Sometimes you have to get fired again and again (and again) to figure out your place in the world. Ed Clowes’ (@edclowes) story is not your common journalistic tale. Kids, don’t try this one at home. He gets fired for increasingly noble reasons though, ultimately getting kicked out of the city-state of Dubai. Be warned, despite the title of this episode, it is more about the Middle East than London.

Ed discusses bumbling his way through a series of London jobs (4:57), moving to Dubai for a magazine sales job but getting into the journalism side (6:43), getting fired from a job in PR (16:03), finding his feet again at the newspaper Gulf News only to get kicked out of the country (21:05), how censorship works in Dubai and how the government directed an anti-Trump shift at the paper (32:40), finding work in the UK and feelings on moving home after being away so long (38:34), delving into what it's like living in the classist, mixing pot of a shopping mall that is Dubai (43:11), what it's like working at The Telegraph (54:37) and end on the lightning round (1:01:45).

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Ed's story about Uber in Dubai - https://bit.ly/3fg1alY

His story about JP Morgan report on climate change - https://bit.ly/2UEpnKM

Hot Ones interviews on Youtube - https://bit.ly/2zs3XJw

Full Size Run on Youtube - https://bit.ly/3e0Kv5F

Reuters story on UK coronavirus response - https://reut.rs/3cZilH1

NYT investigation into the taxi industry - https://nyti.ms/2lEESUF 

Ed's story Trump backer defends Saudi Arabia - https://bit.ly/37riuln

BBC's Jon Sopel on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3fg1mlc

His record label Everything Will Be OK - https://bit.ly/2XWaJRc

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