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Today, I interview an icon. He’s one of the most famous people on the planet, in an illustrious career stretching across three decades. He was a hero for me growing up, I just loved him, I loved – and still love – his music, but also his ability to entertain, his candidness and his sensitivity, which have always been so present in his music.Shaun links:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0pdktx9M6EcOsRg5LdLlXgJen links:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0WzakZWmOFiAeQMVY2hgQAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s episode is a cautionary tale about multi-level marketing companies. Josie Naikoi was in one of these MLMs. She has since started her own brilliant YouTube channel with documentaries about cults – it’s called Not The Good Girl – go check it out.Josie Noikoi links:https://www.youtube.com/c/JosieNaikoiAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Barrio Nazi is a reference to Pedro Gonzalez’s twitter description, and it’s evidently something that has been thrown at him. Barrio because he is Mexican-American, and Nazi because he holds pretty right-wing views. As many of you know, I see myself as a centrist, or a moderate, and online I’m often insulted as a centrist dad despite having no children, or enlightened centrist, which is supposed to suggest people in the middle are arrogant or know-it-alls, or whatever.I hold that I’ll talk to people on all sides of the political spectrum and try to find agreement and understanding as much as possible with whoever I’m talking to. Today, I do this with Pedro Gonzalez, whose views are a little to the Right for me.Pedro Gonzalez links:https://twitter.com/emeriticushttps://contra.substack.comAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist, author and youtuber with a huge channel called Dr. Becky. She has won all sorts of prizes in physics and astronomy, but her best ability is being able to break down that complex stuff into enjoyable, accessible and easy to understand bites for lay people like us.She talks today about what would happen if you fell into a black hole, what the science of Interstellar gets wrong, the movie, and what will happen at the end of the universe.Rebecca Smethurst links:https://rebeccasmethurst.co.ukhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B1DTJSH9/https://twitter.com/drbecky_https://www.youtube.com/c/DrBeckyAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Ortega takes us through a shock update in the Danny Masterson Trial - the jury is very much out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This was a challenging episode, because I interview the founder of the Aryan Brotherhood, a racist prison gang. My mate and co-host Shaun Attwood is no stranger to true crime, having worked on both sides of it – as a journalist and presenter and also the boss of an organised crime ring in the States that smuggled ecstasy.Michael Thompson links:https://livelearnandprosper.org/Shaun Attwood:https://www.youtube.com/user/derickatthttps://twitter.com/shaunattwoodhttps://www.instagram.com/shaunattwoodAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andy Campbell is a writer from the Huffington Post. He just released a book about the Proud Boys, the Right-Wing Neo-Fascist group in the US that only allows in men, and engages in political violence.Andy Campbell links:https://twitter.com/AndyBCampbellhttps://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/andy-b-campbell/we-are-proud-boys/9780306827464/Andrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today is part 2 of my episode with James Altucher that I did out there at his home in Georgia. James is simply one of the most fascinating people I’ve ever spoken to, so I had to get him on the show. He made millions selling his website company – and then blew it all over the next couple years. He since made and lost millions many times. James Altucher links:https://jamesaltucher.comhttps://twitter.com/jaltucherhttps://notepd.comAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AJ Jacobs is an author, journalist and lecturer. He lived for a year like the bible, and wrote the book The Year of Living Biblically, which is just amazing. An absolute riot, so so funny, laugh out loud, but also really moving and existential because he really takes on that life.AJ Jacobs links:https://twitter.com/ajjacobshttp://ajjacobs.comAndrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s guest Aphrodite Jones is an American author, reporter and television producer who hosts the TV series True Crime with Aphrodite Jones. She also wrote the book Michael Jackson Conspiracy, which provides vivid details that people never saw in the news. She accuses the accusers of Michael Jackson of being grifters in search of a big pay day.It's very important to remind you listeners that my guests’ views do not reflect my own, far from it. But she does also raise interesting points about due justice.Aphrodite Jones' links:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Jackson-Conspiracy-Aphrodite-Jones/dp/0615686206https://twitter.com/Aphrodite_Joneshttp://www.aphroditejones.com/Andrew Gold links:http://youtube.com/andrewgold1http://instagram.com/andrewgold_okhttp://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices