Mick Lynch

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Mick Lynch has been hitting the headlines from the picket throughout the summer and makes batting off stereotypical lines of questioning from the right-wing media commentariat look like a blood sport. One interviewer accused him of seeing himself as an evil criminal terrorist mastermind. But ultimately the RMT's General Secretary describes himself as a working class, good natured, second generation Irish immigrant leading an industrial dispute. James speaks to the man wielding the rhetorical scalpel about his political views and life before his rise to public prominence.

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0:00.0	Look at him go.
0:01.5	He's a quality striker.
0:02.8	No, not him.
0:03.7	The electrician fixing those lights.
0:05.5	Wow.
0:06.2	Is he?
0:06.9	Yes, he uses QuickBooks to prepare for self-assessment.
0:10.3	This is truly game-changing.
0:12.9	Use QuickBooks year-round to ensure your income tax return is shock-free.
0:17.0	That's how you business differently.
0:18.9	Into its QuickBooks.
0:20.8	This is a Global Player Original Podcast. This is a global player original podcast.
0:28.2	Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project designed to let me spend more time than would be available on the radio with people who are interesting.
0:37.4	And I mean, I don't think Mick
0:39.8	Lynch that we've ever had a guest who is quite as in the moment as you are today we're also
0:44.9	we're turning it around in about 20 minutes so people will be listening to this while you're still
0:48.6	getting out of your chair um you've become a household name in about the space of a fortnight
0:55.0	yeah it's been interesting.
0:56.0	I was a fairly obscure union official, known in the circles of what I do and in the industry.
1:02.0	But it's gone a bit hyper in the last, probably four or six weeks since we had our ballot result.
1:09.0	But yeah, and it seems to be building.
1:11.6	A lot of it is based on some quite extraordinary stuff
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