Grokblocked

Harriet Langley-Swindon and Producer Martin speak to AI Producer Martin, who now works for Grok, about what's going on at X: The Everything App; we speak to the third-shortest-serving Chancellor in British history, Nadhim Zahawi, about how he definitely didn't ask for a peerage; and Eshaan Akbar has a Hot & Spicy Takeaway Of The Week about repressive regimes - but only after a surprise ApologyWatch....Thanks to Grace Thomas, who signed up to our Patreon this week. She, like all our Patreons, will also hear an interview with punctuality expert Lucy Clockman - but you can only hear that by going to Patreon.com/NonCensored and signing up for just £4/£8 month. She'll also get every episode early and without adverts, access to the full video of the interviews and podcasts, as well as bonus segments. Thanks to all our Patreons for making it possible for us to pay our guests.Make your new years' resolution to fill in this survey: http://bit.ly/noncensored-survey.With thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Will Sebag-Montefiore, Sami Abu Wardeh, Sally Hodgkiss and Ed Morrish.Rosie's book, Why We Were Right, is available now.Brendan is currently on tour with his show, Buffy ReVamped.Eshaan has an hour-long special, The Pretender, available to watch on YouTube.Will has a show on Fubar Radio called Privacy Settings and you can listen to it here.Sami has a play on at the Park Theatre, Palestine: Peace De Resistance, from the 29th January to the 7th Feb. He does sketches on his Instagram.Sally never replied to our email about what to plug, but her website is here.Ed also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, another improvised sketch comedy podcast.Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.