Aaron Smith-Levin is a close friend and a former scientologist who has been on Lex Fridman and Jordan Peterson. I traveled to Florida to record this in his home, and we had a great chat about the Left, the Right and what he’s learned about cultish mind control from Scientology. 

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391. The Cult of Woke Left & Far Right - Ex-Scientologist Aaron Smith-Levin

What makes you a heretic? Journalist Andrew Gold believes that, in an age of group-think and tribes, we need heretics - those who use unconventional wisdom to speak out against their own groups, from cancelled comedians and radical feminists to cult defectors and vigilantes hunting deviants.

Learn from my guests how to rebel, think differently and resist social contagion. From Triggernometry's Francis Foster and the world's most cancelled man Graham Linehan to ex-Hasidic Jew Julia Haart and gender critical atheist Richard Dawkins. These are the people living with the weight of their own community's disappointment on their shoulders.

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Today, Shauna from the Vintage Read Show on YouTube interviews me…about everything from cults and lies to obsessive fans and secrets. 

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409. Secrets, Royals, Piers Morgan & Baby Reindeer

Ella Whelan is the co convenor of the Battle of Ideas festival and a freelance journalist and author of What Women Want: Fun, Freedom and an End to Feminism. She frequently features as a political commentator on TV and radio, specialising in the relationship between free speech, feminism and women's liberation. 

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408. Women in Dresses & Bad Feminism - Ella Whelan

One of my favourite writers, Will Storr, is on the show to explain the psychology behind virtue signalling, and how we try to be dominant, successful or virtuous to gain status within our tribes. 

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407. The Status Game - Will Storr

My Saturday ramblings about my experience in New York speaking at Dissident Dialogues, my thoughts on Israel-Palestine, campus protests, evolution, vaccines, Alex O’Conner, Richard Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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406. Israel, Evolution, Dawkins & Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Dr Kate Coleman is the founder and director of Keep Prisons Single Sex (KPSS). Established in 2020, KPSS campaigns for the importance of sex registered at birth to the provision of services throughout the criminal justice system, to data collection on offending, and to risk assessment and safeguarding.

KPSS also has an interest in the impact of the enhanced individual privacy rights awarded to those who change gender, including on freedom of speech and the legitimate functions of the State.
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391. The Cult of Woke Left & Far Right - Ex-Scientologist Aaron Smith-Levin

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