From Rock Star to Dissident: Winston Marshall
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In 2021, Winston Marshall sent a tweet congratulating Andy Ngo for his book, “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.” He soon found himself and his band, Mumford & Sons, at the center of a firestorm.
Three years later, he’s the host of The Winston Marshall Show and co-founder of the “Dissident Dialogues” festival of ideas, which held its first gathering recently in Brooklyn in New York City.
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| 0:00.0 | 2021 I tweet about a book by American Journal is called Andy Note covering the BLM riots and the Antifa BLM. |
| 0:08.4 | It just completely blew up and it blew up my life. |
| 0:11.6 | All these sort of antifah trolls were dog piling me and my |
| 0:15.8 | bandmates. So I issue an apology. In this episode I sit down with Winston |
| 0:21.4 | Marshall, the former lead guitarist and banjo player of Mumford and Sons. |
| 0:26.0 | The duty of the artist is to tell the truth. |
| 0:29.0 | So with this groveling apology that I issued and I participated in a lie. |
| 0:34.4 | Now he's the host of the Winston Marshall Show and co-founder of the Dissident Dialogue's |
| 0:39.3 | Festival of Ideas. |
| 0:41.1 | So after all that incident that happened three years ago I feel now it's a duty to speak the truth as I see it. |
| 0:47.0 | This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanya Keller. |
| 0:50.0 | Winston Marshall such a pleasure to have you on American thought leaders. |
| 0:55.6 | Jan, thanks for having me. We made it happen. Well yeah, we've been talking about this |
| 1:00.6 | for quite some time and you're... |
| 1:01.8 | Up half of it gone like this and now... talking about this for quite some time and you're here and you're here in the |
| 1:05.8 | York I'm here in the beautiful skyline but in this lovely evening well no it's it's it's fantastic to have you and you know it was |
| 1:16.5 | amazing to be at dissident dialogues and see you on stage sort of in the thick of |
| 1:20.6 | what seems to be your thing right now. |
| 1:23.4 | And just thinking back to three years ago about this time, |
| 1:26.4 | your life kind of profoundly changed. |
| 1:28.8 | So for the very few that might not be aware of what happened, I just want to kind of go back there a little bit. |
| 1:34.3 | I mean you were a rock star. You had four albums with Mumford and Sons. You were also a banjo |
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