Letting the fools expose themselves

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🗓️ 22 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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MONDAY ANALYSIS: We watched the new Louis Theroux documentary, Inside The Manosphere, and we have thoughts. Is Louis Theroux platforming people who shouldn’t be platformed – or is he bringing much-needed attention to a dangerous problem? Should we be exposing these manosphere grifters to the light? Stream The Testaments on Disney+ from April 8th, and thank you so much to Disney+ for making this episode of Shameless possible. And, shout-out to Myer! Your hosts are Zara McDonald (@zamcdonald) and Michelle Andrews (@michelleandrews1). Shameless Podcast is produced by Annabelle Lee and Eilish Gilligan, executive-produced by Lucy Hunt and audio-edited by Eilish Gilligan. Our social media team consists of Naima Fatema, Emily Li and Eilish Gilligan, and our partnerships manager is Cindy Luu. Want to support our show? Clicking ‘follow’ on Apple and Spotify is the best way to do that, and we're super grateful to anyone who leaves a five-star review while they're at it. Also! An old-fashioned 'Tell a Friend In Real Life' is equally appreciated. Want more? We've got more… Subscribe to our newsletter Smart, Dumb Stuff: https://tinyurl.com/4yasjphn Follow us on Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/2mf557ux Aaaand we’re on TikTok: https://tinyurl.com/2hchchrp Everything else your heart could ever desire is here: https://linktr.ee/shamelesspodcast Thanks for listening! We’re huge fans of yours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Shameless Media
0:05.0	Shameless, the Pop Culture Podcasts for smart people who love dumb stuff,
0:37.3	you're joined,
0:38.0	as always by Melbourne Writers, Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald. Hello, Zazzie McDonald and
0:42.9	hello producer Eilish Gilligan. Hello. Hi guys. Coming up on today's show, we watched
0:48.3	the new Louis Thru documentary on Netflix, like everybody else in the internet dish. The response
0:53.0	to this documentary we have found
0:54.5	incredibly interesting. There's a lot of questions about whether Louis Throo should have given these
0:59.3	men, these toxic men, a platform. And we want to ask if that's really what he's doing or if he's
1:04.6	doing something else entirely. There's a lot to unpack here, Mish, both the content of the
1:09.6	documentary, but really interestingly, as we said, people's responses to it and how we feel about Manusphere in general.
1:16.6	We're going to take this in a bunch of different directions. So strap in, baby.
1:20.8	Yeah, let's do it. Before we get there, a very quick shout out to our sponsor, The Testaments.
1:26.4	A new story set in the world of Gilead
1:28.8	streaming from April 8th on Disney Plus.
1:31.8	Louis Theroux's documentary, it was called Inside the Manosphere.
1:35.9	It's number one on Netflix.
1:37.4	It's all over our feeds.
1:39.4	We each watched it.
1:41.7	Zaz's main takeaways from the doco?
1:45.5	Oh, wow.
1:46.9	Big question, early up.
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