heretics.
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 Konstantin Kisin and the world's most cancelled man Graham Linehan to Robbie Williams and atheist Richard Dawkins. These are the people living with the weight of their own community's disappointment on their shoulders.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 588
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
87: Prof. Carl Zimmer - What It Means to be 'Alive'
Popular science writer, journalist and Yale University Professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Carl Zimmer is joining me to finally answer the late Beatle George Harrison's question: what …
01:11:16 |
Mon 27 Dec 2021
86: Do animals get drunk and high? - Oné Pagán
Have you ever wondered if your furry friend might be partial to a beer or two? Did you know that koalas smoked pipes and dolphins get high on pufferfish? Here to tell us all about the weird and wonde…
01:10:56 |
Mon 20 Dec 2021
85: Lonely, Sexless Men (Incels) - William Costello
William Costello is a writer and an academic in the field of Evolutionary Psychology who has specialised in incel culture and things like beauty and attraction. He's also a lovely, charming man, a gr…
01:21:53 |
Mon 13 Dec 2021
84: Why people become terrorists: Nafees Hamid
Nafees Hamid talks about what makes people into terrorists and other forms of extremists…and how we might be able to persuade them or talk them down. He is a research fellow at ARTIS International, a…
01:23:09 |
Mon 06 Dec 2021
83: NXIVM Sex-Trafficking Cult Survivor Kelly Thiel
Kelly Thiel was once a member of the notorious NXIVM cult. For those of you who – like me – don’t or didn’t know much about this sect, you’re in for a bit of a shock – not least in how that bunch of …
01:00:58 |
Mon 29 Nov 2021
82: I lived in an airport for 7 months: Hassan Al Kontar
Today’s guest is Hassan al-Kontar, an absolute gem of a person who found himself in one of the most unique and unusual positions imaginable: living in an airport for seven months. As a Syrian refugee…
01:11:03 |
Mon 22 Nov 2021
81: Why we like to suffer - Prof. Paul Bloom
Why do we like to suffer? Canadian-American Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Paul Bloom believes he has the answer. Or at least, some of the answers to what is a profound and complex que…
01:09:27 |
Mon 15 Nov 2021
80: Guantanamo's Most Tortured Prisoner: Mohamedou Ould Salahi
Today, we’ve got a classic On the Edge interviewee, in the form of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was detained in Guantanamo Bay for 14 years and is considered by some to be Guantanamo’s most tortured pr…
01:16:24 |
Mon 08 Nov 2021
78: True Crime 2: Swedish Killer Twin Sisters
In the second episode of our Halloween trilogy, Dr. Sohom Das explains what really went on in the minds of Swedish twin sisters Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, who terrified motorists, before one of the…
00:33:16 |
Sun 31 Oct 2021
79: True Crime 3: The Broadmoor Cannibal
In our final installment of the three Halloween Specials, Dr. Sohom Das takes us into the mind of the Broadmoor Cannibal, Peter Bryan.
Dr. Sohom Das links:
A Psych for Sore Minds YouTube Channel:…
00:28:54 |
Sun 31 Oct 2021
77: True Crime 1: Anders Breivik
Journalist Andrew Gold and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Sohom Das from A Psych for Sore Minds take a look inside the minds of perpetrators in three scary and fascinating true crime cases. We start with …
00:37:44 |
Sun 31 Oct 2021
76: Why you're hung larger than a gorilla - Dr. Chris Ryan
He’s back! It’s part 2 with podcaster and evolutionary sex expert Dr. Chris Ryan, author of Sex at Dawn and Civilized to Death. He writes all about the way societal expectations have been encroaching…
00:46:34 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
76: How our ancestors REALLY had sex - Dr. Chris Ryan
Today I have one of the biggest names to ever grace the stage of this podcast, in the form of Chris Ryan. Chris is known for many things, but is perhaps most notable for his book Sex at Dawn, which h…
01:04:54 |
Mon 25 Oct 2021
75: Virtue Signalling, Courage & Death: Julian Baggini (Philosopher)
I met acclaimed philosopher Julian Baggini in Bristol for a coffee upon first arriving in the city, and it was a pleasure. Julian is a member of the Bristol Humanist Society, where I’ll be doing a ta…
01:21:13 |
Mon 18 Oct 2021
74: Black Widow: 'Prison with Myra Hindley for murder I didn't do'
Linda Calvey is known as the Black Widow, because all of her lovers ended up dead or in prison. Wikipedia has her down as an armed robber and murderer, and while she contests the latter, she did spen…
01:08:11 |
Mon 11 Oct 2021
73: Our dead loved ones are still out there in spacetime - astronomer Colin Stuart
I’ve been determined to find someone who could explain TIME in a really digestible and easy to understand way, as though I’m a child. That man is Colin Stuart, whose book Time: Ten Things You Should …
01:22:19 |
Mon 04 Oct 2021
72: Do genes and eugenics cause inequality?: Dr. Paige Harden
Today on the show is the real gene Jeanie, as David Bowie would put it, Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden. Not only does she go by Paige, but her book The Genetic Lottery is a real page turner. See what I did…
01:23:50 |
Mon 27 Sep 2021
71: Inside the Criminal Mind: Dr. Sohom Das
Today on the show is the wonderful Dr. Sohom Das, a brilliant forensic psychiatrist whose job involves dealing with mentally ill and dangerous criminals. As well as a leading figure in British psychi…
01:09:27 |
Mon 20 Sep 2021
70: Love Island to Interviewing Jordan Peterson - Chris Williamson
Chris Williamson from Modern Wisdom podcast joins me today on On the Edge with Andrew Gold to discuss everything from his time on Love Island to interviewing Jordan Peterson.
Hear our full bonus seg…
01:17:47 |
Mon 13 Sep 2021
69: Surviving deadliest prison: ex-crime boss Shaun Attwood
Greeting us on today’s episode of On the Edge with Andrew Gold is former crime boss and ecstasy smuggler Shaun Attwood.
Hear the full bonus segment on http://patreon.com/andrewgold
Born to a midd…
01:08:17 |
Mon 06 Sep 2021
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