Forbidden Conversations

Is freedom of speech really under attack? Are things getting worse? What is causing many people to be worried about too much free speech? Why are these issues of particular concern on campuses? Is cancel culture literally claiming lives? There’s probably no better guest to tackle these questions (and many more) than Greg Lukianoff, attorney, New York Times best-selling author co-author of The Codd...

My guest is on this episode of Forbidden Conversations is Adam B. Coleman . We speak about the increased radicalization in the world, hypocrisy, the state of journalism, how "culture wars" affect regular people, boycotts, the laptop class vs the working class, and more. Join us for a random conversation. Adam is the author of Black Victim To Black Victor , op-ed writer, public speaker, a...

Carol Roth explains how much control the WEF might actually have on society or whether it’s a conspiracy. Are we really on the precipice of a ‘new financial world order’? Is the social credit system just something that’s restricted to China? What’s the role of ‘Big Tech’? Will we all “own nothing” and “be happy”? Why are companies really adapting ESG? What’s happened to the American Dream, is it d...

Freely Ashley is a former leftist turned independent conservative that shares political and cultural commentary on YouTube , TikTok, and Twitter . With a refreshingly healthy dose of common sense. I’ve always found it rather interesting to learn about what it is that causes people to change their beliefs—whatever they might be. How does someone become entrenched in one belief and what allows them...

There’s unfortunately a level of concern that comes from having a conversation about vaccine injury in the current climate. On the one hand, one worries that a group would use such a case to spread radical claims and conspiracy theories to fully discredit vaccines in the service of sensationalized narratives. On the other, there is always those perfectly willing to dismiss and gaslight someone’s p...

Many of us only hear about opioids from one perspective—generally that of doctors over-prescribing them and patients getting addicted. Or worse, some of them ending up on the black market. I’ve heard many such stories myself, including directly from those who were affected by these addictions and struggled to get out from under them. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in the United...

When Peter Santenello was 24 years old, he took his $20,000 in saving, left the U.S. for the first time and spent the next two years travelling around 50 countries, debunking for himself the fear-based narratives that he was taught in his youth and learning about the world around him. Today, he does much of the same for his 1.6M YouTube subscribers who tune in to his videos to help them discover c...

As of late, I’ve become increasingly aware of how specific words have been infecting our consciousness.  How the oversimplification of language and, hence, concepts has been doing harm to our society and discourse.  I call that: Word misappropriation. This phenomenon occurs when groups of people pillage a particular word or term, declare their own definition of it and then insist that the rest of...

What happens when filmmakers and creative people begin to self-censor? This episode of the Forbidden Conversations Podcast has me going back to my cinematic roots as I get to speak with, Chris Gore , the founder and publisher of one of the top independent film review websites FilmThreat —which he started as a zine in 1985. In addition to to FilmThreat, Chris also hosts the ⁠FilmThreat Livecast⁠ on...

My guest on this episode of Forbidden Conversations is Buck Angel , a motivational speaker, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and human rights activist. He is also someone who identifies as a transexual—a female who lives as a man. Born female in 1962, he never felt female and struggled with his identity until he had the opportunity to transition later in life at age 28 when it was still a very new phenome...

Masking. Standing 6 feet apart. Showing vaccine passports whenever you enter a public space. Whether you agree or disagree with such measures, those are just some of the ways we were asked to comply during the pandemic. Pupils of history will recognize that this situation is not unique and that compliance has been used both for good and evil throughout centuries. The psychology of why we agree to...

My guest on this episode is none other than the wonderful writer, host, podcaster, and comedian Bridget Phetasy . This happens to be our second conversation, with the first taking place during my appearance on her own terrific podcast, Walk-Ins Welcome . So, in a way, this is round two for us. We decided to just let loose and see where the conversation takes us, but we make a lot of stops along th...

What responsibility does an employee or executive have to its corporate employer when it comes to limiting or using their freedom of speech? Does a corporation have the right to control speech? What about their spouse's? What happens when it’s at cross-roads with their own agenda or image? Is some speech deemed more acceptable than other? That’s at the core of much of our discourse on this episode...

This time, author, journalist, environmentalist, and former gubernatorial candidate Michael Shellenberger joins me on the FORBIDDEN CONVERSATIONS podcast to talk about “homelessness” as well as a bit of TwitterFiles discourse thrown in for good measure. We discuss the real problems, ethical and practical challenges, as well as potential solutions.  MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER is founder and preside...

The latest guest on the FORBIDDEN CONVERSATIONS podcast series is none other than Zuby, an independent rapper, author, podcast host, public speaker and creative entrepreneur. Born in England and raised in Saudi Arabia, Zuby is a graduate of Oxford University. On this episode we discuss his roots going from selling CDs on the street to building up a loyal following of over 1.7 million on social med...

he conversation with my latest guest on 'Forbidden Conversations' was sparked by his insistence that he does not believe that there is such a thing as “bad people.” Naturally, we had to discuss his claim. But before we got around to it, we also end up covering an assortment of other topics including how we can communicate better, the trouble with social media, humanism in the age of hysteria, and...

Violence is not something that many of us often think of as a “gift” and yet my latest guest in the “Forbidden Conversations” series, Matt Thornton, wrote an entire book dedicated to the subject, under the title of The Gift of Violence . The truth is that violence is inherent to the fabric of our society and is part of each of us. But, for many of us, it is perhaps less accessible. And for some of...

Nicki Clyne began her career as an actor, most notably on the hit television series "Battlestar Galactica." She has worked as a writer, a news analyst and television host, but it wasn’t until she experienced the failings of the criminal justice system first-hand that she decided to dedicate herself to much needed advocacy efforts in the field. She works directly with people inside prison and their...

This conversation is with American cartoonist George Alexopoulos (@GPrime85 on Twitter and Instagram). Here, we discuss whether there’s a limit to how far he can  take a joke, censorship and its impact on exercising his free speech, why there’s fewer conservatives in the arts, the trouble with our interactions on the Internet, and much more.

This time, I chat with Isaac Saul, who I’ve been welcoming into my inbox for many months now.  You see, Saul is a journalist and the founder of Tangle (readtangle.com), an independent, nonpartisan politics newsletter that summarizes the best arguments from the right and left on the big news of the day.   We discuss how Tangle got started, what Saul has learned while publishing...

Today's guest is Colin Wright, evolutionary biologist, the Founding Editor of Reality's Last Stand, and an academic advisor for the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. In this episode we discuss one of the topics that probably scares me most to talk about publicly. And that’s exactly why I’m talking about it.  How did we get to a place where it can be so terrifying to speak on certain...