Latest Sayer Podcast Episodes
The scientific case against facemasks
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - January 13, 2023 15:01 - 27 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Dr. Margery Smelkinson and Dr. Leslie Bienen to discuss the efficacy of facemasks. Read the full Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
David Sacks: The tech reset has only just begun
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - January 06, 2023 21:43 - 43 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets PayPal co-founder David Sacks. Read the full post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Brett Scott: Beware a cashless society
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - January 03, 2023 16:53 - 37 minutesUnHerd's Flo Read mets Brett Scott, author of Cloud Money. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
UnHerd Christmas Special: Christmas is a time for chaos
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - December 23, 2022 15:02 - 41 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jay Bhattacharya: What I discovered at Twitter HQ
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - December 16, 2022 11:05 - 40 minutesFreddie Sayers catches up with Dr Jay Bhattacharya about his recent meeting with Elon Musk at Twitter HQ, and what he discovered about the Twitter Files. Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Freddie deBoer: We should forgive Kanye West
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - December 09, 2022 15:10 - 47 minutesUnHerd's Florence Read meets American author Freddie deBoer to discuss the curious case of Kanye West. In the space of a few months Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has gone from world-famous rapper to appearing on Alex Jones’s InfoWars praising Hitler. It’s not clear if he will eve...
Vivek Ramaswamy: Elon Musk won't save us
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - December 05, 2022 15:38 - 29 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Vivek Ramaswamy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Mearsheimer: The West is playing Russian roulette
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - November 29, 2022 18:17 - 1 hourFreddie Sayers meets political scientist John Mearsheimer, the world-famous proponent of realism in international relations. Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ex-Ambassador speaks out: How Qatar funds extremism in the West
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - November 23, 2022 15:40 - 47 minutesQatar, a previously small and little-known country in the Middle East, has come to much wider public attention as the host of this year's World Cup. Its critics have focused on human rights abuses and the treatment of migrant workers in the construction of tournament stadiums. Less talked about,...
David Sacks: Ukraine is turning into Woke War III
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - November 01, 2022 15:09 - 30 minutesFreddie Sayers meets David Sacks. When Elon Musk unveiled his notorious Ukraine peace proposal on Twitter last month, it caused quite the stir. For simply outlining the potential contours of a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia, the new Twitter CEO was derided as a dangerous Putin...
John Gray Part II: Welcome to the era of tragic realism
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 28, 2022 13:59 - 1 hourFreddie Sayers meets John Gray in part two of a two-part interview. Watch Part I: https://youtu.be/BvWczz1q0jU Read the accompanying Part I article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Gray Part I: Revenge of the technocrats
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 26, 2022 16:32 - 42 minutesFreddie Sayers meets philosopher John Gray. John Gray was the prophet of the postliberal age, describing global capitalism as a false utopia as early as 1998. In his most recent writing, he has returned to geopolitics, and has described the populist moment, the pandemic, and the growing threat ...
Ivar Arpi: Why did Sweden turn Right-wing?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 22, 2022 16:38 - 45 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Ivar Arpi. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Canada's euthanasia laws killed my brother
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 17, 2022 14:00 - 41 minutesUnHerd's Flo Read meets Gary Nichols, whose brother, Alan Nichols, requested euthanasia and died by lethal injection in Canada in June 2019. Read the article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Investigating the Florida vaccine study
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 12, 2022 14:10 - 48 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Anders Hviid and Tracy Høeg. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Michael Gove: Do Conservatives have a philosophy?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 06, 2022 15:12 - 1 hourFreddie Sayers live in Birmingham with Michael Gove. Freddie Sayers sat down with Michael Gove in Birmingham during the Conservative Party Conference for a special UnHerd Live event, asking: What’s the big idea? …do Conservatives have a philosophy? Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See aca...
Jay Bhattacharya: The legal case against Anthony Fauci
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 30, 2022 14:01 - 30 minutesFreddie Sayers discusses Jay Bhattacharya and Jenin Younes' lawsuit against the US federal government. In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was published by three academics - Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff - who appeared on UnHerd to break the story. It marked...
Will the hard Right sweep Europe?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 26, 2022 17:15 - 48 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Ralph Schoellhammer. The rise of the Christian, ultra-conservative candidate Giorgia Meloni in Italy marks a strange split in European politics. Post-Brexit Britain is now in the minority of countries that have not seen a recent Rightward populist uprising. UnHerd’s Freddi...
Cancelled for pro-peace street art
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 22, 2022 16:55 - 22 minutesFlorence Read meets cancelled street artist, Peter Seaton. Earlier this month, a mural of two soldiers embracing, one Ukrainian and one Russian, appeared on the side of a building in Melbourne. It was the work of Peter Seaton, an Australian street artist known for large-scale graffiti. The titl...
The Charles III paradox: Anti-establishment King
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 16, 2022 14:05 - 41 minutesFreddie Sayers in the studio with Ian Skelly Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Clint Ehrlich: What I got wrong about Ukraine
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 14, 2022 15:49 - 31 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Clint Ehrlich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The great excess deaths mystery
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 07, 2022 15:11 - 37 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers is joined by Stuart McDonald to discuss the curious case of the UK's excess deaths. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thomas Fazi: Civil disobedience is coming
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 01, 2022 14:28 - 52 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Thomas Fazi. Faced with post-pandemic economic collapse, war in Ukraine and an unprecedented energy crisis, citizens of the UK and Europe are voicing their discontent. Via anti-government campaigns like ‘Don’t Pay’ and ‘Enough is Enough’, people previously unmotivated by ra...
Wolfgang Streeck: The end of the German empire
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - August 26, 2022 14:16 - 45 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks to economic historian Prof. Wolfgang Streeck about the crisis in Germany and its implications for the future of Europe. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lionel Shriver: We need to talk about Ezra Miller
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - August 22, 2022 14:18 - 42 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Lionel Shriver. When Lionel Shriver’s story of a troubled teenager, We Need to Talk About Kevin, was adapted for screen in 2011 it launched the career of young actor Ezra Miller. In 2012 Miller came out as queer, saying “I don’t identify as a man, I don’t identify as a wom...
His wife's plea: The case for Julian Assange
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - August 08, 2022 13:57 - 55 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Stella Moris, lawyer and wife of Julian Assange. The case of Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who published huge troves of sensitive government documents and classified military logs, has been going on for over a decade. During that time Assange has been under house ar...
Slavoj Žižek: We are addicted to chaos
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - August 04, 2022 14:31 - 59 minutesFlorence Read meets Slavoj Žižek. In his new book 'Surplus Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed', psychoanalyst and Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that Western decadence has reached a point of no return. When it comes to the simultaneous crises of climate change, the pandemic and t...
David Fuller: What happened to Jordan Peterson?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - August 01, 2022 14:03 - 47 minutesFreddie Sayers meets David Fuller. Followers of the clinical psychologist and now world-famous member of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’, Jordan Peterson, have noted a radical change in his video style in recent weeks. For David Fuller, founder of Rebel Wisdom, these videos ‘signalled a watershed m...
Aella meets Louise Perry: Was the sexual revolution a mistake?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - July 28, 2022 16:32 - 59 minutesWas the sexual revolution a mistake? Did unfettered freedom help or harm women? Florence Read is joined by OnlyFans star Aella and the author of 'The Case Against the Sexual Revolution', Louise Perry, to find out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lord Frost: Liz Truss is the change candidate
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - July 22, 2022 15:13 - 41 minutesBoris Johnson's former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost has put his support behind Liz Truss. He sat down with Freddie Sayers to explain that decision, and whether today's Conservatives add up to a philosophy of government... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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