Welcome to the Delling Port with me, James Delling Port, and I know it's always so

excited about this week's special guest, but I really am. Welcome to the Delling Port

Patrick Henningson. Thank you James, it's an honor to be here. I want you to know

Patrick that I've been dying to have you along for some time and the fact that I

haven't had you on so far is not a sign that I'm thinking yeah whatever Patrick

Henningson, you've been on the list but I just haven't got my act together and

now finally we're there. I was particularly inspired to have you on by a podcast

you did with the excellent germ warfare and we're going to talk about that

because I think it's quite topical but first of all just tell me a bit about

yourself I've seen you on UK column and on other other podcasts but who are you

what's your background? Well my background is I spent most of my

adult life trying to be normal and fit in and then I adopted the monastic

life of becoming an independent journalist probably around after the Iraq war

that was kind of like when that process began but before that my you know I did

my bachelor's degree in applied art and design and I was pursuing a minor

in philosophy as well which I was really interested in but I was totally it was

out of my league but that kind of got me and really interested into political

science that was when I was very young and so I worked in the sort of visual

arts field I worked in public relations and in marketing events and things

like this and I was you know trying to have a you know pursue a normal life

may have a normal career as it were in the corporate world I was an artist

really but I was I was convinced in high school by my art teacher that you'll

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