This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@GSpellchecker) Journalist and Author Andrew Gold (@AndrewGold_OK) returns to talk about hid fascinating new book ‘The Psychology of Secrets: My Adventures with Murderers, Cults and Influencers’.
You can watch the video version at www.youtube.com/gspellchecker
0:00 Intro
0:08 Air conditioning and summer heat
1:24 Andrew’s YouTube success and avoiding audience capture
3:51 Doe accusations of bigotry hurt?
8:59 Prosocial lies: How do we recognise when we aren’t being honest?
14:14 Is it dangerous to talk to extreme people? Why cover the most dark, heinous topic possible?
19:42 Do you ever worry people will make judgments about you for the dark topics you write about?
28:27 Andrew Gold’s experience with Piers Morgan
36:46 The fear of running out of things to say in interviews and pushing back with your guests.
41:57 Are the left unwilling to debate their ideas? And does being ‘ex-communicated’ from your ’tribe’ make you more extreme?
51:46 Utopian thinking, Stephen going soft on vegetarianism and the value of religion.
57:18 Jews and Santa
01:02:34 Lie detector tests and the cult leader aspect of ‘influencers’.
01:09:20 Are other people’s secrets a burden?
Buy Andrew’s book: https://amzn.eu/d/bccQLCJ
Stephen Knight’s Substack: www.sknight.substack.com
Support the podcast at www.patreon.com/gspellchecker
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