Excellent limited-run pod series, intelligently battling groupthink & the wokeness. Most especially enjoyed the James Lindsay ep.

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About 10 episodes in and I find each episode important and enriching. Whether I agree or not is beside the point. I just finished episode 7 with Julie Bindel. Great discussion, a lot to think about. A quick note on her discussion about prostitution, no disagreement with her position but she mentions the need to pass laws that represent the majority of experiences, “...we don’t legislate for the minority do we...”. Actually, in the US, we do. The Bill of Rights makes that determination. Majority rule, minority rights. If 95% share an experience, we don’t automatically disregard the 5%. Still a great discussion.

Alternative title suggestion: How to twist facts to justify racism and mysogyny!

Titania McGrath hates this show, yet somehow it’s actually good. Doyle’s work as both an undercover culture warrior AND a legit cultural luminary must be a handful but he balances both with grace, vim, and vigor—as evidenced in this program. Too bad the US can’t claim him as a national treasure. One hopes the UK recognizes this jewel in their crown, at least those still worth respecting do.

Hello from the Not A Victim podcast! Loved your interview with Peter Boghossian and looking forward to more!

Andrew Doyle is always a funny and perceptive interviewee. Unsurprisingly, he’s also an excellent interviewer. I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts along these lines, but Andrew is particularly skillful at keeping discussions fresh and on topic. He knows when to listen, when to speak, and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to each topic. Every minute is worthwhile listening.

I have friends who hate Spiked, but I was unfamiliar. In these podcasts, I find good reasons to listen more. So if you have a negative view of Spiked from past experiences, I recommend you try again here.

Hadn’t really been aware of Andrew Doyle, but I’m glad to have run into him. He’s funny, bright and earnest, and looking under some good rocks. Eager to see him interview folks from all over the map, so to speak, those that really interest him... I think that’s the key to longevity.

If Doyle knows anything he doesn’t reveal it in this podcast. He’s a miserable interviewer who let’s the guest run amuck. The final straw for me was his dad “uh, huh” show featuring an anti-male, anti-sex authoritarian feminist.

Excellent interview with Julie Bindel, a very important voice and perspective. Much appreciated. Doyle is a great interviewer.

Andrew Doyle is one of the smartest people talking in a medium where all anyone ever does is talk. He and his guests make wide ranging smart talk based on A+ critical thinking skills. Sometimes I even feel hopeful after listening to Doyle, and getting me to feel hopeful these days is no mean feat. I love his focus on the intersection (sorry about that word but it works here) between free thought and comedy, especially satire. The episode with comedians Geoff Norcott and Simon Evans was precious to me for several reasons: first, being from the USA I had never heard of these guys and was thrilled to discover them, second, I’m drawn to “politically incorrect” comedy, since the woke assertion that there’s stuff we shouldn’t be allowed to find funny really pisses me off, and third, comedians are very smart people and the meta-conversations they engaged in about doing comedy were fascinating to a civilian like myself. The main thing I want to stress about Doyle is that he understands the woke ideological sinkhole in all its complexity and stupidity and knows how to articulate its dangers and how to push back against its pernicious effect on speech. Free speech and a left leaning perspective define both him and me, but like him I’m no longer afraid of people on the right, most of whom, surprisingly, have nothing in common with Hitler. Doyle’s fabulous brain, his plainspoken but hilarious sarcasm and irony, his fearlessness and his belief that it’s not hopeless yet will keep me coming back for more.

First - you’re not just saying what I was already thinking. If that were the case, I would be one more person just hunting down bias confirmation. This has been truly eye opening. My only advise would be to consider your audience a bit more and try to have portions of your interview geared specifically to those on the fence or in flat disagreement in mind. We need these highly intelligent conversations to not only be antagonistic. We truly need more platforms to consider how to lay the path for people’s perspectives to be challenged. Intersectional social justice and critical race theory are so widely accepted now that it is by in large the assumption that you would agree and immoral if you do not. If not the above, I would love an episode that dealt specifically with how to have a fruitful conversation with someone who is making the coolaid, let alone drinking it. Thanks for this and keep up the phenomenal work.

Thank you! I needed this humorous but astute take on the insanity and inanity of the culture war crazy infiltrating everyday reality! Sending the link to EP 1 to everyone I know.

A genuine empirical discussions of our present unmooring with reality.

Andrew is one of the great satirists if the century and is doing tremendous work explaining, exposing and arguing against the new woke religious dogma.