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Welcome to The Bla Bla Bunker, a podcast featuring interviews with regular people who have extraordinary stories to tell. The host, Almar Hilmarsson, is one of them. In 25 years he’s gone from Icelandic lawyer and airline CEO to tattooed, bearded meat enthusiast with a startup in Central Europe. On the way, he’s made plenty of stops, and cultivated a habit of running into interesting people and asking them interesting questions. Nothing is off limits in the Bla Bla Bunker, and Almar may ask questions that most people wouldn’t dare to ask.
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Friday Nov 12, 2021
EP43 Communism, gay rights and white middle aged men - Oliver McGillick
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Oliver McGillick's career is centered around the live music industry - producing shows with international & local artists of all sorts such as: Iggy pop, Sting, Kasabian, The Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Kraftwerk, and Tom Odell.
He was born in Australia where his mother had emigrated to from Communist Czech Republic. Oliver got to experience both worlds, Australia and a fast evolving Czech Republic in its infancy after the Velvet Revolution that marked the end of communism in the country.
Oliver is one of the main people behind the freedom festival that is held every year in Prague to remind people that freedom is invaluable, and what the communist regime did here until 89 was something that will mark the nation for years to come.
Oliver is gay and told me how it was for him to come out, how he see's the gay community, what rights are missing and what is maybe going overboard. We also discussed hyper correctness and political correctness and what impact that has on us as humans with instincts and needs.
And we also planned my parade of white hetero sexual middle aged men.......
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