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Now displaying: September, 2022
Sep 21, 2022

This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@Gspellchecker) is joined by author and comedian Andrew Doyle (@AndrewDoyle_com). Andrew discusses his latest books ‘The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured The Western World’. Andrew makes a strong case for treating the new ideology of social justice the same way we would any faith-based religion.                                                                                                                                                                                                     

0:00 Intro
0:26 Andrew working for GB News
3:29 ‘The New Puritans’. What is this ideology? How can it be a religion without a god?
7:18 Titania McGrath and the challenge of satire in the current climate
11:42 Has Twitter spilled over into the real world?
15:39 The Salem witch trials hysteria
20:35 Jerry Sadowitz’s show being cancelled at Edinburgh fringe and the decline of mainstream comedy
30:14 Is everyone now being forced to engage in “the culture war”?
32:25 Does the issue of class and economic inequality get overlooked by ‘the new puritans’?
36:25 Does Andrew feel he has been let down by gay rights movements in the current day? And how much harm has gender ideology caused children?
41:55 The treatment and misrepresentation of JK Rowling

Watch the video version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP2wOf3SUkw&t=255s

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Sep 8, 2022

This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@Gspellchecker) is joined by screenwriter and renowned author Chris Matheson. Chris Matheson is one of the screenwriters for the popular Bill & Ted movies and the author of several books of comedy fiction. Chris’s late father is Richard Matheson, author of iconic books such as ‘I Am Legend’. In Chris’s latest book, ‘Conversations with the Father’, he explores his relationship with his father, and how they became estranged due to their differences on spirituality and new age beliefs.

0:00 Intro
0:29 Thoughts on Bill & Ted Face The Music
5:19 Why pivot from fiction to writing about your personal relationship with your father?
10:36 Who was the author Richard Matheson?
13:51 Does everyone have unresolved issues with their parents that they need to work through after they have died?
15:59 Were you worried about the possibility of tainting the public perception of Richard Matheson?
17:33 Is it an odd upbringing having a famous father?
18:48 Disdain for Psychics
23:22 Is comedy a coping mechanism?
31:51 What are “new age beliefs”? Why do they annoy you so much?
36:28 Is it harder to find meaning as a non-believer?
43:00 Is there a sense that your father was stolen from you by new age ideology?
46:13 Do you regret arguing with your father about these issues? Would you have done it differently if you could go back?
51:30 The fictional, second half of his book.

Support the podcast at http://www.patreon.com/gspellchecker

Also available on iTunes, Stitcher, YouTube & Spotify.  

Buy ‘Conversations with the Father’ on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3AqGW6k

 

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