Andrew Doyle's mind is so crisp and clear, and he is so quick to respond. I could never answer so flawlessly and consistently and well in such a public forum. It relaxes my anxiety about the state of the world that public intellectuals like Doyle exist.
I do appreciate how josh tests the ideas of each of his guests regardless of whether he broadly agrees with them or not. Nothing is more boring than podcasts of people furiously agreeing with each other.
I agree, i hope that's what he was doing. It seemed to me he was working a bit too hard at arguing that the word Woman can mean whatever a small minority says it means. Can you broaden the definition of woman without reducing it? No.
@@ADag83 I think Josh just wants his guest to push a little bit more in answering that isn't just the same sentences we hear over and over again on certain topics. I don't think its about Josh agreeing or disagreeing but just wanting to test the boundaries of his own ideas and his guests and where they get a bit blurry. I like hearing that. Cause I've been in one echo chamber for many years on the left, I don't want to just arrive at another one and and get trapped in the same intellectual cul-de-sac.
Hooray! Andrew Doyle is the best, standing up for us homosexuals against gender identity ideology. Love his last book The New Puritans. Solidarity from a lesbian!
Great conversation. I'm a member so swapped over to the Substack and then Spotify after the cutoff. You need to be able to have the video version elsewhere as it's odd to watch the first 40 minutes on video and the last 30 on audio only!
You certainly get some good guests. I'm sorry to hear about ideologically captured librarians - in the past they have been defenders of freedom of speech and information.
21:30 the n word is ‘ugly’ like saying the c word or the f word. Some people feel uncomfortable swearing at all. So there is a natural inclination that all people understand about swearing and causing offence. Therefore making it unsayable makes sense to everyone on a gut level. People who swear freely do so to offend others or be subversive to the social norms. They are being contrarian. Likewise Quentin Tarantino writes it into his scripts for the same purpose. To rouse emotions and pay tribute to a subculture vernacular. Honestly, even saying ‘the N word’ feels a bit primary school ish. It’s infantilising to listeners unless of course they are infants or from fear of censorship. 😉 😉 nudge nudge
Don't know what to make of Doyle. He comes across as a really likeable chap, still for me he's kinda too far down the antiwoke rabbithole. I'm pretty antiwoke myself, but I think too many antiwokers turn too far to the right and even completely lose their minds like James Lindsay or the utterly crazy Weinstein Bros. Also, Doyle is a Brexiteer, which is something you just don't wanna be as a rational non right wing person.
@dashendi6562 I can't think of any policy areas where I know or suspect that Doyle has 'shifted to the right', compared to where he was 5 or 10 or 20 years ago. However, he is prominently resisting a lurch 'to the left', so maybe that puts him on the 'right', in a way.
Andrew Doyle's mind is so crisp and clear, and he is so quick to respond. I could never answer so flawlessly and consistently and well in such a public forum. It relaxes my anxiety about the state of the world that public intellectuals like Doyle exist.
Andrew Doyle always has something intelligent and insightful to add. Thank goodness for his contribution .
I do appreciate how josh tests the ideas of each of his guests regardless of whether he broadly agrees with them or not. Nothing is more boring than podcasts of people furiously agreeing with each other.
I agree, i hope that's what he was doing. It seemed to me he was working a bit too hard at arguing that the word Woman can mean whatever a small minority says it means. Can you broaden the definition of woman without reducing it? No.
@@ADag83 I think Josh just wants his guest to push a little bit more in answering that isn't just the same sentences we hear over and over again on certain topics. I don't think its about Josh agreeing or disagreeing but just wanting to test the boundaries of his own ideas and his guests and where they get a bit blurry. I like hearing that. Cause I've been in one echo chamber for many years on the left, I don't want to just arrive at another one and and get trapped in the same intellectual cul-de-sac.
@ADag83 it always sticks in my craw a bit when a man waves away the importance of defining woman using biological realities.
Hooray! Andrew Doyle is the best, standing up for us homosexuals against gender identity ideology.
Love his last book The New Puritans.
Solidarity from a lesbian!
Andrew is such a good sparring partner for Josh.
Great conversation. I'm a member so swapped over to the Substack and then Spotify after the cutoff. You need to be able to have the video version elsewhere as it's odd to watch the first 40 minutes on video and the last 30 on audio only!
19:21 they them is still silly
You certainly get some good guests. I'm sorry to hear about ideologically captured librarians - in the past they have been defenders of freedom of speech and information.
Would have been funnier, and perhaps more accurate,
for all male _actors_ to be called _actresses._
21:30 the n word is ‘ugly’ like saying the c word or the f word. Some people feel uncomfortable swearing at all. So there is a natural inclination that all people understand about swearing and causing offence. Therefore making it unsayable makes sense to everyone on a gut level.
People who swear freely do so to offend others or be subversive to the social norms. They are being contrarian. Likewise Quentin Tarantino writes it into his scripts for the same purpose. To rouse emotions and pay tribute to a subculture vernacular.
Honestly, even saying ‘the N word’ feels a bit primary school ish. It’s infantilising to listeners unless of course they are infants or from fear of censorship. 😉 😉 nudge nudge
I feel like all this woke talk is about 3 years too late. Yawn.
Don't know what to make of Doyle. He comes across as a really likeable chap, still for me he's kinda too far down the antiwoke rabbithole. I'm pretty antiwoke myself, but I think too many antiwokers turn too far to the right and even completely lose their minds like James Lindsay or the utterly crazy Weinstein Bros. Also, Doyle is a Brexiteer, which is something you just don't wanna be as a rational non right wing person.
@dashendi6562 I can't think of any policy areas where I know or suspect that Doyle has 'shifted to the right', compared to where he was 5 or 10 or 20 years ago.
However, he is prominently resisting a lurch 'to the left', so maybe that puts him on the 'right', in a way.
Change the name of the pod it’s cringe.
It’s not that bad. But I think know what you mean. Do you think it sounds a bit self congratulatory?