heretics.
What makes you a heretic? Journalist Andrew Gold talks to everyone from cult defectors and politicians to mainstream celebrities—people who’ve challenged the expected script and lived with the consequences.Guests include Robbie Williams, Chris Packham, David Baddiel, Richard Dawkins, Bonnie Blue, and former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.
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100. Ultimate Taboos: James Williams
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99. Katie Herzog: Culture Wars and Trans Ideology
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98. Live from Kyiv: John Sweeney
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97. Should we demolish offensive statues? Peter Hughes
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96. Kidnapped Twice + Should you start a podcast? Jordan Harbinger
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95. David Baddiel: Comedy & Anti-Semitism
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94. CENSORED: Young Adult Books - Kat Rosenfield
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93. Infiltrating true crime underworlds - Sean Williams
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92: What I heard spying on phone calls - Jordan Harbinger
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91: True crime: Amanda Knox
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90: Jon Ronson: Culture Wars, Public Shaming & Social Media
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89: Richard Dawkins (+ Paul Bloom and Shaun Attwood)
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88: David Robson and the Expectation Effect
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87: End of Year Review: On the Edge with 2021
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87: Prof. Carl Zimmer - What It Means to be 'Alive'
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86: Do animals get drunk and high? - Oné Pagán
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85: Lonely, Sexless Men (Incels) - William Costello
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84: Why people become terrorists: Nafees Hamid
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83: NXIVM Sex-Trafficking Cult Survivor Kelly Thiel
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82: I lived in an airport for 7 months: Hassan Al Kontar
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81: Why we like to suffer - Prof. Paul Bloom
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80: Guantanamo's Most Tortured Prisoner: Mohamedou Ould Salahi
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77: True Crime 1: Anders Breivik
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78: True Crime 2: Swedish Killer Twin Sisters
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79: True Crime 3: The Broadmoor Cannibal
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76: Why you're hung larger than a gorilla - Dr. Chris Ryan
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76: How our ancestors REALLY had sex - Dr. Chris Ryan
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75: Virtue Signalling, Courage & Death: Julian Baggini (Philosopher)
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74: Black Widow: 'Prison with Myra Hindley for murder I didn't do'
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73: Our dead loved ones are still out there in spacetime - astronomer Colin Stua...
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72: Do genes and eugenics cause inequality?: Dr. Paige Harden
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71: Inside the Criminal Mind: Dr. Sohom Das
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70: Love Island to Interviewing Jordan Peterson - Chris Williamson
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69: Surviving deadliest prison: ex-crime boss Shaun Attwood
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68: Will Storr: Why virtue signalling & dominance are part of our status game
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67: How to have better arguments: Ian Leslie
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66: Stabbed by a kebab skewer: Forensic Psychologist Kerry Daynes
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65: What it's really like inside scientology: Chris Shelton
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66: John McWhorter - FREE Bonus Episode!
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64: Inside The World's Strictest School: Katharine Birbalsingh, Headmistress
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63: Ex-Scientologist Jon Atack exposes the cult
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62: My face blindness, memory loss...and Memento: Thomas Leeds
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61: Neuroscientist who found out he's a psychopath: Dr. James Fallon
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60: The Woman Who Walked The World: Angela Maxwell
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59: John McWhorter: F**k, s**t, c**t and the truly unspeakable
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58: Working undercover in Amazon warehouse - James Bloodworth
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57: Make all drugs legal & abolish prisons: Chris Daw QC
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56: 'I survived football paedo Bennell to become top cop'
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55: I lost my arm in movie stunt gone wrong: Olivia Jackson
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54: Saving Bletchley Park: Computer Scientist Dr. Sue Black
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