Live Q&A: Iran, Trump, and 'no d*ck energy'
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Jon and Lewis are back to mark the end of a momentous week in geopolitics with a special live Q&A taking your questions.
When will we know if the conflict in the Middle East has morphed into World War 3? Why has American politics embraced 'toxic masculinity' and 'big d*ck energy'? And how badly do the local elections need to be for Labour in order for Keir Starmer to be toppled?
Plus, a bit of trivia about the 1924 Winter Olympics thrown in for good measure.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. It has been quite the week, a full-blown regional war in the Middle East, with huge consequences in the United States, in the UK and Europe, and of course, for the region as well. It is our sixth show of the week, we thought given events we would try and make it a bit |
| 0:23.1 | special. Yeah, so we asked for your questions. It was live on YouTube and you can still find it there. |
| 0:29.2 | Lewis wore a special jumper for the occasion. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:39.5 | The Newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 0:40.9 | It's John. |
| 0:41.6 | It's Lewis. |
| 0:42.6 | And welcome to a live question and answer. |
| 0:45.7 | Edition of the Newsagent streaming on Global Player and YouTube. |
| 0:50.7 | We've been asking for your questions. |
| 0:52.2 | You've sent many of them in fabulous questions. |
| 0:58.9 | And we're going to get to them over the next 35 to 40 minutes and please keep the questions coming. |
| 1:04.3 | You'll be able to listen to this episode as a normal podcast just like you normally would at around 5 o'clock this afternoon. People lucky enough to be watching it live can relive it over the course of the |
| 1:08.9 | weekend. And before we come to the first question, Lewis, can we discuss your knitwear? |
| 1:13.6 | Please. What do you want to discuss? |
| 1:15.2 | Well, it's a blue jumper with mountains 1924 and the Olympic rings. |
| 1:21.3 | I've never seen you as a winter Olympian. |
| 1:23.9 | A winter sportsman? Why'd you say that? |
| 1:26.0 | Have you ever been skiing? |
| 2:03.9 | I went to the Birmingham dry ski slope once. I fell over. It's the 102nd second anniversary of the 1924 Winter Olympics, John. And if that's not a good enough reason to wear a jumper in celebration, I don't know what it is. Where were they? Well, can you guess? Chamonie. Correct. More Winter Olympic 1924 trivia to come throughout the show. Oh no. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, no. Right, let's get on to the first question and not make Lewis Goodall's knitwear options the subject to this podcast. Anita has been in touch. My 14-year-old who's studying GCSE has asked if we are now in World War III. What would your response be? P.S. Love the podcast, big fan. This is obviously a question which is actually being |
| 2:10.7 | discussed a lot at military level and strategic level and actually quite a few very senior, disturbingly, chillingly, |
| 2:18.6 | senior military figures just from the UK in the last few years have told us that we need to |
| 2:23.1 | start thinking about ourselves, not in a post-war state, but a pre-war state, because the idea |
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