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332. Cancel Culture & Comedy: Triggernometry's Francis Foster

I met with English comedian Francis Foster at the Battle of Ideas Festival in London, and we had a wonderful talk. We discussed the “cancel-culture” in comedy - and in general - and how being socially obligated to have an opinion affects the way we perceive ourselves and each other, in a bad way. Also a little bit on feminism and gender ideology comes up throughout our conversation.

Francis’ links:
https://www.youtube.com/@triggerpod
https://www.instagram.com/francisjfoster/
https://x.com/francisjfoster

Andrew Gold links:
http://YouTube.com/andrewgold1
http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok 
http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok 
https://andrewgold.locals.com 
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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.