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Thomas Thorogood
Media Producer at Speak Life (UK Christian media organisation) and host of The Speak Life Podcast, also a film-analysis YouTuber.
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Sep 3, 2026
Who is Thomas Thorogood and Why Pay Attention to Cinema?
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39:16Thomas ThorogoodGUEST
yeah maybe it's it probably varies heavily from denomination to denomination i mean i've i've mainly gone to like evangelical anglican church of england churches in the uk so when i was a student that's where i went that's the sort of church i'm at now and i think certainly until recently yeah yeah the narrative was that we're kind of on the back foot um as christians in the uk and And certainly the statistics bear that out.
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39:52Thomas ThorogoodGUEST
Northern Ireland is like a weird anomaly in a sense that has much higher church attendance.
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40:00Thomas ThorogoodGUEST
But yeah, certainly England, like church attendance, that ship had kind of sailed like... people leaving churches, the great de-churching that you guys have been experiencing in the US.
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40:12Thomas ThorogoodGUEST
I think in some ways it feels like the UK has been a lot further along that trajectory.
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40:18Thomas ThorogoodGUEST
And so our kind of assumption when I was at Christian Union at uni was that our friends are probably like Richard Dawkins, probably have no interest in spirituality whatsoever.
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Paul VanderKlayHOST
But, you know, talk to me about, do you ever think about this when you do your videos in terms of, What's going on in terms of the audience with respect to what are our cultural icons?
#16 The Odyssey Deep Chat - Nate Morgan Locke and George Simpson
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But I kind of needed many more of the cast to be like that rather than just American actors and actresses just wandering around, just saying pretty, pretty low level dialogue, which unfortunately Nolan is partial to in every single film he makes.
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42:16Thomas ThorogoodGUEST
He's very meticulous and not many things in his films happen by accident.
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Can You Trust Your Mind | Thomas Thorogood Clip
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But just the, the way-
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6:08Thomas ThorogoodGUEST
[laughs]TK, uh, Cohen just to kind of artfully erodes that foundation and shows actually how can we-- how if, if, if our brains are just, you know, if all our intuitions are just kind of based on survival, kind of how can we trust anything whatsoever?
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26:37Thomas ThorogoodGUEST
There was maybe a, a, a lot of people would maybe say that their philosophy is like Destiny's, um, and that it's the logical-
