Hello, I'm Adrian Dobb.

And I'm We're out again.

And whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right.

So, Adrienne, before we get started today, I know you had something you wanted to tell our listeners about.

Yes, and this will come as a shocker to people who've been listening to previous episodes. I have a book coming out, and I'd like you to pre-order it. I'm told by the powers that be, to repeat that as often as possible, if you do still want to pre-order it, I had swag made. The swag is allegedly in the mail. It looks very pretty in pictures. It hasn't arrived yet. So if you pre-order and send me

a proof of pre-order to cancel.research at gmail.com, I will send you said swag. What's your book

called, Adrian? The book is called The Cancel Culture Panic, how an American obsession went global.

And it's, yeah, it's about a lot of actually a lot of people we're going to be talking about

today, the kind of international circuits of right-wing outrage machines and how these kinds

of freakouts get internationalized, right?

Like to the point that someone can say something kind of ill-considered at Harvard and suddenly

like, you know, Spanish newspapers or Chilean or Argentinian

newspapers will devote lots of column inches to it. And that's to some extent what we're talking

about today as well, where, you know, people really got way into some stuff happening.

That wasn't happening.

Right. They had two invested in things that weren't happening in the Isles.

So today we are talking about the swirl of gender controversies surrounding the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Yeah. And I should say that this is partly based on a substack post I wrote. Yes, I have a substack.

Like every white guy in this 40s have a substack. So free to subscribe to that too. Sorry, I feel like I'm just like plugging shit here. I mean, you should also rate and review us on iTunes while you're at it. I will, okay, I'll come clean and say that I, as a fan of Adrian Dowell, I subscribe to his substack. And I read his newsletter stemming from this most recent gender controversy at the Olympics.

I thought it was the smartest thing I had read unsurprisingly, not just on this particular,

you know, faux, cancel culture, controversy, but also on like the gender politics of the Olympic Games in particular, which are so fraught and so loaded and so weird.

Yeah.

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