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52: Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Jenny Kleeman

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

British journalist Jenny Kleeman - a mix of Louis Theroux and Margaret Atwood - talks to the On the Edge with Andrew Gold podcast about the near-future of sex, food, birth and death, with some startling, worrying and fascinating science. Get the bonus content on my YouTube and Patreon pages (links below). --- Jenny Kleeman Links: https://twitter.com/jennykleeman https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Robots-Vegan-Meat-Adventures/dp/1509894888 On the Edge with Andrew Gold Links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://patreon.com/andrewgold http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It was especially meat because it can it can kill you bad meat

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when it's wrong in your mouth your brain says spit that out

0:18.3

and I was sort of sitting there chewing with all these PR people nodding at me. Yeah, and I literally didn't eat meat for four or five days after that for all the wrong reasons.

0:29.0

Today I'm proud to have on the On the Edge with Andrew Gold Podcast, one of the preeminent and most

0:37.1

prescient journalists working in the UK today in the form of Jenny Clemon.

0:43.0

Jenny is a journalist and presenter who has made documentaries for the BBC with Panorama

0:48.0

and Channel 4 with Unreported World. She is also a presenter for Times Radio and has reported for HBO's Vice News

0:55.1

Tonight and the BBC's The One Show and recently appeared as a guest on the

1:00.1

Joe Rogan podcast which we'll talk about. But mostly we'll be discussing the statement as Louis Thruue channeling Margaret Atwood.

1:14.0

So you can't go too wrong with that mix.

1:16.6

She looks at the technological advancements and the morality thereof in the domains of sex, food, birth and death.

1:25.0

It's not, says the blurb, science fiction, nor is it about what might happen one day.

1:31.0

It's about what's happening right now. Are we about to change what it

1:34.7

means to be human forever? We'll go from super realistic sex robots to the chicken nugget

1:41.6

Jenny ate while the chicken from whence it came still lived,

1:45.0

will move on to growing babies and ziploc bags and the death machines that'll bring about a peaceful end.

1:52.0

Find Jenny on Twitter at at Jenny Kleman

1:55.6

and get her book in all the usual places.

1:58.2

I'll have a link in the show notes.

2:00.2

I'm on Andrew Gold underscore OK on Twitter and Instagram,

2:03.2

and the video version of this podcast is on YouTube.

2:06.4

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