Andrew is a rock critic, travel writer, foreign correspondent, radio host, and author. He mostly works for Monocle radio. Find him on Twitter @andrew_mueller and recently on BlueSky.[2:12] Andrew's intro [4:07] The book he picked up at a bus stop that changed his life [7:30] Are conservatives more funny? [8:08] The troll who left his basement [9:10] Why American culture is the best [13:50] Does humour date? [14:49] The time he was sort of cancelled [16:15] Women writing about war [18:18] Meeting the pilot who bombed Hiroshima [21:57] The Pub Landlord [25:50] The Flashman Papers [28:55] Unorthodox ways of telling history and Laurent Binet [32:35] The supreme pleasure of correcting the official record [33:36] Australian rules football and what it says about Australian culture [39:43] The literary dealbreaker [41:04] His favourite self-help book.Reading list:Andrew Mueller - Carn: The Game, and the Country That Plays ItP. J. O'Rourke - Holidays in HellChristina Lamb - Our Bodies, Their BattlefieldJulie Wheelwright - Sisters in ArmsSamantha Power - A Problem from HellPaul W Tibbets - Return of the Enola GayFrancis Wheen - Karl MarxLaurent Binet - HHhHBruce Springsteen - Born to RunGeorge MacDonald Fraser - The Flashman PapersThanks to exec-producer Melissa Fitzgerald and to Me For Queen for the theme music.Additional music: Legendary Epic Heroic | Heroic by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/Creative Commons CC BY 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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