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Louis Theroux

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“Hallucinogens. My opinion is I think ah You know, if you feel like if you're of age, like 18 plus, I don't know how your younger listeners are, maybe even maybe slightly older, and you feel like you've got solid mental health, I think it's not a bad avenue to go down. It's not something I've massively dabbled in. I've noticed, I don't know about you, in my social settings, it seems to be mushroom oil is something that's increasingly being used. And I think actually, you know, and I think we're all aware of the slight dissonance between our levels of acceptance of alcohol and then the sort of relative unacceptance of things like whether it's marijuana or mushrooms and mushroom oil, like I'd like to see that leveled out. I'd like to see, as it is in California and elsewhere, To see cannabis legalized, and I think mushroom oil.”
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“My wife's perceptiveness and her ability to sort of see how she sort of involved me in life a bit more that that's kept me in a good place.”
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“My emotions from the outside, I noticed that my voice is raised. I'm like, wow, I'm angry. And even when I'm sad or grumpy or whatever it is, I'm not the first really to see it. Or my wife will say, like, are you in a bad place? I think we've been guilty of failing to see mental health as a holistic condition. Like, in other words, that your support network needs to be in place, you need social, these are really basic, but you need social interaction. You need exposure to things outside of work. You also need endorsement and approval in work and all of these things need to be sort of pulling in the same direction. There may be people in your life who are undermining you, and you may need support from people to nudge you in the right direction, but, you know, not to sound really bland about it, I feel as though. Oh I”
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“I feel really lucky to have, broadly speaking good mental health. I also think what you're saying is exactly right. And I think that there's a continuity, a blurring that exists so that I think mental health as opposed to mental illness is a good way of thinking about it. Because actually we should all be striving towards being our best selves. We should all be managing our anxiety. I think a lot of men especially fail even to recognize when their mental health may not be as good as it could be. And at the extreme end, you've got incapacitating mental illness that requires a set of interventions possibly medication, even residential rehab settings. But for the rest of us, it's just keeping an eye on how you're doing. Sometimes I notice.”
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“Just think, oh, this isn't going well, and then your confidence goes. I mean, I don't know if that's quite, that's sort of nerves, which are slightly different from anxiety. Anxiety, like, but the anxiety I mainly mean is just a kind of sense of foreboding, a pervasive feeling of worry about something that's going to happen.”
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“I think the first one, I don't think I've ever had a panic attack, for example. I don't think I've ever had a feeling of being incapacitated. I mean, I've had moments where I've had stage fright or moment, you know, that thing where due to you just get even recently like there's been moments where you just get this sort of tremulous feeling of nerves and your voice starts to shake have you ever had that? Well, you've been in a situation where Sometimes it's just to do with your inner. Get into an argument with someone and you get really upset and your voice goes a bit like this. Like it doesn't, you know, it was just kind of horrible. Or sometimes it's just where you feel like you're like I've been once or twice in situations where um”
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“Need more management, need more parental presence in their lives than younger children, and so I said, well, maybe a way for me to travel less and not be taking off for two or three months a year, because you aggregate those two week trips or 10, and they add up to maybe a quarter or a third of the year. And now my schedule is much more. I said, if I do these interviews and we make TV shows in the UK that there's a more controllable schedule and I can be around more, Nancy helped me set up the company. She's working more. I'm home more. And so it's actually like, it turns out conforming to those expectations of family involvement is really positive. It can actually be a creative boon, you know. It's not the enemy necessarily. It can be, it can make you a more rounded person that ends up being beneficial.”
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“Yeah, the right person, the right relationship, the right life stage. I also say that these interviews I'm doing, part of that is an agreement that we made, well, even an agreement, a kind of agreement I made with myself in lockdown and being around my kids are now sixteen, fourteen and eight. You know, it turns out older children in many respects”
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“I don't want to make my wife sound like, I know some people might hear that and go, like, well, you know, Louis was obviously bringing back the bigger wage. And so he should have been, I honestly think my wife was right about most of that.”
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“We had a rule that I wouldn't go away for more than two weeks. And actually, for most of the time, it was a week and ten or twelve days.”
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“And then Well, then we had another child and And she said, Well, now we've got a baby and two small children, and you've agreed to take to make sure you only work in the UK. And I was like, did I agree to that? And she said, yes, and I couldn't remember it, but I was like, well, she's probably right. And then,”
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“I think I received that as Well, not well like it didn't make me angry, but I was somewhat inflexible, because my attitude was look, I was, my parents had, my dad traveled a lot for work. My mom was a full-time TV producer, and we had people at home au pairs who made sure that when we got home someone was there and would make us a meal. And so I was like, well, we just need to get help. She said, I don't want us to get help. I said, she said, I said, you can do whatever you want to do. You can carry on working five days a week, six days. You can travel as well if you want. We just need to get help. And she's like, I don't, I want one of us to be here. And I want for some of that, I want it to be you. I don't know. Does that sound so?”
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“You knew when we married that we would be that I was a sort of globetrotting TV documentary maker and she said yeah what did I do when we met? I was a TV director as well and I've changed what I do and you need to change what you do like I don't mean to sound like she was being horrible about it but her attitude was like people make a you need to make an adjustment to accommodate the fact that we now have two small children and”
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“Instead of the other way around. You know, and so I would say like, well, I would take off. When I went to work for Michael Moore, it was even back in the 90s, it was a source of friction in the relationship that like without much warrant, because I became the fill-in guy who when other sick people couldn't do segments or because they weren't available, weren't stressed about it. I'd be like, let's get Louis to do it. I did a lot of great segments just by being available at a moment's notice to fly somewhere and never thought really, which I don't know that it was the wrong thing to do at that time. We didn't have kids. And so I'd be like, okay, I'm off for three or four days. But as it went on, and then as I had kids, and I was still doing the same thing, sort of saying to my wife, well, this is what I do. There's a chapter in my book called This is What I Do”
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“I think I've had that bead back with In my relationships more or less some consistently until maybe Four or five, six years ago. Again, I feel like I'm reviewing my own book. And now, folks, I am happy and healthy and well adjusted, and I've arrived at a spiritual place of tranquility, but I do am conscious that I am. Through my 20s and thirties, I saw my relationships as a I think the other phrase I use is like I saw my For my kind of work self do you know what I mean?”
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“human being and that my journalism relies on a kind of true connection. There's a little part of me thinks like I think I believe that. I know I do believe that, but I'm not my own best reference on whether or not that's really the case.”
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“For the true deceiver, you know, for the most effective deceiver, first he must believe his own deceptions. That's a mangling that quotation. But the idea that in order to con someone, you sort of have to believe that most effective con artist is the one who believes their own con a seducer, they say that about Casanova, one of the most notorious womanizers in human history, and they say that he actually each time he seduced someone, he fell in love with them. You know, maybe it's true for sales in general. You really got to, but if you believe in that, and so I'm fully aware that for me to say, like, I'm an authentic.”
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“Fairly straight up person. But I also think that the tendency to believe your own bullshit, to drink your own kool-aid is almost universal, almost a precondition of life, right? You know, Nietzsche, the German philosopher, who I try not to quote too much because it makes me sound pretentious, but he has a couple of really good quotes on this One is”
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“Which is fun. Like sometimes to me, what's funny is saying the wrong thing, saying the thing that's sort of brazen as a way of just sort of identifying the hypocrisy and having fun with it. So I tend to think that I think that's what Jimmy Savile meant was that sometimes I would say things that would kind of definitively either untrue or quite clearly being said because they were not clearly true. Anyway, that's way you ask that question. And when you ask a question about Jimmy Savile, I'm going to give you a long answer because it's easy to be misconstrued. But I think that's what he meant. I think I'm in general like fairly...”
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“And I said to Christine Christine, this is me. I'm not a journalist, I'm a friend, like you can tell me. And a lot of people gave me shit for it, right? Like that what I said. But in my mind, that was a funny thing to say, because quite obviously I am a journalist. And whether I'm a friend or not is actually not established. I'm not clearly not a friend, but I'm not also clearly a friend, right? So that was kind of a funny remark because I was being nakedly insincere.”
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“As a way of parodying or satirizing your own, this isn't going to make any sense, Steve, but you satirize your own worst impulses. The best example I can give is when I said to when I was with Neil and Christine Hamilton, right, I did a program and they were accused of sexual assault. And while I filmed with them, and then it would become a media circus, and I carried on filming. And then they did a deal with the mail on Sunday to sell their story. And I was interviewing them during all of this. And I said to Christine, how much did the mail on Sunday pay for you for the interview? I was just curious because I knew probably they got ten or fifteen or twenty thousand pounds and I was just curious. And Christine said, I'm not going to tell you.”
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“dispassionately it slightly cynical and calculating is like well you're doing this for a TV program and so there's a part that slightly feels a little bit uncomfortable I think really what he was talking about there was a sense of humor he was he was calling out Sense of humour, which is an aspect of it which sometimes involves Almost self parody, like an element of where you say something.”
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“Gosh, you asking me to get inside the mind of Jimmy Savile to think about what he meant when he criticized me, I think he thought that. I think that journalistic role where I think you know what it is, is like... The best, there's two constructions I can put on that. One is just In journalism you sort of require to inhabit this place of intimacy, like actually like, hey, let's do this and let's do that. And then afterwards. Sort of disconnect, and sometimes that can feel jarring. I don't think actually that's what he meant, though. Like, I think maybe in some cases there's a part of journalism that can feel slightly. Transactional where you're like, let's bro down on location and have fun. And yet if you looked at it,”
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“kind of traitor, an inauthentic, someone who didn't deliver on. on what was promised, although it wasn't promised, but what was what seemed to be implicit. I think insincere, I remember where we were, like when the Jimmy Saville, the first documentary I made about Jimmy Saville when he was alive, when Louis met Jimmy, not available on the iPlayer. But it's on the internet, you can find it, and I remember when we promoted it, Before, I think it was when we promoted it. And he agreed to do an interview to promote it. And part of that was a profile interview in The Guardian. And he was interviewed at the King's Cross in one of the hotel there, in one of the hotel rooms, and the guy from the Guardian came down. And I don't even know why. I don't even know why it came up. But I made a joke and he said Ah, in sincerity your speciality proved.”
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“This girl, glad you brought that up. It's quite a ringing. Piece of self exposure where, yeah, my wife and Jimmy Saville both make the same critique of my interpersonal qualities, finding me lacking in basically authenticity, lacking in sincerity. There's nothing real about. Well, the first thing is when a relationship is ending, you seize whatever you can to hurt the other person. I think when someone you really love and you think really loves you, I mean, it was my girlfriend at the time, although we were married and that's our. Complicated, but yeah, when that relationship was ending, I think there's a feeling of betrayal, isn't there? It's like I thought we were together forever and I trusted that that would be the case. And here we are. Clearly, you don't feel the same way. And so I'm in the position of, in her eyes, being...”
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“If I can use that metaphor. But yeah, on Good Reads, I gave my book a 5 out of 5. And I'm giving my marriage five out of five. So I think I could do... Think I could improve.”
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“I think I could work better on it. Like, I'm very aware that the skill set I often think about, the skill set I have in my work of being supposedly a good listener and an empathetic and present person, I slightly fail at. In a kind of, I think, a very probably normal way in my relationship, like I have a very happy marriage, and probably you should check that with Nancy. Because you know, well, I'm slightly reviewing my own restaurant.”
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“I sort of tend to think, I think there's some part of me thinks maybe the other person's got it figured out and I haven't, right? A level of humility so that when they say stuff, I'm genuinely thinking like, well, I guess maybe, or they say something bonkers. I'm like, well, that isn't right, but I enjoy bumping up against that. And I don't go in there thinking I'm going to get this person, like I'm going to get one over on them. I sort of feel as though, you know, you come in and you just sort of try and just see what's going on, you know. If people see like you're... You're attempting to wrestle intimacies from them. That's never going to go well. You just create the space and the sense of understanding and allow them to walk through that.”
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“There's no reason why you shouldn't tell me the truth. You're involved in something that you're relatively open about. And I'll just assume that that's probably the case. Now, obviously you're briefed. You've done as much research as you can. I think if you feel as though you're coming from a position of shared inquiry, then that's contagious. I think also”
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“Other ways of, and some people use a confrontational approach, and that's fine. And then I think in general You know, there's many ways of doing interviews, and I think probably, you know, I haven't interviewed many politicians, and it's probably related to that, the feeling that they have their, they tend to have their guard up, they tend to be followed a strategy of attempting to be as risk-averse, headline averse as possible. And it's like those aren't the people. I'm interested in people who genuinely feel like they've got something figured out or are involved in a world or a lifestyle or just some situation that is either self-sabotaging or filled with angst. So in the end, I see it as I'm not trying to get one over on people. I'm not trying to, I honestly, most interviews I see as a potential win-win. You know what I mean? I start to think like, well,”
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“Give him a hard time Or even be particularly journalistically confrontational, that's not that's not my default mode, said”
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“Some of it is stuff that. I just sort of came by by accident, probably most of it, which is a thing. Natural curiosity, which I think you have. A feeling of just wanting to know why people do the things that they do. And sort of getting out of your own way a bit, you know, in the sense, because I... The question I get asked most often is how do you not get angry with some of these people, especially the ones who are sort of spewing hate or coming out with stuff that's really objectionable on? I find it a slightly confusing question because I think that's so far from what's in my head most of the time. I'm genuinely thinking like why if it is someone like say a neo-Nazi or someone involved in religious intolerance? I'm just so curious about what takes someone to that place what's in their mind that to actually berate them.”
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“Of craft, you know, like it's really, and it is simple. It's no great mystery, but that's a big part of How I connect with Ah, well, my own happiness.”
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“Really cared about. Well, that wasn't even about. I mean, I do care about the work. I mean, work is a big source of pleasure in the sense of... Either being on location and being aware of it going well and getting into an almost like a mindset in an interview of feeling like, yeah, this is all good. Like I feel connected, I feel, because it's a high stress, in a way, I'm sure you have a little bit, if you have an interview with someone you feel like you've been trying to book it for a while, the moment comes, you're like, the next two hours are really important. You want it to go smoothly. You want it to feel like a revealing encounter. You want to be probing and insightful and attentive and immersed and not distracted, but also thinking ahead. And all of that's going on. And then it starts. And then you feel like, oh, it's going okay. And then afterwards, you're like, that was a good one. And then in the edit, you're putting it together and you're piecing things in like that.”
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“Don't know. I think there's more of us out there than you might think, but maybe not. We're all trapped in our own brains is no way of measuring. I do think that, you know, I mentioned that when I saw that, I got a nice review in the Times, that gave me like, as I said, I gave me a buzz.”
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“If someone says, like, you're going to go on holiday to the Bahamas, you know, I'm trying to imagine what a really big, happy thing would be. I would normally experience that as stress and anxiety. I think that's quite normal, though holidays are stressful, aren't they?”
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“You just sort of follow your routine, you know, and actually I am a happy person. You know, I take pleasure in the simple things in life. I like doing stuff with the family or I really am terrible. I've met a simple place. I like watching Match of the Day at the weekend. You say, yeah, okay, lots of people like doing that. What's that? But, you know, like that for me is one of the small things in the week where I'm like, I know I'm going to be happy for the next forty-five minutes or hour. You know what I mean? On a Saturday night I listened to loose ends on radio four, and often I'll be cooking, and that's a small thing, and I get a little tiny little boost out of, I know I'm going to enjoy it. Usually I enjoy listening to it. This little thing, I mean,”
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“I don't know if that makes you thank you for saying that. I think you're being polite. I'm not someone who I'm not someone who Who automatically feels connected to the good things that happen to them?”
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“up there. And, you know, in hindsight, like the pleasure, you know, you get a little pleasure over the subsequent years when you can bring it up again and again, as I like to do. But actually, it's really odd. Like most of the time when I get good news, sometimes I don't even, I can't notice the good news. Does that sound really weird?”
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“After to someone else, some of them, one's a camera. I'm not sure that camera is an award. You can do a cutaway of that later. You know, it's odd. My main thing on winning each time I won a BAFTA. My first thought has been oh shit, now I have to give an acceptance speech, right? And I have to.”
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“I think my wife has helped me with is that I kind of sense that I'm not always connected to pleasure. Does that sound weird? Sometimes I sort of drift through life and I have to sort of stop and remind myself. I think because I sort of tend to see downsides and I'm working on that and I really do like, I sort of need to, it's really odd. I've won three BAFTAs not bragging. This just came up and I mention it's a fact. And when you win a BAFTA, you've got a lot of awards up there. I've not seeing a BAFTA. Maybe there's a just...”
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“which is a negative thing, which is that idea like when you were told, you know, when I was told that, oh, you know, Patrick is quite keen to do some sort of talk format or some interview thing where you're on TV and I just think like, well, I'm not really sure. I think one of my, because it goes back to what you were asking earlier about, what is the downside of these various qualities? Like I do think there's a term anhedonic. Have you ever heard that term? It just means, I think it's a clinical term, but it sort of means averse to pleasure or lacking in pleasure. Like there's a part of me, again, that...”
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“More important things in life. And I don't want to overdo, actually, I got lost in my metaphor a bit, but I think in the end, it's like those different qualities of it's that complement of qualities and then just luck, but I don't think luck really is a quality. But alongside, I'm now at the position we're having done my job for long enough, it's put me in a slight. I think there's loads of people who could be whoever I am, like occupy that cultural place that I'm in, but partly I've earned my plays here and partly I've been really lucky. But I think, you know, when you said something earlier, it also made me think of another quality, which is to do with.”
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“Fully chasing it or fully needing it, oddly enough, is almost the pre- you know, it's like to go through the door, you have to not want to go through the door too much. I don't know if that's even, that's definitely not a saying and it doesn't actually make any sense, but whatever sense you can make of that contradictory statement. If you want it too much, I think that then you need to step back and think about quite, it's almost like then you're not ready grasshopper. Is that the right grasshopper? Is that what these are saying? Karate kid? I think if I can call you a grasshopper, Steve. No, it's like that feeling of, you know, at the end of the day,”
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“No, no, I'm fine with it. Like, because I feel as though I can analyze it. With the benefit of 25 years of doing it, I think it's something to do with a little bit of intelligence, a little bit of humor, a little bit of un Of unsought awkwardness, like I think that's part of it, like just being a little bit awkward, a little bit of... of authenticity or whatever that is like just sort of feeling like I think maybe that same thing of not really”
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“Yeah, I think so. And I think with a bit of time, I've been able to appreciate. That I know it sounds sort of glib and maybe even false modest, but to appreciate that I have something to offer.”
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“Do that But I made myself the point is I made myself do it because I had a team around me who I knew expected me to do it and at some level I had enough sense to recognize that it was an opportunity.”
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“an interview and you'll talk to someone famous who probably only has a couple of hours for you and then we'll piece it all together and do i never thought like that's really something i want to do but patrick hollander was then in charge of bbc too had listened to my podcast and said like i really think this would work some not this exactly but there's a tv show that takes aspects of this that could exist that would you know involve you talking to people and i remember you would think like oh that would that must have been exciting like someone saying like i wanted to do this tv format involves partly chat show partly documentary i just thought i didn't think like that's something i'll never do i did think like i just felt very blank about it and that's horrible like people are going to listen to this and throw up in their cards but i just thought that sounds sort of stressful i'm not sure if i really want to”
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“Series off the back of TV Nation when I got commissioned to do weird weekends. My wife Nancy, other people along the way, have sort of seen things in me that I didn't see in myself. Even this interview series going out at the moment, I never it sounds awful, I never aspired to have a TV interview series. Like it was something that would be mentioned from time to time, and I would say that's not really me. You know, I like going out. My comfort, like my happy place, really is in terms of TV, like, oh, go and be in a prison for two weeks and film the inmates or go to a mental hospital or go to a brothel like I made a film about a brothel and just hang out there for two or three weeks and just be a to me sounds awful, but that's like pure bliss, like work-wise. But the idea of, oh, we'll have a formal situation.”
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“I never got into TV, I don't know quite what I did end up doing. The thing that it makes me reflect on is the extent to which we're conditioned and groomed into behaviors that can be healthy or unhealthy or positive or not positive. And I think that's the part of the libertarian ethos that I have a huge, well, among others I have a huge issue with is like, oh, just let people be themselves. People need help to fulfill their potential, right? That idea that, oh, you know, you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps. Like I with all the advantages I had of a first rate private education, supportive parents even I didn't see myself as someone who would have various kinds of success. I didn't feel that that was in me for whatever reason, but along the way people, Michael Moore, people at the BBC who then commissioned me to do my own.”
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