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Aug 8, 2023 • 1h 53min

Taking Out the Cash

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic, episode 49! This week: -Natwest go cashless, with the bizarre promise that ‘Tomorrow begins today’ -Ne-Yo makes a standard woke apology, then completely retracts it, while Jamie Foxx issues his own apology, with Nick and Toby disagreeing on the nature of his transgression -Trump is indicted (again). Can he become Pres from prison? -Megan Rapinoe skies a penalty, and the non-woke world rejoices -Marianna Spring is victimised by 80% of the British public for her tireless reporting of disinformation -Elon Musk launches a potentially very expensive legal war on cancel culture and of course, Peak Woke! Sponsored by: Thor Holt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt  Tel: 07906 321593 To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world, drop Nick or Toby a line: thedailysceptic@gmail.com  Donate to the Daily Sceptic here: https://dailysceptic.org/donate  Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – by going here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905  Subscribe to Nick’s Substack here: https://nickdixon.substack.com  And if you are really awesome, you can buy Nick a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon  Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella
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Aug 1, 2023 • 1h 54min

Costa Going Woke

Welcome to episode 48 of the Weekly Sceptic! This week: - Costa Coffee’s insane advert depicting a double mastectomy - Andrew Neil goes full TERF - Rishi Sunak goes full climate denier - Gina Miller is de-banked - Andrew Tate almost apologises for his past in an interview with Candace Owens  -Elon Musk weighs in on a very controversial topic Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke! Sponsored by: Thor Holt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt (tel: 07906 321593)  To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world drop Nick or Toby a line: thedailysceptic@gmail.com You can listen to the podcast here: https://weeklysceptic.podbean.com Subscribe on iTunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-sceptic/id1635411099 Subscribe to Nick’s Substack. (https://nickdixon.substack.com/)  Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – by going here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905 And if you are really cool, you can buy Nick a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella
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Jul 26, 2023 • 1h 49min

Silly Old Coutts

Welcome to episode 47 of the Weekly Sceptic! This week: Farage enjoys a complete victory over NatWest  Barbie undergoes a thorough examination and is found to be infected by the woke mind virus  Sadiq Khan’s “Maaate” campaign reveals just how little he cares about doing anything to protect women and girls  Meghan Markle’s narcissism spills over into sitcom territory  Labour‘s newly-elected 25 year-old MP enlists the help of his mum to demonstrate he’s not a mummy’s boy  Nick and Toby puzzle over Twitter’s X rebrand  Plus the usual madness that is ‘Peak Woke’.  Sponsored by: Thor Holt  (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt/ ) (tel: 07906 321593)  The Stack Assistant (thestackassistant@pm.me)  To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world drop Nick or Toby a line: thedailysceptic@gmail.com  You can listen to the podcast here (https://weeklysceptic.podbean.com/) and subscribe on iTunes here (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-sceptic/id1635411099).  Subscribe to Nick’s Substack. (https://nickdixon.substack.com/)  Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – by going here (https://currentthingpod.podbean.com/) And if you are really awesome, you can buy Nick a coffee here! (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon) Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella (http://tinderella.info/)  
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Jul 18, 2023 • 1h 37min

Decline of the West (End)

Welcome to episode 46 of the Weekly Sceptic! This week: -Hypocrisy abounds in the Huw Edwards scandal -Stop Funding Hate turn out to be quite hateful, as they are accused of antisemitism -A Conservative councillor is suspended for saying Pride is a sin -London’s famous Trocadero is set to be turned into a mosque  -Andrew Tate is attacked by conservative commentators  -Nick and Toby invent a new digital currency called ‘Britcoin’  Plus the usual madness that is ‘Peak Woke’  Sponsored by: Thor Holt: http://LinkedIn.com/in/thorholt  07906 321593  Stack Assistant: thestackassistant@pm.me   To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world drop Nick or Toby a line on: thedailysceptic@gmail.com   Please go to https://dailysceptic.org and make a donation so we can continue to bring you all this high quality content.  Subscribe to Nick’s podcast – the Current Thing – by going here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905  https://open.spotify.com/show/3AMjSzTSQvkiQMaxrqJ8YQ?si=b603a4e066294449  https://currentthingpod.podbean.com 
 Subscribe to Nick’s Substack here: http://nickdixon.substack.com  And if you are really awesome, you can buy Nick a coffee here!
 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon  Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella
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Jul 12, 2023 • 1h 36min

Huw Dunnit

Welcome to episode 45 of the Weekly Sceptic! This week:  -Another BBC presenter gets into a rather sordid pickle -Grind pulls all advertising money from GB News -The CPS says not paying for your partner to transition could be domestic abuse(!) -‘Sarah Jane Baker’ tells people to punch TERFs in the face -Will Joe Biden stand? Indeed, can he even stand anymore? And will Gavin Newsom take his place? -Are Harry and Meghan getting a divorce? -Tucker Carlson talks to the Top G -The Archbishop of York tries to cancel the Lord’s Prayer -‘Miss Netherlands’ is now a bloke and more! Sponsored by: Live in Care Company: theliveincarecompany.co.uk 0118 914 5300  Thor Holt: LinkedIn.com/in/thorholt 07906 321593  Stack Assistant:
 thestackassistant@pm.me  To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world drop Nick or Toby a line on: thedailysceptic@gmail.com  Please go to https://dailysceptic.org and make a donation so we can continue to bring you all this high quality content.  Subscribe to Nick’s podcast – the Current Thing – by going here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905 https://open.spotify.com/show/3AMjSzTSQvkiQMaxrqJ8YQ?si=b603a4e066294449 https://currentthingpod.podbean.com 
 Subscribe to Nick’s Substack here: nickdixon.substack.com  Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella
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Jul 4, 2023 • 2h 20min

Absolute Bankers

Welcome to episode 44 of the Weekly Sceptic, and it’s our longest episode yet! This week:  Nigel Farage is de-banked by Coutts – and not because he had insufficient funds in his account!    Bank of England captured by Stonewall. Will it now de-bank the entire country for not being pro-trans enough? Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg is investigated by Ofcom for reading the news Who’s take on the French riots is better? The populist Right or the woke Left? Katharine Birbalsingh fights back against Jess Phillips Maya Forstater passes Go and collects £100,000 Caitlin Moran has a cure for the male identity crisis – make them more like women In Peak Woke, the boys discuss the RNLI sending white men on a ‘diversity course’,  the police not being allowed to wear a badge commemorating fallen comrades on a Pride march and Colonel Dr Kelvin Wright being forced out of the Army Reserve for defending women’s rights Sponsored by:  The Stack Assistant Thor Holt (LinkedIn.com/in/thorholt) To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world – or if you have a question for Dr. Peterson – drop Nick or Toby a line. You can listen to the podcast here and subscribe on iTunes here. Subscribe to Nick’s Substack. Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – by going here (Apple, Spotify). Sharron Davis book launch. Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella
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Jun 27, 2023 • 2h 14min

TERF Island

Welcome to episode 43 of the Weekly Sceptic, and it's a special extended episode! This week:  – Prigozhin mounts a coup against Putin – but is it all misdirection?   – Culture warriors waste no time in exploiting the Titanic submersible tragedy to score cheap political points  – News leaks out that Taylor Swift declined an invitation to appear on Meghan’s Spotify  podcast and super-agent Jeremy Zimmer brands her ‘talentless’  – Theresa May attended a ‘socially distanced party’ during lockdown  – Conservative mayoral election candidate Daniel Korski is MeTood  – Lewis Schaffer triggers the censors on Headliners by denying Covid exists  – Byline Times gaslights conservatives over cat-girl incident at Rye College  – In Birdwatch, the boys discuss Davina McCall and Judy Murray outing themselves as Terfs and imagine a Disney ride called ‘Terf Island’  – In Peak Woke, Nick puzzles over why ‘knacker’ is a racial slur and Toby rails against the Irish Hate Crime Bill  Sponsored by: Live in Care Company: theliveincarecompany.co.uk 0118 914 5300  Stack Assistant: thestackassistant@pm.me  To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world – or if you have a question for Dr Peterson – drop Nick or Toby a line on thedailysceptic@gmail.com  Please go to https://dailysceptic.org and make a donation so we can continue to bring you all this high quality content.  Subscribe to Nick’s podcast – the Current Thing – by going here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905 https://open.spotify.com/show/3AMjSzTSQvkiQMaxrqJ8YQ?si=b603a4e066294449 https://currentthingpod.podbean.com  Subscribe to Nick’s Substack here: nickdixon.substack.com  Sharon Davis book launch tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-ticket-for-unfair- play-sharron-davies-book-launch-tickets-635317661227  Produced by Jason Clift  Music by Tinderella 
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Jun 20, 2023 • 1h 55min

Top G at Rock Bottom

Welcome to episode 42 of The Weekly Sceptic, and it's an absolute banger! This week: -Andrew Tate is charged (then, in a strictly unrelated incident, follows Nick on Twitter) -Spotify ditch 'grifter' Meghan Markle  -Howard from Take That is cancelled for believing in biology -Joe Biden malfunctions again -UK customers boycott Wickes for going 'full Bud Light' -Laurence Fox burns a pride flag and gets reported for 'hate speech' -Joe Rogan offers $100,000 to Peter Hotez to debate Covid vaccines with RJK Jr -And a bumper edition of Peak Woke! Sponsored by: Stack Assistant: thestackassistant@pm.me To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world – or if you have a question for Dr Peterson – drop Nick or Toby a line on thedailysceptic@gmail.com Please go to https://dailysceptic.org and make a donation so we can continue to bring you all this high quality content.  Subscribe to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – by going here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905 https://open.spotify.com/show/3AMjSzTSQvkiQMaxrqJ8YQ?si=b603a4e066294449 https://currentthingpod.podbean.com Subscribe to Nick’s Substack here: nickdixon.substack.com  Sharon Davis book launch: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-ticket-for-unfair-play-sharron-davies-book-launch-tickets-635317661227 Produced by Jason Clift.   Music by Tinderella. 
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Jun 13, 2023 • 1h 42min

Boris GONE-son

Welcome to episode 41 of The Weekly Sceptic! This week Nick and Toby discuss: -Boris Johnson stepping down -Trump's indictment and whether he might go to jail (and if so, could he pardon himself?) -Nicola's Sturgeon's arrest -The BBC's disinformation campaign, and why the establishment insists on creating false narratives that we are all compelled to follow -Jordan Peterson's strange backing of Mike Pence  And loads more! Sponsored by: Stack Assistant: thestackassistant@pm.me Live in Care Company: http://www.theliveincarecompany.co.uk and 0118 914 5300 To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world – or if you have a question for Dr Peterson – drop Nick or Toby a line on thedailysceptic@gmail.com Please go to https://dailysceptic.org/ and make a donation so we can continue to bring you all this high quality content.  Subscribe to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – by going here: https://currentthingpod.podbean.com Subscribe to Nick’s Substack here: nickdixon.substack.com  Produced by Jason Clift.   Music by Tinderella. 
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Jun 6, 2023 • 2h 18min

Top G vs BBC

Welcome to episode 40 of the Weekly Sceptic! And it's an epic one, as Nick and Toby discuss: -Holly Willoughby's bizarre monologue about Phillip Schofield -Andrew Tate's confrontation with the BBC -Mizzy's appearance on Newsnight -Prince Harry's appearance in court -The revelations about a dystopian Lockdown 'Counter-Disinformation Unit' -The literal and metaphorical fall of Joe Biden -Robert Kennedy Jr's presidential campaign -Elon Musk sacrificing half of Twitter's revenue to remain a free speech platform -The strange censorship of the 'What Is a Woman?' documentary on Twitter -And, of course, Peak Woke, which this week includes Oxfam's insane 'Pride' advert, and the RAF's attack on 'useless white males'. You will not find any of the latter on this podcast, we can assure you.  Sponsored by: Stack Assistant: thestackassistant@pm.me To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world – or if you have a question for Dr Peterson – drop Nick or Toby a line on thedailysceptic@gmail.com Please go to https://dailysceptic.org/ and make a donation so we can continue to bring you all this high quality content.  Subscribe to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – by going here: https://currentthingpod.podbean.com Subscribe to Nick’s Substack here: nickdixon.substack.com  Produced by Jason Clift.   Music by Tinderella. 

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