

heretics.
Andrew Gold
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.
Guests include Robbie Williams, Chris Packham, David Baddiel, Richard Dawkins, Bonnie Blue, and former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.
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Oct 2, 2022 • 1h 9min
178. The sniper with PTSD & the longest kill
Craig Harrison holds the record for the longest sniper kill, when he took out two machine gunners who were about to kill the rest of his team. Craig talks about how his life was put in danger when his identity was revealed by the press, and raises awareness about PTSD, which he suffers from.Craig Harrison links:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Longest-Kill-Maverick-Greatest-Snipers/dp/1447286367https://www.instagram.com/cohcraigharrison/Andrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 30, 2022 • 36min
177. The Chris Watts Family Murders
Dr. Sohom Das is a forensic psychiatrist and the creator of the YouTube channel 'A Psych For Sore Minds'. For today’s episode, Sohom is talking about one of the most gruesome and newsworthy stories of the past couple of years, the Watts family murders.Dr Sohom Das links:https://twitter.com/Dr_S_Dashttps://www.youtube.com/c/APsychForSoreMindsAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 28, 2022 • 1h 19min
176. The Professor Rebelling Against Group-Think
Todd Kashdan is a professor of Psychology at the George Mason university, where he is also the director for the well-being lab. But Todd has also written some super popular and acclaimed books, including the Upside to your Dark, and the Power of Negative Emotion. Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wrenwill plant 10 extra trees in your name!Todd Kashdan links:GET TODD'S BOOK: The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Insubordination-Dissent-Defy-Effectively-ebook/dp/B091282KPMTAKE HIS QUIZ:https://toddkashdan.com/insubordination-quiz/https://toddkashdan.comhttps://twitter.com/toddkashdanhttps://toddkashdan.substack.com/aboutAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 25, 2022 • 1h 15min
175. A Woman's Guide to Flirting
Kezia Noble is one of the top dating gurus, perhaps even the world’s leading female dating and attraction expert. She helps men build up the confidence to approach women, and then to think of stuff to say in the subsequent conversation.Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wrenwill plant 10 extra trees in your name!Kezia Noble links:Kezia-noble.comhttps://twitter.com/kezia_nobleAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 23, 2022 • 47min
174. The Crimes of King Charles III
Norman Baker is a liberal democrat politician, and former Minister of State at the Home Office. He’s also an expert on the royal family, and has several gripes, including complaints he has made about the new King Charles III to the police. This episode is from my weekly Shaun Attwood or Attwood Unleashed live stream, we’re on Wednesday nights from 6pm to 10pm UK time, it’s a four hour show, so do go check that out, thanks to producer Ash Meikle for organising it all.Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wrenwill plant 10 extra trees in your name!Norman Baker links:https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Do-You-Royal-Family-ebook/dp/B07RN38QC5Andrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 21, 2022 • 1h 1min
173. Shamima Beghum: Terrorist or Victim
Andrew Drury is an adventure tourist, who appeared in Dark Tourist, the Netflix series with journalist David Farrier. We’ll talk a bit about that, as well as his years-long texting and real-life interactions with Shamima Begum - a British born woman who left the UK in 2015 aged 15 to join ISIS.Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wrenwill plant 10 extra trees in your name!Andrew Drury links:https://www.freewebstore.org/candy-jar-store/product/trip-hazardhttps://twitter.com/andrewdruryAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 18, 2022 • 1h 13min
172. I became a gang member after suffering racist abuse
Lennox Rodgers co-founded along with his wife Bali the Refocus Project, where he mentors young kids who have fallen through the very gaps that are so familiar to him. He has also written a book called Breaking Better.Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wrenwill plant 10 extra trees in your name!Lennox Rodgers links:https://www.breakingbetter.co.ukhttps://twitter.com/lennox_rodgersAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 16, 2022 • 43min
171. Tom Cruise & the Scientology Law Suits | Tony Ortega
Journalist Tony Ortega joins me to discuss the law suits currently affecting Scientology. This episode originally aired live on the Shaun Attwood youtube channel, and is part of a larger show from the Shaun Attwood true crime podcast. So this was live, in front of a big audience of people saying lots of things.Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wrenwill plant 10 extra trees in your name!Toni Ortega links:https://twitter.com/TonyOrtega94https://tonyortega.substack.comhttps://tonyortega.orgAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 15, 2022 • 17min
From Revisionist History: The Relative Age Effect
I'm sharing a bonus episode from a podcast I love, Revisionist History. Revisionist History is bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm’s obsessed with experiments – natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. In this episode, Revisionist History explores a category of privilege that’s often ignored: age. He heads to the University of Pennsylvania to examine how this overlooked privilege plays out in the classroom.You can hear more from Revisionist History at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/rhs7?sid=edge.Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wrenwill plant 10 extra trees in your name! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 14, 2022 • 1h 5min
170. How to leave your Psychopath
Today, writer comedian and actor Maddy Anholt talks to us about how to leave your psychopath. That’s also the name of the book, which I would thoroughly recommend as it is really funny while also being quite daunting, sad and informative.Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wrenwill plant 10 extra trees in your name!Maddy Anholt links:https://twitter.com/maddy_anholthttps://www.maddyanholt.comhttps://linktr.ee/maddyanholtAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


