230. The Gurus of the Internet | Helen Lewis

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Helen Lewis is a British journalist who works as a Staff Writer at the Atlantic magazine, based in London. She hosts the longform interview series The Spark on BBC Radio 4, and her history of feminism, Difficult Women, was published in February 2020. Helen Lewis links: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001g9sq https://helenlewiswrites.com https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Helen-Lewis/Difficult-Women--A-History-of-Feminism-in-11-Fights-The-S/25522612 Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok https://www.patreon.com/andrewgold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you watch most Hollywood celebrities, they guard their private life, you know, they turn up and they do the press junkets and they answer the questions, but they don't really want to give a lot away.
0:08.0	They just want to go about their business and do the acting.
0:10.0	That's not the impression you get when you watch a Russell Brown video, which will often be like,
0:13.7	it's you and me, you're the only ones who understand this. We're on this journey together.
0:19.6	It's Helen Lewis back on the podcast, one of my first ever guests. Helen Lewis is a journalist from the UK. She's quite well known. She's been
0:27.7	on have I got news for you which again won't mean much for those outside of
0:31.6	Britain I don't think but it's a big show
0:33.8	she's written for the Guardian the Sunday Times the new statesman the Atlantic
0:38.4	she's one of those people I really admire because they don't really have an
0:41.5	affiliation with the left or the right or any of that stuff.
0:44.6	It's all a bit simplistic, I think, binary, and she sort of swims around the whole spectrum
0:51.3	and just gives her opinion and she's very smart.
0:54.4	She is known as well for that big interview she had with Jordan Peterson on GQ, which everyone got
1:02.0	very angry about. People got angry at me for discussing that and making
1:07.6	light of Jordan Peterson. So today it's interesting that she's going to be talking about
1:11.9	the new gurus, which is her podcast that she's going to be talking about the new gurus which is her
1:13.8	podcast that she's done with the BBC it's fantastic and it talks about Jordan
1:18.6	Peterson Russell Brand and a few of these people who have gone from sort of mainstreamy kinds of people to suddenly
1:26.0	Messiahs online and that's what she means by the new gurus, these kinds of people who have captured the imagination of huge swaths, or is it swaths, who knows, of the online
1:40.0	audience and don't always necessarily fact check but they also have really
1:44.7	interesting things to say so don't get all angry at me if you're a huge Jordan
1:49.1	Peterson fan or a huge Russell Brand fan or whatever else because people do get so
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