Jamie Kilstein talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about leaving the Social Justice cult and becoming a non-tribal comedian
Quillette Podcast
Quillette
4.6 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette. |
| 0:08.0 | Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. |
| 0:15.2 | Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, |
| 0:18.7 | associate editor Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. |
| 0:22.4 | You can support our podcast by |
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| 0:33.0 | Welcome to the Colette Podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Jonathan Kay, Colette's Canadian editor. |
| 0:38.0 | Jamie Kilstein is one of the most unusual members of the Colette universe. Unlike most of our |
| 0:44.4 | contributors he's not an academic or a professional journalist. Rather he's a |
| 0:49.2 | comedian and you'd know this if you joined us at the Colette Social here in Toronto earlier this year, |
| 0:55.6 | because Jamie Kilstein flew in from California for that event and brought the house down. |
| 1:00.3 | But he has a serious side too and in August 2018 he showed it to the world with a |
| 1:06.2 | quilett article entitled I sold my soul on Twitter now I'm trying to win it back |
| 1:11.0 | about how he had shed his one-time role of Social Justice |
| 1:15.3 | Warrior and the price he paid as a result with some of his former friends and peers. |
| 1:21.0 | His new project is called the Jamie Kilstein Podcast. In March, I phoned him in |
| 1:26.7 | California to talk about it. Here are excerpts from that conversation. |
| 1:37.0 | So tell me about your new podcast, what's it called and what's it about? Yeah, so it is creatively called the Jamie Kielstein podcast and it was I started it originally as a way to avoid |
| 1:49.5 | politics essentially for anyone who read my piece on Quillette that I wrote, I used to be part of the sort of like radical left, attack dog. |
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