funny i to think about another situation, like a job interview someone just being like, oh, yeah there s one more thing, i m facing 91 counts. yeah, i mean. anyway. don t worry about it. we re going to t figure it out. thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. if you are a person who does not think a convicted felon should be running for the country, you might think of this statistics as a glachls half empty kind of number. in an exit poll yesterday 51% of voters said if donald trump were tors be convicted of a crime th would still consider him fit to be president. don t get me wrong, that s not a sign of a healthy democracy. a majority of new hampshire s republican primary voters would not care if trump ends up a convicted p felon. by the way, that would also mean that donald trump, a florida resident, would not be able to vote for himself as a convicted felon, although 54% of new hampshire republican voters stillbl would. elections in ial
at the financial times. and ryan shorthouse, founder and executive chair of bright blue, an independent think tank which he says is for promoting liberal conservatism. first, though, writer and satirist armando ianucci is here the man behind the day today, alan partridge and the thick of it. right now he has a play on in london called pandemonium, satirising the government s response to the pandemic. it s on at london 5 soho theatre, and obviously he is going to be watching political events closely this year. what reaction are you getting? fantastic, they say they find it funny but also quite emotional. it is reallyjust taking you through the events in a slightly heightened style and there is no grand argument or polemic, it isjust style and there is no grand argument or polemic, it is just a way at this time to have a sort of cathartic re expression of the events that happened. i5 re-expression of the events that ha ened. . re-expression of the events that happened- re-expression o
the vehicle for me to find my voice again was it cathartic to write the songs again. absolutely i found it turnin from theater found some way to heal through songwriting. i got to tell my own story. and i didn t necessarily know how to speak about it for a lon time and i felt silenced and i felt i could let my feelings ou through song and get to share that with the world. we ve gone over the story th whole broadway thing and it broadway is really not for you it s not for you because you found that if path is that a fair assessment. true colors have been shown and i ve seen a dark side of th industry that i really as of right now have no desire to be part of it s a shame because it was my love for so long. i feel like because of this cancer culture thing i ve been able to find new ways it to be creative turn into something
else like kwanzaa. you brought us christmas presents. these are kwanzaa gifts. then you have seinfeld with a holiday that doesn t exist. festivus for the rest of us. george, festivus is your heritage. it s part of who you are. it s actually based on a real thing. one of the writers on seinfeld, his father invented festivus and they put it in the show. the tradition of festivus begins with the airing of grievances. his festivus rant is everybody s rant. my son tells me your company stinks. the airing of grievances, to me it is what the holidays are about. i find it cathartic. let s rumble. so, festivus for the rest of us, let s go. it s a festivus miracle.