526 - The Controversial Milgram Experiment

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Facts, Comedy, History, Fact

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 136 minutes

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You may have heard of Stanley Milgram's controversial 1960s social psychology experiments that measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure. This week Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall joins us to challenge the traditional narrative of these experiments and blows the whole thing wide open! Are people inherently evil? Or is this even more controversial that we were led to believe? This is the second most voted for topic of Block 2025!

This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 15:22 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).

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0:00.0	Happy Block. Happy Block. And what better way to celebrate Block? And 10 years of do go on than hitting the road. We are doing some shows around Australia and New Zealand. All the shows have sold out. So we've added extra shows in Perth, Brisbane, Auckland and Wellington. Yeah. So exciting. So exciting. You know, you never know. You never know people are going to want to come. And people are coming all over Australia and New Zealand for us.
0:25.6	That's right.
0:26.2	And if you want to come to go to dogoonpod.com.
0:30.0	We'll see you there. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On.
0:49.5	My name is Dave Warnocky and as always, I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart.
0:52.7	Hello.
1:14.5	So good to be here, Block. Oh my God. What a time. I don't want it to end. No. The only nice thing about Block ending is December begins and I'm a festive boy. Yeah. That's when you really come alive. Yeah. It's my favourite time of year, Block and Christmas. Yeah. The last, yeah, the last quarter of the year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's my favourite time of year block and Christmas. Yeah. The last, yeah, the last quarter of the year. Yeah. Three quarters of the year. And I also love summer, I should say. Okay, which is convenient for us in Australia. Yes. Okay, so like half the year, you're miserable. And then the comedy festival? Comedy Festival does come after, straight up to summer. And you love Easter. And footy season as well begins with comedy festival, which runs back through till September,
1:33.8	and then October is when Block starts.
1:35.9	I love life.
1:38.6	Do you have a question about that?
1:40.6	Yeah.
1:41.6	No, what is the question that are you supposed?
1:43.2	How good is it to be alive?
1:43.9	How good is it to be alive? Can I ask you used to ask? How good is it to be alive?
1:45.0	Can I ask you that out?
1:47.7	How good is it to be alive?
1:48.6	Yeah, go for it.
1:49.9	How good is it to be alive?
1:51.2	Oh, man.
1:52.1	Yeah, I'd love to know.
1:54.0	No, I think it's pretty good.
1:55.6	Yeah, yeah.
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