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Michael Walker
British journalist and host
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Aug 14, 2026
How To Be Better? Self-Improvement and Building Trust in the Trades
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Clive HollandHOST
Tell me about how you went from being a one-man band to building your own team of roofers.
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11:17Michael WalkerGUEST
But the short of it is we started out by wearing plain white T-shirts and we thought we'd stand out.
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11:33Michael WalkerGUEST
We all just wear multicolored tops, whatever we could find, even wearing other companies' tops, when I didn't think branding was important.
Clive HollandHOST
But did you design your own on-site workwear apparel? And if you did, what does it actually look like now? Describe.
Builders hooked on Hemp?
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Stuart BowesHOST
most people can see what bamboo makes as a material right and as i said my family from india you see it all the time it's used in construction you go across southeast asia it's there and everyone can see bamboo solid looks like kind of scaffolding poles you can get that hemp is generally seen and people kind of know what a cannabis plant looks like but you know you can see what a weed looks like pretty floppy right so you might think of it um okay Is it similar to, I don't know, growing sugar beet or something like that? What I'm trying to get to is what does it have in that stalk that gives it the strength that allows you to make building materials out of it? Is it just incredibly dense or is it just it's absorption, it's give and take?
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12:45Michael WalkerGUEST
It comes in as a natural seed to come in and says, you know what? I'm in the ground.
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12:50Michael WalkerGUEST
I'm here for a short period of time and I'm going to do whatever it takes to survive.
Magnifica Humanitas
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38:07Michael WalkerGUEST
So there's a drafting team and then it went through a series of committees and then it goes to the bishops themselves who are, you know, the notional authors.
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38:16Michael WalkerGUEST
I would say that Leo had more direct input into the shape and content of this encyclical.
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38:26Michael WalkerGUEST
To me, okay, the slavery one's quite epochal, like to acknowledge the church's role in enabling and even participating in slavery.
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Democracy Now! Thursday, February 19, 2026
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53:58Michael WalkerGUEST
Yeah, I have to say, on our show, we're still calling him Prince Andrew because I don't think the royal family can get out of this so easily, just saying, "We're taking the title off him.
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54:04Michael WalkerGUEST
It's got nothing to do with us, Gov." Um, they obviously knew he had a relationship for a long time before they stripped his title of that.
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54:11Michael WalkerGUEST
Um, in, in terms of this particular case, um, it's actually remarkably similar, um, to the row...
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54:16Michael WalkerGUEST
Well, it's more than a row, isn't it? The investigation into Peter Mandelson, um, which is that what these emails appear to have revealed is that when there were powerful men in positions of responsibility and influence, they used that influence, they used that access that they had to forward on confidential information that was sort of, that should have been kept secret to Jeffrey Epstein.
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54:38Michael WalkerGUEST
Um, in the case of, of Mandelson, that involved what was going on in Number Ten Downing Street.
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54:42Michael WalkerGUEST
When it comes to Prince Andrew, this seems to be, um, what was discussed on trade trips.
Nermeen ShaikhHOST
If you could elaborate on that and also tell us where has he gone and what comes next? Where was he taken?
Democracy Now! Thursday, February 19, 2026
55:29
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53:58Michael WalkerGUEST
Yeah, I have to say, on our show, we're still calling him Prince Andrew, 'cause I don't think the royal family can get out of this so easily, just saying, "We're taking the title off him.
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54:04Michael WalkerGUEST
It's got nothing to do with us, Gov." Um, they obviously knew he had a relationship for a long time before they stripped his title of that.
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54:11Michael WalkerGUEST
Um, in, in terms of this particular case, um, it's actually remarkably similar, um, to the row...
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54:16Michael WalkerGUEST
Well, it's more than a row, isn't it? The investigation into Peter Mandelson, um, which is that what these emails appear to have revealed is that when there were powerful men in positions of responsibility and influence, they used that influence, they used that access that they had, to forward on confidential information that was sort of-- that should have been kept secret to Jeffrey Epstein.
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54:38Michael WalkerGUEST
Um, in the case of, of Mandelson, that involved what was going on in Number Ten Downing Street.
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54:42Michael WalkerGUEST
When it comes to Prince Andrew, this seems to be, um, what was discussed on trade trips.
Nermeen ShaikhHOST
If you could elaborate on that and also tell us where has he gone and what comes next? Where was he taken?
Democracy Now! 2026-02-19 Thursday
55:29
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53:58Michael WalkerGUEST
Yeah, I have to say, on our show, we're still calling him Prince Andrew, 'cause I don't think the royal family can get out of this so easily, just saying, "We're taking the title off him.
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54:04Michael WalkerGUEST
It's got nothing to do with us, Gov." Um, they obviously knew he had a relationship for a long time before they stripped his title of that.
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54:11Michael WalkerGUEST
Um, in, in terms of this particular case, um, it's actually remarkably similar, um, to the row...
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54:16Michael WalkerGUEST
Well, it's more than a row, isn't it? The investigation into Peter Mandelson, um, which is that what these emails appear to have revealed is that when there were powerful men in positions of responsibility and influence, they used that influence, they used that access that they had, to forward on confidential information that was sort of-- that should have been kept secret to Jeffrey Epstein.
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54:38Michael WalkerGUEST
Um, in the case of, of Mandelson, that involved what was going on in Number Ten Downing Street.
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54:42Michael WalkerGUEST
When it comes to Prince Andrew, this seems to be, um, what was discussed on trade trips.
Nermeen ShaikhHOST
If you could elaborate on that and also tell us where has he gone and what comes next? Where was he taken?
Mailbag: Yo-Yos, Sandboxes, and Encores
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51:45Max FriedmanCORRESPONDENT
Michael Walker is a longtime music journalist who's written extensively about this period.
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51:50Michael WalkerGUEST
The labels did not know the audience was the size that it was for rock and roll music.
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51:54Michael WalkerGUEST
They found out when Woodstock happened and 350,000 people showed up to see a band set were popular bands of the day, but no one saw that coming.
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54:22Max FriedmanCORRESPONDENT
Cooper might have put it, a little more icing on the cake in the form of an encore.
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54:28Michael WalkerGUEST
The spontaneous call for encores when you got into stadiums got a little bit ritualized because it just seemed like good business, I suppose.
Mailbag: Yo-Yos, Sandboxes, and Encores
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57:24Max FreedmanCORRESPONDENT
Michael Walker is a longtime music journalist who's written extensively about this period.
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57:28Michael WalkerGUEST
The labels did not know the audience was the size that it was for rock and roll music.
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57:33Michael WalkerGUEST
They found out when Woodstock happened, and 350,000 people showed up to see, uh, you know, bands that were popular bands of the day.
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59:57Max FreedmanCORRESPONDENT
And Michael thinks those prices made a lot of bands feel obligated to offer, as Alice Cooper might have put it, a little more icing on the cake, in the form of an encore.
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60:06Michael WalkerGUEST
The spontaneous call for encores when you got into stadiums got a little bit ritualized because it just seemed like good business, I suppose.
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60:14Michael WalkerGUEST
It just became part of the plan, and then audiences began to just absolutely expect it.