40.0

by analyzing data from billions of emails

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