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Adam Levin is a cyber security expert. Adam Levin links: https://adamlevin.com/what-the-hack/ https://open.spotify.com/show/5892yrlZCRK4B1Ns2v6zFP https://twitter.com/Adam_K_Levin Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm…
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120. Calvin Robinson on GB News & Woke Culture
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119. The Real Molly Bloom - Molly's Game
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118. The Parasitic Mind: Dr. Gad Saad
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Dr. Gad Saad believes woke culture is a parasite infecting our universities and all of academia. He was just on Joe Rogan once again, and is a Lebanese-Canadian evolutionary scientist, and is known for his appliance of evolutionary psychology to consumer behaviour. He discusses campus lunacy, cancel culture and collective Munchausen syndrome. Get h…
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117. The Psychology of Mass Shootings | Mark Follman
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Mark Follman's book ‘Trigger Points’ is all about the specialized teams of forensic psychologists, FBI agents, and other experts who are successfully stopping mass shootings. Mark Follman Links Trigger Points Book: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/trigger-points-mark-follman?variant=39402950131746 Mark Follman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/…
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116. Time to Disconnect: Emma Gannon
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Emma Gannon is a famous writer. You might know her from her amazing books the Multi-hyphen Life and Disconnected, and her podcast Ctrl Alt Delete. Emma Gannon links: https://www.emmagannon.co.uk/books Ctrl Alt Delete Podcast https://twitter.com/emmagannon Sign up to her newsletter! : https://thehyphen.substack.com/ Andrew Gold links: http://youtube…
Chad and Brad discuss Uncharted and Jackass Forever. With a bittersweet take, Chad pontificates on how the Internet’s shift from anarchy to sanitized corporate product mirrors the evolution of Jackass. Show Notes: Chad referred to Poopies as “Poopsie” during the show. He apologizes and will do better. Bam Margera in Jackass Forever: https://screenr…
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115. I became a far-right extremist | Lauren Manning
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Lauren Manning is a former far-right extremist who became a peace advocate and wrote a memoir called Walking Away from Hate. Lauren Manning links: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Walking-Away-Hate-Journey-Extremism/dp/199016000X Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more…
After hitting 1 million listens, and 5,000 YouTube subscribers, I decided to do a livestream Q&A. You can actually watch that back on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNs6q7xHqUU&list=PLwU7HOfuSL5KD5s9hGoPuyVzN_VwG4Yi_&index=1&ab_channel=OntheEdgewithAndrewGold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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114. Chris Hansen: To Catch a Predator
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Chris Hansen's show 'To Catch a Predator' was massive, and I used to sit and watch it with my brother as a teenager. It’s actually quite morose, really, but the concept is that Chris worked with police to catch…you guessed it, sexual predators. Chris Hansen links: https://www.instagram.com/officialchrishansen/?hl=es https://www.youtube.com/channel/…
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113. How to be happier alone: Francesca Specter
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Francesca Specter is the author of 'Alonement'. She helps people come to terms with being alone, and learn how to rock that alonement style, go to the cinema alone, to restaurants alone, and to feel confident and happy. Francesca Specter links: https://www.francescaspecter.co.uk https://www.instagram.com/chezspecter https://twitter.com/ChezSpecter …
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112. QAnon, Trump & the Pentecostal Church: Elle Hardy
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Elle has travelled the world writing her brilliant book Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World. Elle Hardy links: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Belief-Elle-Hardy/dp/1787385531 http://www.ellehardy.com https://twitter.com/ellehardy Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok ht…
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111. The Myth of Identity: David Swift
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David Swift takes a look at the myths created around our identities, and how we create stereotypes around them. Davis Swift links: Identity Myth Book https://twitter.com/davidswift87?lang=en Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Suscribe to the newsletter at http://week…
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110b. BITE SIZE: Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard
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110. Behavioral Analyst Rory Sutherland: Why we do what we do!
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Rory Sutherland is an expert in consumer behaviour, trends and online influence. Rory Sutherland links: https://twitter.com/rorysutherland https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/rory-sutherland Get Rory's new book clicking here! Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Suscrib…
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109. The language of 'brain-washing' in cults | Amanda Montell
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Amanda Montell is an American author and linguist, and she is here to talk about cults. Amanda Montell links: https://twitter.com/amandamontell?lang=es https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Amanda-Montell/dp/0062993151 http://amandamontell.com https://www.instagram.com/amanda_montell/?hl=es Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.c…
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108. Ex-Jehovah Lloyd Evans speaks out on bullies after sex worker controversy
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Lloyd is probably the biggest name in the Jehovah’s Witness world; to date, his YouTube channel the Lloyd Evans channel has more than 35 million views and over 100,000 subscribers. But he is currently mired in a controversy surrounding his extra-marital affairs and the employment of sex workers. Lloyd Evans links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC…
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107. What it was like as a middle-class liberal in prison: Chris Atkins
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Chris Atkins is a journalist who went to jail after taking part in some sort of illegal scheme to raise money for a documentary he was making. Chris Atkins links: https://twitter.com/scatatkins?lang=es https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Chris-Atkins/dp/183895015X https://open.spotify.com/show/2ZTvJeAeEzBumHkXRwZCPc Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/an…
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106b. BITESIZE EDGE: Living Forever: Dr. Andrew Steele
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Dr. Andrew Steele joined me for a brief chat about the breakthrough just made in the science of living forever. Get his book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0877C9L38/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 And watch the YouTube version on http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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106. Trans person Debbie Hayton joins the debate
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Debbie is a transgender British secondary school science teacher, journalist and political activist. Debbie Hayton links: https://debbiehayton.com https://twitter.com/DebbieHayton Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Suscribe to the newsletter at http://weeklyedge.subs…
Welcome to the podcast from a real-life Brad and Chad duo. Now, what the fuck happened to film? It really sucks. Show Notes: The Substack of Marxist writer Freddie deBoer that Chad is clearly a reader of: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com An example of woke praise for Nomadland that LITERALLY does not mention Amazon (Slate): https://slate.com/cult…
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105. Fighting Conspiracy Theorists & Fake News - Stephen Knight
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Stephen Knight is an online thought leader, I’d say a comedian too, who became known for his Twitter account GSpellchecker. Stephen Knight links: https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker https://www.youtube.com/user/GSpellchecker https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-godless-spellchecker-podcast/id780794967 Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrew…
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104. What North Korea is really like: Jean H Lee
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Jean H. Lee is an American journalist of South Korean descent who became the first American to set up a news agency in North Korea. She’ll tell me about how she crossed into the freezing, little-known countryside beyond the surveillance obsessed main city. Jean H Lee links: https://twitter.com/newsjean https://www.jhleemedia.com/bio Andrew Gold lin…
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103. Hostage: How drug-addled Somali pirates kidnapped me
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Colin Freeman is a British journalist and author who was kidnapped by Somali pirates. Colin Freeman links: https://twitter.com/colinfreeman99 Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice…
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103. Why Russia is really invading Ukraine: Colin Freeman live in Kyiv
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Colin Freeman is a British journalist and author who is currently covering the war in Ukraine. Colin Freeman links: https://twitter.com/colinfreeman99 Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm…
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102. You left us to the Taliban: Mustafa Kazemi
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Mustafa Kazemi is an Afghan war correspondent, paramedic and military officer who rose to prominence some years ago when he was pictures searching for a tourniquet in a moment when he was convinced he was about to be shot. He’ll tell that story, as well as the tales of the victims murdered at the hands of the Taliban. Mustafa Kazemi links: https://…
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101. I debate Communist Dr. Asatar Bair
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Dr. Asatar Bair is a Communist and Stalinist. He has written over 200 articles for the Boursen-Kourier, Austria’s oldest weekly financial newspaper. He has a Youtube channel with his lectures on economic theory. In addition to economics, Dr. Bair also teaches meditation and has served as the Executive Director of the Institute for Applied Meditatio…
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100. Ultimate Taboos: James Williams
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I’m pleased and a little apprehensive to bring you today’s episode on some of the darkest and most taboo topics on earth: namely, bestiality, cannibalism, necrophilia and incest. James Williams is an anthropologist and speaker who I found out about from Matt at Bristol Humanists. Contact James Williams at: cannibalskeptic@gmail.com. Andrew Gold lin…
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99. Katie Herzog: Culture Wars and Trans Ideology
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Katie Herzog is a culture writer and journalist known for her podcast Blocked and Reported, which she hosts with Jesse Singal. They talk about all sorts of culture war themes and bizarre, weird topics from the internet. Sign up for early access and bonus segments in the podcast: http://patreon.com/andrewgold Katie Herzog links: Blocked and Reported…
Late last night, March 9th 2022, I was afforded the unexpected opportunity to speak with veteran war journalist John Sweeney, who is based in Ukraine’s capital city of Kiev. What he described was heartbreaking. John Sweeney links: https://www.patreon.com/JohnSweeneyRoar https://twitter.com/johnsweeneyroar Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andre…
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97. Should we demolish offensive statues? Peter Hughes
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Dr. Peter Hughes discusses the merits of keeping statues - even ones we find most disagreeable - in place. Sign up for early access and bonus segments in the podcast: http://patreon.com/andrewgold Dr. Peter Hughes links: A History of Love & Hate in 21 Statues: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08SBYRLQD/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https…
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96. Kidnapped Twice + Should you start a podcast? Jordan Harbinger
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In today’s episode, Jordan Harbinger talks about his podcast, the Jordan Harbinger Show, which you can find in all the normal places, and is one of the biggest interview podcasts in the world. He gives advice as to whether or not you should get into podcasting, so listen keenly if you’re interested. Then, we move on to his two kidnapping experience…
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95. David Baddiel: Comedy & Anti-Semitism
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David Baddiel joins us to talk about comedy, anti-semitism and scatological humour. David Baddiel links: Jews Don't Count: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Untitled-David-Baddiel/dp/0008399476 https://twitter.com/Baddiel Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://andrewgoldpo…
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94. CENSORED: Young Adult Books - Kat Rosenfield
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Kat Rosenfield is an acclaimed author of young adult and adult fiction who also writes about the culture wars, politics and all sorts of on-point and contentious societal issues. Sign up on Apple Podcasts or http://patreon.com/andrewgold for the bonus bits. Kat Rosenfield No One Will Miss Her book: https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Will-Miss-Her/dp/006…
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93. Infiltrating true crime underworlds - Sean Williams
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Have you ever wanted to know about West Africa’s cocaine empire, how meth infiltrated a New Zealand biker gang, or the gangs controlling Haiti? Taking us along with him on a deadly and thrilling voyage to the world’s most dangerous underworlds of organised crime is journalist Sean Williams. Sign up on Apple Podcasts or http://patreon.com/andrewgold…
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92: What I heard spying on phone calls - Jordan Harbinger
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Jordan Harbinger is not only one of the world’s leading podcasters, but he’s also one of our best anecdotalists. In this podcast, he regals us with so many fascinating stories that I’ve split it into two separate episodes, each with a bonus episode for the patrons and Apple subscribers among you. Sign up on Apple Podcasts or http://patreon.com/andr…
It’s Amanda Knox. You might – particularly if you’re in Britain or Italy – know her as the murderous femme fatale who was imprisoned for killing her English flatmate Meredith Kercher in a sex game while studying abroad in Italy. You might know her – if you’ve spent time researching the case – as the subject of one of the most egregious and explosiv…
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90: Jon Ronson: Culture Wars, Public Shaming & Social Media
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Jon Ronson talks to me about cancel culture, public shaming and Louis Theroux. Jon is also known for writing The Psychopath Test and So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, a book about the way we publicly humiliate others for minor transgressions. There’s a lot of discourse about that today, but Jon was ahead of the curve when that book came out in 2015. …
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89: Richard Dawkins (+ Paul Bloom and Shaun Attwood)
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Richard Dawkins is one of the biggest names in science. His The God Delusion, which contends that a supernatural deity does not exist, flipped the world upside down in 2006 when it came out, bringing both science and atheism into the mainstream. I interview him today alongside former ecstasy mob boss Shaun Attwood, before a free bonus section with …
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88: David Robson and the Expectation Effect
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Award-winning science writer David Robson's work has appeared in the Guardian, the Atlantic, Aeon and many many others. He was features editor at New Scientist for five years, before working as a senior journalist at BBC Future. His book, The Expectation Effect, is a vivid trip into the fallacies and complexities of the human psyche. Our expectatio…
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87: End of Year Review: On the Edge with 2021
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I've been spending a lot of time on my own recently, while my girlfriend has been away and I've been working on the podcast. Don't worry, I'm perfectly happy, and I'm off to Argentina soon for a holiday. But it made me wonder about the folk out there - listeners of this show - who might be feeling a little lonesome right now (especially amid all th…
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87: Prof. Carl Zimmer - What It Means to be 'Alive'
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Popular science writer, journalist and Yale University Professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Carl Zimmer is joining me to finally answer the late Beatle George Harrison's question: what is life. Sign up on Apple Podcasts or http://patreon.com/andrewgold for the bonus bits. Prof. Carl Zimmer links: http://carlzimmer.com https://twitter.…
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86: Do animals get drunk and high? - Oné Pagán
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Have you ever wondered if your furry friend might be partial to a beer or two? Did you know that koalas smoked pipes and dolphins get high on pufferfish? Here to tell us all about the weird and wonderful world of intoxicated animals and humans too is Oné Pagan, a university professor and researcher with a PHD in Pharmacology with an emphasis on Neu…
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85: Lonely, Sexless Men (Incels) - William Costello
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William Costello is a writer and an academic in the field of Evolutionary Psychology who has specialised in incel culture and things like beauty and attraction. He's also a lovely, charming man, a great laugh and really informative. Sign up on Apple Podcasts or http://patreon.com/andrewgold for the half-hour bonus chat. Like how the episode sounded…
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84: Why people become terrorists: Nafees Hamid
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Nafees Hamid talks about what makes people into terrorists and other forms of extremists…and how we might be able to persuade them or talk them down. He is a research fellow at ARTIS International, an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, and a Frederick Bonnart-Braunthal Trust scholar in the University Col…
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83: NXIVM Sex-Trafficking Cult Survivor Kelly Thiel
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Kelly Thiel was once a member of the notorious NXIVM cult. For those of you who – like me – don’t or didn’t know much about this sect, you’re in for a bit of a shock – not least in how that bunch of capital letters are supposed to be pronounced. But I’ll let Kelly explain that part. The cult was on the surface a multi-level marketing group that had…