

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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Jul 8, 2022 • 46min
141. What is a Space Lawyer? | Frans Von Der Dunk
Frans Von Der Dunk is a professor of space law at Nebraska College of Law, and he’s going to be telling us all about things you never thought about regarding law in space. Frans von der Dunk links:https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ECSL_-_European_Centre_for_Space_Law/Prof._Frans_von_der_Dunkhttps://law.unl.edu/frans-von-der-dunk/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

Jul 6, 2022 • 1h 15min
140. The science to changing people's minds | David McRaney
David McRaney is a journalist and self-described psychology nerd from Mississippi. He has written for many top science and philosophyey publications, including The Atlantic and Psychology Today, and he’s on to talk about his brand new book, How Minds Change: The New Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion. David McRaney links:https://twitter.com/davidmcraneyhttps://www.davidmcraney.comhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/David-McRaney/e/B005T65KZA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_sharehttps://youarenotsosmart.com/author/davidmcraney/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

Jul 3, 2022 • 1h 3min
139. Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
Tony is a former Jehovah’s witness, who wrote a semi-autobiographical book called Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, which was made into a film by director and actor Eric Stolz.Tony Dushane links:https://www.tonydushane.comhttps://twitter.com/tonydushanehttps://www.amazon.com/Tony-DuShane/e/B002W44BKC%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_shareAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 1, 2022 • 46min
138. Count Dankula: Offensive Comedy & Purple Aki
Count Dankula became famous for being arrested after teaching his dog to do a Nazi salute. Today, he talks about that experience, whether comedy should ever lead to jail, and the mystery of Purple Aki, who goes around squeezing people's musclesCount Dankula links: https://www.youtube.com/c/CountDankula?app=desktophttps://twitter.com/countdankulatv/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

Jun 29, 2022 • 1h 7min
137. The Sex Cult of Zion | Mike King
Mike King is a former law enforcemenet officer who has worked on programs for the FBI and helped police departments across the US in dealing with true crime cases. In his decades on the job, he has uncovered some truly harrowing crimes, and today he’s talking about how he helped expose and break up the Zion Society Cult.Mike King links: https://www.profilingevil.comhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVxvknxY87GXuteBkjkaj8Ahttps://twitter.com/profilingevilAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 26, 2022 • 1h 11min
136. Debunking Conspiracy Theories: Mike Rothschild
Mike Rothschild is a conspiracy culture expert, and the author of The Storm is Upon Us, which documents the QAnon cult and conspiracy that led to the storming of the capitol on January 6th 2021.Mike Rothschild links:https://twitter.com/rothschildmdhttps://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-storm-is-upon-us/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

Jun 24, 2022 • 24min
135. Saturday Snippet: Andrew Meets The Trans Wolf Girl
Naia Ōkami is a transgender wolf girl, who is mostly known for her presence in the alterhuman community.Naia's links:https://naia.mehttps://www.instagram.com/naiagoesawoo/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

Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 20min
134. Authoritarian ideologies and cult thinking | ex-scientologist Jon Atack
Jon Atack is one of the biggest names in the ex-scientology community, known for his work A Piece of Blue Sky, which in 1990 was pretty groundbreaking in exposing the founder of Scientology. Since then, Jon has gone on to write many books about the ways that people are swayed and brought in by cults.Jon Atack:https://twitter.com/atack_jonhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Jon-Atack/e/B000AQ53YC%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_sharehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI4tcSMV2kEh3BooY_XFSYQAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 19, 2022 • 1h 8min
133. How delusions can be good for us | Stuart Vyse
Stuart Vyse is a psychologist and writer, and is here to talk about his latest book 'The Uses of Delusion'.Stuart Vyse links:https://twitter.com/stuartvysehttps://stuartvyse.comhttps://www.amazon.com/Uses-Delusion-Why-Always-Rational/dp/0190079851Andrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 19, 2022 • 3min
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