Oh God, What Now?

• Get 20% off a year’s Patreon support in our Black Friday sale [https://www.patreon.com/posts/116500377]. Why not ask for it for Christmas? • Get your tickets to our live show at the Comedy Store on Tue 10 Dec here! [https://london.thecomedystore.co.uk/event/ho-ho-ho-god-what-now-christmas-show-live-podcast/] Keir Starmer’s global adventures have grabbed headlines – and while some think he should spend more time at home, others say he's doing what he needs to do to revive the UK’s international image. Our panel wades into the debate.  Plus, is local media dead and buried or can upstarts revive it? Jim Waterson was the Media Editor for The Guardian before setting up London Centric [https://www.londoncentric.media/], a “modern outlet for London”. Can you have a healthy national media without strong local roots?  And in the Extra Bit for Subscribers, Trump 2.0 is the sequel nobody wanted. We discuss sequels that were actually good to distract our minds from the story unfolding in the US. We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow [https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow]   www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow [http://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow] • Don’t miss Series 2 of our science and psychology podcast, Why? with Emma Kennedy –listen here [https://listen.podmasters.uk/WhySeason2?at=1001l39LM]. Presented by Ros Taylor with Seth Thévoz and Rafael Behr. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Video Production: Chris Jones and Jamie Heffernan. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

• Get 20% off a year’s Patreon support for OGWN in our Black Friday sale [https://www.patreon.com/posts/116500377%20]. Why not drop a heavy hint to the family…? • Get your tickets [https://london.thecomedystore.co.uk/event/ho-ho-ho-god-what-now-christmas-show-live-podcast/] for our Christmas Live Show on Tue 10 Dec at the Comedy Store London. The X-odus continues – but if we all quit the platform everyone still calls Twitter, are we handing a powerful social media engine to the worst of the far-right? Donald Trump continues to make cabinet appointments “so appalling they seem like performance art”. We get updates on the nightmarish backgrounds of Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK. And do elections now simply mean punishment beatings for incumbents? Former Daily Mirror editor Alison Phillips is our special guest.  Support us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow] to get early access to all our live tickets plus mugs, t-shirts and more.  This episode is sponsored by Proton Pass, to find out more visit http://proton.me/pass/ohgodwhatnow [http://proton.me/pass/ohgodwhatnow] Presented by Andrew Harrison with Rachel Cunliffe and Matt Green. Audio production by Simon Williams. Theme music by Cornershop. Produced by Chris Jones. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk [https://www.podmasters.co.uk/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Get your tickets to our 10th December live show at the Comedy Store here! [https://london.thecomedystore.co.uk/event/ho-ho-ho-god-what-now-christmas-show-live-podcast/] Trump has started to appoint his evil minions to his cabinet – and we take a breath to look at Badenoch’s new gang back home too. Andy Kroll, investigative reporter for ProPublica and author of A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy, joins the panel to talk through the US side of things, and Dorian, Jonn and Zoe get into the UK news. And, in the Extra Bit for Subscribers, how do you deal with the emotional impact of losing an election? (PS. We recorded this on Wednesday afternoon at 4.30pm, so we were just before the Matt Gaetz news...)  We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow [https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow]  And, we’re on BlueSky now too. Follow here: https://bsky.app/profile/ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social]  This episode is sponsored by Proton Pass, to find out more visit http://proton.me/pass/ohgodwhatnow [http://proton.me/pass/ohgodwhatnow] www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow [https://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow] • Don’t miss Series 2 of our science and psychology podcast, Why? with Emma Kennedy - listen here [https://listen.podmasters.uk/WhySeason2?at=1001l39LM]. Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Zoë Grünewald and Jonn Elledge. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

• Get your tickets for our Christmas Live Show [https://london.thecomedystore.co.uk/event/ho-ho-ho-god-what-now-christmas-show-live-podcast/] on Tue 10 Dec at the Comedy Store London. The Trump aftermath rumbles on. Farage, Tommy Robinson and the populist right think the GOP’s triumph is theirs too. Are they right? Will an isolationist America really want to export populism around the world? And will Keir Starmer have to choose between the EU and the USA? Plus, as the Democrats tear at one another, what should progressives really confront in the years to come? Could they at least start by agreeing why they lost?  Support us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow] to get early access to all our live tickets plus mugs, t-shirts and more.  Presented by Ros Taylor with Seth Thévoz, Hannah Fearn and Matt Green. Audio production by Simon Williams and Jade Bailey. Theme music by Cornershop. Produced by Chris Jones. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk [https://www.podmasters.co.uk/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

• Get your tickets to our 10th December live show at the Comedy Store London here! [https://london.thecomedystore.co.uk/event/ho-ho-ho-god-what-now-christmas-show-live-podcast/] It’s happened, Trump has retaken the White House. How did the orange felon who’s also racist win the election and what might he do now? Andrew Rudalevige is a professor of government at Bowdoin College and joins the panel to confront it all. Plus, in the run-up to Remembrance Day, we dig up the strange evolution of poppy mania. And in the Extra Bit for subscribers, the panel ventures out of their comfort zones to get stuck into a bit of culture that they otherwise wouldn’t touch with a barge pole. • We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow [https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow] • Back us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/ohgodwhatnow]. • Don’t miss Series 2 of our science and psychology podcast, Why? with Emma  Kennedy – listen here [https://listen.podmasters.uk/WhySeason2?at=1001l39LM]. Presented by Andrew Harrison with Ros Taylor and Jonn Elledge. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]