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  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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 Robbie Williams and gender critical atheist Richard Dawkins. These are the people living with the weight of their own community's disappointment on their shoulders.