

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
UnHerd
Freddie Sayers from online magazine UnHerd seeks out top scientists, writers, politicians and thinkers for in-depth interviews to try and help us work out what’s really going on. What started as an inquiry into the pandemic has broadened into a fascinating look at free speech, science, meaning and the ideas shaping our world.Due to popular demand here is a podcast version of our YouTube — available to watch, for free here or by searching ‘LockdownTV’.Enjoy! And don't forget to rate, like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Jan 6, 2023 • 43min
David Sacks: The tech reset has only just begun
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets PayPal co-founder David Sacks.Read the full post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 3, 2023 • 37min
Brett Scott: Beware a cashless society
UnHerd's Flo Read mets Brett Scott, author of Cloud Money.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 23, 2022 • 41min
UnHerd Christmas Special: Christmas is a time for chaos
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 16, 2022 • 40min
Jay Bhattacharya: What I discovered at Twitter HQ
Freddie Sayers catches up with Dr Jay Bhattacharya about his recent meeting with Elon Musk at Twitter HQ, and what he discovered about the Twitter Files.Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 9, 2022 • 47min
Freddie deBoer: We should forgive Kanye West
UnHerd's Florence Read meets American author Freddie deBoer to discuss the curious case of Kanye West.In the space of a few months Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has gone from world-famous rapper to appearing on Alex Jones’s InfoWars praising Hitler. It’s not clear if he will ever recover reputationally from the stigma of this episode.What lessons can we take from the public's treatment of the rapper?Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 5, 2022 • 29min
Vivek Ramaswamy: Elon Musk won't save us
Freddie Sayers meets Vivek Ramaswamy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 29, 2022 • 1h 17min
John Mearsheimer: The West is playing Russian roulette
Freddie Sayers meets political scientist John Mearsheimer, the world-famous proponent of realism in international relations.Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 23, 2022 • 48min
Ex-Ambassador speaks out: How Qatar funds extremism in the West
Qatar, a previously small and little-known country in the Middle East, has come to much wider public attention as the host of this year's World Cup. Its critics have focused on human rights abuses and the treatment of migrant workers in the construction of tournament stadiums. Less talked about, but something much closer to home, is Qatar’s hand in promoting Islamist ideas in Western countries. A new report by think tank Policy Exchange investigates this very issue, and has come to some quite extraordinary conclusions. The lead author of the study, Sir John Jenkins, a former ambassador with a 35-year diplomatic career in the Middle East, joined Freddie Sayers in the studio to explain.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Nov 1, 2022 • 31min
David Sacks: Ukraine is turning into Woke War III
Freddie Sayers meets David Sacks.When Elon Musk unveiled his notorious Ukraine peace proposal on Twitter last month, it caused quite the stir. For simply outlining the potential contours of a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia, the new Twitter CEO was derided as a dangerous Putin apologist (despite his company Starlink providing internet to Ukraine at a cost of $20 million a month). It happens that Musk is not the only Silicon Valley mogul who has come under fire for taking a realist line on the conflict.In fact, a friend of Musk’s, David Sacks, wrote an article in which he alleged the West had entered into “Woke War III”. Over the course of the war, the woke Left and the neoconservative Right have been marching in lockstep, and using “woke cancellation tactics” to suppress any dissenting opinions.Sacks, a multimillionaire venture capitalist and host of the hit podcast ‘All-In’ expands on his thinking in UnHerdTV’s latest interview, recorded 26th October 2022.Read the Post here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 28, 2022 • 1h 18min
John Gray Part II: Welcome to the era of tragic realism
Freddie Sayers meets John Gray in part two of a two-part interview.Watch Part I: https://youtu.be/BvWczz1q0jURead the accompanying Part I article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.