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Decoding the Gurus

Destiny: Right to Reply

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Chris jump into the world of debates, dramas, and online personas with the ever-controversial streamer, Destiny (Steven Bonnell). We discuss our Decoding episode a little bit but mostly broader issues including the value of 'debate porn', edginess & Twitter bomb-throwing, reality TV orbiter drama, and the perils of hero worship and parasocial relationships.

As you might anticipate, we also cover various 'hot-button' issues including Destiny's involvement in Israel-Palestine discourse, the ethics of engaging with extremists, and whether Destiny was genuinely arguing for the right to murder the DDoS kid. Finally, we wrap up with some discussion of media literacy, the challenges of navigating online discourse, and strategies for laypeople to better engage with research.

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0:00.0

The Oh, Hello and

0:25.0

the coding the Guru is the podcast for a psychologist and an anthropologist

0:30.0

listen to the greatest minds the world has to often we try to understand what they're talking about.

0:34.3

I'm Matt Brown, the co-host is Chris Kavanaugh and this is a special right to reply.

0:41.7

The episode, isn't it Chris? who have we got with this today I thought

0:44.8

you were gonna get lost on the way there but you meet it at the end we have with

0:49.8

us one Stephen Bonnell, also known as Destiny, who we recently covered and invoked the secret

1:00.2

right to reply rights. And we have materialized so thank you for coming on Stephen and saying up late which was appreciated.

1:09.7

Yeah, thanks for having me. Am I on am I on? You're on and you're in.

1:14.0

You've arrived.

1:15.0

So typically the way this works, though, to be fair,

1:19.0

it's only been invoked about three or four times

1:22.0

because every time we cover people they're not

1:24.3

usually the type of people that respond well to being covered so but there

1:29.2

technically is a format where we allow people to be as any points of dispute or issues or anything we got wrong or

1:38.8

just questions or that kind of thing and then then afterwards, move on to discussion

1:44.1

and questions that came up from the stuff

1:46.4

that we covered or elsewhere.

1:49.2

And in your case, we did get a lot of feedback you may not know it but you're you're

1:56.3

quite a controversial figure on like people have opinions.

2:00.3

Crazy yeah I've heard this recently I'm curious for the people that refuse to exercise their right of reply.

2:07.0

And I imagine there's people that obviously take issue with a lot of the coverage you give them.

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