In a week where:

1. Artemis II blasts off for the first lunar mission in 50 years.
2. Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi.
3. Rapper Pooh Shiesty is among nine people arrested for allegedly kidnapping Gucci Mane.
4. Myanmar's coup leader is selected as president by pro-military parliament.
5. Doctors Without Borders say Israel Has Blocked All Gaza Medical Aid Since January.

In Sports: (8:02) The IOC have implemented a Gender Test for future Olympic participation, just to make sure the whopping one trans athlete doesn't get in. A wild overreaction to a non-issue. (Article By Julie Kliegman)

In Music: (21:27) Kanye is slated to headline all three days of Wireless. This past week, he performed with Ms. Lauryn Hill. So, we just acting like the past 10 years didn't happen? (Article By Kiana Fitzgerald) (I recorded this before the UK Gov't banned him, effectively cancelling Wireless.)

In Society: (33:57) Nigeria is going through a crisis of protecting themselves as a state from forces outside and inside. So what is the solution for this country with such huge potential? (Article By Omole Ibukun)

Lastly, in Life: (54:17) No matter where you look, there are losers. Losers in politics, losers in pop culture. Why do we keep propping up dorks and losers? (Article By Christl Stringer)

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Intro Music - "Too Much" By Vanilla
Interlude - "Charismatic" By NappyHigh
ChillHop Music

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Welcome to Past, Present, Future: Half Podcast, half Photography series. If you would like to see the Photography side of this edition, you can catch it here. The subject for this episode is Children's Author, Mayo.

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Music: "Blue Sky" By GYVUS
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Another WG interview for you to step to! For this one we head to Belgium to talk to recent collaborators, Soul-Pop vocalist Selah Sue & father-son duo Stéphane & Elvin Galland, better known as The Gallands.

In this half-hour talk that stretched to 45 minutes, we get into their beginnings, where their musicianship started, how they got together for their album "Movin'" and of course their Top 5.

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Intro Music - "Baxter" By Brock Berrigan
Interlude - "flying in a dream" By beatmachinearon
ChillHop Music

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In a week where:

1. Meta, YouTube Lose First Social Media Addiction Trial, Ordered to Pay $6M.
2. Volkswagen in Talks with Israel to Produce Parts for Missile Defence Systems.
3. Iran-backed hackers breach FBI director Kash Patel's personal emails.
4. Tiger Woods arrested on suspicion of DUI after rollover crash in Florida.
5. Half a million gather in London for biggest anti-far right demonstration.

In the 1st of two Politics segments: (7:23) Ethiopia are having their election in June but with the lack of open competition and many legal levers pulled to make it look like democracy when it isn't, the political future of Ethiopia looks dark. (Article By Wakjira Tesfaye)

In the 2nd Politics segment: (18:57) A little tale from Northern Ireland on what happens when the state colludes with the far-right. Not timely at all of course! (Article By Shane Burley)

In Tech: (34:39) Digging into the Social Media Addiction trial, the recent Ls that Big Tech have taken recently and whether it means true structural change is coming. (Article By Carolina Rossini)

Lastly, in Photography: (47:22) A story about Don Bronstein - a photographer whose subjects include Bob Dylan & Barbra Streisand - whose works vanished for decades but have finally been found. (Article By Tom May)

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Intro Music - "Too Much" By Vanilla
Interlude - "Charismatic" By NappyHigh
ChillHop Music

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In a week where:

1. Rapper Mystikal pleads guilty to rape, faces up to 20 years in prison.
2. Chuck Norris, prolific action star and martial arts champion, dies aged 86.
3. Finland is named the world’s happiest country for the ninth consecutive year.
4. UK lets US use British bases to strike Iranian missile sites targeting Strait of Hormuz.
5. Robert Mueller, special counsel who investigated Trump-Russia ties, dies at 81.

In History: (6:49) It hasn't been long in the Belgian revival of the Patrice Lumumba murder case but they already have their first suspect. 93-year-old ex-diplomat Étienne Davignon. (Article By Jennifer Rankin)

In Tech: (19:12) Instagram are locking off end-to-end DMs in yet another blow to any of us having anything good on the Internet. (Article By Lily Hay Newman)

In Music: (31:18) A report came out this past week hailing UKs Black British Music industry carrying the overall UK Music industry overall. But are we seeing those profits? (Article By Mimi The Music Blogger)

Lastly, in Life: (45:08) A pensive story about working in a liquor store and the inherent contradictions of needing to sell poison to people addicted to it. (Article By Quinn Que) 

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Interlude - "Charismatic" By NappyHigh
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Welcome to Past, Present, Future: Half Podcast, half Photography series. If you would like to see the Photography side of this edition, you can catch it here. The subject for this episode is Friend of 5E, Mikey J, who celebrates the 25th anniversary of dance company Boy Blue.

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Music - "Blue Sky" By GYVUS
ChillHop Music

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In a week where:

1. Miami Heat star Bam Adeybayo drops 2nd All-Time 83 points on the Washington Wizards.
2. Hereditary peers will lose their seats in the House of Lords.
3. Bank of England announces that UK wildlife will replace famous faces on future banknotes.
4. The Oscars come & go.
5. Cuba suffers a complete collapse of their power system.

In Environment: (10:39) Whilst the US continues to pummel Iran under circumstances that get more suspect by the day, the environmental toll of this war begins to take shape. (Article By Mark Hertsgaard and Giles Trendle)

In Tech: (21:33) Two years ago I talked about Palantir and the hooks they already had in the NHS. Now they're deeper into the UK Government & some people in the Ministry of Defence are getting concerned. (Article By Charlie Young)

In Music: (36:14) One element of the recent Gorton & Denton Byelection was a little known rapper unashamedly pushing far-right ideology. Only thing is, he's AI. (Article By Harriet Williamson & Simon Childs)

Lastly, in Life: (52:11) It has been around for a while but I've only just discovered the craze in something called Peptides. Basically raw-dogging unverified concoctions to boost your wellbeing in specific ways. (Article By Adrienne Matei)

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Intro Music - "Too Much" By Vanilla
Interlude - "Charismatic" By NappyHigh
ChillHop Music

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Welcome to Past, Present, Future: Half Podcast, half Photography series. If you would like to see the Photography side of this edition, you can catch it here. The first subject is friend of the show, Ryan.

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In a week where:

1. Kristi Noem is fired as US Homeland Security Secretary.
2. Mojtaba Khamenei is selected as Iran's new supreme leader.
3. Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah wins Nepalese General Election in a landslide.
4. Footage reveals it was the US that double-tapped the South Iran Primary School.
5. AI company Anthropic files two lawsuits against the US government.

In Geopolitics: (7:09) As the US & Israel continue to bomb Iran and the global economy, Iran's Revolutionary Guard continue ticking on, both militarily & politically. (Article By Najmeh Bozorgmehr & Andrew England)

In the 1st of two Tech segments: (21:41) With the news of AI being involved in the US' strikes on Iran, let's look more into Anthropic's Claude and their role in all of this. (Article By Simon Allison)

In the 2nd Tech segment: (34:15) There was minor hysteria in London as schoolkids were being pitted against each other in a 'red vs blue' social media stunt. Did anything come out of it? (Article By Jim Waterson, Sophie Wilkinson and Polly Smythe)

Lastly, in Life: (49:02) A look at Sophie Oluwole, the Nigerian Philosopher who changed the landscape of the Western, male world of Philosophy. (Article By Christophe Premat) 

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Interlude - "Charismatic" By NappyHigh
ChillHop Music

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In a week where:

1. Hillary & Bill Clinton testify in an Epstein probe by the House Oversight Committee.
2. Green Party's Hannah Spencer wins the Gorton & Denton By-election.
3. Pakistan declares ‘open war’ on Afghanistan.
4. Pokemon turns 30.
5. Israel & the USA fire first at Iran, kicking off another conflict.

In Life: (5:35) The "One In, One Out" migration policy between the UK & France is in full swing. So what about the people that are involved, the ones in and especially the ones out? (Article By Diane Taylor)

In Politics: (19:19) It has been 10 years since "The Exit" campaign began with that dumbass red bus. So what were the initial pledges and did any of them come to pass? (Article By Lottie Elton)

In Education: (30:10) A major piece of education reform for English schools has been unveiled. So what do the experts and academics think of the new implementations? (Article By Beng Huat See, Cate Carroll, Simon Edwards & Stephen Gorard)

Lastly, in Tech: (42:34) I think we should all be making an effort to separate ourselves from Big Tech. So here's some alternatives that we could all move to. (Article By Steve Rose)

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Intro Music - "Too Much" By Vanilla
Interlude - "Charismatic" By NappyHigh
ChillHop Music

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