S1 E12: Piers Morgan: Uncancellable?
Big Fish with Spencer Matthews
Global
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
He’s on a personal mission to cancel ‘cancel culture’. Piers Morgan is one of the most prominent broadcasters of his generation. After studying journalism, he went to Fleet Street and quickly rose to become one of the youngest newspaper editors in Britain at just 28 years old.
Since then, he’s presented prime time TV programmes in the UK and America and has interviewed some of the biggest names in the world.
With a Twitter following of over 8 million, Piers has made a name for himself with his straight-talking opinions. Love him or hate him, when he talks, people listen.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | You've got to have a resilience, you've got to have a strength, you've got to have a sense |
| 0:09.1 | of humour, you've got to have a driver about you, you've got to have a purpose to get out |
| 0:13.0 | of bed for. |
| 0:13.8 | What's your purpose? |
| 0:14.6 | What's your passion? |
| 0:15.6 | What do you care about? |
| 0:24.4 | Hi, I'm Spencer Matthews and welcome to Big Fish. |
| 0:33.8 | Join me each week as I sit down with famous CEOs, fantastic entrepreneurs, incredible designers and other famous faces to discuss what it takes to be the best. |
| 0:41.7 | Pierce Morgan is without a doubt one of the most successful broadcasters of his generation. |
| 0:45.7 | After studying journalism, he got a job on Fleet Street and quickly rose to become one of the youngest newspaper editors in Britain, age just 28. |
| 0:49.6 | Since then, he's presented prime time shows and interviewed some of the world's biggest names. |
| 0:54.4 | He's made a bit of a name for himself with his straight-talking opinions, and although he's presented primetime shows and interviewed some of the world's biggest names. He's made a bit of a name for himself with his straight talking opinions, and although he |
| 0:58.1 | sometimes crosses the line, he always stands by what he believes in. Love him or hate him, |
| 1:03.3 | when he talks, people listen. |
| 1:08.9 | Pierce, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:10.3 | I would say a pleasure, but I don't know yet. |
| 1:12.9 | We'll find out, don't we? |
| 1:14.1 | You are so polarising that kind of sitting down with you for this interview does almost feel like I'm taking a risk. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm not going to hitch you, relax. |
| 1:22.6 | Why is that? |
| 1:23.4 | I might intellectually, but not physically. |
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