Modern Day Slavery as Experienced by Simon Deng
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At age 9, Simon Deng was kidnapped from his village in South Sudan, brought to North Sudan and given away as a gift. He was held as a slave for the next three and a half years. His journey including how he obtained freedom is remarkable. In this unforgettable episode of The One Way Ticket Show Simon shares the story of how he survived, how he found freedom, and why he now uses his voice to fight modern slavery, defend religious liberties, and confront global hypocrisy. Simon discusses Iran’s role in Sudan, arguing that Iranian-backed weapons and influence helped fuel mass violence in Sudan...
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The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Yardena Schwartz
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On August 24, 1929, 3000 Muslim men armed with swords, axes and daggers, marched through the ancient Jewish quarter of Hebron (the second holiest city in Judaism), and massacred every Jew they could find. In just a few hours, 67 unarmed Jewish men, women and children were dead. Families were burnt alive. Infants were slaughtered in their mother’s arms. Children watched as their parents were butchered by their neighbors. Women and teenage girls were raped. Men were castrated. This horrific pogrom was incited by a disinformation campaign spearheaded by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj...
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Negotiating with Terrorists - Ory Slonim the "Knocker on the Door"
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On this episode, we welcome Ory Slonim back to the program. Ory is one of Israel’s most distinguished lawyers. This year, 2026, he’s marking 40 years since Israeli President Chaim Herzog tasked him with the role as Consultant to the Minister of Defense for Captives and MIAs -- a position he referred to as “The Knocker on Doors”. Ory’s book about his work is title “A Knock at the Door” and is available wherever you like to buy your books. He was our guest on episode 293 on September 26, 2023 where he shared his one way ticket destination which was: "To a future in a place...
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Inspiring Quadruple Amputee – Tom Nash
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Quadruple amputee, Tom Nash, is one of the funniest and most inspirational people we’ve met. So it was an absolute delight to welcome him as our guest on this episode of The One Way Ticket Show. In our conversation, Tom shares how he lost all four of his limbs after a devastating brush with a deadly disease over twenty years ago. Coming as close to death as one ever can, he spent over 18 months in hospital, surviving a coma, life support and having to re-learn to walk using prosthetics. He then had to learn to navigate life with prosthetic hooks for hands. None of that stopped Tom. ...
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Douglas Murray on Democracies, Death Cults & Elizabethan England
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Douglas Murray is a journalist and bestselling author of 8 books, including: On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization (2025); The War on the West (2022); The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity(2019); and The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2018). He has been a contributor to The Spectator since 2000 and associate editor since 2012. He is a columnist at the New York Post and regularly writes for the Telegraph and the Sun. Mr. Murray is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City...
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Assita Kanko - Member of European Parliament
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I’ve been following, Assita Kanko, Member of European Parliament on social media for quite some time, so it was a true thrill to welcome her into the studio as our latest guest on The One Way Ticket Show. Ms. Kanko was born on July 14, 1980, in Godyr, Burkina Faso. She grew up in a society where women's rights were severely restricted and was subjected to female genital mutilation as a child. At a young age, she began writing about human rights and women's rights. In 2001, she moved to Belgium, where she eventually became a naturalized citizen. She studied journalism and political...
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Joshua Hammer – Journalist & Author
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On this episode, we welcome back to the program, journalist and author, Joshua Hammer who was our guest back on episode 112 in September 2016. Joshua’s career has included serving as Newsweek Bureau Chief in, Nairobi, Buenos Aires, LA, Berlin, Jerusalem and Cape Town. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, National Geographic and the Smithsonian just to name a few publications. He is a New York Times bestselling author of six books, including The Falcon Thief and The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (which we talked about in our last...
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Alberto Nicheli – Founder, TransAfrica
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Alberto Nicheli is the Founder of the travel operator, TransAfrica. For the last 40 years, Alberto, who was born in Italy, has made the West African nation of Togo his home. He knows Africa intimately, having done his first Trans-Sahara expedition in 1972 and having developed an expertise on West African tribes and art. Over the decades, he’s shared his knowledge with authors and filmmakers who want to better understand that part of the world. Our conversation with Alberto took place in a very lively New York City restaurant while he was in town for the Travel & Adventure Show. In...
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Madison Cox - Garden Designer
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Our latest guest on The One Way Ticket Show is world-renowned Garden Designer, Madison Cox. The interview was conducted in September 2024 in the Willis Pavilion, beside the house today known as Villa Oasis which was built by French Orientalist painter, Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s, and later owned by Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé. Adjacent to the home is the famed Majorelle Garden. Madison was born September 23, 1958, in Bellingham, Washington, and raised in San Francisco and Marin County, California. As a garden designer and author of books about gardens, he has traveled...
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Frédéric Sola - Founder and Owner of Fez’s Riad Laaroussa and Fez Real Estate
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On this episode of the podcast, we’re joined by Frédéric Sola, the founder and owner of Fez’s Riad Laaroussa and Fez Real Estate. In our conversation, Fred shares his one way ticket journey to mental health stability which manifested in Fez. He opens up about his own experience suffering from depression -- which began in his mid 30s amidst a successful career in finance in London and Paris – and how he has worked to live with and manage it all these years later. He went on to describe how he fell in love with Fez on his first visit in 2003, so much so, that he bought Riad Laaroussa...
info_outlineOur latest guest on The One Way Ticket Show is world-renowned Garden Designer, Madison Cox. The interview was conducted in September 2024 in the Willis Pavilion, beside the house today known as Villa Oasis which was built by French Orientalist painter, Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s, and later owned by Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé. Adjacent to the home is the famed Majorelle Garden.
Madison was born September 23, 1958, in Bellingham, Washington, and raised in San Francisco and Marin County, California. As a garden designer and author of books about gardens, he has traveled extensively across the United States and Europe as well as to Japan, China, Russia, India, North Africa, and Australia.
Madison’s passion for garden design has also extended to lecturing, leading garden tours in France and Italy, and book publications. He has lectured across the United States and Canada: at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as at the Portland Garden Club and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Madison Cox is the author of Private Gardens of Paris (Harmony Books, 1989), co-author of Gardens of the World (Macmillan, 1991), and with photographer Erica Lennard, of Artists' Gardens: from Claude Monet to Jennifer Bartlett (Abrams, 1993), and Majorelle: A Moroccan Oasis (Vendome Press, 1999). Cox wrote the preface for The Gardener’s Garden (Phaidon, 2014).
He was the first American to design a garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in London in 1997, and won a Silver-Gilt Medal.
Madison is a member of the following institutions:
- President, Fondation Pierre Berge – Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, France
- President, Foundation Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech, Morocco
- Co-Chairman of the American Schools of Tangier and Marrakech in Morocco
- Advisory Board Member, The Aangan Trust, Mumbai, India
- Patron, American Friends of Blérancourt, France
- Board of Directors TALIM (The American Legation in Morocco)
In our conversation, Madison shares his one way ticket destination of choice is to Morocco. His first visit to the country was in 1979. While he was a student in Paris, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé invited him as part of a small group down to Marrakech for a long weekend.
During our sit-down, Madison covers:
- The difference between Marrakech in the 1970s and today
- The nostalgia for Tangier (where Madison has a home)
- The rich backstory behind Villa Oasis and the Majorelle Garden
- Yves Saint Laurent’s love for Morocco (he first visited in 1966) and how the country significantly impacted his work
- The Pierre Bergé Museum of Berber Arts which is housed in the former painting studio of Jacques Majorelle, in the garden
- The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech
- How Morocco has impacted his own approach to designing gardens.
Plus, J. Paul Getty, Edith Wharton, Winston Churchill, FDR, and the photographer Horst, all make appearances in the interview.