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Jan 10, 2023 • 1h 23min

Harry’s Tallies

In this week’s episode, Toby and Nick discuss Nick making it into the once great and edgy, but now ‘mouthpiece of the establishment’, Private Eye, how comedy has been captured by identity politics and how GB News is perceived by the wokies (who never actually watch it). Alistair Campbell attacks Toby for being white and not Trans (while at the same time outing himself as not in step with the LGBT lobby), Nick discusses his genius peanut allergy analogy and Toby discusses how Nicola Sturgeon is spending what remains of her political capitol trying to win the miniscule Trans vote. Toby rallies behind victims of ‘shy bladder syndrome’ and Nick announces that controversialist Andrew Tate actually has ‘aggressive bladder syndrome’, judging by how unconcerned he was when Nick observed him peeing at GB News. Also this week, the great Dr Jordan Peterson is accused of wrongthink by the College of Psychologists of Ontario – who have summoned him to attend a Maoist political reprogramming session (to be paid for by Peterson!) and Nick accidentally establishes Canada’s branch of the Free Speech Union. This week’s first sponsor is Thor Holt and you can find him here: https://www.thorholt.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt/ or on his telegram channel at @thor_holt  Nick and Toby chat about the latest news on Andrew Tate and the moral panic he has caused in schools, how the media and the court of public opinion presumes guilt rather than innocence and the boys puzzle over Andrew Tate’s conversion to Islam. Harry’s been in the news (in case you missed it) and Nick and Toby discuss whether Jeremy Clarkson may have written ‘Spare’, Mr Markle’s plummeting popularity and whether the publisher may have been attempting to sex up an otherwise dull read with a frozen todger story here and a Taliban body count story there… In a shorter than usual Birdwatch, the boys discuss the most recent tranche of dissidents freed from Twitter jail and the latest revelations from the Twitter files. This week’s second sponsor is Dan Gaskin at Crest Mortgages: https://www.crestmortgages.co.uk/ 0116 5023 000 Nick is joined, once again, by Will Jones in a round-up of this week’s pick of the crop from the Daily Sceptic. And, of course… Peak Woke! To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world, drop 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. Nick’s substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com/ Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella
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Jan 3, 2023 • 1h 25min

Tate Speech

Happy New Year! Nick and Toby discuss their new year’s resolutions (Toby to drink less, Nick to drink more, Toby and Nick to lose weight and Nick to start boxing). Andrew Tate makes another major appearance in the news (and in this week’s episode) in a new section called ‘The Top G Spot’ and the boys talk about the myriad of theories surrounding Tate’s arrest in Romania and the predictable reaction of the left leaning mob. This week's first sponsor is Thor Holt and you can find him here: https://www.thorholt.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt/ or on his telegram channel at @thor_holt  Toby and Nick discuss Carl Benjamin and Peter Hitchens’ twitter spat in ‘Birdwatch’, Nick floats off in a ‘what if’ hypothetical flight of fancy and they discuss whether apologies work with the left. And Jordan Peterson even wades in to the discussion to try and make peace! This week’s second sponsor is Dan Gaskin at Crest Mortgages: https://www.crestmortgages.co.uk/ 0116 5023 000 And lastly – the boys fight for this week's Peak Woke crown.. To advertise here, on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world, drop 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. Nick’s substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com/ Free Speech Union’s Writers’ Advisory Council: https://freespeechunion.org/writers-advisory-council/ Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella
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Dec 27, 2022 • 1h 18min

A Christmas Cracker

In this, the last Weekly Sceptic episode of the year, Nick and Toby run through their Christmas experiences, Charles’ lacklustre multicultural King’s speech, Rishi’s awkward homeless PR flop and Scotland’s (and the UK’s) gender recognition bill.  The boys discuss the arrest of a woman praying in a ‘public space buffer zone’ and whether this law may be extended nationally.  Toby and Nick discuss the covid Twitter files in this week’s edition of Birdwatch, how Martin Kulldorff’s peer review citing tweets were suppressed by Twitter, how Twitter was happy to follow various governments bidding to suppress bona fide medical debate and how that suppression of debate may actually have caused harm.  Nick and Toby discuss their professional and personal highs and lows of 2022 and, of course, they contest this week’s title of ‘Peak Woke’.  Please go to https://dailysceptic.org/ and make a donation so we can continue to bring you all this high quality content. This week's sponsor is Thor Holt and you can find him here: https://www.thorholt.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt/  or on his telegram channel at @thor_holt  Nick’s substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com/ Free Speech Union’s Writers’ Advisory Council: https://freespeechunion.org/writers-advisory-council/  Produced by Jason Clift  Music by Tinderella 
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Dec 20, 2022 • 1h 26min

Clarkson’s Walk of Shame

Nick and Toby discuss the Jeremy Clarkson pile on by brave and virtuous celebrities, comedians (apparatchiks?) and politicians, Chris Packham’s desire to jail people whose jokes he doesn’t like and how you must never, ever apologise to the mob… They talk about the ongoing soap opera that is Twitter in ‘Birdwatch’, the BBC’s reaction to Oxford’s ‘traffic calming’ measures, commissar Gary Neville’s continuing hypocrisy and his ham fisted comparison of NHS nurses to the plight of Qatari labourers, how families get in the way of sports tv, Mbappé’s hilarious snubbing of Macron and whether the world cup was, in fact, rigged… Nick is joined again by The Daily Sceptic’s editor, Will Jones, to discuss this week’s featured stories. Nick talks about meeting the internet’s most cancelled man, Andrew Tate – and almost fails to mention his (Nick’s) meeting Will Smith when scriptwriting in Hollywood. Toby and Nick also talk about Nick’s UnHerd debate and his subsequent rising profile as a public intellectual! And once again, the boys compete for this week’s venerated title of ‘Peak Woke’ Please go to https://dailysceptic.org/ and make a donation so we can keep bringing you all this high quality content. This week's sponsor is Thor Holt and you can find him here: https://www.thorholt.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt/  or on his telegram channel at @thor_holt  Nick’s substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com/ Free Speech Union’s Writers’ Advisory Council: https://freespeechunion.org/writers-advisory-council/ Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella
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Dec 13, 2022 • 1h 27min

Musk vs The Regime

Toby and Nick chat about Meghan and the whipped Harry’s new Netflix documentary and how unsympathetically she comes across, how long planned this project has been in the planning and how much their life is a woke victim parody of itself. We revisit a new(ish) segment discussing all the juicy Twitter Files revelations – called ‘Birdwatch’: how a power hungry group of authoritarian nerds censored Trump, how Elon ignored the obvious choice of Toby to release the documents to – and why the mainstream news outlets have ignored this massive story. And we discuss what an Otter might be in LGBT circles… Nick and Toby debate at length whether mainstream journalists are now beyond hope, reason or salvation and can ever be trusted to be objective or truthful with big stories like Twitter. They talk about how incredibly important this debate is on our side of the fence – referring to a piece in the National Review about Toby’s similar discussions with James Delingpole in London Calling and how open dialogue and freedom of expression sets the better tone. Nick is joined again this week by The Daily Sceptic’s editor, Will Jones, to discuss this week’s featured stories. And after a brief football match post mortem, Toby and Nick go head to head for the coveted title of ‘Peak Woke’ Please go to https://dailysceptic.org/ and make a donation so we can keep bringing you all this high quality content. This week's sponsor is Thor Holt and you can find him here: https://www.thorholt.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt/  or on his telegram channel at @thor_holt  Nick’s substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com/ Free Speech Union Comedy Night: https://freespeechunion.org/events/ Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella
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Dec 6, 2022 • 1h 17min

Globalists 1-0 England

Nick and Toby discuss whether (Kan)Ye West is mentally imploding, destroying the system or creating performance art. They also debate whether Ye praising Hitler is better or worse than Diane Abbott praising Chairman Mao… They talk about the limits of free speech, whether Dinosaurs are real and Twitter colluding with the Democrats to stifle the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. And of course Trump’s reaction to the Twitter bombshells (and the inevitable left wing meltdown)… Toby and Nick talk about Meghan and Harry’s Netflix release timing, Charles’s reported fondness for B.O. and the Dixon family’s intolerance of Whisky. They debate the shifting demographics of the UK and whether mass migration has been a success compared to the rest of Europe. Nick is joined by The DailySceptic’s editor, Will Jones, to discuss this week’s featured stories. And, of course, Toby and Nick battle again for the title of this week’s ‘Peak Woke’ Please go to https://dailysceptic.org/ and make a donation so we can keep bringing you all this high quality content. This week's sponsor is Thor Holt and you can find him here: https://www.thorholt.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt/  or on his telegram channel at @thor_holt  Nick’s substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com/ Free Speech Union Comedy Night: https://freespeechunion.org/events/ Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella
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Nov 29, 2022 • 39min

Was Jesus Trans?

This week: a wokester’s thanksgiving from hell as (Kan)ye brings Milo Yiannopoulos and Nick Fuentes to meet Donald Trump. Elon Musk’s Twitter amnesty (with the Free Speech Union taking full credit) and his war with Apple. Woke maniacs claim Jesus may have been trans. The Balenciaga scandal continues, as Kim Kardashian sits on the fence. Plus, the week’s top stories with Will Jones, and of course Toby and Nick decide who will wear this week’s crown of ‘Peak Woke’. Please go to https://dailysceptic.org/ and make a donation so we can keep bringing you all this high quality content. Nick’s substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com/ Free Speech Union Comedy Night: https://freespeechunion.org/events/ Produced by Jason Clift Music by Tinderella
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Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 6min

The World Cup of Virtue Signalling

Toby and Nick speak about FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino’s idiotic view on colonialism, Qatar’s hair trigger defensiveness, our knee taking England team’s ‘OneLove’ armband climbdown, the bravery of the Iranian team and David Baddiel’s blackface apology. They also discuss the Donald being reinstated to Twitter (yet choosing not to return), the inevitable blue tick meltdown, the other returning Twitter dissidents and whether Elon Musk is a benign dictator.  The DailySceptic’s editor, Will Jones, joins Nick to run through this week’s featured stories.  And lastly Nick and Toby wrestle (figuratively) for this week’s weekly crown of ‘Peak Woke’.  Please go to https://dailysceptic.org/ and make a donation so we can keep bringing you all this high quality content.  This week's sponsor is Thor Holt and you can find him here: https://www.thorholt.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt/  or on his telegram channel at @thor_holt  Nick’s substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com/ Free Speech Union Comedy Night: https://freespeechunion.org/events/ Produced by Jason Clift  Music by Tinderella 
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Nov 15, 2022 • 1h 3min

Can DeSantis Top Trump?

Toby and Nick are back this week to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Trump and DeSantis, Dominic Raab’s tomato hurling, government officials not being able to cope with hurty feelings, FTX and laundering allegations, advertising agencies threatening twitter and how GB News could shield themselves from ideological sabotage/lobbying.  They speak about Dave Chappelle’s SNL controversy, how comedians have become incredibly important again, how uninspiring international football tournaments have become and how unbelievably hypocritical the current crop of prominent England football virtue signallers are being, by agreeing to take a repressive regime like Qatar’s money.  Nick is joined by DailySceptic’s editor, Will Jones, to discuss the past week’s most interesting stories. And of course, this week’s hotly contested crown of Peak Woke goes to… Well, you’ll have to listen to find out…  Please go to https://dailysceptic.org/ and make a donation so we can keep bringing you all this high quality content.  This week's sponsor is Thor Holt and you can find him here: https://www.thorholt.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt/  or on his telegram channel at @thor­_holt  Nick’s substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com/ Produced by Jason Clift  Music by Tinderella   
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Nov 8, 2022 • 59min

Sharm El-Sheikh Down

This week, Nick chats with Toby (threat to the Chinese Communist Party and ‘Destroyer of Britain’) about how awful ‘I’m a Celebrity’ is, the decline of Ant and Dec, the disappointing absence of Matt Hancock, Boy George’s colourful past and Nick’s amazing reality show idea: ‘Culture Wars’.  They also discuss Gary Neville’s dim-witted defence of his pathetic lack of principles, Rishi’s U Turn on attending Cop27, Britain being asked to pay reparations for post industrialisation climate change damage and Boris’s pitiful response.  Birthday boy Nick is joined by the Daily Sceptic’s editor, Will Jones to cover the recent week’s most interesting stories.  Toby and Nick then talk about yet another Christian falling foul of the inclusive Lib Dems, how Christians who espouse orthodox beliefs are treated as mad by the Church of England, the ongoing Elon-Twitter saga, dark money pressure on advertisers, how business should never attempt to appease the leftist mob …and this week’s contenders for Peak Woke!  Please go to https://dailysceptic.org/ and make a donation so we can keep bringing you all this high quality content.  This week's sponsor is Thor Holt and you can find him here: https://www.thorholt.com/ or on his telegram channel at @thor­_holt  Nick’s substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com/ Produced by Jason Clift  Music by Tinderella 

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