The Big Lie is EverywhereThe Big Lie is Everywhere
Trish Wood is Critical
Trish Wood turns a missed guest appearance into a wide-ranging monologue on what she calls “Big Lies” about politics, war, vaccines and media. She ties these themes to the loss of respect for elder wisdom and urges sharper critical thinking in an age of censorship, propaganda and institutional denial.
1:18:20•23 May 2025
The Big Lie, Elder Wisdom and Why Truth Still Matters
Episode Overview
- Question official narratives, especially where medical reports and political interests intersect, as in the discussion of Biden’s health.
- Value the experience and perspective of older generations, particularly in an era where tech skills can be wrongly treated as the sole measure of intelligence.
- Treat atrocity stories and emotionally charged claims about conflict with caution, as they can be used to justify extreme policies and dehumanise entire populations.
- Pay close attention to safety signals and timelines around medical products; delayed or diluted warnings can have serious consequences.
- Be wary of social media ecosystems that reward plagiarism and sensationalism, and support original journalism that credits its sources.
“Cover-ups aren’t about the cover-up. They’re about what do they mean for the health of the democracy that allowed it to happen.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? One answer might be learning how to spot lies early, and this episode leans hard into that skill. With her guest stuck somewhere over the Atlantic, Trish Wood turns a cancelled interview into a solo deep dive on what she calls “the Big Lies” shaping public life.
You’ll hear her walk through several current flashpoints: Joe Biden’s health and the alleged cover-up around his dementia, changing public sentiment on Gaza, new material from Senator Ron Johnson’s hearings on Covid-19 vaccine safety, and fresh questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s death. The tone is frank, sceptical and often darkly funny.
Trish talks openly about ageing (“my cognitive abilities are not what they were 30 or 40 years ago”) and argues that younger, highly online generations are discarding elder wisdom because they mistake tech fluency for intelligence. She links that loss of respect for older voices to what she sees as wider institutional failures in media, politics and public health.
On Gaza, she revisits early atrocity stories about “beheaded babies”, arguing they were used to justify what she sees as ethnic cleansing, while still condemning the brutality of 7 October. On vaccines, she plays a long clip from Ron Johnson and highlights a timeline of myocarditis signals, saying, “Cover-ups aren’t about the cover-up.
They’re about what do they mean for the health of the democracy that allowed it to happen.” Stylistically, it’s conversational and sometimes emotional, blending news clips, personal war stories from journalism, and side-notes about dogs, films and Scott Adams. If you’re someone in recovery who’s learned the hard way that denial kills and truth heals, this kind of media critique might resonate deeply.
It may leave you asking: which “Big Lies” are still shaping how you think today, and what are you going to do about them?
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