The Modern Mann

Amazing stories. Emerging trends. Sex advice
Hosted by @OllyMann with @AlixFox @OllieeP
Best Interview Podcast @BritPodAwards
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This month's episode, in pictorial form.

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I’ve got TEN pets at home (if you include the chickens and goldfish...), so animal welfare is a subject close to my heart.

But 'end-of-life care' is rarely part of the conversation.

When the time comes, most pet owners are simply told, 'we've done all we can do'... and offered in-clinic euthanasia.

So it was a pleasure to meet Dr Caroline Flicker this week - Britain’s first at-home palliative care vet.

We spoke about grief, guilt, family, love, and the decisions we make for the animals who become part of our lives.

Check out our conversation on @TheModernMann, and let me know what you think. 🐾

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NEW - 'PLEASE KILL MY PET'
• @OllyMann meets Dr Caroline Flicker, Britain's first at-home palliative vet
• @Ollieep investigates the trend for vigilante 'street patrols'
• @AlixFox advises what to do when you spot a colleague in a BDSM club

🎧 https://t.co/XlVdRhcti6

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Thanks to @AlixFox's frenzied imagination and producer @virtualmatthill's misplaced love of light entertainment 🏆

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It's not every day you're named "highly commended" for uncontrollably giggling whilst supping wine through plastic teats, but that is what has befallen team @TheModernMann this evening. A fun and silly night at @CheerfulPodFest's #GoldenLobes awards, where scooped runner up for 'Best Blooper'

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Cheryl Bennett doesn’t follow politics. But when her colleague said he was standing in local elections, she agreed to help deliver leaflets.

Within days, doorbell video footage was circulating online, in which Cheryl could be seen calling prospective voters “f***ing P*kis”. 

Cheryl had never said such words, but wasn’t sure anyone believed her. 

After being posted by an independent candidate for West Midlands mayor - ‘TikTok lawyer’ Akhmed Yakoob - the deepfake went viral, receiving over two million views across TikTok, Facebook and X.

Cheryl was sent death threats. Police were sent to her house to arrest her. She was forced into hiding. Her career as a PE teacher was put on hold.

And, even after the video was proven to be an AI distortion, she is still feeling the consequences years later.

In her first ever podcast interview, she tells me @themodernmann how her world turned upside down - all because she did a favour for a friend…

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NEW - 'My Deepfake Nightmare'

@OllyMann meets Cheryl Bennett, a PE teacher whose life was turned upside down when an AI Deepfake video went viral which falsely showed her using racist language whilst leafletting for local elections

👉 https://t.co/IEtrDAnJJu

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Nine years ago, I interviewed Gavin Bain - whose story the film is based on - for @themodernmann. The real tale involved a bit more death, and was obviously a bit less Hollywood-linear, but the spirit of his plucky adventures remains intact!

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In this month's Playback, @OllyMann meets Gavin Bain, whose story inspired new British movie #californiaschemin

Listen: https://t.co/MhqvIgb8vy

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@sounddelivery | @PauseOrg

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Thinking this Mother's Day of all the Mums who have their kids removed - and all the grandmothers and foster mums who step in to help.
(Check out my interview with Karina @themodernmann.)
#mothersday

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This is Robbie.

He spent six hours trapped in the rubble after a devastating earthquake.

Unable to feel his legs, unsure he would emerge alive. 🧵

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NEW - Trapped In The Rubbble:

@OllyMann meets Robbie Greatrex, who spent six hours crushed in a Morocco earthquake.

Plus, Ollie Peart goes #vibecoding, Alix Fox talks UTIs, and music from @sushitrash

🎧 https://t.co/oHab2LOMAV

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⚠️ New episode alert!
Refresh those pod-feeds...

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Time to get a Mannbassador for Greenland.

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This is Alok Sama. He was a high-flying CFO, who fraternised with the world’s richest men - but he wasn’t immune from intimidation.

Anonymous letters sent to his boss, Softbank’s Masayoshi Son, accused him of corruption. Suddenly, shadowy “shareholders” emerged from nowhere, and a smear campaign quietly derailed his career.

Then - as he recounts to me in this month's edition of @themodernmann - Alok discovered his family was under surveillance.

Desperate, he met men claiming ties to Mossad. And ultimately walked away, with first-hand experience of the corporate espionage that lurks in the shadows of Britain’s biggest companies...

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NEW: 'The Banker, The Billionaire, and the Big Lie'
• @OllyMann meets former Softbank CFO @AlokSama
• @Ollieep tries out #SleepMaxxing
• @AlixFox on the rise of creature-shaped adult toys
• New music from @CAVETOWN
👉🎧 https://t.co/4jhwPvnT1y
#TheMoneyTrap

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What a companionable trio of chaps @TimesRadio has scheduled across daytime this Betwixtmas!

...Considering putting my hair into a mohawk, to give me a bit of edge.

Join me from 4pm, all this week

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Gather ye round for @themodernmann Xmas Special. It's like Noel's House Party meets This Morning meets Loose Ends meets Naked Attraction. A highly odd combination really but it wouldn't be Christmas without it

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Season's Greetings from The Modern Mann - our annual Xmas special is on your pod-feeds, with some of our favourite guests from 2026 dropping by, and amazing live music from Sarah Smout 🎄

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If you're wondering where the Christmas special is... It's even more EPIC than usual so it's taking longer than we had anticipated to edit! Will be out on FRIDAY and is worth waiting for. X Olly

[Tom Jamieson @jamiesont]

Comedy people this is a really fascinating good interview 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼