What We're Listening To: Richard Dawkins on UnHerd

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The team’s on vacation, so for this week’s Honestly, we’re sharing a favorite episode from a favorite podcast, one you may not have heard of: UnHerd with Freddie Sayers. UnHerd’s mission is similar to ours: to push back against the herd mentality, and to provide a platform for otherwise unheard ideas, people, and places. On this episode, host Freddie Sayers talks to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about God, people’s distrust in science and vaccines, cancel culture, aliens, romantic poetry and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Your life is full of times like this.
0:03.0	Oh yeah.
0:04.0	The gaps between the good stuff, like killing time and waiting rooms.
0:07.0	It's not long until you've had enough.
0:09.0	Listeners, it's time for some Tom Bola,
0:12.0	vibing on your tea break
0:14.0	Boca for fun
0:16.0	Chilling with a sponge cake
0:20.0	Mm. Get in just one pounds. Just a bit of bingo.
0:24.8	Tom Bola! Open for fun!
0:27.6	Terms apply 18 plus. Please play safely.
0:30.0	I'm Barry Weiss, this is honestly, and today we have a very special episode for you.
0:37.0	Our audio team has been working really hard over the past year, bringing you guys new episodes
0:41.9	every single week, and for the next few weeks
0:44.1	they're taking a well-deserved break. So we thought what better time to share some of
0:48.4	our favorite episodes from other podcasts that we love to listen to and that maybe you haven't heard of.
0:54.0	This week we're featuring an episode from Unheard with Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.
0:59.8	If you've never heard of Unheard, we think you're going to be hooked their mission is similar to
1:03.9	ours it's to push back against the heard mentality and to provide a platform for
1:08.9	otherwise unheard ideas people and places host Freddie Sayers gets right into it with some of the
1:15.1	most interesting people in the world on some of the most contentious subjects and
1:18.6	this conversation with Richard Dawkins is no exception. From God to people's distrust in science and vaccines, to cancel
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