E386. Why Everyone Online Is in a Cult | Andrew Gold - Walk-Ins Welcome
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right. I'm with Andrew Gold, everybody. Welcome to Walkins. Welcome. I feel like this is overdue. |
| 0:06.9 | Yeah, well, I wanted to do it because I was in Austin, wasn't I? And then we just didn't make it happen. |
| 0:11.2 | Yeah, I, this is where I just really want to level up just enough that I can get a studio. |
| 0:18.1 | Because then it would be easy for me to just have people pop in and right now I have |
| 0:22.7 | to run something and it's not it's just so much easier when you have a studio as you know and you |
| 0:27.4 | have a studio you can be like pop in we'll do a recording so that would be the next that would be |
| 0:34.2 | the next evolution of the of the show yeah I hope it happens soon you You're absolutely right. Like, I mean, that's what I used to do. And it's a funny thing where you're like, someone's actually there. And you go, gosh, well, it would actually be easy if you just went back to the States or something so we could do this remotely. Yeah. That's kind of what's been happening with our mutual friend, Freya. She's going to be in town, but because of both of our scheduling, we got to a point where we were like, this might be easier remote, but we're doing it in person. I just like in person so much better. Yeah, it's a shame. It's just a lot more expensive and it's the whole production. |
| 1:11.4 | It's the whole thing. |
| 1:12.3 | But it's so nice. |
| 1:13.7 | But this is nice as well. |
| 1:19.1 | Everyone should be very excited to be watching us because we're bringing the energy even across the pond. Across the pond. |
| 1:20.8 | So, Andrew, what are you doing these days? |
| 1:23.7 | What are you passionate about at the moment? |
| 1:26.4 | What is like today on this day |
| 1:29.3 | april third 2026 what is top of mind for you well um hiding from islamists uh because i live on an |
| 1:38.6 | island and i don't know if you've heard about this but this particular island is uh more or less |
| 1:43.7 | becoming an is Islamist one. |
| 1:45.4 | And it's happening very quickly before our eyes. I used to look into cults. So before I was |
| 1:49.9 | doing all of this about the culture wars, which I thought was very cultish, that's why I got into this. |
| 1:54.6 | I was looking at Scientology and Hasidic Judaism and Mormons and so on and looking at the cultish dynamics. And the thing you see |
| 2:04.1 | time and time again is the boiling frog concept, which most people are familiar with, but it's just |
| 2:08.4 | that idea of it happens so slowly that the things that maybe a few years ago would have seemed |
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